The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-03
The Russian mission going well.
Tho Rebels were not agreed among themselves,
and the Imperial troops had been victorious over

The Russian mission was going on we'll
Tho Rebels were not agreed among themselves,
and the Imperial troops had been victorious over
them.
THE LATEST.
By Telegraph to Queenstown
LONDON, Feb. let is announced that Lord
Elgin is about to proceed on a second mission to
China, in the hope of being able, by his personal
influence, to secure the ratification of the treaty
and the entire cessation of hustities.
The English funds opened steadily to- day at firm
prices, but subsequently declined oneeighth, owing
to the unfavorable advices received from the Paris
Bourse.
Advices from Vienna state that France has re-
quested the Pope of Rome to make proposals by
which settlement of so much of the Italian ques-
ton as concerns his possessions in Romagna may
be effected.
The Daily Necs' city article says:-Consols,
which opened firmly at yesterdays Improvement,
fell 4 per cent, but the closing prices were only
Is below those of yesterday. The best bills were
discounted to-day at 1854 per cent, and the late
stringency the market is decreasing. There
were no transactions in bullion at the Bank.
! The London Times is informed that Lord Elgin
will undertake the second mission as Plenipoten-
tiary to China, in the hope of being able by thain
fiuence obtained on his former visit, to secure the
ratification of the treaty of Fuen stein, and an en-
! tire cessation ofhostilities.
| The London Times City Article says that the
English funds opened steadily this morning, at the
firm prices of yesterday, but subsequently expel i
enced relapse of q per cent in consequence OF the
distrust indicated by the absence of any tendency
to recovery in the Paris Bourse. Notwithstanding
the hatness in the funds, the railway market con-
| tinaes comparatively firm.
The final arrangement of the account shows nu-
merous small purchases for investment by the pub
lie during the last fortnight which have complete
| ly closed the stock market.
The London Times says the penny rate on export
ed and imported packages is likely to produce a
sum much beyond the Chancellor's estimate.
A committee of the stock exchange has been ap-
pointed to take steps for altering the law for time
bargains
1t is stated that the Council for India is consider
ing plan for the removal of the business of the
India office to the West End.
The halfyearly dividend of the Ottoman Bank
is to be at the rate of IA per cent.
INDIA AND CHINA.
MADRAS, January l6.-The Governor has pro-
ceeded on a tour to the South and will be absent
about two months.
| The forty-fourth and sixty-sixth Regiments two
hundred men of the First Dragon Guards, Artil-
lery, Sappers and the twenty-frst regiment oil
Madras Light Infantry, have been ordered for SER
vice in China.
SnANGHAI, DcU. 21.-Business continues without
interruption. The tonnage question has not yet
been settled.
Alfred L. Dennis, e-President of the Manga
tuck Railroad Company, is negotiating for the pur
chase of the late Washington lrving's Sunny -side
residence on the Hudson.
Two men named William Weston and Edward
| Connolly, terribly and supposed fatally, in
jured, near Albany, on Tuesday, by the premature
| explosion of a blast.