The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-02-12
Foreign Summary

Guizot has just published a book on the " Causes of
the Success of the English and American Revolution -
Barnum is again in the showman's business. He
went to Europe in November, with little Cordelia
Howard.
1t is stated on what is said to be esgood authority
that Mr.. Buchanan has offered to Gen. Cass the posi-
ton of Secretary of State, and that the offer was ac-
copied.
A trustworthy witness, Lieutenant Gunnison, says
that when he was in Utah, the three members of the
Presidency had no less than eighty-two wives between
them, and that one of the three sEwaS called an old
bachelor, because he had only n bakers dozen.''
1t. Maurv, [. S. N, has declined the order of Dau-
neburg the King of Denmark desired to confer upon
him, on the ground that the Law of the United States
do not allow any of its officers to accept decorations or
titles from foreign pOtentates.
An English paper states that "our gracious Queen, -
and the whole British people are looking forward to
an interesting event which is likely to h happen in the
royal household sometime in the month of February.
SINGULAR CATAsTROPHE.-A short time since at
Antwerp, q child was stifed in a cradle by n cat
coming into the room, and lying across the child's
face. The parents slept in the same room, but did
not discover the sad circumstance until morning.
The " Book of Mormon has been translated into
the Hawaiian language, and n large edition printed.
So say our exchanges, but we have neither seen nor
heard of it here, and doubt the correctness of the
statement.
At Chicago, n German bet his house, lot, and wife
and baby, that Fremont would he elected. After
E hearing the result, he took ms UeeQS, VIE ana cD'lu,
and made a tender of all in good faith. But his
friend, having one wife and five children, refused to
increase his stock in that way, and declined to take
the poor mans family and property, but gave him q
piece of advice.
SPEEDY JUsTICE.-Robson, the Secretary of the
Crystal Palace Company, London, has been tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment. Within half an hour Of sentence having been
pronounced. he was stripped of his ordinary habili-
ments. clothed in a convict's dress, and became the
( oCCoo;o+o IF ha1f n dozen other TRANSPORTS HunfipC-
ton, the great forger. was arrested here about the
same time, and has not yet been indicted. And such
is the moral effect of former attempts to screen the
guilty, that few now believe that Huntington will get
the punishment his rascality deserves. Our laws are
good, but their administration is feeble.-.N Y. o.
serUer.
JOHN PHOENIX, the California wag, gives the eli
mate on the Pacific coast rather a moist description.
He says:
at commenced raining in Oregon pretty heavily on
the Sd of last November, and continued up to the 18th
of May, when it set in for a long storm, which ism I
fairly over yet There's moisture for you Congress
has named the northern half of it, the new Territory,
Washington, on account of its wetness, [ suppose,
as I can divine no other reason for giving that name
to a country on Puget sound, Pacific Shore
TRAPPING HOUSE A,sTs-Take a large sponge and
wash it well, and after ii is dry lay it near any spot
frequented by ants, and sprinkle fine white sugar
over it. In a short time the meshes will be nearly
filed with the minute insects, which can then be de-
stroyed by dipping the sponge into hot water, and
after washing and drying, it may be replaced again.
Thousands are often destroyed at a time, and by
repeating the process the locality will soon be freed
from them.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.-It appears that on the
breaking out of the recent newspaper war between
France and England, NJ. Persigny, Napoleon's En-
bassador at London, FASTENED over to Paris. and so
far patched up the difficulty as to induce the belief
that all was over, and that the alliance was once more
out of danger. This pleasing confidence, however
finds but little support from a speech made by Napo-
leon to N. Kisselef, the Russian Minister, on occasion
of his official presentation, which can hardly be re-
garded otherwise than as a direct insult to England.