The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival Of the New Yerk Mail of October 6
conSciencIeS

ARRIVAL OF the New Il 0fA WIRE II OcIODcf u .
The fine packet Frances Palmer came in promptly
ON the evening of the I'D, after a good passage of Is
days, considering the southerly gale, and only 10 days
away from this port.
The American papers are almost wholly taken up
with politics, which of course loses its interest in a
great measure here. We find a few items of general
interest in our files.
CASE OF VIM. Z. CoLEMAN.-The trial of VIM. L.
Coleman, president of the Vigilance Committee, was
fixed to come off at New York, In the case of Ma'oney,
upon the 31st day of October. No new developments
had been made.
Mr.. George Steers, the known clipper builder at
New York, was killed by being thrown from his car
rage. He was the builder Of the celebrated yacht
America.
The monster ship Great Republic has returned to
New York after an absence of two years, during
which she has been employed by the French govern
ment for the transport service to the Crimea. On
her last return trip from Sebastopol she brought to
Marseilles over 5000 infantry, besides her own crew
and a large corps of cooks, servants and walters and
this, too, with her lower hold full OF guns OF great
size, shells, baggage, and the necessary water and
provisions. In every port she has visited she has
been thronged with people of all classes.
The health of DR.. Kane, the distinguished Arctic
explorer, is much impaired. He intends to take a
trip to Europe for the purpose of restoring it, and will
leave this country on Wednesday next, the 9Th inst.
DIR. Kane will find as many warm friends In Europe,
among the admirers of his generous enthusiasm in
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leave at home, wishing him a perfect restoration to
health and all the happiness which should reward
his acts of noble self devotion and generous sacrifice
to the cause of knowledge.
Donald Mckay, ESQ.,, king of ship builders, called
a meeting of his creditors in Boston, in consequence
Of having to pay at once a large amount, The result
of an award against him in England, where he has
lost very largely in connection with those who pur-
chased parts of his ships. The Boston Traveller says
the principal creditors who assembled in obedience to
Mr.. McKay's request, are of opinion that his assets
are abundant, and his property is in such a condition
that q very short time will be required to liquidate
all his liabilities, leaving him ample means to con-
time business.
SERIOUS CATASTROPHE ON LAKE MIcHICAN.-The
Steamer Niagara left C~olingwood at 2 O'Clock, 2. NJ,
on Monday of last week, with between 100 and l75
passengers. Twenty-Five left the boat at Sheboygan,
where she arrived at 2 p. NJ. Wednesday. When
two miles out from Sheboygan the passengers discov-
cred fire issuing from the engine room, and IN a few
minutes the whole cabin was in flames. The widest
CONSERVATION followed. The boats were lowered, but
all filled and capsized save one containing twenty
passengers. Numbers jumped overheard and were
drowned. The steamer IfdUeler was ten miles dis
tant when the fire was discovered, but saved thirty
persons. The propeller Illinois, bound down, also
picked up about thirty and landed them at Sheboy-
gan. 4 life boat at Port Washington rescued twenty
persons. Their names had not been received. George
Haley, clerk of the Niagara Is supposed to be lost.
Probably fifty or sixty lives are lost in all. There was
a rumor in Chicago Thursday afternoon that the fire
was the work of an incendiary. 1t is stated that i'm
mGQlateIV after the nfo was QiScONefeu u k0g OF pow
der exploded, blowing the flames in every direction.
The first engineer was not on board.
The INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF frankie
in Boston on the 10th, was a grand affair. 1t is thus
described Sc This procession, embracing nine divis-
ions, was escorted by the First Brigade of Mass. Mill
tia, including the Boston Light Artillery, the Nation
al Lancers, and Light Dragons. The procession was
over two hours passing n given point, and represent
ed nearly every mechanical trade and manufacture.
Among the special attractions was a new and beau
tiful locomotive and tender, named Benjamin Frank
lin mounted ON trucks and drawn by eighteen horses.
A sugar grinding mill for Cuba was drawn by u
horses. Franklin's old printing press was in the
procession, on which was struck off and scattered to
the crowd, q fac-simile of his newspaper, dated 1923.
There were immense structures on wheels represen-
ting school rooms filled with scholars at the desks,
and a vast number Of other novel and interesting
features made up one Of the grandest displays ever
witnessed. The Masonic Fraternity, fremen, me-
chanic's charitable association, and numerous socie-
ties from adjoining cities and towns, were out in full
force also the FRANKLIN Model schools, children Of
the public schools, &c. The procession reached the
site of the statue, west front of the City Hill, soon
after 3 O'Clock. The drapery which had hitherto
concealed the statue, was then raised, when it was
greeted with thunders of applause after which
Hon Robert G.. Winthrop delivered an Grafton.
WASHINGTON. Sept. II. 1t has been ascertained,
from a reliable source, that no instructions were re-
Gently sent to California substantially different from
those previously transmitted. Those instructions nd
vised Commodore Mervin, or the senior officer on
the station, that the laws of the United States must
be enforced, and public property protected from vio-
lence. He is required to have two or more national
vessels at San Francisco until the insurrectionarv
movements are over. Instructions of similar purport
were sent to Gen. Wool.
THE HEALTH OF LOUIS MISUNDERSTANDING ru-
mors concerning the serious illness of the Emperor of
the French have for some time been current in Paris.
and recent movements of that monarch have given
color and consistency to these reports. 1t is said that
his malady is a softening of the spinal marrow, pro-
ducing at times a loss of his mental faculties, and the
indulgence of the most extravagant Authorizations.
A recent article in the leading column of the Consti-
tutioRneI concerning the supposed madness of Socra-
ties, maintaining that the supposition was unfounded,
because many great and wise men believed in visions
and supernatural agencies without being mad, has
been construed by many as an attempt on the part of
the semi-oHicial journal to account for the strange
fancies which the Emperor is said to entertain. The
New York Journal Of Commerce OF the 18th, re-
marks
eve were favored yesterday with the perusal of a
private letter from a highly respectable source, which
states that although the reports are very much exag-
gerated, and the Emperor's mind Is not in the least
affected, yet there is too much reason to fear that his i
health is very gravely impaired, aud that he is oblig- T
Cd, by advice of his physicians, to abstain almost en-
tirely from the management of State affairs. The
mental and bodily e~xertions which he has made du-
ring the past few years, particularly during the first
part of this year, are said to be the cause of the recent
aggravation of his old ailment."
The prevailing opinion of the Paris correspondents
appears to be that the emperor is suffering from a
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