The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-13
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ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE STEAMER PERSIA,


The steamer Persia, which left Liverpool on
Saturday, tn, LIST instant, arrived at New York
on tuesday. Her advices are three days later than
any previously at hand
iHE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND MAzzINI.-We are
informed, on good authority, that had the govern
! ment succeeded in obtaining conviction against
Bernard, they intended to arrest and put MazZini
on his trial on a similar charge. So certain did the
government feel of getting verdict in Bernard
case, That preparatory steps taken before the
! trlal was over to arrest MaZzini Immediately the
! jury was discharged. The jurys verdict of "not
! guilty" destroyed this STANDARDIZATION Daav
| Press.
REsToRATIoS OF SHAKSPEAREs HOUSE, STRArFoRD-
| oN-AVoN.-Thc "Birth-place Committee" are mt
| ting the muniicent gift Of f2.500 from Mr. John
Shakespeare, which noticed in the public Jour
mails some months ago, to use, by proceeding with
| the proposed renovation or isolation of the house
! IN which the poet was born, The committee have
we are informed entered into contracts for the res
toratlon OF certain portion of the house to the
state in which it was supposed to be when Shaks-
peare drew his first breath in it, and portion of
the work may be said now to be satisfactorily com
pleted. The house being temporarily fenced, after
rural fashion, pending the planting of the hedge
OF yew with which it is intended to surround it, is
so far safe from fire and other chances of accident
y handsome and appropriate pavement is being put
down before the house.
The Press IN RussA.-A letter from st. Peters
burg tells us that literary activity prevails in
Russia, OF which the like was never seen before
great many contemporary authors of renown
have Just been translated, and amongst them are
Macaulay, Grotc, and Prescott. Numerous works
OF native authors are announced. An ''Wustrdtcd
~. Petersburg Ne1cs' has been established The
atrical, literary, scientific military maritime and
economic journals have been started; periodicals,
containing original tales and TRANSACTIONS are mn
merous; even mild limitations of ''Pmlch" are not
wanting. And what is regarded as little short
OF stupendous, some OF the new journals actual
ly allowed to be sold in the streets as newspapers
in London. The theatres on their part are nro-
ducing original works and TRANSACTIONS; and
amongst the latter 90 King Lear" is shortly to
appear with NJ. Samoilotf in the principal char
apter.
TITLES OF NOBILITY IN FRANcE.-The law on the
assumption OF titles of nobility has come out from
the special committee even i'll stringent form
than the Council of State proposed it. Not merely
the assumption of false title of nobility but even
whatsoever should wear a uniform, costume, or dec
Grafton, to which he has no right is ia be punished
and that even with q higher punishment than he
who merely transforms himself into a noble The
latter Is to be fined only! the former is to be fined
and imprisoned from six months to two years. The
explanation is not difficult; in the titles of nobility
the government protects chiefly the legitimist inter
est; In protecting uniforms costumes and decora-
tons, the Napoleonists protect their newly es-
tablished honOrs.
THE TRANSPORT OF AFRICANS TO THE FRENCH WEST
lNDTEs-The great irregularity of the West African
mail steamers has Of late interrupted the current of
the history of the notorious Regis contract for sup
plying the French West Indies with purchased Afri-
cans The last arrivals, however put in possession
OF some additional facts quite conclusive as to the
character of this traffic Subsequently to the
that the Portuguese authorities had refused to allow
the French purchase of negroes within the limits of
the provinces of Angola, our readers NAV rccolect
that advices from the West Indies announced
the arrival in the French Antilles of one of NJ Re
gls ships with cargo of 500 Africans, 100 of whom
u Rut
hitherto there has been nothing positively known
as to where this unhappy batch of negroes was OBJ
tanned
The African mail, Just arrived fills up this hiatus
in the melancholy and miserable tale. 1t seems
that the Stella, after being Joined by another ship
the Clara proceeded beyond the territorial limits of
Angola, and there found barracoon filled with slaves
belonging to the Cuban characters of various Amer
lean vessels which had been seized equipped for
the traffic, but without national papers on boardl
and sent to the Vice Admiralty Court of Sierra
Leone for adjudication. \ bargain was soon struck
with the agents IN charge of the barracoOns.-
Eight hundred of these slaves who had been cap
tured III the regular course of the internal slave
trade, and brought down to the coast for cxpor-
tatlon, were brought to the Stella and 400 to the
Clara OF the 500 purchased for the Stella GOO
were shipped In one day. so hurried and I'M
scrupulous We're the French agents engaged in
this disgusting and cruel transaction. The only
| thought or care they had was whether the ne
grocs they drove from the barracoons on board
across the Atlantic That ascertained, into the
hold and between decks they were thrust. with an
expedition that detes all Spanish competition or ri
valry. And from the slave barracoons southwark
OF Angola, on the west coast of Africa these 200
negroes carried by the contractors of the i'm
perial government of France to Martinique and
Guadalupe. What may have been the mortality
OF the middle passage is not stated. But is known
from other sources that one hundred of the Africans
so bought were swamped, and persisted on the coast
OF one of those islands. Let assume that of the
l,200 thus bought, only 900 safely reached the
French colonies. On their arrival the contractor
would by the terms of his arrangement with the
imperial government, become entitled to 500, OO0-
Now, in what one single particular, we ask does
this operation differ from an ordinary slave trade
adventure punishable as felony by the laws of every
civilized country, and denounced a crime against
God and man by the congresses of Vienna and We
roma ?-London Daily Ncrs.
[CorreSpondence Of the London Tiiaes.l
CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW.
STORMING OF THE BEGuM's PALACE-HORRIBLE SIGHT.
FRIDAY, March 12.-The camp was on the alert at
an early hour this morning, for it expected that
Outram would receive permission to attack the iron
bridge at least to the stone bridge ut both
ends. But Sir Colin Campbell. so reckless of his
own life, that his staff in continual apprehension
is chary indeed of the life of any soldier under his
command and he would prefer using a thousand
shells dear though they be, to using up the rawest
OF recruits. We have n powerful artillery II is
not till the whole force of that arm has been exerted
that assault anv position will be authorized by
the Commander-in-C Chief However, there was
plenty to be seen by early riscrs. We were in the
Begun ka Mahul, and the rooms were thrown omen
to visitors thanks to the bayonets of our soldiers
OFF poured, by ones and twos and threes the mem
bers OF the headquarters staff, riding through the
park of the Martiniere, out of the rough open
ground between its enclosures and the canal along
whose dry bed the deserted trenches of the enemy
offered larger obstacle to our progress The Sikh
Sappers were busy, however, in clearing a path
through the parapet, the second bridge below
Banks house, which was just practicable for man
and horse, and passing through a large enclosure,
the trees of which torn with shot we came out
on the main road, within few hundred wards of
our new possessions.
As we approached the Begum's Palace, the enc
my bullets, varied by round shot now and then
came kissing overhead, and announced that they
were still fighting in the 'front.' The road, which is
lined by high walls on both sides, enclosing the
residences OF some wealthy people, now in ruins,
above which rise continuous groves of trees and
Eastern shrubs leads from the broken canal bridge
and is met just in front of the Begums Palace by
| another road of similar kind but little more Open
which passes by the bridge near Banks House to
Dilkoosha. Externally, all we could see of the
Begun Palace were some gittering domes, the
cupolas and minarets of a mosque on the left and
the baustrades around the fiat roofs of the numer-
Gus buildings inside high wall, forming the out
er barrier, loop-holed at every incl, enclosed the
building all around, but it bore frequent marks of
our cannon. In front of this wall there was high
parapet of earth, with deep scarp and ditch some
fifteen sixteen feet deep, and two small basons
with embrasures for two guns, which swept
the approaches to the place, were intended to
do so.
The embrasures. however, had been beaten into
ragged holes, choked up with sand and timber by
the fire of our guns. Just in front of us, within
some eighteen or twenty yards of the ditch, there
was large hole in the ground, caused bv mine
which the sep0ys sprung when it was too late to do
them any good or us any harm. In the ditch itself
there lay heap of the dead bodies of the enemy,
which our men were dragging out of the palace and
finging over the trench. The enemy had literally
dug their own graves. As we crossed the narrow
ramp of earth leading to the gateway, we could not
but feel asonishment at the small loss by which we
had gained such position Along the front of this
wall, IN addition to the guns there were loopholes
for at least 1000 muskets and it seemed scarcely
noSSihle TO nifGCt entran III,