The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-11-06
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Poor Lamartine is begging again. He proposes to
start a lottery in order to raise a million francs.
1t is gravely announced that the Princess Clotflde
has determined to nurse her own baby. a sensible
woman.
The revenues of the Arcbbishopric of Dublin,
just vacated by the death of the Lord Primate Of
ireland, are 49, 600 a year.
A PIECE OF LAND was recently sold in London at
the rate Of 81 900, 900 per acre-suficient to cover
it with silver equal to half n dollar in thickness.
Scotland has a population of only 1902, 294, and
the increase in ten years has been but six per cent.
But then the canny Scots are found everywhere.
In France, since the beginning of the present Gen.
fury, there have been committed not less than $780,
900 suicides. There were 1903 in 1858, AMI 1850
in 1859.
The Lord Mayor of London has received from Bonn
bay S25, 200, which has been subscribed under the
auspices of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, for
the relief of the operatives who are suffering from the
consequences Of the cotton famine.
The SUPPLIES OF CorToN.-Thirty FIVE different
countries sent samples of cotton to the English exhi-
bitiOn. The English people are confident that from
some of them new and sufficient sources of supply
will be opened.
About three years and a half ago, the Emperor
Napoleon replied TO the attacks of the English Press
upon his policy and his intentions towards England,
in a letter to Sir Francis Head. So President Lin
con was not without a precedent in writing a letter
to Greeley.
a London correspondent of the Chicago Journal
writes " | have just learned that a decoration from
the King OF Sweden goes by the present steamer to
Capt Ericsson, in testimony of his success in con-
structing the Monitor. The decoration consists of
the Order Of the Northern STAR the brightest in
Sweden"
PROGRESS OF before the
year closes, will have abolished serfdOm Holland,
through her Parliament, demands immediate eman-
cipation in all her colonies Brazil and the United
States stand alone as slaveholding countries but
Catholic Brazil is in advance Of Protestant United
States, for she forbids the selling OF slaves at auction
or the separation of slave families
EXPLORATION OF THE NIGER.-The commercial e-
petition to explore the River Niger, despatched
from London two years ago is still prosecuted with
encouraging results. One o. the steamers, the Sun
beam, proceeded up this famous stream for six hun
dred miles, and found the country more fertile, and
the natives in a higher state of civilization as they
progressed inland. The exploring party enjoyed
comparatively good health, as out of one hundred
whites there have been but two deaths.
\ colony of n thousand NOnconformists, most CT
whom are Christian men, chiefly Baptists and indie
pendents, recently sailed from London to form a new
ettlement in New Zealand. taking with them a min
lister, schOOlmaster, surgeon, etc. A great interest
was felt in the movement, crowded meetings having
been held. in which the emigrants were addressed by
prominent clergymen and thousands gathered at
the docks TO bid them a Christian farewell. Other
colonies are to follow, n well-matured scheme of emf
grafton having been formed.