The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-22
FOREIGN


IHE SHIPPING lNTERESr.-Following the exam
pie afforded by other towns, the shipowners of
sunderland held a meeting Monday, the both
to resolve upon the course which it is exuedient to
adopt for securing reciprocity British shipping
Resolutions were passed in favor of Il petition to
Parliament ''for the removal of all those dues in
british corporate seaport towns which create invi-
dlous distinctions IN favor of the few British ship
owners who are treemen of such towns" and of an
address to the Queen praying that the Government
would take steps to induce foreign States to CON
cede to british trade and shipping the advan-
tages which have been granted to them, and that in
theevent Of their continuing act upon an unjust
restrictive system her Majesty in Council would be
pleased to consider the eXpedency of exercising the
powers vested in her by the 10th and 18th Victoria
C. lO7, sec 324. meeting of the shipowners of
Dundee was held on the Both, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the present depressed
state OF the shipping interest. Resolutions pledging
the meeting to urge upon the Government the ne
cessity of obtaining recognition of the "recipro-
city principle" from foreign powers, were unani-
mously adopted.
REcoGNLMoN OF COLONIAL ADVISERS OF THE
CROwN.-The Representatives of the provincial gov-
ernments of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova
Scotia have received the honor of separate au-
dlences OF her Majesty; and now the responsible
advisers OF the Crown in British North America
may with just pride say that their position has been
with equal grace and wisdom recognized bv the
highest authority in the empire. To Sir Bulwer
Lytton belongs the credit of having broken down
that foolish and despicable routine of departmental
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country under the tuteage of the Secretary of
State and his chief clerks in Downing street. The
natural and legitimate consequence of the system
OF responsible government in British North Ameri-
ca must be access to the throne on the part of the
colonial advisers of the Crown in all matters of i'm
perial concern; and rejoice that the federative
union OF British North America is the matter which
has now Occasoned a change in the colonial ad-
mnlstratlon which will give universal satisfaction
and content.
THE TRADE OF SPAIN-The trade of Spain has
increased greatly of late years. In 1851 the i'm
ports f6, ,S82 493 and in 1856 sI3 3O4l $50 an
increase OF 80 per cent? and the exports increased
from t4,9I5,O66 in 1851 to fl0, ,636 Ill or ia per
cent. The public revenue increased from ell ,379-
264 in 1851, to Els, ,l3G,3 3l4 in 1856.
DECLINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN.-The
Paris correspondent of the London Times, writes
The small number Of professors who have found
seats is noticeable circumstance in 4 country
which owes so much Off reputation to intellectual
eminence. This is partly to be explained by the
reaction against lS4s, and the disrepute into which
the impractical behaviour of the Frankfort Assem-
blythe Professor Parliament-brought all litera-
ry and theoretical men.
But 1t is also partly due to the real deterioration
of the Universities in Prussia, which ten years of
the Won Raumer Administration have brought
about The University of Berlin is now not the
same place it was in the Illegal and Schleermacher
days. 1t is true, the old names are there still
Bockh, Lepsius, Trendelenburg &c, but there is
no rising talent, no men of middle age who have
their reputation made, young aspirants ambi-
touS to rival them. When the veterans Of acca-
demlc renown shall have retired or disappeared
from the stage Berlin will be almost as much a
blank IN the field of German phiology as Vienna.
SARAwAK REFUSED BY THE BnIrGsH GOVERN
MENT.-Lord Derby has decided AGAINST the
claims of the Raiah of Sarawak. On Tuesday
an influential deputation consisting of members Of
Parliament and other gentlemen connected with
Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow, waited upon
tne FIRST Minister to urge upon him the necessity
rate OF Sarawak, and paying Sir James Brooke a
money consideration for the territory.
Inc points were well and ably put by several
members OF the deputation, but they made no i'm
preston upon his Lordship. ''Sir James Brooke"
sald Lord Derby, ga mere private individual and
upon his own responsibility, without consultation
or authorization from the Government entered
INTO treaty or arrangement, or whatever they
pleased to call it, by which Sarawak was made over
to him, subject to the Sultan of Borneo
He exercised very considerable influence in the
country, and no doubt effected considerable i'm
provement; but if every English subject to be
allowed to settle in any district he might think fit
and afterwards to call upon the Government as a
matter OF right to give him military and civil pro-
lection, and to secure him from the consequences of
conduct which was not in the slightest degree anti
clpaCed Dv the Government it must lead the Gov
ernment into endless difficulties and expenditure.
lie did not deny the merits of Sir James Brooke,
and he did not deny the advantages which he had
conferred on Sarawak, but he very greatly doubted
SIR James BrOoke's powers to make over to the
british Government an absolute, entire and uncon-
dltlona sovereignty Of that territory which he had
been permitted to govern.
Moreover the question of very great
difficulty and doubt whether, apart from the per-
sonal influence of Sir James Brooke, the settlement
of Sarawak was of the Importance the gentlemen
present seemed to attribute to it. In these few
sentences the question is finally disposed of. We
are constantly twitting the Americans about their
flibusterng prOpensities. Sir James Brooke
a fbuster exactly in the same sense in which the
notorious General Walker is a ilibuster,-that is
he entered territory where he did not an inch
of land possessed himself of it by the strong arm
and pretending to rule in the name of savage call
ed the Sultan of Borneo, exercised all the rights
of sovereignty Sarawak If the British Govern
ment recognised and adopted such title, we had
better say little possible in future about Ame-
rican fbusters.
The GOLD FEvER.-A letter from FonteneIle
Nebraska, says: if one doubt exists in
the Eastern States concerning the exist
ence of large quantities of gold in Nebraska, that
doubt would be readily dspelled by a visit to any
of our Missouri river towns just now All are on
the alert-old men and young-preparing for an
early start in the spring. Oxen are stabbed,
wagons repaired, clothing made, and arrangements
madeto seasons outfit. Farmers, mechanics
lawyers, doctors, real estate agents. all are poing
The family freside, bar rooms, stores and offices
gather their circles of anxious gold seekers to talk
and long for spring to come, that they too may CO.