The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-17
THE FRENCH AND PRUssIAN TREATY.

| HE FkENC1t AND pRUSSlAN TREATY,
| Mr.. Disraeli in his address to the electors al
Azlesbury said few days ago, the country was in
| formed on authority which, though anonymous
was of that bouncing character that no one dared
say "No" toit-that secret treaty had been formed
| between France and Russia-that their fleets were
| to be united for the destruction of our maritime
supremacy and for the partition of Europe. | can
| give you no information as to the quarter from
| which or by what means those enormous statements
were made. They have, l believe, ruined manv
vrtuous families in this country; they have shaken
| credit in every nation but this can assure YOU,
that there not the slightest title of foundation for
those statements. loud cheers.) There is no
treaty existing between France and Russia there
| no secret treaty between France and Russia there
| is no secret convention existing between France
and Russia. loud cheers There is between
| France and Russia what may be called an engage
ment, which they were not bound in any way to
communicate to this country; but which was com
municated to this country voluntarily some time
ago by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
| (Cheers.)
1t amounted simply to this-that in case of war
between France and Austria, Russia should assem-
BILE an army of observation on her German frontier
Russia has much right to assemble an army OF
observation on her German frontier England has
to send, as she is about to send, commanding feet
| to the Mediterranean. Loud cheers.) Both NAV
| be, probably are means to maintain peace rather
| than to make war. CHEERS. But have further
to acquant you that we have felt it our duty not
| only to request and to receive those communica-
| lions from the governments of France and Russia
but we have gone even beyond this, and have ask.
| ed the Russian government what perhaps, accord
ing to the strctness of diplomatic etiquette we
not justified in asking, but which we asked in the
confidence of Power that always acts with frank
ness and sraightforwardness towards her allies-we
have asked the Russian government whether, in
| case of war between France and Germany they
| have entered into any engagement to declare war
| against Germany. And we have received from the
Russian government the most explicit and most un-
| eQulVOcal declaration ant oftL h.
| kind exists or ever has been asked. So much
them for the secret treaties much for the secret
conventions, so much for the secret engagements
between France and Russia, directed only to one
object-the humiliation, and perhaps the destruc.
ton of England.
ration which has so long controlled the trade with
the Indians, on the Northwestern frontier will be
shorn of its ancient privileges in that region within
the coming month. 1t is, like its prototype the
East India Company, an institution of the past-in-
dispensable, perhaps in the early stages of COM
| merce-but rendered superfuous and irksome by
the growth and dev eiopment of individual enter
prise. The English Government, wisely conform
ing TO popular necessities, abrogates the privileges
| first of the one, and then of the other, of these
| Corporations, which had come down to US almost
unaltered since the days of King Charles the
! Second.
The Indians of the Northwest will be sufferers,
| probably, by the change. The Bay Company has
| furnished them with steady and profitable EMPLOY
ment as trappers; has, in some measure civilized
them; has compelled them to peaceful pursuits, and
has excluded the temptations and destruction which
| seem to follow in the wake of unrestraned traffic
with white men. With the opening of the Indian
trade to everybody, rivalres, quarrels, rum and
cheating will probably ensue, as they have among
our own Indian tribes in the West.
The United States, however, will be largely the
gamers by abrogation of the Bay Company's sway
1t will open to the emigrant, the MINER the trap
per, the fisherman, broad tracts from which they
are excluded. 1t will create new communi-
ties, who must buy and sell in our markets, and
competition will probably reduce the prices of furs
&c, below the points at which the monopoly has
long held them.-Albany Erening Journal.
Siliman's Journal states that the bequest of Hen.
~ l.. Ellsworth to Yale College, amounting, it is
estimated to $500 900 or $500 900, is appropriated
by the will to scholarships and is therefore rather
gift to the public than the College itself The
will is to be contested, and the issue is doubtful II
sustained, the College will receive from il only tui
ton fees, and these meet but little more than hall
the expense of instruction.
A discovery has just been made that all the DC.
cupants of what is known in Baton Rouge, La. as
"Beauregard Town." have no titles to their pro
perty. The Mayor of Baton Rouge has taken
measures to secure the occupants of that propert
in possession by their paying only the Government
price for it.
Rev. F. l.. Maurice, the we-known "Broad''
church writer, is preparing a book to be called,
! "What 10 Revelation ~