LATER ENGLISH NEWS

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 411, 11 October 1856, Page 3

LATER ENGLISH NEWS

ATtEIYAI. OF THE 'fiIOItXIXG LIGHT." By the arrival of the Morning Light we are in possession of European intelligence to the sth of July, three days later than that received per Almora. We are indebted to Captain Gillies for the English papers to the latest dates. • Pakliamentaky.—The session was drawing to a close. The ministerial whitebait dinner was to take place on the 19tb, and the rising.of Parliament, it was thought, would take place on the 24th. The brigade of Guardsliad arrived from the Crimea, and the regiments were to be reviewed by.. Her Majesty in Hyde Park. The brigade was for the present encamped at Aldershott, and with the troops of the line, which had recently returned from the Crimea, would be inspected there by the Queen, prior to their entering.London, the day for which had not been appointed. Sir W. Williams, the hero of Kars, is to be the candidate for Calne, Loid Shelburne, the former member, having accepted the Chilterrv Hundreds preparatory to his being raised to the peerage. The General had been entertained at a magnificent banquet at his old club, the "Army and Navy." The obituaiy for the week ending July sth, includes the following "notabilities :— The Earl of Cork and Orrery who died on the 30th of June. The Countess of St. Germans, who died at her residence at Dover, on the 2nd insr; ; and Charles Young Esq., the well known actor of the Kemble and Siddons period, on the previous Sunday at Brighton. Mr. James Sadlier, M.P. director of the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, is said to have effected his escape from Ireland. He got into a yacht near Kingston in the presence of two detectives under whose surveillance he was, and the [policemen waited in vain for his return, as the yacht was met off Dublin harbour by an emigrant ship, in which he proceeded to America, Prince Napoleon was expected to visit Cork in the course of a few days. The visit of the Prince of Prussia, brother of the King, to England, and a return visit to Berlin by her Majesty, Queen Victorians announced in a letter of the 30th of June, from Berlin, published in the Debats. The Prince, accompanied by the Princess, his wife, will in the first place, proceed to Aix la Chapelle, where they will be joined by their daughter the Princess Louise. They will take their departure thence next week for London. The Prince of Prussia is charged by the King with an invitation to Queen

Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal to visil Berlin. They will accept the invitation, and it is arranged that in September her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and their eldest daughter will be present in the Prussian capital, at the celebration of the marriage of the Princess Louise with the Prince Regent of, Baden. A letter from Vienna of the 28th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, says, with reference to another Imperial visit, —M. de Bourqueney, the French Ambassador, was received yesterday by the Emperor at a private audience, and handed to his Majesty an'autograph letter from his sovereign. It is believed that the communication in question relates to the intended interview between the two monarchs. ' Prince Oscar, of Sweden, was at Portsmouth. The Camp in the Crimea..—Letters to the 2.lst of June state that Sir William Codrington and.-staff had proceeded to Kertsch, the army in the meantime being commanded by Lieutenant-General .Windham. All the • huts are to be sold r three Jews having consented to give 10s. a piece for them as they stand. As the huts are marked they are to be given over, and the money received. Sir Houston Stewart is still embarking the granite from the Sebastopol docks, for the purpose of making a larger basin at Malta; and the Gladiator, Captain Hillyar, still lies off Fort Paul embarking stores. A yacht with a lad}' on board is also in the harbour. The obelisk at Inkermann is nearly completed, and the inscription on it is understood to be, '•' In the memory of the English, French, and Russians who fell at the battle of Inkerman, sth November, 1854." On the return" of the Commander-in-chief from Kertsch, it is his intention to go up the country, and round by Alouchta, and finally quit the . Crimea about the 1 Oth of July, leaving..Major-Gen-eral Garrett, K.H. in command of the 5 regiments attached to the 4th division, who are onty delayed on account of the railway, which it will take three weeks to embaik at least. Major General Sir Colin Campbell, and Major General Sir Richard England are about to be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in the army. A superb banquet was given by the Grenadier Guards, at the London Tavern, on the evening of the 3rd ; covers were laid for 140 ; his Royal Highness Prince Albert in the chair. The American Question. —In the House of Commons on the 3rd of July, Mr. H. Baillie inquired whether Mr. Dallas had represented to the Government that he had full powers to settle the Central American question, or whether he had any other powers than such as had been entrusted to his predecessor? Lord Palmerston replied that the Government understood £that Mr. Dallas had full powers to discuss with them the questions connected with the affairs of Central America, and therefore he had powers which Mr. Buchanan had not. Another shocking case of poisoning had occurred. M. Daniel McMullan, a Hour dealer at Bolton, had died from the effects of tartarised antimony, administered, as it was suspected, by his wife. The motive assigned for the frightful deed was a desire on the part of Mrs. M<:Mullan to obtain the sum of £ 100, for which amount the deceased had insured their lives jointly. An inquest had been held, and a verdict of wilful murder had been returned against Mrs. McMullan. On the evening of July 2, n grand banquet was given to Sir Colin Campbell, in the City Hall, Glasgow, in acknowledgment of his distinguished gallantry in the late Crimean war. The hall was fitted up in the most gorgeous manner. About SOO gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous dinner.

The Queen axd the Ballet.—The Queen and the aristocracy have fallen out— n very sad fact. The Queen will not go to Her Majesty's Theatre, but. is faithful to the burnt-out Mr. Gye : and as Mr. Lumley is supported in his enterprise by aristocratic subscriptions, a cabal is rising against the Queen —for a Queen's visit is a great pecuniary blessing to the theatre. What is the cause of all this? It appears that Mr. Lumley formerly ruined himself by an extravagant outlay on ballet, and that Mr. Gye has always distinguished himself by an avoidance of the eostij% and not modest ballet. The Queen wishes, to reform aristocratic tastes, and turns her back on short petticoats.— Liverpool Journal. France. —The Corps Legislatif closed its session on Wednesday. The bills for the repeal of prohibitory customs duties and for consolidating decrees relative to customs duties into laws, have been postponed. The vote of 600,000 francs for the Orleans family was passed. Russian Animosity towards the English.—lt is spoken of in St. Petersburg ns a fact, but apparently without any certainty of its correctness, on the arrival of the first English vessel at Cronstadt this year the Russian sailors indulged in a certain amount of menacing execration and bitter invective against the flag, and that when the crew came onshore, it soon came to fisticuffs and a scuffle, in which an Englishman was killed. In St. Petersburg, I am told, an Englishman is safe, except in such parts of the town as are inhabited exclusively by the lower classes: in the rest i of Russia it would be unwise of him to expose himself, and in Finland it would certainly be attended- with deplorable resulis for an Englishman to travel abroad just now.— Letter from Berlin. MoreWaslikeOpekationsbt Rttssia. ! —The ' Hamburg News' publishes a letter from Trebizond, dated June 16, from which we make the following extract: —A Russian corps of 40.000 men has been sent against Schamyl. The Turks have abandoned all the fortresses of the Asiatic coast, and complet.ly destroyed that of Shefkelil. The Russians have as yet only occupied Redoubt Kale; they dare not occupy the other points at present, the populations of Abasis -and Circassia having sworn that no Russian shnli touch their territory so long as there is a Circassian alive. The Naib of Anapa has been obliged to make h:s escape to avoid being murdered by them. The Turkish fleet has carried off the cannon of the forts of the Asiatic coast. There are still five battalions and two detachments of artillery at Trebizond. There are 10.000 mm expected from Erzeroum: all our troops are to pioceed to Constantinople. Mustapha Pacha is still at.Batou:n, with two battalions and a war brig. A letter from Warsaw in the 'Augsburg Gazette,' says: —The papers have spoken several times of the reconstruction of Sebastopul, but as yet all that the Russians have done has been to clear away the riibbi-h ; and the plan of the rebuilding o ' the town, which is to be laid before the Emperor and the Minister of War, is not yt't finished. The troops are returning but slowly frum the-Crimea. The disannul*; of Poland is insignificant as yet, but the corps in the Baltic provinces is being disbanded.