Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1858-12-25
No. "a

Nicholson, and the Rev. Mr.. Wood, Chaplain Of
the Powhatan. This large party, numbering four
hundred, proceeded to the eonsul's residence for
the purpose of attending the divine worship Of AL
mighty God on japanese soil. Here, on the very
soil from which the decree has gone forth for
turies to the world that if the Almighty God him
SELL or man, or the devil should dare to step foot
on japanese soil to preach the religion ofthe Most
High. they should pay the forfeit of their lives
here it was that, on the lst day of August, 1853
| four hundred American officers and seamen wor-
shipped the true God without being moIested
Rey1 Mr. Wood gave his text from lst Thessalon-
iansy chapter /, verses and 10, and hymns l07
and ll3 from the Episcopal Common Prayer-book
were sung with much effect by the choir Of the
Powhatan. The discourse was listened to for an
hour with the utmost silence by the American
hearers, while 4 vast crowd Of Japanese gathered
around the building to watch our movements.
Russia's possessions on the Amoor were being
rapidly developed, and Russian engineers had pro-
posed a railway from the Gulf of Castries to con-
tingent bend Of the AmoOr.
tI5- Owing to misunderstanding between the
American Minister and the Peruvian Government,
the latter have appealed to Louis Napoleon to pro-
tect them against the faneied aggression of the
latter the upper districts of Peru, by the way of
the Amazon.
0F President Buchanan has issued Proelama-
ton against flibustering in Nicaragua. Walker is
at the bottom of the movement. beware of the
third time," is an old saying.
C. The English journals, with the Times at
at their head, are tearing the American Chinese
treaty. to pieces and throwing it in the face Of Com
missioner Reed The New York Herald urges the
Government publish the treaty in order to refute
the charges.
O. From the Fejee Islands, date of July 22d,
we learn that the town of Lavuke or Ovalau had
been burnt by incendiaries, and that two white
men and ROtuma native had been killed and eat
en- on the island of Maya. For which enormities
the foreign residents on Ovalao had convened and
organized themselves for the purpose of ayengng
the deed and protecting the living. They had ap-
piled to the commander of the French Corvette la
BGyonnaise for help, but he had left the islands
without doing anything for them, except saying
that6 90 determined men might redress their wrongs
without any assistance from men-of-war.
% In Sydney, Sept. 8, the Rev. DIR. Lang de-
ivered lecture in which he proposed the total and
speedy separation of the Australian Colonies from
the mother country:
"Now, my plan is, says the Rev. Mr.. Lang dur
ing hiS lecture, simply 10 anticipate, or rather to
obvlate, all the possibilities or contingencies of
war, from any quarter whatsoever, onthese Austria
lian coasts, by petitoning the mother country at
once 10 concede to US, with all necessary guaran-
tees and stipulatioas, our entire freedom and ma
tIonal independence, and to recognize these Aus
tralian colonies from henceforth as sovereign and
Independent States. Sensation.l Such cOnsum.
nation, now that We have got Responsible Govern
ment and entire freedom of trade, would scarcely
affect our relations with Great Britain IN any per-
ceptibe, in any appreciable degree. We should
still retain our British habits and predictions as
strongly as ever; but we should simply be our own
masters, receiving the law from Downing street no
longer, and living in peace and harmony with all
mankind; cherishng toward our British brother
for all time coming strong fraternal affection, but
holding out at the same time, the right hand of
friendship and fellowship to Frenchman, American
and Russian alike, whatever wars might rage in
Europe. In short, were that cousummation which
have suggested realized, whatever wars might be
waged IN the old world, that vast ocean that lines
our coast would, as far as these noble Colonies are
concerned, be Pacific Ocean in reality for all
mankind. L have drawn up the draft of petition
on the subject, which | shall now read, either to
Her Majesty the Queen to the Imperial Parlia-
ment, to be signed as extensively possible, pro-
vided it should be approved of beforehand not only
in this Colony, but in Victoria, South Australia
and Van Dieman's Land"
difficulty has arisen between France and Bra
zil in regard to the property of French subjects
dying in Brazil. The French Consul had struck
his flag at Pernambuco and appealed to his govern
ment.
Bombay letters of September "a, with the details
Of the late telegraphic advices, are received, but
they add little Of moment to them. Operations
were being carried on without tagging against the
scattered rebels.
The Bombay Times says the strength of the
rebels in Dude and the adjacent districts is esti-
mated at 10000 men and DO guns.
Il was said that nine columns would be organized
at Lucknow to traverse the country different
directions, while the Commander-in- Chief would
remain at Lucknow to watch the progress of affairs.
The London Times correspondent writes that IT
any credence is to be attached to the number Of
sepoys reported slain, not less than 80 or 10000
have been killed or executed and that if to this is
added the casualties by sickness wounds and want,
there is probably not than twenty per cent Of
the original Bengal army in existence, not includ-
ing the disarmed regiments.
1t is said there is TO be general amnesty on the
proclamation of the Queens authority.
The New York Economist gives the following
figures, representing the amount of specie IN the
banks of six commercial cities of leading impor-
tance. The date is September 9th
Paris, iilFSSsSS
New York. 4O,beoSOO