The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-23
EOreign SUMMARY.

A great excitement was raised In Paris because the
Empress Eugene stopped to pick up a fan
The new ballet of the "Corsair,' now playing in
London, is said to have been invented by the empress
of France.
Palmer, the English poisoner, was said to have
made an indirect confession of his guilt to the Suffolk
jailer.
1t is said that the attaches to the French embassy
to st. Petersburg paid $4,000 francs apiece for the
honor.
Two amateur fishermen at Long Branch lately
caught 404 pounds of blue fish in two and o half
hours.
Four of Louis Napoleon's ministers of the coup
d'etat are dead NJ. Fostoul, minister of public in
structiOn Marechal st. Arnaud, NJ. Dr. 3os of the
marine, and NJ. Bineau of the finances.
A great trial of fire engines is to come off at New
Haven this fall, the first prize being a new machine,
in complete running order, worth $500, the victors
TO take her home with them.
An important modification Of the postal convention
between Great Britain and France has just been
agreed upon, by which the postage between England,
France and Italy win be reduced
The Hanoyerian Ministers have appropriated 5000
dollars in place Of 1000, their proper salary. They
have asked the Chamber to sanction their proceed
ings, and have received a cenSure.
A prize having been offered for the best poem in
French, on the subject of the twenty-fth anniversa-
ry of the accession of the King of the Belgians, one
hundred and ffty-six pieces have been sent in.
During a severe storm in st. Adams, VT, q young
Cauy VINO was nOOpeU up III eXUr6m6 IdSnlO0, W1lle on
her way from church, was lifted up by the wind and
borne quite q distance, but landed without serious
damage to herself.
The Austrian Gazette states that for the last three
years, during which time horsefesh has been sold at
Vienna, 4725 horses have been slaughtered. which
have furnished 800, 900 lbs. of meat, distributed to
the poor in 3,804,000 portions of half a pound each
From the forests Of Mexico there were sent to the
Paris exhibition, last year, three hundred and fifty
six different species of wood, embracing mahogany,
rosewood, cedar and ebony, besides the more common
sort-pine, hickory, chestnut, etc.
Advices from Hayti announce that Emperor Sou
louque was about TO acknowledge the independence O.
the Dominican republic, and that a treaty of peace
viii shortly be concluded between the two parties
who inhabit the island OF st. Domingo.
The secretary of the navy has recently imposed
fines upon the Collins line, to the extent of $s36, 900,
for failures Of time, under their contract, owing tC
the employment of the Ericsson as a substitute fol-
the Arctic. The exaction of this penalty has let to
some sharp correspondence.
The editor of the New York Pathfinder. formerly 9
sprrItualist, says that there is an Individual in that
city who has spent upwards of S25. 600 in rromul.
eating spirituallsm within the last two vaarz ono
probably viii spend $4,000 more before he disc
es the old adage-that a fool and his money Is soon
parted. EEg eg $50 EEeE eazr -
AT the Crystal Palace in London, when the foun.
tams are IN full operation, they have eleven thou.
sand seven hundred and lightweight jets playing
and the quantity of water displayed simultaneous,
In them Is about one hundred and twenty thousand
gallons per minute.