The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-24
EUROPE.
DETAILS BY THE ASIA.

are to sail from Southampton for New York on
Wednesdays, instead of Tuesdays as hitherto.
The Prince Albert, from Galway for st. Johns
appointed to sail on the same day as the Asia.
The news by the Asia is not quite two davs later,
as the North American and City of Washington
took out telegraphic advices, via Queenstown, to
the afternoon of the Sth inst.
Notwithstanding the objection urged against
Count Cavour as the representative of Sar4inia at
the Congress, the report was persisted in at Paris
that Cavour would be the plenipotentary for the
King of Sardinia.
The first battery of Armstrong; guns had been
proved at WOOlwich with perfect success. They
resisted the shock from the largest amount of now
der it was possible to cram into them, and were
afterwards packed in cases Tor TRANSPORT.
At the Newcastle ASsiZes John Watson Moody,
of Portland, Maine mate of the American ship
Mary, was tried for the willful murder of Daniel
Witham an American sailor, in the Northumber-
land docks, in August last. 1t was proved that
the prisoner pulled Witham out of his berth, and
Knocked him down with a "knuckle duster," in
fictmg injuries from which Witham died five DAYS
afterwards. The jury returned a verdict of man
slaughter, and Moody sentenced to penal SER
vitude for life.
The four Liverpool merchants who wrote to the
Emperor Napoleon continued to be objects of re-
preach and censure, and there had even been some
talk OF a prosecution being commenced against
them. At a meeting of the Liverpool Law Society
it was resolved to tender the Attorney General the
assistance of the society should it be determined to
take any proceedings against the offenders.
The Paris correspondent of the London DdiiV
Ne,cs denies that either the army any other con.
stituted body in France has either the desire or the
power in the slightest degree to force the hand OF
the Executive and urge war with England
against the real wish of the Emperor.
The electoral agitation throughout Piedmont and
Lombardy was unprecedented At Milan all asso-
Citations and trade clubs had been transformed into
electoral committees.
The Tuscan Monitem saws that the Congress will
find Italy resolved to maintain her rights The
Central Italians better armed than hev were at
the war, and will persevere in defending a strong
Italian kingdom and a national union which will
efface old divisions.
The pretensious of the Hungarans are represent
ed to be on the increase. An impression prevailed
among leading that the restoration of the con-
stitutiOn would not suffice unless its maintenance
was guaranteed by the Powers.
he ultra-MOntane journals of the Tyrol assert
that any attempts of the government of Austria to
place all the Christian professions an equality
would cause general indignation among the Roman
Catholics of the Tyrol.
The Dresden journal publishes a semi-oiljcial ar
ticle on the subject of the conferences of the small
German states at Wurzburg: The article saws
that as there is no unity between the great German
powers, the conferences tend to satisfy the general
wish for a more vigorous and energetic attitude bv
the Federal Diet. Numerous and great results
which have been obtained at these conferences will
soon become perceptible. The conferences had no.
thing to do with any proposal for a change in the
confederation.
Advces from Casse state that the proposal to So
lict the Electors consent to the reesabishment of
the constitution of 1852. in conformity with the
joint declarations of both chambers in July, 1857
has been referred by the first chamber to special
commission.
. In Turkey a Ministerial crisis had been brought
about by the dissensions between Fuad Pasha and
Ria Pasha. Fuad had rendered his resignation
but the Sultan refused to accept it, although a
permanent agreement between the two Ministers
appeared impossible. Fuad Pasha was the ONLY
Minister who continued to oppose the Suez canal.
The French and Austrian Ambassadors had made
Joint representations in favor of NJ de Lesseps ard
the adhesion Of the other continental powers to his
scheme anticipated.
The Grand YiZier was endeavorng to work out
reforms. but the combination to reduce the paper
currency was prevented by the insuticiency of the
means in the Treasury. The retention of from
twenty to thirty per cent Of the salaries of the en-
poyees in the superior public establishments and
tax on licenses had been ordered.
The Turkish government had seized large guam
tity of gunpowder on board English vessel bound
to lbrail.
INDIA AND AUSTRALIA.
The Calcutta mails of November ,, Bombay No
vember ] l, and Melbourne (Australia) October II,
had reached England, but the main features of
this news have been anticipated by telegraph.
There is no confirmation of the reported death of
Ncna Sahib.
Melbourne adviccs mention the suspension of
Messrs. Wollenback, Uhlhorn & Co., and of Messrs.
n
case are stated at f23 000 and in the latter at
81, 600
The American ship Messenger Bird from New
Zealand, put into the Feeees-as the master report
cd-for water and sailed again on the 7th July. on
a secret cruise. Her lower hold was full of coffee
some of which she sold to another vessel. These
circumstances led to a suspicion that she had been
run away with.
THE LATEST.
The traffic returns for the United Kingdom week
ending December 3d. exceeded by E42, 10 the same
week last wear.
A goody number of volunteers have offered
themselves for enrolment in the London Irish corps.
Drill will probably commence next week. The
general council now comprises some forty noble
men and gentlemen Of all political creeds and opin,
ions.
In the course of yesterday the Gloucester cleo
ton commissioners had sitting in Westminster,
but nothing revealed.
The Admiralty have taken up the steamships Ade-
Iaide and Sir VIM. Peel as regular Transports
They will be probably employed in the China wa
teTs.
The Times in its weekly review saws the produce
markets during the week have shown a further ten
dency to Improvement, rather higher rates having
in several instances been established.
The variations in this weeks bank returns are
devoid of Importance.
The Herdid says the tallow market was steadier
yesterday, with recovery in prices.
The same paper says that at Mark Lane yester-
day the dealings in some cases showed an increase
of Is. per quarter.
The Daity Ne,7s saws the Peninsuiar and Oriental
Company are exerting themselves to give the Aus
tralian colonies the advantage of receiving and
despatching English mails twice a month This
important benefit will not involve any great addi-
tional cost.
TFro,a The Daily Nc,os city article Dec 1O.I
The funds to-day were firm upon the deduction of
the csnsos dividend. The remarkable frmness Of
the Paris Bourse at the late important advance, is
viewed with satisfaction. Political anxiety is
steadily subSidng and buyers, especially those of
a bona tde character, are coming forward more
freely. The demand for money to-day was brsker.
The applications at Bank were to a fair extent,
but the money dealers are still enabled to supply
themselves, without having recourse to that estab
ishment Bills are generally declined below 212
per cent.
There were no operations in bullion at bank to-
day. On Change this afternoon bills on st. Peters
burg were inquired for and higher. The rates on
Austria and Hamburg were rather lower. The
other exchanges were steady.
Times CITY article, December 1Ol
Funds opened this morning with great steadiness
at full advance ofyesterday, but at the close a little
tendency to tiatness prevailed. The transactions
Of the day were not important, and loans. on gov
crnment securities Obtainable with at
per cent
There has been rather more emand for discount
today and at bank the applications were on
slightly increased scale A good business has been
done in foreign stocks, aud in most cases prices
were fairly supported.
The following is the closing part of Victor Hugo's
letter concerning John Brown:
When we reflect on what Brown the liberator,
the champion If Christ, has srven to effect, and
when we remember that he is about to die slaugh-
tered by the American republic the crime assumes
the proportions of the nation which commits it;
and when we say tc ourselves that this nation is
glory Of the human race; that-like France, like
England, like Germany-she is one of the organs of
civilizations that she sometimes outmarches
Europe by the sublime audacity of her progress;
that she is the queen of an entire world, and that
she bears on her brow immense light of freedom;
we affirm that ohm Brown will not die for
coil, horror struck, from the idea of so great
crime committed by great a people.
In political light the murder Of Brown would
be irreparable fault. IL would penetrate the
Union with a secret fissure which would in the end
tear il asunder. 1t is possible that the execution
of Brown might consolidate slavery in Virginia,
but it is certain that it would convuse the entire
American democracy ou preserve your shame,
but YOU sacrifice your glory.
In a moral light, it seems to me that portion of
the light Of humanity would be eclipsed, that even
the idea Of justice and injustice would be obscured
on the day which should witness the assassination
of Emancipation by Liberty.
As for myself, though | am but an atom, yet be-
ing, as l am, in common with all other men, in
spired with the conscience Of humanity, ! kneel in
tears before the great starry banner of the new
world and with caSpCd hands, and with profound
and iIial respect implOre the illustrious Ameri-
can Republic, sister of the French Republic, to look
to the safety Of the universal moral law to save
Brown, to throw down the threatening scaffold If
the 10th December, and not to suffer that beneath
its eyes, and | add, with a shudder, almost by its
fault, the first fratrcide b OutdOGe.
For-vcs let America know it and ponder it well
there is something more terrible than Cain slay
ing Albeit is Washington Staying Spartaeus
Hauteville House, December 2, 1859.
Tho funwinr : extract from a letter from