The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-12-11
Foreign

COUNTERFEIT SovEREIGNs.-The public are eau
toned against counterfeit sovereigns.-San Francis
co Paper.
The Under writer's have resolved to refuse insur-
ance to all vessels which take more than three fourths
Of their tonnage in breadstufs. This is in conse-
quence of the great losses resulting, it is said, from
loading vessels too deeply. If the remedy had been
directed against all descriptions of cargo, it would
have excited less feeling.-JNew York Enquirer.
A waterspout, says the Press Beige, passed near
Bedbourg, Bavaria, on the Oath of August, and,
encircling a child eight years of age, swept it into the
air to a height of 40 feet fortunately the child fell
on a ~haystack, and was unhurt. A goat was likewise
transported to a distance of 800 PAGES, and was depos-
tied safety in the highest branch of a tree.
It is understood that owing to the unsettled politi =
cal condition of affairs in Nicaragua, no new Minis
ter from that country will at present be received in
Washington.
About 1885,, 900 have been raised in New-York city,
to be appropriated to the erection of a monument to
the Pilgrim Fathers. The cost of the monument will
be over $500, 600.
The medical attendant of Miss Harriet Martineau,
the authoress, writes that she has been unable, in
consequence of severe illness, to go beyond the porch
of her house during the last fifteen months.
Among the laoSengers recently arrived in New
York by the steamer Baltic is Miss Dix, who has
travelled extensively through Great Britain, and near
ly every country in Europe, investigating the various
institutions for the insane, to the amelioration of
whose condition she has devoted many years.
A lady living at the Minot House, in Cohasset,
Conn, recently swan q mile to q rock in that vicini-
ty, took a brief rest, and then swan back to the shore.
She was not much fatigued, the narrator tells us,
and he says she can perform the feat again and again
without any difficulty or distress.
The sum of $12, 900, to be raised for the Missiona-
ry Packet, has been divided into 100, 600 shares, at
ten cents each and a certificate, ornamented by a
vignette of the Morning Star, has been engraved.
This will be furnished to purchasers of one or more
shares. 1t is hoped that all the shares will be taken
hy tho first of December next as nv that time fho
vessel must be paid for and sent on her mission to
the Pacific.
The Vicar General and Administrator of the Do
cease of San Salvador, addresses a circular to his Gu
rates, in which, after declaring William Walker the
enemy of the Catholic Church, for which he intends
to substitute Protestanism, he calls upon the priests
to be watchful against the enemy, and to prepare o
vigorous resistance.
IMMENSE ESTATES OF THE BRITISH ARIsToCRACY.-
Although England and Scotland form but q small
island, not twice as large as the State of New York,
some of the entailed landed estates of the hereditary
aristocracy are enormous. For instance The Mar
quis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred
miles in a straight line to the sea on his own proper
ty. The Duke Of Sutherland owns the County of
Sutherland, stretching across Scotland from the sea
to sea. The Duke of Richmond has 40, 900 acres at
Goodwood, and 300, 900 at Gordon Castle. The Duke
of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in circuit.
An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewis, in
Hebrides, containing 500, 900 acres. The possessions
of the Earl of Lansdale gave him eight seats in Par
Lament. IheSe large domlnlons are growing larger.
The great estates are absorbing the small freeholds.
In 1856, the soil of England was owned by 200, 900
corporations and proprietors, and in 1922 by 81, 900.
The city estates Of some noblemen are also immenea.
The Duke of Bedford includes or included q mile
square In the heart of London, where the British
Museum, once Montague house, now stands, and the
land occupied by Woburn square, Bedford square,
Russell square. The Marquis of Westminster built
within a few years the series of squares called Bel
gravia, In London. The income of some Of these
nohlemen amounts To three million dollars n wear
When they die, all these houses and lands go to the
eldest son, or if no sons, to the nearest male heir.
This has been the ease in England for over a thousand
years.