The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-05-28
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Summary.

Mr. Peter Bavne an author of some note had been
q snpointed to succeed Hugh Miller in the editorial
,blir of the Edinburgh Witness.
Gerret Smith, has contributed 81 900 to the Dudley
observatory
The Emperor of Russia is positively expected at
5 Berlin in the month of April, his way through
j Paris to Nice
The director of the Austrian Court theater has
.ed order that the dGnseuSes of the Opera shall
wear strowseroons.'' The ladies rebel against the
order.
The statue of the Virgin of the Immaculate Concep
ion has been successfully east in bronze, at Rome
s. Catherine Farnelli, who has been passing herself
a. Saint, and capable of working miracles, has been
,,1imned by the Inquistion at Rome, to II years
q Imprisonment.
The Brussels ''Nord' publishes the details of the
s onces5on granted by the Russian Government for
great network of railways to be constructed within
] ten years at an outlay of e45, 900, 900 sterling.
A correspondent writing from Geneva, says: "I
have heard Merle D. 'Aubgne preach once. He is
hrse man, advanced in years, and has fine voice.
He reads his sermon, (Which is the custom here,)
b he gave great expression in the delivery and you
. are carried along with him to the end''
Rev Josiah Brewer, formerly missionary to Turkey,
Subsequently the Principal of Female Seminary in
New Haven, and now the Principal of similar
institution at Mddletown it is stated in the Middle
town Argus, has by the recent death of relative
come into possession of property valued at $150000.
NJ Mllaud, banker, of Paris, gave superb enter
hnment to 158 journalists and literary men, on
Sunday, the 18th.
8 " H. Russell, the London Times correspondent,
has entered into engagement with Mr. Beale, of Lon
on to deliver three lectures week. on the Crimea,
Il ill April, 1858, for sum which calls G10,-
M MMO
e Ex-Queen Christina of Spain, proposes to make
j Rome her permanent residence, and is purchasing
palaces in that city for her sons
g The London Times of Saturday, Jan. 81, says
mn
4 important event to the world. Let nobody smile
n when we say what that event was, think we
II smate it. 1t was the marriage of the first Hindoo
II EiloW.'
il The TRANs-ATLANTIo TELEGRAPH.-The Secretary
# Of the Navy has ordered the U. S. steam frgates
Niagara and Mississippi, now at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, to be equipped for sea with despatch, these
vessels have been selected to assist in laying down the
Z Atlantic Telegraph cable between Newfoundland and
Ireland in compliance with the act passed by Con-
rss
Il Dr. Livingston announced at meeting in London
hat he about to return to South Africa and take
a is wife with him. He suffers, says the Medical
Tines, from anchylosis of the elbow joint, the result
Il fracture of the lower end of the numerous by q
rounded lion He is about to undergo the operation
ia forced rupture, in the hope of regainng the use
q the joint.
q Neal Dow, the father of Maine liquor law, goes to
!; nganA, about the first of April, at the urgent
elicitatiOn of the United Kingdom Alliance for the
Suppression of the Liquor Traffic. The arrangements
re, to hold series of monster meetings at all the
Eat centers of population throughout England,
Ireland and Scotland
Kossuth still owns one thousand acres of prairie
g and in the vicinity of Corpus Christi, in Texas,
which were presented to him when he was visiting in
y ms country.
4 The CABLE FOR THE ADRIATIC.-The strongest
able ever manufactured for a merchant vessel is
q !lng at of the railway stations in this town.
he makers Of the cable are Messrs Hngley & Sons,
IL II T. .1o.l
ng the United States Mail steamship adriatic in the
Syne when she arrives, and is considered capable OF
oliing her, large she is, in the heaviest gale
n length of the cable is forty yards, and its weight
er link fifty pounds In the process OF proving, one
u the weakest links gave way at 81 tons pressure,
3 With force that shook the building. A new link
was substituted, and the cable withstood strain OF
70 tons Messrs. Hingley s. Sons are making the
Mabe for the Great Eastern each link of which will
Ugh 20 pounds.-LiUerpooI Telegraph.
8 LOLA MoNTEs.-Lola Monies, since her return
I'm California, is living quietly in New York, at
No. 13 Stuyvessant-place where she occupies private
3partments in elegant style, and is bringing up her
II ster-a Young lady of 16-tO the stage. Lola IS
a to be quite well-to-do and designs investing her
Property in real estate in that CITY, which she pro-
,ses to make her permanent place OF residence.
Most of her money was realized by her theatrical tour
u California. &C Lola Monies in Bavaria a play
q Ertten by C. Ware, Jr. and which was originally
ayei at the Broadway Theater, n Y, netted ner
oout S23 900 in California. Lola is about making
aG arrangement to play in of the principal
and Cities and after this intends to visit England
q ID professional tour.
PUzzLE FOR CARPENTERs.-The following prob
S Sn has been communicated, by carpenter, to the
81 VeVeand Plaindealer -
Having an aperture in the floor twelve inches
iuare to cover and his ways and means limited to a
Card by 16 inches in size, he wishes to know how
ne feat can be accomplished by once cutting the
@ard in two?''
81 DAYS OF GRACE, on notes and b1ls-the New
@k EUening Post advises the sweeping away OF.
81 is an old custom, behind this commercial age,
81 eaSOns the editor.
This custom varies widely in different countrie3.
R England and America three days are allowed; IN
anburg, twelve; in Frankfort-on-the-Maln, four;
Lisbon and Oporo, fifteen on inland, and eight on
'egn bills; in Spain, fourteen on inland, and eight
treign bills. In France there were formerly ten
sys allowed; but the Code Napoleon, among many
aer sensible things, overthrow the custom entirely;
qa where the code now prevails, as in France.
noa, Antwerp, Leghorn, Palermo and Rotterdam,
~ae are no days Of grace at all.
the Star, the new London penny paper, has
@ched daily sale of $4,000 copies, while on
rnaordlnary occasions, during the Palmer trial,
DAY after the Spurgeon catastrophe, it rises to
waJ sJo and $4,000. 1t employs an editor at $50
S95' TWO sub-edtors at $25, foreign sub-editor at
: ana four reporters at 800 These salaries are
nSn an are paid by the larger and dearer papers Of
VIZ; late heavy rains caused the Connecticut river
= er sweeping away bridges, and destroying pro-
NY 70 large amount