The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

tORElGN GOSSlP.
Very Interesting and important discoveries in
Egyptian antiquities have recently been made at
Memphis, under the direction ofM. Manette. Upon
limestone slab fOund the names of sixty
three kings anterior to the construction of the py-
ramids. The temple of EdfOn, the oldest and best
preserved in the whole world has been exhumed
and it is magnificent to excite the astonish-
ment of all who have seen it,
The young Prince Imperial of France recently
assisted at review, mounted on horseback, side by
side with his father, the Emperor The Napoleon
family have always been famous for their horse
manship, and the young Prince is likely to be
much at home in the saddle any of them. His
mother watched his progress very earnestly at a
window of the Tuileries.
resident at Hounsow recently found under the
foundation of his house an earthen containing
eight hundred pieces of silver coin, with dates as
old as l40G and 1885, and gies them of Henry
VI, Edward ", Richard ILL.,, and Charles the
Bold of Burgundy.
A photograph of the bottom of the sea in Wey-
mouth Bay has been successfully taken by means
of an ingenious apparatus. The utility of this at
tempt is that the condition of piers, bridges piles
and other structures under water, may now be
readily ascertained.
Prof. Challis, of Cambridge, contends that mag
netic currents are induced in the of the earth
by its rotation, and that these subject to modi
ficaon by the earth's movement of translation and
by the want of symmetry in its form.
In the Presbyterian Synod of England, an at
tempt mas lateiV Deen maze TO prevent the use OF
organs in churches. The question is dividing the
clergy.
We often hear of Queen Isabella of Spain and
her eccentric conduct, and but little of her hus-
band, Don Francisco D'Asss, who is quite clever
man, educated, reticent and modest.
Professor Helmholtz has discovered that by means
of applying electric currents to series of tuning
forks he can produce vowel sounds, such as ah, o,
1t, c, DC.
The article called Ebenite, manufactured from
India-rubber, and which is used in the new eectri-
cal machines, is also found adaptable to many other
important purposes.
The Spanish government is realizing millions of
reals (nearly five hundred millions) from the sale
of church property acquired under a recent con-
coTdat.
Don Juan De Bourbon, the Spanish pretender,
has sailed, with his suite, from England, for the
purpose OF seizing the Spanish throne.
The Brahmins in India have been obliged to sus-
pend the laws of caste until the present famine is
over. This is remarkable circumstance.
The price of bread in Paris, on the 10th April,
was fortytwo centimes the kilo for the best quail
ty.
At masked ball at Paris, the theatre where it
was held was constantly ventilated by fresh air,
performed by process invented by NJ. Rimmel.
The English Divorce Court is thronged with par
ties in fashionable life for relief from the "chans
of matrimony."
An English tradesman recently went into bank
ruptcy, and it was found his available assets were
more than his debts.
The women Of Warsaw have been making a pill
grimage to the shrine of their local Virgin to i'm
plore her protection for the Polish cause.
The Russian government has declined an alliance
with the French; a sudden resolution growing out
of the condition of Poland.
Ristori, having mastered the French language,
is now to be installed into the vacant niche of
Rachel.
At this time, says the London Ne,0s, many mon
archs tremble in their capitals.
Two French journals have been established at
Turin, and third is to follow.
Military libraries have been founded for the use
of the French officers when in garrison.
The States of Holsten have refused peremptorily
the proposition of Denmark.
The Danish government is preparing large bo-
dy of troops for actual service.
Train has got another street railway in operation
in London.
Alexander W. Lawrence, Professor of Mathema at
IN n lI hos