Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-03-28
GLEANINGs FROM NEWSPAPERS.
Foreign items,

The Bonner of Ulster, an Irish journal
and careful collator Of military information
states thai the eight Highland regiments-fve
wearing the kilt, and three the trews-are to bs
armed and equipped as rife corps, with the green
jacket and tartan troWsers consequently the
kilt is to be abolished
The Dutch papers announce the death
of Nestor, a dog that h id followed the 9th d.
vision of infantry, now in garrison at Maestriobt
in all their MARCHES since 1927 He was With
the regiment in their last campaign, and a. tho
siege of Antwerp st a claw Y shot from
howtze Returned TO Maestricht be spent
there the last twenty years Of his is and died
ii his oath wear. He was solemnly Marred un-
der he wall of the fortress.
The Vienna Gazette contains the SEN
tence of Maria Vchaweger, a cigar roller, to
four months imprisonment IN IRONS and twenty
stripes with rods, for melting her fellow labOfers
to strike for wages.
Advices from Pernambuco to the 2lst OF
Janua y re that the yellow fever had made
fearful ravages at leo, and that it had also bro
ken out at Pernambuco, where it was especially
fatal among the British seamen at that port.
The committee of management Of the
Jardin des Plantes de Paris have Just presented
to the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College
of Surgeons, England, the casts of eggs Of the
gigantis wingless bird of Madagascar, (Zt1Py
1ornis mdrimlts of Geoffrey de St Hlaire) -
These enormous eggs are equal in size to u o.
trich, TO case wary, l4S domestic hen's OF 5O,uUO
humming birds eggs.
The works of the railway from st. Pc
tersburgh to Warsaw are being carried on with
extraor, inarY activity. The number of work
men at present exceeds 10000, and they work
during part Of the night. Ali the rails necessary
the of July, aud the contracts for the sup
ply of locomotives have just been signed
IA letter from Vienna states that the
Austrian government is preparing to carry into
execution two undertakings Of hi. Importance
to the commercial and manufacturing interests
| the improvement f the navigation of the Adig9
and the construction Of a railway from Botsen,
in the Iyrol, to Verona.
A young female, who has the naonona-
MIA Of honlcide, hast inst en arrested and seul
o the Pfefeciu c Of Police, Paris Sho had ht
tempted, but fortunately without effect, 10 n3pe
der ner father, her mother, her sister, aod ssEsA
females OF ber acquaintance, declaring 'n@' sn'
wi'hed Co drink their blood.
1t is shown by a return Just printed that
on this lst of January last there were a;4o5 moth
ers of ile gitimate children in tho receipt OF out
door poor-law relief, in the city Of l. ndoa AT
the lik period Of tho preceding year ths number
was 3 707.
A poor man, of the name of Riley, who
has been Ii ing in Gatehouso, Englepd Tor ONE
tmo past, hgs lately become heir to about 3d.
O00L, in cons quence Of the death Of distant
relative
No decision has yet been come to re-
sp' cling the diposal q the surolus funds stisinG
from the rec ipts cont ected with the Great Ex
hibitioo It appeaTe, however, to be well ondsI'
stood hat tho funds viii b. applied solely to
purposes connected with tbs application Of art
20 the manufactures Of the country.
The example of the Crystal Palace is
about TO be followed in Siesia, where here is
soon to be an exhib tion Of Silesian manufac'
tures under glass Toot
It is said that the assumption Of the i'm
perial dignity and the Distribution Of the eagle,
to the arey and national quad will be put OIL
till the Emperor's birthday, on Aug 10
The CorSaire mentions q report that ono
Of the chief functiohsries Of the AdministIa 1oH
Of Forests has been summoned to PMl' ~ 80 va
ganiye'a hun ing establishment for the ~ IN
President and that the Prince DO Wag,s ~ ~, b;s
be GFapd huntsma1, polt occapleu v
father under the Empire
Armand Marrast, one of the leaders ;, ~ .s
g the Revolution OF lS48 died in Paris Oh 'n0 'i'4
0 March.
( lOur government having resolved tSO 10 ~
credit, for the first time, permanent OeSsA G,ait
Q d'Affaires to the Swiss Confederation III 90 ~
zerland this act of powerful GoVerhllIien,T;'v ,;vs
decided non-interventoh principles, gives inc Nv, Va
lest satisfaction. The Federal Council taS s.dn IN
solved to send to America piece of granlte e0y
. the valley of Hablers, lnterscken, ~
3 part Of the intended Monumentto WaSnins''-
The Nashville Banner states Una tna' -, -
1910, the population of that city was OOTV, ~ aI
9 hat at pre- ent, it will not fall mnch SnO''
of $4,000. 1t numbered 10000 in 1850
il The total contributions for the W VA ssp =
u inrton Monurent, received during the monSn
ID February, amounted to $I,O69 25 Inc lOlntS
ing blocks have been received during the uo"t5 N
. From the State of Pennsylvania rrolI rror m
u Grand Mssopic Lodge of Pennsylvania raV-
q q the Ladies of Mancheste', New hamBsnttSSs tSs src
It From the Independent Order United ofO'H'''
! Maryland.