The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-30
Foreign Summary.

The attempt is to be made. by a French expedition,
to obtain water in the desert Of Sahara by boring
Artesian wells.
The only flag Of any nation that has attempted to
run the blockade has been that Of England.
The newly born infant Of the Queen Of Spain has
received one hundred and twenty-four names.
The Government has taken measures to take re-
dress from the Sultan for the recent cold-blooded
murders Of American missionaries in Turkey.
The wool clip of Ohio will this year amount to
thirteen millions of pOuads-tWo millions greater
than the crop OF 1861.
The number of suicides in France is augmenting
fearfully every year, being on an average from ten
to eleven daily, or three thousand eight hundred and
ninty nine a year.
GUSBOATs on THE ONO RIvER-The recent guer-
rilla raid in Kentucky has induced the Government
to authorize ten small g~unboats to be placed in the
Ohio river.
REBEL RAMs-The rebels have extemporised a
very formidable Ram out of the British steamer Fin
gal, At Savannah. Also, that two others are nearly
ready at Charleston.
1t has been calculated that the fibre of pure Sea
Island cotton average one inch and three quarters in
length. II IL were possible TO place the fbres end 10
end one pound would extend All miles.
Hollow metallic canes filed with condensed gas
are now used in ome of the European cities. The
bearer has only to turn n small nipple and apply his
match, when he instantly finds himself furnished
with a torch that will light him several hours.
Gov. Letcher. of Virginia, is said to have made a
demand upon the Confederate Secretary Of War for
the delivery to the STATE authorities, to be dealt with
by them, of all Yankee captives who have been
engaged in violating the statutes Of Virginia" The
Savannah .NtlrS commends this course, and sincerely
hopes that Letcher's example may be followed by the
Governors Of all the rebel States.
The total amount Of the debt Of Great Britain is
four thousand millions Of dollars. or eight-fold great
er than the present debt of the United States. The
average rate Of interest j. 81 per cent, against 8 So
per cent. in the United States. The excise income
and stamp taxes OF Great Britain amount to S2IO.-
o 10000; while our taxes Of the same nature-the
income tax being limited to four years-are on the
basis Of SllO,OOO,OOO per annum.
EXODUS OF PRIEsTs.-In conformity with the decree
Of Mosquera, recently promulgated in this city, all
the nuns and nearly all the priests of Panama leave
the Isthmus in the Peru, for the South Coast, pre-
ferring Punishment TO acknowledging the assumed
right Of State interference with Church affairs.
Those who do not take their departure to-day, with
one exception, will leave for Central America, on the
18th instant. We learn that the churches will here
after remain - Paper.
PARROT GUNs.-The cost Of the smallest Parrot
gun-6-pOunder-is $500; for 200 Founders 81, 900
each. which is said TO be one-tenth the cost of the
Armstrong gun. The charge Of powder is one pound
TO every ten Of the ball, and the cost of powder and
she'll for every discharge is nearly SO. The weight
Of the 2OO-pOund Parrot is little more than one-half
the columbiAd, which carries the l50-pound solid
shot, or the lO-inch shell. The practice with these
guns is excellent. Experiments are made daily, and
with an accuracy most astonishing. The shrek Of
the ball, as it flies through the air at a velocity of
over six hundred miles per hour, is like that of a
railroad train at full speed.
The REBEL IRON CLAD STEANER-A rebel steamer
called No. 290,' was lately constructed by the
Messrs. Laird. at Birkenhead, England. Cruisers
suspected what she was for, and the TuScdrOrG kept
a lookout for her in the vicinity Of BirkeEhead,
while other vessels watched the Southern coast of
Ireland, but one day d" No. 300" dropped down the
river with a party of ladies and gentlemen, must
clans, etc. on board, TO make her trial trip, but she
did not return, and instead Of taking the southern
coast Of Ireland she passed round to the north, leav-
ing her excursionists ashore in the meantime. and
thus she escaped the TuscGrOrG, which saw her 90
through all these motions.
The PACIFIC OCEAS-Has a larger area than all
the dry land on the globe. 1t covers 80 900. 900 Of
square miles. and 10000. 900, including the Indian
Ocean. From Peru TO Africa il is l6. 900 wide 1t
is generally u~nfathomable between the tropics, where
its depth is so great that a line FIVE miles long has,
in many places not reached the bottom. The ATTAIN
tic Ocean, apparently stretching from pole to pole, is
5000 miles wide, and covers 90, 600, 900 square miles.
AFFAIRS AT CHARLESTON Amor the passengers
down the James river by the -friei, was MIR. Carl
lander; n Prussian. from Charleston, who had been
detained three months in Richmond on his way
NorthWard. He gives six hundred and ffty-twO
houses as the number burned in the great fire OF the