The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The fraternity of Jesuits is on the increase, ac-
cording to recent statistics published in Rome.
Their number is at present l44 being 292 great
er than in the year lS47. 1000 engaged in for
eign missions and there are 444 in the United
States. The largest number is found in France
and Italy. They have been expelled from Pied
mont. Lombardy, Modena, the Marches Umbria,
Romagna and the two Scilies.
NJ. Berger, in his closing speech in the Patter-
son case, said that it was not pressed to endanger
the succession to the French throne nor to DISPUTE
the legitimacy of the children of Jerome Bona
parties second marriage but only for the recovery
OF share oil the property OF the Prince, "ony that
and nothing more"
The London Daily Telegraph announces that in A
few days it will, from its own office, communicate
by telegraph with its correspondents and reporters
at the House of Commons, the courts, the docks,
railway stations and every town in the provinces.
1t will be effected by the use of Wheatstones new
apparatus, of an electro magnetic character simple
cheap and easily worked. An automatic printing
machine is also to be connected with it, which will
produce 500 letters per minute.
A steamer built of puddled steel, 377 feet long,
forty-siX feet beam and of 900 tons, for naviga
ting the shallow rivers Of India, has been success
fully tried in the Thames, and found to draw but
two feet OF water, and move at the rate Of twelve
miles an hour.
In,the last London Times single column con-
tanned more than seventy-fve advertisements of
persons wanting situations as grooms coach
men.
Under the more liberal policy of Louis Napoleon
in relation to the press and the freedom of debate
in the Corps Legislatif, there is Sudden demand
for shorthand writers to report the debates, and
strange to say, the supply falls far short of the de-
mand.
The Paris Court of Cessation has declared that
the fete of the Immaculate Conception is not legal
one, not being conformable to law or the existing
concordat
The secretary of the Archnologic Society of Con
Stantina (Alperia\ has discnverpd folarahIu we'll
carved on a rude obelisk, the following Roman
epitaph:
C. IvLIvs.
PACATyS
CXX.
1. e. "To the God Names; Caius Julius Pacatus lived
one hundred and twenty years. Sianv similar
examples Of longevity have been discovered in this
sold Numidian land"
Locomotives, to be driven by American anthra-
cite coal. are now constructing by the Paris and
Orleans Railway Company, at their workshops at
Ivry, under the direction of Philadelphia, Of
the name of Millhoand. The coal can be laid
down on the line for S675 per ton, and the expert
ment annoys the English coal dealers very much.
1t is said to be owing to the enterprise of French
nobeman recently in this country, whose attention
drawn to the subject while travelling with
Lord Lyons, the British Minister, over the Read
ing Railway.
The French Emperor has caused Longwood aud
the tomb of Napoleon, at st. Helena, to be restored
to their former condition. Some French engineer
officers had charge of the restoration, by permits
sion of the British government.
Cast sheer and spring steel, tempered with cya-
nogen, Is now beginning to be used for its superb
GRITTY of texture and economy in use. [Cyanogen
is product of two volumes of carbon and one of
nitrogen, obtained by heating bodies containing
nitrogen, as woollen rags, with carbonate of pot
ash, at red heat, and in various other ways
An ice machine, Harrison's invention, is at work
in London, producing, with ten-horse steam en-
CINE, eight thousand pounds of ice in twenty-four
hours, at total expense of 81 so per ton, which is
said to be fifty per cent. cheaper than imported ice
Gold is one-tenth per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris.
Eight out of the present twelve Irish common
law judges are Roman Catholics.
The London REVIEW asserts that railway man
ayers, engineers, surveyors, officers and counsel as
rule, soon lose their health, if not their lives in
consequences of their brains being overworked.
Our maple sugar tree has been planted expert
mentally in the wood Of Boulogne, and attempts
will be made to acclimatize it in France for its
yield of sugar.