The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20
From the ~ I. Commercial Advertiser.
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AT QUEBEC, AND
THE AUSTRIA AT THIS PORT.

iiolh ei'lere uu lLoup, announcing the arrival OF
that point OF the North American, from Lverpoo
May 5. After the paper went to press further par
tlculars were received. This morning the Ham
burgh screw steamer Austria, Captain Heydtmann
arrived at this port from Hamburger, via South
ampton. Captain ii. left Hamburger on the Isl
inst, and southampton at o'clock on the after
noon OF Thursday, May 4. The Austria brings As:
passengers: Experienced strong winds from w. Nv
and W.S.W.
A communication in the Times, dated Plymouth
May l, says, respecting the Atlantic telegram
cable:
All the wires has been removed from the tanks al
kcyham excepting about 200 miles, which are ir
the course of removal, at the rate of about two
miles per hour, to the Niagara Up to 9 O'Clock
this morning she had received ,07O miles-yiz
wardroom coil, 3l2; hold, 33S; lower deck, 10; and
main-deck, $50. The last named will receive 30 OF
40 more; the after tank deck, 200 miles; and 2
second deck forwards $50 miles. The remainder Of
the wire is daily expected from the manuactory
The total length shipped last year was ,255 miles,
this year the Niagara will take l,4GS Across the
after tank there is stage, on which is fitted, right
over the cone in the centre, horizontal flangcd
wheel, with the spindle fore and aft; from this
wheel, the wire runs once round a vertical rcvoly-
ing BARREL and is then guided by horizontal roll
erto the paying-out machinery over the STERN
This coil will be discharged first and will be follow
ed by the main deck coil; then the lower deck and
hold, and finally the wardroom. The alter-deck
tank, which is over the wardroom is nearly finish
ed. The one forward is between the fore and main.
masts; it surrounds the main hatchway, with the
combings of which its floor will be level this tank
is expected to be ready by Monday
The Agamemnon has received all her portion Of
the wire from keyham, and, like the Niagara is ex-
pecting more. She has in her upper deck coil 239
miles; orop, 50; and main hold, 93l; here there is
space for 2lO additional miles, which will complete
her lading to | 470 miles, about the same quantity
as that on board the frigate, and like her. 200 miles
more than last year. The measurement is by statute
miles. The rigging of the A Agamemnon is complete;
she remains in the tidal basin until all the machine
ry is on board, when she will be tugged into Hamo-
axe to receive her fuel.
From the London Necs of Maya.
FATAL STEAMSHIP COLLISION AND SINK
ING OF BOTH VESSELS.
A fearful collision with a serious loss of human
life was reported yesterday at Lloyds by their
agent at Milford Haven.
The catastrophe appears to have occurred be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve, between
Wicklow-head and the Kish light ship on the Irish
coast. The Brigand, screw steamer, from Bristol
and Swansea, with her ordinary complement of pas
sengers, and cargo of general merchandise, was
pursuing her way up the St. George Channel for
Belfast and the Clyde, when she came in contact
with the ship William Campbell, Capt Sivel, mas
ter bound to Trinidad from Greenock Such was
the force with which the vessels came together that
both of them foundered in comparatively n very
short period. Capt. Swell, of the William Camp
bell, and six of his crew supposed to have per-
ished, and twenty-one of the crew and passengers
of the steamer are missing and serious apprehen-
sons are entertained for their safety.
The survivors of both vessels, numbering in all
49, were picked up by the Espoir, from 0stend for
Liverpool, which safely landed them at Milford Ha-
ven, on Sunday morning.
Amongst those rescued by the Espor was Wm
Williams, boatswain of the schooner George Cap.
tain Cross, of London, who was the only survivor
of his ship, which went down on the morning OF
Friday last, q miles east of the Tuskar light. The
vessel was bound to the River Niger from Liverpool
and suddenly capsized and disappeared Williams
saving his life by clinging to piece of wreck, on
which he was found floating, and picked up by the
Brigand steamer few hours before the collision
with the William Campbell
The schooner George sailed from Liverpool or
the same day. She was laden with a valuable car.
go, which was insured.
From the London Times, May4l
ALTERED TONE OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN
ENGLAND CONCERNING FOREIGN CON
QUEST.
As it is the province of newspaper to provide
all sorts of news, have not excluded from oul
columns even the dissertations upon British policy
with which the UNiuers has been pleased to favol
its own faithful and ingle-minded subscribers Blu
the subject has really its important aspect if intel
hgently viewed, and we can assure our Continental
readers that if they wish to know the opinions o
this country about territorial conauests acuusi
tiOns, anneXatiOns, and forth, they may receiv,
what follows as very near the truth indeed.
There was doubtless a time when we, like mos
other people, identified the extension of national do
minion with the promotion of national prosperity
when we imagined that every square mile of terri
tory occupied, no matter where, added so much t,
our Importance, wealth and power, and when tn
occupation of some island in the Caribbean sea wa
thought very satisfactory expression of militar,
or naval triumph. But, though may have one
been possessed bv these sentiments, we have Ger
tainly outlived them. We hare no longer, as a ma
ton, any lust for dominion crauing for territorio
gain. 1t is not that we have become magnanmou
in the matter, or that we have adopted any polio,
of serene or lofty disdain.
Our present views have been forced upon us b.
lessons of experience which taught us that the oil
system was not only delusive, but unprofitable +
boot Sidney Smiths fiction of the volcanic islam
in the Pacific occupied fortnight after its emersio
by n Governor and acknowledgements a stor
keeper and deputy storekeeper, garrisoned by hal
Il regiment, defended by sloop- -of-war, and fgur
ing in the estimates for many thousands year
expressed very happily the new ideas which ha
come over the public mind. Even our own ancien
colonies were regarded in an entirely fresh light
Useful things they were, no doubt, but not in th
sense we had been supposing. Their true utilit
became manifest exactly in proportion we dis
carded all preconccived notions on the subjec
as we made them self governing, self supportin
and self dependent. As any fresh conquests, tn
project would have created as much agitation rs
fresh tax-in fact, it would have been argued prett
loudly and pretty plausibly by vigorous sectio
of politicians that the two things came to yer
much the same.
Some stir has been lately made about the Isle @
Perrin. We venture to say that not fifty men j
these islands know care iot about this precou
rock. If they are told that any means have bee
taken to improve or facilitate the Overland ROut
to India they will be gratified at the intelligence
for they know that it will tend to the benefit
their kinsmen or countrymen, as well as the &C
vantage of trade. If they informed that an
new piece of territory has come into possession
they will simply hope that it is not of much const
quence, and perhaps ask whether the end could nc
have been gained without the responsibility of tn
occupation.
1t will be said, perhaps, that, for all this, our dC
minions do extend themselves, as for instance,
India. This is true, but the event has been una
voidable, and it has certainly not caused any sati
faction in this country. Let any person look at tn
Debates the discussions, and the controversies whc
have attended of late years the acquisition of an
new province in the East such as the Puniaub c
Pegu. 1t was harder work to pacify the Pa
lament and people at home than to win the battle
| abroad.
The authorities responsible for the war and its r,
suits had always uphill game to fight. The
were met with charges of precipitancy, waste, lo
of blood and treasure, needless outlay and needles
| venture; their arguments to prove that the col
| quest would really pay its own expenses neve
credited, and the result was simply accepted as
| necessity, which could not be evaded. The Pun
| jaub, indeed, was not annexed till he had made
| vain trial of the only alternative before us.
| Nor was this merely the view of an economic;
and shopkeeping public 1t was the tradition;
| policy of the Indian Government itself, in so far
| that government was controlled by the Company {
| home. Every one in the least degree acquainte
with the subject is well aware that the instruction
| sent from Leadenhall street to Calcutta were a
ways as stringently and as imperiousy pacific
they could be, but the irresistible course of event
| hurried Governor after Governor into war.
| If any person still fancies that "British dominic
| in the East implies some grasping, overbearins
and Unsuitable power, let him observe our proceed
/ ~ n l. i
of Maacca-the high road to the great Asiat
| Archipelago and the attractive Empire of China
we have three settlements about which we tax
such small concern, that when they ask, as they d
the other day, to be acknowledged more directly b
the parent State, they take little by their motion
Pass the Straits, and look at Borneo, one of tn
| finest islands of the East.
There is the sovereignty of its Northwestern
that is, its most impOrtant-coast offered to us b
| Rajah Brooke, and we turn away and make n
ply to his earnest recital of its capabilities and az
vantages In China itself what have we done?-
We once, for the purposes of our trade, bargaine