Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-03-14
eLEANINGs FROM NEWSPAPERS.
Foreign Items.

GalignGni thus describes how the votes
Of the soldiers Of France were taken during the
late Presidential election: A soldier nsmed Z M
mermanH was tried by Court Martial, st Cha
tres, for excitng to revolt against his superiors,
aud disobedience to he laws. It was proved that
on the oceasoa Of the vote on the plebiscite il
Decem Der, Zimmerman declared that the vote
was not free, as it took place in the presence of
tho officers, and that, if it were TO be recommepc-
ed. he would vote very differently, or not at sll
He added, that if there were several men in the
regiment like him, they would dive away the
Colonel and the officers The Court Condemned
him to a years imp'isonment and TO The costs
1t is worthy of remark that the gene
rRl prosperity aud peace Of China have been very
much promoted by the d fusion of intelligence
aud education through the lower classes. Among
the countless millions that constitute the empire,
almost every man can read and writ sufficiently
for the ordinary purposes of life and especta-
hle share OF these acquirem ents gees low down
10 the scale Of society. OF the 10 discourses
which are periodically read to the people, eight
inculcate the necessity of general acqusln ance
with the pepal laws, which are printed purposely
in cheap shape They argue that SIS men can
not .properlv be punished for what they DO not
know, SO, likewise, they will be less liable to in
cur he penalty, if they are made duly acquaint-
cd wish the prohibition. This seems very ne
cesyary branch of what has been called prevep-
tive jus ice; upon every principle Of reason, of
humanity, and Of sound policy, preferable, in all
respects, to furnishing ju tice.
There is reason to fear, says the London
Dispatch, that a felucca captured by H. M. S.
Sampson, off the coast of Africa in Ootober last.
with pcize crew on boald, consisting of Lieu
tenant Gilbert Elliot, Mr. Wood, midshipman,
and IL seamen is lost. She was last seen off the
Isle Of St. Thomas, on the 3lst of October, and
departed on that day for Badajcz di stance of
five or six days sail But although anxiously
expected, and notwithstanding thas several ships
of war have since passed over her track, she has
never been heard Of since Some severe torna-
dors are said to have occurred about the time
when she was missed.
1t is stated, on very good authority, that
in order to stimulate the circulation of gold in
England, it is intended to limi'-if not altogeth-
er stop-the future issue Of Is notes from the
Bank of England. Should this plan be carried
out, the public will have to use more bullion in
small money transactions than is at present Gus
tomaIy. Some. o otes of other denominaf ions
will, it is stated, also be more limited in number
than hitl erto.
Queen Victoria has given apartments in
Hampton Court Palace to the widows of the
gallant officers, Pennycuick and Cureton, who
fell in the Sikh war in India.
One hundred and fifty of the pupils of
the College Louis lie Grand, Paris, have Just
been expelled, in consequence of revolt which
recently broke out amongst them on the subject
of some punishment inflicted after the banquet
of ST. Charlemagne.