The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-02
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There is 4 rumor at Paris that the Prince and
Princess of Wales will visit the Emperor at Fontaine-
bleau about the middle of May.
The London Mechanics Magazine states that,
after an expenditure of $40, DOC, 900 on experiments
with the Armstrong gun, the inventor has failed to
produce a naval gun superior for practical purposes 10
the old 6S FOUNDER; and that Mr.. Whitworth, of
Manchester, a private manufacturer, has, by his own
skill and means, achieved q success which Sir William
Armstrong has failed to do, though backed by q long
purse OF government patronage.
PLAYING WITH RoYALTY.-A story is ahoat of the
honor paid by Prince Alfred's brother middies TO
their royal messmate, GDrOpOs of his election as King
OF Greece. Hearing a great row in the young gentle
mans berth, on board the Royal George, the Cap
tain, on inquiring the cause. found the mess had
determined to crown the Prince, So they had got the
ship carpenter, or armorer, to make u tin crown,
with which the Prince was solemnly invested, a pUr-
ser's dip being FIRST struck on each point of the CT
clet, and lghted-a very fitting coronation for q
monarch Of GredSe.-Eag. Cor.
DENMARK.-There seems 10 be some opposition to
the candidature of Prince William for the Greek
throne. The Ddg6iade gives the following as the
conditions upon which the Greek crown is to be SC
cepted: The guarantee of the independence of Den
mark by the great Powers; assistance TO maintain
order IN the monarchy for that purpose; renewal of
the guarantees for the possession of SchleswIg by
Denmark as obtained in 1920: and the neutrality of
Holstein. Thus the Greeks and their independence
have been dragged into the Schleswig Holstein ques-
another complication.
Victor HUGO AND THE PAPACY-The students Of
Pisa, having addressed u letter to NJ. Victor Hugo,
the celebrated French author, have received a reply,
in the course of which he says: "On this day
Friday, April sat the hour | am writing, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three years ago, Jesus Christ died
on the cross. He did not die at Rome; he died at
Jerusalem. 1t appears that the Popes have forgotten
II, since they have seated themselves on the summit
of the capitol without perceiving that their proper
place Is at the foot of Cavalry. Christianity is less
august when crowned at the Vatican than when on
its knees in Golgotha. y triple crown of earthly
pomps and pleasures strangely represents the crown
OF thorns. Since the Popes are obstinate. since they
disdain Jerusalem and usurp Rome, Italy must also
be obstinate. Italy will retake Rome as it will retake
Venice. The Pope, like the Gar, is u foreign sover-
eign."
Observation-Disclosures indignation is felt,
not only 10y Nonconformists, but also by Evangelical
Churchmen, that a scheme is being concocted to send
a Bishop to Madagascar, the field which was fist
broken up by, and which afterwards yielded such
abundant fruits to the London Missionary Society.
The thoroughly Evangelical Bishop of the Mauritius
some time since visited Madagascar, and, to his hon
Episcopal missions at the capital, where MIR. Ellis
and his friends now are, and where also the king
and others are under the influence of past Christian
training. Lord Sbaftesbury not long since, at q
meeting of the London Missionary Society, (Noncon-
formist,) in Freemasons' Hall, expressed his astonish-
ment and Indignation at the proposal above alluded
10. IT is probable that the effect Of these remOnstran-
ces will be to induce the High -churchmen to try their
hands at setting up prelatic Christianity in another
portion of the island.