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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 425, 29 November 1856, Page 7

A daring attempt to escape w^as made last night by some of the convicts coafined on "board the penal hulk -Piesident. As the-boats were proceeding from.the shore, where ,the men had been at work, towaids the hulk, a sudden and combined movement on the part of the convicts threw the officers'in charge into "the water. They seem to have all succeeded in regaining the boat, and a stiuggle.ensued, inwhieh one of the convicts was sh"ot, and two were thrown into the water and "droTjfned. The detaih are not yet known, as the only information received this morning is that obtained In* a .telegraph message to the ' Aigus' from t the ,bay reporter. It seems strange that after the had succeeded in. thiowing their guardians into the water, they should allow themselves t to be overpowered as they were. — Oct. 21. The entry of the Guards into .London is tha last of the fW tableaux— they haye .been _ very few and very soberlndeed—which have" visibly illustrated to n% like pictures inabpok, the now completed histoiy of the Eussian war. It was a striking, though hardly to be called a splendid sight. But the'ie is scarcely a village ia England where the same tale is not told as effectively by the t.oldier on leave, come down -to showlu-i bionzed features, soiled uniform.andmuch-pijaed medal, among the Sunday coats" and .clean smock-fiocLs at the church door, and at the firesides of those who knew him a wild ungainly lad a few yeais ago. — Guardian The Spanish Government have decided^ on establishing aj>lacc of tiansportationfor convicts. The point chosen is St. 'Joseph, one of the Maiianne or Ladrone Island*, ml the iNoitlv Pacific Ocean. The individuals anested for having foimed pait of the. band,of Puoheta, and those who had been ieleased by him fiom the diffeient piisons, will be sent to FerroL to there await their embaikatfon iov the new penal colony/

Lovd Ha*dins* beiiij? comjwllod by failing neiitli to rwij;n $»is oiiice, is succeeded by the Duke of Catnuriiige—an appointment of which, \tntil we know how the Horsa Quuide is hereafter to stand relatively to the War-office (and thenl ought to be sonso distinct understanding on that point,), there is nothing more to be said tiiaji that he is active, honest, popular, and fond of his profession, a smart and good cavalry officer, and. raised by his position as a~prince of the blood above influences which seem to have been ewcawonally too strong for bis predeoes&or*.