The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-08-05

Fereixn sumnsnry.
We continue our summary of foreign news by the
last mail:
The swill milk excitement, inaugarated in New
York, is spreading. They have discovered the same
iniquity in Buffalo.
The national debt of Spain amounts to E14O, OOO,-
600 sterling.
Kansas has 19, 900 square miles of territory, more
than all New-England, New York and New-Jersey.
Commodore Thomas APP Catesby Jones of the q. S.
Navy. died at Washington on Sunday, May 80, in
his 69th year.
Charles Mackey sailed in the steamer Europa,
friends assembled to take hrewells.
Contracts have been signed for putting Shak-
speare's house, at Stratford-on-Avon, in the exact
condition in which it was at his birth.
The Florida volunteers are disbanded- Only 80
warriors and a few women and children are left of
the once powerful Indian tribes of that State.
Sir Colin Campbell has declined the offer Of a peer
age, but would like to be field marshal, and is to
have that honor. That office in India, will be worth
to him one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per
year-altogether better than the poor honor of q
peerage.
The damage by the Bell crevasse. says the New
Orleans True Delta, of the eth June. now and
eventual, to the sugar crop alone, is estimated at
5000, 900 at least In addition to this disastrous
item, is the destruction of corn, other produce, stock
and fixtures. The foods from that crevasse have
inundated the country some twenty-five miles down
the river, overlooking between thirty and forty plan
tations, and are crawling on down towards the Gull.
REDRESS DEMANDED.-Mr. Burlingame, of Massa-
chusetts, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations. has ready a report, unanimously adopted
by that body, calling upon the President TO make the
necessary inquiries into the recent seizure of the bark
.7friatic while lying in a French port, and bringing
the same to the notice Of the Emperor's government.
He is also instructed TO obtain redress for the wrong
done, and a guaranty against similar occurrences for
the future.
The New York Herald saws it's receipts for adver-
Using, for the week ending April 10Th, were SD, 1868
40, and the aggrerate receipts of the week were S14,-
7S4 SO. This is at the rate of more than three
fourths of "a million dollars a year. 1t is almost
81 500 in advance of the corresponding week last
year, the Increase being principally for advertise
inents.
Lieut.. Maury has received from the Archduke
Ferdinand Of Austria the great gold medal for art
and science, awarledro him by his Imperial Apostle
lie Majesty, the Emperor of Austria
The prophets predict that within a twelve month.
we shall have either a revolution in France. or n war
between France and England. The former may
break out AT any moment and is already budded, but
the Emperor may postpone the fatal day by q foreign
war.
Some of the Berliners admit the beauty and amis-
biity of the Princess ROYAL. but they bring against
her the most awful charge they could against a wo-
man. namely, she speaks too little.
The Richmond Wing lately published an article,
proposing that the State should endow every slaveless
white man with a negro. at the public expense, to
save him from becoming a ~vagabond
VI. Paulsen, the champion chess player. has just
completed, at Chicago the feat of playing ten stimuli
seven, and three were drawn games. This feat. it is
said, has never been accomplished before.
Humboldt writes to George Ticknor, the Boston
philosopher. that his physical strength is slowly de-
Ginning, but that he still works, lkiedy Mt night, and
can stand it for an hour without ffigue. He is in
his S9th year. The fifth volume Of Cosmos is going
through the press.
The American Commissioner to China. Mr.. Reed,
is about to return home by the overland route. He
has announced his resignation to the State Depart
ment.
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MrssIoxs.-New York,
Nav 3.-The anniversary of the Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions was held in this city last evening.
The Rev. DR.. Dabnev of Virginia delivered the SER
mon. The receipts for the year, including a special
contribution of SIS, 900 for repairing the losses in
India, were S224 900; the expenditures SPOT 900.
The Boxes OF ETHAN ALLEN.-Thereh has been an
exciting newspaper discussion mp north as to the
whereabouts of Ethan Aliens remains. In the burial
ground at Burlington. Vermont, where the bones of
the patriot were supposed to be lying, they could not
be found. The tablet "Sacred to his Memory was
there; but, on digging down, nothing but mother
earth was shoveled up. A Montreal paper declared
that Ethan Allen was buried in that city; but the
idea was secuted. No. one believed that his body
would rest in a foreign country. After a good deal
of justification, it finally turns out that the patriot's
bones have been found, by digging a little deeper, in
the very spot covered by the slab which SO long in
formed the passer-by where rested the mortal part
of General Ethan, Allen. The Burlington Free Press
says:
In thoroughly removing the earth at the burial
place of Ethan Allen on th6x6th. for laying the
foundation of the monument the bones oe Alien were
found, right beneath the place of the old tombstone.
They were boxed up, and reinterrcd beneath the
foundation.
GEN. wALKER.-The great flibuster is reported to
be making preparations on a grand scale for another
expedition. He and several of his followers were put
under bonds in heavy amounts. not to violate the neu-
trality laws of the United States for the ensuing year.
-Nelc Orleans Correspondence.
EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH PAcIrrc.-
Among the passengers by the Golden .4ge, which ar
rived last evening, is Lieut.. Burke, u. s. N, who
has been ordered to this city for the purpose of fitting
out and commanding an Exploring Expedition to the
North Pacific. We understand he has been instructed
to give his attention to the interesting question Of
90 deep-sea soundings''.-he, it is said, being the in
ventor of thu only knooa apparatus for that
purposes. F. BuLefin.
JOHN AND JoNArHAN.-To speak more plainly-
the late proceedings of British cruisers in the Gulf Of
Mexico have been stopped by the orders of the Brit
ish Admiral on the station, in the first instance, and
by direct instructions from England in the second.
The principle involved, and the claims which our
government have made, will doubtless form the SUBJ
ject OF a long diplomatic controversy; but Htbe Emo
fish press is any indication Of the temper Of its gov
or people, we shall certainly emerge from the
argument with flying co'ors John Bull has con-
tended for a very long time, that his war Dogs
could exercise, whenever they chose, the right of Do
lice upon the high seas. In former days. he had the
might to make it the right; but those days are gone |
by. forever. He has rivals now, who won't submit
to it. But to do him justice. he has already disa-
vowed the acts of his cruisers in the Gulf; he has
readily promised reparation; and there seems to be
every indicate. n that, through the skillfnl neeotia-
tions of Mr.. Dallas, he will he at last induced to re-
cede from the position he has 80 long and 50 ohsti-
nately assumed, and win recognize the American
that the deck of an American shin cannot |
be visited, even by force. by any foreign vessel Of war
IN time of peace.
An EXPLANATION or THE ReCENr AooREsslons IN
rHE GuLF.-Since We we're informed that the British
cruisers in The Gulf has received "a New il1EThctious