The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-03-25
Foreign Summary.

PosTAL-The following notice from Postmaster
Perkins, of San Francisco, in regard TO postage be-
tween the United States and the Sandwich Islands,
is in the San Francisco papers:
BY recent instructions from the Post Office De-
partment, the sandwich Islands are excepted from
the increased rate Of postage as charged BY circular
of July %, 1864.
The regular United States domestic rate of three
cents per half ounce upon letters sent, and eight
cents per single rate upon letters received for distri-
button, and six cents upon letters received for deliy-
cry. if unpaid, will hereafter be charged.
X. f. PERKINS, Postmaster.
SPEECH OF THE MAYOR OF SAvAwxAu.-The follow
ing is u full report Of the speech Of Mayor Arnold at
the meeting OF citizens
FlLOu- Citi-eRS Of SardRRuh At the request Of
the Aldermen of the city of Savannah, and of a large
number OF the citizens. | have convened you together
this day for you to give expression to your views and
sentiments in the trying state of affairs IN which you
are now placed. 1t is for US no longer a crisis. The
crisis is past, and it is for you to decide upon the
particular line of action each and all Of you may de-
termiue TO pursue.
Our action is to be determined solely by our situa-
alton, as we have no authority or power TO speak for
others outside of our limits. But we are the judges
Of our own situation, can speak for ourselves, and
ought so to do, by all the considerations Of prudence,
and, | will say, common sense and humanity, TO
mitigate, if we can, the effects of the heavy blow
which has fallen upon US.
Our city contains twenty thousand inhabitants,
without food, without fuel, without any remunera-
tive industrial pursuits, without any place of refuge,
cut off from all connection with the country. The
heart sichens ut the sight thus presented.
1t is our duty to mitigate, as we cannot avert, the
terrible suffering, by ali the means which reason and
common sense may dictate, regardless of all abstrac-
tive views. l have weighed the matter anxiously,
snd have arrived at Il positive conclusion that there
is but one course to pursue. But it is not my prov
ince, as calling the meeting, TO say more ut present.
When the city was taken, through me, as chief
magistrate. you asked protection. You al know that
it was granted to you, and we all feel deeply in
debted To Brigadler General Geary for his conduct as
commandant of the city. Having convened you, and
expressed in part my views, it remains for you 10 ap-
point a chairman of this meeting.
RoME-The Pope has issued a Bull condemning all
modern, religious and political writings having a
tendency hostile to the Roman Catholic Church, and
exhorting the Bishops TO cOnfute them. The Bull,
which was signed on the Sth of October last, was
drawn np by a committee OF theologians. under the
presidency of Cardinal Caterinj. In an E~ncyclical
letter, the Pope grants q Jubilee of one month TO be
celebrated in 1865.
By the Encyclical letter of the Pope, it is generally
considered that the breach between the Tuileries and
the Vatican is as complete as it can possibly De, and
that the Court of Rome has adopted a course which
shuts the mouth of its most eloquent and influential
defender.
FRENCH OPINION on The Pores ESCYCLICAL LET
RI French journals, commenting upon the
new Encvclical document. observe that if any doubts
existed before as to the impossibility Of the political
reconciliation Of the Papacy with Italy, this removes
them. The Pope himself has pronounced,'' says
the .NorI, las formally as possible, the c~ondemna-
ton of the maintenance of his political power" The
Steele observes that - those defenders of the Holy
See who cherished, and wished others to cherish,
the idea of 4 compromise between Italy and the
Court of Rome, are henceforth condemned to silence,
unless they would be rebels TO the Pope-King."
- The Holy See,'' the Temps says, has condemned
in mass and in detail all that modern society has
done and thought since the middle ages; and those
who will be most astonished are the Catholics them
selves" The Dfbats, while postponing any elabo.
rate criticism upon the Encyclical, says that the
extracts it has seen contain the strangest things,
aud maxims the most opposed not only TO the public
law. but 10 the ecclesiastical law Of all modern na-
tions. whether Catholic OF not.