The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-06

pressive, and the eulogy pronounced by Mr. THoMP-
son, of New York, is universally admitted to be- in
matter and manner, one of the finest efforts of its
class ever made within the walls OF the National
Legislative halls. ~
ADDITIONAL By THE FULTON.
The steamship Fulton, whose news has been brief
ly given by telegraph from Halifax arrived at New
York, Tuesday afternoon. The advices by the
America, which were later, have already been given
but we find some additional news, which we give
below:
ENGLAND.
lNDIsPosITIoN OF THE LORD MAYoR-The London
Times states upon authority that the attack of i'll
ness from which the Lord Mayor has been suffer
ing, has not been severe as might have been in
ferred from paragraph taken from one of the pro-
vincial papers. He is rapidly improving, and it
is hoped will be able shortly to resume his official
duties.
MORE GOVERNMENT ARRESTS IN IRELAND-BEL-
FAST, Sunday, Dec 12-The Times SAYS: This
evening considerable excitement was caused by the
general report that a Ribbon Lodge had been cap
tured in Belfast. The facts are as follows:
At O'Clock party of constabulary, fully armed,
surrounded a public house in Cromac street. and
arrested some fifteen persons who we're there as
sembled on the charge of being members of an lille
gal society. The prisoners Immediately
marched to the police office. The commttal was
made out and the men marched off under strong
escort, and lodged in the county of Antrim Jail.
| The men who have been arrested are believed to be
Roman Catholics, and, of course, the report goes
that they were members of a Ribbon Lodge.
GALWAY AND AMERICA.-At meeting of the Bel
fast Chamber of Commerce, held for the purpose of
considering what support the Chamber should give
to the establishment of packet station between
Ireland and America, Mr. j. S. Lever made a
heightened statement, which appeared to be salts
factory to the merchants present Mr.. Lever said
that the new ships are to be put on in June next
DEATH OF Col. PERcIvAL.-Col. Percival Ser
eant-at-Arms of the House of Lords, died Dec. 9th,
aged Y years, after protracted illness.
NATURE WINDSOR EpJDEMIc-'Tba Medical
Times says: The epidemic at Windsor, which has
led to the departure of the Court for Osborne and
the clearing OF Elton College, is and has been a
true typhoid fever.
Loss OF VESSEL WITH ALL HANDs.-The Daily
Ne,os says: A letter was received at Montrose,
Scotland, on Dec. 10, addressed to the owners of
the "Stiriingshire," of that port, by the British
Consul at Windau, confirming the painful appre-
henson that the ship while on her voyage from Cron-
stadt to London had been totally wrecked, in the
recent storm on the shores of the Baltic, and that
the captain and crew, ten in number, had all per
| ished.
MILFORD, Dec. 1O.-"Gulf Stream" of New York.
| Captain Godfrey, from Newport to Martinique,
with coal, sprung leak yesterday, and was aban-
! dOned; saved. The letters by the India and
China and Australian mails will be received in Lon
don, Wednesday, Dec. Is.
DREADFUL CoLLIERY EXPLosION.-A coal pit ex-
plosion, producing terrible consequences, in the
loss OF at least twenty five lives, occurred about
noonpn Saturday, Dec. IL, at Tyldesley, Leigh,
Staffordshire.
The Herald says the rumor denied at the tme)
that Mr.. Robert Chambers of Edinburg was the
author of "The Vestiges of the Natural History OF
Creation, is confirmed by the new British Muse
um's catalogue.
MORE ARREsTs.-Dublin, Dec. 13.-The Times
says, accounts from Kerry, received to-day, an
nounce the arrest of thirteen persons charged with
being members of an illegal society.
| DIPLOMATIC APPoINTMENTs.-We Times) believe
that the following appointments in the diplomatic
service will soon be officially announced: LORD
| Napier, to succeed Lord Abercrombe, as Minister
at the Hague; Lord Lyons, at present Minister al
Florence, to succeed Lord Napier as Minister al
| Washington
| Sir Moses Montiiore, the President of the London
Committee of Deputies of the British Jews, accom-
| panied by a number of other Jews had an int err
view at the Foreign Office ON Monday, Dec. 49, on
the subject Of the Mortara case.
The Australian and New Zealand Gazette SAYS
SIN few days the screw steamer Omeo will leave
with the telegraph cable which is to connect Vic
toria with Tasmania. The cable is a single con
ductor of $40 miles in length which is to be laiC
from Cape Otway, Victoria, to Kings Island. The
| Geographic communication with the capitals o
three Australian colonies and Tasmania will thus b.
complete
The Times says Mr.. Slidell had left Constantine
pie for Syria and Athens, to observe the working O
the newly laid Geographic line, and then to lay
down the cable from SYRIA to Athens, on account o
| the Greek government.
correspondent to the London Herald saws: Or
Sunday, the 9th inst, the first Council General es
tablished in Algeria opened at Algiers, under
| the presidency OF the Project, NJ. Gerry. The sit
! ting was public; and the Acabs and colonist.
thronged to witness the spectacle of quasi parlia
mentary discussion in the old city of the Deys.
The Daily Neos says: The whole of the Queens
British regiments now serving in India armed
with the Enfield rifle.
FRANCE.
The French BUDGEr.-The Moniteur publishes the
report of M. Magne, Minister of Finance, on the
French Budget for 1862 Or as he STYLES it les ele
ments du Budget de 1860.
| The Times correspondent SAYS:
| The 9th February is said to be the day fixed for
| the opening of the Legislative Chambers. Its said
that NJ. Sabatier, the French Consul General, who
has been sent ON mission to Jeddah, demands that
! Namick Pasha, Governor of Jeddah at the period
of the massacre in that town, and who is suspected
! of having excited the'mo that occasion, shall
be tried and if found guilty, punished the spot
| as an example to the population
French engineer has, it is said been authorized
to service in Russia, to direct the hydraulic works
about to be executed at Villafranca.
The Paris correspondent of the London Post SAYS:
'Some journals have stated that the conferences
are ABOUT to meet again very soon in order to take
into consideration the question of the navigation of
the Danube"
Trade was dull last week, both in Paris and in
the departments.
AUSTRIA.
The governor of Galicia has just published a de-
cree prohibiting the circulation in that province of
Russian or Polish gold, silver copper coins
On w Wednesday, Dec. 10, the railroad from Vienna
to Linz will be open to the public.
RUSSIA.
The Times correspondent says: f'The mobiles are
by no means inclined to emancipate their serfs
without receiving full naturalization, and they do
not attempt to conceal from the imperial authori-
ties their disinclination to obey the instructions
which they received from his majesty
TURKEY.
The Journal de Constantinople declares that the
protocols of the conferences the Montenegro
affair, published by the Nord are Il pure inven-
ton.
PORTUGAL.
The Times says letters from Portugal speak of
the approaching nomination of Marshal Saldanha
to the post of Minister of War.
SARDINIA.
The London Post says it does not appear that
there has been any circular note of the Sandman
government, in reference to the warike intentions
attributed to il