The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-19
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

EMANCIPATION OF RUSSIAN SERFS.-At the opening
of the committee of the nobility for regulating the
emancipation OF the Russian serfs, Gen'l Mouraveff
addressed the committee. He referred to the impor-
lance of this assembly, which rested the hope of
the Sovereign and the expectation of $4,000 900 of
people. He referred to the grandeur of their mis-
sion, and eXhorted them not to prefer their material
interests to the welfare of the millions of human
beings whom chance had placed in dependence
upon them. The mission confided to them
raised the moral dignity of class called
to accomplish that work with abnegation
based on consciousness of the rights of man.
''Amongst the individuals whose material condition
we have to determine will be found some individuals
content with their position. Glory and honor to
the proprietors of these individuals But their pros
perlty Is merely fortuitOus Gentlemen, YOU are
called to replace chance by certainty and to remove
everything arbitrary from the administration of
whole class. DO not separate from your calcua-
tons the respect due to the rights of man; render
to man that which belongs to man, and YOU will
justify the confidence of your Sovereign and the
hopes of the nation"
THE GAME LAWS IN BELGGUM.-In the Chamber of
Representatives of Belgium last week, petition
was presented from seventeen farmers of La Hulpe
IN which they express Surprise and regret" that a
petition sent in from them some time ago, complain
ing that great damage was done to their crops by
the large number of harcs and rabbits preserved in
the Forest of S0gnes for the amusement of the King
and royal family, was ''rcceived with laughter by
the Chamber, which expression of feeling was not
suppressed by the president" They then go on to
say that the law of 1876 on sporting declares that
game when injurious to crops shall be DESTROYED
and they pray in somewhat strong terms that the
said law shall be executed in the Forest of Soignes
as the game there devastates the neighboring fields
In n manner almost incredible. The petition was
referred to the Minister of the Interior.
SUPERSTITION OF LOUIS NAPoLEoN.-Lctters from
persons who are conversant with the court and in
position to know many particulars about the Empe-
ror personally, affirm that Louis Napoleon like his
great uncle is not deficient in superstition. He be
ieves in his star, and deems his own body invulner-
able. The scratch upon his face, therefore, which
he suffered on the 18th of January, has alarmed
him, as it were, by seeing the tasman broken or
by finding himself obliged to regard it as a false
one. His father, the ex-king of Holland was su-
persttious in theshghest degree and believed that
his being impotent and para ytic in the hands and
partly in his legs was the result of poisoned shirt
which had been cursed to him by incantations.
TELEGRAPHS IN PRUssIA.-The Prussian budget
(Governmental) of the administration of telegraphs
shows that the receipts exceeded the expenses by
24l thalers, 200 900 of which are to be employ
en- in completing the telegraphc lines, the length of
which at the end of the present year will be 1925
English miles. Prussia is the first country on the
continent which established Geographic lines and
opened them to the public, and it was she who form
ed the Austro-German Telegraph Union. The
she has dsbursed for the construction of her lines
is 900 thalers.
We (Naito Times) understand that during the
stay of the Siamese ambassadors at the Imperial
Hotel, one of their servants having been guilty Of
some trI1lng offence, forthwith laid on the floor
and bastnadoed until he became insensble, and re-
storatives were obliged to be used to bring him to
his senses. This fact gives idea of the low state
OF civilization of the country and government repre-
sented by these ambassadors