The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-15
TWO WEEKS LATER
FROM THE UNITED STATES AND
ETTROPE.
DING.

EUROPE.
The favorite packet Tdquero, Capt. F. A. Newell,
arrived on the evening of the 7th from San Francisco,
bringing the United States mail of the Goth of Nov.
from New York, and dates from England to about
Nov. 6.
The clipper ship .Aspasia arrived off the port be-
fore the Vaguero, but owing to the ~northerly winds
did not get in till after the Taguero.
The Frances Palmer had not arrived over up to
the 22d Dec, but was hourly looked for. She would
probably leave again by the 5th January, and is due
here about the 25th inst, tue winds being light.
PRESIDENTIAL ELEcTIoN.-The election of Mr..
Buchanan to the presidency is fully confirmed. He
carried five of the free States, having, from these 62
electoral votes, and all the slave States except Mary
land, making 112 from the South, and a total of ia
of the electoral college, a majority of twenty-three.
The entire vote cast in the United States at the late
canvass, will reach about 3 $500, 900. 1t is said that
the late canvass gave a popular majority against MIR.
Buchanan of about 800 900.
Hon. J. NJ. Clayton, of Delaware, is no more. He
entered the U. S. Senate in 1916, and was, at his
decease, the oldest member. He was nearly 20 years
of age.
Mr. sumner declines o. reelection to the Senate /;
and Hon. Arson Burlingame is spoken of as his sue
cessor. Senator Sumner is still so feeble from the
brutal assault of Brooks, as to be unable to attend to
business.
The N. Y. Times says, "It is rumored that Mr..
Buchanan uOcS uOU u IlClup III occupancy
of the White House alone which means that he is
going to unite his Presidential fortunes with the
widow of q distinguished predecessor.
The British discovery bark Resolute was towed to
sea November Sd. Her commander, Hartstein, is the
bearer of a letter to Lord Clarendon, expressing the
qualification of our Government in behalf of the peo-
ple of the United States in rendering this token of the
friendly feelings by which our countrymen are ami
mated towards Great Britain.
The French screw steamship LIE LyonnGis, belong
-. No. Vo-I- n~1 EInrr0
was wrecked off Nantucket, on the night of the "a
inst, in consequence of a collision with the bark
.adriatic. LIE Lyonmais had on board about one
hundred and sixty souls, including passengers and
crew. only sixteen of whom are known to have been
saved. The latter arrived in New York on Friday.
Ship Ladu Franklin, hence from Trieste, with a
cargo of sugar, was abandoned at sea Oct. 10th, in a
sinking condition. Crew rescued and taken into
Boston.
Three marble warehouses, on Warren street, New
York. were burnt on Sunday, 9th inst, together with
their large stocks of merchandise. The total loss was
upwards of $500, 900, nearly the whole of which was
covered by insurance.
There have been, during the fortnight, several
disastrous storms on the Lakes, causing the total de-
struction of several vessels and the loss OF many lives.
On Lake Erie some twenty vessels were either sunk or
greatly damaged. The propeller j. ". Brooks found
cred on Lake Ontario. Her whole crew, consisting
of twenty men, are supposed to have gone down with
her. Steamer Superior was wrecked on Lake Supe-
rior. She had on board s~ixty-one souls, including
crew and passengers, only nineteen of whom were
saved.
A large fire occurred at Syracuse, N. Y. State, on
Saturday, 9Th inst. 10 buildings, dwellings and
stores. } were burned. Loss, about ST. ,O0O, 900.
FROM South AMER1cA.-The Pacific Steam Navi-
cation Company's Mail steamer Lima, arrived at her
anchorage at Panama on the 21st Nov.
Business is rather slack in Valparaiso, and freights
rather difficult to be got. The internal affairs OF the
country are very quiet.
The DISPUTE between the civil power and the clergy
had been happily terminated, the Bishop having been
compelled to submit.
Mines in Copiapo are doing q middling business,
and the railroad is being extended into the heart of
the mining districts to facilitate the expectation of the
ores.
Peru is still in o very unsettled state. Outbreaks
have taken place in Arequipa and Puma.
Vessels are daily arriving at the Chincha Islands,
numbering now upwards of one hundred.
Chile has decided on replacing the steamer she lost
on her coast, and Congress has authorized Govern
ment to invest the sum requisite for this object. Or
ders have been forwarded to place this sum at the
disposal of the Minister to Paris, Sr. Blanco Encalada,
who is empowered to contract for the construction of
q steamer in London.
Government has granted q loan of l 2,O00, free of
all interest, to the contractor for the steam navigation
of the river Bio-Bio, until the expiration of the priv
ilege accorded on the 18th of January, 1854.
MEx1co-Latest advices from Mexico indicate a
state of affairs rather more favorable to the fortunes
of Comonfort. The revolutionists at Puebla are COM
pletely Frustrated, and the sales of the church pro-
perty. continued daily. A bride of a hundred thou
sand dollars, offered by the Bishop of Mexico to Gen
eral Ghilardi, an Italian exile residing in Cuba, to
induce him to head a revolution against Comonfort,
had been refused. Hon. Mr.. Forsyth, American
Minister to Mexico, had been presented to Comonfort,
and was well received.
EURopEAN.-New from Europe is to the 9th Novem-
Der. The snarl in European diplomacy remains I'M
raveled, and there are indications of a speedy disrup-
ton of the recent alliance, with new formations, with
France, Russia and Prussia on one side, and England
and Russia on the other. England refuses to with
draw her feet from the Black Sea, Austria declines to
evacuate the Principalities, and Prussia still holds the
Isle of Serpents. The latter power is erecting fortif-
cations in the Gulf of Finland, which has given uni
bragg to England, as being In contraventlon OF the
treaty of Paris. In the meantime, the Paris and
London press are abusing the respective governments
of England and France with unsparing vlgor. The
Paris Moniteur utters a semi-oficial complaint against
its contemporaries in England, and the London
Times, it is said, has been tabooed in France. The
Neapolitan difficulty was assuming a more peaceable
shape. Money matters in London had not undergone
any material change, but the Bank of England at
last dates was considering the expediency of making
a further advance on the rates Of discount, In order
to arrest the continued drain of specie.