The Lyttelton Times.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 7 February 1852, Page 5

The Lyttelton Times.

February 7,1852.

The English Newspapers just received contain much interesting news. Much of our paper having been necessarily in type previously to the arrival of the English vessels, we are precluded for the present from giving more than a brief glance at the intelligence. The Queen had visited the principal places in Lancashire on her return from Scotland, and had been everywhere enthusiastically received. The Exhibition closed to the public on the 11th of October. On the Wednesday following Prince Albert went through the ceremonial of receiving the Reports of the Commissioners and the Jurors, The speech of His Royal Highness on the occasion was characterised by philanthropic spirit and good taste. A prayer by the Bishop of London, and sacred music as at the opening, and this great museum became one of the things that have been. A large surplus fund re-

main in the hands of the Commissioners, and the people were looking anxiously for their decision as to its disposal, the general belief being that it would be applied to revive and perpetuate the Exhibition idea in perhaps a better form. The wot k of clearing away the goods was rapidly proceeding. The total receipts at the doors amounted to £500,000, the number of visitors to six millions. Knighthood had been offered to Mr. Paxton, Mr. Cubitt, the Engineer, and Mr. Fox, the Contractor. The awards of the Jurors have been published. The following are extracted as relating to New Zealand. MEDALS. Brown, "W. for Kauri Gum. Tao-nui, for Woods, &c. HONORABLE MENTION. Carrodiis, J. for Flax. Collinson,, Rev. J. for Flax. Fox, W. for Woods. Hooper and Co. for Malt. Johnson, J. for Woods. Levin, J. M. for Sideboard of New Zealand Woods. MacVay, J. for Turning Substances. Martin, Hugh for Barley, Renwick, Thomas for Barley. Robertson, J. for Flax. Smith, J. A. for Oils. Tyrrell, — for Flax. Trent, E. W. for Cordage from New Zealand Flax. Whytlaw and Son for Flax. News from this settlement up to April 26th had reached home, and from Wellington as late as June 23rd. Sir Geo. Grey's attacks upon the Canterbury Settlement had therefore become known in England through the medium of the Wellington Independent. The gold news had been abundantly confirmed. The Illustrated London News publishes Sketches of the Bathurst" diggings." No ship was actually laid on under the Canterbury Association for this place, but it was intended to charter a vessel to sail about the 20th December. The Bishop Designate had arrived in England in the " Thomas Arbuthnot," from Sydney. We cannot ascertain the date of this vessel's arrival, but she was reported off Beachy Head on Sept. 24th. The " Castle Eden's " safe arrival at Calcutta on Aug. 12 is notified, setting aside at once the late rumour of her loss. The " Wm. Hyde " and " Marmora " have proved how accurately the " highway of the seas " to New Zealand is now known. The schooner sailed, we believe, three days before the barque ; they came into company a few degrees south of the line, since which they saw nothing of each other until they anchored, on the same day, in Port Cooper. The passages appear to have been unvaried and unbroken by any occurrences of remarkable pleasantness or unpleasantness. The fawn brought by the ■' Win. Hyde," the longest survivor of two sent out to Mr. Godley's care, unfortunately died in bringing it ashore, eitheir from fright or strangulation, it having- been lively enough until removed from the vessel. Of the other live stock, some fine geese and Muscovy ducks, a single hen pheasant, and a goat, remai.. The fine schooner •' Marmora." late of Dover, is, we learn, the property of Mr. Duke of Wellington, and is about to proceed to Wellington and New Plymouth, and thence to Sj^dney, in the trade between which port and Canterbury she will then be regularly employed.

In our abstract last week of the Regulations for Pnsiuraue outside the Settlement, appended to liarl Grey's recent Dispatch, the words in Reg. 5, which embody the great grievance of (he system, were through inadvertence omitted. The charge of Id, per bead for sheep, and Sd. for cattle, is "calculated on the quantity of livestock which the Pasturage run is deemed capable of sustaining ;" and not upon the quantity actually on the run.