The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-29
Foreign Summary.

At Cairo, Egypt, 200 houses were thrown down
during the earthquake on the 18th of October, and
the remainder were nearly all damaged. The vast
population had encamped outside the city.
The Dowager Empress of Russia has accepted an
invitation from the King of Sardinia to pass the win
ter at Nice, and the royal palace is undergoing ex-
pensive preparations for her entertainment. She will
be accompanied by q numerous Court, including
some twelve or fifteen princes and princesses, maids
of honor, physicians, officers, musicians, &c. The
Empress arrived at Genoa on the 23rd October. She
was received at the station by King Victor Emmanuel,
who, riding on horseback alongside her carriage,
escorted her to the Royal Palace. Afterwards the
troops of the garrison and the National Guard
marched past in silence, on account of the state of
health of the Czarina.
The new Fresnel light, at Humboldt Bay, was to be
Illuminated for the first time on Saturday, Dec. 10Th.
The tower is SO feet in height, and the light should
be seen, in clear weather, from the deck of a vessel,
II nautical or IA statute miles.
Though but eighteen years have elapsed since the
first vessel wholly propelled by steam crossed the
Atlantic, now there are fourteen lines of steamers,
comprising forty-eight vessels, plying between Europe
and the United States.
The total amount of gold yielded by California UP
to January 1, 1856, was 1856, 345, 900 Australia
has yielded to the same date, $241 ,42O, 900 making
in all the enormous sum OF 1907, 16o,OOO. what
becomes of all the money?
In Chill, the most stable and prosperous of the
South American republics, great attention is being
paid by the government to education. They have
established az new schools during the past year,
making a total of 75S, in which are $1,000 pupils.
one-fourth of whom are girls. Chill is also expanding
large sums of money for steamships, railroads, and
other public works.
During the late war, a certain NJ. Tsletsky, attached
to the Commissariat of the 4th corps d'Grmee in
Russia, took to fight, carrying with him the contents
of the treasury, amounting to the enormous sum Of
600, 900 francs. By an official notice in the Journals
de ST. Petersburg, he is summoned to appear before
o military tribunal at Warsaw in the course OF SIX
months IF in EurOOe. and one wear 1t he is out OF
Europe.
KING BoMBAe-This name was given to the King
of Naples by the Sicilians after his bombardment of
Messina. Messina took part in the abortive attempt
made by the Sicilians, in 1913, to shake off the yoke
of Naples and it was the first place upon which
retribution fell, being taken by General Filangieri IN
the September of that year, after an obstinate resist
ance. during which the town suffered severely, the
slaughter being immense, which only served to aug
ment the hatred of survivors against the King.
Pro NoNo.-His Holiness is fond of paying unex-
pected visits, generally with a view to some charitable
or b~enefcent purpose. A few days ago he surprised
the widow of a Government employs, residing in the
Trastevere quarter, with a visit of this kind. The
widow, it appears, had sent o petition to the Pope,
conveying such a picture of her destitute condition,
and the misery of her family, that his Holiness re-
solved to verify the state of affairs, in order to grant
her some relief, if deserving of it. Pho Nono's COM
miseration was sufficiently excited by what he saw.
J for he immediately ordered the widows name to DC
, put on the pension list for twelve scudi a month, and
left the poor woman and her family overwhelmed
with joy.
LONDON FoG.-Tt is a long time since the metro.
! Dolis and the suburban districts have been enveloped
in so dense a fog as prevailed on Wednesday last
e Several accidents took place. About ten O'Clock al
> night o man, carrying n lighted fambeau in the
Waterloo-road, was Knocked down by a vehicle, and
much injured. At Wimbledon a man named Hough-
e ton, a s~ingal-man on the London and South-WesterI
4 Railway, was killed while endeavouring to signal the
! eleven A. NJ. express train, the fog being at the time
very dense. A man named Watkins, employed at the
points near the Wandsworth Station as a singal-man
s was also run over by a train, and killed on the spot
S The guards on the different lines of railway describ'
o the fog as one of the densest they have witnessed fol
q many years. The morning papers of Thursday Were
compelled to 90 to press without their usual lntelli
gence from the north of England and Ireland, thu
ordinary parcels by the Northwestern Railway no
having come to hand at half-past three O'Clock in thu
II Observation-Disclosures .Ve,cs, Nov. 1.
EXPOSURE OF THE LIMANToUR FRAUD.-It has beer
:, known for some time that agents of the United State
government have been actively engaged in procuring
y evidence of the fraudulent character of the Limantou
claim, recently confirmed by the q. S. Land Commits
n sion. In consequence of the developments thus made
!; the u. S. Grand Jury last week indicted Limantou
who is a resident of San Francisco and has been con
sidered worth a million of dollars, arrested and hell
r him to bail in $50, 900, being unable to furnish which
he was placed In the custody of the q. S. Marshal
Subsequent Investigations resulted in obtaining a full
confession, before the County Grand Jury, from on
N of his accomplices, Emile Letanneur, which it is sal
10 nroyes the fraudulent character of Limantour's clair
y beyond cavil. The trial of the case viii no doubt b
productive of a rich ose-BuA
The consumption of paper in England and Franc
Is about four and a half pounds for each person, Will
in the United States it reaches ten pounds for each IN
III dividual. The rags required to make the 27O,OOU,UO
OF lbs. of paper consumed in the United States, amour
{. to S37 900, 900 pounds.