1826. ISAAC MILNER, an English mathematician and theological writer, died. He was brought up to the weaving business, but occupied his leisure with the classics and mathematics. He was the tutor of Wilberforce and Pitt. 1832. War broke out between the Winnebago and other Indian tribes and the United States. 1832. The London _Penny Magazine_, under the superintendence of the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, commenced. 1833. JOHN HOOKER ASHMUN, professor of law in Harvard university, died. He had not attained his 33d year, yet he had gathered about him all the honors which are usually the harvest of a riper life. 1837. ROBERT HAWKER, an English divine, died at Plymouth, England. In 1814 he published the holy scriptures in penny numbers for the use of the poor. 1843. JOHN ARMSTRONG, aged 84, died at Red Hook, N. Y. He was the author of the celebrated _Newburgh Letters_, and a prominent soldier in the war of the American revolution, and for some time secretary of war under President Madison. 1844. PETER S. DUPONCEAU so favorably known as a scholar and statesman, died at Philadelphia, aged 84. In his 78th year he published his _Dissertation on the Chinese Language_. 1853. SANTA ANNA arrived at Vera Cruz, having been elected president of Mexico by the vote of 19 out of 25 states. 1856. ISAAC MCKEEVER, an American commodore, died at Norfolk, Va., where he commanded the navy yard. 1856. The Emperor ALEXANDER published at St. Petersburg a proclamation announcing the signing of the treaty of peace with England, France and Turkey which terminated the struggle between Russia on the one side, and England, France and Turkey on the other, and prolonged the salvation of the latter country. APRIL 2. 1081. Constantinople besieged by Alexius Commenus. 1507. FRANCIS, of Paula, founder of the order of Minims, died. 1512. Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon. 1594. A skirmish at Edinburgh between the earl of Bothwell and the cavalry of King James. 1640. MATTHIAS SARBIEUSKI CASSIMIR, a Polish Jesuit, died. He was so excellent a Latin poet that his poems have been thought to be equal to some of the best Latin authors, not excepting Horace and Virgil. He had begun an epic in the style of Virgil, called _The Lesciades_, but died before it was completed. Many editions of his poems have been published. 1640. PAUL FLEMMING, one of the best German poets of the 17th century, died. 1683. WILLIAM PENN gave his colonists in Pennsylvania a new charter. 1696. There fell in many parts of Ireland a thick dew, which the country people called butter, from the consistency and color of it, being soft, clammy, and of a dark yellow. This phenomenon had for some time been of frequent occurrence; it fell always in the night, and chiefly in moorish low grounds, on the top of the grass, and on the thatch of the cabins. It frequently lay a fortnight without changing its color, and had a bad odor, like that of church yards or graves.