The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-03-05
Foreign Summary.

Foreign Summary
The first heavy snow of the season In New-Yt
on the night of the 22d inst.
1t is said that Gen. Houston will be q candi
Governor of Texas at the next canvass.
The Mississippi river at Rock Island is so &
up with ice as to be impossible by ferry.
The death of DR.. Pusey, the celebrate6l
theologian, is announced by the steamer Cl1t<
timore. He died Dec. 9.
A submarine telegraph from the Island oOdH
the United States is talked of, and a profit
accomplishment is about being submitted to 20
government for its appreciation. h
THE Bavarian government has permitted
lishment of a Protestant school at KessingeT#
has been endowed by Madame Jenny Lii
schmidt and other visitors to that fashionable
~ihg-place this summer, to the extent of 5OOOjd
The New York Daily Times says that IS
realized three thousand pounds sterling by d,
of lectures in Scotland, last season; and thai
received eighty invitations for winter lecj
Great Britain.
An Irish auetioneer, whilst expatiating
merits of a telescope, sagely observed: "Ho
has the widows heart leaped for joy when
Tbeheld her husband at a distance, brought
her by such an instrument as this"
In the action for libel brought by the Earl oil
against the proprietors of the London Daikg II
for an alleged libel in the form of editorial crid
the jury have given a verdict for the defending
called no witnesses, but cross-examined the Ed
justified their article.
A gentleman in an eastern city says, that
men were turned out of doors in Kansas with mol
clothes on than his wife and daughters wore
they went to a party one cold night last wee
would have been an outrage and the Journal v
have had two leaders about it."
CURIOUS ADYERTIsEMENT.-"A gentleman
advertised in the London newspapers his bod
sale, as he desires to "avoid the horrors and 4
nifty of BURIAL and also to raise a little mongl
parently. The investment would be an eligible
he is muscular and thin," so that sthe !
will be found well marked and Developed
The importation of sugar last year into the I'd
States amounted to 1924, 00O, 900, on which the
amounted to 1920, 900.
LOUIS NAPoLEoN's FARM.-A PariS paper
-"The Emperor's private farm Of FouiHehous
just been stocked with its large catyle thirty su
COWS, chosen by the steward of ST Cloud, have
placed there. The first wheats have iust been s.
Such as it now stands, this farm has cost a mill
it is scarcely more than 100 hectares (250 acres,
EXTENT
PHYSICAL force arguments are not confined to
United States Congress. Mr.. George Cakes, on
the members Of the Sydney Assembly, was seve
beaten in the House on the 9Th of August.
IT is announced by the Commissioners of Her Ma
tvs Customs that the reduction of the duty on
from Is. I'D. to Is. Sd. perl Id. will take place on the
of April, 1867.
NJ. EMILE GIRARD1N is, it is said, about tosdiY
OF the AZ shares out of 100 which he holds of
journal La Presse. The future purchaser is a VI
known rich capitalist, and the price to be pad
o5o,OOOf. (e34, 0O0.) The same capitalist was
posed to purchase the Patrie, but the price deman1
was the capital of the profits derived from the pqA
which are said to be 240,O00f (e6O00.)
The PILGRIM CHURCH IN LONDON, originally !
gested by Hon. Abbott Lawrence. of Boston, vi
Minister at the English Court, is now about td
erected. 1t is located in Southwark, and is deSd
to commemorate the virtues and memory of the Pig
Fathers.
A Fair in aid of st. vincent's Hospital (R0d
Catholic) was recently held in the Crystal Pld
New York, the proceeds of which, after paying
expenses, amounted to thirty-four thousand dollar
U-NIvERsALIsT IN CoURT.-The Supreme Court
North Carolina has confirmed the decision of Ja1
Manly, that members of the Universalist Churcl1
incompetent to testify in courts of justice, accOr]
to the laws of that State By this decision;
Universalists of North Carolina are virtually oufSi
as no member of that religious denomination Can j
his debts, swear to an assault, or testify Fl
the courts in any case, even ifhis wife or child shel
be insulted
ENTERPRIsE.-An iron steamboat has just %
finished by the Novelty Iron Works to run on Y
river Maule, in Chill, between the city OF Ocnsu
ton, on the Pacific. and the city of Talca. IN the
terror. Several Americans are interested in the zen
prise, and will probably send out other boats u
description. This boat is l25 feet in lensln
80 In width, and will draw eighteen inches Oh wa
interesting fact connected with her is, that =
the last vessel modelled by the late Geo. Steers
Another cargo of $40 Asiatics has arrived at Ia
ma, decimated from the quantity embarked ., a \
turing a voyage of 226 days. They arrived =
I'D by a Holland ship, BellonG Scriref, cOn nireaJ
to Torreis, Puentes & Co. They have oeen :; nj
to purchasers, by the specula1olsso on cad
at $40, and some of them resold at Pi'O
President Pierce has issued an order Tor .n1 Go
Of Cornelius K. Garrison, Charles Morgan anu Fra
raj William Walker, to answer the Accessory: 40
Company in a plea of trespass, for convelupSy
dlsposing of the goods and chattels of the co"t s,rhl
the value of one million dollars, and also d .uuoapI
sum of one million dollars damages for ln'eiiT
heir business. IA
The Persian ambassador, Feropkh khan' p% % y
he Emperor of the French the decoratl ooef tOb3
order of the Sun and the Lion, worth Iio,ooo wdt1
Eugene, pearls and precious soon :sbfs Il
SO,OO0f; and to Prince Napoleon a SADIE he s3
With precious stones, of the value ofsO,oVoL g intel
s the bearer of five decorations, one OF WniSn
led for Count Walewski. ..:nc al
AUsTRIA.-The Austrian Government Is n:sation
he steam frigate NoDara for a circumnaaS obsersI
he globe, with a view to certain sclenlliDu. I'll
ions and experiments in the art of naylgaoned I
Academy of Sciences has been SUNNI