The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-05-29
EUrODean Items.

The Rebel Commissioners are still persevering in
their efforts at Paris and London for recognition, but
receive the cold shoulder.
Paris is violently aeitated by strong legislative
discussions and meetings Of unemployed laborers. \
supposed conspiracy has been discovered, followed by
two hundred arrests, including several prominent
journalists.
Victor Emauuel's cabinet resigned. aud q new one
was formed, headed by s'gnor Ratazzi.
Armor- plated ships and floating batteries continued
10 be the prominent topics.
1t was vaguely rumorei that England had made a
diplomatic recommendation to France in favor Of the
Withdrawal Of the French troops from Rome.
1t is questioned if the Emperor Napoleon will go
to the Great Exhibition at London; and it is asserted
that If he does he Will be strictly iHcOs.
Garibaldi had gone to Bosnia. II was reported
that his nomination as Commander in Chief of the
National Guards Was decided.
The Hongkong (China) correspondent OF the Lon
don Times, writing in March, reports that a Confed-
crate pTivateer had been fallen in with on the coast
of Borneo. The correspondent says that this is par
ticularly unfortunate for American shipping, as the
Federal Government has not a single war vessel of
any description in those waters except the Saginaw,
and she is rotten.
In Great Britain a deputation Of the anti Slavery
Society presented an address on the 10th TO Mr..
Adams, the American Minister, in which the hope is
expressed that the restoration Of the Union will be
founded on abOlition-the true cause of the strife.
Mr.. Adams's reply is described as having been salts
factory to the deputaton.
Plus N, is at this moment causing n sepulchre to
be built in the Church of Santa Maria Magg'ore,
similar to those which exist in the churches of st.
Peter and ST. John de Laieran. it being, 1t is said,
his intention TO be inferred there himself. 1t is in the
church of Santa Maria, that the Popes Plus V. Sixtus
V. ard Clement VIII, are inferred. That church
seems the most fit to be the tomb of the Pontif who
proclaimed the doctrines Of the Immaculate Concep-
tiOn of the Holy Virgin.
The Warrior cost e354.SS5, as follows: the hull,
e25l GIG ; the engines, e7l ,S75 masts and rigging,
elS.535 and fittings and alterations, el2,S29.
Total, e354, SS5.
\ French correspondent Of n London paper, states
that Lord Brougham is much respected by the inhah-
itants of Cannes = but the lower orders cannot
make out how so great Il millionaire should persist in
wearing a hat for which no one in his senses would
give n couple of c~entimes."
For the first time after fifty years continuance,
the annual Te Dgum in Russia, of the
French disasters in the winter Of 1872 and the re-
treat from Moscow, has ceased by sovereign au-
thority.
The determination of the Prussian Government to
use the German language, Instead of the French. as
the medium for diplomatic communication, has pro-
duced some perplexing results. 1t is said that the
ENJOYS of Russia, Holland, and Sweden, have declar-
ell that they will adopt a parallel course, and will
make their communications to the Berlin Ministry or
Foreign Affairs in Russian, Dutch and Swedish.
1t is said that an absurd contribution to the Great
Exhibition will he sent from Australia in the shape
OF an obelisk, or pyramid, representing what would
be the size of a nugget of all the gold sent thence to
Europe during the last ten years. This pyramid, 10
feet square at the base, AMI A. feet hight, would, it
is estimated, if il were solid, gold, weigh 800 tons, Of
the value of el04, 900, 900 sterling.