The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-25

| LoRD LYNDHURsr AT FIFTY-FIvE. - Baron Roths-
child, hear, did homage to the justice of these
gastrOnomic aspirations by splendid banquet last
week, at which most of the men in both Houses who
have been most prominently engaged in advocating
! Jewish claims were gathered together. The din
ner was as agreeable under such crcumstan-
ces could be, and the guests in as high spirits as
men who have fought good fight, and now NAV
lustitiably indulge But hear from one who was
present at what may fairly be considered a semi
public celebration that the gayes the wittiest the
most convivial of the party-its life and soul-was
not any OF the younger of the company, but
one whom one is almost tired of calling the veneer
able Lord Lyndhurst To be still, at eighty-fve
trst in the Senate and at the dnner-table, was in
deed' an exceptional lot. His lordshp, may well
take, as believe he does now, no inconsiderable
PRIDE IN dwelling upon his great age. 1t is, how
ever singular instance of the extent to which the
oldest and most trivial weaknesses found in the
strongest characters that it is only within the very
few last years that his lordshp was most sensitive
to anything which implied that he was no longer
young Perhaps, indeed, in that there was some
thing of the feeling which on occasion led him
to purchase from an engraver the plate on which
his handsome features were, as he thought, disad-
vantageously depicted Weaknesses or foibles
apart, however, long may his lordship live to delight
his friends by his social qualities, and to serve the
country by such weighty and authoritative EXPOSE
ton of great principle, whether of policy or uris
prudence, as he has given in the House of Lords
during the present session on the Jew question, and
only the other evening. on the international ques-
peace.-Cor. Manchester Eraminer.
The James FELTON, mentioned in the teerraphic
dispatch Of the rglo-Saxons news as having been
arrested at Liverpool, and who doubling on his
pursuer by fetur ing to this country the person
who, in the early part of July, absconded from
Onondaga county, in this State, taking with him
another mans wife and about $4,000 He was
engaged in the manufacturing business with part
ner, and while in the city converted the funds in
tended for the purchase of WOOL into securities and
fed.
He was pursued the following week by Captain
Leonard of the Police force of the best detec-
tives in the Union, who arrested him as he was en-
deavoring to escape the 18th inst, and succeeded
in recovering $50, 900 worth of the distracted
securites.-N Y. Post.
Nor THE COMET OF CHARLES FrFrH.-Mr Babinet,
recently observed in several parts of Europe is not
the celebrated comet of Charles V. In communi-
cation to the Journal des Debats, he says:
This year we have already five comets, two of
which are periodical; but none of them is the comet
Of 1856, called ''comet of Charles V" the return
of which, contrary opinions of Mr.. Hind and NJ
Hoetf divide the scientific world. As for the comet
no D, of this year, which was discovered by NJ.
Tomato, at Florence, on the I'd of June, it has no
resemblance to be the same. The present comet ad-
very slowly, and will be in the midst of its
rpps on the 9Th 9th of September next. 1t
,o't rus the west; whereas, the comet of Charles
went towards the east So that they can no
ol NC Ioilonnded than the mail from Brest can be
cohlouhue1 WIN taat from Strasburp Moreover
there are loo ueg difference in the nost;on of thn
of so deg. 10 '-/2 ueS' ihs'e"u
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