The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-10
FOREIGN

aLouis Napoleon is As years old. Engenia is only
80.
The Brick Church property in New York was sold
for $270y0G0.
Punch says, that the prospect Of peace has occa-
stoned Nh. Gladstone to shorten his name by half,
He now calls himself simply Glad
The Crystal Palace in New York, which originally
cost 5000, 900 cannot it seems find a purchaser,
Of May It Was to Be e offered at auction.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company, out of their
earnings the past year, have paid off the whole of their
Indebtedness, 100000, and viii make a dividend of
10 Y cent on the stock, besides.
The London correspondent of the Washington
Globe states that q report is quite current in Eng
land, to the effect that the Queen has some thought
of paying q visit, during the coming summer, to her
loyal province of Canada.
The Washington Star says that a delegation is
shortly expected from Salt Lake city, bringing a
State Constitution for Utah, in which they will ask
the admission of that State into the Union.
The Irish hegira to America has again commenced,
and crowds of sEdecently dressed and comfortable
looking emigrants'' are seen focking to the seaports
to embark for the land IF freedom
PRoLIFIo.-A negro woman called Sally, belong
ing to Mr.. Order, near Napoleon, Arkansas, gave
birth a few days since to five children-three girls
and two boys.
Later advices from Demarara announce that
the SAnpel OaDr1el flOUS nave Decn put QOWn, ana
a commission appointed to ascertain the damages.
Smuggling is carried on along the whole Pacific
~coast.of Mexico, to a large amount. There is no
scarcity Of purchasers Tur 0vael~s~~l Goods. and the
profits are very great.
The wife of Gov. johnson, of California, was for
merly a belle of New Brunswick. She removed to
the Land of Gold, with her fathers family, when the
8 gold fever was at its height.
A lecture was recently delivered in Cleveland ON
this subject amos Lawrence, the Prince of Mer-
chants, and Phineas Barnum, the Prince of Hum
bugs" -
Fairhaven, arrived lately from a whaling voyage
with $500 barrels of sperm oil, worth at present pri-
ces, $141, 900. She sailed on her voyage Sept. 8,
1851, and has consequently been absent about fifty
six months.
YANKEE GENIUs.-The steamer Ericsson, which
sailed for Liverpool, took out one of Hoes six cylinder
lightning printing presses, for Lloyd's Weekly. Six
men were sent out with the press as 6 feeders &C
companied by a foreman.
Peruvian guane is nearly all out of Importers
hands in the United States, and the price is now
higher than it was when the freight was $50 a ton,
which has now fallen to $19. 1t is selling in Balti-
more at $57O58 70 ton, and Mexican, of which there
are several qualities, ranges all the way from $18 to
$27 B ton.
The widew of the Emperor Nicholas is shortly to
visit Italy, and the Russian Grand Master of the
Ceremonies has already furnished a suite of apart
ments for her in Venice. This lends an air of proba-
bility to the rumor that the Emperor Alexander will
himself shortly pay a visit to Rome.
The Deseret News (Mormon) is sdown on" a
practice of the young men to have a piece of looking
glass fixed in the inside of their hat, and while pre-
tending to be praying with their face in their hat,
are quietly and slyiy locking at the faces of the girls
behind them reflected In the glass.
The largest church In Europe is at ST. Petersburg.
1t was begun in 1771, and in twenty years two thou
sand men had not finished its walls. 1t is of polished
marble, both inside and out the pillars are of one
piece, fifty feet nigh ; the base and capitals Of solid
silver.