The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-02-05
European Items.

There were again rumors in Paris of unfavorable
news from Mexico. and urgent calls for reinforce
ments, which will be sent under the device of estab-
fishing n reserve at Martinique.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has gone t.
ROme-it is asserted in the name of the Emperor
to explain TO the Pope the Emperor's views, with 4
view TO the concessions necessary on the part Of the
Government of Italy.
la n duel between Garibaldi's eldest son and Col.
Pallevinei, who captured Garibaldi, the former re-
ceived 4 mortal wound; the later was seriously hurt.
At q meeting lately held in Dublin $50, 900 was
subscribed for the relief Of Lancashire operatives, who
have been brought TO almost actual starvation by
reason Of the blockade.
Coon FREDERs-Nearly 1000 lawyers dined to-
gether ut the invitation OF the municipal authorities
Of Vienna, on the 10th October. They managed to
consume 90 casks OF beer, o,6OO bottles OF German
wine, and $50 bottles OF champagne. The supper,
including music. cigars, etc., cost over $4,000.
4 live male gorilla has arrived safely at Liverpool.
He was brought from Africa on board a mail steamer,
and appeared docIle. His skin il Of an olive color,
hair. lie is remarkably fond of good living, and APP
pears to have an especial relish for beefsteak and
mutton chops and fruit.
1000 vessels are wrecked on the English coast
every year, on the average; and from these about
5000 persons are rescued by life boats, shore boats,
the rocket apparatus and other means. 1t is u
lameniable tact, nevertheless, that an average of 800
persons still perish every year from these disasters on
the coast.
British capitalists express anxiety in consequence
Of the rapid drain Of specie from England 10 India.
The payments for Indian cotton are becoming very
heavy, the steamer Tor Bombay having taken out
over a million pounds sterling; the largest amount
ever dispatched To one port, although an equal sum
has been sent before 10 the East in u single vessel for
distribution among several markets.
The manager of the City Bank of Manchester,
England, Jonah Andrews, has been hnancieriug on
his own account TO the tune of ElcU lNJD sterling
which he has distracted from the bank. The deposit
tors are mostly men Of small means, and will feel the
loss heavily. Andrews was a Methodist local preach
er, n great phllanthropist, a teetotaller, a vegetarian,
and advocate OF universal freedom.
ABRoGATIoS OF SERFDoM-The Russian Eman-
cipation is already beginning to show good fruits.
The Government of Toula, which for.neriy had ten
village schools with 256 pupils; now, eighteen months
later, numbers l,l23 schools, with 6,3S7 pupils.
In the Government Of Slmbrlsk, the number Of
schools, rose during the same period from 20 to 277,
o; pupils from 375 10 1882; in Podolia, FROM SOC to
l us schools, and l4,6y6 to $4,000 pupils.
MARROW ESCAPE OF AN ANIMAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IN menageries are becoming frequent in Germany.
NJ. Mem. an animal tanner, was recently IN the cage
Of q Panther 1T Bremen, engaged III breaking II in,
when the animal. becoming frightened by some noise
on the outside, suddenly sprung on one Of the keep
ers who was standing near, and MORALLY wounded
him. II was with the greatest difficulty that the
body Of the man could be released from the claws of
the animal.
CRINE IN THE UNITED KISGDoM-421 ,S9l persons
-3 per cent. more than in the previous year-were
proceeded against, %summarily or by indictment, in
England and Wales, in the year 1861. The commit
ments for trial for the more serious offences were
Is, $40, q number which is ii per cent. more than in
1860, and s per cent. more than the average Of the
three years lS5S-6O. The number of persons COM
mitted for trial in Ireland III 1861, for iudictabe
offences, was 5,5S6, an increase of . : per cent. over
1860; in Scotland, for the same class Of offences,
3,22y, a decrease Of II per cent. The convictions
in 1861 for iudictahle offences were 1883 IN Eng
land, an increase of 10 per cent. over 1860; IN Ire
land 3,27l, an increase Of nearly 10 per cent. 1882
persons were sentenced to penal seryitude in the
United Kingdom in 1861.