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Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 721, 5 October 1859, Page 5

His Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales has, returned to England f . „_"._ The metropolis has heen exposed to a number of ' severe thunderst6rms, by which some lives were lost, very many persons injured and a great amount of valuable property,destroyed. The South-Eastern Eailway Station was struck by lightning, arid, catching fire, was reduced to ashes. . . The New Bishop of Queensland.—Di\ Tuffnell tnay be ranked amongst the High Church party, and has long borne the character of an earnest and excellent man. lie graduated at Oxford in 1837, when he was third class in, classics. He was for many years bellow of Wadham College, and was Proctor for the tjmversity in 1857. He was ordained by Dr. Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, in 1837. In 1844 he was presented to the perpetual curacy jpf Broad Town, near 'Marlborough, and in 1846 to the rectory of Be.ecb.ing Stoke, near Devizes. 'In 1850 Dr. Deriison, the .then Bishop of Salisbury, gave him the prebend of " Major Pars. Altaris," in Salisbury Cathedral, and in 1858, at the urgent request of Dr. Hamilton, the present Bishop of. Salisbury, hte re- ■ sighed Beeching Stoke for the'rectory of St.-Peter, Marlborough, on the resignation of Sir Erasmus Wjlson, Bart, now /Chancellor of St. David's—a 'considerable pecuniary sacrifice.— Morning Chronicle July 18.' ■'..■"■''•'■■.■•.'