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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 10 April 1852, Page 8

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The "Will o' the Wisp" schooner arrived on Thursday, bringing files of the Tan Diemen's Land papers up to the 24th of March. Most of our paper having been in type, in preparation for Good Friday, we are unable to give much of the news received. The supply of gold and of crime seem both to be largely on the increase at the diggings in Victoria. The intelligence from England is brought down to the 26th December. Bishoprics: op Lytteztoh . — The Morning Chronicle says that Dr Rowley, at present Dean of Lyttelton, is to be consecrated to that Diocese, vacant by the retirement of "Dr-Jackson; and the Bishops of Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand, are to be appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, a commission for the purpose. Lord Palmerston has resigned his post as Foreign Secretary. He is succeeded by Earl Granville. A vacancy is thus created at the Board of Trade. The state of the markets in Paris at one o'clock every day is now immediately after posted in the Exchange at London. The English market was steady at the prices of the previous day, when the news of the revolution at Paris arrived, and a fall of 1 per cent in Consols was the immediate consequence. A further decline took place, and consols touched 97. The market closed excited and unhealthy, at following quotations : —Consol account and money, 97^ ; three and a quarter per cents, 971 i ; Bank Stock, 214| ; Exchequer Bill, L. and S. 50 3 premium. A serious fall took place in the Railway maiket on the arrival of the French news. Marshal Soult died on the 26th of November at St.Armaud, aged 82 years. Father Matthew has returned to Ireland. Sir John Ross, of Arctic celebrity, and M. De Luinartine, the eloquent French'historian, were dangerously ill. Mr. Basil Montagu, Queen's Counsel, was dead. A supplementary charter has been granted to the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, authorising them to dispose of the surplus in their hands. Mr. Sheriff Alison, the historian, had been re-elected Lord Hector of Glasgow University without opposition, Lord Palmerston not combmforward as had been expected. ° Prince Albert has bought the property at Balmoral fur upwards of £30,000. The Liverpool Times mentions that it is in contemplation to revise the whole system of steam communication, and says, with reference to the Australian mail, only an'alternate monthly communication is to be provided by the contractu! s from Singapore to Sydney, and that the route via Batavia, Adelaide, and" Port Philip to Sydney, is selected in preference to the previously recommended line via Torres Straits This of course is besides the Cape route for which tenders have been invited. _ The See of Winchester was likely to be divided by Act of Parliament, and the county of burrey placed under the episcopal charge of a Bishop of Southwark. Lord Mackenzie, the eminent Scotch lawyer and judge, died at Belmont, near Cortorphine at the advanced age of seventy-four, He was the sou of the celebrated author of the "Man oi iecTnig,"