The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-03
MOVEMENT OF OCEAN STEAMERS
SANDWICH ISLANDS

Dates from Honolulu are to the 18th November
Up tosthat date one hundred and seventy ships had
arrived at the Islands, with an average of six hun
dred barrels OF oil to each ship, sperm and ALL
The right whale catch will however, fall much
short of this. good many ships have been
damaged about the bows the past season by the ice
IN the Ochotsk, and much work has to be done in
the way of re-coppering, &c.
The bark Orestes, from Melbourne, with 70
passengers, and the small schooner Isabel from
Callao with few passengers. had arrived at Homo
lulu, and was there on the 18th ult
The United States surveying schooner Fennimore
Cooper, Lieutenant Brook arrived on the 9th
November. She reports non est some ten or
twelve reported shoals and islands on the route be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu, and in their
stead soundings of two and three miles,
INTERNATIONAL Rowan exciting topic of re-
mark, lately, has been an international case about
French sailor, in which the French and American
consus were at loggerheads. The facts are simply
these: After the loss of the Napoleon Ill in the
Ochotsk this season. her were rescued by one
or two American ships, which were cruising in the
neighborhood: among these was the Nassau, under
command OF Captain Murdoch, of New Bedford
who took several of the shipwrecked Frenchmen on
board. One of them, named de Flanchet, a boat
swain, was so well pleased with the Americans
that he agreed to ship for the remainder of the
voyage, the captain making very fair bargain
with him.
On the arrival of the ship at Honolulu, the sailor
accordingly went before the American consul with
Capt. Murdoch, and there shipped on the Nassau.
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afterwards the French consul sent message for
him to come to his office. The mate gave him per-
mission to go shore, and he did not return again.
On inquiry, it appeared that the French consul had
told the man that it was against the laws of France
for him to serve on board a foreign ship, and had
| provided him with boarding house on shore, in
tending, in day or so, to send him on board the
French man-of-war, bound to France. After the
lapse of forty-eight hours, Capt Murdoch reported
the man to the American consul as deserter, who
| Immediately made requistion upon the chief of
police for his arrest. This was promptly done, and
the sailor confined in the station-house subject to
| the orders of the American consul.
Next day, the French Consul sued out writ OF
habeas corpus, and the case was heard at some
length before Chief Justice Allen. The decision
which is rather lengthy one, appears in the Com,
mercial advertiser of to-day, and though some fault
may be found with it piece of composition, i,
is, conceive, sound international doctrine The
man was, OF course, remanded, and is still held at
the order of the American Consul. Meantime
Mons. Perrin has appealed to the full bench, and
the rehearing takes place this morning
The principle involved, that of the obligatory ma
ture OF contract between parties, the citizens
subjects OF different nations irrespective of the pc
nal laws or regulations of such nations is so simple
and common sense that it needs no comment. The
French Consul is an odd sort of character, and
combines the pertinacity of bulldog with the stu
pidity of an Esquimaux.