The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-15
FOREIGN MJSCETJANY

The journals of ConstantinopIe announce that the
Conference at Paris will commence about the 10Th
OF May, and that the different Powers are agreed
as to the organization of the Danubian Princpaii-
ties The Paris papers say that the conferences
will not open till June. The French Government is
anxious that they should open soon, out the vienna
Cabinet is in no hurry.
His Holiness has approved the denomination OF
Pho Latina for the railway company from Rome TO
the Neapolitan frontier The capital for the execu-
ton of the line from the Frascati branch, near the
twelfth chometre from Rome is fixed at u 900 900
francs upon which the Government guarantees
minimum interest of per cent as soon as the line
is completed.
Prince Napoleon intends giving a grand dinner
to inaugurate his hotel at No. l6, Avenue Mon
taigne Paris and it is said that the Emperor and
Empress have promised to honor it with their pres
ence. The building is an exact copy of the house
of Diomede at Pompeii.
The Univers and independence Beige have been ex-
changing courtesies. The former paper having as
serted that priests had been insuted and nuns were
afraid of showing themselves in the streets of Brus
sels the latter retorts, ''The Unicers lies, and
knows it,"
The public debt of Prussia now amounts to 1884,
5000 thalers Us 3d. of this sum, $780, 900
thalers are employed in the construction and re-
purchase of railways and other undertakings which
pay themselves off by their own sinking funds.
From n table published in a recent number of the
Moaiter Atgeriea, it appears that in the course OF
last year the European population of Algeria in
creased from 160 900 to 100000. That augmenta-
ton is the greatest that had taken place for ten
years.
A census of the island of Tahiti has just been
made. The population was found to be nearly 5000
souls. The births had outnumbered the deaths dur
ing the past year. The depopulation in Polynesia
was checked for the present.
Ledru Rollin has sent directions to dispose of the
house property he in Paris by right of his wife,
which must be of value, since the mortgages regis
tered thereon, and open to public inspection amount
to 400, 000f.
A French dispatch says:-'A note of the Porte
reproaches the Viceroy of Egypt for having writ
ten letter favorable to the piercing the Isthmus
of Suez, and orders him to take further steps in
the matter"
The Corriere Mercantile, of Genoa states that
the curate of Rapello, that city, arrested
on the 18th for having, on Good Friday, prayed
for the Emperor of Austria instead of the King of
Sardinia.
Letters from Jerusalem of March 20 state that
the troubles on Mount Hebron were not yet ae-
peased. The Governor bad asked for reinforce
ments, and all the consuis had supported his de-
mand.
At Martinique the Governor has suppressed the
Antilles newspaper for having republished from the
French journal lie Nord, letter indicating the
French scheme of African colonization.
The Independence Beige gives currency to a rumor
that the English alliance was to be cemented by a
marriage between Prince Napoleon and the Prin-
cess Mary of Cambridge.
The editor of the Italia del Popolo, of Genoa has
been condemned to 40 days Imprisonment and fine
of l50f. for offensive article the Emperor of
the French.
According to the ministerial journal of Berlin, the
European commission of the Danube has decided in
favor of the Sulina mouth of that river.
Another misfortune has befallen the French navy.
The steamer Aigle has been wrecked on the Gabou
The officers are acquitted of all blame.
1t is said that great numbers of the Polish exies
are availing themselves of the Cars amnesty and
returning to their unfortunate country.
The Egyptian steamer Suez, from Alexandria for
Smyrna, has been totally lost near Jafa. The mas
ter and several other persons persisted.
Four priests have been arrested and thrown into
the prisons of the Holy Office on account of the
affair of Velletri.
The French physician Chomel, who died recently,
left fortune of $1,000 0O0f, the produce of his pro-
fesson.
The Espana of Madrid declares that the assertion
OF the Queen being in an interesting situation is
true.
M. Luther de Blk has discovered a new small
planet the sixty third of the group.