The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-15
EUROPE.
MEETING OF AMERICANS IN papIo

From the Paris Correspondence London GIo5e1
Inc great ankee gathering in the hall of the
Hotel du Louvre has assumed the character of an
event, and not only from the numerical displav ol
hats and bonnets, but from the attendance of big.
wigs, (no less than five ambassadors to the courts
OF france, Russia, Sweden, Belgium, &C., &c J
nad all the elements requisite to make sensation
irrespective of the talk itself, which was energetic
English neutral policy towards the belliperents
came in for Hon. Mr.. Claws emphatic denuncia-
ton, quite Ineligible if his premises are admitted
his starting point being that the Southern States
are rebels, category they repudiate as inapplica
Ole to communities invested with local sovereiyntv
whatever be the demerits of their cause There
was the stereotype reference to France Roch.m
beau and Lafayette, but this empire is if thing
lar less disposed to take either side of the
quarre! than even Great Britain New Orleans is
French and many other objections exist against
the active or even passive interference of France
Col Fremont himself, of Gallic blood. did mot
touch on that topic, and the other diplomatists
were more guarded than Hon. Mr.. Clay in their
utterances
CRoPs IN EURoPE,-The Mark Lane ErDress of
the 9th ult. says:
Another week of fine summer-lika weather hos
forced on the wheat and other &C rn Crons at ranid
rate; put though some rain accompanied the thun-
der OF Thursday, more is wanted especiaIlv for
the barley and oats, as well grass. With con-
tlnuapce OF such weather, 5harvest time NAV be
reached at the average season. if not earlier But
potatoes must be late from the harshness of the so
as well as the previous GOODNESS of the season The
Denehciai change, accompanied with free imports
ma, mas produced the usual effects and, though verv
little reduction in the price of wheat has been
noted, there has been almost total cessation of
business, miers keeping their stock at the lowest
point The scarcity, however, of fine old and drv
samples has prevented holders from making off.rs
OF such on easier terms.
On the other hand, the markets are so oyardona
with damp and Inferior foreign that it would
ue G,lneult 10 place any quantity without liberal
reduction on the nominal rates. The French mar
kets have preserved their tone more than was ex
pected, from the general impression that the wheat
mas suffered. The new corn law is to be brouGht
before the Corps Legisa!f to-day. The Belgian
ana Dutch accounts note very little difference; and
the fine weather was so much wanted in Northern
Uermany that prices decline very slowly and in
some places net at all. Still Odessa, the Princi
palities, as well as Egypt the Mediterranean and
G921ln' nave been dull. Fine rains have fallen in
Italy, and very materially changed the unsatisfac
tory prospects entertained month since.
CHINA.
The foreign news possesses no remarkable inter
est. Perhaps the mcst really Interesting feature
comes from China, where an expedition under
Admiral Hope had sailed up the usukuw $40 miles
from the mouth of the river, with a number of
commercial gentlemen on board, anxious to trans
act business in the verv heart of the empire and
thus TO bring into full play the primary features of
'he 'ate treaty with the Chinese government. This
expedition appears to have produced strong i'm
preston on The merchants of Shanghai and the
Chamber OF Commerce in that place. From sum
mary OF their report, which appears in an nfuen-
tai morning contemporary, We are told-"We now
see whence came and whittier went those exnorts
and imports which for so many wears came ont and
went In at Canton. In the very centre of the
tlowery Land bigh up in the great cities, these
English merchants came upon the cotton goods
which had been imported at the far.awav sontbern
port of Canton, and had been divided into smaller
packages in order that they might be carried on
men shoulders over the mountains which divide
Canton from the central waters" In this central
part OF China the visitors came upon the great tea
emporium, and the tea is described as living sunon
the tributary waters of river which descends
with moderate current to our own ships living at
its mouth" Tbs district abounds in coal, which
for the purpose of steam navigation. would be
found highly useful.-From Wilmer and Smith's
liverpool Times, June l.
letter from kaaagawa, under date of February
2Sth, SAYS:
In reference to the murder of Mr.. Hueskin, Sec
retary of Legation to MIR. Harris, the American
Minister, says that the japanese want dose like
that the Chlnese have just received, and they will
soon get 1t if they don't mend their Manners.
When the writer first went there he considered
them as something approaching to angels but he
finds that they are little better than wild beasts.
AT the date of the letter, the japanese were Gel
eorating the commencement of the New Year with
holiday lasting for twelve days, during which 90
business can be done. 1t is the only time of the
year that looked like Sunday there They have
their houses dressed up with evergreen AID spruce
and seem to enjoy themselves better than we do on
similar occasions On the first day of the year they
collect and settle all their bills. No cold weather
has been experienced during the winter, and every-
tning looked as green as spring, there. Snow fell
Two or tnres Tunes, but the ground not being fro
Zen, 1T could not lie.
Business was very quiet. All the best tea had
been bought up and shipped. The same is the case
win SILK, but next year and the year to come these
Inn hot ! bio
greater quantity of such articles. No better can
be found in any part of the world than in Japan
vessel has yet left Kauagawa for any port of the
states except San Francisco, while not month
passes without one or two vessels being m far
London.
The American Consul at Kanagawa, Mr. Samuel
Dorr, had been confined to his bed for about two
months, but was getting better There are three
Engllsh and one French man n-of-war in the harbor
but just as soon as they gone the Japanese will
be at their old pranks again.