The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-02
Foreign

The united Know Nothings and Republicans
Pennsylvania have nominated Hon. David WilnOl
their candidate for Governor.
The government Of New Brunswick has S1
itself unable to carry its measures in the legislar
and tue house has been prorogued preparatory to
dissolution.
The Sultan has presented to France the Church
the Nativity; also the Palace of the Knights e.
John, at Jerusalem.
Great preparations are making in England teS
out troops and munitions of war to China
The / IF Elgin has accepted the Office of re
potentIary to the Court of Pekin, and will pr01
thither as soon as he has been made suHlele9l
acquainted with the views of the English goSeraa~
The Paris Patrie states that accounts frOn
frontier of China, received at St Petersburg, !
nounce that the government at Pekin Is IN 8 sas
dissolution; that the Emperor has no cash; thst ;
forced to issue iron coin; that oil the monied nel
left the city, and that the Chinese and Mane'
are in open hostility. ]
In the trial of Rev. NJ. Kalloch of Boston ]
adultery, the jury. after being out twenty-ohe ~
stood four. for conviction and eight for aciuiA,-
were discharged. The case will probably net ~
again. He has resumed his ministerial fuhcuu-
the fremont Temple. The church was s. 0Vl
that the doors were shut at . O'Clock AlaOs i. I.
thus excluded were one of the deacons ana ''
of the minister.
1t is understood, says the New Bedford NC
that our worthy ex-mayor Rowland, on reerns
the city government, has presented
Public Library, to be expended in q Jaaic.U-'
ner, his salary as mayor for the past wv"
amounting to sixteen hundred dollars
The Philadelphia Ledger has a despatsa
Louisville. Kentucky, stating that a prze~ -
was drawn in a lottery, on Tuesday, at tna
which one half was owne' by a slave. Il.
deducted the value of the slave, anu q"
balance and his freedom. -
The Emperor Napoleon has sent to ,he sS5s 3
Alexander a magnificent copy OF the -
Lesus Christ. printed at the Imperial prihE1fE
in Paris. 1t was sent to Count de hiSels &
Minister of Justice. The Imperial Lieia'
Petersburg purchased a copy OF shis ""A
q cost Of 6 ,0OOf. ~
EXPLORATION OF THE NIGER.-"eia 'e3
a report that the British Admiralty intehuene
another expedition up the Niger. IL snsri
to dispatch annually, for the next nv! "
steamer up that river at the public eoS.,.ri f.
iectors of this enterprise have 50 il .hst X
Years exploration shall be confined 70 tnc
Of the Niger which, at the confluence =
tho Ouorra. and that the second n:..s
devoted to the other branch, caiiei :.
The Brick Church tower was ie'. me -
Alter taking the precaution to prop t ,bs baSS
the workmen made a large breach III - te
vail which supported it. The props mas
FIRE to. and in u few minutes the "~ sr,sh, bSZ
tumbling down with a tremendous ~
toward the center Of the church 1,.,isn ~
DEATH IN TIE GREEN ROOM - the Pr
singer, while in the 6 green room evening, NsssI
phia Opera House, on Saturday sra chi
praitinr the rising of the curtain n,Jleny.
which she was to take parts "S Shs droppd Z
with death from heart disease. .,bsih her last
hoor, and in a few MINUTES sl upon The
sbebind the.soencs. although 'ns