The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-07-20
Summary.

European Summary.
Two woman have been elected as parish over
seers in England.
Crinoline dies hard. The ladies' in Paris are
about equally divided as to its continued use.
1t is said that George Augustus Sala has made
an engagement tn write only for the London Daily
Telegraph. at n salary of 81 200 n year.
\ man has recently died in London whose sole
business for seventeen years has been to catch
frogs for the serpeu,s in the Geological Gardens.
The London Punch has as a rival Judy, n new
comic paper, which was announced to appear soon.
The Edinburgh Cflelonian Mercury has just
been suspended, after an existence of over two
centuries. 1t was established in 1902.
The national debt of Turkey now funded and
inscribed amounts to Es3,i00,s $50.
On the LIST of January, Is66, there were 1886
lunatics in asylums and hospitals in England and
Wales. besides about 10000 in warehouses;.
Rev. Mr.. BOYD. the well-known Country Par
SON. has charge of the largest church in the north
of Scotland. He says, Our parish church IS $50
years old. and in our church-yard people have
been buried for 1900 years.
The wonderful French cannon, the construction
of which is supposed to be a profound secret. can
be fred. it is said. 40 or 80 times a minute. 1t
carries with accuracy 1000 yards, and a single dis
charge would destroy the whole front of a battalion.
1t is SO light that two men can easily lift it.
The London Times declares that it is 4" the in
tention of the Queens Government to withdraw at
no distant time all British troops from the Ameri-
can Continent"
Although Oxford has beaten Cambridge in the
university race seven times in succession, yet i'm
the whole number of matches since their beginning
in 1929, she is only four ahead. Cambridge has
won ten races and Oxford fourteen in a period
covering thirty-eight years.
Mr.. Surgeons Agricultural Hall congregations
are rising weekly. On a recent Sunday the gifted
orator had an audience of 1000, all Of whom. il
is said. heard him distinctly. OF course. care was
taken to ask each person if he heard prior to
making this statement public.
In England the construction of a postal telegraph
is contemplated that will include every post town
in the United Kingdom. and every other town of
1000 persons. and there is 10 be a deposit Office at
every postofice which is not a telegraphic office
proper. In England and Wales there are SCI post
towns. IA of which send one or more day mails to
London. and 5l3 of which receive one or more day
mails from London
In tie London Times office a new printing ma
chine is erected which will print 10000 copies Of
the paper per hour. 1t will print on a continuous
sheet. which will afterwards be cut into separate
copies of the Times.
The number of newspapers in the German Ian
guage Published in Europe is 3,2il, of which 547
are political.
Herr Schweizer. director of the Observatory at
Moscow, has published a pamphlet. in which be
attempts to show that the town and its vicinity lies
on Il very thin crust of earth, beneath which is a
very deep and extensive cavern. 1t is said that
experiments have fully borne out the truth of Herr
Schweizer's statements. Pleasant for Moscow
y very rare natural phenomenon-a fall of sred
snow-took place in the Swiss canton of Gsau-
bundten lately. According to a lecture recently
given at a meeting of the Society of Naiuraiists at
Choir (SwisS) the red snow was declared to have
come from the African desert, blown by the
fohn " (Swiss term for south wind.
a bill has been adopted in the French legislatif
body changing the term Of naturalization from ten
to three years and TO one year when important
services are rendered.
Reform demonstrations have taken place at
Birmingham, Leeds, London, Davenport and other
towns. Resolutions expressing regret that the
Ra4,r HTn Dn.V l.pfarp Parliament tCaS ~ "A
strictive in its character were passed.
The Volunteer Review at Dover has been highly
successful. The weather was fine. the total mum
Der of volunteers on the ground was 24,034. a.
sham battle was fought, in which the fleet of ships
off Dover-the Castle and the military took part
together with the volunteers.
The present pope has occupied the Vatican for
twenty-one years. When he assumed the reins of
government. the debt was only $4,000 900 dur
ing his administration he has added to this amount
500. 900, 900. The expenses annually are about
Sl0.0 900. 900. while the income from taxes is less
than S5.000.000. This government. that Arch
bishop Manning and Mr.. Newman commend so
highly. is therefore, living beyond its means and
already bankrupt.
The suffrage in Italy is by no means universal.
An clector must be first. an Italian citizen sec
ondlv. not less than twenty-five years old thirdly.
must reside in the commune or section of commune
in which he gives his vote fourthly. must be free
from all criminal condemnation and filthy. must
pay forty francs of taxes or the same for house
rent. Artisans. however, are excluded, except the
masters OF workshops.
The severe sentence of the Italian Admiral
Pcrsano. who has just been cashiered and stripped
of his rank and decorations. because at the battle
of LISA be transferred his flag from the deck OF
the Re IL Italia tn the hold of an iron-clad. recalls
to a contemporary by contrast the conduct of Ad-
miral Farragut under similar circumstances. At
the attack on the rebel fleet in Mobile harbor. he
was urged to seek safety in a monitor. ..Noir
replied the gallant old officer. If / must go to
the bottom. III rather go on n single than i'm a
tea kettle" And in the end the single seems 10
have been the wiser aS well as the more honorable
choice.
Mr.. Gladstone has addressed 4 letter 10 Mr..
Crawford in which the hon. gentleman. annoved
and offended by the defeat of his amendment IN
the principle of the Government Reform Rli
from the direction Of any further oppo.
sition 70 the Bill, hat his vote he says. is nj the
service OF his friends who may have the courage to
to the command on a future occasion. The reason
assigned for throwing up the command j. thai
&c Liberal members. whose convictions allow them
to act unitedly upon this question. ara not a major
ity. of the existing House OF COMMONS Mr.
Is held in such great esteem by every
man al liberal opinions. that the course he has
taken is regarded with universal regret. There is
no living statesman 81 largely possessed of the
of the country ana when the Derby
Ministry shall have run its course there is no
doubt OF his being called bs the popular Voice TO
I'LL the highest position in the service of the Crown.
it is therefore lamentabls that The right hon. gen,
tlemau should through an error of Judgment or |,
fault of temper. voluntarily descend from bisbs
position. turn his hack upon his friends. .gh
them seek somebody else To lead them - ID bid