The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-12
GENERAL DEPRESSION DECLINE IN COTTON.
HONEY DULL-CONSOLS 97H@9775.

! The royal mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott,
which sailed from Liverpool at about 10 O'Clock on
the morning Of the 10Th of May, arrived at New
York yesterday.
The screw steamship Borussia, from New York
on the 18th Of May, arrived at Southampton on
the morning of the 9th Nav; and the steamship
Ariel which left New York also on the 18th, |
reached southampton on the morning of the 2Sth
MAY.
The steamer Ericsson arrived at Bremen on the
25th of May.
GREAT BRITAIN
The House of Commons rc-assembled, after the |
Whitsuntide recess, on Friday, the 28th.
The editor of the Carlisle Erdminer, Mr.. Wash |
ington Wilkes, was placed at the bar of the House.
charged with breach of the privileges of the House
in publishing libel upon the chairman of one of
the railway committees. The editor confessed that
he was the author of the offensive paragraph re-
fused to retract it, and committed to the custo
dy of the sergeant-at-arms.
Lord John Russell called attention to a speech |
delivered by Mr.. DIsraeli at a banquet at Slough
in which imputations cast upon the late Gov
ernment, and upon the relation of the House to |
foreign countries. He controyerted Mr.. D'Israelis
statements in a lengthy speech.
Mr. D'lsraeli replied with much animation, de- |
Tending the ground he had taken.
Several other members spoke, when the matter |
dropped.
In the course of conversation upon a vote for |
the Improvement of the harbor of Holyhead Gov
ernment stated that it intended to construct a |
pier, at which the American mail steamers could |
come alongside and in that case the mails and pas
sengers for London and the South would be landed |
there, without the necessity Of their going round
by Liverpool.
The returns of the British Board of Trade show
a falling off in the exports. during the month of |
April, of little over half million sterling, as
compared with April 1851 This falling offs far less
than shown by the returns of the several preced
ing months and is regarded sign of revival in
most departments of trade.
Sir r. i. Murchison, President of the ROYAL Geo
graphical Society, corrects the into which the
newspapers fell in regard to the presentation of the
Victoria Gold Medal of the Geographical Society to
an American citizen. He says the recipient of the
medal sis not Professor Bache but the celebrated
American geographer, Alexander Dallas Bache, the
author of the great Coast Survey Of the United !
States, nephew Of the American minister to Eng
land, and descendant of Benjamin Franklin"
Mr. D'Israeli had delivered political speech (at !
a dinner given by him by his constituents in Buck
inghamshire) which attracted considerable atten-
ton. He commented with some severity on the re-
cent effort to overthrow the ministry under Mr. |
Cardwells motion, but gave insight into the |
plans and policy of the Government. He accused |
the late government with having corrupted the |
press and lamented that journalists were to be |
seen in the drawing-rooms of the nobility. Mr.
D'Israeli intimated that when the present ministry
came into power "the question of peace or war was
not a question of weeks or days, but of hours"
A letter from Plymouth, dated on board the Uni |
ted States frgate Niagara evening of the 9th May
says:
''The Niagara and Agamemnon are lying within !
about two hundred yards of each other and the ca
BILE on each ship connected and telegraph messages
are now being sent through the whole Atlantic |
cable in the most perfect manner. All on board of
the five steamers are in good spirits and feel conf
dent of We expect to sail on the expert /
mental trip on Saturday, 20th May"
The London Worning Adcertjser learns that the
conference between the Lords and Commons has |
ended in the former agreeing to the principle of the
right Of the Jews to seats in Parliament, and the
result will be that Baron Rothschild will very
speedily take his scat in the House of Commons
Prince Albert had left England for Germany
where he would remain about week.
RETIREMENT OF Mr.. JUSTICE CoLERIDGE.-Yester /
day morning Mr. Justice Coleridge, in addressing
the grand jury, announced that he did so for the |
last time: and trial was postponed the appli- |
cation of Mr.. Mcmahon, who stated that Mr.. Hugh
Hi his leader, had returned his brief, having been
appointed to the vacant judgeship.
FRANCE.
On the first meeting of the Paris Conference, /
vote of thanks to the European Commissioners was
agreed to, and a resolution adopted to the |
effect that the object of the conference is to settle
the question of the Principalities The second /
meeting took place the 2Gth of May, but no
thing is known of the proceedings.
NJ. de Pene, the victim of the recent duel, was in
a dying state.
RudiO, the confederate of Orsini and Perri, had |
been sent to Cayenne.
The Bourse was heavy on the 2Sth. The Three
per cents, closed at $50.
The Independence Belge is to be prevented from |
entering France for an indefinite period.
The Paris correspondent Of the London Times
says:
IN. AlreOn, whose success IN ASace mas so much /
disappointed and irritated the Cove: nment, in /
tends to resign, and propose to the electors
partisan of his own. The Government, who do not |
wish to risk another defeat will, | am assured |
make no opposition, but adopt NJ. Migeon's pro- !
tege."
Letters from Algiers announce that, in conse-
quence of the adoption of the project appointing
Prince Napoleon Governor General of the COLONY |
the entire body of the high military administration
propose to return to France with Marshal Raw
don.
1t is stated that after the funeral of the Duchess
of Orleans the Count de Paris, who is now the head
of the family formally declared that his opinions in
regard fusion of the two branches of the French
Bourbons were the same as his mothers, and that
he would not assent to any fusion tending to lower
the position he held chief of the family
The opposition to the project for the sale of hos
pital and other charitable property was so great
that it was thought Government would revoke the
measure.
1t said that the Minister of War had sent very
strong circular be read to all the officers in the
service, relative to the late duel. 1t warmly ad
monishes officers to avoid all quarrels with civilians
and imperatively prohibits officers corresponding
with newspapers.
A rumor was current that the French men-of-war
assembled at Toulon were about to make a demon
stration against Morocco.
BELGIUM.
A bill had been presented to the Belgian Cham
bers authorizing Government to contract loan of
thirty-seven million francs for public works, in
Guiding in this twenty million francs for the
city and fortress of Antwerp.
SPAIN.
NJ. Posada has succeeded NJ. DiaZ as Minister of
the Interior.
TAe Queen of Spain, accompanied by Mr.. Turgot, |
the French Minister at Madrid, and numerous
suite, has arrived at Albaceta. The French Ambas
sador was his way to France on leave of absence
but it thought he would not return to Madrid.
The Duke de Alameda was spoken of as the
probable successor of General COncha in the Cover
norship of Cuba.
The Madrid journals are urging Government to
admit the free importation of grain, in consequence
of sudden rise in the price of bread.
ITALY.
A protracted debate was taking place in the Sar.
dinian Chambers, on the subject of projected
Government loan In the course of a speech on
the subject, Count Cavour declared that Govern
ment considered it of paramount Importance to
make Spezzia strategic position in case of war by
land and sea.
The Pope had returned to Rome, and all the in
habtants of the city went out to meet him. The |
official journal of Rome contradicts the statement
that the Notifications of Civita Vecchia and Anco-
ma were to be enlarged. 1t was merely in contem-
plation to increase the wall round those places
PRUSSIA.
The Prussian official journal publishes a note |
which seems to imply that there is intention |
of coming to definite decision respecting the ex-
ercse of supreme authority in Prussia.
1t announces that two more eminent medical men |
have been added 20 the Kings ordinary physicians,
in order to decide the treatment for his majesty du-
ring the summer months.
THE DANISH QUESTION.
The Frankfort Diet, after much discussion, had |
come to decision respecting the reply to be made
to the last proposal of the Danish cabinet. term
of six weeks had been fixed upon for Denmark to |
make known to the Diet the new measures it may |
think fit to propose to satisfy the complaints re-
specting Holstein and Lauenberg. Should Denmark |
decline to make any further concessions, the Diet
will then consider what further measures shall be |
taken.
AUSTRIA.
The circulation of the journal lie Nord had been |
entirely prohibited throughout the whole of the
Austrian empire. The Austrians affirm that the |
Nord is now in the service of the French Govern
ment the Russians having refused to continue their
subsidies any longer.
MONTENEGRO