The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-07-14
FOREIGN NEWS.

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We have 10 later foreign news. as the telegraph
vas said to be down. bu, more likely Il was in the
hands of spectators, who are making their tens Of
thousands out Of it. :.
There was war in Europe. as the latest published
kilograms reported a collision between the Prussiaa
and Austrian forces at Altoona. Blu, one paper with
the news in it was received, and that has very mys-
teriOusly disappeared.
Gold was quoted at los a I69.
The bark ID. c. Murray arrived over on the Goth
of June. Is days passage. having sailed hence on the
2i. She would leave San Francisco for Honolulu ON
the 9Th.
Bark Ethan Allen sailed on the 8Oth Of June. and
will be due here ON Monday next. She will bring
ten days later ,elegraphic news.
The United States steamer Vander5ilf and the
monitor .Hoaadnock arrived at San Francisco on the
22i of June, and anchored off Vallejo street wharf
The negroes of Memphis have subscribed $4,000
for q hospital for their own use.
II said that the reconstruction report is favored By
6 majority of the Cabinet.
Jenny Lind sung at a recent festival ut Cannes
her hrst appearance in France
John W. Pesse. a mechanic at Allegany. Csttarsu-
gus county. has invented a brick machine, which
will turn out 10000 bricks per day.
Henry S. Biselow, NJ. D.. Of Boston, has discov-
cred u new anGsthetic agent which he calls rhigo-
leno. 1t IS hydro.carbon, and obtained from petro
leum.
Prentice of the Louisville Journal, makes q wicked
lunge at the very underpinning Of society. He says
I =. fitting hoops enable the common people TO SEQ q
great deal more Of good society than they ever SOW
before"
The 4. European Pocket Time Keeper extensively
advertised at 81, is a simple pasteboard dial arranged
to tell the time by the sun. and costs only n few cents.
The British fleet on the coast af North America
consists of 26 ships, with 443 guns, and manned by
62oe officers and inen. two vessels mounting II guns
and with 440 men.
Three hundred German immigrants have just
arrived at Augusta. Ga. They are all engaged, aud
are TO be paid $50 per annum, with board aud
lodging for each man, and 500 for each woman.
The total attendance in the diaeren, departments
of the College at Oberlin. Ohio. this season is TO.
of which 425 are gentlemen, and 3i5 are ladies. or
the whole number. pol are new students.
1t is now stated that DR.. winship can lit 1000
pounds. which is the limit tina, be placed on himself
at the commencement OF his experiments, after which
he was to repose on his laurels.
One Of the Philadelphia churches has erected in
the wall of its vestibule n marble tablet, whereon Is
inscribed the name and date and place OF death Of
its members who fell victims to rebel bullets or to
rebel barbarity during the war.
A curious menage has just been established in the
Jardiu des Plantes. In an iron cage have been
placed a young lioness. an Algerian wild boar aud n
little dog. This last is quite the master. the lioness
generally amusing herself with teasing the boar.
When, however. the lioness goes too far the dog inter-
feres and re- establishes order.
A Naples letter writer says that several Roman
Catholic priests have declared their intentions OF
marriage, under the new law which makes marriage
a civil rite. and one has already been united toa
lady Of Naples. The writer thinks the example will
be somewhat extensively followed.
1t is proposed in Charleston. S. c.. to convert the
square of the burnt district into a public garden. on
the same plan as the Palais Royal in Paris. This
will be enclosed by a fire proof block of buildings.
the lower stories to be used as stores. while the upper
will contain cafes, an opera house, SO.
~ III
cloak, was passing along the street in Quincy. IN.
where some cattle were being driven. One Of them.
attracted by the color of the cloak, dashed forward.
and planting a horn under each of the iady's arms.
pinned her fast TO a fence close by. Singu.arly
enough. she was released from her perilous and en-
barrassing position without injury.
The PUBLIo DEnr.-It was considered one Of the
greatest achievements of Pitt that he devised a sink
ing fund whereby the public debt Of England. il IL
could not be paid, might at least be prevented from
increase. A Republican administration Of the United
States has done better than this. When the expenses
of the war can hardly be said to have ceased, the
public debt is reduced twelve and three quarter mill
ions in a single month. And this without extraor-
binary means, foreign or forced loans. subscriptions
or any resource but that derived from the income of
the country.
IMPUTED DESIGN OF NAPoLEoN.-A Paris letter
says that it is by no means impossible that Napoleon
is aiding and abetting Prussia in her alleged designs
upon the Duchies, and in her desire still further to
have Austria humbled. Napoleon might gain con-
siderab!y by n war between Prussia and Austria. In
exchange for his neutrality, or moral aid, and in ex-
change for the maritime advantages which che would
gain by the annexation Of the Duchies, Prussia
might be willing to give up to France the long
coveted Rhenish provinces and make the Rhine the
' natural boundary Of France. In the course Of
the conflict Italy might be able to seize Venesia.
which, once in her hands, France would never per-
nit TO be restored to Austria; and in exchange fep
this the Italian government would doubtless Be Will
ing to abandon. finally and forever. the idea Of mAk-
ing Rome the capital, and even be willing TO guar
anty to the Pope his temporal sovereignty.
BRIrrsH AMERICAN Houses
Of the Nova Scotian Parliament have passed resolu-
tons in favor of a Confederation Of the Provinces.
This insnres the carrying out Of the scheme. 10 q
few weeks the question will go before the Imperial
Parliament. Delegates from the different Colonies
will be heard in Committee, and the act If Uuioa
will be ratified before the close Of the present year.
This much appears at the moment to be morally GER
tain. How far the scheme will please those who are
thus to be brought into political anion we cannot
venture even TO conjecture. All we know is that ia
it satisfy the Provincial people, it ought TO satisfy 10.
Ii will at least bring them nearer the day of complete
release from a state of colonial dependence On tha
Parent State; and this is all that England cares for
in pressing confederation upon them With eueh steady
purpose-.E y. Times.
John Stewart Mill has undertaken the prafsewor-
thy task OF giving the English House Of Commons a
few easy lessons in good manners From time i'm
memorial the worthy members Of that consequential
body Of Legislators have been in the habit of sitting
on the benches of the House with covered heads,
after tie fashion Of all orthodox Quakers. Bot Mr..
Mill not only removes his hat, but leaves Il at the
door, SO as to prevent n possible yielding 10 the
temptation Of universal custom. After be has sue
ceeded IN imparting the rudiments Of etiquette to
these a. PhilistiBes.' il woDld be well if he gave
them a few lectures on Political Economy and other
branches Of craftsmanship.
GES' GRAST's MoDEsTr.-rbe Chicago Repu5li-
can says
Gen. Grant, in a recent conversation with the Pew.
George Hepwor,h, of Boston. said Of Gen. Sher nan
a. Sherman is a man to be proud Of. He is impetu-
Gus, he is faulty but he knows his own faults as
soon as any man" OF Sheridan he said " He is
the pest man in America. lie has no peer. He can
WELD any force. He is n pure hearted, simple man.
nered and truly noble nan" And Of himself he