Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 579, 22 May 1858, Page 4

Local Intelligence.

A gentleman who has arrived overland from Otago informs us that the Strathfieldsaye was at the time of his departure (May sth) anchored off the heads, unable to cross the bar, and had been lying there for some days. She had a full complement of emigrants; according to the 'Home News' report there were on board 250 adults. On the sth of May another vessel arrived and also anchored off the heads. It is most probable that this vessel is the Nourmahal with another batch of emigrants to the'number of 246 adults. Other ships were to follow with about 400 more. The prospects of these people do not appear to be good, inasmuch as those arrived are stated to be living in tents for want of better shelter. Government was providing work and paying what appear to be liberal rates of wages, but a diminishing exchequer would not improbably put an end to their support from this quarter.

We in Canterbury should be very happy to m ceive surplus Jabour from our neighbour proving On Thursday, William M'Kenzie, master of the schooner Lady of the Lake, of Wellington died suddenly on board of his vessel, which was lying at the Ferry at the time ready to leave the river. The deceased had been for many years addicted to continued intemperance in which he indulged until it caused his death ' The imports of sheep over the border from Nelson into this province during the past season have been somewhat extensive. The number of those already arrived in Canterbury from that direction is not less than 15,000, and 4000 more were on this side of Barefells pass at the last accounts, and will cross the border in a short time. Besides, these, we have to notice arrivals from beyond the ranges to the number of at least 5000 sheep, which will not come as far as Canterbury, but will stop on the Waiau plain lhese make in all 24,000 sbeep which may be properly reckoned among the exports of Nelson tor the past year. BANK EETURNS. " a ™ 6 General Government Gazette exhibits the fhe TTniamo^ nV° f ?! liaWli«es and assets of the Union Bank of Australia in New Zealand folSw? 5f qUartGr Cnded Decem^ SSa Assets.—Coin and bullion, £119,125 15s 3d - landed property, £4,089 17s. 7d. ; notes and bilis of other banks, £1,844 19s. 4d. ; balances due from other banks, £246 os. od.; debts due to the bank, £321,733 10s. 4d.: Total assets £447,040 2s. 6d. ' The assets and liabilities of the Oriental Bank in New Zealand for the same period are declared to be:—Liabilities: notes in circulation,£4,ooß• bills in circulation, £30,505 Bs. 6d.; balance due' to other banks, £19,758 lls. 4d. ; deposit accounts, £14,682 6s. 7d.: Total liabilities £68,954 6s. sd. Assets.—Coin, £12,842 lls. od. ; bills and notes of other banks, £%112; balances due from other banks, £9,333 9s. 7d.; debts due to the bank, £44,685 7s. 4d.: Total assets, £67,973 7s. lid. • The alarm at Paris now, on the part of the Bonapartist party, is extreme; for it is known by the entourage that the formal condemnation to death of Louis Napoleon by the great council of the Carbonari has been passed, and a copy of the judgment actually sent to him; and those who surround him are convinced that, one of these days, the ruffians will find the means of executing their sentence. , The primary cause of all their rage is the fact of the present Emperor of the French having for years been their associate; and it is even asserted that Pierri it was who, five and twenty years ago, received Louis Bonapart a Carbonarol There is no doubt that, thus far, the whole would seem a punishment; for the Emperor's youthful misdeeds j for, setting aside any fatal consequences, which we hope may continue by vigilance to be always successfully adverted, Louis Napoleon is kept in perpetual anxiety and dread, not" only for himself, but for those around him ; because he was himself, for many years of his life, the associate and comrade of men such as Pierri, Pianori, Orsini, Mazzini, and others ; bound to the same crimes as they were, sworn to the same vengeance, and a participator of all their iniquities. If he had not been all this, the- hatred of these wretches would not be so intense; but they are pursuing in Louis Napoleon not the despot, but the traitor to Carbonarism.—-Correspondent of " Manchester Guardian. " The biography of Pierri i 3 going the rounds, and a truly strange career it is. He was a Florentine bootmaker, and Pianori belonged to the same gentle craft. For that matter, cobblers have a tendency to rise beyond the level of the last j for Holcroft, Gifford, the great Linnseus, and a score of others I could mention, were originally shoemakers.—Globe's Correspondent. Russia.—The movement of the Emperor in the direction of serfemancipation has been met in an encouraging manner. No fewer than 501 landed proprietors in the district of Moscow have expressed their willingness to emancipate their serfs. On the 9th of last month 180 of them dined together to celebrate the " new.era" —" the second regeneration" of Russia " —which the Emperor had commenced. The tone of the speeches was enthusiastic. " The Emperor has struck at the root of the social evil," it was said : Russian institutions cannot prosperously rest upon falsehood and injustice. M. Babst, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Moscow, said that the wants of the nation cannot rest upon the coarse and primitive condition of compulsory labour: " the day of the primitive forms of the economical condition of the people has now left us for ever." During the night of the 10th October, 1856, a burglar entered the mansion of the Earl of Suffolk, Charlton Park, Wilts, removed ten paintings from their frames, and got clear off with them: the paintings were valued at £10,000. Inspector Whitcher being called in pronounced a professional opinion that the robbery had been effected by some person well acquainted with the house; but he could not detect the culprit. Recently, advertisements were issued, offering a reward of £100 for the discovery of the robber and the paintings? and this proved successful. Mr. Luff, a picture-dealer, informed the police that he had. bought two of the paintings,—one of them a Leonardo da Vinci of great value, —of John Farbon, a messenger at the War office. Whitcher apprehended Farbon; who confessed that he was the burglar, told where some of the paintings might be found, and produced pawnbrokers 1 duplicates for the rest. Ten years ago Farbon was valet to the Earl of Suffolk, who got him the situation at the War Office; which kindness was repaid by this ingenious robbery of the patron. Farbon was -produced before the Westminister Magistrate, who gave the necessary authority for his removal to WiltsliJi'i;

New Cavaley Regiments.—Her Majesty's Government has resolved to raise immediately two new regiments of dragoons, and in doing bo to restore the sth Irish Dragoons, which were struck from the roll of the army 60 years ago. The following is a copy of the official letter addressed by the Secretary of State for War to the General Commanding-in-Chief on this subiect :— " War Office, Feb. 1,1858. « gi r> —l have the honour to acquaint your royal highness that her Majesty's Government have decided that two additional cavalry regiments shall be. raised forthwith, to meet the exigencies of her Majesty's service. Before this occasion the Queen has been graciously pleased to command that the order by which the sth Dragoons were struck out of the list of her Majesty's forces in 1799 shall be cancelled. The Queen is thus desirous of wiping away an unfortunate event now long gone by, and which it is time to consign to oblivion ; and her Majesty wishes by this gracious act to give a public testimony of her sense of the loyalty and attachment of her Irish people. When your royal highness, therefore, takes her Majesty's pleasure upon this increase to the army, you will suggest to her Majesty that the denomination of the two new regiments shall be the sth Royal Irish Regiment of Dragoons and the 18th Dragoons. In communicating to the army the restoration of the sth Dragoons to its place among the cavalry regiments of the line, her Majesty's Government trusts that your royal highness will duly impress upon the Queen's forces this act of her Majesty's grace and favour.-—I have the honour to be sir, your royal highness's most obedient humble servant, Panmuee." [The 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) were disbanded in 1821, after a brilliant career in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. It was also an Irish regiment, and was long known by the familiar name of Lord Drogheda's Light Horse, the regiment having been raised by the late venerable Marquis of Drogheda, who did not long survive the breaking up of his favourite corps. Many days, it may be safely predicted, will not pass before men will be found to recruit the ranks of the two new regiments of Irish Dragoons. General the Hon. Henry Murray, the present colonel-in-chief of the 14th Light Dragoons, was lieutenant-colonel commanding the 18th Hussars at the period of their disbandment. The late Marquis of Londonderry commanded the old sth dragoons when they were broken up nearly 60 years ago. The sth and the Scots Greya were the only cavalry regiments who were permitted to wear the bearskin cap as a distinguishing head-dress, the latter still retaining the uncomfortable honour.] Sotjtheen (United States) Refinement. —The "South" (Richmond), which declared recently that " intimacy with southern gentlemen had made Senator Douglas, quite a decent man, and removed the rugged vulgarities of his early education," gives us an illustration of its idea of Southern refinement in the following gentlemanly and chivalric attack upon Charles Sumner:— *• But one figurehead in the (Senate) Chamber arrests attention in the picture we have here of the plain-looking, substantial, better order of American politicians. It is that of a large, tall senator, who sits near the main entrance. His posture is one of the most inimitable conceit, with his head raised, his eyes elevated and resting on a pleasant vacancy his body turned superciliously away from the neighbouring senators, and without even the ■least sign of attention to betray his consideration for anything that is passing around him. This huge coxcomb, with his hair so tenderly parted, and his big white hands so constantly engaged in stroking himself, still smiling and talking to the lickspittles that surround him, is that pampered, ken-marked hound Charles Sumner. An application of the hide would take out the lofty airs of martyrdom # he affects; it would purge the conceit immediately. It is a fair bet for any one to take that at the first stroke of the lash the hound would take refuge under- his desk, and lie there yelping for mercy,,' A very large meeting held at Wiilis's Rooms on Feb. 10th resolved to raise a fund for the relief of the wives and daughters of the soldiers who are now fighting the battles of their country in India. The Duke of Cambridge occupied the chair; and he was supported by Peers, other distinguished civilians, and military officers. All the wives and children of the men recently sent to India have remained at home, and the consequence has been very great distress and privation among them. The Duke of Cambridge put in a strong protest against the giving of any encouragement to soldiers to marry ; but he heartily concurred in the* proposal to relieve the wives and families left behind by the married men. Beidal FAVOtrss. —If the weather is only cold enough to admit of the display, we are informed that, on the wedding-day, the noses of all the coachmen and footmen will, in honour of the ceremony, be uniformly Prussian blue. The police will, within a shade or two, endeavour to adhere, as closely as they can, to the same uniform.-— Punch.

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