FUTHER NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 553, 5 July 1862, Page 2

FUTHER NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

By the Gothenburg "we have files of Melbourne papers to the 21st inst. The following English ! telegrams appear in the Argus of June »12 :—: — [PER BED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH COM!' ANY.] London, May 2. The 'Exhibition was opened on ths Ist inst,, with great cnlat. There were .30,000 persons present. The weal-hd.' was brilliant. Ceremonial music a triumphant success. The Queen has arrived at I3ahnor.il, Froncii an»l Spanish troops re-occupy Mexico. Preparations for a conflict. Foreigners are leaving thu country. Conspiracy, soldiers old Neapolitan army : intended insurrection, Lomhanly. King's tour through lta.y well received. Lancashire distress inejea'sing. Tin 1 (Vmfederates were, defeated at Santa Ft. Mount Jnckson and Tappahanoi captured. Port Wllow invested. Cont'ederatos at Corinth and Yorktown waiting attack. Siege and defence 'most extensive. Coufude.'iues kwt the buttle ; 10.000 prisoners. Mutton, forty-six ; boef, forty-four ; hides, fut. Consols, 93£. [ttfiHTER'S TKCKGHAMS I'KR GRHVIIjIjE .VN'O JUKI) ] (From Iks Melbourne Age.) Loxdon, 29th April. The Queen has bestowed the vacant, Gartens on the Duke of iSomcrse!;, Lords Canning, KutPcll, Shaf res bury, and PitzwiHiam. Captain iJubcrtson has been sentenced to be c'lishierc': but siMik-ncenof being confirmed by the Queen, lie has been released. Nkw York, 17th April. General Grant reports that the buttle of Corihth is coii.sidi'ivd unsatihfactory. Lost: 1500 killud, .1500 wounded, und a large number of j;uu.«. JN umber of prisouoiv not stated. General Heanrcftard claims it as a great victory for the Confederates. Captured 36 guns aud 10,000 prisoners JL'ulsa lias surrendered unconditionally. M'Clellan is Ftiii ])rcpari,n<; to all nek Yorktown. Commander Foot attacking Fort Pillau, on tho Mississippi. J Ni-av Yonic. 21s: t April. Fdh-rals have occupied Xcwsnarkcst, and attacked Forts Jackson and Phillip, which guard the approaches to New Orleans. Shelled Yorktown without i-fiVct. Federals arc al^o rapidly advancing in the direction of Kichmond, and h.ivc ocfiipieil Fredeiicksburu,-. Confederates have retired from Slicnandoah Valley to Goldotsvi. The Kronch and Spanish forces nre marching tluough Mixico.

STICKING-UP OP THE LACHLAN EtfOORT BY GARDNER AND HIS GANG. • (From Th,', Empire.) i As She escort was coming down from the Lachlan yesterday evening, about .six o'clock, just as it had arrived iit Engoura Creek, near Oiange, it was intercepted in its con no by two drays being placed across tlie rujvl near Clement's fence. On the escort coming up to tho clray ,shoti were fii'oil from behind them, which frightened i he horses, being young . •"inspirited suiiuinls, «'>« earned tlleni to sliy oft" f'rofJ'The road arid upset the escort, pitching the troopers and tlie gold cliebt out. A bout a dozen of men then immediately steatod from b.;hind the drays, and firing on the^ti-oopeis, wounded the>n ail except one. The bushranjKsi'B-aLtbe same time carried oft the gold with the mail bags. TTRTrot-ftfc -present known the exact amount of treasure taken, but it haxTTJcen-tmtieiijatcd that this trip from the Lachlan would have brought" down an unusually large quantity to Sydney. As ye there exists no doubt but that the daring depredators, on this occasion, were composed of Gardiner and his gang, as this notorious ringleader was seen in the neighbourhood in the afternoon of the outrage. The sergeant of the escort received two shots in his body. At seven o'clock- the escort conveyance arrived in Orango, tho town presenting a sceneof great excitement. Immediately on the coach entering Orange, Constable Haviland shot himself in the vehicle. The result of this daring attack has ended in Sergeant Condell being Avounded in the side, and Corporal Moran. being wounded in the groin. Inspector Pot- - iinger, with fifteen Tnen._jmiLiii_ pursuit of the des"per&nTJeyffn^ineTTlgence sea.cb.ing him of the occurrence. M\ Fagaii, the driver of the escort, received two shots, but was not severely injured. _ Tlie gold boxes were subsequently found, but bereft o? their contents ; the letter bags were also found, the letters being completely gutted. About 3.000 ounces of gold is supposed to have besn taken. The attacking party it is 'said, numbered about ten or e'er3n men, who each were habited in Crimean shirts and re I ui^hteapb their faces being blackened. They fired, it appears, volley after volley, in each case receiving the word of command with military precision from their leader. (From the Morning lierald.) The Lachlan" escort was stuck up on Sunday night, hetweeu four and five o'clock, near Mr. Clement's about forty-five miles from Orange. All the escort guards, excepting oaf, and the coachman, were wounded. All the gold was taken, and the mail-bags opened.