The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-08-16

our laws In criminal and civil matters are extended
over American citizens in those countries; also the
common law Of eqliry and admiralty. Ministers
and Cgnsuls have iull judicial powers, ana can pun
i-h according to the magnitude Of the offence.
The President i authorized to appoint seven
Mar-hlls 20 execute processes; one in Japan, four
n CHM. one n SIAN. Iui one ia Turkey. Murder
and in-urrect!or. or rebellion against the Govern
ment - either oi said countries, with the intent To-
-ubvert the sane, are made capital offences, punish
able with ir-uh. C.n-ul- md Commercill Agents
Oh islanl- not Inhabited by any e!vilizci people or
Shom We have not recognized by treaty, are also en-
powered t. exercise judicial functions over American
citizens
NEw Arcric ExPEDruox.-Nr c F. Hall set 81
from New London May p, upon the whaiesnip George
Henry, Capt. Burlington, bound for tho Arjtc seas.
He expects T. land somewhere in Fox Channel, aui TO
search for survivors Of the Franklin expedition The
George Henry, i owned by Me~sr>. Williams *
Hlvens, who generously offered Mr.. Hall a free
passage for himself and outfits. The expedition con-
si~ts only Of Mr. b. F.. Han Of Cincinnati, and his
E-qui'naux guide, CulIl-jl-lh. Mr.. Hall, VII lately
resided in Cincinnati, designs to leave the vessel in
which he sailed At Sussex Island, taking with him .
large boat, which has been constructed expressly for
him, and with which ne designs 10 make explorations
Ia the region lying between Cape Willoughby and the
entrance 10 Fury and Hecla Strait. A crew Of five
E~Squimaux, which he will select at Sussex Island,
will assist him in his researches. Mr.. Hall hopes TO
obtain further traces Of the party which went with
York, Mayor Harris OF New London, and som Of the
prominent citizens of that place, went down the
haroor with Mr.. Hall, and returned on the tug which
tOwed the vessel TO sea.
Tue FIRST WHALEMES.-In an article on Whales
and Nhalemen in Chambers Journal, the question is
put, AS to 'Who were the first Whalemen;" In
answer ts this, it Is stated. not the ruling Briton-
not the hardy DIne-not the steadily-enduring, am
phibi0us Dutchmau-nOt the bold Norwegian, child
of sea kings. No. The Spaniards-Biscayans aud
BIsques-hrst dared attack Ley!athau on the high
seas, SO early rs 1915. True. some have tried to
prove the NOrwegians were frs. in the field, but they
have not made out a clear case. Ii was probably the
narwhaI, grlmpus, and other small versions OF the
great whale they hunte.i. The old niuth-century
navigator, Olithere, the Norwegian, whose wonderful
adventures We're taken down from his own lips by no
less q. man than our King Alfred. speaks OF having
slain sixty whales in two days. Elatly impossible, II
right whales had been in question. Thus much is
certain the first whalebone which ever found its way
IatU England was picked up from the wreck of a
Bsclyan ship in 1894 and when, al the close of the
sixteenth century, the English first began 10 ut out
whale-ships, they were obliged to call in Biscayans,
both to direct tue,n in their preparations and TO MI
the more important Offices in the ship-.E B. Ship
ping List.