The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-28
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SALE HIGH-CLAss PICrUREs.-In London an
assembage of capital pictures by old masters from
different private collections including Van Dyck's
celebrated picture of the ngbroke Family, and
some line works from Sa!tram II use, was disposed
OF on Saturday at the rooms Cf MeSsrs. Christie
Manson Moods in King street, st. Jamess.
Among the more interesting examples were the fol-
lowing: Lot 90 (Sebastiano Del Pi0mbO) Portrait
9f Leo y, painted on slate; noble work; from the
Earl of Pembroke's colection-295 guineas log
(Muri!o(. The Immaculate Conception, an orgi.
nal and highly important work. This picture form
ed part OF the collection in the Monastery of the
Carmeiites in the city of Mexico TO which society
II was presented in the 18th century by Don Juan
ue !laIoXT Mendoza, Archbishop of Mexico. 1t
remained ed there until the beginning of the present
century when, by the influence of Lord Cochrane
iodoa9 %,in e9e Sceroy Of Mexico, the Carmetes
joachim Fetez Ma tinez Amba.sado of the spanish
Cortss IN 1872, great con noisscur of paintings
and man OF refined taste, on his return from
Spain, obtained possession of the picture and
during his life it formed the gem of his cnection-
$50 guineas. The next three important pictures
are from Satram House. Ill A. Canaett). A
grand view in Venice; the Gate of the Arsenal nm
right; magnificent chef duecre of the great artist
300 cuineas. ll2 a. Canaetti). View OF the
Place Of 81. Mark, with part Of the Doge's
Palace; the companion picture, equally grand.
lib (Van Dyck). The BoIngbroke Family; a
beautiful composition of seven figures half-length
in garden with terminal statue Of Mercury in
the centre The following account of the Boiling
OTOhe idmlly ana ri TINS picture Is taken from
ancient chronicle: "Oiiver st. John, created BY
James l., in 1924 Earl Of Bongbroke, married
Elizabeth Poulett, sister to Lord Poulett. They
had Your and three daughters Oliver bore
arms against the King, and was killed in 1912, in
the battle fought near kineton, in Warwickshre.
Poulett (made Knight of the Bath at the coronation
otCharles y, Francis Anthony, Elizabeth, Dorothy
(marricd to Lord Rockford. eldest Of the Earl
OF Dover) and Barbara. Van Dyck has here paint
ed the latter in the act of reciting to her brothers
and SISTERS; Pouiett is represented in the collar of
] pIat ,4.l4
Borlngdon BY his uncle, whose great-aunt, the
COUNTESS Of B0lingbroke, mother to the persons
| here represented. magnificent work, in perfect
preservation. Put up ut 1000 guineas and, after
most animated competition, finally adjudged to
| VI Wallis at the high price of $50 guineas.--
l21 (Rembrandt). Hermit; powerfully painted
-9E guineas. 1890 (CanaIetti) A grand View
in Venice, with the Church of st. Georgia MaggIore
| with the companion picture-Venice, with the
kiaIto-l87 g9ineas, lBournel. l55 (iubens). The
Alteration of the Magi This fine picture was
painted for Philip w. Cat Madrid in 1929, who
! presented it to his friend the Count d'Altare v
Alva-Real Grandee of Spain, in whose family it
| has remained up to the present time. Signed, p.
| p. Rubens. From the Election of the Count
| d'Atare, of COrdova-240 guiueas.
| WHAT BECOMES SILvER.-The number of
| the ReUHe Contemporaries just published contains
highly interesting article by NJ. de Parieu a mem
Der of the Institute and VicePresideut of the Coun-
Gil of State, Oh the gradual substitution of gold for
! silver in the currency Of France "A fact which has
! equally occurred in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain
excess Of the expectation of silver over the old av-
erage since 1852 is stated BY NJ de Parieu as fol-
lows:-
Is52........ 27l7 2Go ISL, So. ....., a976so75s
1s53.......... ll6.ss54l0 lS5S......... 1881 O06
IS54..... 163, ,693 10 1853. .....,. -. 600 2lOSsS
$3.50 1860. l74 449 SjS
| leao''.......... 2S5,o-3,5O0
! This table shows that, within n period of less
than 10 years, France has been drained of silver
the amount of nearly l6G0 600, ,000f, Ga 600 000
| sterling. In the neghboring countries the amount
exported must have been in proportion, since it
appears that Switzerland, which, two years ago,
had only silver francs, coins gold francs and
debases her silver for small coin. In Belgium,
also, notwithstanding the opposition of the Minis
ter of Finance, the gold franc has been adopted By
the Chamber of RePresen tatves and the Senate and
a base silver coinage is likely to follow. In Spain
gold is becoming frequent under the iorm OF small
20 real pieces. The United States also have
coined base silver, being legal tender to the
amount Of five dollars. Brazil has adopted gold
for its standard and silver only for small coin.
In Chill the standard Of silver has been lowered for
| the purposes of coinage, and since 1860 gold has
been declared the standard metal. Piastres
coined in silver n the proportion of ninetenths of
the precious metal to tenth of copper, but the
weight is per cent below the old silver coinage.
THE BLACK CoUNTRY.-The reports of the Assist
| ant Commissioners engaged in the recent education
inquiry contain some very painful notices of the
state of morals in some parts OF the kingdom, In
I.coer villages in Durham, where the
high wages, which they know way of spending
but in the qualification of animal appetites, the
condition OF the people in respect to morals and
manners, it il said, may not be described. Coming
SOUTH into Stafordshre, we told that in the
! Union of Dudley, where boys aud girls earn
high wages, their Independence of their parents
) ! aid u maintain them leads to remarkable inde-
peudence OF conduct; and, in fact restraint is
put upon their iuclina0ns either by their parents
:, or the opinion of the neighborhond. Ii is held
=. rather shame to unmarried not to
- have had a child, and the Assistant Co mnissnner,
Mr. Gnndr, Sayg that tho details given to him by
the most respectable and Trustworthy witnesses
I rau11 fha,- n,,,,tI h.. -.,r,
!, ! most men of the wor.d only acquainted with the
ordinary proiligacy of the poor but be adds that,
r Notwithstanding all this, the behavior and man
ners in other respects of girls and in
public less decent than that in places ot better re-
pute. Education in this district is not much priced;
1t Is common saving, ''the father to the
, pit and he made = fortune, the school
: and ne lost It In village where energetic
clergyman, who has adopted a rough, strong style of
preaching, has succeeded in filling his church.
Mr. COOde noticed during the service that all the
people affected lind the place in the books fur
: nished to them, but full haf the books were held
upside down, and within his observation not one
was open at the right place, except where some
young person taught to read in the school was bv
y 20 find it, Wilmer d; SMITHS European Times,
e TELEGRAPHIC CoMMUNICATGoN Between ENGLAND
D AND EGYPr-ADother attempt is to be made to per-
, feet the teieGraphic communication between Eng
, land and Egypt. Two efforts to lay an electric
=. cable between Gambia and Alexandria have been
unsuccessful. In 1858 the cable broke about thirty
miles southeast from Cape Sidero, and again the
a year following about 100 miles from Alexandria,
There appears to be between this part of the Egvp
d tiau coast and Candia deep marine valley. The
4 soundings taken show depth of 800 1000
r tathomS 1t is now proposed to abandon this route
, and to lay a cable between Malta and Triaoi by
q way of Lampetusa. From Tripoli the wire will
, connect with Alexandria via Benghaz, running
along the coast OF Africa. Between Malta and
Tripoli the extreme depth does not exceed 450
fathOms and along the coast of Africa tue greatest
depth is $50 fathoms
There is proposition for submarine cable be-
fr-n.n !,
r, via GotIand, to Russia.
IF The population of England and Wales which
c under their admirable system is al taken in one
= night is ascertained to be over 20 900 COO Scot
land and Ireland VIII increase the population Of the
British Isles to 81 900 900. This is Just about
equal to the population of the United States North
and South, which 1000, 900 by the census of
It last year.
d The population of London, which embraces its
If suburbs is 2 800 600. In that city is concentrated
z popu Iatonsneary equal to that OF the State Of
- Pennsy ylvania.
! The British Standard has received for publica-
IS ton the following characteristic note: ''hr. Spur
J. geOD begs to inform the public that he is Knocked
). with hard work, and is compelled go into the
country TO rest This will upset all his arrange
i mens, and he begs his friends to remit his prom
e ses, and the Christian public not to inuudate him
/ with Invitations
i There seven hundred paper manufacturers in
n. France. The total production annually is about
: ffty thousand tons. Onlv thousand tons of
- paper annually consumed in the city Of Paris
X There thousand five hundred chiffoners
to or rag pickers in Paris, and they earn sbout a
ID franc day only.
'e Prince Louis, of Cassel, who is about to marry
the Princess Alice Of England, is Of diminutye size
and a very ordinary-lUoking man.
family may live 500 year in some parts
2 of London, paying rent and having a garden.
e But they cannot eat meat drink beer.
3 One hundred thousand cotton spindles are now
running in Bombay, and they to be increased
q to d million.
I. France and Spain had perfected treaty ha wing
r for its object the security of the Spanish West
! Indies
lie The Courier du Canada states that a mine Of
n pumbago has been discovered st GaSpe, on lands
E. belonging to George Desbarats, Esq.
e The Car of Russia about to declare Warsaw
a and tie other cities of Poland in state of siege.
~ ~ Passports for Dutch and French travellers are
10 now recprocaly abolished
q A million of travellers annually pass up and
= down the Rhine the steamers.
=.
lie FEARFUL TORNADO IN ILLTNoIs.-On the 10Th
i, inst, a terrible tornado swept over Champaign
as county, Illinois, A correspondent OF the Chicago
c TriJune saws that, after the wnd had tested the
moving capacity of everything portable, then came
shower of hail, which converted our immense
ID crons of ripepiug wheat and waving corn into A
IT barren waste There many farms in the yiciui-
Ia ty of Champaign city upon which there is not now
a grean leaf or a blade of grass left. Wheat oats