BELGIUM.
Belgium is about to proceed energetically with the works round Antwerp. A decree is published regulating the inauguration of the trenches of the 15th April, and every reigment in the kingdom is to furnish fifty-four soldiers each, who are to shoulder spade or pickaxe, to be relieved at periods by fresh military laborers. They are to get " haute paie" of forty-five cents per manviz., eight-pence a day, and to have working shoes, canvas jackets and trousers, " the said trousers to be worn outside the cloth ones on rainy days:" they are to dig five days in the week, Saturday being set apart for washing and toilette, Sunday for recreation. Recruiting for Lamoriciere's army is going on actively in Brussels. Bounties of from .£2B to £32 are paid out of ♦' St. Peter's pence." The recruits are sent off to Ancona, by way of Austria.
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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 284, 10 July 1860, Page 3
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144BELGIUM. Colonist, Volume III, Issue 284, 10 July 1860, Page 3
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