The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The solemnties of the HOLY Week in Jerusalem
have this year been marked by some curious cir
cumstances. Among the travellers present were
thirty French officers soldiers of the Syrian ar
nv, who went in procession from the old Palace of
Pontius PLATE to the rock of Golgotba stoppinq at
each station to kneel, recite PRAYER and hear an
exhortation from their chaplain. With these were
General DucrOt and his wife. The swords of the
officers, on Easter Sunday, were placed upon the
altar and blessed by the patriarch, all in meodra-
matte style.
There has been insurrection of cooks in Ma
plies. large number having been dismissed from
service bv thei" employers, in consequence of the
pressure OF the times, revenged themselves by
stopping the dinners cooked at the restaurants on
their way to the houses of those employers, pitch
ing the viands into the streets, and kicking the
| poor trateurs into the the bargain.
"The British paper-m 4kcr," SAYS competent
authority. sis dying away; his workmen are becor
Az destitute, and his mills are shut nm for want NJ
material" The United States will soon furnish all
| he wants. The new invention for preparing vege-
table hbres by what is called expIosion," has opeii-
eo sources OF supply "bevOnd toe dreams of the
most ina ginative"
vor of the Hereditary Prince Christian and to pro-
ceed to Algiers The king has been on the throne
since lS48, and has been married three tines his
last "ne 'eing LOUISA Christine, Countess of Dan
ner, and morganatic spouse.
Prussia has offered to the Federal Diet that in
case OF war in which she will take part with Aus
ria, the choice of Commander-in-Chief shall be-
long to the two Powers, subject to the confirmation
nf the Diet. This straw shows which way the wind
| blows.
Agents from the American Government are re-
| ported to be very active in visiting the French
! towns where arms are manufactured and where
! there are any arsenals from which supplies NAV be
| obtained.
| The constant influence of the moon on the wea-
ther is now being re-asserted by some eminent me-
| teorologists in England, which is in acc rdance
with popular opinion. but for some years has beer
| denied by scientific men.
| a new apparatus for steering ships to 'supersede
| the cumbrOus wheel now in use has been invented
| A ct Under and piston, worked by water steam or
air, with the of one hand only, operates noise
IesSly and efficiently on the largest rudder.
At recent sale in London, eighty manuscript
poems of Burns. in his own handwriting, many OF
them unpublished, were disposed of. One of these
was an ode on the Independence of America, which
| just now would be a we-timed publ cation.
Great complaints made by the English Pro-
testants residing at Malta of the intoIeraut con.
duct of the Catholic priests in the island particu
lsrly in denying the former the right of sepulture
under the smallest pretences.
The Government of Holland is about to liberatt
all the slaves in their foreign colonies but subj sc
to ten years service to their present masters before
| the law takes eff ct.
feuilletonst of the Paris press, speaking of the
death of French writer, d'Ivo says he died rich
| to-morrOws."
The celebrated Armstrong guns are going out o.
favor. Thev quite useless in the China war
and when hit with shot easily destroyed.
More than one thousand small dealers in England
have, during three months past, been arrested anc
punished for using false wei ghts and measures.
Tails, the London publisher and the proprietor
of the Illustrated Ne,os Of the World, has become
bankrupt.
The circulation of the Bank of England is now
f20,970, l76, and its whole bullion is Gl2 838 64S
BuIlfnches for sale in Paris, which are edu
Gated to sing as MANY as five different airs entire
| RAILWAY PRoGREss IN IYDIA.-The present finan.
cia difficulties of the railway companies. and tn,
English demand for cotton (says the Friend o.
| Indidl, are calling attention to the state of tn,
existing lines. The East Indian Railway, com.
menced in 1851, will probably be finished in 1865
The line will be opened as far as Bhagulpore, 264
| miles from Calcutta, in about six months. Tho
| communication with Benares will be effected some
| time in 1862, and the line between Aahabad and
| Agra in February of that year. The link between
Benares and Allahabad will be among the last tC
| be supplied. Turning to the south, we tind that
the line eastward from Bevpore will soon be com
pleted to Parasanoor. distance Of 80 miles. O
the 405 miles from Madras to Beypore, 207 are
| open to Salem. The branch line, "a miles tC
Bangalore, leaving the trunk line 1872 miles from
Madras is in progress. Nothing has yet been done
to the branch from Coimbatore % miles to Meta
polem, at font of the Neilgherries. The Madras
and Bombay line leaves the main trunk to BeypOre
421@ miles from Madras. OF its whole legnth, UiC
Bellary for 327 miles to Moodgul, where the
G. !. 2. line will meet it, 1927 miles in pro
gress, and II are opened for traffic from the
junction. Of the 1851 miles of the Grea
southern of India line from Negapatam OF
the coast to Trichinopoly Y, 7ST miles are il
| progress and will be open about the middle of tht
year. Nothing has yet been done to the branci
for 81 miles to Erode to join the Beypore line, G
to the branch for l7O miles via Madura to Tutco
rim. Ofthe Great Peninsular Railway $50 miles ar,
now open. The Bombay and Baroda Railway j
open from Lucheen, ten miles north of Surat, t.
Dolia, nine miles north of BarOda. The whole diff
Guilty in the way of India supplying England will
cotton is the want of easy and cheap means of com
muncation between the interior and the coast. Il
this more than to the establishment OF societies fo
supplying seed and machinery to the ryots shou
Manchester direct its attention. The Bombay gov
ernment has deputed Captain Anderson to visit th
great cotton districts of the Southern Mahratt
country. He will be accompanied by Bomba
merchant. The supreme government about t
nominate an official for the same purpose from Cal
cutta, to begin his inquiries from Mirzapore, an
extend them through Central India.
The LATEsr.-Under the head of getty 1ntelli
gence," we clip the following from the CoW'e
, and Enquirer, of New York. Truly, when sue
means are resorted to for abuse the source whenc
drawn must be nearly dry:
Additions to the Rogue's GdLery.-Visitors to tn
Rngue's gallery at the fonce ead-Quarters Wer
somewhat surprised yesterday morning by observ
ing that the portraits of two notorious personages
| Jefferson Davis and j. B. Floyd, had been adde
to the collection. Floyd's portrait is placed anon
, the "notorious robbers while Davis stands alone
and is ticketed as the portrait of a 'Traitor."
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE lNookRUPTI BiLITY o
THE REPuBLICANs.-An individual, says the Cir
cinnatti ENQUIRER, who possessed the influence
e court, obtained a contract to furnish uniforms fC
the soldiers to he amount of eight thousand do
lars but not having the means facility to fill tt
order, be sold the commission to a house in tt
city for a bonus OF two thousand dollars. We fes
that the uniforms will prove as rotten as the bus
, ness transactions.
/ General Twiggs has been appointed Major Ge
7 eral Cosmanding Military Department Of Louis
J ana, Confederate Army.