The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-11-18

,,ossI of the London Missionary Society t.
~ Additional missionaries to India within
vas made, says the London Patriot,
bree months since; and yet four-6fths Of the
more than one half of the estimated means
v At the disposal Of the Directors
Of Portugal has recently issued DEGREES
.i,xery is at once abolished at Macao and
ieau province Of Angola. and prospectively
~ mainder Of the Portuguese colonies, the
In female slaves hereafter born being de-
. entitled to their freedom on reaching the
r,v wears. Some Of our doctors Of divinity
On, 20 instruct his Catholic majesty better
mites 20 black men
:, suu of the Electer Of Hesse, who some
.rr;ed an actress by the name of Birnba um,
r;,bout the knowledge Of his father. and
;vsd in exile, is endeavoring to obtai n q
80 with his parent. He offers to separate
r;fs and the latter is willing to consent to
,sment. providing an indemnity Of 8 10000
I'D her. The large debts contracted by
during his exile render the solution of this
diffcult.-Gaiignani-
NJ THE MIcRoscoPE--The mould of
4, stale bread, moist wood, &c, is shown
e;cro.cope to be plants, bearing leaves,
4 seeds, and increasing with incredible
~ in n few hours, the seeds spring up,
naturi,y, and bring forth seeds themselves,
nv generations are perfected in q day.
q Sourgeou went to the last EPSON races,
IKE Whiteield, to beard the devil in his
sr,nd stand was even delivered to him for
of TWO sermons. The text selected for
as discourse was the words in l Cor,
vbich he ran n parallel between races
the heavenly race. In the evening he
k,m the 55th Of Isaiah and the 6rst verse.
we're immense, the impression was Alto
and the collections made at the close for
~ngelical chapel in EPSON we've exceedingly
W,yp THAT Blows NO Goods the
river recedes the overdowed lands show
e,ious Of soil, Of irregular thickness, &C
n~osition. the thickest being made IN eddies.
he water has been s~tagnant. To many
IL will be a rich compensation for the loss
the overflow. In several cases there are
ricns to the cultivatable soil by the filling
vamp lands. In one case the retiring OF
has assured to one planter a rise OF three
from this ~alluvial sediment, upon his back
mo fifteen hundred acres of the best soil to
;o5. Two. three, and five hundred acres
ned as common accretions from this source
rrFIc OcEAs.-It is astonishing how little
= known about the navigation Of the Pa
as compared with that Of the Atlantic.
while we receive news of the discoveries
having been made, that are not laid down
h. The ship Frigate Bird arrived from
! July 4th, reports having fallen in with
rocky islets, not laid down on the charts.
saws: went North as far as lat 450
BIZ, at 4 p. ~, made a group Of rocks bear
distant six miles, sea breaking very high
m; some Of them we're even with the sur
me forty or fifty feet high; they appeared
East and West, about n mile they lay in
v, long. 1902 E., and are not down on
after running E. N. E. thirty miles, made
bds. bearing " N. W, distant thirty-fve
Cd male these rocks bearing from South
by W. half w., distant seventy miles" 1t
Z remembered that guano islands of con-
kxrent were discovered little more than a
b the Northwest Of the Sandwich Islands
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