The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-30

MADRID, Dec. 13.-The Sd corps d'armee disem-
| barked at Ceuta.
| General Prim has been attacked on his road tn
| Tetuan.
The Moors were repused with great loss The
! Spanish Lad 40 killed and wounded
PARIS December H.-Count Pourtaes is sum-
moned to Berlin. He is expected to be back in
time for the diplomatic reception on New Years
! Day.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The successful introduction Ocean Marine Insur-
ance Company has led to the formation of another to be
called the Universal Marine Insurance Company with
nominal capital of 81 900, 900 in $50 shares
Forty ngos of gold worth about $50 OO0 and f54O in
COIN were recovered from the Royal Charter Monday
The advces Marseies state that the failure of the
franco-Bege Sugar Refinery of that port has caused
great trouble and discredit The manager, it said
! in prison.
- Kilograms from Russia announce the failure of Mr.
Irederck HUI of St. Petersburgh, with liabilities esti-
mated at 2500 900 silver roubles or about f40 0OO
The India Loan shows undminshed irmness and
strong illustration furnished of the preference the
pubic for buying advanced the fact that
the East Indian Railway Five Per Cent Debentures 9l-
6Oo00O OF which were lately offered par for nearly
fortnight, are now sought at ~ to premium.
The last annual return of the public revenue and tx
penditure exhibits the Post Office in yery favorable DO
s9h Tie ordinary receipts having been f3,175,5 $50,
WINE me expenditure was 81 S94 97, showing balance
THE TEA TRADE, Dec 12.--The deliveries in London es
timated for the week IA lbs which is an in
crease of 80 2O compared with the previous statement
The following is from the Times City Article Dec
The English Funds have been without animation to day
although the general feeling of confidence appears un
amlnshed Consols were quoted e54@% exdiv. The
PROBABILITY of financial operation behalf Of Russia
| continues to exercise influence
| terday.
French three per cents are quoted at 7Of Coo In the
Foreign Exchanges slight recovery took place in the
| Austrian rates. Illinois Central Shares declined So.
me transmission of the mails from America via Cork
has not been begun successfully. Instead of the letters
by the Canada having been accelerated they have been
retarded The vessel landed them at Queenstown on
Monday at 80 NJ, and then proceeded to Liverpool
where she arrived on Tuesday morning. The Liverpool
merchants are enabled to reply by Aago and Hungarian
! while in London no delivery has yet taken place.
LATEST MARKETS.
| LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET-LIvERPooL Dec Ia
The opens steady with fair inquiry: sales antic
| pated at 5000 bales or more. Weather fine.
LONDON MONEY MARKET-LONDoy, Dec 49, P M
! G95%. |1
LONDON Corn MARKET-LoNDoY Dec l4-Giles. Son
Barker report arrivals OF all grain trng Wheat and
all other articles held fully Mondays prices as vet
there does not appear to be much disposition buy The
do Barley 1850 do Malt 10 do Oats 100 bbls Flour
45obusheis foreign Wheat 29O do Barley, 4O do Oats
| TRACES OF HENRY LAW, THE GREAT FoRGER-Be-
| tween the 9TH and 9th of January last, Henry
! Law, then resident of New York, and ostensibly
employed as agent of European wine dealer, OBJ
tanned $4,000 Ola forged drafts, purportng to have
! been made by the Colonial Bank, at the Island of
Barbados. The circumstances of the negotiations
by which he disposed of the drafts and realized in
specie and the fact of his escape, were published at
! the time The manner in which he got out of the
| country was not known until lately. 1t now ap-
pears that, through the agency of one Ed. Plaett-
! ner, who was privy to his operations, he bought
the schooner kngfsher, and sailed in her to Mala-
! ga. In letter which he left behind him for one
| Hermann, Law charged Plaettner with having
kept back $500 Of the specie entrusted to him to
| place where Law could readily put his hand upon
1t when he should be ready to sail Upon his arri-
val at Malaga he made present of the
| schooner to Captain Petraus who returned
in her to New York with a cargo of wine. Pc
traus arrested, and the next day the Kingfsber
was seized in behalf of Hoffman & Co., one of the
| firms detrauded by Law. Petraus gave her up to
| them, and hewas not further proceeded against
Law went from Malaga to Europe, but did not visit
Bremen, where his wife had been sent He spent
several weeks in Madrid and then started for Con-
stantinOple and Alexandria. He was in Constanti-
nople at the time an American woman was arrested
there Tor having in her possession large quantity
OF forged notes upon the Turkish Government
which had been executed in New York. He visited
her, rendered her pecuniary aid, and used every
means III ms power to procure her release. In
addition to this, discoveries have recently been
made in New ork, tending to fasten suspicion upon
Law, having been connected while in New
ork, with the Turkish forgeries," so called
From Turkey Law proceeded to Egypt, where the
police lost all trace of him.
Com WFATHER.-The telegraph gives the follow
ing report of the condition of the thermometer at
the points named:
MONTREAL, Dec 2S.-The thermometer indicates
temperature OF lG degrees below zero, but the
river Is not yet frozen opposite the city. The
water is very high, and the lower part of GrlIntown
is flooded.
ST.. JOHNSBURY, W., Dec. 8-Thermometer in
dicates 20 degrees below zero.
RoUsE's POINT, N Y, Dec. -Thermometer 10
degrees below zero
BosToN, Dec. 2S.-Thermometer degrees below
zero.