The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-03-02
LATE FOREIGN ITEMS
TeIegrnphic and nther.

The london Court Journal says Queen Victoria
got cut Of bed to see The meleoIs. - did resident
johnson.
The Si,g Of Lifr Is The name ola jnurnal lately
started ia London. representing the baking interest.
Why i it easy to break in;o an old mans house,
Because his gait is broken aud his locks are few.
The geological character Of the rock ca which
drunkards split is said to he quartz
There are ii6ei salts involving SI5O.O00. asains,
the london Pail .NgH GacoHe.
The population of Louisville, Keutucky, is es;ima-
tel at l55,oee This is double its population six
years ago.
pona;i's great come, will be visible TO mortal
eyes again Ia The year SS5a. Cot this paragraph
cut Tor reference.
The English C'bine; is in a rHudile, troubled by
the reform agitation. The question before the Min
listers in power is " 10 be. or net to be"
Professor Agassiz says that for forty years he was
a teacher aud never %pnnished a pupil lie does
NO, believe i'll the virtues of " green Beisey."
He who is not willing to sll a place he is cited for
vii! find no place duei for him.
The American Minister To Chile. Gen. Kilpatrick.
was recently married At Valaparaiso to a niece Of
the Archbishop Of Chile.
Mr.. K.vauagh, who has neither arms nor legs.
ran " for Parliament from Kilkenny, and beat
Mr.. HennesSy, who had both.
The Boston Plot, a~lealing Roman Catholic organ,
has come out for impartial suffrage, ms it exists in
Massachusetts.
What air does the young mouse sing to the old
"SNNN WYNN ahAhE uS way AltNuRu lut scenery AT
the opera? " Hear me gnaw. ma"
The owner of the Dutch Gap farm has gone to
work filling up one end Of the canal, and that mod
ern war-like invention will soon be = bottled up"
The aggregate Of contributions 10 the Mayor of
Portland tor the relief for the sufferers by the great
he last Summer. is 5000 ,3lS.
The estimate gross revenues Of the Girard estate
for lS67-S are S330,000. Ii is hoped the fund will
soon be able to support twelve hundred orphans.
The French steamer Piercirc. Captain Duchesne,
- a., Il
days, from hayre TO New York. She was built by
Messrs. Napier * Sons, OF Glasgow.
The Pope has ordered n circular TO be issued 10 all
the Catholic Bishops, inviting them 10 be presen, Mt
a cluoniZauon in Rome, ON the festival of 81. Peter.
July 29th, 1867.
Nor TRuE-A Paris dispatch declares that il is
not tue that Maximilian, the about to be deposed
Emperor OF Mexico, will be q candidate for President
of that Republic !
\ girl twelve years OF age, died in London recently
from swallowing a damson stone. 1t was found, ON
post mortem examination, that the sharp point OF
the stone had passed into the lungs. and produced
rapid Inflammation, which caused death.
WITHOUT his APrRovAL-The bill amending the
Act organizing the several Territories by comforting
suffrage, without regard TO race or color, has become
n law without the Presidents approval. The bill
repeating the amnesty and pa'don authority given
to the President, became a law in a similar way.
He kept them over ten days without action.
The Heraid's Washington correspondent says n
bill Is framed for introduction in the House, provid-
ing for the appointment of Gen. Grant as acting
President il case Of the impeachment of Andrew
johnson.
New YoRK, Jan. 2e-The excise law was again
vigorously enforced yesterday. The Sabbath passed
oft quietly. A large meeting OF Germans was held
at Cooper's Institute last night favoring its strict
enforcement.
AFTER THE FOURTH 1t is announced by telegraph
that Congress will do nothing in the impeachment
question beyond collecting testimony until after the
4th Of March, leaving that subject for consideration
until there is time to attend to it.
The Liquor TRAFFIC.-There is quite a rumpus
in New York and other Eastern States concerning
the retail liquor traffic. The laws are pretty strict,
aud the authorities have been worked up to the
necessity Of enforcing them.
In Louisville there are ~forty-two and a half miles
of street railroads. The number of passengers car
ried per month is 925 900, aud the receipts per au.
mum are $780, 900.
The United States claim $3.50, 900 from Mr.. Arman,
a Frenchman, that being the amount paid him by
the Confederates alias rebels, for ships of war.
RESIGNED Tho members of the French Cabinet
have resigned their port folios. Napoleon has issued
n new decree, forbidding the Chambers hereafter to
reply to the speech from the throne.
LONDON, Jan. 24-The official Journal Of Copen-
hagen denies that the Danish government has any
intention of cedipg the island of ST. Thomas to the
United States.
1t was officially announced to day that the British
Government has accepted the plan submitted by the
Provincial Delegates for a union of the North Amer
lean provinces.
Advices from Paris state that France is disguised
with the measures put forward by the Emperor
Napoleon.
DIR. Stone. Of San Francisco, says be is fully con-
WINGED that the manufacture and introduction Of
pure wines into general use will not diminish mtem-
perance as has been supposed. Full two thirds Of
all the wine manufactured is converted into brandy,
and in the wine growing districts, intemperance is
on the increase extending TO the youth Of both sexes.
UPHILL WoRK.-Tbe railroad over Mont Gents,
Italy, to be done next Spring, masters grades as
steep as one foot in twelve, and the l%ocomotive is to
hold on and 60 ahead by means Of a third or central
rail, which it pinches with a pair of large, horizon
tai wheels or pulleys.
Brazil The Emperor of Brazil has just liberated
the national slaves, the profits of whose labors be-
longed to the Crown; and large numbers of the
freedmen have entered the army, and are being for
warded ia d etachmeuts TO the seat of var in Paraguay.
LONDON NEwsPAPERs.-The circulation and last
years profits on London daily newspapers are as
follow Times 60, 900, $3.50, 900 Teiegrph 1866 600.
$3.50, 900 St1Hdard 500, Sl25. 900 Herald
! 900, SO, 600 Morning .fdrerfiSer 5000, $780,
600 Morning Post 500, SO, 900 .NcrS 5000,
$50. 600 Star 10000, $4,000.
1t is said that ex Governor Eyre is writing a his
tory Of the Jamaica instruction. His testimonial
committee have received in cash and promises nearly
eI2, 900, and they have already had under serious
the course to be adopted and the COUNSEL
to be retained in the event OF the threatened criminal
prosecution being carried out. On the other hand,
the Jamaica committee have gathered &c, 000-one
half-wherewith to inEct the ex Governor for muir
der.
In Spain the art of adulterating food is carried to
perfection. Butter, in that favored latitude, Is COM
posed of tallow, remnants Of cheese, the juice OF the
petals of m~arigold, aud raw patatoes scraped and
reduced to pulp. This delicious compound is made
into cakes, and outwardly provided With a layer Of
the genuine article.
The .4rifor or flying ship is approaching compile
ton in san Francisco, and its power OF sailing
through the air will soon be tested. The public have
no faith in its ability 10 do half what its projectors
propose, but if it can perform a quarter Of what
they promise it will be a wonder.
NEW BlsHors A Telegram from Rome. says the
Catholic population in the United States has reached
spch proportions, that his Holiness the Pope has