The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-10-07

anu IL is now almost entirely healed. lie rs very
friendly and has always appeared so. must say the
same of the natives generally, but they viii frequently
steal when opportunities furnish Mr.. Bingham
adds that he is progressing favorably in collecting the
words of the Apian dialect, and over FIVE hundred
words have been acquired, only about forty of which
are monosyllables. Recently he has obtained the aid
of an interpreter.
ROYAL HAWAIIAN TREATER-This favorite place
of amusement was ~re-opened on Saturday evening
last under the management of Mr.. Geo. Fl. Ince. The
theater has been put in perfect order, and a system
of ventilation adopted, which, from the comfort
experienced. appears to be just the thing. The ar
tistes are Miss Annette Ince, and her sister, Miss
Caroline Ince, supported by Mr.. L. F. Beatty, and
others favorably known. The piece selected for Sat-
urday night was Sheridan Knowles play of the
Hunch6dck, Miss A.. Ince enacting the character of
Julia. On Tuesday night, the play OF the Lady
Of Lyons, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. No two
plays in the range OF the modern drama could have
been better selected 20 have called forth the peculiar
powers of Miss Ince, than these. The sudden transit
tons from faneied happiness to apparently irredeem-
able despair, on which turns the chief interest in the
principal feminine characters of each were admirably
depicted by the talented lady who performed the role,
showing a thorough study Of the authors creation.
The emotional passages which have given to these
female characters a favorite place they hold in the
regards of the theatrical public, were given with a
chasteness of elocution of speech, and action so utterly
removed from what is generally considered to be the
rank of the stage, that it was difficult to remove the
impression that it was not the living Julia or
Pauline, rather than the 8 counterfeit resemblance"
of the features of human thought. We should
think this lady, from the specimen of her talents
given in the petit comedy of Who speaks first,
would excel in the lighter walks of the drama, and
from what we hear, we judge such an exhibition of
her powers would be greeted with the most accepta-
BILE sight TO the actress and actor, attentive and pay
ing listeners. We regret to hear that there was but
a slim audience on Tuesday evening, as it is but
rarely in our isolated position, an opportunity is pre-
scented here of witnessing what is acknowledged by
all who have that pleasure to be emphatically Sc good
acting" Miss Ince was ably supported by Mr..
Beatty and Mr.. Townsend. Sir Thomas Clifford and
Col. Dumas took all by actual surprise. The Thea
ter will be opened on Thursday and Saturday nights
of this week. -
SMuGeuSG.-On the arrival Of the John Dunlap
alias Alice last Friday, she was siezed by the Mar
shall for a violation of the revenue laws at Hilo, at
which port she arrived from San Francisco on the
Odd ut. The Captain, Bell, was brought here in the
Ralama, on Saturday a prisoner, there being also a
charge against him for breaking cargo. The John
Dunlap was restored TO her owner on Monday, and
Mr.. Bell took his place on the public works, under a
sentence of 500 fine for smuggling, or hard labor
till the fine and costs are paid. Capt. Bell is an
entire stranger to us; but it seems hard that any one
competent to act as a shipmaster should be consigned
to two years hard labor to satisfy a paltry fine of
800. The fine is doubtless just and he may deserve
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not a shame to allow him to stay there without some
effort being made among us to raise the amount of
his tine, and thus procure his release
From THE WHALING FLEET-We are indebted to
Capt. Clifford, of the Mercury. for reports from about
s~ixty-ive whalers cruising in the Ochotsk. Most of
his reports are only to the middle of June. July is
generally the best month for whaling. The reports
received are very good, and indicatethat the Ochotsk
will come fully up to former years. and perhaps
turn out a larger aggregate. From the Arctic the
reports improve very slowly, and there is now but lit
tie chance of that feet turning anything but a very
small average-muchs below that Of any previous
year. In our NORTH Pacific List nearly two hundred
ships are now reported.
VESSEL CAPsIzED.-By reference to the memoranda
Of the voyage of the Young Greek it will be seen that
she passed very near a capsized vessel Of $40 tons,
coppered. about 800 miles from Hawaii. 1t could
hardly have been the Kamamaiu lost eighteen months
ago, but is more probably some vessel lost off the
coast of California By our exchange papers We see
the schooner Laura Beran, which was about
he above size, has been missing for some weeks, and
reward of $500 was offered for information regard
ng her. 1t may have been her or some other Cali
ornia coaster. -
A CLIPPER PAssAGE--The fine new bark Young
Greek, Taylor, arrived on Saturday last. ~ days
Boston. beating several crack vessels, bound to
his port. that had the start of her some eight or ten
Capt. Taylor informs us that he followed
lieut.. Maury's sailing directions in every respect and
kinks that they arc worthy of confidence Maury
vessels bound north from Cape Horn at
his season to keep we'll to the westward, as the winds