The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-05-14
LATER FOREIGN NEWS.

LATER FDkEEGN NEWS.
After our paper had gone to press last week, we
received a late s. F. Bulletin, containing advices
from England up to March 4th, being four days later
than we published.
Four Days Later from Europe.
On March 10Th, when the California steamer was
leaving New York, the following telegraphic dispatch
was received there for the s. F. Bulletin, from Bos-
ton, announcing an arrival there with European news
to the 4th of March. The dispatch is as follows:
Boston, MARCH Doth.
The steamship .dlps arrived here at nine o'clock
this morning. She left Liverpool on the 4th instant,
and her dates are consequently four days later than
In the House of Commons on Tuesday the Sd inst,
the Government was defeated on Mr.. Cobden's motion
regarding the operations at Canton. The vote stood
1853 for the motion, and 247 against it. 1t was not
thought, however, that Lord Palmerston would resign
or dissolve Parliament at present.
Sir J. F. Champion, late British Minister to the
United States, his been appointed British Minister to
the King of Hanover.
A letter from Paris says that the Neufchatel affair
is not improving, and from what we can learn all the
parties concerned are in a very bad humor with each
other.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post,
writes on Monday evening.
The bases of a treaty between Persia and England
are not yet signed. H~ostilities are suspended, but
there is no regular armistice. No representations
have been or will be made at Teheran by the friendly
powers, until the bases of the treaty are signed.
PARIS, Tuesday, March Sd.
The Treaty with Persia was signed here to day.
The Spanish Ministry has addressed a note to the
representatives of Spain at the European Courts,
explaining the quarrel with Mexico. The expedition
to concentrate at Havana will, altogether, consist Of
thirty vessels of war, and will have q numerous
army on board. The Spanish government deplores
the necessity of resorting to such measures towards a
nation united to Spain in blood, language and reli-
gion, but it hopes everybody will understand the
obligation it is under to avenge the national dignity.
The Emperor Napoleon cannot but feel mortified at
being duped by the King of Prussia.
LONDON, March 3.-Consols. 938 @93E for money,
and 944@94s for account. On Tuesday, in the Stock
Exchange there was q diminution in the demand for
money, the India House having lent at % y cent. d
portion of the amount lately paid them. In Paris the
funds closed at 7Of. 90c. for money, and 71f. 45c. for
account.
Hongkong dates received in England reach to 18th
January, The Court of Pekin has published a decree
prohibiting all subjects of the Celestial Empire from
trading with the English. Disobediencet to be punish
ed with death. The mandarins have issued in various
districts the most blood-thirsty edicts against the
English, and have offered large rewards to those who
may succeed in assassination or lncendiarlsm IN
Hongkong. All the Chinese have been ordered to
quit the service of foreigners and return to their
homes; and so powerful is the mandarin system that
disobedience entails much trouble, if not positive
destruction, upon the relatives of the offender. The
consequence is that nearly all the Chinese servants
have left or are leaving. The movement of the
Chinese population was not confined to Hongkong
uiOICs Oob Ado AeShNN ~ AA0NHO .
and German residents of Singapore have been obliged
to arm themselves against attacks in the streets from
the Infatuated Chinese, who were joined by the
Maays.
Lady Napier arrived in the Persia on the 7h inst,
with their family, consisting of two or three children.
They landed under a salute, and stayed for a few
days at one of the hotels here, where the Minister
received a complimentary address from the New York
Chamber of Commerce. Lord Napier presented his
credentials to the President on the 10th inst, the
interview aid speeches upon which occasion were
very cordial. There seems to be a probability of
Mr.. Barclays return to New York as Consul.
THE NEW CABINET-Mr. Buchanan was forced to
change his Cabinet during the last hours before
sending it to the Senate for ~nfrmatio in the
following shape:
Secretary of State-General Cass.
Secretarg of the Treasury-Hon. Howell Cobb.
SecretGrq of Wdr-Hon. John b. Floyd.
Secretary Of the Navy--Hon. Isaac Toueey.
Secretary Of the Intertor-Hon. Jacob thompson.
.4ttorney- GeneraL-Judge Black, of Pennsylvania.
Postmaster-G eneraL-Hon. A. V. Brown.
Senators Seward of N. Y, and Rusk of Texas, will,
on the expiration of Congress in March, start on q
nine months tour around the globe. They will pass
across the Isthmus by Nicaragua, thence to Califor-
MIA, thence to the Sandwich Islands, where Senator
Seward win deliver an agricultural address, thence
to China, and after passing through India and Asia
Minor, Egypt, and possibly Southern Europe, will
sail through the Straits of Gibralter to the United
States, so as to attend Congress in the early part of
the next session.-WOr. Transcript.
THE DRIED SCOTT CAsE.-The opinion of the United
States Supreme Court has been delivered in the
famous bred Scott Case. Chief Justice fancy gave
a full and elaborate statement of the views of the
Court. The decision has created immense excite
ment. The Court has decided the following import
ant points
Ffrst-Negroes, whether slaves or free, that is,
men of the African race, are not citizens of the United
States by the Constitution.
Second-The ordinance of 1887 had no independent
constitutional force or legal effect subsequently, to the
adoption of the Constitution, and could not operate of
itself to confer freedom or citizenship within the
Northwest Territory on negroes not citizens nv the
Constitution.
Third-The provisions of the Act of 1920. com-
monty called the Missouri Compromise, so far as Il
undertook to exclude negro slavery from, and COM
municate freedom and citizenship to, negroes in the
northern part of the Louisiana cession, l4as a Legisla-
tive act exceeding the powers of Congress, and Von.
and OF no legal effect to that end.
In deciding these main points, the Supreme Court
determined the following incidental points: