The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-01

conduct wa highly commended in the dispatches by
Gen. Sir W. r. Gilbert. He afterwards held the
command at ROhilcund. at Sealcotc, Cawnpore and
Meerut, and bore the highest character officer
He fell on the 4th of May, mortally wounded by
grape shot from the guns of the rebels, the road
near Bareilly.
THE PARIS CONFERENCES.
The correspondent of the Times, writing on Mon
day evening says:
1.-The plenpotentiares met in conference to-day
The fact, already communicated to you, of the ad-
mission of the principle of the political separation of
the Principalites has been confirmed in unguard-
ed moment of candor by the government print, the
Potrie. But the short paragraph which announces
1t has, hear, cost the Parie sound rating for its
lndlscretion and orders are sent round to its com
placent contemporaries not to copy the Potrie. So
much Tor the liberty of the press
The Daily Ne,rs correspondent says:
1.-The Conference met to-day for the fifth time
The secret OF their proceedings has hitherto been
so well kept that feel little confidence in repeat
ing rumors of what has been lately done. 1t is
serted that the union of the Prncipaties has been
formally rejected by four votes to three-England
Austria, Turkey and Prussia having voted against,
and France, Russia and Sardinia for it. This is
very safe news to give, because if not already true
1t will be ultimately. | repeatedly said, long ago.
that the principle of the union had been sacrificed,
and am quite certain that no member of this Con
ference has had from the first the slightest doubt
OF the result 1t is, however further affirmed that
IN the last sitting it voted by ma orty against
violent opposition the part Of Austria, that two
representative assemblies should be permanently es-
tablished in the Prncipalities.'
THE CUBAN EXPEDITION.
The Times, in a leader, asks-What will be the
upshOt OF the Chinese expedition? The question is
asked in many quarters. The merchants are
anxious to know; the manufacturers are waiting
Tor news. In the cotton districts even the opera
tIves, now better informed how closely their inter
ests involved, search the newspapers for inform
alton Every one has learned to feel the Importance
/ OF China, except only House of Commons. In
no other assembly in England would that audacious
and still unretraced msquotaton of the Nankin
Treaty which Lord John Russell hazarded have
passed unquestioned.
The House of Commons received it with cheers
and no one had a sufficient knowledge to set him
ard the House right. If Lord Egns voyage north
was merely to make a naval demonstration in the
Gulf, to wait there till the French renforcements,
giving preponderance to the French force in those
seas, should arrive follow his proceedings with
little interest If, however, his object has been by
| prompttude of action to settle the affair before
| Zouaves are brought upon the scene he is proba-
bly, by this time at Teasing. The northern high
| ways are paved with square masses of stone, and
are just the roads which to run our light brass
field pieces.
From Tungchau to Pekn there is a broad paved
road, and five hundred sailors, with Osborne, or
Key, or Cochrane, any one of half dozen others
we could name, at their head would advance along
| that road with very little opposition and make
themselves comfortable upon the walls of the CAPT
| tai. We are not teachers in that crazy school OF
politicians wherein all secret diplomacy is an ex-
ceptiOnal case. Antecedent circumstances render
this particular British interest very unsafe in the
hands of the membersof the present government
China is far away and the proceedings of our House
of Commons are very long in percoating to Pekn
The House of Commons might well insist upon
knowing the exact tenor of the instructions sent out
to Lord Elgin since the change of government
The French papers are circulating precis of them
which we most certainly hope is but fable.