The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-08-28
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OWING TO the iate UOu Il Which, IC -
from the East, we were unable to give only a portion
of the foreign news. We continue our extracts "1iich
viii be found interesting.
California.
The interest on the State debt of California was not
paid in y. Y. ON the 1st July. The money Ief the
interest had been deposited with Messrs- Palmer, COX
& Co, the agents for paying the lnteres- eve S.1 Mi
be glad to lsSe a satisfactory explanation from this
house which has thus twice brought the State OF Cai-
ifornia to financial dishonor. We learn that hereafter
SIes=rs. Wells. Fargo & Co. viii be the agents for the
nayrnent of the State interest. The Bonds Of Caiifor-
MIA are much depressed Of course, under the second
flflure to pay interest. After the ungratefuI and DIS
graceful treatment Of MessTs. Duncan, Sherman X
Co, who interyened on d previous occasion for tue
honor Of the State, no one could be found 70 come for
We understand that some drafts Of Messrs. Palmer,
Cook & Co., on their agent here. were protested yes
t~erday-Tri5uRey July 9TH
STEAM On SALT LAKE.-Some Of the MorInons are
ON their way 10 the Eastern States for machinery for
a steamboat, to he used on Salt Lake. When the
steam whistle first sounds in those waters, there VIII
be a terrible auttering among the wild fowl
Sacramento issaid to contain over four hundred
places where liquor is retailed.
By the arrival Of the Sonora, We have dates from
valparaiso, to June 18th.
The Chile Congress opened on the 1st June the
President presented his annual message. and the ses-
sion for 1856 is eonstitutionaIly opened.
The trial of Captain Cabiesso, for the loss OF the
steamer Ca1ador, has terminated in his complete &C
quittal.
Grain still commands a high price, particularly in
the South. Wheat Is selling in Conception, at So 30
per fanega and flour 50 30 a So 90 per quintaL.
1t is contemplate 70 open the Railroad as far as
Limanehe on the Sh September, and the telegraph
between Talca and Santiago at the same tiHe, making
a distance of 800 miles from valparaiso.
European.
The diplomatic circles of Europe are agitated by
the discovery ofa separate treaty which was recently
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Immediately after the signature of the treaty Of Paris.
The Paris treaty was dated the 30th of AIarch-the
special treaty is dated April 10Th, and has for its
object a distinct engagement among the three powers
named to prevent any infraction of the other treaty.
By it France, Austria and England conjointly agree
to 9 guarantee the independence and the integrity Of
the Ottoman empire, as declared in the treaty. Of
March Both declare that they viii consider as a
casus 5elH any infraction Of the stipulations Of this
treaty will concert with the Sublime Porte upon the
necessary measures and will promptly regulate
among themselves the employment of military and
naval forces for these Objects This treaty was so
entirely unknown to the other members of the Paris
conference.-the Pfussian, Sandman and Russian
Enyoy-that their first information was obtained
from the communication of the same TO the British
Parliament by the British Ministry. The effect has
been a rapid interchange of notes, a hurrying of d-
plomatists to and fro between the capitals of the con-
tracing parties, some elaborate articles of official eX-
position in London and Paris Of the necessity Of the
measure and It's conformity with the spirit OF the
Paris treaty, and an unmistakable indication on the
part of the Court of Russia that it is deemed n mea-
sure of quasi hostility-at least of undisgused dis
significant proof, at least, that the Allies, who agreed
with such apparent coTdiality to make a peace which
was to be the commencement of an era of restored
harmony among all the great powers, were secretly
afraid of each other, and that three of them. deemed
it absolutely necessary to organize themselves as a
perpetual check against the incurable aggressiyeness
of another party to the treaty.
The peace inaugur2ted with such Transparent in
I SIncerltleS must be hollow. and cannot we'll be norma-
nent.
France.
Napoleon is taking steps to have the Empress APP
pointed Regent for her son. A project of law on the
subject has been sent to the Senate, and debated with
closed doors. The project proposes that on the En-
peror's demise, the Empress should reign. assisted by
a Council Of Regency, whose names the Emperor viii
leave under sealed envelopes. Meanwhile the govern
ment papers are writing up the project.
The .Noaiteur also gives the project of the Senate's
Committee on the Regency. 1t states that the En-
peror is to attain his majority at eighteen years OF
age the Empress mother to be the Regent and guar
tract second marriage while it continues. In case OF
the Empress death, the Regency to pass to the senior
Prince of France, then to other Princes in order OF
hereditary succession, and failing then, all to the
Council of Regency appointed by the Senate.
THE INUNDATIoN IN FRANCE.-Private letters re
ceived by mercantile houses In New-York represent
the extent of the losses caused by the late foundations
in the South of France, as being much greater than
those occasioned by the floods of 1910. The latter
were set down at sixteen millions of francs, or up
wards Of three millions of dollars, whilst the amount
of property destroyed by the recent visitation viii fall
very little short of, ifindeedit does not exceed, twenty
millions of francs. 1t is true that no very exact es-
innate can as vet be arrived at, but a comparison thus
far of the two events would seem to justify this calcu-
fation. Within the last sixteen years a vast number
of new manufactures and industrial establishments
had sprung up III the districts which have been most
flooded, more especially in La Gullotiere, and these
have been almost entirely annihilated. The capital
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when the results af the recent calamity come to be
told up, we are afraid it will be found that the above
estimate is rather under than over the mark.
Two and a half million francs have been collected
for the sufferers by the inundation.
Russia
An Imperial decree has notified that, to assist in the
development of the Russian naval power in the Paci-
fc Ocean. the administration of the fleets and harbors
thereon be placed under the independent control OF
the Governor of Eastern Siberia.
An expedition is fitting out at HamhNrg by a Rus
sian American company, to sail next month for Russo
American territory. The expedition is Of the nature