The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-28
European.

Dates from Liverpool are to the 18th of September.
The political news is unimportant.
4 meeting Of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
unanimously adopted the Directors report, aud con
sequeDtly sanctioned the new contract made for the
cable Of next year. The question OF raising additional
capital was postponed for consideration at another
meeting on the 18th Of October.
The difficulty arising out Of arrest IA Prussia Of
Germans who had become american citizens. for non
performance o: the military service required by
Prussian laws, continues to excite attention in that
country The Prussian laws and Constitution imper.
atively require every subject OF Prussia To perform
military service, and il cannot be altered NJ pleasure
by the Executive authorities. Assuming this state
ment TO be correct, the only way 20 relieve natural
lied American citizens from the obligations which
they are considers to be under towards the land ct
their birth would be the conclusion Of a treaty
between the United States and Prussia to that effect.
Hitherto such persons have generally been released
from the duty to which they are subjected. but only
after a grea, deal of trouble and out Of special regard
for the United States government. on its representa-
ton, and not in virtue of their rights as American
citizens. The Herdld's Berlin correspondent believes
that if o convention to this effect were submitted TO
the Prussiau Legislature it would be passed by an
immense majority. as the liberal party are extremely
DESTROYS of being on good terms with the great trans
Atlantic Republic.
The Fenian Panic in Ireland.
New York, September 24-The Times London
correspondent, dated September 9th. says There is
an awful panic in ireland on the Fenian question.
4 company of three hundred or four hundred Yam
kee- Irish landed at Queenstown from one Of the late
steamers, and took the railroad for the interior. They
were known by being better dressed than their couu-
trymen Of the same class, wearing broadcloth, and
their independent manners and free talk about the
superiority Of American institutions, and by having
handsfull of gold. They left by couples at various
stations along the road. The obvious inference is
that they were friends Of either the Federal Govern
ment or the Fenian organization, well supplied with
money, and qualified TO drill the native, unsophisti-
Gated population. l know, by personal observations,
that the people of Ireland are disloyal, and that they
detest the Government which has been forced upon
them for centuries. l have no doubt that zoe. 900
Irishmen would spring TO arms tomorrow. If they
had any friends to look to or any reasonable pros
pect of making a successful struggle for indepen-
dence but without foreign aid there is 40 such pros
pect. Efficient foreign aid seems further away than
ever. In the meantime ballad singers are shouting
the song of the " Bold Fenian Boy at every street
corner. The papers are full of stories of the interna-
tional marching and drilling of Fenian hosts. More
than all. Yankee lrishmen-or Irish Nankees-with
hands full of sovereigns, short swords and army
revolvers, who have been Sighting TO put down the
rebellion in Amer lea. are soon going TO fight TO get
up a rebellion in Ireland. Letters are written by
Irishmen TO their relatives, urging them to come to
a safe place before the trouble ~begins-giving ner-
vous people n good deal of alarm.
The London Daily .Nstcs,. in an editorial on the
subject says The Fenian movement is confined
chiefly TO laborers, idlers and people Of low degree.
The Catholic clergy are on the side of order. 1t will
soon appear what Government means to do. 1t is clear
there is no time to be lost. There will be no question
on either side of the Irish channel of putting down
this movement. AS a work of mercy, it must be
done. There must be prompt, careful, complete pre-
vention and repression of rebellion, whether weak or
formidable. 1t would be a great mercy TO Ireland if
every Fenian leader were at once put on trial.