The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-09-18
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

platform. The people (wOrking classcs) all adj
verse war; and peace addresses to the citizens Of
the United States circulated and signed in almost
every city Of the United Kingdom Advices from
Hamburg state that owing the mediation of Russia,
our government consents to pay the Sound dues toll
until June, 1857. The question of a regency for
France in the the Emperor death, has been
submitted in form to the Senate. The injury done to
the crops by the late foundations is estimated at $780,
000, ,000f, of which 30 900 OOOf referable to the
mulberry trees for slkwOrms In Tat amount are
not included the damage done to houses, the loss III
CATTLE utensils or the injury to railroads. Prince
Napoleon had arrived in Edinburgh, and visited
Abbotsford, and the scenes made memorable by the
genius of Sir Walter Scott Count George Esterhazy,
Austrian Minister to Prussia, had died in Berlin a
despatch from Madrid announces that the Queen of
Spain had suffered from a miscarriage Her Majesty
had been bled, and very unwell. Troops from
the East were pouring into France and England. Ten
English regiments and IA 900 French remained in
the CrImea for embarkation, and nearly the same
number were in Constantinople. The French police
had been withdrawn from Pera, and the consequence
that considerable disorder in the streets followed
Ismael City being evelled by tho Russians. The
! Car had formed new Cabinet with the following
personages Foreign Affairs, Prince Gortschako !;
Messrs de TOlstoi and O5ten-Sacken, assistants :;
Home Department. Prince Sergins Lanisko &C., sc.
substantial English cable connecting MARTHA s
Vineyard with Boston, has been successfully laid by
the Cape Cod Telegraph Company, and the Line is
now III good working order, connecting at Boston
with the lines of the American Telegraph.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor has sailed for Europe to spend
two three years in the scandinavian countries and
Russia, and return home across Northern Asia, ST.
IBERIA and Manchouria to the mouth of the Amoor,
where he will take ship for Oregon California,
and perhaps visit the Sandwich Islands. During
his absence he will correspond with the Tribune
Things are t0leraby quiet IN Kansas. The Free
State Legislature, which convened at Topeka the
4th Of July, according to adjournment, dispers
ed' by Col Sumner OF the U. S. Army and force of
200 troopers after the of Oliver Cromwell.
The Colonel, however, forgot to lock up the Parla-
ment House and take away 6 the mace,'' aS~pthers
dds and consequently, soon as he galoped oat of
town, the Legislature convened again and went at it.
The New York papers severally have published highly
dramatic accounts of the events Gen. Smith has
since arrived in the Territory and taken the chief
command of the army.
THE PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-The special Pacific Rail-
road Committee have agreed upon bill, eleven
bers cOneurrng, and Gen. Denver, the chairman will
report it on Monday, if he gets the floor. Three
roads provided for-one be built north of the
oryourth degree of north latitude, by the Northern
Atlantic and Pacific railroad company, Of which Al
exander Ramsay is President one between the 3Sth
and 44th parallels to be constructed by assoca-
ton of all the roads chartered and running west
ward through Iowa and Missouri, the junction to be
formed near Fort Kearney, and the single trunk to
run to the gable waters of the Pacific in Califor-
mia and the Southern road is awarded to the South
ern Atlantic and Pacific railroad, OF which T. Butler
King is President company, associated with
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad company of Callor
MIA, the Texas Western railroad company, and the
Vicksburg and Shreveport company. This line runs
from the MISSISSIPPI, at point south or the 3th
degree and runs to San Francisco, with a branc! to
San Diego, and with grant of forty sections of land
to the mile
No grant is made for that portion of the road east
of the western boundary of Texas The northern road
receives forty sections from point point
hundred miles. The middle road receives thirty sec
tons until it reaches California, then ten sections to
its western terminus The provisions for mail pay are
LIBERAL
Telegraph lines are provided for on each road The
report of the committee will not be long, but clear and
satisfactory. The bill will be put through without
delay.
FAST PRESSES IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE. |
i learn from the Messrs. Hoe, that the sixcynder
press, shipped by them to Europe, by the Ericsson,
was for Ltoyd's IPeelIy Newspaper, London, and
not for the Times, as has been stated The only
mammoth cylinder press in Europe, except the one
above, is four-cylnder, used by La Patrie, Paris
newspaper, and has been by them with great
ceptance for several years.
The three largest presses in this country are owned
by the Philadelphia Ledger and New-York Sun.
They are eight-cylnder-the only ones of the kind
ever constructed, aud will thorw off, combined, sixty
thousand sheets hour. The Ledger two ofthese
presses, and the Sun one. The latter journal has, |
besides, four cylinder press, by which means, with
Its elght-cylinder it strike off thrty-thOnsand
sheets an hour The immense circulation of the
Ledger, however, (he largest Of any daily paper in
the worldly would admit of the employment OF moth
ing but the fastest presses that could be built, and
hence order given to the indeatlgable Broth
ers Hoe, who exhibited astonished newspaper
uon tnef beautiful ana lilIlatcReu or
their 6 Last Fast Press
The number of six-cylinder presses in the United
States is four of these is used by the NewYork
Herald, Tribune and Times, and the fourth by the
Boston Journal The Herald has also in two four
cylinders, and the Times and Tribune each one.
There likewise eleven other fourcylinder presses
in this country, which are owned follows: New
York Commercial Advertiser, Evening Post, Sunday
Dispatch Stats Zeitung, Boston Transcript, Times
and Traveller Philadelphia Bulletin and Cincinnati
Commercial each one, and the Baltimore Sun two.
The Messrs. Hoe also engaged in building
TWO other our-cylinders-one for the Boston Herald
and the other for the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
The price of four-cylnder is ST., 800; six-cyl-
lnder 900 and eight-cylinder $50, 900. The
former capable of printing thousand impressions
an hour, the six-cylinder fifteen thousand and the
elght-cyGnder twenty thousand. It must be sonrce
OF great qualification to the Messrs. Hoe that from
each OF the journals which they have furnished with
their fast presses they have received the welcome
surance that their unweared abors have been
with the most perfect success and that the presses fur
nlshed have, III every instance given the most un-
bounded satisfaction.-Cor. NJ D. Picayune.
The Governor of South Carolina has ordered new
election for the 18th inst and Messrs. Brooks and
Keitt viii both, undoubtedly, be sent back to Con-
gress this session, without opposition.
Martin Koszta. the Hungarian, has purchased a
farm on the Meiian river, Texas, for which he paid
$9.000. lst