The Lyttelton Times. Saturday, June 21.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 379, 21 June 1856, Page 6

The Lyttelton Times. Saturday, June 21.

The brig Dart, from Wellington, came in here late last evening. We find that the Spray of the Ocean had arrived at Sydney, bringing one day's later news from England. This news has an importance. Kvery arrangement had been satisfactorily adopted for the opening of the Conferences at Paris, but letters from the Crimea state that the " prospects of peace" were extremely unpopular with the French army there, and it was supposed that this fact would materially swerve the mind of the Emperor. The Moniteur, the French Government paper, recently republished from the Steele without comment, an article in which it was urged that the destruction of Nicholaieff should be insisted upon, and "as the war was under-* taken to establish a new equilibrium of power in Europe, something must be done for the suffering nationalities." " The Peace faction," says the correspondent of the Northern Times, " are overwhelmed with confusion at what the Moniteur has done." There are no later dates from America, Great anxiety is felt in England respecting the difference with the States.

We invite attention to the accounts of sales of wool, mostly the produce of this province, \ as published below. The result to the growers must be highly satisfactory. It is matter of congratulation that notwithstanding the many difficulties the Canterbury sheep-r farmers have had to surmount in the formation of new stations, in the mixed nature of their flocks, and the scarcity of labour, that they have been enabled in so short a time to produce wool, which on the whole will bear comparison with the productions of Australia and other wool growing countries. Great complaints, however, are still made of the manner in which the wool is " got up " ; its quality is generally approved, but we would urge upon our squatters the advisability of greater care in the preparation of the wool •for market, and by so doing tend the sooner ■to establish a character among English and colonial buyers.