The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-14

That tongue
In which Shakespeare wrote in which our Milton sung
Like diamonds hidden for centuries by a noun
tain weight the rich gems of the Saxon lost moth
ing by their incarceration. When the mighty
| Norman incubus was removed, they shOne forth
bright, and pure, and beautiful as in the days when
Alfred fought the Danes.
The finest specimen of the mpdcrn Saxon is the
translation Of the Bible, by order of King James
of England. Even the majesty of the Greek tongue
almost bows before the sublime capacities of the
English tested in some of the grandest rhetorical
flights of the great Apostle to the Gantilcs.
Though the German, unquestiOnably, is the rich
est of all the modern tongues, the empire of the
world may be considered rs divided between the
rival claimants, French and English Edward Ev-
erett in of his Mt. Vernon Papers relates the
following interesting anecdote:
'Ihere was curious association of Gibbons lit
erary career with the diffusion of the English Ian
guage in this country. He had in early life lived
a good deal on the continent, and under the i'm
preston that French to be the universal
tongue, wrote his first essay in that language. He
sent copy Of it to David Hume, who wrote him.
in 1867, in acknowledgment of it, as follows /:
| why do you compose in French, and carry faggots
into the wood, Horace says with regard to
those Romans who wrote in Greek? | grant that
you have a like motive to those Romans and adopt
a language much generally dtused than
your native tongue. But have you not remarked
the fate of those two ancient languages in follow
ing ages? The Latin, though then less celebrated
and confined to more narrow limits, has i'm some
n,
orally understood by msn of letters Let the
French therefore, triumph in the present diffusion
of the tongue. Our solid and increasing establish
ments in America, where we need less dread the
inundaton Of barbarians, promise a superior sta
biljty and direction of the English language "
PLAYING RICHARD III. TO AN AUDIENCE OF OyE
Mr. Fost T. the manager of theatrical company
playing at Bucyrus, Ohio, was sitting in a hotel,
when a stranger, with bill of the evening play i'll
his hand, entered the room, and approaching Mr..
Foster asked him if he was the manager OF the
Theatre. Being answered in the affirmative, he
asked Mr.. Foster what sum would induce his COM
pany to play Richard ILL., for him that afternoon
as he compelled to leave town and could not be
present in the evening Mr.. Foster, supposing that
the stranger was testing, replied twenty-five dol
lars and being asked what he would add the R0agh
Diamond for, he replied ten dollars. The stranger
forthwith counted out the money, and the company
on being consulted, agreed to grant the strangers
request. The stranger desired that the play should
begin not later than o'clock, and we now let the
Bucyrus journal tell the rest "Two o'clock came,
and the solitary audience assembled Choosing an
eligible position, and cooking his feet upon the back
of the seat in front Of him. he waited patiently for
the performance to begin. The bell rang, up went
the curtain, and the play commenced. Never did
actors do better. They all eXerted themselves to
give their patron an entertainment fully worth the
price paid for it, and they succeeded The stranger
applauded vigorously at different points and at the
close Of the play called Mr.. Fannin before the cur
tain, who responded in a neat little speech
dance and song followed, after which the farce of
the RouJh Diamond was played. The audience
laughed, rOared, and applauded, and at the close
of the first piece, called out the leading actors'
Sidney Smith was complaining of a young gen
tIeman who, although many years his junior,
in the habit of addressing him by his Christian
name, privilege which, as Sidney Smith remark
ed, he only allowed his most intimate friends
Shortly after, the gentleman in question entered
the room, and familiarly addressing Smith as
ba Z -
day. 'For my part he added, ''the Archbishop
of Canterbury (the then DR.. Howley) has often in
vted me to pay him visit at AddingtOn Park,
and think shall drive down and return in the
''then let me give you a word of advice: | know
something of the Archbishop; he is a very excel
lent man, but rather proud; don't call him
William he might not like it." roar of laugh
ter followed this significant speech, and as the dis
comtited youth left the room, Sidney Smith turned
round and quietly remarked, 81 think have set
tied the 'cool of the evening at last"
A writer in the Worcester Spy says that, ac-
cording to the census of the United Kingdom taken
in 1851, next to agriculture, strangely enough, the
fishing interest stands the largest employee of
women. In the pilchard fishery there are some
thousands. The Jersey oyster fishery alone EMPLOYS
one thousand Then follows the herring cod
whale and lobster fisheries. From this class came
Grace Darling. There are 100000 female servants
and 500 900 business women. One item in the
latter list was 10000 butcher-wiveg, women who
do not merely preside over the business, but buy
stock, put down meat, and drive cart, if neces-
sary.
The BALLOON BURsr.-The great balloon at Crvs-
tai Palace square burst Friday morning with
over 900 feet of gas in it, The disaster was sud
den and unexpected and is supposed to have been
caused by the chalng Of the cordage against the
muslin envelope. As the balloon swayed to and fro
in the least breeze, and there was a very strong
pressure of the gas in the upper part of it, this ex
panatiOn is undoubtedly the correct one. The
balloon will be repaired as as possible and the
process of filling be resumed, it is hoped, under
more favorable circumstances
bloody and exciting row occurred on Monday.
at Whitehall, Robson county, n. C. A man
named Grantham, who was inebriated. ATTEMPTED
to enter Robinson's Circus, but was repeled by
the doOr-keeper. A difficulty ensued, in which
circus men and the friends of Grantham particpa.
ted The tight was very desperate, bowie-knives
were used and pistols fired Leach, a school-mas-
ter was killed by pistol shot, and a brother of
Grantham dangerously wounded in the same
manner. He is expected to die. One of the circus
men named Robinson was dreadfully stabbed on
one shoulder.
The New York Times OF Saturday, says:
Throughout the city last evening, at all the To-
calites where the Teutons congregate the most the
Schiller fete was kept up with becoming spirit
At the Astor House there was large and aristo-
cratic gathering, and those who could not afford to
dine there, attended banquets and balls at the Tur
ners' Hall, the Steuben House, Harmony Garten.
and at Hillenbrands,