The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-24

The possessions of the Hudson Bay Company, or
the territory of the continent over which they eXcT
ercise control, contains an area of two millions five
hundred thousand square miles. 1t is fifteen and
half times larger than the State Of California;
about thrtv-eight times as large the State of n.
ork; nearly twice as large the whole of the
thirty-one States of this Union, and if omit
the territory of Nebraska, is as large as all
States and territories combined. About one-ffth
OF that extent, than three three times
the size of California is said to be fit for agricutu-
raj or grazing purposes.
There were at st. Paul, Mimi, on Wednesday,
the 18th inst, a visit connected with the inter
ests of the Hudson Bay Company, Sir George
Simpson, the long-time Governor of the Company's
possessions; Hon. Henry Ellis member of the British
Parliament for Coventry, and Dr. John Rae, the
Arctic Explorer, who discovered the remains and
ascertained the fate of Sir John Franklin's party
The object of the visit Of these gentlemen to St.
Paul. is to inquire into the expediency of supplying
the posts of the Hudson Bay Company, in British
America via ST. Paul. instead ofby way of York
Factory or Lake Superior.
The following statistics show the number ofslaves
connected with the different churches in the South
Connected with the Methodist church
Methodist, North, in Virginia and Mary
land, $4,000
Missionary and Hard Shell Baptists, $4,000
Old School Presbyterians, $1,000
New School Presbyterians, (supposed,) 5000
Cumberland Presbyterans, 10000
Protestant EpiscOpalianS, 1000
Campbellites or Christian Church, 10000
All other sects combined, 10000
Total colored membership South, 4G5, 900
A letter of late date, from st. Petcrsburgh,
states that the work of emancipating the serfs is
going on in the most satisfactory manner. In Lth-
uania, the committee of acknowledgements have de-
cided that part of the soil shall be made to
the peasants. In order to procure them the means
of purchasing FARMS kind of bank is to be formed,
IN which each peasant will deposit small annual
IL
formed will be advanced to the peasants on mort
gage Of their land to be paid to the proprietors as
purchase money.
There are forty-six persons in England who have
incomes OF E45OOO0 year, equal to two millions
and quarter dollars, while four hundred and for
ty-our persons have incomes ranging from fifty
to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars wear
and eight hundred and eleven from TWENTY-FIVE to
fifty thousand. In ireland there is but one person
who has an income of upwards of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars; twenty-one have incomes
from fifty thousand to two hundred and fifty th0us-
and and thirty from twenty-five to fifty thousand
dollars.
Among other facts of interest in the last census
of Great Britain, it is stated that the English people
in Scotland numbered Is, 562 males and - 234 e-
males the Scottish people in England and Wales,
co. IO4 males and 1884 females; Irish people in
England and Scotland, 2l9 397 males and 1879 S53 e-
males.
The males in the three islands at the soldiers age
Of twenty to forty, amount to three millions, three
hundred thousand men. So that with good mill
tia system, and such degree of military discipline
experience in this country has proved can be at
tanned by volunteers, England might bid defiance
/ to all Europe in arms.
BANKRUPTs IN MASSAcHUsETTs.-The return of
bankruptcies under the general law of lSll accor-
! ding to writer in Hunts Merchants Uagazine
shows Massachusetts, to have been the least affected
by the revulsion of any Of the States. BY the ta-
| bles given it appears the property of the Massa-
! chusetts debtors equal to sixty per cent. of
the debts, while those of New York were less than
per cent, and all the rest of the Union nearly
| ten per cent.
! In the year 100 ten cergymen met at Branford,
each one bringing few books under his arm. Pla-
cling these on the table in Parson Russelps study,
| each said solemnly, 81 give these books for the
founding Of a college in this colony century
and half have gone by, and Yale College counts
its graduates by thousands-and this was its foun-
daton.
| Monday, Sept -, was the ninety-ninth anniver-
sary of the battle fought the Plains of Abra-
| ham, between Wolfe and Montcalm, which caused
/ Canada to pass from the domination of France to
| the rule of Great Britain.