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

t Foreign Summary.
FURTHER IMPORTATION OF CANEIs
that the U. 5 Steamship Surprise, now Iv stated
Navy Yard, IS TO be sent again in a few ing III attha
reinforcement TO the stock of cauaeIs b-o"| 1r 4
her on her last trip, and landed in Texas SssH aby
ted States Government uses. It has been - Uni
the experiment succeeds admirably, and for ~ hat
fer OF the United States stores across the IQan%
Texas the camel Is perfectly fitted, and Wise
the soil and climate of the country witbora ands
difficulty. Thus far only thirty-fye bapa any
brought. 1t Is intended in the next trim :" Oeea
fifty. " ofns
The Morse system of telegraphing has bee,
d. in France, and Is now used on all the - 1T
pa-fnes IN that country This apparatus print.
itself the conventional signs which represent the 10 u
ters- These signs consist OF points and bars. of 80
CT or less length, marked in relief on paper bT a.
tie lever armed at one end by a bodkin, and h.
the other end in communication with the elec,-s
wire The bodkin or marker acts on q harrow 81
Of paper without end, which a piece Of eIockwo-PP
unrolls, and which a cylinder presents to the nm
Der, drawing it away afterwards, and placing II b.
fore the clerk who is attending to the machine. r..
a very simple and ingenious process.
LOAF SUGAR. new process Of manufaetnr4,.
sugar has been discovered, and by means of wbiaL :
may be converted into perfect loayes in the sn.on
twenty minutes, instead of, as now. A ueriod s.
weeks being consumed in the opera ion. Tba 1T
is scraped from the cleansing machines. into -
placed on a revolving frame, and then suh;actoJ -
pressure from the blows of a piston as thev are =
ried round on 4 circular frame and. haying
pleted their circuit, are raised by a pressure from hn
meath on 10 an endless web, which CONVEYS then =.
the drying shelves. In this manner. :. 400 Tbs !"
loose sugar can be converted into loaf every hon.
with the attendance of one person. and a stear1 -
CINE of four horse power.
Dr.. Kane has declined Lady Franklin's renew.
offer to take the command of an expedition about >,
be sent out by her, with the assistance of the british
Government, 70 find, if possible, the remains of s,
John franklin and the relics of his ships The ogsr
was a fattering one for our distinguished countrT
man, every inducement being proposed thar coriI
have tempted him to accept it but he fnalv ~
clIned 1t, as we see 1t stated, from entire inabiI;,r :.
get his previous engagements off his hands 50 y -
oe ready IN season TO set sail The new expedition is
to consist OF a steamer, and as the district in which
sir John Frankiin's party are now known to have
perlshed does not exceed some hundred and fifty miles
N diameter, the search may be performed with com
Parative rapidlty and freedom from danger. 1t is
certainly a high compliment that the command of =
British expedition of the kind should be offered 10 an
American.-.E Y. Tribune.
The London correspondent thus describes tho ON
oearance of the Princess Royal in the drawinr-room.
L was scarcely prepared to behold her a fne-grown
woman. taller by a couple of inches than
Ter mother, and carrying herself with the ease and
race of womanhOod. Her face is perfectly lovely
he regularity of her features is perfect. Her ewes
re large and full of intelligence, impartinc to her
ace that sort OF merry aspect which indicates good
umOr. The nose and mouth are deiicateIv and !,
uisitely formed. the latter giving the effect of greet
sweetness" The Princess is more like her fatb,r
han her mother. She is like the Queen in nothing
ut the nose In all other respects she is a female
mage OF her father. Her Majesty begins to wear a
latronly aspect. She is now slightly stout, too, and
much like the Duchess of Kent. Prince a.
ert's likeness to the portraits of the Car Nicholas
remarkable and striking, and it has become more
since he became bald. Home Journal.
The Cora MoNUMENT.-It is said that Belle Cora
causing to be erected a costly monument to the
emory OF Chas- Cora, who was executed bv the
igilance Committee May 22d, for the murder OF cen.
m. I'll. Richardson on the 18th Nov, 1856. 1t is
so said that no expense will be spared to make it
elegent as possible, and that $1,000 have already
zen expended upon the work. 1t is to have. among
her inscriptions, the following: Murdered by
igilance Committee, May 22d, 1862