The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-02-22
forfiga 5tlisttllanu.

The Chambers of Commerce of Austria have al
most unanimously declared themselves in favor of
the abolition of the usury laws and of free trade
They have also demanded new code of commerce,
The olive crop in the south of France has lust been
gathered. 1t is plentiful and the oil of superior
quality.
Marseilles paper states that during the severe
storms on the coast of Barbarv from the LIST to the
18th of january, an Austrian and Portuguese vessel
were thrown on the Riff Coast and that the pirates
plllaged the vessels and murdered most of the crews
IN the Lombardo-V enetan kingdom great discon-
tent prevails in consequence of the physical suffering
OF the people There occur deficient crops excessive
taxation and trading mishaps
AT Viaggiano poor woman lost her husband and
TWO children by the earthquake; two children, how
ever, Were saved, but these died of hunger, and the
deSolate wife and mother hanged herself
Ihe Academy of Sciences of ST. Petersburg has
Just instituted prize for the best treases on GER
tain political questions and the first subject it pro-
poses is the abolition of serfdom
Spohr, the celebrated musician, has met with
sad accident. On descending the stairs of the read
ingoroom OF the Cassel Museum, few nights ago.
he fell and broke his arm.
The London Herald's Paris correspondent states
that duel was fought few DAYS ago between
Marshal Bosquet, the hero of the Malakoff, and a
general officer, and that account of lady being
concerned in the case, the authorities are endeav-
orlng to hush the matter up. The Marshal was
wounded.
About $1,000 have been subscribed in Ireland for a
monument, and like sum for reformatorv to
Mathew.
Colonel Charras, who was ordered by the Belgian
government to quit Belgium is, it is sad about to
sail for the United States of America
1t is said that the Courier dc Paris has been pur
chased by Count de Morny
The new Governor of Madrid has requested the
conductors OF newspapers to abstain from discussions
ON religion and the monarchical principle, and to
be moderate and circumspect in their writings on
political affairs The editors of the Canor Pubco
and Iberia having solicited information as to the
length they might go in discussion, the Governor
said that he would not Law down a rule but that
journalists would be permitted to criticise freely
the acts of the Government and of public function
aries.
Lord Pamerston has granted pension on the
Literary Civil List of fl00 year to the widow of
Douglas ,Jerrod.
His lordship has also intimated to Miss Hoep the
eldest daughter of the Ettrck Shepherd that her Ma
Jesty has been pleased in consideration other fathers
genus, to confer upon her civil list pension of f40
year few years ago, Lord Aberdeen bestowed
on Mrs. Hogg the poets widow pension of $50
which she continues to enjoy.
The new theatre of COvent Garden is already in
the Court of Chancery. The owner of warehouse
IN Hart street has applied for an injunction to re-
strain the erection of the theatre, nasmuch as it
would shut out the light from his premises The
case stands over.
According to a general survey lately made of all
the old castles and country seats now existing in
France, there remained 20,3l2, of which 81 are of
the Eth ana 18th centuries, s94 of the 14th and
later date. More than $500 of them have draw
bridges, turrets, and crenelated battlements.
Since the recent suppression of the Spectator bv
the French Government the subscribers of that pa
per, numbering from 1000 to 5000, have been trans
terred to the Legitmist Union.
Inc Paris rays publishes accounts from Cochin
CHINA and Tonquin to the 18th November The
persecution of the Christians was continued with a
violence hitherto unparalleled. The Anamite Gov
eminent had established tribunal in the capital
for the prosecution of the Christians The country
moreover. is in state of the greatest confusion
Bands of robbers from China were plunderinp the
southern provinces.
few nights after the suppression of the Specta-
teur and Rer"e de Paris the Marriage de Figaro was
performed at the Theatre Francois, which, as YOU
are aware, receives a large allowance from the
State: In Act 5, Scene 3, Figaro saws, "There is
established in Madrid system of liberty on the
sale of productions which extends even to the press
was informed that provided did not aude in
my writings to the authorities nor to public wor-
ship, nor to politics, to morals nor to persons
In office, nor to bodies in credit nor to the OPERA
nor to other play houses, nor in fact to any one
who is interested in anything, ght freely print
what liked under the inspection Of two or three
censors. This passage received with repeated
cries of "BravoH' And when Figaro added that.
IN order to avoid all risk of offending the authori
ties any else, he was determined to call his
newspaper lie journal L,utHe, it was followed by
much laughter.