FOURTEEN DAYS' LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 424, 26 November 1856, Page 3

FOURTEEN DAYS' LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

ocean chief's mail. , By the Gratitude, we are put in possession of fourteen days' later English news. We give a few of the most important extracts from the Australian papers. (From the Argus.) ; By the arrival of the Ocean Chief with the mails of the sth of August, after a fine run of seventy-five days, we have English news up to the date above mentioned, being fourteen day's later than the intelligence brought by the Merniaid. Parliament' was prorogued on the 29th of July. The Spanish Government appears to be stronger than the insurgents, and the Peninsula is declared to be " tranquil," in much the same way that the Russians declared that "order reigned in Warsaw." The The state of Italy affords great uneasiness to the crowned heads of Austria and Naples, and all hope appears to be abandoned on the part of the oppressed nationalities of receiving material support from- Prance or England. As tKe Illustrated London News justly observes—

At the time of the conferences of Paris there was a prospect, or, at all events, a possibility, that the oppressions of Italy—far more dangerous to the peace of Europe and to the stability of its governments than the condition of Turkey —might be removed by the inauguration of a new and better system in the Papal States, in Lombardy, and Venetia, and in the two Sicilies; and that the bright example of Sardinia might be made to teach wisdom, if not justice, to the odious tyrants, spiritual and secular, who keep Italy perpetually'on the precipice of revolution.. But all these" hopes have proved baseless, and the sympathy expressed for'the Italians has had no other effect than to terrify and exasperate their oppressors, arid to rivet still more tightly' the chains of their bondage.

By this arrival we have also news from the United States to the 23rd of July, being fourteen days later than our previous advices. Both Houses of Congress were to adjourn on the 18th of August. Three frightful casualties have occurred in rapid succession. By the first —a railway accident—fifty persons, most children, were killed, and eight seriously, if not fatally, injured. By the second—the destruction of a steamer by fire—between thirty and forty lives were sacrificed. By "the third—the destruction of another steamer, also by fire— seventeen or eighteen persons met with their death's.