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

pun, IS ETPOTItU. Iut TOtAI III HIaICn HTHUUuTtT TO
only 1873, against 4.44S in the corresponding
month last year, thus exhibiting q decrease OF 500.
or nearly one-halE
A number of English Liberal newspapers. includ-
ing the London Daily -Ntlrs, the Pail Mall Gazette.
Saturday RerieIo, Spectator and Bells LIFE were
con6Scated in the Paris Post-ofice on n recent day.
Louis Napoleon has evidently resolved to vindicate
his claim TO be regarded as the French Seiser.
\ commercial and industrial revolution has just
taken place at Hamburg The octrol duties have
been abolished, the Senate having ordered the gates
Of the city 10 be removed. The trading corporations
have ceased 10 exist, and the State has reimbursed
the funds deposited by them in the public treasury.
A change occurred recently in the Turkish Cabinet.
and the Sultan appointed as Minister Of Public In
struction a man who can neither read nor write
The fact excites little comment; but the spectacle OF
an ignorant. Turkish Minister OF Education is by
no means so sad and strange as the manner in which
Christian civilized peoples consent to be ruled by III
competents and persons VIGOROUSLY no better fitted
for their duties than the poor Mahommedan Nevres
Pacha is for his special department.
Several of the Paris journals speak against the
extremely decoilete style Of dress which the ladies
have adopted at the balls this season in the French
capital =" What remains at the present day OF wo-
mans Dress says NJ. f. Texier in the Steele, a. is
so small that it is hardly worth talking about. La
dies are attired almost like the natives in South
America-with nothing but 4 necklace. Besides that
such n style of dress may be made very rich, 1t has
the advantage Of covering but little and at n ball
where the heat is always excessive, che cannot be too
thinly clad :"
FRANCE AND THE PoPE.-The Paris press is still
all ablaze with the debates on the conflict between
Papal and national authority in the French Cham
bers, some affirming that it can be settled only by q
separation between Church and State ; others recon-
mending a modification Of the Concordat ; and others,
again, denying that there is any serious evil men
aced. The Presse holds with the Temps the first
view the France and the Union the last. The
.4penir favors the freest discussion {; the De6afs
merely criticises the whole affair. with n leaning,
however. against the clergy the Steele and Opinion
ha1tAvn in n ul1N claimant IT tho rlar-
ical ranks opposed TO the encroachments OF Rome.
The speech of NJ. Rowland. in the Senate. is regarded
as forming a link of Cancellation between the Crown
and the Ultramontane clergy. The Emperors wish 10
probably represented by the ideas of the speaker.
and it is not likely to be defeated.
The new edition of Webster's Dictionary contains
much new matter some things which were never
before published in any form. The volume stands
as a monument of the fact that no great work is the
product Of any one mind. We speak OF Webster's
Dictionary, Webster's Definitions, &c, but what we
ascribe to him is often the result Of severe and pro-
tracted labor expended upon his principles by his
and Mr.. Wheeler's - Vocabulary, are original and
highly valuable contributions to the present volume.
The Pictorial Illustrations are neat and exact. Mr..
Mahn, of Berlin, has revised the Etymologies OF
Webster, and has evinced in this revision rare judg-
ment, learning and skill. The genealogical re-
searches of this eminent foreigner, and the scholar
ship as we'll as tact evinced by Professors Whitney,
Gilman, Dana and others, in the definitions of tb"
present volume, add an immense value to Ibid
iiotheca Sacra.
The greatest and most beneficial system of sewer
age in the world is that which has just been partially
completed in London, at a cost of twenty millions OF
dollars. 1t only remains to finish the Thames en-
bankment in order to dovetail and improve the place.
Immense reservoirs, covering scores of acres, and
a~queducts extending hundreds of miles under the
city, have been constructed, and by new machinery
the impurities of the great city are conveyed twelve
miles below, and discharged on the top or reflex OK
the tide in place of being carried in and floating up
ward and downward as heretofore, corruptng every
thing and tainting the air. The works are on q
scale sufficiently gigantic to anticipate the wants OF
several additional millions to the already enormous
population of London. The Prince of Wales opened
the works, by starting the huge steam engines for
pumping the sewages. A large number of fashion
able and scientific persons were present and gave
eclat to the occasion.
AN ExrRAoRDINARY BILLIARD PLAYER.-In billi-
ard playing, as in most other things, perfection is
unattainabe, and proficiency can only be relative.
or all the illustrators of this fascinating art that the
United States has seen, a Monsieur Pierre Carme,
from France, ap~proximates nearest to what 10 con-
ceived to be the highest degree of excellence. AT the
establishment of Messrs. Phelan & Callander. in
New York, M. Carme demonstrated that what had
been considered positive impossibilities were to him
mere common places. Allowing the balls with which
he played to be placed in almost every imaginable
position. he seemed to experience no difficulty in
caroming upon them. Whether the cue-ball was
required to describe a circle around a hat; to be i'm
PEELED forward, and by a short curve, to retrograde
upon nearly the same line which it pursued in ad-
vancing; to hug on end-cushion from corner to cor
ner; to ricochet from one end Of the table to the
other. and carom on a ball placed upon the floor; to
leap over q cue and, returning, pass under II to coms
plete the shot; to rebound with lightning speed from
contact with a ball placed at the extremity Of the
table; to pursue and overtake a ball in motion; to be
thrown back violently from a ball placed against q
cushion, only to return with renewed vigor to the
same spot, from whence by q graceful, serpentine
movement, it would accomplish the grand design
carom-each of these astounding feats was performed
r. Grot ,npnn md rnnnir
ed more than two, Notwithstanding the Earring of the
ponderous machinery beneath the floor was a serious
obstacle to the players success, and evidently taxed
his patience to the utmost. In this exhibition. NJ.
Carme, although he executed fully twenty five differ.
ent strokes, did not exhaust one half his repertoire.
which is said to be more extensive and attractive,
and to demand greater skill in its exemplifcation
than that of any other known player.
Mr.. ADAMS AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON THE d.
TIES OF NEUTRALs-Included in the digest Of dipio-
matte correspondence, which we publish to-day. is q
letter of Mr.. Adams. which so eaectually nails Lord
Russell on the question of neutral duties and obliga-
tons, that it may be said to settle the basis on which
our claims for losses by British built pirates, will
finally be established. In an minimizing moment
the British Secretary committed himselfto the follow
ing statement:
al cannot refrain from observing that Her Majes-
tvs Government have been far more successful in
preventing breaches of neutrality with regard to the
fitting out Of cruisers to take part in the civil war in
North America than the government of the United
States were in preventing the fitting out Of ships-of-
war TO aid the South American Republics in their
revolt against Spain, which, however, then stood in
the position of q central authority resisting insurrec-
ton"
Into the merits of this comparative presentment Of
British and United States neutrality MIR. Adams only
allowed himself to be dragged just SO far as was nec-
essary to clinch Lord Russell's historical references.
Our Minister'S rejoinder was a master-stroke Of di-