The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-31
FOREIGN MISCELLANY

Tue REVENUE AND TRADE OF IRELAND.-The net
produce of the of Ireland paid into the Ex-
chequer in the year 1857 was f6,562, 572, viz: e.
09S,3 from the Customs, E2,934,OOO from the EX-
else, f453 223 from stamps and lO76, 1886 from the
property and income tax. The income Of Ireland
Fl ,S52 ,G93, and the expenditure fG,S53, 707-
The following articles were retained for home con-
sumption in ireland, viz: 7,070,395 gallons of spir-
its, 5305 272 lbs. of tobacco 9,7729O6 lbs. of tea
739 603 lbs. of coffee, 365, sos cwt of sugar, and
246S9G lbs. of cotton wool. The consumption of
coal cannot be exhibited. To England were ex-
ported 325 400 oxen bulls and cows, II, 1873 calves
4S5,2l7 sheep, 269, l25 swine, lS333l quarters of
wheat and wheat -four, l,724 ASS quarters of oats
and meal and $50 ,lG3 gallons of Irish spirits.
The amount of portage collected was f224, ,OO4.
IoEp BRoUGHAM AS A NAvyY.-The Carlisle Jour
nal thus describes the workman like style in which
Lord Brougham went through his duties in cutting
the first sod of the Eden Valley Railway few days
ago: ''Lord Brougham received from the brawny
NAVY who stood beside him neat spade with which
he cut the first sod, and threw into handsome
hogany barrow, which had been provided for the
occasion. His ordship then, with vigor re-
markable as it was characteristic, wheeled the bar
row along some plankS that had been laid for dis
tance Of some ten a dozen yards, empted its
contents and then, in a truly navvy-like manner,
turned his back and pulled the barrow to a point
whence he started. During the operation the most
deafenng cheers resOunded from every part of the
field. Ills lordship appeared to be much amused
with his own performance"
ALONE on TIE DEEP.-The Bremen ship Magdc-
lima, witch arrived at Liverpool on Saturday morn
ing, reports having picked up seaman named Geo.
Baker, about 60 miles n. Z. by L. of Key Vest
The poor fellow formed one of the crew of the Bos-
ton brig West, bound from Galveston to Liverpool,
which went on shore on the coast of Florida
What became the rest of the crew is not known,
as the sea was breaking high over the brig at the
time she struck; much doubt Is however enter
tanned as to their safety Baker had been two days
in open boat at the time he was rescued.
AMERICAN SHIPS IN LIVERPOOL. AT the weekly
meeting of the Mersey Dock Board. on the 18th, a
memorial from captains in the American merchant
service sailing between this port and the United
States was read. The memorialists asked that the
law regulating the of lights shipboard should
be altered, and that lights, instead of being eStin-
guished at nine p. NJ, might be used until twelve
p. NJ only in the cabin, ect to the restric
tions existed at the present time. The grounds
urged for the change were that it had become al
most general practice for masters, during some
period of She year, to be accompanied by their
wives, and large class lived on shipboard. The
subject was considered by the Board one for ma
ture consideration, and they referred the memorial
to the committee for the management of the docks.
Discovery OF ANCIENT PICrUREs.-Several fine
fresco paintings belonging to the period of Giotto,
and attributed by connoisseurs to the pencils OF
either Agnolo Gaddi or Spinello Arctino have just
been discovered at Florence, in the convent OF Car
melitc monks, by two of the inmates, who, with
great patience and perseverance, removed the
whitewash with which they were covered, without
injurng them in the least They represent passages
in the life of ST. Ceciy, and SITS. Faleran, Thur
tius, and Urban.
FoRTIFICAT1oNs ON THE JURA.-A letter from
Switzerland states it is said to be in the contempa
ton of the French Government to construct fort
on the Col de la Fauce, the French side of the
frontier, at height of 1928 metres above the Level
of the sea. The high road from Paris to Geneva
passes over it after crossing the territory of The
Dappes The preparatory plans of the fort have
been already commenced by some officers of engi
neers Itis said that of 5000, 900 francs will
! be allotted for this military work.
TIE FRENcH GAME LAws.-Shooting having COM
dnns onantv of bares partrijges ouail and eve
! ry variety of game has encountered the markets o
Bona, Philippevie, Oran and Algers, that ship
loads were sent off to Marseilies but aas the steri
could be sold in France before the 10th, and tn
bounteous banquet met the fate described in Enei,