The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-07
Late Foreign Items.
European.

European.
Louis Napoleon has given ten thousand dollars
toward the North Pole Expedition.
The price of telegraphing in Switzerland is To be
reduced one half. After next january a message
NAV be SEM any where within the country for halt
Il frame.
Van Dieman's Land. out of a population of So
( 600. contains but four of the aboriginal inhabitants.
DrRIN October 1.-THE Catholic Bishops of
Iceland have issued an address denouncing In strong
terms the Protestant church establishment, the Ma
tional schools and the tenians-
1t seems probable that the new system of tele-
graph construction will soon be adopted generally
in England. The wires are to be laid side by side
in tubes under the beds of a railway. each being
separately insulated in a very simple manner
4 waif from the wreck of the Inflated london.
after tossing about on the ocean for twenty months.
was picked mp in ENmouth harbor recently 1t
Simplv desires the finder 10 inform the friends OF
Francis Day that he went down in the London. and
had at the time $1,000 in the London and West
minister Bank.
The expedition - search for Or. Livingtone, or
his remains. sailed on the 18th of July from the
Cape OF Good Hope. for the mouth of the Zambesi.
where the steel boat. built in England expressly for
the purpose. was 10 be put together. Excepting a
portage of thirty or forty miles. the expedition can
sail 10 the northern end of the Lake NayaSa. near
which DR.. Livingstone is said to have been muir
dered.
There are now published in the United Kingdom
1924 newspapers distributed as follows: England,
965 Wales. 40 Scotland, l3S: Ireland. LIS. OF
these 81 daily papers are published in England. l
in Wales. l in Scotland. IS IN Ireland, aud L IN the
British Isles.
To BACHELORS.-Dr. Stark, in his last reports for
the Scottish Registry Office, assert that the ratio of
deaths among unmarried men between the ages of
- and 30 l. double that ot married men, and that
nearly the same disproportion is maintained be-
tween the ages of 80 and 81. He adds that. in gem
eral, husbands may count on twenty years more of
life than bachelors.
The fashionable part of London, known as Bel,
/ gravia, is owned by the Marquis of Westminster
who has an income of 81 600 a day. With the or,
binary rise in value, Lord Beigraye. his grandson
aged twelve. will be the richest man in the world.
y nice thing to think CT.
MINISTER BANCRoFT-The new Minister OF the
United States to the Prussian Court. Mr.. GeoI ge
Bancroft. is treated and received on all sides with
marked consideration. The King was very cordial
when Mr.. Bancroft presented his credentials 1t
seemed as If the old gentleman was highly pleased
at length 10 have an American Minister near his
Court with whom he was able to converse. The
King does not speak English. but Mr.. Bancroft con-
verses quite freely in German. With Mr.. 1ancroft's
two or three predecessors the King had not been
able to exchange any words
The Rerue de Deur UOadeS says:
The President has withdrawn from the command
of the district of New Orleans Gen. Sheridan. per
haps the most brilliant of the Generals of the United
States, that chief Of cGCdiry ,rh0Se improvements IN
tie use OF thdt arm are the study OF European sol
dierS, the cOnquerOr of Five Forks. and of the final
struggle about Petersburg and Rlchmond.'
Every body is talking about indebtedness of the
French Emperor. His civil list is So .9UO, 900 "A year,
but SO onerOus have been the draughts made upon
it by the visits OF the many foreign sovereigns who
have appeared in Paris. his Majesty has gone
heavily in debt. Various are the tatements afiOat
respecting the amount. The lowest figures given
are 81 900. 900, the highest are So. 900. 600. The
general impression is his Majesty's debts are be-
tween $500. 900 and $4,000. 600.
DIR. Lankrster. of England, says h has long
been trying TO find out how much working men
drink in IA day. but he has never been able to as
certain. He once asked the landlord of public
house irequented by navvies how much a man had
drank in Il day. and his answer was he did not know
he had only served him with fifteen quarts of ale
in a day. The next day the man was dead.
Working men could stand more than any one else.
because they worked it of. and navvieS could stand
most of all. TailoTS could not stand much. and
his advice 10 them was to abstain altogether.
In the year 1866 1917. 200 sovereigns were coined
ut the Mint. and 2.O5S.116 half sovereigns. 5.l40,
$50 siXpences. 4l5S fourpences. 1895. 2SS three
pences, 41j2 silver twOpences, 1920 silver pence
also 9.999. 500 copper pence. 2.5GS.S0O halfpence.
and 3~,5Si.O0O t~arthings. Altogether. therefore,
money was coined ii the Mint in 1866 to the a.
mount of G5,0I6,616 In gold. e493.4I6 in silver,
and e50.624 in copper, or 60 ,620,7l in all. Worn
silver of the nominal value els, 600 was purchased
from the Bank of England. for re-cOinage. and a
loss of el5,9IS was accustomed by its re-coinage.