The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-26
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE ARMY IN SPAIN.-From the discussion on the
Military Estimates in the Cortes we learn that
the Spanish army now on foot consists OF oo'ooo
men, with reserve of 10000, 10000 gendarmes,
and 10, 900 troops exclusively attached to the Gus
tom-house service. The staff is enormous; IL
consists of nearly 600 generals NUMBER NOR E
than sufficient for the command OF all the arleS Vi
Europe.
At Alpiers in In rue de Cation, the French gov
ernor has sclemnlv inaugurated the new lsraehte
synagogue which has cost the treasury lzo,oooi.-
1t has dome and is decorated with gorgeous ara
besoues and it is to accommodate ,2OO, Desldes
atticed galleries for the daughters and mothers OF
Zion.
During the past year 24l,545 dispatches were
sent by the electric telegraph III Prussa:-6,99G
were sent by Prussan and $40 by foreign govern
ments: 1924 by telegraph companies; ,262 by the
railway interest," and 222, 493 by the general pub
Ic who paid for their transmission 575,59l thalers
in round number little over fS6,33s.
Great ravages having lately been committed by
two wild boars in the fields and woods of Buisso
Mere, Regache, and Lafay, in the Allier. grand
the villages and number of dogs taking part in it
but it ended in the destruction of only one of the
animals.
The last accounts received from India announce
that the governor of the island of Reunion has APP
piled to Admiral Rigault de Genouily for naval
force to chastlse vinang, petty sovereign on 1.e
west coast of Madagascar, who caused the captain
and crew of a French merchant ship to be muir
dered
Intelligence has been received from the Island OF
Reunion, (Bourbonl that a vessel from Nantes,
supposed to be the Marie Caroline, had been plum
dered, and the massacred, on the coast OF Mad
agascar. Three of the crew only had escaped, and
the vessel had b.. run on shore and burnt.
By means of spirit-rappng, Baron Won Golden
tubbe, of Frankfort, gives fac-smiles of handwrit
ing of Caesar, Cleopatra, and even Homer, whose
ability to trace characters has been questioned A
tionp WRIT nv Hvppnnrotor hos 1oo
old lady on the Rhine of acute rheumatism.
The town of Frankenstein, in Silesia, situated on
the road from Bresau to Glatz, was the oath Ill
tmo, entirely destroyed by fire. Out of 500 houses
which the town contained, 400, including the Cath
Ollie church, in ruins l6 persons persisted in the
flames.
heroic French boatwoman, whose husband and
little daughter were drowning in the river Gale, at
ROuen, bravely plunged in after them, and saved
both their lives. She is good swimmer, and has
been instrumental in saving several persons from
drowning.
The Espana says that in consequence of repre-
sensations made 10 it by the Spanish Cabinet, the
French Government has so modified the regulations
respecting passports as to allow such document
to comprise all the members of family, and even
the domestcs.
The corps of riiemen of Berlin has sent invitations
to 765 societies in the other towns in Prussia, for
grand ete, which is to be celebrated from the 9th
to the Both June, in honor of Prince Frederick Will
liam and Princess Victoria.
A letter from Moscow of the 18th ult, states that
the accounts which had been received of the state
of the crops in the provinces not so favorable
could be desired. The early thaw and the frosts
which afterwards came on had proved injurious.
The whole of Mdme. de Monto's debts have
been generously paid by the Emperor Napoleon
and his Majesty, in the name of the Empress Euge
ME, has just made the purchase Of beautiful cha
teau and estate close to Seville.
The last representative of distinguished French
family of the dncicn regime, that of Boulers, has
just died. The family ended very ingoriously in
this person.
According to advices from Constantinople, Me
hemed Bey has been sent back from Crcassia Sc
fer Pacha stayed his execution account of his pc
sitiOn as an officer in the Turkish service.
The section of the Western Railway of Switzer.
land, between Coppet and Morges, distance of &c
miles, has just been opened to the public. a dinner
OF $50 covers took place on the occasion.
The Augsburg Gazette affirms positively that Sc
cret treaty has been concluded between France and
Russia.