The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-03
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE BORUSSIA.

BY the steamship Borussia at New York, we have
received London papers of August 18th, including
the second edition of that days Times. They fur
nsh some additional news Of interest.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO BERLIN.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria paid Berlin a visit on
the 10th. A dispatch from Berlin says:
"This morning, at IL O'Clock, Queen Victoria
honored Berlin with a visit. An immense multi
tude lined the road from the railway station to the
palace of the Prince of Prussia. The first open
carriage contained Queen Victoria and the Prince
of Prussia the second the Princess of Prussia Prin
cess Frederick William, the Prince Consort, and
Prince Frederick William. The Queen was loudly |
cheercd and bowed repeatedly in return. Shortly |
after IL o'clock the Queen entered the palace of the
Prince of Prussia, and appeared the large balco
ny, leaning on the Princes arm. Her Majesty
again loudly cheered, which compliment she gra-
ciously acknowledged
At II the distinguished personages proceeded to |
the palace of Prince Frederick William, and at |
they visited the Royal Palace. At o'clock in the |
evening the Royal party were to return to Pots
dam.
"A telegram, dated the 10th, SAYS that the King
of Prussia is shortly expected at Potsdam."
AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.
PARIS, Aug. lit is said that among the in
structons sent to Baron Gros by NJ. de Chassiron,
was one directing him not to insist that France
should in future have Ambassador resident at
Pckin lift were found that such insistance would
tail rupture of the negotiations.
\ fac-simile of the commemorative tablet fixed in
the inner dock at Cherbourg is to be placed in the
in relieve of the basin and of the apparatus used to
fill it, and model of the ship Vile de Nantes
There is a report that the return of the Emperor to
Paris is to be celebrated by Jtcs but this does not
appear certain
NJ. Sabatier, Consu-Gcneral of France at Alex
| andria. has been charged by the government to
proceed to Jeddah to make Investigations respect
| ing the recent outrage. He is at present in the
Pyrenees, leave of absence, but is to embark at
Marseilles, in few days. for Egypt, on his way to
| his destination.
Empress from Cherbourg to Brest, are about to re
turn to Toulon, with the exception of the ships-of
thc-linc Donaworth, Ulm, and Austerlitz, which
| to remain at BreSt.
THE EXPEDITION TO MADAGASCAR.
| There is talk of an expedition against Madagas
car by combined English and French force, to
punish the piracies of which the savages of that
island have been guilty. From all can learn,
believe that nothing is yet positively decided, but
that the plan is being deliberated upon, and that
| the necessity of some such measure is recognized.
As long ago the end of the Crimean war, an ex-
petition to Madagascar was talked Of and 1T was
said that some regiments suspected of disatfecton
to the present order of things in France to be
employed upon it. The reason then assigned for
its not being carried out the painful tradition
preserved in the French army of the expedition to
st. Domingo, early in the century, when thousands
of the veterans of the Egyptian and Italian cam
paigns persisted mserably of the diseases of the
West Indian climate. The suspected battaons were,
| have been told, reshipped for Algeria soon after
they reached Marseilles.
THE FIRST WORKINGS OF THE ATLANTIC
| TELEGRAPH.
From The London Daily Ne"$, Of AM"t Is
The infant telegraph begins to speak well and
plainly. The lisping period is already passed. The
| plaintive "repeat, repeat---speak lower, is no
longer heard. The angelic salutation, "Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace good will
| toward men," has sped in winged words with
lightning speed, through all the wonders of the
great deep from the Old World to the New. The
same words have been echoed back by the respon-
sive lightning from the adventurous colonists of
America to their parent isles. Is it not well that
these words should be the first arculate speech of
the new wonder of mans progress?
The same Almighty Power who gave man domn-
ion over the fish of the sea- and over the fowl of
the air. and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth, has taught him in these days to
subdue to his use the most mysterious powers OF
nature. Let him, therefore, in all humility cele-
brae his triumph by rendering the glory to God in
The inhabitants of these British Isles have so in
creased and multiplied that their home has long
been too narrow for them. They have gone forth
to repenish the earth and Subduc it. They have
spread over the greater part of the New World
Over the northern breadth of that continent the
British tongue and the British race are predomi-
nant. The bond of instantaneous communication,
annihilating time and space, between brethren OF
the same blood, speech and religion, ought surely
to be the means Of perpetuating peace and good
will.
As vet we know not the message of Queen Veto
ria to the President of the United States This we
can anticipate-that it will be worthy to 90 down
to history fitting words to be sent from the ruler
of one half the Anglo-SaXon to the ruler of the
other-ftting words to cement amity and union be-
tween the representatives of the progress and free
dom of the world.
The speed of transmission seems steadily to in
crease first 81 words transmitted in thirty-tive
minutes, then 90 words in sXty-sevcn minutes, now
100 words per hour are transmitted by perfect sig
mails with accuracy. To estimate this speed we
must remember that every letter requires the trans
mission of certain number OF signals or electric
waves, for the speaking instruments now in use. To
transmit 100 words per hour indicates the passage
of about 40 signals per minute. If each of these sig
nails were to record letter, some seven hundred
words per hour might be flashed from Newtound-
land to Nalentia "a
Nothing be more promising than these ex-
poits of the infant telegraph. No one could prcdi-
cate with any certainty what retardatlon the cleo
trio waves might experience in passing along their
narrow road between the pressure of two rules of
water. sensible retardation had been observ-
ed in submarine lines trifling in length, when COM
pared with the two thousand miles of cable now buried
in the depths of the Atlantic Who could tell before
hand that this retardatiOn might not have increased
in some fearful ratio with the distance? Now all
doubts are Solved the powers Of transmission Of
the cable found to be increased rather than di-
unfinished by the pressure and temperature to which
it is subjected.
Surprising, however, that the speaking or print
ing apparatus of the Atlantic Telegraph be
raised to the highest degree of efficiency, the wants
of two worlds must speedily outstrip its capabili-
ties. 1t is but single line of the electric rail.
Messages can pass but way at d time. The
same craving necessities which demand not only
double lines of railway, but express trains of sixty
miles an hour, will soon require double path for
the winged words of the East to pass to the West
without jostng the Ariels of the New World.
Two thousand miles of cable joining Britain with
America is but the swaddling band Of infant Tele-
graphy. Arefs work is not half nor quarter
DONE The girdle belt of an empire on which the
sun never sets must follow the course of the lum-
nary of the day. 1t will not be complete till East