ONE DAY'S LATER NEWS FROM ENGLAND
The Salem, from Cork, arrived at Melbourne on the 2nd instant, bringing intelligence to the 18th of February. The Argus says: —The intelligence thus received, however, is both meagre and unimportant, and is derived from a stray copy of the Cork Daily Reporter of the 18th of February.
Count Cavour, the representative of the King of Sardinia, had arrived in Paris, in order to take part in the Peace Conference. The Assemblee Nationale (the Parisian organ of the Russo-legitinidtist party) was endeavouring to inspire a feeling of distrust in the public mind of the French capital by suggesting that the defensive works in course of construction at Portsmouth could not he intended as a protection against either Russian or American fleets. It is said that a difference has arisen in the Sardinian Cabinet on the question of concessions to the Holy See; M. e'e Cavour, the Prime Minister, is in favour of this policy, while M. Katz, Minister of the Interior, contends that it would be a display of feehleness not warranted by circumstances. It is understood that two additional regiments are to be immediately dispatched to British North America, to act, in c.-ise their services should be required, with the 70th Regiment and Canadian Rifles now at that station.
The Herald quotes from the Southern Reporter as follows:— The Sudden fall in the English funds yesterday was announced by telegraph to the Paris Bourse, suul produced something like a panic. The en use was not known at first, and reports were circulated attributing the decline in the English Stock Exchange to a complete rupture with the United States, to disturbances in the large towns, to the fall of the Pahnerston Cabinet, and other pi nimble circumstances. The alarm diminished towards the latter part of the day.
Dr. Dallas has accepted the post of minister to our Court/in behalf of the United States, in place of Mr. Buchanan, resigned.— Empire,
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 376, 11 June 1856, Page 7
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326ONE DAY'S LATER NEWS FROM ENGLAND Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 376, 11 June 1856, Page 7
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