The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-02

New Ded1ord- oMnsSi
Mr.. Thackeray sailed for England III the Baltic
from New York on the 3rd of May.
Another railroad riot has taken place at Erie, and
the office of the Constitutional, a paper devoted to
railroad interests, destroyed by the mob.
The British Admiralty have sent out the steam
frigates Tartarus and Desperate in search of the Col
Inns steamship Pacific.
The u. S. propeller Arctic, which has been in
search of the Pacific and other vessels in distress,
returned to New-Yo rk last week after an unsuccessful
cruise of 40 days.
The new dome of the Capitol at Washington will
cost, according to the estimate of Mr.. Walters, the
architect, about a million of dollars. Its construction
was commenced with an appropriation of $l0e>Oo0.
On the recommendation of Lord Palmerston. Queen
Victoria has conferred a pension of G10Oper annum
on Samuel Lover, the popular Irish novelist and song
writer.
The new suspension Bridge over the Falls of Mont
morenci, at Montreal, gave way on the 3Oth ult., and
the whole structure, with a man, woman, horse and
cart, was carried over the Falls.
John S. C. Abbott, whose history ofNapoleon, first
published in Harpers' Magazine, has attracted much
notice, sent a copy of his work TO the present Emperor
recently, and has received a letter and gold medal in
reply.
The yatch schooner W. Stetson of New-York, 200
tons burthen, has been chartered and will cruise as
far east as the Western Islands, in search of the
Steamer Pacific.
A Paris correspondent writes that NJ, Dubois, the
physician of the Queen of France, is to receive the
moderate fee of SOC, 000f for his services on the late
Interesting occasion.
The Emperor Napoleon has bestowed medals of
gold, on the captain, mate, and four sailors of the
American ship Northampton, as a reward for escui
the crew of the French ship Eugene.
Major Delaield, Major Mordecai, and Capt. Nc
Clennan, u. S. officers who were sent out to inspect
military Establishments in Europe, and view the
operations of attack and defence at the seige of Sebas-
tapol returned in the Persia.
Victoria has had a golden inkstand made for the
King of Siam, on which are engraved all his names,
viz: Phra Bord Semdelet Phra Purumendr Maha
Mongkat Phra Chom Khan Chan Yu Hua.
A o~n-commissoned officer in the U. S. Army by
the name of Mason, having got into a dance house in
New York, on Saturday night, was there kept, after
being stupefed with liquor, until the following Fri
day, losing in the meantime a bag of gold worth $3.50.
The steamship Adriatic of the Collins line, recently
launched most successfully, and now waiting her
machinery, is the longest of American ships, and in
tonnage larger than any afoat-the much-talked-of
Cunard steamship Persia being slightly longer, but of
less capacity to the extent of q hundred tons or more.
PIT Barnum has again been before the Superior
Court of New-York at the suit of j. Bingham. He
says that he has been subjected to an unnecessary
degree of hydraulic pressure, and has been squeezed
perfectly dry, adding: eff you doubt it / hope YOU
viii give the machine another turn, so as to save
labor to your successors.
The following advertisement appears in q Paris jour.
nal "The parents of a young lady, aged 81, hand
some and well educated, and possessing 400 francs
per annum, but affected by st. Vitus's dance, offer
to units her to a doctor from 40 to 45 years old, who
viii pay her constant attention. =
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