Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-04
cLEANINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS,
Foreign AteAnss

Tho London NelUS Of the Wortd, relates
II, e.rowing curious circumstance of jack-daW,
So w vent into room in the second story of a
tdnsa in London, three or four weeks ago, and
having obtained possession of lucifer match, il
commenced rubbing the same on the floor until
It became ignited, when the flames came in CON
fact with the bed-clothes, and IN an instant the
Mace was filed with FIRE. Timely information
having been dispatched to the fre-stations for
assistance, the fremen set to work, and the fire
was eventually extinguished, but not until con-
siderable damage was done, not only to the con-
tents, but also to the premises.
A frightful massacre upon two English
ships, the Victory, of London, and the Herald,
of Leith, had taken place in the Ihlnese Seas.
The Victory sailed with Coolies from some Chi
nese port to Callao They rose on the way,
killed the master, mate, and cook, and then COM
pelled one of the mates to steer the ship. They
esoaped and Mr. Fogg, the mate, brought the
vessel to Singapore. The Herald was homeward
bound from Shanghai, with crew of Manila
men, who became angry with toe Captain for
putting them on the customary allowance, and
murdered him and the rest of the officers They
then deserted the ship, after scuttling her and
locking the Captains wife into the cabin, who
was thus lost with the sinking vessel
Intelligence from the Cape Of Good Hope,
has been received to the Sd February. 1t ap
pears the Kafirs were SO hard driven that they
sought to compromise with Sir Henry Smith,
but the General would listen to nothing but an
unconditional surrender, and week was given
for consideration At the end Of that time the
British troops entered upon the lands of the Kaf
frs, and commenced destroying their crops. By
the latest Government orders and notices it ap-
pears that the Governor is making arrange
ments for future defenses; and that he is about
to embody q fresh corps of Kafir police, and
also rural police, to be composed of Hottentots.
Thus far the Cape frontier affairs assume more
cheering aspect, and the war, it was confident
ly hoped, was near. conclusion. The only
untoward feature to be reported is the fur
ther spread of rest essness and panic among the
cOlored classes and white inhabitants Of the
western District. The war is considered at an
end by the English colonists.at the Cape.
At the interment of M. Armand Mar
rast, at Paris, the chief mourners were General
Cavaignac, M Corbon, M. de Lamartine, and
M Marie There was great number Of ex-
representatives present. No speeches were ma1e,
IN consequence Of specia! orders to thai effect
from the police
According to the Paris Steele, the long
talked of review will certainly take place in the
Champ-de Mars, on April Is. Sixty regiments
of all arms, forming total of one hundred thou
sand are expected to be ia the field. This will
be the largest review in France since that at
Boulogne in 1904.
The Duchess of Dalmatie, widow of
Marshal Soult, died at Soultborg, France, on
the 18th instant, aged 81
An equestrian bronze statue Of the En-
peror Napoleon, has been ordered. 1t will be
erected on the triumPhal arch of the Place du
Carousal, Paris.
The P0stGmpt Gazette, of Frankfort
quotes letter from Milan of the 5th, stating
that the relations between Austria and Switzer-
land have become much more friendly of late, |
and that the vigorous surveillance exercised |
along the frontiers of the cantons Of Ticino and
the Grisons had been greatly relaxed. This is |
owing, the writer says, to the cantons having ao-
oeded to all the demands of Austria. The Nete |
Pre~sSasche Zeitwng repeats, notwi hstanding |
the official denial of the Vienna Gazette, its |
statement, that after December I'd, Austria did |
its best to encourage Louis Napoleon to invade |
Switzerland, Piedmont and Belgium, and de- |
clares that it will give further and confrmatory
particulars.
Dispatches from Constantinople to the |
9th ult, conveys the agreeable tidings that Kes- |
child Pach, the progressist, is renstated as Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
A letter in the Agram Gazette, dated
Belgrade, states that Mr.. Alison, Oriental Sec,
Rotary of the Turkish Legation, having visited
Belgrade, and composed the differences between
Mr.. Fonblanque, British Consul there, and the
Prince of Servia, had proceeded to Bosnia, with
the view of establishing British Consulate in
that Province.
The Paris PreSSe and Lloyd of Vienna,
have letters from Consta ntinople, stated to be
written by well informed persons, announcing |
that a iirman for the deposition of Abbas Pacha, |
Viceroy of Egypt, is preparing. The CORES
pondents omit to state how it is proposed to har-
monize such proceeding with the treaty of
1910, guaranteeing the Viceroyalty to Mehemit
Ali and his heirs.