English and Foreign.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 472, 13 May 1857, Page 5

English and Foreign.

ENGLISH NEWS TO JANUARY 20th. By the Phoebe from Wellington, Sydney papers have been forwarded to the Kith of Apiil. The Phoenician had arrived at Sydney and the Anne lioyden at Melbourne, with English papeis to January 20th. Tliere is no news of very great importance. The law furnishes the chief topics. The Uial of Pierce, Burgess, and Tester to} the gre.it bullion robbery on the South Eastern Railway terminated on the 15th of January. Pieice was sentenc- d to two yeais' hard labour, with three months' solitary confinement; Burgess and Tester were sentenced to transposition for fourteen years. The trial of Leopold Redpath and Kent, which came off on the 16th Jauuaiy, resulted in the acquittal of Kent and a sentence on Red path of transportation for the term ot his natural lite. On the 15th oft January, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton was installed as Lord Rector of G asgow University with great demonstrations of enthusiasm. -The assassin Verger, the murderer oi the Archbishop ot Pans, was tried on the 17th Janu ry, and condemned to suffer the extreme penalty ot the law. The sencence has b^en received with unanimous approbation. The opposition to the income-tax was increasing in agitation dually. The r SwiiS question was being amicably'arranged. A laige majonty of the Council of States, on the 16tli of January, approved 'the abandonment of the trial and removal of the insurgents beyond the Swiss territory until the filial settlement of the depute. A banquet wai {,i\en on the 10th of Jamiaiy, in Paris, bj Pnnce Napoleon, at the Palais lloyal, to to those general officers actually at Pariß, who took part in the wai in the East. Feiuk Khan, tlie Peisian Ambassador, was to arrive at Paris on the 17th.