The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-05-06

question before the discussion Is over.
The Collins line Of steamers has really failed.
has been rumored for some weeks that this eve
would t~ranspire, but no one gave credit to the rumc
It has now assumed q definite form. For some 81
the line has not paid its current expenses. The a
eminent owe this line, according to rumor, $1,000
Brown. Brothers & Co. refuse further advances.
suspension of the trips of the line is made impera
and % steamer will sail ON Saturday next.
The New York Shipping List says seamen
scarcer in that city for sometime past. Wages
England and Europe have advanced to SIS a monti
with $18 to $40 advance; to the Mediterranean ad
and California $12, with S24 advance; coasting ~
with SO advance. The number of vessels in mort
New York ON Saturday last was 626, INCLUDING
steamers, 116 ships, So briggs. and 269 schoonersIs
Another "ism" has sprung up in worce/3|
Mass in a sect calling themselves s. Restitutionil r
protesting to believe that what man lost in the faNy
now beginning to be restored, and that everythineI
to come back to it's original form and purity. Thd
Sabbath is observed on Saturday, and they confnS
themselves to the use of the Lords prayer, rs alone
being of any efficiency with the Father.
The editor of the Santa Fe Gazette boasts over an
ear of corn, grown in that vicinity. seventeen inches
in length; also over FIVE stalks and four suckers,
all of which sprouted from a single grain of the COM
mon sweet corn, and which together produced
Twenty-Five ears-not one of the stalks failing to bear
its quota. Upon one Of these ears there are about
nine hundred and fifty grains.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company had issued a call
lOr the OruinarX DneeCng or the stockholders, and i'm
anticipation this meeting had published a full
~Poto1th condition of the company.
+ The report states that it is proposed to raise a cer-
tain amount Of new capital by an issue of $50
shares, with which to meet the charges for the 700
miles Of additional cable now in course of manufac-
ture. and to provide for contingencies. Great conf
dence is expressed in the success of the attempt to Law
the cable next summer.
addresses from some of the regiments to the Ma
WI are worded in such strong language as to at
tract much oAenfIOD. The Xo1avoq almost rorrotta1
that they had no opportunity to manifest their zeal
in n striking manner, and the address of the Eighty
second regiment contains the following sentence =
And If your Majesty wants soldiers to reach these
men even in their haunts, we humbly pray YOU to
designate the Eighty-second regiment as part of the
advance guard of this army"
Addresses from other regiments appear to have
been worded still stronger, for the .Moniteur has
omitted some of the paragraphs.
The .Monifeur publishes a decree announcing the
intention of the Government to put down all religious
controversy in The French press
The autobiography of Havelock the hero of Luck
now, and the Christian Soldier, is announced by
Sheldon, Brakeman 4 Co., of New York city. to be
issued in April. 1t is now known that before he went
to India for the last time, Gen. Havelock prepared a
memoir of himself, detailing his connection with the
great work of evangelizing the natives. He was n
Baptist and intimately acquainted with the Baptist
missionaries, and the memoirs to be published by s.
B. & Co, viii specially exhibit the missionary and
Christian career of this great captain Its appear
anee will be welcomed with pleasure by the religious
public.
The SHELLS THROWN AT NApoLEoN.-Tbe Bir-
mingham Daily Press says "We have seen one of
the shells manufactured for the purpose of the late
attempted assassination. They were made by Mr..
Taylor, an engineer, in Broad street, who was, of
course, unacquainted with the purpose for which they
were intended They are most ingeniously contrived,
and the one brought to our Office was a very fine
specimen of workmanship. 1t is cylindrical in shape,
with the ends rounded, resembling a melon more
than anything else we can compare it to, the size
about 5 inches by 4. 1t is hollow, and made in two
parts The thickness of the metal at one end is one
inch, at the other three-quarters of an inch. The
great popularity In the construction is the means for
exploding. In an ordinary hand-grenade Nis is
provided for by a flsee, which being lit, when>it
reaches the powder causes the explosion. In the
present instance, one end of the shell is pro-ided
with twenty-five nipples, similar to those of a gun,
and upon each of these a percussion cap is placed.
When either of these caps strikes against any sub
stance it produces the explosion. Thus all u1eer-
tainty as to, the time of the explosion is avoided.
The extra thickness of the metal at this end secures |.
its falling the right way. At the opposite end is a {
hole for loading, which is closed by n screw plug. :
The whole appearance of the machine is of a most
dangerous kind, and on its CONSTRUCTION and desjad
great labor must have been bestowed
SMALL Pox AND vAccIsArroS.-Hau,s Journal of
Health has the following: From s&sended and close
observation. the following &C., q deductions seem to
be warranted frs, " Ole vaccination is an al
most perfect safsGl. ! until the fourteenth year.
CSch AZ hh'1S - 4S'At eSShs ny oyctchi
gradually lQH its c~apability of resistance, until
abouE = Eezx4Th when many persons become almost
as liabf7 &fs&all pox as if they had not been vaccin-
ated. jsrd, This liability remains in full force
until a6out forty-two, when the susceptibility begins
to DECLINE, and continues for seven years to grow less
and less, becoming extinct at about 6ffy-the period
q ife when the general revolution of the body begins
to take place, during which the system yields to de-
cay, or takes n new lease of life for two or three
terms of seven years esch. Fourth, The grand
use to be made of these statements is: Let
every youth be re-vaccihs.ed on entering fourteen;
let several attempts be meae, so as to be certsin of
safety. As the malady is more likely to prevail in
cities during the winter, special attention is invited
to the subject at this time
The LATE GEN. HAvELocK.-This General, whose.
decease in India has been so much lamented, was not
the Baptist Church in Calcutta, and is said by the
missionary Kincaid, who knew him well, to have
been a devoted Christian. He was accustomed to
carry with him a preaching tent, in which to exer-
Else his personal gifts rs a preacher of the gospel:
influence was great and good in the army. Lord
used to rely upon his brigade for the most
liffcult and dangerous work, and at one time, when
required to send forward a force on a particularly
perilous and important enterprise, calling for great
as well as courage, is said to have exclaimed,
Turn out the saints; Havelock never blunders, and
ais men never get drunk"
Some idea Of the extent Of the great wall of China
nay be gathered from a remark of DR.. Bowring IN .
ecture on that country recently delivered IN England.
lie said that If all the bricks, stone ana masonry -
treat Britain were gathered together, they would NOT
urnish materials enough for such q wall as the wall
f China, and that if all the materials in the build
ngs of London were put together. they would ne
make the towers and turrets that adorn it. 8
Mr.. Wright, the new American envoy At BERN,
avs the Tribune, has distinguished himself py %"
emperance principles. At a dgeuner a "a JosI-
bette, which he gave recently in honor OF Alexander
on Humbolt, to which all the American residents IN
were invited. hominy and other preparations
f Indian corn were provided. but no wine.
Senator Douglas has disposed Of his p~lantAfion IN
mississippi, and has no longer any tangi9t connec-
ion with the peculiar institution"
Prof Aeassis made : pupil study tn bones of
artle six months What An admir3 e alderman
pupil would make
The ArrRAx AT NEW HAvHn.zG bloody rI1
oauihlv fatal co1lfn7on fAfwe1n 6orfy OF 1eW