The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-15

HE BRI1sH \ ACHr SQUADRoN.-The Shipping Ga
zefte furnishes the following statistics showing the
aggregate number and tonnage of the yachts owned
in the ports of Great Britain. With the exception
OF the Netherlands and the United States New
ork) there is scarcely another country but Great
Britain which has anything like associated Club
of yachts. If we examine the official authority for
this class of vessels the "Universal Yach List for
the present year, find that there about 200
yachts registered belonging to the different Brit
lsh acht Clubs, comprising vessels ranging from
five or six tons up to such vessels as the Brilliant
the Capricorn and the Sylphde, of from 800 to 800
tons. The aggregate tonnage OF these British yachts
may be taken at SO 900 tons. OF the seamen they
employ we have no Details but no one can doubt
the benefits they confer a school of navigation
both to owners and sailors. Out of the 200 craft
standing the books of the different 1ach Clubs,
there about 10 exceeding 100 TONS Is above 200
tons, and five above 300 tons There are % different
Yacht Clubs the chief station being Cowes, in the
Isle of Wight.
A CAT RAcE.-Matches between carrier pigeons
are in great favor in Belgium, circumstance
which has inspired some ingenious individuals in
that country with the idea of organizing a match
between cats. These animals it is scarcely neces
sarv to observe, possess to high degree the faculty
of finding their way back to their homes under the
most disadvantageous circumstances. According to
the NeHse of Lege Ito be pronounced Heics on this
occasion) match Of this nature took place a while
ago in that town. Eighteen cats. belonging to diff
erent persons in the quarter of the city called
Outre-Meuse, were taken distance of league and
let loose at midnight. In exactly half an hour one
of the cats reached home and carried away the
first prize and all the others arrived in rapid
cession. Three toms, whose rowing disposition
trlumphed over every sporting sentiment, did not,
however, make their appearance until after sunrise.
Their names have consequently been scratched out
OF all other subsequent racing engagements
1t is said that when coal was first introduced into
England, the prejudice against it was so strong.
that the Commons petitioned the Crown to prohibit
| the ''nOylOus'' 4 IA vi NJ
failed to abate the nuisance, Il commission is
sued to ascertain who burned coal within the city
| of London and its neighborhOod, and to punish
| them by fine, for the first offence, and by demOli-
ton of their furnaces if they persisted in trans
| crossing. law finally passed, making it a
capital offence to burn coal in the city, and only
permitting it to be used in the FORCES in the vicn
| ity. 1t is stated, that among the records in the
| town of London, document once found i'm
| porting that, in the time of Edward |, a man had
been tried. convicted and executed, for the crime
of burning coal in London! 1t took three centuries
to entirely efiace this prejudice.
The following announcement is taken from a Ca
madam paper: 'The Rev. NJ. Chiniquy, so wei
known in Canada the Apostle of Temperance anC
| most eloquent preacher and whose resistance o
Episcopal authority in Illinois has latterlv excited
so much painful feeling among his orthodox com
patriots, has at length been induced take an ire
traceabe step. Bishop Duggan, of Chicago, wht
had succeeded Bishop O'Regan, sOemnly ratified
the canonical censurcs and interdict pronounced
| Dy the latter against Mr. ChIniquy. Whereupol
the reverend gentleman about the 22nd ult. in tn,
| Court House at kankakee and in the presence of
great crowd, made public declaration, that 1t
separated from the Catholic Church and was going
to found a sect under the denomination of "Eglis
| Chretienne Catholique," Independent of Rome ant
the Bishop.
Police Justice Bragg, of Detroit, and promi
nent citizen of Cincinnati, have been attacked b,
severe strokes of paralysis, induced, the physi
clans declare, by the poisonous influence of tn-foi
used by tobacco vendors
Patrick Conney, of Boston, having failed to fulG
his engagement of marriage with Mary Donlev, tn
young lady armed herself with pistol, wayla
Patrick, and shot him on Wednesday,