The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-01-21
Foreign Summary.

1t is proposed to erect a monument in England TO
Captain Spoke.
Mrs. Tennyson has written a song. The English
papers praise it, and English misses sing it.
The census, before the war, showed that there
were in Massachusetts $1,000 more women than
men. 10 Connection 5000. in New Hampshire 1000,
in New York IL 900.
By the forthcoming report of the SANITARY Com
mission it will be shown the value Of the contriou-
lions received exceeds : ,000, 600.
The issue of all the London daily pavers together
amount TO PAS. 900 sheets daily ; all or the ~eeklies
together, 2,263 900 weekly. The issues OF the month
lies are still larger
The doctors Of Hanover county, Virginia, announce
the following as their new tariff Of fees Thirty
dollars per visit for all distances of Eve miles and
under all distances Over five miles an additional fee
Of two dollars per miles night visits Gjuble that Of
a day visit consultation Zee, forty dollars visits
extra obstetrical cases, one hundred dollars each.
Mr.. Spcrgeou has retired from the Evangelical
Alliance, owing to the dissatisfaction given TO the
Church of England by his sermons Oh baptism and
regeneration.
CoLEsso AcAIs-The Bisnop of Cape;oWn, who
kas deposed Bishop Colenso. denies the right of ap-
peal to any court but the Archbishop of Canterbury,
as the Patriarch of the Church of England. If the
Privy Council decide that they have no jurisdiction
in the case, the Bishop OF Capetown will forthwith
memorialize Her Majesty TO nominate a bishop tor the
vacant diocese If Natal. Bishop Colenso will. Of
course, resist.
There is "A woman shoemaker in Union, Conn,
who LgIlks her COW night ana morning, ana taxes
care of her milk, does the washing ard cooking for
three in the family, and has spent one week in visit
ing her relations. besides making aud receiving all
her ueighborhood calls; yet, with the help of a boy
to do the Jogging. has made ia six months, 72O pairs
of thick double eciei boots, for which she received
rs cents per pair. amounting to ESD. She frequent
" makes ii or 10 pairs a day.
THE CHINESE REBELLION 1t has been said in our
paper. AMI IN many others. that the Chinese civil
war WAS ended. 1t is not SC. The Taepings have
met with an enormous check in losing their capital,
but they are not entirely destroyed their bands are
endea voring TO reorgaGize themselves in the provinces
OF Ngang-Wei and Kiing ST, and Il part OF them,
Commanded by one OF the principal officers of Chan
O.ang, defeated. on August 3, q strong division of
the Imperial army in au engagement in the open
field. In presence OF these facts. the Government of
Pekin has found that il could not dissrm, and has
requested the continuance OF the services Of the
Franco Chinese corps.
REMOVAL or RENAN FROM HIS PRoFEssoRsHrP.-
Elated by the success and profits OF his Life of Je-
sus,' the Professor of Hebrew, Syriac and Chaldaic
languages in the College OF France for two years de-
livered only one lecture. The Minister Of Instruction
changed his position TO the Imperial Ldhrary-an
equally lucrative office. Renan proudly declines the
new appointment, and persists in holding his profess
sorship. Whereupon the Emperor ordered the de-
position of the refractory author. So NJ. Renan is a
private citizen.
4 WH0LEsoME LEssoS-The London Times, in
one of its perio iical lectures 10 The Canadian pro-
Sinces, advises that If they expect help from Great
Britain in case o. an invasion by the United States,
they have leaned upon a broken reed" and makes
the following confession:
" Let Canada consider the forces with which Eng
land took the field in the Crimea, and let her, on the
other hand, reflect on the forces with which for a
succession of years, American Generals have been
carrying on a civil war. All. and more tran all,
that England can spare would not suffice for the
wear and tear, We do not say of n campaign, hut of
a single great battle conducted on Gen. Grants
principle. Whatever may he our wishes or our
opinions, it is absolutely out of our power to give
canada Efficient uSS:Stn a bv land in the event OF
war;
NJ. DU CHAILLu HEARD From A letter. dated
Fernand Vez River, August 20, has been received
from NJ. Du Chaillu by MIR Henry Claudet, of Lon
don, who taught the African traveller photography
before he left England. VI. Du Chailiu states that
in n few days he intended to start for the interior Of
the country, and that as he had q long journey be-
fore him. he probably should not return TO England
for two years. He speaks hopefully, on the whole,
of his prospects Of securing u fine collection of African
photographs, though he complains that ii is terribly
hot while shut UP in the little box in which he
is obliged TO operate. and says that he does not feel
quite well sometimes after practising. In a letter Of
the same date 10 another friend he says: 9 have sent
a batch of gorillss TO the British Museum, and [ have
also sent a live one. which I sincerely hope will reach
London in safety. ! had three of them alive a few
days before the vessel sailed for England"
ANrIsEPrIc Property OF THE SUGAR CAxE-In
the West Indies the hbrous residue Of the sugar-care.
after il has passed through the mill, is called cane
trash. Until now this residue was not known to
HbSct-S my lNiIdA q proper ltS bH'a tIC Ob'f tCc
that was made OF it was 10 tie ii up into figots when
dry, or else to give it to cattle. BIT accident, as is
generally the case in most scientific discoveries, has
lately revealed q property in this refuse of the sugar
mill which it had never been suspected TO possess;
and henceforth, should further experiments confirm
the fact, the cane, while 1t yields sugar TO the COM
munity At large, will afford medical men a valuable
therapeutic agent. \ few months ago a physician of
Georgetown was nmo by the authorities TO
examine the body Of a man that had been discovered
under a heap Of cane-trash. He was surprised to
find that the body emitted no smell, anu that instead
OF being IN 4 state OF putreflctiOn, 10 was dried up
like a mummy tie did not at the time proclaim his
discovery, but ilmeiilrely instituted experiments on
dead animals, which CON pleteiy %conhrmed his ohserv-
alton Convinced thereby that by the fermentation
Of fresh C ue-trish = disintcctiug and aHtisepiic gas
was evolved, ne Immediately turned his attention 10
the means OF mploying the :ugar cane a. a preserv-
alive against epliemIcs aud contagious Diseases, anu
Is u medicinal plant generally. There happened 10
be AT the time Il great number OF patients suffering
from ulcers in the hospital, and ii contagious gan
creme had declared Itself: the physician caused seve-
raj tubs containing cane trash TO be placed IN the
wards, aud the supply to be renewed At intervals.
La a short time the atmosphere oi the hoSpita! vas
purified, the cont8GiOn ceased, aud none OF the pa
trenrs who had not caught the ginGrene before were
attacked with il. Thus il seems that nature itself
has pro, ided sn antiiote for the pernicious effects Of
heat in tropical countries; The contagious diseases
caused by the heat of the sun may be neutral'zed by
the sugar-cane which is brought to maturity by its
very rays.-Gat!gRani.
Roofing Felt and Cement.