The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-09
F o R E IGN.
THE MAILS OF THE AMERICA.
CHINA.

missioners for Foreign Missions.
Speaking generally, matters in the South of Chi
ma, since our last dispatch, have progressed quiet
ly and as satisfactorily as under all circumstances,
| could reasonably be expected The Baron Gros,
! Ambdsaadeur Frdncois, left Hong Kong in Ii. |. NJ
! ship Audaceuse it is supposed for Shanghai about
! the period of the dispatch of the last mail. The
! Earl of Elgin left Foo-chowfoo on the 14th inst
| and was to leave Ningpo on the Goth. The where
abouts of the Ministers to China for Russia and the
| United States still unknown. Quidnuncs will
have it that the island of Formosa forms an object
| ot exploration before the Ambassadors make for
the grand junction terminus Mt Shanghai or 500
| chow.
| Admiral Seymour, with his flag ship Calcutta and
steam tenders Coromandel and Leven, left Hong
Kong on the 25th inst, for it is concluded Shang-
hal direct. 1t is understood that his excelIency
would not have left until after the dispatch of the
now outgoing mail, but for the departure of Rear
Admiral Rgault De Genouilly, with that section of
the French squadron intended to represent imperia
| power at the approaching conference Prior to
leaving the French insisted, we hear on receiving
from British custody their share of the money found
! in the Canton treasury
We omitted to notice in our last summary a
| dashng expedition under Lieut.. Forbes command
ing the gun boat Algerine against pirates off Grass
Island, resulting in the destruction of four iunks-
! one mounting 20, two 10, and one guns. with, on
| our side, but one casualty Since then Lieutenant
| NIlers. commanding the gun boat Starting has
also highly distinguished himself in re-capturing an
English schooner. the Heather Belle, belonging to
/
body of desperadoes, who, after cutting off the
heads of the captain and two OF the crew. ran the
vessel into shallow water, with the intention of
| breaking her up.
! Following this again, was an expedition under
commander Felowes to village between Wham-
! poa and Canton, resulting in the recapture of
quantity of cassa that had been taken by ''braves
| on its transit to Whampoa for shipment.
| At Whampoa captain Edgell TIE senior Ma
! val officer off Canton, has given much satisfac-
tion by the display of a judicous vigor in the
punishment of the elders of q village near the
| site of the intended British Consulate and iail-
Our intention to build on their land, as might be
expected from people who for so long have been
allowed to do they pleased with the ''barbarian'
created good deal of excitement and i'll feeling
and to exhibit this, they proceeded secretly to
cut away the stays of flag ship staff near the in
tended works.
! WhampOa being now the residence of the officia-
ting consul for Canton, DR.. Winchester, the COM
missioners declined interference, and left Captain
Edgell to do as he pleased. This pleasure was as
follows The rope being returned, the flag staff
was properly rugged again, and a message sent to
the elders to and salute it. As they did not
appear within the hour limited, file Of marines
went for them and then followed the extraordinary
ceremony of Chinese elders on their bended
knees performing the kotow-i e. knocking the
head on the ground, nine times, to the British
fag-apt, though very proper, ,fnGie all will ad-
nit, to the contemplate squabble regarding the
Lorcha Arrow.
We hear of nineteen Chops of new Congou having
been settled at Canton in the early part of this
week, principally for leading house in Hong
Kong, at, for the majorty, 25926 taels cash-over
all from % to 80 taels.-Friend Of China, March
oath.
kOssUTH.-The Hungarian Bangya who some
time since succeeded in reaching Circassa in
steamer from Constantinople, with five hundred
Polish and hungarian refugees, and whom the Cir
cassans subsequently detected in reasonable cor
respondence with the Russians, on his trial confessed
! his guilt, but pleaded extenuating circumstances
He that the betrayal Of the Circassians into
the hands of their enemies is part of the pro-
| gramme for the regeneration of Hungary-Kossuth
having received assurance that it, through his aid
| the mountaineers should be subugated, Russia will
not again interfere in behalf of Austra and that he
! (Bangyal had consequently been chosen, though he
opposed the scheme, to carry out the first part of
| the programme. The statement has been published
in detail in the German papers, together with some
! documents bearing the case. Kossuth has. so
far, made no reply to this accusation. 1t is more
| than probable that Bangya is falsely duplicating
! others to save himself.
RUSSIA.
| letter from st. Petersburg of the 5th instant
says at cannot be denied that certain agitation
prevails here at present in all classes of society; in
fact, the reforms which being carried into exc
cuton affect every one more less. These reforms
! also naturally meet with resistance but the empe-
| ror does not allow himself to be turned from his
object, and he moreover finds powerful support in
! public opinion and part of the persons by whom
! he is surrounded"
Inc OllcerS OF the RuSSlan frontier
have received the strictest orders not to allow any
books printed abroad in the Russian language to en-
ter the country 1t is well known that many Rus
sian travellers bring back with them works Of a
subversive tendency, which are printed in London.
1t is reported that the opposition of the landed
proprietors to the emancipation of the peasants
is becoming of more serious Importance.
THE ITALIAN STATES.
! AN EMBRYO LEAGUE.-The Kdepemdente, of Turin,
conveys the welcome news that the government
| DuphV nj yhp hayn latal nEnO
| through the trammels of the Austrian Customs
! Union, are about to join Sardinia in a
mercial and customs league. Since the tragical
! death of the last Duke of Parma, the Regent,
his widow, called to her council some of the
most eminent persOnages amongst her Subjects
charging them with the rather arduous task 'un-
doing all that her husband had done since his ac-
cession to the throne"
The Duchess ministers, men of intelligence, pro-
bity and character, acquitted themselves of their
mission creditaby, and abored above all things for
the emancipation of their little State from the in
toerable ascendency of Austria. They began with
the dissolution of that customs union which had not
only proved fatal to the finances of the smaller State
but, under the pretext of watching over mutual
commercial interests, made the Parmesan authori-
ties subseryien to the vexatious views of the Aus
trian police Austria spared neither entreaty in
trigue, nor open menace, to thwart the good inten
tons of the patriotic Parmesan ministry, but these
showed great rmness and all endeavOrs to create
disturbances in the country to win over the timid
and somewhat bigoted Duchess, proved inefficient,
the cabinet of Vienna had at last to withdraw from
! their pretensions and acknowledge their defeat.
Everything in Italy which falls from Austria must
necessarily seek the friendship and support of Sar
dlnia, and the new commercial league between the
two Italian States only awaits the signatures of
their respective finance ministers-CavOur and
Lombardlni. 1t is very clear that by combining
with Piedmont, Parma declares an all but open war
to Austria, and commits itself to that liberal ma
tional policy which, during the lifetime of most of
US, is to sound the death-kne to the German and
oil nth 1o,,, Al.
A MALE NUN.-For the last 40 years, in the quiet
old, tumbledOwn city of Versailles, inhabited by
decayed Legitimist families, a lady dressed in the
garb of a semimonastic style was known to pursue
the even tenor of herway received into the local cir
cles OF arisocl acy and in receipt from noble fam
ly OF 6OOO francs annuity eX-abbess of a sup
pressed monastery. At her death this week she
turns out to be man. The real abbess must have
died in emigration, and swinder of the rougher
getting her papers has personated her for near
half century. The name of the deceased an
drogyne was Countess de Solege de Lange. The
matter makes no noise people only shTug up their
shoulders
/ LIFE IN BRussELs.-A Brussels letter states that
an English halfpay officer living there had been de-
nounced to the police by discharged maid-servant
| as man whose daily occupation to write sed-
| tion against the Emperor Napoleon. A domiciary
visit was in consequence made at his house, and it
| was found that he writing a work upon 1915
! and Napoleon l. but not scrap of paper could be
| discovered relating to Napoleon III. All his manu-
scripts, however, were putin bag, and carried off
by the police. The officer has complained to the
English Ambassador at Brussels, who has, it is sad
made representation to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
At the exhibition open at Chartres is an OBJ
ect which excites considerable curiosity, an old
! cabinet in marquetry which belonged to the noto-
rious Marquise de Brinvillers, and in which she is
said to have kept her poisons. 1t is the property
of the Marquis de Gasvie. There is also clock
which is stated to have belonged to her.
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