The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-15

| ton for New York on the 29th ultimo
| The Cunard steamer Africa arrived out at Liver
pool at $50 on the morning of the 25th ultimo.
GREAT FIRE AT CoNsTANrGNoPLE.
Constantinople journals of the 14th, state that
dreadful fire had destroyed upwards of 900 houses
in the Turkish capital 1t broke out in the quarter
| of Hass Keni, built like an amphitheatre on the
side OF the hill, and inhabited by 900 Jews and
from the houses being of wood, the flames spread
| with the most frightul rapdty, and in a very
short time upwards of sixty habitations were de.
strOyed.
The fire was then, most persons thought got
under, but on the next day it again burst out aresh
and very nearly thOusard houses more were re.
duced to ashes. The inhabitants were seen running
half naked through the streets seeking shelter and
more than six hundred families who lost all they
possessed are encamped on the hill. The Sultan
ordered number of military tents to be supplied to
afford them temporary shelter.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE BY THE CITY OF
WASHINGTON
BY telegraph from London to Liverpool
LONDON, Sept. 29.-The Daily Ne,os City Article
OF wednesday evening says:
''Ihe funds remain without any movement of
Importance. British railway stocks were weaker
in the afternoon. There was moderate demand
for money The best bills are taken at 23S to 2I5
per cent.
"The amount of gold taken to the bank to-day
was f2O, 900. The f243,000 by the Kent came to
hand, but at too late an hour to be dealt with"
y movement is on loot amongst the merchants
trade with the Cap. of Good Hope, having for its
object the presentation of address to Sir George
Grey, on mis- return from the colony.
Last evening a meeting was held at the Hall of
Science, to adopt measures for the mme ediate abo-
lition OF logging in the army and navy. The chair
was occupied by ]. C. Murrough ex-member for
Bridport.
The Times city article of Wednesday evening
says:
"The funds have been steady throughout the day
a
''ln the discount market there is undiminished
ease, and occasional transactions take place at "a
per cent.
"The advices from the Continent describe gen.
era absence OF speculative business, notwithstand-
ing the superabundance of capital in each of the
markets. At Hamburg the rate of discount was
only ~ per cent.
sin the railway market to day there has been
reaction, especially in the heavier Stocks The de-
cline was from e to "a per cent"
A deputation from the masons waited on the mas
ter builders yesterday. The interview is said to
have lasted seven hours, and at its close was ad
iourned until this day. The result will have an
important bearing on the strike.
The Paris PoyS sem-Oficia journal, announ-
ces the arrival of the American Minister at Pekin
He assembled one of tn. branches of the Pei-ho
accompanied BY the members of his legation.
They were not allowed to see anything of the
country, and while awaiting an interview with the
Emperor were required not to leave the residence
assigned to them.
apparent on the Bourse. Rentes opened 67f 55c.
LONDON, September 29.-Some fresh details have
been given in Parisjournal respecting projected
expeditions to China. The force is to consist of
Iz,OOo men, chosen from the best men of every
corps.
1t is certain that all the men of a regiment are
not fitted to endure the climate. depot to re-
pair deficiencies is to be established near Hong
Kong or Shanghae
The departure of the force cannot take place be-
fore the first fortnight of November.
The Dictator of Modena has given orders for the
purchase of 10000 Mimic rifles, and also of the
reformed.
telegram from Naples announces that the King
has left for the Roman frontiers, for the purpose it
was said, OF having an interview with the Pope.
The Herdd correspondent says that Austria and
Piedmont are about making warike preparations,
and that the French army of occupation in Italy is
about to receive reinforcements. The renewal of
hostilties is apprehended by many.
The Spanish government is said by the Journal
des Debats to have declined the mediation of Eng
land in the dispute with Morocco
The semi-official journal of Madrid denies that a
convention exists between France and Spain rea-
tive to Morocco.
Alderman Carter has this day been elected Lord
Mayor of London for the ensuing year.
The representatives, of the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany at Rome, has refused to deliver up the EN-
bassy House, although threatened with the confs-
cation Of his property in Tuscany.
1t is said be is supported in his refusal by the
Ambassadors of France and Austria
queenstown, September 27--The Perthshire
hence to Wilmington, q days out, has put back
with loss of galley boats and three men, in lat 40
| IA n. long. %. W.
THE CAPTURE OF sCHAMYL-RUssIAN ACCOUNT
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the Nort
gives the following details respecting the capture
of this famous Circassian chief the correctness O
which he vouches for. After describing the plan O
attack which had been arranged by Prince Baria
tinski, the account proceeds: The fight was ont
! OF the most desperate character, but the Murides
| placed between two fires, saw that resistance o
| flight was equally impossible Out of 400 men who
! formed the garrison of Gonnib At only remained
alive. ScIamyl shut himself up in one the babita
| tions which were cutinto the rock. The plateau
was covered with corpses. We lost one hundred
men. When Prince Bariatinski arrived on thi:
plateau, he stopped the firing and addressing
Schamyl, summoned him to surrender. The I'm
aum, appearing at an aperture which had beer
made in the rock, asked on what condition he wa,
required to yield. "Leave your retreat uncondi
tionally," replied the COmmander-n-C Chief Fl,
who had been our bitterest enemy for so man,
years then came forth. ''Are you Schamyl p
asked the Prince. ''Yes," replied the Imaum
Then your life is spared and you will retain yonI
wives and property. But shall send you to St
Petersburg tomorrow, and your fate must finall,
depend on the will of the Emperor, my august mas
| ter" Schamyl bent his head without uttering 8
word. The general then said, 81 waited for you a
long time at Tiflis; hoped you would come o
yourself and make your submission, but you forced
me to come here in search of you" Then turning
to Lieutenant Colonel Grabbe he said, 'tProceeC
forthwith to St Petersburg, and report to the EN-
perOr what you have seen. Tomorrow | will sent
! a report and Schamyl himself"
ROME, Sept 26.-tThe Sacred College met and ap
pointed seventeen bishOps In the annual allocu
ton of the Pope, His Holiness alluded to the Ma
tional Assembly Of Bologna, and referred to tn
censure expressed by that assembly against tn
Papal government In conclusion, he expresse
the hope that the Romagnese will return to thei
allegiance to the Holy See.
RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN PERSIA.
The Times and Daily Nelos have each leade
on the capture of Schamy, which they regard a
calculated to extend the influence of Russia in Pei
sia and the east.
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
The Manchester Guardian, of Sept. 29th, has th
following:
Yesterday a terrible explosion occurred at tn
percussion cap mandatory of Messrs. Pursall
Phillips situated in Whittall street, Birmingham
which attended by enormous loss of life
1t appears that the firm having had large orders o
hand, one OF them for the Turkish Government b.
ing for $4,000, 900 of caps, had considerable nun
Der of persons employed in a range of shoppin
at the back of their premises. 1t is supposed tha
there could not have been less than eighty persons
the majority of them being women and girls,
work yesterday morning, when the accident o.
Cured Nothing is at present certainly known II
gardng ills orign it is supposed that it took plaC
in an apartment where the caps are F'primed" wit
the detOnatng powder, and where there were fy
females employed.
This room was situated in the third story of IL
shopping; Immediate Y beneath was the wOrkhOus
where larger number of women and girls were e.
gagged, and in immediate contiguity were other
employed in various operations connected with I'll
manufacture, They were all busily at work, whe
in an instant, terrible explosion took place. Wi
dows walls and roofs were hurled into the air. an
the unfortunate workpeope scattered in all dire
tions or buried under the ponderous masses of M
terial which lately formed the buildings. Scarce
I had the wreck subsidized into chaotic heap, befo
Der of the building having become ignited by II
a intensity of the explosion.
The persons engaged in the front part of Il
> | building, who were comparatively uninlure
- rushed to the windows, and were rescu fro
= | their perilous position by the multitude who hi
- been attracted to the spot by the noise of the e
| plosion, fearful spectacle then presented itsC
i to those who had the courage to make their W;
i | thr rough the burning building. Eight or ten gil
y y were seen half buried in the ruins chiefly wi
: : their beads downward; whilst others, whose lie
: were crushed under the debris, stretched out the
arms, piteously imploring for assistance; and cri
| were heard from those whose position could not
i seen. One elderly woman sat beam, unable
: | extricate herssl', anot piece of timber |
, | across her legs. An effort made to rescue he
a but the burning building was falling in all dire
tions, and she bad to be left to a horrible fa
Scarcely had she been left when part of the roof
in with terrific crash, and she and some girls
+, | her vicinity Immediately crushed to death.
IL 1t was an hour or twn, however, before the i
: had been got undeDSand it was impossible to ins
tute search for the poor people who wee knoN
to be amongst the ruins. The result was, up t
y o'clock last night, fewer than IL bodies b
L been recovered. All were so shOckingly mutilat
u and disfgured that identity was impossible exec
l. in few cases. Most of them were the bodies
e tO n