The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-05-05
Foreign Summary.

1t is reported in Paris that NJ. Fouid, minister o
the Emperor's household, has gained upwards of five
millions of francs by the recent fall in the price O.
the French funds. NJ. de Morny is said to have beer
even more fortunate.
The Jews of New York propose to erect a temple
that will rival in extent and magnifcence the Cath
Ollie cathedral now in course of erection in that city.
During the past year Lynn has manufactured more
than 16, 000, 900 pairs of shoes. The shoe business oil
Massachusetts, is valued at $40, 900 900 a year, and
one-half the shoes made in that State are manufac-
tnred in Lynn-so the thriving city of Lynn annu-
ally manufactures $50, 0O0. 900 worth of shoes.
Judge Douglas party at Washington is pronounced
to have been an immense affair" At least fifty
Southern members and Senators, with their families,
were present. None of the Cabinet or their families
attended.
w. C. Corrie, proprietor of the yacht Wanderer,
has been expelled from the New York Yacht Club,
primarily for his deliberate violation of the laws of
the United States, but more especially for his being
engaged in a traffic repugnant to humanity and to
the moral sense of the members of the association.
The receipts of the Romish Missionary Society, the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith, for 1857,
from all parts of the globe, amounted to $685.. 900.
Their expenditures in Europe were about $3.50, 900:
in Asia, 1884, 900; in Africa, $54 900; in America,
SIT 900; in the South seas, $4,000.
Mr.. Everett has delivered his Washington Grafton
103 times, of which SO have been for the Association,
and he has thereby realized for Mount Vernon treas
ury SAG, 045 40. By his recent engagement to con-
tribute weekly articles to the New York Ledger, to be
called the : Mount Vernon Papers, he has added to
this the sum of $l0.O00, thus increasing his fund to
S56, 034 40.
A new feature has been introduced on the Boston
and New York night train. 1t is a car lighted with
gas; during the experimental trip, Wednesday night,
only ten cents worth of gas was consumed in a jour-
ney of nine hours, and the car was lighted as bril-
liantly as a parlor. The meter is placed underne ath
the car. and pipes convey the gas to the burners.
Dickens is succeeding wonderfully with his public
readings of his own works. The great charm is said
to consist in his admirable mimicry and the power of
rapidly changing his tone and look, without degen-
Grating into buffoonery or extravaganza. 1t is curl
Gus, however, to see such q man appear in public,
dressed in a style of exaggerated fashion, with half
a dozen rings on his fingers, and a huge bouuet Of
exotics in his breast.
Kossuth is said to be in Strengthened circumstances.
living on the proceeds of his lectures and contribu-
tons to newspapers, eked out by the remnant of his
wife's $50 900, most of which was lost in railroad
investments in the United States. The SIC, 900 COL
lected by him in this country has all been expended
ON political objects, not a cent being appropriated by
Kossuth for his own use. The great Magyar is said
to look twenty years older than he did when in this
country seven years ago.
THIRTY-THREE STARs.-The Washington Union
says The Star Spangled Banner, with thirty-three
stars, was hoisted at the Capitol simultaneously with
the announcement OF the signing of the Oregon bill
by the President"
1t may not have been recollected that the act Of
Congress passed on the 4th of April, 1917, establish
ing our National Flag, provides 6 that on the adm;s- |
sion of every new State into the Union one star he
added to the union of the flag; and that such addi-
ton shall take effect on the fourth day of July. then
next succeeding such admission
Continual charivaris disturbed the imperial renose
OF Soulouque in the Date-Tree Tavern, at Kingston |
in spite of the watchfulness of the authorities. One
negro song in particular, the Emperor has eyer haop
unable to endure-BOucdner Jean Louis. While he
was In power, the wretch who dared intone this pon-
ular Haytien air was sure of Imprisonment. The
refugees In kingston, whom he had exiled, would
nightly surround his rooms in Date-Tree and avenoe
themselves by chanting in chorus this hated SONG
On hearing its dested notes, the ex-Emperor raoed
up and down his apartments like a tiger. His land
fora numaneiy applied to the authorities for a guard
of honor to watch the environs of the hotel. The re-
quest was peremptorily refused.
1t is a lamentable fact that the visits of Amer;o.n
whale ships to the islands of the Pacific. have ofter
been curses rather than blessings to their inbab;tants
1t was with no small degree of pleasure that we met
airy Herald for February. It nav be remenhsnad
that Messrs- Doane and Pierson. with their v;vas
were LETT at Ebon (Covel's Island) by the Mission shin
morning. Star in December, 1863. Mr.. Doane
writes that DIR. PieTson has been enabled TO hold sar
vice ever since he landed. and had his house crowded.
Ar. u. in speaking of the kind attentions of some
commanders Of vessels SAYS
. jan; ma, a.h.-Ihis morning Captains Chapel and Mil
ton called upon US, bringing our mail from the Ha-
waiian Islands. Our friend, Capt. Chapel. NOT onIv
brought this, but kindly offered to take far no :
otrong's Island and Ponape. what we might wish to
send Gas also did Capt. Milton), and further o@...S
to take letters for us to Japan. We were much rlao.Ss
with the visits of these Captains, who. before thew
ien' dld us and the cause we serve. We cannot hnt
some so a;es ~ benefit Capt. Chapel, aside from
70 prime my doors and windows,l presented us
TWO lambs. male and female, one noble SOW.
s csaa q and .in 9 I;,l group Of eight pigs about her. two
service. working out flooring. Capt. Milton lek some
sslI grown pigs and . pair Of ducks. All this We
Was q generous donation for Ebon. and that
~ 1bao Ss On the birth day Of our mission; The visit of