The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-23
European.

GREAT Misunderstanding experiments have
been made to test the power of the 100 FOUNDER Arm
strong gun. Proiectiies weighing 1000 pounds, and
extending nearly two feet beyond the muzzle of the
gun, were frequently fired, and the gun was totally
free from injury.
The Times says Civil war resembles in one
respect dearth, pestilence, and the other plaques
with which Providence visits mankind it is peculiar
to no form of government, and indigenous to no
species of institution. If Republican Rome had her
Sylla and Marius, her Cesar and Pompey. Imperial
Rome could show her Ohio and Vitellius in the days
OF her vigor, and Greece her Thirty Tyrants in those
of her decline. Between the wars of the League and
Of the Fronde n century of civil discord rolled over
France, and from the second Edward to the second
George England bled at every pore from civil strife.
Germany had her Thirty Years War, and Spain her
War Of Succession and Carlist rebellion. II certainly.
therefore, does not become the Powers of Europe to
fasten upon the existence Of civil war in America as
a proof Of any extraordinary vice in her Institutions
or a popular stigma on democratic government.
A letter from the Duke D'Aumale announces the
appointment OF the two Princes, his nepbews, as
Aids de-camp to General Mcclellan, and expresses
his delight at the step they have taken, and at their
being on the right side.
The mammoth iron plated frigate Warrior had
made another successful performance at sea. Her
speed was 12l knots. with AZ revolutions of the
engines.
FRAxcE-A terrible storm occurred in France
early in October. At the LalIe Mine, in the province
of the Garde, one million eight hundred thousand
cubic yards OF water suddenly rushed into the mine,
causing numerous ~lahdslips and burying some thr e
hundred persons, nearly all of whom, doubtless. per-
ished. Engineers are OF opinion that il will take
three months to pump out the water.
Winners Liverpool Times says thatit is now declar-
ed that France will do something more than send a
naval force to Mexico. She will send an expedition
Of six thousand men, in addition to her ships of war,
for the purpose of penetrating into the interior of
the country. The capital will be seized as we'll as
the outpos's, and n mixed commission will sit there
to regulate the indemnities due to Europeans.
p.-~ar :. lo,;oI - D.-:. H. -
billiards. A. NJ Charles beat him in 1853, eighteen
points in 500. aud challenged him in Figaro on Sep
TENDER 8, 1860, TO n game of 100 points for 900
francs, bat received no answer.
POLaSD-At Warsaw, on the anniversary Of the
coronation Of the Emperor Of Russia, and consequently
an official fete. about 100000 persons assembled in
the different churches to attend a funeral service for
the Poles who died, arms in hand. in defend
ing Warsaw against the Russian army in 1881.
General Lambert. the new governor. hal the good
sense not TO oppose the demonstration. On the 18th
ult. n remarkable incident occurred. \ coTfege of
10000 persons was following TO the grave a young
! Pole, who died from wounds received in the collision
of the Sth of April. The General met the procession,
and asked whatit meant On being told, he alighted
from his carriage, sent away the police. placed him
self in the cOrf6ge and went with it to the cemetery.
BADEx-BADEx, Sept. 10 1861.
An Incident OF LIFE AT BADEN-BADEy.-Ihe lion
Of the German gaming tables has been staying here
for a few days. Gercia, the Spaniard, who won so
much at Homburg, has also broken the bank here no
less than hive times, and on each occasion has pocket
ed nearly $4,000. But el6, 900 was not considered
n sufficient profit, and on his trying for n larger gsin
he lost about fl6,000 in one day, and about El6 900
the following day. His great losses had the effect of
bringing out his temper, and in an excited state he
began to address the ompany present. He said that
Mr.. B., the director of the gambling-h house, was too
great n lord, and thought il not worth his while to
attend to his request. This request was that Garcia
should play L, OOOfr. a loup, as he considered ne was
playing to great disadvantage by being limited TO
6 900 francs n loup. Mr.. b. told him that ii was the
established rule that no player should stake more
than 1000 francs ut one time, and as such was the
custom of the gambliug-.ouse bank, no alteration
could be made TO please the lion of the gambling
world. At this moment, when all was excitement, the
Infatuated lion crushed and cTumbled in his clenched
fists several bank notes for thousands of francs ; the
crOupiers stared aghast ; the inspector of the game
called him to order, but no order was restored :; on
the contrary, the confusion was heightened by an
English baronet and a little Frenchman having a
fight, to the great confusion and fright of all the
company present. The two boxers were expelled the
Kursaal, and order was restored, the game continued
and finished. when the lion was relieved of all his
surplus notes. Any person on that occasion might
learn a lesson, and such n lesson as would teach him
never to gamble. He might read in the anxious
faces of the gamblers the emotions that were passing
within. Many of them have staked upon the taps
rsTt nearly all their fortunes, and remain with but a
little remnant of their patrimony, and tina; being lost
they are reduced TO beggary ; others play with their
incomes, and the result is that they are obliged to
practice hard economy during the greater part of the
year, To make up for the losses they have sustained
during their stay in the German gambling towns /;
while there are others who are tempted to try their
luck with that which does not belong TO them, and
after an unsuccessful attack upon the bank end their
days in n prison. But everybody knows this yet
everybody plays the ruin of many does not act as a
warning. Nothing will prevent the evil but the
closing Of all these German gambling houses.-LoH-
LION DniIu Mrs. .~