The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-10-03
European EtcIt>.

B.audin j. expected ia Paris shortly 10 cross the
Seine On q tight rope. stretched from the facade Of
the IaiIeres 20 the barracks on the Quai d'or-ay.
The French armoreI steamship Sol;eriuo was
launched Ga he 25th July, and the Magenta On
the ~. These complete the tx arm'rv! steam
meu-.t-wlr which are actually ah5At- The aIia'rri
iTissie Heroine viii be- the next built
Ii j. Er-sELL REyIrwFD Al HouF-The London
SriHrhfy R,rl.r makes merry over the Mr. Rus
sells letters 20 the London Times. di-SecrIug them
WIN q very sharp sclIpei. c~ritcising their style with
acrimony. and abusing them rcund.y III terms both
genera! and sfccidc.
\ French merchant vessel lately lay .n great peril
during a storm near the shoals Of 'aprerl \ man
.u q rel shirt came l.uue-ide with "a fishing boat,
lrlpei on board, took the helm ami saved the vessel
When he VIZ departing the captain offered him mon
y, and on his refusing IL, discovered hs saviour To
be-Glr.bI.II.
THE PorfDov-It Is rumored IT Paris in case
Of the Leoel>e % the Pope. Victor Emmanuel viii Ice
proclaimed at Rome with the consent OF the French
government, ST, n To- pat the couc.lve OF cardinals
wup would meet 10 elect q mes Pope in the face Of a
tatt accOmpiL.
Madeline SMITH ENGAGED To BE MARRIED
Ms Madeline Smith, who Wa tried a few years
ago at Glasgow for poisoning her Agullar, ami ac-
quilted 10y the verdict Of '' not proven, di not 20
o. Australia, A. was asserted shortly after, but 10
Plymouth, England. where, a he wspaPer OF the
place states, ' She has captvated many hearts, and
is now engaged to be married"
BY the last reports the expenditures Of Russia are
c44, 500. 900 sterling, with = revenue Of only E4O,-
900. 900. In 1858 the cost Of the army alone
amounted TO el5. 900, 900. The great source OF rev
cuue is the duty ON spirits, which reached ElS'Ooo;
900 per anuum. This branch of revenue i inrinei
out 70 two hundred and sixteen persons, who retail
the liquor .: about thirty cents 4 quart.
Very interesting experiments with the electric
light are making in Paris. y single burner illumi-
mates with a light equal TO that of the full moon the
whole square in front Of the Palais Royal, and the
two entrances Of Rue Saint Honore. NJ Gunner has
succeeded in making electrical lamps which will
burn SIX hours without requiring attention. and VI.
GERMS lamp hurus under water 20 nearly rs well
a. in the atmosphere that 1t l. seriously proposed 10
light with it submarine structures, sunken wrecks
and river bottoms.
The CouEr-Mr. HIM the English Astronomer,
in "A letter TO the London Times Of the 9th instant,
thinks II Is not only possible. but probable that on
the 3Jih Of June, the sdTth passed. through the fdtt
Of the Comet NJ u distance Of perhaps two thirds Of
its length from the nucleus. lie adds that upon
that date he observed, in the evening, a peculiar
phosphoresceuce or illumination of the ky, which
he attributed then TO an aurOral glare, but which he
suggests might possibly be owing TO nearness of the
comets tail. g "A similar illumination Of the
heavens" ne concludes, . has been remarked. gen
orally on the earth's surface, 1t will be 4 significant
fact
4 Washington correspondence of the Baltimore
Sun. dated Aug. -. says:
England u evidently, through private ana puDhc
agencies, eudenvuring to create new sources of cotton
supply. and ii is expected that, 10y opening railways
between the cotton region in India and the seaports,
the supply of East India cotton Will be largely in
creased this year. An English writer intima;es that
~forty-fve per cent. of the needed supply will he OBJ
tanned from sources independent of the Confederate
States, and conjectures that the British government
- will vote twenty millions a year for the support
of the operatives that are to be thrown out of en-
ploymemt by a failure of a full supply, rather than
become involved in the American quarrel"
ATTEMPT on THE LIFE or THE KING OF PRUssIA.-A
letter from Baden, dated July l4th, appears in the
Journal DIES Dc5GtS. The writer says This morn
ing, between 9 and 10 o'clock, ut the moment when
the King of Prussia, after his accustomed walk in
the Lienteuthal Avenue, was seated near the stone
a student of Leipsic approached him, and
leyeIing a pistol at his breast, pulled the Trigger.
force Of the charge happily caused the bullet TO
rise, and the ball only tore the dress. and slightly
grazed the Kings shoulder. Arrested on the spot by
taken before the chief magistrate of the city, and
examined in the presence of his august highness
the Grand Duke of Baden. Ii is stated that the stu
dent confined himself to the reply, while avowing his
crime, that his only object was to free Germany from
prince who was not sufficiently active in the cause
Of German unity. The population of Baden, where
His Majesty is regarded with respect and veneration,
heard IF the event with a horror which will be shared
by all the world. The report runs that the Leipsic
student is the son of a Russian Consul in a city on
the Black Sea. Others say he Is OF Lithuanian
origin.