The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-02
FOREIGN.

Inc following, according to the Madrid Gazette
are the concessions made by the Mexican GOVERN
ment to Spain: "The Mexican government de-
ciares /. That it is ready to observe the conven-
trial the perpetrators of the murders of San Dunas
at Durango, as soon that province shall return to
obedience g. That it is ready to treat on the suh
lect OF the lndemnltles to which Spanish subjects
are entled In consequence of the losses sustained
by recent deporable events. L. That it has sent To
Its representatives at Paris and London the instruc
tons necessary for bringing to prompt and paci-
ne solution the Hispano Mexican difference"
An interesting discovery has Just been made at
Nonancourt, in the department of the Eure The
parish priest of that village had in the vestry of his
church an ornament called bourse which is used to
cover the chaliee in carrying it from the vestry to
the altar and back. This bourse was worn out and
had not been used for some time. 1t had, however,
been very rich, being composed of scarlet silk en-
broldered with gold. The priest took it to pieces
IN order to have it repaired, and in the lining he
iounu paper with the following words written on
1t, and spelled in the old French orthoprapby. az
am the Gordon of James, the last King of Great
Britain of the family of the Stuarts. If YOU wish
to know how it happened that was converted into
Duke OF Orleans during the minority of Louis XIV
Given to the Church in 1853, by Madame PH :
pitaI; the history of that period mentions that
the Pretender, son of James H. escaned assa.sina
ton at Nonancourt in the year Ills through the
presence OF mind and courage of Madame PHopital.
grandmother of the Hon. II. PHopital, late Mayor
OF Eyreux. 1t may be inferred from this discovery
that the Pretender left his Gordon of the Order of
the Bath with Madame 'Hopital. as he was forced
to assume disguise in order to escape from the as
sassins. According to Saint-Simon, Madame PHO
pltal died in l74o, and her daughterinlaw gave the
Gordon to the Church.-Journald de Eure
PERsIA.-The Persian Government has sent an
order to Belgium for 20, 900 muskets. 1000 rifles
OF the model approved by the French Minister of
War have been likewise ordered in Paris by the
Persian Government.
A letter from Teheran in the Gozsse J MI:
contains the following account of the measures
adopted by Ferukh Khan since his accession to office.
I'm pursuance OF the counsels of thu new President
OF the Council, the Persian Government has deter
mined to send agents into all the provinces with
instructions to draw up faithful report of their
situation, and to inquire into the wants of the pop
jects before the Council of Minister'S In the first
place, he proposes the establishment of regular
system of police in all the large towns He like
wise insists that the army shall in future be paid
with some degree OF regularity. But the most i'm
portant measure, and which has already received
the royal sanction, is law that henceforth all suits
between ulema and lay Mussulman shall be
decided by the civil tribunals. This is great step
towards the separation of the civil and religious
powers"
Geographical Study on the Life and Works OF
Daniel Webster" has been published in Russia by
Professor Katchenovsky, of the University Of
Kharkof.
Professor Rogers, of Pennsylvania, who was ap-
pointed to the chair ofNatural History in the Uni
versity of Glasgow, in the autumn of 1857 has Just
entered upon the duties of his office.
Mr. Adolphus Ackermann, the well known book
and print publisher, lately carrying on business in
the Strand, London, committed suicide on Wednes-
day, the 18th. For some time he had been suffer-
ing under great depression of spirits, owing to en-
oarrassed circumstances. and on the morning of the
occurrence he was found living partly undressed ON
his bed, in an apparently lifeless state. tumbler
that had contained prussic acid was found near
the deceased, from which he had drunk quantity
OF that poison. A letter also discovered in his
room dated as far back as December, in which he
spoke OF committing suicide, and said that he had
previously taken laudanum, but failed in carrying
| out his suicidal intention.
correspondent of the European Times writing
from Stockholm, says: In the country the master
household is permitted by law to inict person