The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-06-23
Foreign Summary.

The unclaimed dividends of the Bank Of England
amount to over five millions.
There were over 800 persons burnt to death in the
city of London, during the year 1858.
1t is said that Gen. Cass, health is so infrm that
his death at any time would be no surprise.
There are, in the State of Oregon. 1876 -four mills,
with a capacity of producing $500, 900 barrels per
annum.
The age of the great California tree, estimated by
the count of the annual layers of wood. is 6.4OS years.
A jumping match for one hundred dollars came off
at Fort Erie, n. Y, a few days since, between two
boys, in which the winner made twelve feet at q sim
gle jump and thirty-fve feet in three successive
jumps, beating his antagonist by two inches.
A Washington dispatch states that there is such
information in. that city as leaves no doubt of a deep
laid scheme for the revolution of Cuba. 1t is not
known that the government has been officially in
formed of the fact.
The PRESIDENT INDIGNANT AT BRITISH INCIvILrrY.
Mr.. Buchanan expresses great indignation at the
reported conduct of Governor Douglass in refusing
the Americans at Victoria permission to celebrate
Washington's birthday. The matter is to be brought
to the attention of the British government.
GOLD ON VANCOUVER IsLAND.-News has been re-
ceived from Nitnat Sound, on Vancouver Island
about so miles from here-that a party of miners,
who had been at work for several months. were making
from SIS to Sc per day to the hand. So soon as fur
Their particulars can be got from there, more will leave
Victoria for that locality-Vic. Gazette.
The corporation of Trinity Church, New York. is
SAID to De 0y Tar the WealtnleSt ECCLESIASTICAL D00y IN
the United States, and yet it is reported on the verge
of bankruptcy-its annual expenditures exceeding its
income over S70,OO0. The present 3ebt of the cor
poration is about $500, 900. and imm 1ate measures
are necessary to save this rich church from pecuniary
ruin.
THE DoG-STAR.-The largest star seen in the sky
is one in the South, called the Dog-Star. From cal
culations, it is known that its distance from us is not
less than nineteen millions of millions of miles.
Other stars have been calculated to be ~forty-two
thousand times more distant than this, and light,
which travels at the rate of a million of miles in five
seconds, must be sixty-three thousand years in travel
ing from them to the earth.
Mrs. Partington, after listening to the reading of
an advertisement for a young ladies' boarding school,
said: "For my part, 1 can'T~zceive what on airth
edication is coming to. When l was young, if a girl
only understood the rules of distraction. provision,
multiplying, replenishing, and the common DONNA
tor, the converts and domitories, the provinces and
the umpires, they had Nication enough. But now
they have to study bottomy, algerbay, and have to
demonstrate suggestions Of sycophants of circusses,
tangents and Diogenes and parallelogramy, to say
nothing about the exhides, correction and abstruse
triangles Thus saying, the old lady leaned back in
her chair, her knitting work fell in her lap. and
for some minutes she seemed in meditation.
AUsTRALIA.-Public meetings have been held in
this colony of Great Britain, at which it has been
proposed to petition the Queen and Parliament to
concede to it entire freedom and national indepen-
deuce. so as to obviate all the possibilities or contin-
gencies of war from any quarter on their coasts.
They say that while they should still retain their
British habits and associations, their British feelings
and predictions as strongly as ever, they could hold
out the right hand of friendship and fellowship TO
other nations; and ''whatever wars might be wagod
in the old world, the vast ocean that lines their coast
would, as far as these noble colonies are concerned,
be n Pacific ocean in reality for all mankind
The ". Y. Courier & Enquirer says ga gentle
man of Boston, who is a practical machinist, is con-
structing a steamer upon a novel plan, by which he
proposes to attain a speed Of thirty to thirty-fve
miles an hour. He has made experiments with a
model on a small scale, which were very successful,
and he is now building one sixty feet in length to
further test the practicability and value of the inven-
ton. He relies upon both air and water to obtain
his p~ropelling force. With machinery in the stern of
the vessel, upon the propeller principle, he proposes
to obtain a speed of twelve miles an hour, which he
says is the highest rate that can be realized from that
agency. In the bow of the vessel, and worked by the
same engines. he places an apparatus. something like
the wings of a windmill, which is to make $50 revo-
lutions a minute, and by its action upon the atmos-
phere will pull the vessel along, be calculates, mt q
speed much greater than has heretofore been attain
ed.'
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Yankee boy at Norfolk.
Conn.,, named Edward Kilbourn, now twenty-five
years old, has, during four year past, been exercising
his ingenuity on the matter of knitting machines.
till he has patented, both in this country and Great
Britain, a machine which bids fair to make as much
of a revolution in the manufacture of knit goods. |
whether of silk, cotton, or wool, as Whitney, ~cotton-j
gin did in the cotton manufacture. He bought an
ordinary knitting-loom, and, while making socks
alterations seemed to suggest themselves, till he had
made application for twenty-four improvements,
eighteen Of which were accepted; and the result is
virtually an entirely new machine. Its chief feature
is that the work runs rapidly through-as in an or
binary weaving loom-widening and narrowing ac-
cording to pattern, and without the necessity of stop
ping to let down or take up stitches. The advantages
gained are seen in the fact that knitting which is
done elsewhere at . cost of SIS or over per dozen can
be done in Norfolk for twenty-five cents per dozen, or
perhaps less. +
LORD Lyons AT WAsHTNcroy-Iord I.vor. tk.j
Minister from Great Britain to the United States.
his suite. accompanied by Lord Napier. arrived
at Washington. City on the 7th inst. Lord Napier
proceeded to Annapolis, to welcome his successor.
the British frigate CUracoa. On the 18th, Lord
Lyons wac formally presented to the President. and
gave utterance, in behalf Of his government. to the
most profound feelings Of friendship to the United /
the part Of this country by the President Lord
Lyons IS q gentleman Of fine personal appearance and
manly bearing. With a face beaming with frankuess
aud good natore He was highly pleased with his
interview With MIR. Buchanan, and seemed 10 be
impressed with the manner and toned the
resident reply. He takes possession Of the house
I'd fur nitnfe just as it was occupied By Lord Napier
After his usual wednesday evening lecture. last
night. Rev. Mr. Beecher presented to his couereea-
lion the cas- Ct : slave mother in Virginia who had
licensed smistress,-but whom the heirs. availinr
OF legal technicalilies, had again (dnced1
slavery. A humane slave.dealer had bouehtfh The
q for $1,000 and had c1bsed The mother tn Are
ng her 70 comaNorth withAono o. her dhfdr1a<
the mopey~staking her V6El a. honor 1hAf -
would return. Sc he1 colleefsd 900 II Fh11edS~k
phia, aud now spllcited $500 bore ~ 6lc6d 81
apparently JHhife~ Ekzse In r.
rikstea nzthe pot md a. otkef 42oo VI1
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