The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-12-02

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Constitution. 1t vas adopted b the ConvsE-
ton on the 18th Of August, anu vas recently
Submitted to a cote Of the people neither
they nave affirmed or rejected Il We d. not know
but ut eli events IN \ few months Colorado VIII
| doubtless b. knocking for admission u the
| Union.
EyeIAND Bishop COlcnso pubiishcs all adj
! dress TO the clergy and iaity Of tile United Church
Of England and Ireland, announcing his Inten-
ton 70 return 70 his diocese IN Natal. He has
also fled n the English ChaEcery a bill Of COM
plant against the trustees Of the Bishops Colo
NAL Fund, namely, the Chancellor Of the Ez-
chequer, the Tice-Chanceilor the Archbishops Of
Canterbury and York, the Archdeacon Of Lon
don. and Mr.. Hubbard, VI. P, for having since
1864 withheld his salary. Ii was for the purpose
OF enabling C0lenso 70 carry on this suit that his
sympathizers in England recently raised another
fund.
Considerable sensation has been excited on the
Continent and in England by the assassination,
in the streets Of Bonn, Of a young man named
OFT. who had been appointed cook 70 Prince
Alfred, the second son Of Queen Victoria. He
was returning home, and was set upon by a
number of students, among whom was a military
officer. The students crowded round OFT. and
an ARRAY ensued, in which the latter wa fatally
wounded by the officer, who proved TO be Count
Won Gutenberg. a son of the Home Minister of
Prussia. Nearly all the royal family Of England
are on the Continent, and Queen Victoria, when
she LtlIl Oh /, hdE IIllSLdHL. III Alli y
cases the high rank of the assassin would prevent
any notice being taken of the killing Of a cook.
but Her Majesty, during her visit To the King of
Prussia, manifested her English love of fair play
In a manner that caused the arrest Of the accused,
and a decent funeral for the poor victim, at
whose O~bsequies all the celebrities Of the town
were present.
In a recent trial for poisoning in England.
where the guilty person. 4 physician, DR.. Pritch-
ard, Of Glasgow, had poisoned his wife and
mother, Il brother physician who had been called
in u attend the mother while dying, testified that
he suspected and believed that she was poisoned
by her son, but did not impart his suspicious, any
further than by a letter to the Register that the
death was = sudden, unexpected and mysterious"
for the reasons that it might not have been safe,
and that it was against etiquette, for him 10 in
tcrfere. Two other physicians, with whom he
had consulted agreed with him on this matter of
- professional decOrum :"
This instance rather beats the Cambridge stu
dent who stood on the banks of the Cam, wiring
ing his hands, and lamenting that he could not
jump in and save a drowning man. because he had
not had an introduction. Etiquette is a great
thing.
THE GREAT FIRE IN CoNsTANTISoPLE.-COn-
stantiuople correspondence of September Q, fur
nishes some details of the fearful confagration
which broke out in STEAMBOAT on the evening of
the 18th Of that month, and ragged until the even
ing Of the 9th, destroying between 6,000 and
5000 houses, including many fine buildings.
The writer says:
There seems to be some mysterious connection
between pcStilence and fire. The great plague
in London was followed by the great fire. In
1892, when the cholera first visited Constantine
pie, it was followed by a great coDhagration,
which destroyed the whole Of the foreign quar-
ter of Pera. The Turkish aStrologers have been
predicting that the present visitation of cholera
would be followed by the burning Of the half of
StambOul. Not two weeks ago, rs | am ill.,
formed, one of these men was actually impris-
oned because his predictions were creating a dis
turbance among the Turks. And now this Ca
lamity has actually come. StambOul has been
desollted by d conflagration which, even IN this
city of fires, stands ont by itself Is the most ter
ribie Of the present century.
On Tuesday evening, Sept .. n fire broke out
IN the Turkish quarter, near the Custom House,
On the Golden Horn. II Is said u have orig
mated either III tUe shop Of a candy merchant or
IL tie adjoining cofse-hOuse. The wind vas
blowing "a gale from the north, and within an
hour / UGG houses were IN hauge. The spectacle
yvlz awful. The whole hillside, from. the bridge
- the G-rdglio grounds, seemed 10 be "a single
mass Of fire, vomiting out flames ana smoke like
IN immense volcano. Every one was parulyzed,
and nothing could be done 10 stay the progress
III the destroyer. Nothing bat d change of wind
saved the public buildings 81 tie Porte and st.
Sophia from destruction.
The fire swept on % the summit of the hill,
reaching the " Burned Column on one side and
the HippOlTOme on the other. Wednesday was
T. terrible day. The wind increased in fury, and
the fire seemed likely to destroy the whole city.
The bazaars and shops of Stanboul were closed.
Heavy clouds of black smoke hung over the city
like a pail, and the fire swept on, with a front of
about half Il mile in width, increasing in extent
and fury as ii went. Hundreds of houses were
torn down to stop Its progress, but 1t lcaped
these barriers and sent such Il storm of burning
Goals before it that it kindled fires half 4 mile in
advance. About noon on Wednesday, another
slight change in the wind turned the current Of
fire towards the Sea of Marmora and saved the
rest of the city. BY Wednesday evening it
reached the sea the wind suddenly went down,
and the progress OF the fire along the shore was
stopped. No absolutely accurate statement Of
the results of this confagration can be made, but
it X now estimated that from G.O00 to 5000
houses were burnt, including 100 palaces or
konaks, s mosques, 2 churches, 5 kahns, and
many public baths. 1t Is estimated that the suf-
ferers by the fire number about rs 600.
Tie space burned over is about two miles in
length and half 4 mile in width, including some
of the wealthiest and some of the poorest quar-
tiers in StambOul. The Turks are the heaviest
sufferers. All the palaces burned belonged TO
them. and | suppose seven-tenths of the honses
and shops. | walked to-day for an hour over
scene of absolute Oscillation | have never beheld
in any inhabited city. But for the smoke and
the heat still remaining, | might have fancied
myself among the ruins of some ancient and de-
serted city. OF most of the houses hardly a yes
tige remains except the chimneys. But passing
out of these wealthy quarters. into those of the
poor, the scene changed at once. The ruins
were peopled by the starving families of those
whose only homes had suddenly vanished. Some
We're searching in the ashes in the vain hope Of
finding some relic there of their lost property.
One can hardly realise how sad the sight OF such