The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-14
FOREIGN MISCELLANY


DATE am glad to have it in my power (says the
correspondent of the Times) to notice an act of
courtesy on the part of the Emperor Of the French
towards an English gentleman, Sir William Rus
sell, who, believe, commanded the 9TH Hussars in
INDIA, arrived on board the Panther off Marseies
on Sunday last. Intending to present himself as q
candidate to the electors at Dover it was absolute
~ ~ necessary that he should be in England to-day.
The detention of two days in quarantine would
make this impossible. 1t occurred to Sir William
|ussen VINO had some acquaintance with the En-
Peor IN LONDON years ago, to write to his Majesty
ny tne Telegraph, stating the hardship of his case
and asking permission to be dispensed from tbe
obligation OF quarantine. No sooner said tbon
done. lie wrote, reminded his Majesty of old joyg
when they were acquaintance, and stated that tIa
delay of two days at Marseilles would infallihIy
cause the loss OF his election. The Emperor re-
ceived the letter. and without the slightest loss of
time had an order sent down to Marseies for the
authorities to give pratque at to the passen-
gers of the Panther.
STEEL STAYs.-A regular crusade has been enter
ed into by the doctors of Paris against the friUbt
fashion of steel stays brought in with the new cut
OF dress now in vogue Attention has been drawn
TO the subject, and report sent in to the Academy
OF Medicine, in consequence of the sudden death of
the two young ladies employed in one of the fash.
ionabe houses of this place to show off the fashions
These young ladies, whose sole business was to
walk up and down the Magasin, where the wonders
OF the imagination of the propretors are DISPLAYED
yylng with each other in the degree to which tor
themselves to be drawn so tight that in one case
the bursting of a boOd-vessel was the consequence
andln the other, congestion of the lungs carried off
the victim in few hours.-Court Journal.
The GUARDS MEMoRIAL.-The first stone of the
pedestal of the memorial now in course of erection
in Waterloo oplace, Pail Mall London to the off
GERS and men of the brigade of Guards who fell dur
ing the Crimean campaign, was laid the other day
by Miss Margaret Joanna Bell, daughter of Mr.
Bell, the sculptor. The pedestal and those nortions
OF the monument which are intended to be of stone
Will consume rather more than 100 tons of granite
from the Cheesewring quarries The principal
figures Of the memorial will consist of three SOL
diers, in full marching uniform, of the Grenader.
Codstream and Fusilier Guards. The metal to
be used in the casting is that of some guns taken
at Sebastopol. 1t is understood that her Majesty
has graclOusly consented to attend the inauGura-
ton OF the memorial when completed.
NEAPoLTTAN FILBUsTERs.-A letter from Nanles
says: "Ihe Neapoitan police has received infor-
NATION mat two steamers manned by fbusters
nave lett Genoa, 1T was not known for what place.
1t is believed that the men on board takinr odvon
tage OF the trouble and ndecison which will follow
the death OF the King, will disembark in some part
oi the Kingdom, and make a revolutionary attemnt
similar to that of Pisacane at Sapri Accordingly
the government has ordered that the hest staar1o
vessels in our fleet shall be armed Immediately so
as to be able to put to sea at Il moments notice in
case OF need The armng of the coasts of Sicily is
continuing. Two transports have just left for
Syracuse with cannon and ammunition"
1t is said from Sweden that the "Bessemer pro-
cess" for the manufacture of iron, which for a
time made so much noise in England, has been tried
with much success in casting of steel. In the ex-
perlments that had been made with iron ore it was
found impossible to produce metal of suitable
kind but it is affirmed that by its adoption steel can
be cast OF superior quality and at a comparatively
trifiing expense
Belgian papers announce that means of uniting
steel and iron has been discovered, and that some
rails have been made the ironworks of Moutirnv-
sur Sambre, of which the Aange is in steel, and
the body in iron.
Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, confirm
the statements of the discovery of good coal in that
province. The Novari, with the Austrian Scentif-
lc Expedition, having touched at the islands, the
Government requested DR.. Hochstetter, the geolo-
gist OF the expedition, to make formal survey of
the held His report was published in the New
Zealand Gazette and leads to the conclusion that
''there exists no doubt that the province of Auck-
land is rich in the possession of abundance of good
workable coal, which will prove of the greatest i'm
portance both for steam navigation and manutactu-
ring purposes"
could now be marched out in England, possessing
as good command of the rifle as their forefathers
had OF the bow, we might laugh at the very notion
OF invasion. There is not the least reason why this
should not come to pass. Mr.. W itworth declares
that he will make rifle send ball into the muzzle
OF another rifle at 500 yards distance, the exact
counterpart of Robin Hoods famous feat of sending
one arrow into the centre of target, and then
splitting it with anOther-Ttmes.
The Scotch, who are getting up at Aberdeen
great exhibition of Scottish historical memorials
the Prince Consort presiding-are about to ask the
Dean and Chapter OF Westminster for the loan Of
the stone from Scone, the famous stone on which
their Kings were crowned long and still part of
the coronation chair of the Kings and queens of
England. The Committee, we believe, have refused
to exhibit any memorials of King Edward l., of
Howard Earl of Surrey, or of William Duke of
Cumberland Illustrated Ne,cs
New SAILS AND KEELs.-Mr. F. Trevithick of
Penzance, has patented a curious pair of improvn-
ments In the ''sails and keels of vessels He con-
structs the sails of strips or narrow bands of thin
sheet metal. In applying kees, fixed tubes are used
at intervals, parallel with the centre of fiat bottom
ed boats vessels. Through these tubes chains
passed to which the keelss are attached and
other chains pass the sides the vessels which
are also attached to the kees, and by which the
keels may either be lifted into the vessel or he
brought to act as lee boards.
On the 18th instant the people of Galatz made n
ferociouS attack on the Jewish inhabitants of the
city, whom they accused (according to a wretched
superstitOn) of having taken blood from a Chris
tan boy, In order to make of it in their Easter
ceremonies. The synagogue destroyed, the
bibles and scrolls of laws found in it torn to pieces
the shops broken open and plundered and about
200 Jews more or less injured. In the course of
the day, troops having arrived from BrailOw, peace
and order were restored, but none of the rioters
were arrested.
letter from one of the principal vine-crowers
near Apnernay says II am sorry to inform you
that on the morning of the 18th, all the VINEYARDS
in Champagne were cut up by a sharp frost There
does not remain for the present one eighth of n
crop, and the result will be a great failure for
the year. We not yet out Of danger for the
remainder, and cannot be before the middle of next
month
Ladislaus Magyar, Hungarian, in the hope of
reaching the interior with more certainty, has
married the daughter of the negro king of Bihe in
Upper Guinea. Having by this step become gen
eralin-chief of the armies of his father-in law he
makes use of his newly-acqured authority to facil-
itate his researches.
At recent meeting at Leicester respecting the
shoemaking machines, a shoemaker named Smart
said he had seen one man make twelve of the best
Bamoral boots in seven hours; and, having tried
machine work, he believed it quite as strong,
if they did not meddle with the shuttle thread.
The Right Hon. Sir Edward b. Lytton, who has
resorted to Malvern with the view to benefit his
health, remains in very bad state. Since his so
jOurn there but slight amendment is perceptible in
the malady from which the Right Hon. Baronet
suffers.
A recent number of the Reuue des deu.r Nopdes
contains interesting article the naval arsenal
at Cherbourg from which it appears that the works
have cost 81 gil 900.
We see from the Lucknow Herald that Lucknow
room, and coffee club, where ''the newspapers of
the day are received and tea and coffee supplied"
1t is stated that NJ. Collard, Parish photogra-
phist, has succeeded in taking photographs at
night.