The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-12-23

All this, too, in a land that possesses every natu-
raj element of wealth.
European.
A Paris letter in the JNord states that a trining
difference has arisen between France and Brazil. A
| French merchant having died Mt Pernambuco, leav-
ing children under age, the French Minister, Count
de Lemont, caused the French Consul to put seals on
his premises. The local authorities maintain that he
had no right to do so, as by Brazilian law the chill
| dren of foreigners born in Brazil are Brazilians. and
subject to the lays OF the country. On appeal to the
Justice of the peace, he decided that the local author
tiles were in the right, and the seals were removed.
In consequence, Count de Lemont struck his flag in
order to await the instructions of the French Govern
ment.
A dispatch from valentia reached London on the
night of the 10Th, stating that ineligible signals
were again being received at Newfoundland through
the cable. The signals were very distinct, and the
words received were, Daniels now in circuit
Authority was at once given to use the Daniels bat
terry likewise ut Valeutia. In his letter to the press,
announcing the gratifying fact, Mr.. Saward, the
Secretary to the Company, says " This. however,
though encouraging, must not be regarded as a per-
manent state of things, as il is still clear that there
is a serious fault in the cable while at the same
time it is not at present absolutely cleer that any,
except the most extraordinary and to the cable dan
gerous efforts, can be made, more especially on this
side, to overcome the existing obstacles in the way of
perfect working 1t is said that the Company will
| probably send out one of Henley's new and powerful
electric machines to Newfoundland. The shares
rallied to f350 and e400, with sales at 1880.
The British war steamer Gorgon has been en-
gaged taking soundings for another A
telegraph from Newfoundland to the English Chan
mel, via Fayal. No report of the soundings has yet
been made.
Mr.. Ten Broeck's horse Barbarity won the race at
Newmarket, over his competitor Olympus.
The new British treaty with Japan is similar to
the American one, recently negotiated by Mr.. Harris,
the Q. S. Consul General. Five ports are to be
opened one year after the ratification of the treaty.
Mr.. Bright has made n great speech at Birming-
ham, in which he advocated the system of voting by
ballot, according to the American system of repre-
~sentation.
Phineas I. Barnum lectured in Manchester, Eng,
on the 9TH ult., taking for his subject The Shortest
and Surest Way of Making a Fortune He was
listened to by fifteen hundred persons. and the new
speculation paid well.
1t was whispered that the Empress Eugene is again
in a condition to afford hopes that the Imperial dy-
nasty of France will not hang on the single life of the
young Prince.
The French government are contemplating the es-
Enlistment of a line of steamships between the Bay
of Japan, Hong Kong and Canton, in connection with
the overland mail service.
Advices from Paris state that the Emperor Napo-
leon has requested Mr.. Paul Morphy to give a speci-
men of his blindfold chess playing at the Tuileries,
before the ladies or the Imperial court, and has also
consented to be beaten at chess by the young Ameri-
can at the odds of n rock.
Ciucc MURPHY HIS III EuTOCt, up II III Time
of the close of the Harrwitz game, he has played III
games, 16 of which he lost, SS won, and 13 were
drawn. That is n pretty clean record for a young
American in the Old World.
Russia's possessions on the Amoor were being
rapidly developed, and Russian engineers had pro-
posed a railroad from the Gulf of Castries to a con-
tingent bend of the Amoor.
The Spanish feet with all the transports and troops
intended to act against Mexico, had sailed for Cuba.
India.
Advices from Bombay of the 9th Of September
represent that operations against the rebels were pro-
crossing satisfactorily.
The London Times thinks that not more than
twenty per cent. of the original Bengal force is in
existence.
1t is said there is to be n general amnesty on the
proclamation of the Queens authority
In a severe engagement between the Sepoys and
British troops on an Island near Gorgronia the rebel
force was defeated with great slaughter.
Three thousand Sepoy troops were engaged in the
battle near Gorgronia.
New TREATY WITH JAPAN.-A correspondent of
the Boston Herald, writing from the steam frigate
Mississippi, at Hakodadi, says:
| presume that before this reaches YOU, You will
have received the intelligence that our Consul, Mr..
Harris, has succeeded in completing his new treaty
with the Japan Government, and that it has been
signed by the Emperor and sent to our Government
by Commodore atnall. Mr.. Harris has labored hard
to bring about this grand result, and is deserving the
congratulations of the whole American people. BY
this new treaty the port of Simoda, of no account to
US, will be closed, and the beautiful harbor of Lana
qua, only twelve miles from the city of Jeddo, is to
be opened to US for commerce, SC. After the treaty
is ratified, that portion will be the residence of Mr..
1t is a beautiful harbor, easy of access at all
times of the year, well protected from all storms, and
is not like that of Simoda, surrounded at its extremes
by sunken rocks. 1t is also capable of containing a
large number of ships, while that of Simoda is not
large enough to allow more than three or four ships
to ride at anchor at the same sine. Its proximity TO
u -. 4 III
Harris.
The Japanese Government has decided to send an
Ambassador to Washington in March next, on the
that our Government will convey him and
his suite to Panama in n government ship en- route
for the United States. L learn that Mr.. Harris and
Tatnall assured the authorities of Jeddo
that it would be gratifying to the United States Gov
and its people to comply with this request,
that the return mail would no doubt bring orders
to that effect.
Sunday, August 1st, was an interesting one at
Simoda- At 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, all the boats of the
Pouchatan and of this ship were seen pulling to the
landing near the Consuls residence, one mile from
Simoda proper, filled with officers and men, among
were Commodore Tatnall, Capt. Nicholson,
md the Rev. Mr.. Wood, Chaplain of the Powbatan.
This large party, numbering four hundred, proceeded
TO the consuls residence for the purpose of attending
Irvine worship of Almighty God on japanese soil.
Here, on the very soil from which the decree has
gone forth for centuries to the world, that if the
Almighty God himself, or man, or the devil should
iire u step lOot on Japanese SOIL 10 preach the reii-
Of the Most High, they should pay the forfeit of
heir lives; here it was that, on the 1st day of Au-
gust, 1853, four hundred American officers and sea-
worshipped the true God without being molested.
Mr.. Wood gave his text from 1st Thessalonians
chapter l, verses 9 and 10. and hymns 10Y and liz
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 a vast crowd
If japanese gathered around the building to watch
)ur movements.
lSTo De SAUTY.-A better thing and better said
Ices not often appear in the newspapers than the
from the Richmond Despatch
There is a wise and self-respecting E~nglishman of
he name of De Sauty, who has shut himself up in a