The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-15
FOREIGN Summary.

works OF art OF the value or more than S34o, UUU
were exported from Rome in 1854
\ FIRE at Coustantinople destroyed a convent and
numerous houses. One hundred lives were lost.
The population of Paris this year is 1867, Sal
souls, exclusive Of 3 garrison Of Is, 900 men.
The Queen of Spain is about to sacrifice a portion
OF her private estate in aid Of the national treasury.
The difficulty between Turkey and Persia is grow
ing more serious. a diplomatic rupture is expected.
The dresses in Paris are cut SO low in the neck this
season that what remains Of the attire is considered
not worth mentioning.
The Arch Duchess Sophia Of Austria nearly choked
herself 10 death recently with a chicken-bone.
Twenty seven ships were required to transport the
cotton captured by General Sherman in Savannah.
A colored man named john Delaney has been APP
pointed surgeon IN the army, with the rank Of major.
1t is stated that immense droves Of beef cattle,
numbering about 1000, 90 head, are roaming on
the prairies Of Western Texas.
\ Hindoo prince made ten millions Of dollars last
year by the rapid rise in value of cotton in India.
In the United States, last year, the losses by FIRE
amounted TO $50, 0OO, 900.
\ strange snimal, resembling a kangaroo or ba-
boon, has been caught on one of the highest peaks
of the Sierras. Its voice is strangely like that of a
human being. The animal, when standing on its
hind legs. is about three and a half feet high.
Earnest efforts are being made in Spain for the
abolition of slavery in her colonies. In Madrid an
anti slavery society has been formed. In Cuba anti
slavery sentiments are rapidly spreading among the
native population.
A new English dictionary of most extensive and
comprehensive character is in course of preparation
under the auspices of the British Pathological Society.
Among the collaborators for the undertaking are
Archbishop Trench, Lord Lyttleton. Sir John Rich
ardson Che Arctic explorer Rev. DR.. Maitland, Mr..
Henry H.. Gibbs, and Miss 1onge, the novelist.
German abstruseness has obtained an invaluable
puzzle, by the appointment of a permanent embassy
from Prussia, at Pekin, with a Professorship attach
ed, for the calculation of Chinese hieroglyphics and
Celestial Grammar.
The vicissitudes of a sailors life are painfully e-
hibited in recent returns to the English Board of
Trade. OF forty-seven thousand seamen whose
names are recorded during the twelve years ending
1864, no less than twenty thousand died from drown
ing, and more than two thousand from accidents of
various kinds.
The Bey of Tunis has announced his intention to
send to the United States an Envoy Extraordinary, to
congratulate the Government on the triumph of its
arms in suppressing rebellion, and to express his
good will. 1t will probably be General Heussein, who
has written on admirable letter on Tunisian slavery,
and he will be accompanied, at the Bey's desire, by
Mr.. Amos Perry, Consul at Tunis.
At the funeral of Mr.. Golden, when the clergy
man at the graveside came to the words, .' ashes to
ashes, dust to DUST Mr.. Bright, who was one of the
pail bearers, burst into a paroxysm Of grief, weep
ing bitterly. The other pail bearers, Messrs. Glad
stone, Gibson, Villiers, Wilson and Motfatt, were al
so deeply affected.
The keen sarcasm and cutting irony of NJ. Ro-
geard's Les PrOpoS de Labienus are immensely rel
ished by the German people. who love liberty too
well to feel any great admiration for the French
Napoleonic reproduction of the classic Caesar. The
criticism is far more popular than the work on
which it treats. Three separate translations of it
appeared in as many days In Berlin, and in Leipsic
and the other publishing cities the demand is unpre-
cedented.
A new saccharometer Gan apparatus for determin-
ing the quantity of sugar in any substance by means
of polarised Light has been described by NJ. Wild.
1t is said by good authorities to be much more deli
.... Lo. lis H. no+r Dont in -a-4r,I 40. T.
Wild's apparatus the incident light is polarised by
means of Foucault's Gale spar prism, which is capa-
BILE of being turned round its axis, the amount of
rotation being measured by means of a vernier ap-
piled to a small graduated circle. Professor Wolcot
Gibbs considers the new instrument to be 8 most
acceptable addition to physical cabinets.
An American journal states that one of the most
wonderful migrations known to history has been
going on silently, while all Christendom has been
looking only at the prosecution of the greatest war
known to history. Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho
have received more of this internal migration than
Nevada, which owes its earlier admission into the
Union to it's being older by two or three years. In
the sun mer an almost continuous line of colonists'
Wagons extended from the Missouri River to Fort
Laramie. At one crossing 4 600 teams and 5000
tons of freight were passed in six weeks. At another,
ZOO teams were at one time waiting their turn at
the ferry, the line extending back into the country,
two or three miles. Nevada is, par iminence, the
silver territory, yielding already from fifteen to eigh-
teen millions per snnum. The precious ore IS cast
100 49,
1000 dollars each.
A Charleston letter says '' In a conversation with
Gov. Aiken the day of my arrival. he assured me
that he had never seen the Presidents first Inaugural
till that day, and that the accounts of it which were
published st the time in the Charleston papers were
wholly false, giving the substance of a concoction
deliberately made, and quoting of the whole original
message but q line or two in places made to fit.
Governor Aiken himself thought that had that adj
dress been read throughout the South, it would have
killed the secession movement. Other gentlemen
whom l met differed with the Governor in the extent
of this opinion-they thought South Carolina was at
that time too fully committed to secession to retreat;
but all united in the belief that a knowledge of the
Inaugural would have killed the movement in every
other State.
The Louisville Journal, in an elaborate editorial,
entitled SC An open Letter to the People of Kentucky"
closes as follows
"The time has come for at once cutting up by the
roots the Upas tree which for more than half n CEN
fury has poisoned our prosperity and retarded the
growth of that public spirit which our full develop
ment requires. Let the people, therefore, cast aside
the fossiiized politicians who would impede their pro-
gress in the broad path of destiny which opens be-
fore them, and to this end let them in August next
elect no man to the General Assembly of the State
who will not pledge himself to the immediate and IN
ment."
THE LONDON TINES A CHAMELEoN.-The London
Times, November 26, 1860. delivered itself as fol-
lows:
g 1t is evident on the smallest reflection, that the
South, even if united. could never resist for three
months the greatly preponderating strength of the
North
September IA, 1864, it remarked in this wise:
1.-The public will admit that they have not been
misguided by our comments. We said that the
North could never subdue the South. and the North
has now proclaimed the same conclusion"
Finally, on the 10Th of April, it proclaimed thus ::
1.-The catastrophe seems complete, and in all its
accessories calculated to impress people with a feeling
that the work is accomplished, and that the civil war