The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-02-19

current of common air through the mass, is a decided
success Upon a recent exhibition before q large
number of ~iron-makers and scientific men, from the
tapping OF the blast furnace to the production of an
lngot OF malleable metal, weighing a quarter of a ton,
half an hour only TRANSFERRED whereas by the old
process the same operation would have taken six
hours, producing an inferior article, with a large ex-
penditure of fuel. The Examiner states that the
privilege of using the invention has been already
disposed of to the extent of the annual production of
a hundred and sixty thousand tons of iron or steel.
The fortune accruing to the inventor will be immense.
The LUCKY BABIEs-The French Minister of State
has directed certificates to be distributed to all the
families having children born on the 10th of March
last, (the Imperial baby's birthday and therefore
godchildren of their Maiesties. Assistance has al
ready been granted by the Civil List to the poorest
among them, which is to be continued annually and
In case the parents should die. the orphans are to he
provided for at the charge of the Civil List. The
certificates above mentioned are on parchment, and
bear the seal of the Minister of State.
SHOOTING demonstrating the late military
man@uyres held at Copenhagen in honor of the
crown Prince OF Sweden, several severe accidents
occurred, as the Danish and German soldiers fired at
each other with their ramrods. 1t so happened that
one OF these cases was brought under the notice of the
hlng, who commanded in person the Danish division,
whist the opposite party, consisting of Germans, were
under the orders of Prince Christian. The King i'm
mediately sent off an orderly to Prince Christian, and
the Prince held a council of war with his officers.
when it appeared in evidence that no less than five
Danlsh ramrods had been fired at his men. The
Prince then sent his aid-de-camp, Captain Lindholm,
over to the King to require an Investigation of this
Wanton outrage, the more so as several of the Ger
mans had been shot with stones, besides the five ram
rods picked up. Some of the soldiers have died of
their wounds. The circumstance has made a great
sensation in Copenhagen, and is another proof of the
bitter feelings and hatred existing between the Danish
and German natIonalities.
Great CONSERVATION has been caused among the
officials of the Great Northern Railroad in England
by the discovery of u series of most extensive frauds
frauds which throw the defalcations of William
James Robson on the Crystal Palace Company COM
pletely into the shade. From inquiries which have
been instituted, it appears that Mr.. Leopold Redpath,
of No. y Chester Terrace, Regents Park, was the
registrar of shares and transferer of stock in the Great
Northern Railroad, and in that capacity had a COM
mand over the whole of he shares of the Company.
Mr.. Redpath has always borne the s~trictest charac-
ter for honesty, and the conviction of his integrity
was strengthened by the fact that he was a Governor
of Christ's Hospital, a Governor of the Royal Society
of st. Anne, and was intimately connected with many
of the most influential and useful institutions in the
country. This gentleman. to whom such vast inter
ests were i%ntrusted, and upon whom the breath Of
suspicion never rested, has disappeared, and with his
disappearance comes the appalling fact that he has
robbed his employers-the directors and shareholders
of many thousands of pounds. It is said, and ap.
parently upon the best authority, that the defalcation!
amount to no less Il sum than G15O,000.
RUSSIAN WAR VESSELS AT SEBAsToPoL-John E
Gowen, Esq, of Boston, who is now in Russia, ha:
just entered into q contract with the Russian govern
ment to raise the ships of war and other vessels, 5:
in number, sunk in the harbor Of Sebastopol at thu
time of the siege. 1t will be remembered that Mr.
Gowen, under contract with our own government
succeeded, after repeated efforts of British engineer
had failed, in raising the wreck of the United State
steamer Missouri, sunk in the harbor of Gibralter
Mr.. Gowen will commence operations in the harbo
of S~ebastopol next spring.
RACE Won BY THE MURDERER's HoRsE.-It vii
be recollected that the poisoner William Palmer, gay
$4,000 for a race-horse called Chicken, which, OF
running for the Oaks at Epson in 1855, fell and Sc
verely injured the jockey. The new owner of CHECKER
changed its name to Vengeance. Singularly enough
the great Cesarewitch race was won recently by Ven
:. geance, Polestar formerly the property Of JOIN
r Parsons Cook, the victim) running second.
t DEATH OF THE SULTANA.-A letter from Constan
| tinople says &c Nothing has been talked of for som
l days past here, but the death of the favorite Sultana
l who was accused of q too fond familiarity with
3 young Armenian who came to a tragical end. Yer
1 sinister reports are in circulation on the subject c
l the death of the Sultana, who was pregnant at til
e time of her decease.''