The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-23

and Spanish East Indies.
Advices from Bordeaux are similar to those re-
ceived from Cognac regarding the injury done to
the vines by severe frost.
a Paris letter SAYS: "Austria and Prussia ap-
prove Englands determination to occupy St. Jean
d'Acre, if the French remain in Syria. Admiral
Munday had left for the former place to see how the
Turks were getting with the fortfcations there.
An English vessel had landed cargo of coal on
the coast of Africa, near the IShmus of Suez."
The Bourse on the 10th opened fat, bu. subse-
quenliy improved, and Rentes closed at 69f. 35c.
ARMS FROM FRANCE.
letter from Toulon saws :-"The civil war
which seems on the point of breaking out between
the disunied States of America is about to opeu
for the French arsenaIs market for expectation
which certainly not foreseen. 1t is stated that
American agents have come to France TO purchase
arms and military equipments, which the store
houses Of the State will be only too glad to get
rid OF.
ITALY.
Great unesiness had prevailed at Messna for fear
of a popular rising, and troops were encamped out
side the town. At latest dates however, Tranquil
litv had not been disturbed.
About 200 Bourbon soldiers had been defeated BY
the Nationa! Guard near Capua, and we're after
wards surrounded by detachmeuts of National
Guards and Bersageri.
1t is stated that the appointment of Commander
Mertino as Lieutenant of the King at Naples, vice
the Prince of Carignan had been decided upon.
The Opinione OF Turin contains article ex-
planning that the moral adhesion of France to the
that the time has arrived for her to officially re-
cOgniZe the state OF things.
1t was asserted at Rome that NJ. Chigi was about
to 90 to Paris as Papal Nuncio and that his nomi-
nation had been accepted bY France
AUSTRIA.
1t is reported that fresh symptoms of an insurrec-
tion in Hungary had broken out with alarming
intensity.
Both branches Of the Council Of the Empire in
their address to the Emperor, expressa wish Tor
the maintenance of the Constitution of Hungary,
and that Hungary may be induced to send Repre-
sentatives to the Reichsrath. They express hope
that peace be main tanned, and also that the
Empire may be indivisible.
All the gentlemen, whose election in Venetia
had been announced had declined to take their
seats in the Council of the Empire, on the ground
that they could not consider that few COmmoners
represent the will of the country.
SPAIN.
The Correspondence A"togrofa of the 9th says
that Spain. up to that date had entered into
gagements in reference to the annexation of San
Domingo. Slavery, however, is not to be intro
duced. The legislation will be the same as that
valid in the Antilles.
MADRID, May Solomon, the brother of the
Emperor of Morocco, and some of the tribes. are
said to oppose the payment OF the war indemnityto
Spain. The Emperor, however, shows himself
firmly resolved to paw it.
RUSSIA.
An insurrecion of a religious character has
broken out in the Government Of kasan Seventy
peasants shot Disturbances had also taken
place in the Government of Persa.
The sittings OF the Council of State al Warsaw
in reference to the projected elections to the Mun-
cipa Council of Warsaw, had commenced, under
the Presidency of Prince Gortschakof.
TURKEY.
The Christians had broken the arrangement
which was made with regard to the blockade of
Nichsich. They attacked a convoy in the defes
and massacred so Mussumans. The town was at-
terward supplied with provisions under arrange
ments made between the foreign corsuls and the
Christian inhabitants.
The Porte had agreed that the European com
mission should precsedto the Herzegovina.
INDIA CHINA AND AUSTRALIA.
The mails from Calcutta to April, Canton lst
April, and Shanghai to March %, had reached
Malta and were due in England about the l4th
May.
At Canton exchange was Id. lower. Shirtings
were unchanged. Twist advancing. At
Shanghai shirtings active but unchanged
Tea dull and unatered. Silk dull. Exchange Id.
lower.
MELBOURNE, March 25.-Trade dull. Flour ad-
vancng. Exchange on London 60 days at par.
SHANGHAI, March % The Yangtse expedition
has reached Hankos. The trading ports which
have been selected under the treaty are HiDckiang,
Hewkiang, and Hankos, where c0nsulS have been
left. The rebels anxious to corciliate the for
eigners. The ice is breaking up in the Gulf of
Peckhili, and the mails have reached Tien-Tsier
! The demand for manufacturers at Shanghai has
increased
Japan continues quiet.
CANTON, April l.-An Imperial edict has been
published decreeing the establishment of Board
for Foreign Affairs. Imports continue improving.
INDIA.
CALCUTTA, April Is (by telegraph to Point de
Gallt) ).-There are very bad prospects for the next
indigo crop. No rain has fallen yet. The Ryots
still refuse to in lower Bengal
! POSITION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
In the House of Commons on the 9Th May, in
answer to an inquiry in regard to the recognition
of the right of the Confederate States to issue let
ters of marque, Lord J. Russell referred to pre-
cedent in the year 1925, when the Greeks revoted
| against the Turks, end said:
The British Government at that time allowed the
! beigerent rights of the Provisional Government
| of Greece, and in consquence of that allowance,
! the Turkish Government made a remonstrance. |
may state the nature of that remonstrance, and the
| reply of Mr. Canning. "Tbe Turkish Government
complained that the British Government allowed
to the Greeks helligerent character, and observed
that it appeared forget that to subjects in re-
belliOn no national character could properly be-
| long" But the British Government informed Mr..
Stratord Canning that "the char acter of belliger-
| eucv was not SO much principle as a fact that a
| certain degree of force and consistency, acquired
| by any mass of people engaged in war, entitled
| that p1puiation to be treated helligerent, and
| even If their title questionable, rendered il
the interest well understood Of all civilized nations
| 50 to treat them for hat was the alternative? A
| Power or d community (call it which yOn wili)
which was at war with another, and which covered
the sea with its cruisers, must either be acknOwl.
edged begerent dealt with as a pirate" "
which latter character, as applied to the Greeks
was loudly discIaimed. In a separate despatch of
the date 9th OF October, 1925 Mr.. S. Can
ming reminded that when the British Govern.
ment acknnw lodged the right of either beligerent
to visit and de ain British merchant vessels having
enemv's property on board. and to cOniScate such
property, il necessarily implied condition
OF such acknowledgment that the detention was for
the purpose of bringing the vessels detained before
eStah COurt pTiZn. and that
did not take place until after condemnation by such
competent tribunal The question has been under
the consideration of the Government. They have
consulted the law offcere of the Crown. The At
torney and Solicitor General and the Queens Ad
vocate and the Government have to thf
opinion that the Southern Confederacy of America
according to those principles which seem to then
to be lust principles, must be treated belliger
ent. (Hear, hear But further questions artist
out of that question, with respect to which we arr
still in doubt-as to what are the alterations whcl
to be made in the Law of nations in consequence
| Of the declarations of Paris; and those questions
vet been determined upon. They still under
the consideration of the Government, and will b.
still further considered before any declaration i
made to other Powers.
From the London Times, Mdy 81
These enlightened Democrats have sent across
the ocean to purchase from those very imple
ments and munitions of war which we were reviIe
for providing, and will probably impress into
built the most wonderful instrument of com
merce and peace. Resolutions from which Oh
World statesmen would have recoiled in horror
have been promptly adopted by magistrates of
Republic. Our own great soldier with all hisiro
mind and inhexibe will, was tan to say that ther
nothing which should not be done or born
rather than the country should know an hour o
civil war; but President Lincoln and President Daci
haue closed abruptly ,cih alternative at 'rhtch tn
Duke of Wellington stood dghGst.
1t is this contrast Of position and practice whlc
renders the proceedings Of the Americans at one
so shocking aud so incredible Those free citizen
t of Free States to which hidden to loo
with envy and admiration are resorting to eS
f of Kings. They commencing, not foreign cor
quests, but campaigns against countrvmen. Th
Americans may rest assured that England woul
= desire nothing 50 much as to them NOR
0 united. They come of our stock they spea
t our own language, they reflect our own faults an
up to this time they appeared to be continuing ou
national grandeur. We cannot without the deepe
sorrow see such people precpitating itself int
civil war like the half-breeds of Mexico. That tn
2 should be the end Of the great American Republ
, is prospect against which every friend of human
: ity and progress would gladly close his ewes.
i From the London Times N1y 7h
The call for an immediate blockade OF the who
Southern coast has been violent and so univers
9 in New YORK, that we must assume it will be Il
. first attempt energetically made by the Northel
States. 1t is to their evident interest that it shou
q be so. The existence of New York depends upt