THE VIENNA CONFERENCES. (By Submarine and British Telegraph.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XII, Issue 837, 6 July 1855, Page 3

THE VIENNA CONFERENCES. (By Submarine and British Telegraph.)

"We have received the following telegraphic despatch from our Vienna correspondent ; —

"Vienna, Thursday, March 29. "The Conference took the fourth point into consideration to-day. " The thiid point is left aside for the present. " On Mond-iy Prince Gortschakoff moved for the ad nission of Prussia."

,Wk hare received the •• Moniteur" of yesterday. It publishes the following; despatch from General Canrobert to the French Minister- of- War, dated March ,17th:- " Monsieur le Marcchal, — I have the honour to make you acquainted with some of our doings in the trinches connected with our siege works. " On the night between the 14th and 15th of March we took by assault, in front of the .parallel opened before the Mamelon which is in advance of the Malakhoff Tower, and where the Russians have established their new work, a first line of ambuscades, from which the enemy's riflemen annoyed our workmen, and from which, on the morning of that day, they killed Captain Quilhat, of the Engineers, whom we all regret extremely. " The troops charged with this operation carried it out with much vigour and daring, under the lire of the munTcetry and cannon of the place. It was necessary to continue the operation on the night botween the 15th and loth. As on the preceding night, it was vigorously executed. The ambuscades were razed. General Bosquet speaks in terms of the highest praise of the energy of the troops employed in these two actions, which offered most honourable cases of individual valour. " General Niel and Bezot reconnoitred the parallel opened during the night, and they prepared the works of another parallel, nearer the Mamelon in advance of the Malakhoff Tower. We are about to undertake it to-morrow night on ground where, unhappily, the rock is very near the surface — an obstacle which we have had continually to struggle against nearly everywhere since the commencement of the siege. " On the left we hare continued our works before the central battalion. During the same nights, between the Hth and 15th and 15th and 16th, notwithstanding a heavy fire of grape and musketry, we connected to the old worki, by a new parallel of more than 400 metres, the trench forming an advanced angle in the direction of that bastion. " These operations cost us some 30 men killed and wounded, among the former Captain Adin, of the 2nd Regiment of the Foreign Legion. " During the night between the 15th and 16th the besieged, wishing probably to make a diversion on our extreme left, and supposing, doubtless, that the works undertaken on our right absorbed all our attention, directed towards that left a sortie consisting of 450 volunteers from different corps.' This attack was met by a company of the 10th battalion of Chasseurs-a-Pied and a company of Voltigeurs of the 2nd Regiment of the Foreign Legion. The combat was very brilliant ; the assailants were welcomed by a rattling lire of musketry, and were driven back at the poiat of the bayonet to beyond the parapet of the trench, leaving 29 killed and wounded in our hands, and as many upon the ground which separates the trench from the ambuscade from which they issued. A great number were carried away by a detachment piovided with stretchers. This little skirmish must have cost the Russians one-third of the force engaged. We hart 5 killed and 12 wounded. 41 During the last eight days we have tried the fire of a little battery constructed by us, armed and manned by the English, which opens upon the great port. We observed that one of the war steamers whose fire annoyed us, the Gromonosetz, was struck by our balls. We now learn that they hud scarcely time to tow her into the inner port when she sunk. This incident is not without value, especially ai regards the moral effect it is likely to produce on the garrison. The port is, in fact, the line of retreat of the grrrwon, and the more threatening our action bpcomes on that line the greater will be the anxiety and discouragement of the troops. "The brigade of the Imperial Guard has been very vigorously constituted. The best soldiers of the army of the East have naturelly found a place there and a noble recompense. Yesterday, with great solemnity, I presented to the Zouaves of the Guard the standard sent to them by the Emperor. His Majesty and you, Monsieur le Marechal, may be assured that it will be well preserved. " Notwithstanding the sudden and extreme changes of the climate of the Crimea, the number of sick is on the decrease. " CANROBERT."

ITALY. We road in the Genoa ' Corriere Mercantile' of the 24th mst :— " Twenty-one English steamers, on board of which our expedition is to be conveyed to the Crimea, are expected at the SpezLa in the beginning of April. The moment the troop, shall have armed a telegraphic despatch will summon to Genoa the flotilla of steamers, which are to remain out at sea, and be ready to leave at a moment's notice. An ardour and a feverish impatience highly honourable to our army pervade our garrison. Several officers belonging to other Italian provinces have requested the Minister of War to allow them to accompany the expedition. Among them are men who fought in Lombardy and at Venice against the Austrians, at St. Pancrazio and at the Villa Pamphili against the Fronch, and are now desirous to combat the common enamy. Our arsenal already contains all the mateiiel necessary for a distant campaign. It is reported that the King will come to Genoa to review the expeditionary corps, and that the In tendent- General is to give a grand banquet or fee to the officers of the army before their embarcation."

A General Government Gazette Extraordinary, issued on Wednesday last, contains the following announcement of the prorogation of the General Assembly until, the Bth of August : — Proclamation. By Ilis Excellency Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard &c, &c. Whereas the General Assembly of the Islands of New Zealand has been and now stand prorogued to Thursday, the fifth day of July instant, and it is deemed expedient further to prorogue Ithe said Assembly. Now, therefore I, the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand, as aforesaid, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby further prorogue the said General Assembly of the Islands of New Zealand, to the eighth day of August next. Given under my hand, at Auckland, this fourth day of July, 1855. R. H. Wtnyard, The Officer administering the Government of New Ze tland. By His Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. God Save the Queen !