The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-07
ADDITIONAL BY THE NOVA SCOTIA
AND HAMMONIA.

The R. NJ steamship Canada, from Boston, ar
rived at Liverpool on the evening of the 18th. The
steamship City of Baltimore, from New York,
reached Liverpool on the 10Th. The steamship
Saxon, from Quebec, arrived at Liverpool on the
2lst. The steamship Ariel ran aground when ap-
preaching Southampton, but got off without mate
rial damage.
The steamship Hammonia arrived at New York
yesterday morning, from Hamburg via Southamp-
ton, which she left on the 2lst. Her advices are
three days later than those received by the Arabia
MIR. Lever is said to have purchased the Congress-
the sister ship to the Prince Albert for the Galway
The Paris papers published the bans of mar
riage between the Duke of Malakoff and Mile
Paulege.
The French Consul-General to the republic of
Venezuela was daily expected at Paris, he having
had some difficulty with that government, and left
his post.
From Holland there are advices that the States
General were opened on the Goth of September, by
the King in person. The speech was of the usual
character, and contained the following sentence:
at has always been painful for me to speak of a
slave population under Dutch dominion, and hope
you will receive tavorably the measures concentra-
ted to put an end to such n condition..
From Spain there was intelligence that the gov
ernment had ordered new reinforcement of 8 200
men, and all the large vessels of war dsposabe to
be sent to Cuba forthwith.
GREAT BRITAIN
The death of Henry Warburton ESD, F. r. S.
in his seventy-fourth year, is mentioned in the
English papers He was long prominent and
ful member of Parliament, advocate of the vote
by ballot, radical generally in his political views
and benefactor to the people in the neighborhood
of his residence.
Severe storms of rain had passed over portions of
Ireland, iniuring the harvest in some degree but
the crops so abundant that there was no fear
of anything like scarcity, even should the potato
rot, which had also appeared, equal the blight.
A Eblue book has recently appeared, among
the miscellaneous statistics of which it is mentioned
that ne nj
and Wales %, 2,0S0, ,449, viz:-10, 279 males
and IL ,27S .l70 females. England and W aes con-
tanned 1905, 1877 Of these, and Scotland 3,035, ,262
There 759, POI births, 44S,962 deaths, and
l79,824 marriages. There were GA .sO2 Legitimate
and AZ, ,65l illegtimate births in England and Waes
and in the metropolis 3,7S7 legitimate and 3646
illegitimate births. The proportion of illegitimate
to legitimate was l in IA and in 90. The propor-
ton of marriages to the population was in ll9 in
England and Wales, and in 100 in London, and it
is added.
In Great Britain 5,l79 schools were inspected in
1896, accommodating ST,762 children: 57l ,239 was
the average number in attendance; 3,455 of these
schools belonged to the church. and the rest to the
various dissenters (incuding the Romansts) and
the kirk of Scotland; lG5 primary schools were
built, and 6,262 enlarged or improved in England
in 1856. The receipts for the purposes of primary
education amounted to f9l5,372, (f423 G33 from
Parliamentary grants, and the expenditure to
t939,9lO. In Ireland there were national schools
at work at the end of 1856, and the average daily
attendance varied from 269, 410 to 25401I. There
were l6S agricultural national schools at work in
1886. The receipts on account of primary educa-
cation amounted to f247, 1854, and the expenditure
to f231, ,45S.
The Glasgow Herald has the following para
graph in relation to the affairs of Messrs Dennis
toun
''We feel we can scarcely give sufficient promi-
nence to the following most credtable, most honor
able, document Just issued by Messrs J. and A
Dennstoun. of this city: Glasgow 18th September
1898. Sir: We have now the pleasure of ntimating
that we shall be prepared Tuesday the DIST inst
and for one month thereafter, to pay the fourth in
stalment of our engagements on general account
also the fourth and last instalment on Australian
accounts due respectively on 30th June and 3lst
July, !oo9. some idea of the magnitude of this
operation may be formed when we consider (taking
the hgures as published at the meeting of creditors
in November last that the cash thus paid in antci-
patton reaches the enormous amount of some fl,-
30OO leaving for future instalments the compar-
atlYely moderate amount of f600,000."
The London Daily Neios, of September 81, re-
ports the following as the plan to be submitted to
the shareholders in the steamship Great Eastern,
to be submitted at meeting shortly to be held for
the purpose:
A new company is to be formed to be called '"The
Great Eastern Steamship Company (limited), ;" with
a capital of $3.50, 600, in shares of FL each. This
sum- it is calculated is sufficient to fit the vessel for
sea, and it is proposed that she should at present
be employed in voyages between this country and
America.
The projectors propose that 2s per share of the
new capital should be paid upon application, a fur
ther sum of 3s the completion of the contract for
the purchase of the ship from the Eastern Steam Ma
vigation Company, and the remainder in three calls
OF 5s. each, at intervals of two months Should.
however, the promoters of the new company fail to
purchase the ship Is l0d. of the deposit is to be re-
turned 1t is further stated that large portion of
the capital has been subscribed by the shareholders
of the old company.
1t is presumed that the vessel when finished will
De enabled to make eight voyages within the wear
to Portland or New York, and that, according to
statistics of existing traffic, the earnings of the
snip, after deducting Insurance. wear and tear, and
every possible contingency, will leave balance
from which dividend can be declared of Is per
cent. The estimate of the ships earnings, as now