The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-21
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
THE MAILS OF THE AFRICA.

THE MAILS OF TIE AFRICA.
THE REvENUE.-The Economist enters into details
to show the incorrectness of the prevalent impress
sion that there will be large deficiency in the reve-
nue. at the close of the present financial year. The
income was estimated bv Sir C. Lewis at G66 365-
900, which afterwards reduced to the extent
of $500, 900 by alteration of his proposal relative
to the tea duties; and the Economist believes that,
Notwithstanding the unfavOrabe turn which affairs
took in the autumn, the revenue is likely to exceed
the estimated amount by about ESQ, 900. There
must, however, says our contemporary, be large
deficiency in the coming year, unless ways and
means are devised for about "a 600 600 of uncoect-
ed war income tax came into last years revenue,
whilst that has ceased, and further reduction
of I'd. in the pound the income tax will take
place the 5th of April. Besides, bonds to the ex-
tent of f2,0000 900 will fall due in May next, the
sinking fund charge will amount to FL 800 000 and
the increase of the army estimate will absorb a
| further Of FL 000, making altogether a
of f6, 900 to be provided for in the coming
| year.
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAR.-A case is now under
going investigation by the authorities at Fort Will
liam which has created very painful feeling in the
| district The wife of Captain Ranald Macdonald
late of the ODD Highlander died the 2Sth of Oc-
tober last, and was buried on the 4th of November
| in the burying ground of the Moy family at kchy-
rel, attended by her relatives and those of her
husband. In the month of February, at the dead
of night, Mrs. Macdonad's brother, Mr.. Donald
! Stewart, tacksman of Auchindaul, who residing
|
with number of his shepherds and removed from
its place, beside her husbands ancestors, the body
of his sister, deposting it in another part of the
| churchyard. The only way of accounting for this
act to be that, whilst the Macdonalds of Nov
are Roman Catholics, Mr.. Stewart is a convert to
| the Free Church, and he could not bear the idea
of his sister lying in the grave with Roman
| Catholics.
ABoRIG1SEs' Projection SoCIErY-The result of
recent deputatiOn from the AbOrigines Protec-
| IL ~
The society interested themselves in matters in Can
! ada, Sierra Leone, and at the Cape. The larger
portion of their address, however, was devoted to
| the Hudson's Bay Company. The Indians, it seems,
| have worked out for themselves practical knowl-
! edge of Free Trade; and the result of selling in the
| dearest market beyond the control of the Company
was an advantage of 800 to LOCO per cent profit.
Lord Stanley of course could only promise cOnsid-
Grafton to the SUBJECTS but there curious phvsi-
cal fact connected with the territory of Hudson s
Bay, for cereals cultivated with in lati
tudes where it thought that nothing could
| grow. The mystery of warm ocean currents ope-
rates even there.
WnLs.-The will of the late Marchioness of West
meath has sworn under 100000. To the Duke of
| Wellington she leaves the white cloth cloak worn
| by the late Duke when engaged in the battles in
| Spain, and which had been presented to her by his
| Grace: she also bequeaths to the Duke other me-
mentos of his father, to be added to the museum of
relics forming by his Grace. The Marchioness
has left no male ISSUE The will of Nice-Admiral
! the honorable GeOrge Alfred CrOltOn was proved
in London under fl4, 900. To Baron CrOftOn he has
left two estates in ROscommon, adjoining his lord
ships family. estate, to be added thereto, and to
whom also, he has bequeaed 100 shares in the Union
Bank of London. To his sister, Caroline Crotton,
f200 year.
Mr. THOMAS ALLsoP-The Birmingham Daay
Press, in which the announcement was first made
that Mr.. Thomas Allsop had offered to surrender
himself to the charge of conspirng to
sinate the Emperor of the French, if the govern
m he of
has published letter from relative of that gen
tleman. The writer reterates Mr.. Allsop's readi-
to fulfill his Offer requests the public to suspend
their Judgment, and emphatically asserts his innO-
cence of the imputed crime. He also states that he
believes a communication has been made to govern
ment on the subject, the issue of which will be
known in few days.
Drying HIDEs.-An experiment has lately been
tried in Paris, after a system, by which hides
and skins of all descriptions may be dried in few
minutes without any machinery and in all latitudes.
Skins so dried are preserved without any unpeas-
ant smell diminutiOn of weight or quality. They
dried at the small expense of the hide,
and said to be superior to those dried in the
| South America supplies than 10000 600
| pounds weight of green hides, which arrive in
France in bad condition, sometimes in a state of de-
composition, with considerable loss to the
This process will it is said, preserve them COM
| pletely.
! STEPHENsoN's CoTTAGE.-Wilington-qu quay, ION
the coally Tyne, the birthplace of George Stephen
son, the inventor of the locomotive engine, has,
during the last few davs, been visited by a large
number of people. The cottage in which he was
born is about to be pulled down, schools are to
be erected the site which the cottage stands on,
to mark the birthplace of this great man. Photo
| graphs of the cottage have been taken by emf
nent artist, which are meeting a ready sale Near
ly $500 has been subscribed towards the erection of
the schools, and f500 is expected from gentle
men who have promised to contribute.
A SINGULAR WEDDING.-An interesting wedding
| nlo fav Havc sin hntyy II
! Melville and Mrs. Sarah X. Seymour. The parties
| have both been married before, and each have a
| family of seven children-those of the gentleman
comprising six daughters and son, and those OF
the lady six sons and daughter. The sons acted
on the occasion groOmsmen to their future father
the daughters bridesmaids to their future moth
er The whole fourteen children dressed alike, ac-
cording to their sex, entered the church arm in
arm. and ranged themselves either side of their
parents, who are both remarkably handsome, and
looked superb.
Mr. George Field, a letter carrier of Birmingham
being something of "poet, sent some verses on
the death of Havelock to Lady Havelock. In ac-
acknowledgement her ladyship says it is great
pleasure though a melancholy one, to know that
her late lamented husband is justly appreciated
by the owly well by the great ones Of the land
| of his birth.
CUSTOMS DurrEs.-It is proposed by bill to
abolish the duties now chargeable on the import OF
chloride of lime and platina wire, and to levy duties
! of 3d. each on felt bonnets, and I'd. per Id. on
| caoutchouc manufactures On and after the 9th oil
April next it is proposed to charge S. 3D. per cwt
on stearine, and the duty per cwt. on candles
of stearine.
THE AFRICAN MAIL.-Her Majesty's steamer Mer-
lin arrived at Plymouth the 31st, with the Afri-
can mails. She left Sierra Leone, Feb. l4th; st.
Vincent 26th; Teneriffe March 18th; and Lisbon,
26th. There was no news of the Gambia, homeward
bound mail steamer with the African mails All
Quiet on the coast, but trade dull. Fever preva-
lent; 40 cases occurred on board the Merlin, and
four deaths.
The masters and pupils of Marlborough College
intend raising by subscription, amongst themselves
the sum of $500, for the purpose of presenting a
testimonial to their highlv-esteemed Head-Master
DR.. Cotton, the Bishop of Calcutta, previous
to his departure for the East.
The PATRIOTIC FUND.-She T lines enters minute
ly into cases brought against the Commissioners of
the Patriotic Fund by the Duke of Norfolk and DIR.
Cullen; and after recapitulating the explanatory
facts, says the dispute may with confidence be LETT
to the Judgment of the Roman Catholic community
in these islands.
Some rumors having got into extensive c!rcuia-
ton that the Earl of Rosse had made predictions 10
the effect that the approaching summer was 10 De
one of unexampled heat that nobleman has aoaress-
ed letter to the Irish papers contradctng hoSe re-
| "a t;no, that ha has expressed anY