English and Foreign.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 364, 30 April 1856, Page 5

English and Foreign.

Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons had arrived in England, and was on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

Parliamentliiul met, .and was again prorogued until the 31st January, when it would meet for tlie despatch of business. It is said that the hon. Mr. Byn«" has been appointed Chairman of the South Eastern ltaihvay Cumpany. It is stated that Mr. Francis John Savill Foljamlie, of Osbcrtoii Hull, near Worksop, Notts, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar, Uio L:u!y Gertrude WmmeHna Acheson, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Gosford.

Jenny Lind, who has never yet sung in Paris, has promised to perform there when she leaves England,

Colonel Sibthorpe died in December last

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Inland Revenue Commission, has written to the Dean of Hereford, authorising him to offer, .is a prize to be competed for in the Huddersfield Mechanic's Institution, a situation in the Inland Revenue, which the chainn'ui will provide yearly.

Much sens.ition has been produced at Copenhagen, by the mysterious disappearance of the Portuguese; Charge d'Affaires, Don Antonio Travassos Valdez. He left his residence some days past, and lias not been heard of since.

The whole of the jnvy who tvfad Slrahan, Paul, and Bates, have signed a petition to the Queen praying an inquiry into the facts alleged in Mr. Bates' petition to her Majesty, and stating that had these facts been brought forward and proved at the trial they should have acquitted him.

By the last Bank returns it will be seen that the bullion Las decreased £147,529 during the last week, in Dec. thus showing that a considerable demand for the precious metals existed, and that the receipts of gold from Australia were not sufficiently large to prevent fresh inroads upon the stock in the Bank cellars.

lloruibiye Stoby.—On Sunday, November 25, a painful sensation was caused in Nottingham, by the prevalence of a report that a child had been worried by a dog. The child was the son of Mr. Marshal], guide-maker, who occupied one of some recently erected houses in Sherwood-street opposite the Clinton Arms. A few minutes before II o'clock on Sunday morning the unfortunate child whose Christian njrae was Frank, and who was three years and a half old, was playing with a brother about a year old in the back yard, in which a thoroughbred bull dog was usually kept chained. At that lime however the animal was loose, and the children were in the habit of lifting it into a small wheelbarrow, which stood in a short passage leading into the kitchen when it is supposed they managed to rap one of the dog's feet. Immediately aftei the inmates of the house were alarmed by hearing a piercing shriek, and, on going into the passage, a horrible and heartrending sight presented itself. The dog was worrying the child as it lay in the corner, and such was its ferocity that, to use the expression of an eye witness, it was like a terrier fastening itself upon a rat. The child's grandmother and a nurse girl, who were at the time in the kitchen, instantly raised an alarm, and the former who was joined by Mrs Marshall, seized a poker and the tongs, and tried to beat the dog off without success. In the mean time the father, who heard the cries from the top of the house, ran down stairs, and a butcher named Jackson mounted over a high wall and leaped into the yard. It seemed to them as if the dog's nose was literally buried in the child's face ; while the oilier boy was trying to pull the dog away, Mr. Jackson seizod the animal by the hind quarters, while Mr. Marshall opened its jaws, and the former then threw it over the wall. The dog which was covered with blood, immediately ran round to the front, ami was observed to smell two children as it passed them. It smelt also at the yard door, as if to get at its victim again ; and, as the little sufferer had been taken away, it was let in. The child being brought into the house, its head and face were so mutilated and covered with blood that it could be scarcely recognised as that of a human being. Several medical gentlemen were quickly in attendance, among whom were Mr. Bourne, Dr. Maxey, and Mr. Stranger. On examination it was found that his ri<;ht ear was completly bitten off, there were marks of the dog's teeili on the other car, across the nose, and. on both eyelashes, while a fearful sHi extended from the right eve down to the mouth, and one o'' tlie fingers were lacerated. The wounds were bandaged up and, a;> the child soon began to show signs of returning consciousness, some hopes were entertained of saving its life. The cuts were sown up in a few houvs after, nnd under the skilful care of Mr. Bourne and Mr. Stranger, who remained in attendance, tho sufferer has made still further progress towards recovery. In a (ew years it is believed (hat scarcely any traces of the dog's ferocity will be evident on the child's head, except the loss of the ear. The animal was shot the same morning by My. Bourne's assistant. — Solliuylutui Journal.

Two seamen belonging to the " Desperate " commander White, have been turned out of the service for fighting''a duel" with cutlasses.

The English army will in the* spring consist of six divisions, in two corps d'armec, commanded by Generals Campbell and Eyre.

On Dec. 26. 5000 artisan?, handicraftsmen, and navvies embarked on board the "Jura" steam-transport for the Crimea. They form a portion of Sir Joseph Pax ton's Army works corps, and will have a chief civilian superintendent of their own in Mr. .Wukefield, an active officer of the Works Corps. Not more than live weeks have elapsed since Sir Joseph Paxton received the authority to form this addition to that body, and the numbers presenting themselves for admission into the corps we're frequently at trie rate of 1,000 a day. Their wage?, though somewhat above the scale at home, will be a large economy as contrasted with the cost of Turkish labour, and the greater portion of the amount remains in this country for the support of the men's families dining their absence.

Some very reasonable surprise has been expressed by some of the London papers, at an advertisement which appeared in the Times, of December 4, which stated " that the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of England, were ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's dock-yard at Woolwich with fifty tons of Russian, White, or. English tallow." This does seem exceedingly inconsistent, at a time when our Government are pretending a deal.of righteous wrath against the importers of Russian produce, and those who make their dominions an entrepot for its export.

The latest intelligence from the Crimea was up to the 25th December. The Plymouth Mail of ihe 9th January gives the following as received by electric telegraph :—One of the five celebrated docks in the Karabehmie suburb of Sebastopol, was demolished by die explosion of French miners on the 22nd. The massive fabric was almost instantly reduced to a heap of stones. No accident occurred. About 2000lbs. of powder were used. Farther demolitions would now take place. The weather had been much milder. The men were enjoying theiv Christinas. Tiie 4tU division, has its theatre.

Omar Pacha had removed his quarters to Redoubt Kule. The weather interfered with the transports. The divisions which left Erzeroum for Kars, could not advance.

Intelligence from Russia is as warlike as ever. We hear by telegraph thai General Bolisco had passed through Berlin, bearing important despatches from the government of Washington to Unit of St. Petersbur»h concerning negociations. There may be sonia meaning in the negocintions interesting to the allies. It is well known that the Americans have been employed by the Czar for seme time past to build steam machinery and forward war materials, whilst it is said the two governments are on very friendly terms.

A Nkw Scbmarixk w,\R MACHINE —A letter from St. Petersburg s;iys : —vl Mr. Manner, ufieibeing refused by the British Government, has obtained great encouragement from the "Russians, who have been at the expense of erecting one of his machines at a cost of about £<o,OQO. It is said to be a clever invention, and t;> be spoken \\ell of by the most intelligent engineers at St. Petersburg. Tt is to be propelled by two screws, and steered to any point linger water, where it may remain for eight hours withi-ut requiring fresh air to be pumped. The Russians ostentatiously profess to congratulate themselves that it was uot adopted by the English, as it might have been efficacious in enabling them to remove the booms and mines they have put under water to prevent the approach of ships of war. The Emperor Alexander 11. has onleroxl a special court at Kit:if for trying captured rules and Hungarians. The former are punished wiih death, the latter delivered to the Au>tvs:»ns for execution. So many Polish ami Ilius^nrum prisoners are taken —in irons—to Kieff, that n<> I'tjkver Ur.vn t.my judges, lev) sei-eeuvu's, iva.l executioners inmur.er ib!e, are ee-uutui:diy t'ni~ ployed in their eondomnatior. Tie ia's'\ Duke Consiauiir.e luis ordered tho captain oi every vo>sel in the Baltic ileet I > make a tvuim of supplies received, and especially to note nrtidfs not furnished in suHicU'iu (uainisy. T.'ii* order is caused by 'he wretched sanitary state of \he orews, concerning wii'di the most maro-

uible stories are told

Russian Estimate op the War.— Le Nord publishes an article professing to set forth the "real absolute results obtained by the allies after two years of war," in which neither the capture of Sebastopol nor the destruction of the Russian Black Sea fleet is mentioned. "It would be difficult," according to this authority," to decide whether, upon the whole review of the two years'war, the advantage belongs to Russia or to the allies." The Siintiml rebellion seems to be on its last 3e«is ; the insurgents exhibit a disposition to submit. Some of their head men have latterly given in, and several of those who were captured have been condemned to death by the iud-je of Baangulpove ; among them is Leedre Mani»hee, one of the principal instigators of the dutbreak.

Austria. —We find the following in the Vienna correspondence of the Times: —''lt i« related that the new ordinances for settling the future position of the Protestant sects will make no difference between Lutheran, Calvinist, and Unitarian, and if this should he the case there Mill he terrible heart-burnings in Hungary, and more particularly in Transylvania, where the Calvinists are very numerous and extremely influential. In the Augsburg confession (Lutherans) the management of the Church Funds is almost entirely in the hands of the clergy, but in the Helvetic dm Cession (Calvinisis) the communities have as great a share in the administration of the property of the Church as have the Scotch Presbyterians. Men in office say that 'it will interfere with the unity of the Empire, ■' if a difference is -made between one Ptotestant sect and another, -and the remark leads me to conclude that •Government would be well pleased if all its -subjects could be induced to join that Church which is in future to reign supreme throughout Austria. The population of Transylvania consists of almost 2,000.000 of souls : of these -about 1,000.000 belong io the non-imited Greek or Russian Church, and there are, in round numbers, 300,000 Calvinists, who are mostly of German origin and extremely wealthy, 200,000 Lutherans and 60,000 Socinians or Unitarians. The rest of the population consists of 'United ; Greeks (who acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope, although the Lain language is not empiojed in their ritual), Kntuau Catholics, Jews, and a hall heathen sect, the name of *-\hich does not occur to me. "