EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 296, 1 September 1855, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Extracted from the Sydney papers. ENGLAND. Imperial Parliament.—Earl Grey begged to srive notice that, on the 21st May, he would move that a humble address be presented to thank her Majesty for having ordered protocols of recent negotiations at Vienna to be laid before the House; and to inform her Majesty that the House deeply deplore the failure of the attempt to put an end, by their negotiations, to the calamities of the war in which the country is now engaged ; and express the opinion of the House that the proposals of Russia were such as to afford a fair prospect of concluding a peace by which all the original objects of the war might have been gained, and by which her Majesty and her allies might have obtained all the advantages which can reasonably be demanded from Russia. Sir Robert Harry Itiglis is dead. Return to House of Commons, furnished by the War department: —Killed, 1,600 ; wounded, 5,000, in action, from the commencement of the war to the 15th March. Constitution f-»b Victoria.—Lord Johu Russell, on the 10th May, moved for leave to briug in a bill to enable her Majesty to assent to .{amended bill ofjj the Legislature of Victoria, to establish a Constitution in and for the colony of Victoria. Mr. Lowe opposed the motion. Lord John Russell said that it was most desirable the waste lands and reserves should be placed in the hands of the colonial Government, —the colonists set great value on this. Mr. Adderley opposed the motion, on the ground of its being a new bill, not the bill as it came from Victoria. Uunder-Secretarv Ball said they did not alter any portion of the colonial bill, but simply omitted certain portions which interfered with Imperial Acts and the perogative of Majesty. The bill was read a first time.— Sydney Morning Herald. Death of Sir Henry Bishop.—We regret to state that this distinguished composer expired on Monday night, afer a severe illness, proximately occasioned by a surgical operation to which he had been recently subjected. We but lately made allusion to the distressed condition in which this respected gentleman was placed, after a long career of great and serviceable activity in tbe cause of English art. Not only was he suffering from the malady •which cost him his life, but his daily maintenance depended almost entirely upon the sympathy and assistance of his immediate friends. The concerts so generously undertaken by Mr. Mitchell, of Bond-street, were devised with a riew to relieve him in some measure from the straits in which he was cast by infirmity and poverty, but they were not so productive as could have been wished. Under these painful circumstances a direct appeal was made to the public on behalf of one to whom it has been intdebted for many an hour of rational amusement, if on none of the higher grounds which might be urged in favour of a composer to whom the present musical reputation of the country, iv its creative aspect, owes so much. Sir Henry was born in 1780, consequently he had reached the age of seventy-five when he died. Few men have worked so laboriously, so productively, and so honorably in a graceful and humanising art as Henry Towley Bishop, and his memory will ever be held in veneration and respect. — Guardian.