The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-09-11

he English papers announce the death of Rear
A&nirai Lord Adoiphus Fitzclarence, one of the sons
he late King William ". and Mrs. JOrdon.
he Munster Qreland) News states that a strong
ular desire exists to return Mr.. Smith 0'Brien as
Sember of Parliament at the next opportunity.
,etters from the Crimea to May 31st, mention that
GOO masons are to be employed in rebuilding
astopOl.
The STREETS OF LoNDoN.-The length of all the
u erent streets in London is l $50 miles ; the paving
them cost G44, 900 900, and the yearly cost Of
ping the pavement in repair is e., 100000.
The Cholera appears to be showing itself again IN
Petersburgh. The daily mortality has risen OF
c from two to three to as many AS twenty-one. The
s. mber of deaths that have already taken place IN
e present outbreak is three hundred and four.
3 Since the re-establishment of commercial relations
stween Great Britain and Russia, the Electric ana
International Telegraph Company have received dis-
y tcbes direct from st. Petersburgh, within a second
their leaving that capital, the length of wire being
q out 100 miles.
81 Out of the one hundred and twenty American oaks
rty-ive years old, which were planted last year on
e Quai DIES Tuileries, in Paris, eighty-seven are now
Reen and fourishing the rest (thirty-three) are
BAD.
Prince Woronzoff, whose palace, the finest in st.
setersburgh, has just been fitted up for the reception
81 Count Morny, would seem to be a man of enor-
.4ous wealth. He owns five palaces in Odessa and
Eeven in the Crimea, to say nothing of another in st.
fetersburgh. The rent paid by Count MOrny is
30, 900 a year.
Each of the seven copies of the treaty of peace late
zv concluded In Paris. has been richly bound, and
Enclosed in a box of engraved silver, to which it is
fastened by gold or silver cords. The national seals
fixed to the several copies are of almost fabulous
dimensions, being six inches in diameter and three
inches thick. Each seal is of different colored wax
Irom the others.
] Five Englishmen lately arrived at Lyons, in an
Bpen boat, direct from London. They travel for
pleasure, and propose exploring all the navigable in
land waters of France. Four of the party row the
[--X xI11o H1A- oXhor nnp Nh hAnf 10 ca cYnn1
that when they wish to change places they are oblig-
EN- to land.
The finest private collection in the world of works
bn natural history and various objects connected
vas probably that of the late NJ. Robyns,
bf BruxelIes. His chronological Cabinet was one of
the finest in Europe. He was an indefatigable cOllec-
and has been known to pay as high as $4OO for
b butterfly. The whole collection is about to be sold
at auction.
By a late decision Of the French Government, Pro-
of Agriculture are to be founded in all the
principal educational establishments in France.
The English Court of Exchequer has decided that
it is lawful for q candidate to pay a voters travelling
expenses to the poll.
THE IsTHMUs OF TEHUAETEPEC The Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal Of Com
merce writes to that paper as follows:
"I find that the Mexican Government, dreading
the formation of a fillibuster association in California
for the seizure of the Mexican territory in which lies
the Tehuantepec isthmus, have made some offer to the
Government iii relation to that isthmus. Mr.. Polk
authorized Mr.. Trist to offer fifteen millions, in addi-
ton to the indemnity for the cession of territory, fo1
the isthmus of Tehuantepec. But the offer was then
declined for the alleged reason that an exclusive gran
of the same had been made to an English company
They now wish the United States to take that isthmu
under their protection, and use it for the common
benefit of the commercial world. What consideration
f any, they have asked, is not known. 1t would be
no doubt, desirable to Mexico, that the United State
should receive this giant, as an Offset to claims o
the United States upon the Mexican Government
which claims are now strongly pressed upon them.
Coz. COLT.-An event of some interest to COlOne
Samuel Colt, (the famous inventor of the repeating
pistoI.1 as we'll as to his personal friends, occurred
on Thursday. This was nothing less than the mar
rage of the gallant Colonel. The happy event trans
pired at the house of the bride, Miss Elizabeth Jar
Wis, of Middletown, and the ceremony was performe
in the Episcopal Church by the Right Reverend Bsh
OPP Brownell. Miss Jarvis is the daughter of the Rev
VIM. Jarvis, of Middletown.
Specimens of fish with four legs have been receives
by Prof Agassiz, from Port Defiance, in New-sIexico