Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 376, 11 June 1856, Page 9

Miscellaneous.

There is a great demand for shipwrights in the West of England, in consequence of the nnmbers required to construct gunboats at various ports for the Government.

"An English Resident at Bucharest»' furnishes some more information respecting the notorious Yanke, Dr. Davega. The writer returning up the Danube, on the 19th August, twenty days before the fall of Sebastopol, found onboard the steamer two American surgeons, one of them Dr- Davega, on his way home from, the Russian camp. Dr. Davega won the heart of the English resident by expressions of sympathy for the Allies; when at Simpheropol he had asked to be allowed to treat the English prisoners. " The Piccolomini," the gifted, vocalist in whose career there has been a good deal of romance, seems almost to have warbled away the senses of the Turinese. At the close of her engagement, recently, they behaved in the most extravagant manner: had she not prevented them, they would have dragged her home in her carriage; crowds-escorted her about'; she was overwhelmed with bouquets on the stage; and was serenaded so perseveringly that she had to make a speech from a balcony, promising not to forsake her " dear Turinese."

The Kings of Siam—for there are two —have been elected honorary members of the Asiatic Society. Tkej^ief King is a proficient in the Pali and Sanscrit languages. The >econd King can speak and write English. Both are astronomers, and one a chemist and mechanician.