The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-01
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE WEATHER AT MADRID-A Madrid letter of
the 5th says: We have most extraordinary weather.
Yesterday we had a severe snow storm, and the
merry month of May looked in upon Madrid and
found it frosted over like one of Gunner's wedding
cakes. In the provinces the mountains are all COW
cred with snow, and deris hyems appears to have
made up his mind to pass the spring in Spain.
fortnight past the heat intense that it fairly
drove the Queen and court from Madrid to Aran-
lueZ.
The Messaggere of Modena, of the 30th ult.,
nounces the condemnation of twelve individuals by
the court-martial of Carrara to various terms of
hard labor or imprisonment for belonging to
cret revolutionary society, or having arms in their
possession.
The Second Chamber of Saxony has, by 81 votes
against 49, rejected the credits proposed by the
department, and required that others on a reduced
scale be presented. The vote, however, will not be
delnitive until sanctioned by the First Chamber.
The concordat settled between the petty court of
Wurtemburg and the Pope is very obnoxious to the
people of that country and all the Protestant depu-
ties in its Chamber have resolved to unite in re-
jectng the motion for ratifying the politieo-relig
ious compact
Constantinople letters of the 2sth ult state that
on the day previous rather sharp shock of earth
quake was felt, accompanied by noise similar to
that of the discharge of several pieces of artillery.
NO damage is mentioned as having been caused ::
At Vienna there is still dearth of water, and
the clouds appear to be total unable to discharge
the moisture which they contain. Very heavy
masses of lurid clouds continually cover the sky,
but the rain which falls is not sufficient to lay the
dust.
The Duke de Brabant has left Brussels to visit
Gotha and Coburg. His Royal Highness is charged,
it is said, with private mission by the King, his
father to the reigning Duke of SAKE Coburg Gotha,
his Majesty nephew.
The difficulty existing between Turkey and
Greece, originating in the expulsion of Greek sub
ects from Bosnia. has been referred to the medita-
ton of England, France, and Russia, which Powers
have accepted the task of reconciliation.
According to accounts received from Mayence the
treaty relative to the construction of fixed bridge
over the Rhine has been signed by the commission
ers of all the governments interested in the question
The Duke of Modena has issued Decree forbid
ding all parents guardians to send their children
wards to foreign schools or universities without
previous permission obtained from the Minister of
the Interior.
The governor of the Philippine Islands has no
tilted that the ports of Manilla Sual lloilo, and
Zamboanga will be open during the present year for
the free Importation of foreign rice, paddy, wheat
beans, and cocoa-nut oil.
On the I'd of May the villages of Santa Anna
and Komos, in Hungary, were destroyed by fire
Nine hundred houses, church, and a consider
able quantity of grain are said to have been con-
sumed.
The King of Belgium intends making great
sacrifices that Antwerp may be placed in state of
defence. His Belgian Majesty evidently has little
confidence in the peaceful declaration of Napoleon
Ill.
kind of "marriage bank proposing to pro-
vide snug little fortune to girls foolish enough
to deposit their small earnings in it, has just smash
ed at Berlin. No less than 1900 creditors have
come forward.
The Queen of Holland is decided sightseer. Her
Majesty rises early, and is regularly 'doing Paris
according to Galgnani's Guide
Advices from Rome state that the health of the
Pope causes much anxiety to his friends His Holt
iS 10 tax n towards q NnanOl-
itan frontier.
Swedish loan of 81 ,22S 900, for the construc-
ton of railways, is advertised.
Four Egyptian princes, of Mehemet and Ibra-
him. have been nominated marshals by the Sultan.
dispatch from Naples says another earthquake
has completed the destruction of the houses in the
provinces already devastated.
Austrian journals state that 20pupils of the Greek
University of Lemberg, in Gallicia have been ar
rested on charge of conspiracy.