The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-24

st Berlin, on the 10Th of November, there was
Il dinner. Now there is nothing remarkable in the
simple act Of dining either at Berlin or elsewhere.
People dine after some fashion or other, every day
in the week, and all over the world. Even the
Fiiians dine although, in the choice of specific
articles Of food their affections are somewhat d.
vided between baked Pig and baked Missionary
the latter being a dish which is not yet to befound
among the delicaces of the most recherche Partisan
try dHtHFNd iS hG7 n2g2RRHha m It Is tbs Is
this ''sruggle for existence" according to the
theory of DARWIN, in his enquiry into the Origin
of Species, that all the manifold variations which
have taken place in the primal stock are to be at
tributed. Eating, therefore, is matter of special
importance, and among civilized nations the din
ner is universally regarded the chief meal of the
day. The component parts Of what we style
dinner may he very simple, or very complex. The
Esqaimaux viii dine heartily off slice of buhber.
The Cossacks of the Ukraine, during the NAPo-
LEoNIC wars, exhibited decided pcncbam for tai
low candles. The Hndoo cares for little beyond
rice. The Spanish peasant will content himself
with q slice of bread and an onion; the South
American with three foot slip of ierked beef;
life or the means at his command, will dine on
broiled rat or, more luxuriousy still, on birds
nests and tender young puppies. In Paris, beef
Ia mote is understood to be broiled horse and we
have SAM WELLER's authority for saying that veal
pie in London is made Of kittens. But the dinner
to which We especially refer altogether
much more complex and artistic affair. 1t was Pc
culiar and distinctive, nevertheless and there
was difTused about it certain odour of nation
ality. 1t was Thanksgiving dinner; American
in its origin and gotten up in the Capital of Prus-
STA under American auspices. We do not know
whether the proverbial Turkey occupied the post
of honor on the occasion, or whether a pump
kin pie was the leading feature of the dessert;
but we take it for granted that the dinner com
prsed all the delicaces of the season; that it
well cooked, though possibly, on the whole, rather
too oily-a falling which is common to the gas
Economical preparations of the most distinguished
Tuetonic disciples of VATEL and UDE-and that it
was well served We are under the impression
also, that the principal beverage which accom-
panied and succeeded the dinner was not water
although Ex-Governor WRIGHT, our Minister at
Berlin aud Il strict temperance man, was present.
as an invited guest-but that it appropriated, in
color, TO what RICHARD SwIvELLER would style
1.-THE rosy and that the supply was bountiful,
and disappeared in "apprecable quantities" We
think we may safely assume this to be the fact,
from the report Of the post-prandial perform
ances which has reached us through the Ber-
lin Correspondence Of English paper
II the truth Of TALLEYRAND's well known sarcasm
That language was invented for the purpose of
enabling men to conceal their thoughts" be
Indignantly denied by moralists in its general
application, we should be glad to believe that,
IN more limited sense, soma of the speeches
which are reported to have been made at the
Berlin dinner were illustrative of the fact We
have no particular fault to find with what was
said by Mr.. WRIGHT OF by his private Secretary,
Mr.. HUDSON. We may note, however q remarka-
bic slluson which made by Baron VoN HoL.-
zENDoRF, Prussian official, to the - Bowe-knife
"and Lynch-law ideas attaching TO America in
many parts of the old world" The latter
appears to have regarded, quite lenientIy, "those
occasional ebullitionS of individual energy
As it is the fashion just now in Berlin to de-
nounce the corruption and rascality which
crept into the police system Of Prussian whilst I'M
der the Dictatorship of Baron STEIBEE; VoN HoLzEN-
DoRF took occasion 10 draw comparison between
the illegal exercise ofpower by the latter and what
he was pleased rather approvingly to call g those
" occasional ebullitons of individual en-
"ergy' for which our countrymen have
obtained an unenviable reputation abroad
Leaving, however, Baron VoN HoLzENDoRF to
enjoy whatever opinion he may really enter
tain in relation to this matter, we turn from his
rose water definition of Lynch law and its kindred
exhibitions of individual energy to the only frag
raent of the speech OF Mr., KEox which has been
handed down to us. Mr. Knox Is described an
American lawyer He went to Berlin "qoite
"blind," we are told about year ago, but was
restored to sight by the skill of the renowned
oculist, Dr.. Wow GRAEFE. Mr.. KNOX bad, there.
fore p pcr.u;l kaA~Iedge of the terrible signif-
canoe Of tie II r.l %; @i,icfi be I,rd thu a'roc
to utter. " Mal ,n,s, -: hr &c "ao >'GiFe
CATER the dissolution OF the Unlon be smitten
uwith physical blindness as they are laboring
thunder mental blindness, and have no DR.. VoN
uGaAEFE to cure them until they reform their
% minds.p Surely when such an awful wish was
followed by a boisterous clapping of hands, the
red wine must indeed have
-"drowned the better wit,
But foated the worst PASSIONS
for, upon the heels of 1t we have the following