The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-02-20
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THCRsDAr. FEBRUARY 20, lsaa.

Is commercial items. Hide has trznspirei during the pas
week. worthy 81 noo- Our shipping report Is quite barren o.
arrivals AID departures From san Fra asro, We have nothing
later 70 giyes and the FanEee can hardly be considered due yet
Tbe lumber hrfs Fraaeiseo sailed on Iusiay Eith a cargo
% produce nr Victoria, and the Russian s,-amer HOrge, tie
saEss Day Er Japan.
The ship G,srge WashingtoA all bark Comst are both
haiias Tor San Francisco, and the former may get "a nsxs
week.
Receipts % aamestse produce have. in the absence Of fair
winds. been aImos; aoshins, though the stock on the plAH;at ons
ready Sr shipMeni, Is reported as quite Erse-
Bosrox Losrxe ns RoErIes Ts,DE-The Springfield Re-
q the sar ayoa her eSnmercs, and IN wh,rss, aIi eo@n~r.
eiaI quarters az the present time present a dal and HSeess
ss~ York In IBIS respect, hr the business Of the latter city Is
c.Leuila snI Iada trade d BOs.oo yin be dresieI to NeS
YORK The war has s,oPpei many braHehes q business in
-harves, laoor-rs aai vessls Last year, IN Oct It. 200 ships
. .an sns 49, arr .s fT@ 5000 at. rs' nsysas, 70, In NE
year, 2G- In lsS7 nearly a. many ships arrived At Bostn
the rIob~ TIE receipts a: Boston Of meTehaaIise also, since
sept lat show n great decline from the year PreTious-
rOsicco-Engiand consume, annually about sixty million
smoans.d TO IN soorns ? .am ~ a., ,oo coo . ooe ; ,hu . Last last year 2,
one ether article Of brcixn imDort, SUGAR. which yields the
!. sIp more iassrss:ed in the tobacco sa-sdgn than that Q,
Ens+. because In France tobacco s a Governments monopoly,
treasury. Ihers Is. %ossoser. a Kind Of necessity thai msHr-
tobacco az whai.zer cost, as, Il his colossal army wrr ionx
aspdysa q ,his ,sei, dolly iaIury. the frtapr. oi his dyna.ty
sA4 ~ ~aANaIr - 1FAENA W OgSsyDO
sayonets, might be overturned BY a Withdrawal Of their support.
That a plant originally smOse oy . few sayages should succeed
In spite IL Church and STATE, 10 he the eherisissl luxury Of the
Whole CIVILIZED World, Increase with the Increase % time, and
end in causing 80 vast . trade, 50 large an out ny Of MONEY. and
exercising 50 powerful an influences on the policy % nations, is
certainly Sifhoas q parallel The United stats supplies about
t~o-hfths % al the tobacco used 10 Earol-. ~ the 60 O0O. 600
pounds required BY England, she draws frSm 50yO0cOo 20
pounds from the Unitei- and We furnish from three
foarths To Mur-nhhs Of all tia; consumed by France.
Corrox II IScIA--The Oriental Inland steam Company Of
London are making vigorous efforts 20 provide an efficient sys-
TEN Of water -cariage FOR Indian Gotten. They have sent out q
number q steaE es and barges for the navigation of the import
ant nserAa 1so Of the steamers have arrived at Kuxacbee, and
The machinery Tor two others at Calcutta Government has
assisted the efforts ofthe company by giving one years subsidy
hr The navigation Of the Indus the vessels ae all paid for,
having no outstanding debts whatever aud steam traffic on
the Gauges will begin Immediately.
PHfvArxxxrSc IN THx PacIyIc-The Montreal Commercial
lfreTfiser szys:-It 10 understood that some vessels Of the
ae=t. lately purchased In England, will sail for the
and japan seas, 10 take possession Of n small island there
which was acquired BY the Unitei States a few years ago as a
,oaiing and store station This island will be strongly fortified,
And converted into u naval depot, from which the Confederate
navy viii operate against the Unitei States commerce, and 10
Ehica its prizes will be conveyed, and where they and their
argos will be disposed % TO vessels bringing coal, provisions
md other necesseres for the Conf-derates. The plan is bold
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