The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-02
FOREIGN MISCELLANY

Great excitement has been produced in Greece bv
the arbitrary and illegal manner in which Alexan-
der ooutza, celebrated patriotic poet, has been
sentenced to five years Imprisonment for having in
pamphlet entitled "The Wanderer" pointed ont
the systematic violation of the constitution prac
tsed under the influence of the Queen more partic-
ulary with regard to the elections. As soon as the
result of the trial was known, a multitude assem-
bed in the streets of Athens and threatened reyo-
utionary movement. The Government immediate.
ly ordered out the troops, and Athens had all the
appearance of city in state of SIEGE On the Sd
instant, when the letter containing this news left,
people were pouring in from the provinces and it
was expected that the movement would not end
without bloodshed.
The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously reject.
ed the charges against the Minister of War;
corr espondent of the Continental Rerie,v writes
from Cologne: Gas for peculiar demonstrations,
we have the theatres, where every chance allusion
to Germany's honor, valour, &C., is greeted with
thunders of applause. The last of these patriotic
demonstrations are reported from Weimar and from
Wurzburg, and they will doubtless take place in
all the theatres great and small. Actors always
eager to avail themselves of which, to use
their own language, brings down the house, AS
Tor patriotic songs and hymns their nameis legion
Most popular just now is 'Wehrlied,' by Henric
Struck, in which it is said that
THE German heart and the German Rhine,
And the German land and German wine,
Shall German be for ever
and other sefevident propositions, bearing strong
family likeness to the Heswegh songs, which were
y
prosy verse and poetical prose discuss the natural
frontiers of Germany and demand the immediate
restitution and Germanization of the Alsace and
Lorraine. Our patriots, when once fairly aroused,
are quite as aggressive as the emperor Napoleon,
and they have altogether as capacious swallow
for territory"
At Leghorn, the last day of the carnival, a
person disguised as the Emperor of the French
walked down the streets with volume in his hand
which were inscribed the words "The Treaties of
1875. At every few steps the mimic Emperor
stopped and tore page from the DO k, scattering
it upon the ground in fragments. After some time
however, the police interfered and put an end to
the representation.
DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell, who has been practising
for the last seven years in New York as physician
Tor women and children, has delivered, during the
last two weeks, at the Marylebone Institute Lon
dom series OF lectures to ladies on topics connect
ed with the subjects of medicine and hygiene in con-
necton with special duties of women in the spheres
OF domestic and social life. One lady has offered
to contribute the of IS 900 towards the endow-
ment of female sanitary professorship and woman's
hospital, provided such institution shall be es-
tablished in London. The fair lecturer, on whose
desk were boquets of flowers delivered her discour
ses with much ease of manner.
The second volume of "The Correspondence of
Napoleon L.. contains order of the day issued by
him when commanding in Italy, which shows that
the young general was not disposed to treat with
much tenderness the class of ladies who followed
the camp. The order was to this effect: All women
who have not the permission of the commissariat
twenty
four hours in default of doing so they will be ar
rested, smeared over with black, and exposed
for two hours in the public square. The Cen
eraln-chief is informed that the disorders which
prevail are attributable to these abomnable wo-
men, who incite the soldiers to pillage
The Madrid journals publish letter addressed
by Poerio Settembrini, and the other exiles, to NJ
Olozaga, thanking him for having, when they were
at Cadiz, attempted to procure their release.
The Times correspondent says: "a few days
ago the Catholic municipality of Vienna gave a
striking proof of its spirit religious federation by
contributing $4,000 ifs. (f50O0) towards the con-
structon of Protestant school-house."
Out of 1895 elms which, three years ago, adorn-
ed the Champs Elysees, in Paris, $500 are dead,
and 1000 in dying state. Upwards of 500 are
stated to have persisted by gas exhalations.
Several French Chambers of Commerce, includ-
ing that of Bordeaux, have expressed an opinion in
favor of reduction of the duties on sugar and cof-
fee. The Chamber of Commerce of Boulogne-sur-
Mer advocates the total suppression of the duty
coffee, in order that ''the consumption of sugar
may be thereby increased
The operation of pruning the vines is now being
proceeded with throughout the greatest part of
france. Everywhere the state of the plants is des-
crlbed to be most satisfactory.
According to an account made up from official
documents, the number of cigars and cigarettes
consumed in France in 1857 was as follows: Hav-
ana and Manila cigars 36, 800; cigars made in
France 4sl ,O71, 5OO cigarettes, 6,47S,OOO; total,
The Chrsty Minstres, continue their perform
ances in Paris with increasing success. Their
humor and originality, at first not understood by
the Parisians, said to be fully comprehend
ed and enjoyed.
Mr.. Rarey has been engaged, for five thousand
dollars, to impart to fifty in the British caval-
ry his system of horse tanning.
Amongst the events of the fortnight" saws the
Bengal Harkaru, care an ordination the 18th,
at the Cathedral, at which three natives from the
Northwestern Provinces were admitted to the or
der of deacOns; and three combinations. At the
first, at Barripore, lG miles south of Calcutta on
the 9th of February, l02 native Christians were
confirmed at the second, at the Cathedral, on the
2nd ult., l6S Europeans; and on the following day
the solemn rite was administered, at the same
place, to SIS natives.
In different quarters strong doubts expressed
whether the Armstrong gun is the fine invention
which it has been represented to be, and the asser-
ton of General Peel that it will sooner or later
supersede the whole existing armament of the coun-
try is treated by one writer in the Times as gross
exaggeration founded on ignorance. CUPS of very
long range, he says, are not required on the field
OF battle nor in naval engagements; they are only
useful as swivel gun for gunboats, for arming
forts and for siege service, and the guns required
for all these purposes form but trihng proper
tion of the armament of England, and require to be
of the largest calbre Now, it has yet to be
proved that the Armstrong gun can be made of the
largest calbre without the risk of bursting; for all
the experiments hitherto made have been with
guns of small bore.