The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-05-07
Foreign Summary.

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education of orphans, their total receipts being $780,
425. The Encampment, a branch of the order, num-
bering 23, 746 members, received $196, 86S, and ex-
pended for relief $3.50, 1868.
The death of the Hon. P. S. Brooks created a great
sensation III South Carolina. On the arrival Of the
news at Columbia, the Mayor ordered the town bell
TO be t0lled, and the exercises at the South Carolina
College were immediately suspended. AT Charleston,
4 large Palmetto tree standing on one of the streets,
was draped III mourning, and the flags Of the ship
ping in port, and on the public buildings placed at
half mast.
LEGAL TENDER.-A writer in one of the New York
papers furnishes the following statement derived from
the law regulating the payment of debts with coin:
/. III gold coins at their respective values, for
debts Of any amount.
2. The halEdollar, quarter-dollar, dime, and half
dime at their respective values for debts Of amounts
under FIVE dollars.
8. Three-cent pieces for debts of amounts under
thirty cents; and
4 By the law just passed, we may add, one cent
pieces for debts of amounts under ten cents.
LOUIS NAPOLEON AND HIS FAN1LY-The domestic
life Of the French Imperial family is pictured by a
newspaper correspondent who had a glimpse Of 1t,
lately, in the garden of the Tuileries
The emperor in a stout pea jacket was amusing
himself with, and helping tc anluse his infant heir
who sat smiling in a superb coach drawn by a couple
Of goats, magnifcently ca parisoned, and whose pos
sible caprces were duly restrained by two dapper lit
tie grooms or pages with gold laced hats standing at
the heads of the animals. The empress herself look
ed down from a window upon the group, chatting and
laughing with her imperial spouse. High health,
merriment, and perfect ease and security character
lied the happy looking party.
The Cologne Gazette states that the japanese gov
eminent have arranged with the Dutch for the con-
struction in Ho' land Of four steam screw %corvettes,
70 be sent out to Japan in the course Of the present
wear, under the command Of a Dutch officer, and
That means have been provided for this purpose to
the extent Of two and a half millions Of dollars
It further states that the Japanese government have
requested four Dutch naval officers to remain in ia
80 Hu Il otlr,OCEn Of inCtrUctinr the Jon1ypGp II
naval affairs, and that it has taken into its service q
number Of Dutch mariners of various grades to
qualify the japanese mariners for active service.
FUNERAL OF FATHER MArHEw.-The streets Of the
civ and the road leading to the cemetery were, (says
the Cork Eraminer), lined by thousands of anxious
spectators, and as the head of the procession slowly
appeared in sight a like anxiety and excitement were
exhibited to obtain a glimpse Of the coffin OF one who,
in town and country, had won the dearest affections
Of the people. For hours before the procession LETT
the chapel, the graveyard was being rapidly filed,
nnd when the cortcge entered the cemetery, there
could not positively have been less than from 10000
to $4,000 persons present.. Every alley and avenue
Of this beautiful burial ground was filed with people,
and as the coffin was borne into the yard every head
was uncovered, and many q face was sufused with
tears.
Sailing BROADWAY, NEw-YoRK,-Th New-York
consolidated Stage Company expended over : $1,000
for salt, to sprinkle the great stage route, during the
last great snow storm. The street, but for this time
" effort, would have soon been almost impossible,
but the salt melted the snow and ice and gave them
good wheeling. This company run about one hum
bred and seTenty-ive stages per day, eight times
each stage up and down the street TO South and Full
ton Ferries. For the right to run these stages, the
company pay the City a tax of $4,000, per year,
enough IN all conscience to save them from the loss of
keeping the street in working condition. The stage
men sent large companies of men with picks and
shovels to clear out the cutters, cut cross walks, cut
down large Jumps of ice, and other work which Of
right belong to the City authorities to do.
NED Nc GowAN IN SACRAMENTo.-On Saturday,
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though much reduced in flesh, arrived in Sacramento,
and took lodgings at the Magnolia, where, during the
whole of Sunday, he was waited upon by large num-
hers of persons to whom he related with much gusto
his numerous hair-breadth escapes, and other adj
venture in the southern portion Of the State. At
first the fact Of his presence received but little credit,
and was treated as a ." sell, - but his appearance in
d barber-shop, where he was Invested of all surplus
hair saving the redoubtable mOustache, removed all
doubt upon the subject He says that his object In
returning is to submit himself to a trial upon the
charge with which he stands accused, but that he has
no idea of going to San Francisco for the purpose
He is not willing to entrust himself to that atmos-
pbere. and it is his intention, if possible, to obtain
from the Legislature the passage Of q law author
ling the change of venue to this county. No at
tempt was made to arrest him.
HoNDURAs ~NTER-OCEANIC RAILwAY-At a meet
ing of the Society of Arts, held last night, Mr..
Weguelin, Governor of the Bank Of England, read an
elaborate and interesting paper on Central America
and the proposed Honduras and Rail
way. He commenced by the expression Of his ccnvic-
ton that Central America should be the chosen spot
whence the navies Of the world should radiate, and
where the city Of universal brotherhood should be
founded. In respect of geographical position, it
almost realized the ancient idea of the center Of the
world. Not only does 1t connect the two grand
divisions of the American continent, the Northern
with the Southern hemispheres, but its ports open tc
Furope and Africa on the East, and to Polynesia.
Asia. and Australia on the West. Here, toe, the
continent shrinks to its narrowest limits; and, stand
mo upon some high peak Of the Cordilleras, the
adventurous traveller, with the sky Of eternal Summer
above, and the exuberance of an u%nfading, tropica
vegetation around him, may look Gown upon the
restless Atlantic-the great highway of commerce-or
one hand, and upon the broad Pacific rolling its un,
broken waves over half the globe, on the other
With the assistance of maps, Mr.. Weguelin, after
these predatory remarks, gave an accurate description
Of the line of route of the projected Railway, and o.
the ports in connection with it. He also gave 9
historical sketch of the country, and afforded valuable
information respecting its produce, imports and ex
ports. After advertlng TO the rupture that was
recently apprehended between England and America
arising out of differences Of opinion respecting Cen.
trail America, he expressed a hope that with the
settlement of this question the last cause of difference
between the two countries has disappeared forever
and that the white-winged dove Of peace which re
Gently reached these shores shall be received as sh'
was sent, as the messenger of the ''love and respec
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