The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-22
Foreign summary.

There have been 81 100, 900 saved from the wreck
Of the Royal Charter.
France has recently come in possession of the port
of AdoOI on the Red sea.
II is stated that the Emperor has refused permits
sion for Marshal McNlahon to accept the sword ten
dered by Ireland.
The Morse telegraph patent expires i'm 1861, and
will then be free to the public. Every man can then
work his own wires.
1t is estimated that the three thousand miners at
Pixies Peak this season have taken out 81 100000.
The London Builders Strike is not yet ut an end.
Five thousand yet hold out, but their resources have
failed and they are reduced TO the extreme of poverty
and distress.
Jenny Lind has made up her mind to endow and
erect an asylum for decayed singers. otto, her hus-
band. IL i said, renders her uneasy and unhappy
he lights the tiger fercely, the wretch :
Another e~lopement in high life is reported. The
wife Of Mr. Smith B~ennermann, residing near Maid
stone. England, ran of with Rev. \. W Green, cur
ate Of the Parish. where the parties resided. The
lady has property in her own right amounting to
E1OO,OOO.
The United States Government pays the California
and Oregon members Of Congress some 5000 n ses-
sion as mileage, and yet I has been a notorious fact.
now again declared by such good Democratic author
titles A. the Oregon Statesman and Sacramento Union.
that all these memters travel on free passes.
Rev. T.. Starr King has resigned his p1lpit in Bos-
ton 70 20 70 California on account Of his health. But
his people were unwilling To- let him 20, and he there
fore Withdrew his resignation and received a years
absence. During his absence, the Parish supplies
the pulpit.
The Young Mems Debating Society. having dis
missed the question, Where does the FIRE go to when
il goes out:' have got a new and more exciting one
up-"W hen a house i destroyed by fire, does ii burn
M, or does IL burn dorm - There Is TO be a warm
debate ON this question.
critic in a Sandwich Islands paper pronounces
Thackeray's .'Virgiuiaus,'' ian in;Olerably stupid
tumble On the other hand = critic in the Christian
Examiner prJnOunces Thackeray's name 1.-THE highest
among English novelists Of the present day" They
are both wroDg-POrHGHd Transcript.
An appropriate monument to Stephenson, the dis
tinguished English civil engineer, has teen erected at
Darlington, England The Locomotive engine built
by him., the first ever constructed; has been placed on
4 pedestal IN front Of the railroad station, where
crowds flock TO see 1t. IL was cOnsideIGd a miracle
in its day Its speed was four miles an hour.
Vice President Breckenridge Is the grandson Of
Rev. Samuel StanhOpe Smith, one Of che most learned
and elegant gentlemen and scholars Of his day: and
spoon, also n president Of Princeton college, and one
Of the signers of the Declaration Of Independence from
the State Of New Jersey. He j said TO have the best
chances Of obtaining the Democratic nomination for
the Presidency.
4 letter from Vienna, in the Prussiln Ga-sfe,
says " The government appears more and more re-
solved not TO allow the agitation in Hungary, which
has suddenly arisen. TO continue. IL has ordered the
9Th sorps d'drmse. which Is now in Italy, TO proceed
to Hungary, to be at the disposition OF the Archduke
Albert"
\ wise man will speak well Of his neighbor. love
his wife. and pay for his paper-SyrGcUs JJUTHGi.
To pay for ones newspaper Is wise. no doubt.
And also to speak well Of ones ~neighbor; but wheth-
er it is wise. or even safe, 10 lore his neighbour rife,
Is a question.
The japanese laugh at our trial by jury. and de-