The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-01
CHINA AT WAR WITH RUSSIA,
Cotton Declined -Breadstuffs and Provisions Dull

The screw steamship City of Baltimore, which
sailed from Liverpool at about eleven O'Clock OF
the morning of the 18th of March arrived at New
York yesterday.
The steamship Africa arrived out at Liverpool
at noon on Sunday the 14th, and the Borussia
reached Southampton on the morning of the same
day.
The City of Washington arrived at Liverpool al
IL oclock, A. NJ, on the 10th.
The screw steamer Alps, advertised to leave Liver
pool for New York simultaneously with the CITY of
Baltimore, had been withdrawn.
The ship kennebec of Bath, Maine, from Liver
pool for Mobile abandoned at sea on the 22d OF
February
bound to New Orleans. Nine of them were trans
terred to the Louise Sophia, and had arrived in
England.
The correspondence with the French government
relative to the Refugee question, was submitted to
Parliament on the 18th inst.
meeting of the supporters of the Government
in the House of Commons, summoned by the Earl
of Derby, was held yesterday at noon, at the Off
cial residence of the noble lord The Evening Her.
dtd says that upwards of two hundred and twenty
members responded to the invitation, and that the
"greatest unanimity' prevailed.
Mr. Roebuck has received challenge from the
Count de Ligny, an officer in the French army
The Count gives Mr.. Roebuck notice that he will
remain in France ready to meet him at any place
he may appoint.
1t was announced that the son of the late Sir
Henry Lawrence is to be created a baronet and
that the East India Company propose to give him
an annuity of FL 900 year.
The riot in Dublin was alluded to in both
Houses, and Government promised strict investi-
cation.
In the House of Commons the India loan bill was
passed.
Mr.. DIsraeli stated that the case of the Cagliari
had been submitted to the law officers of the Crown,
and that Government would act upon their opinion
irrespective of the action of the late Government
U1,i bod ooly,
in the premises.
Mr.. D'Israeli also stated, in reply to a speech
from Mr.. Bernal Osborne, that he did not think
Government was called upon to declare anything
beyond general policy under the peculiar circum-
stances attending their advent to power and that
that general policy had already been declared by
Lord Derby. He promised that the bill to amend
the Government of India should be introduced be-
fore Easter, and announced that the Irish policy of
the Government would be the same was pursued
by Lord Eglinton five years ago. He would never
consent that an Orangeman should be thereby dis
qualified from the magistracy.
In the House of Commons in reply to an inquiry
Mr.. DIsraeli said that the Government had refused
to let Sardinia give up Mr.. Hodge, the Englishman
who was arrested at Genoa, to the French Govern
ment, they did not consider that there was
sufficient evidence to warrant his committal.
On motion of Mr.. Ewart, select committee was
granted to inquire into the progress and prospects,
and the best means to be adopted for the promotion
of European colonization in India. This movement
has reference to the projected cultivation of cotton
in India
In the House of Lords, last night, March l6,)
Lord Brougham presented petition on the slave
trade and called attention to the indirect revival of
the slave trade by France, and to the re-estabsh-
ment of virtual system of slavery in the Island of
Guadaloupe. The Earl of Peterborough after
sketching the probable progress and issue of the
conflict with the insurgents in India, moved the Sc
cond reading of the East India Loan Bill, and the
motion was agreed to. He incidentally stated that
he believed by the end of February Lucknow would
have been DESTROYED.
A pamphlet by Mazzini, defending the late Ge-
insurrection and describing the state of italy,
has been published by an English friend of the in
detatigable apostle of insurrecton. The pamphlet
it seems, written soon after the late abortive
movement, but suppressed by the Piedmontese gov
and is now reproduced here with the
view of showing that public opinion in England is
sadly mistaken about the Mazzinians and the Italian
question. 1t seems that the republican movement
in Genoa was got up with the view of affording to
the PiedmOntese Government the opportunity for
action, it is assumed that that Government can
not initiate open struggle for the establishing of
an united and independent Italy.
The eclipse of the 18th of March was scarcely
visible in England, owing to the hazy weather
which prevailed and obscured the sun.
From the London Tim es, March 16
THE EFFECT OF THE CORRESPONDENCE IN
ENGLAND.
The dispatch of Count Walewskiin answer to Lord
has arrived, has been laid before Par
lament and will be the topic of discussion for a
day or two. The 'miscOnception" is set right, the
alliance still subssts and it becomes to say no
more of the events of the last two months. The
ministry of Lord Derby has achieved the great be-
fore which it set forth ITSELF and may have leave to
triumph accordingly. Ithas been able to lay on the
table of each house conciliatory dispatch, and to
state with authority that unpleasant affair has
been arranged. This is happy conclusion, and we
hope it will be followed by vigorous application
4ba I,,tia IF fha
vaton of the natonol honor is matter Of vast i'm
portance, it has its sacrifices in the shape of confu
sion and delay; and dearly enough has the nation
earned its present immunity from reproach. How
ever, England demanded an explanation, and the
tory Cabinet was its organ; by all means let Lord
Derby and his friends have the credit of having
sustained the country's dignity without wounding
the susceptibility of an ally. The path was indeed
plain before them and they could not well miss it.
When the dispatch from the French Minister came
within week of 0rsini's attempt, there was room
or consideration and hesitation, and consequently
or error of Judgment The French Court was in
is first lit of alarm and suspicion, the diplomatic
world in its first heat of GOSSIP, the English nation
n its first feeling of commseration for the
happy victims of the plot, to the number of which
Every day added. Ministers are bat mortal men, andey
rere Influenced Ike other people, and gaze verbal
cers ehere they should have aorihen, and promises
ohere they should hare icihheld their decision This
ras an error Of judgment, and Lord Palmerston
plated 1t By has fall. -s.. .t.. .. ...- e.. ....l
We not going to discuss the Justice of the vote
for we agree that the national honor is of great
sr moment than the stability of a ministry, and
here are bunders which must be treated as crimes.
ct, it is well to consider how natural and excusa
Die was the error into which the last Cabinet fell
As events have directed the of the new min
stry there is no room for praise or blame. They
came in to write an answer to Count Walewski and
hey have written it, and as it was not worth while
or the two nations to go to war on the matter they
nave received gentle reply.
However, it certainly seems little singular that,
lfter turning out minister for not sending spir
ted answer it is found that Lord Malmesbury could
successful by ofvery conciliatory language
md that Mr.. D'Israe laid before the House of Com
mons in triumph dispatch declaring that the cele
)rated one from Count Waewski of the 20th of JAM
lad not at all the meaning which he and his friends
attributed to it. The great dchierement of the
Derby goUer7netis to obtain declaration from Count
Wale,csk that has former dispatch ought not to hare
,een resented But, if this was the case then Lord
Palmerston was right in not resenting it, and the
ate opposition were wrong in passing vote of CEN
ure. But the fact is that events gave to mssive
If the French government complexion which at
irst was not visible. Lord Palmerston, having had
% act Immediately, and being early compromised,
was placed in difficult position, while Lord Derby
has come in expressly to pose himself in patriotic
attitude.
However, whether by liberals or conservatives,
his country is likely to be well served when the
rational honor is clearly shown to be at stake. We
have now proved our determination not to be con-
rolled by foreign demands, or even to be amiable
under foreign advice. We have no doubt that the
French Government is very sorry that among the
documents which it sent out within week after the
lttempt on the Emperor should have been number
ID an ambiguous dispatch to Great Britain. IL soH
probably be long before the French Cabinet ,oH again
neddie ,oith the obstinate and pertiaacious brood
ehich inhabits these islands. Better quarrel with
lozen governments than with one politics-loving
md freespoken people. Cabinet Ministers and diplo
natists have language of their own, and in the
If this language the Continental statesmen very
lpt. But when they have to deal with nation of
politicians they are confused and powerless At
he fencing match of alternate dispatches the
French government may do well enough, but
he case is altered when the first thrust calls
orth host of antagonists, armed with every
Kind of weapon, and possessed with happy
ignorance of the rules Of the science. This is an
advantage which free country has over its neigh