The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-21
cludes 5000 tons sugar, $50 tons saltpetre, 1000
bales jute and hemp, 10000 bags rice, besides a
large quantity of rum and brandy.

cludes 5000 tons sugar. $50 tons saltpetre, 1000
bales jute and hemp, 10000 bags rice, besides a
large quantity OF rum and brandy.
INCREASE OF THE FRENCH ARMAMENT.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
states that 900 to 5000 additional workmen have
been put at work at Brest and asks the reason why
1t is said that sham fight at Cherbourg is soon to
take place in the presence Of the Emperor.
or a, letter from Chaons give some further details
vi n tnG works going on Mt the camps:
a ne imperial headquarters had been enlarged
anu eLiloeshed, and the buildings around it in
-Ileaseu' - The constructions, which are intended to
lJanahent, have been carried with great
" -. % moI sufficiently so to obviate the ne
s'l u ~ q a urlpet OF troops still going under can
vas. Permanent storehouses have replaced the
rough Sheds under which the forage was but imper-
ieclly sh9!tereu st year, and everything indicates
that the Emperor intends to make tic caI,p IF Cha
Ions military establishment of the first ordor and
from the nature of the buildings there can he no
doubt that a certain military force will remain
quartcred there during the winter"
The Courier de Narcotics publishes an article ON
the resolution adopted by the King of the Belrians
to fortify Antwerp. Itsays everybody is astonshed
that King Leopold; who was regarded as the most
prudent and reserved monarch in Europe, should
associate himself with manifestations which tend to
endanger the peace of Europe.
CHINA.
The London Times publishes a communication
from Hong Kong, dated Nav 5. 1t saws: s:-"Peh
kwei, our Niceroy of Canton, the Tartar General,
the llOpOO, ana another high Official of setting
up were taken into custody this week, by order of
MIR. Parkcs and the other Commissioners. The
charge against them was probably not undeserved
that OF intriguing with the Cinnamon outside the
city, and meditating an escape"
The cause of the present stagnation of trade at
Canton is the insecurity of the position here under
these altered circumstances. Nobody knows who
IS IN power or what is power, whether Chinese or
European. lie thought that the English general
and the Cantonese are both prone TO take alarm at
groundess panics. The general closed every land
ward gate of the city, and all the inner gates but
one. The Cantonese at once interpreted this mea-
sure into indication of intended hostilities, so
they took to removing themselves and their goods
to place of shelter.
Our merchants coatinue in the Honan packhouses
almost without guards, drive fair business, all
things considered, and do not share in any of these
apprehensions. In the colony there is nothing new
except that the new opium farm has gone far to ex-
tnguish the thriving business in prepared opium,
hitherto carried on by Chinese shippers to Calilor
MIA. The boilers of opium are going away, some to
Macao and the neighborhO0d where conveniences
for everything exist, and some talk Of going to the
five ports. On the other hand, the opium farmer
has got into a row with his partner, and the thing
will probably break down Of its weight.
The Daily Aeirs has a letter from Hong Kong of
the same date which SAYS: 'In the absence of in
telligcnce from the Gulf of Peehe, our interest
here is concentrated on Canton and its affairs where
the double government established by Lord Elgin
is getting harmonousy that one portion of it
has placed the other under arrest. | need hardly
say that it is the Commissioners who have seized
the Chinese officials, and not rice rcrsa.'