ENGLISH NEWS TO NOVEMBER 25.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 654, 12 February 1859, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS TO NOVEMBER 25.

By the Mountain Maid we are in possession of Sydney papers to the 21st January, which contain'telegraphic despatches from Melbourne dated the previous day, announcing* the arrival of the Oneida, and forwarding- a summary of the news brought by that Vessel^ which we give in full. Melbourne, Thursday, 12.20 p.m. The Oneida arrived yesterday, and sailed for Sydney at four a.m. this morning. The majority of the passengers were left at Cairo. She broke down on the upwards passage, before reaching Aden. The mails were taken on in the P. and 0. Company's steamer Bengal. The return mails were brought back in the same vessel, and transshipped on board the Oneida at Aden.

Captain Hawkes, the inspector of the P. and 0. Company for tfie colonies, arrived by the Oneida.

The following colonial agents for the P. and 0! Company have been appointed :— Melbourne—Mr. Augustus Wolfen. Sydney —Mr. Henry Moore. South Australia—Messrs. Elder, Stirling, and Co. The English news is to the 25th Nov. Parliament was prorogued t;o 13th Jan. Great meetings were being held for the discussion of the Reform Bill. The Government Bill has not-been made known. The Earl of Derby, at the Lord Mayor's dinner, said nothing of a political, character in his speech. -s -The Manchester election resulted in the reelection of Mr. Beazley. There was no contest. Mr. Gladstone is appointed Special Commissioner of the lonian Islands, to settle the disputes between the people and Commissioner. Amongst the deaths are mentioned Lord Lyons, Robert Owen, and Ida Pfeiffer. The late Mayor of Melbourne was received at Windsor at a lunch with the Lords in waiting, but returns to the colony without being knighted. He left by the mail, and was left with the other passengers behind at Cairo. ...-.•'■ ..■■••

At Bradford two hundred persons were poisoned, owing* to a boy in a druggist's shop serving out arsenic for plaster of Paris. Twenty have since died. Napoleon has addressed a letter to his cousin, repudiating the attempt to revive the slave trade. He has also written to conciliate England in the Portugal affair. M. de Montalembert is sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and fined 3000 frances for writing articles contrasting the freedom of discussion in England with French repression of free speech. The charge was for bringing the Government into contempt. The Prussian elections are in favour of the new Ministry. In the American elections a large majority were against the administration, President Buchanan, repudiation, Walker, and filibustering. Indian news very satisfactory., Lord Clyde has published, an amnesty, excepting only murderers and leaders.

In Oude the English arms successful. The rebels are laying down their arms in thousands. •-•■■■ .

Tantia Topee has not yet been caught. In the negotiation some clauses of the treaty have been concluded.