The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-04-08
European Intelligence.

PORTLAND, March 16-The steamer Peruvian,
with dates from Liverpool. via londonderry, to-the
Sd instant, has arrived.
The political news is unimportant.
The Bank Of England has reduced its rate OF dis
count FROM 8 to AZ per cent.
The opening Of the telegraph to India attracts
much attention.
Queen Victoria has temporarily emerged from her
seclusion by receiving foreign ambassadors and mem
bers Of legations, in state. at buckingham Palace.
Mr.. Adams, the American Minister. was present.
The Queen will hold another court on the 18th inst.
The King of Italy arrived at Milan on the LIST inst.
and was received enthusiastically.
The Cardinal Vicar at Rome has issued n declara.
ton relative to the Jubilee. He reyerts TO the OBJ
jects Of the POpe's Encyclical Letter. and particular
ICES, as especially deplorable, the errors OF liberty OF
conscience and religious worship being recognized as
the just right OF all. and to propagate through the
press erroneous principles; nor can he recognize that
the will of the people is the supreme law.
The mother Of the Queen of Holland died at the
Hague on the 1st inst.
The following was received per the Africa.
The news per the .4ustrdiasidn OF the fall OF
Charleston, caused much sensation. The immediate
effect was an advance of two per cent. III United
States bonds and a decline Of four per cent. in the
Confederate Loan.
The first British Minister to the infant Empire Of
Mexico has been appointed. The honor of represent
ing her Majesty at the Court of the new Emperor.
has been conferred on the Hon. Mr.. Scarlet, late
minister "a II COuTt Vi itnen
According to several French papers a new club, to
be called the Silent Club" is about 20 be estab-
lished in Paris. The members may eat. drink. read.
write Or smoke, but they must not speak, not wear
creaking boots, nor play at dominoes, nor g rattle
the bones,'' nor, in short, make any noise whatever.
The aoors will be covered with thick carpets and the
doors will open and shut without a sound.
LONDON AND LIVERPOOL HOTEL CoMPAEY.-It is
known to most foreign travellers that u company was
some time ago formed in England, for the purpose Of
bnjdiu0 two large hotels. one in London. the other
in Liverpool. The latter is in operation, and il
known as the Washington Hotel. In December last.
a meeting Of the shareholders was held in London.
when the affairs of the company were submitted.
The profits made in the six months, from May to
November, were thirty per cent. per nnnum on the
paid up capital.
The Queen of Spain has conferred the royal and
distinguished ORDER Of the Grand Cross OF Charles
III. on Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop Of Westmin-
ster. This is the most distinguished Of all the Span
ish orders, and ranks next 10 that Of Golden Fleece.
1t was founded in III. by Charles Ill, on the birth
Of his grandson, Charles Clement, and confirmed by
q bull Of Pope Benedict XIX, in l772, who granted
it various spiritual privileges. such as belong to the
old religious orders of chivalry. 1t is devoted TO the
90 pure conception of the Virgin"
The Phare de Ia Layne desires to correct the state
ment that the French Government had sent O. war
vessel in pursuit of the rebel ram StonetooH. The
Cabinet of the Tuileries does not consider that it
possesses the right to pursue the ram, though by
completing and 6ttiDg out in French waters the Con-
IeuefilcS COnliitlliDB III duiiSiOt1 u VI
our neutrality. We have the result of the investiga'
tons made into the subject, which will not be a null.
lily, as il is impossible indeed for the affair to remain
where it is.
SIZE oP ST. Peters CHURCH p Fairfield.
in endeavoring to give an idea Of the size Of st.
Peters Church ct Rome, refers particularly to the
dome. which is Of massive stone work, and supported
by four large columns and arches connecting them.
Each 0! these four pillars, he Gays. occupied as much
space on the floor of the church as an ediGce eighty
feet long and fifty feet wide; which is larger, prob
ably, than any church building in New England.
outside Of the principal cities. The dome, II provid-
ed with seats as economically as Surgeons chapel
in London, would hold six thousand persons; and IT
lifted from the top of st. Peters and let down over
Henry Ward Beecher's church in Brooklyn, would
cover it completely, without touching IL in any part.
And yet it does not appear too large for the edifce on
which it stands; and the immense columns which
support it are but little in the way in the interior Of
st. Peters.
EGGs IN FRAsCE.-According to the last official
statistics of agricultural produce. which, however.
only come down to the year 1852, the annual value
Of the poultry reared il France was "a. $50, 000f,
and Of eggs, feathers, &c, a. 1884 .000f., making
together about sc, 600, 000E. The gross total Of agri-
cultural produce was $500, 600. 000f, and that OF
poultry, therefore, about one thirtieth of the whole.
There can be no doubt that the quantity Of poultry
reared has greatly increased since the above date, for
the exports TO England AMI the consumption in Paris
are now much greater. In 1852, the game and
poultry consumed IN Paris amounted TO Ia, 900 ,OO0k.
whereas, in 1862, the valUe was 70, 800. 000f, game
forming about one.sxth in both cases. In 1852. the
value OF the eggs consumed in Paris was 6. 100, 000f;
in 1862. it was 2.I6l ,0O0f., though it must be re-
membered that, III the interval, about 800, 600 in
hanitauts were added to Paris by the annexation OF
the surrounding communes. The consumption OF
eggs has, therefore, nearly doubled, while that OF
game and poultry has increased 90 per cent.