The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-19

LONDON
Sir Il. Murchison has expressed the opinion that
the return OF DIR. Livingstone may be looked for
during the fall.
Dublin has a population of $4,000. and the Er-
press guesSes New York will rank first alter it for
Irish population.
Smoking pipes of the Roman age have been ex-
humed in Scotland, and are exciting the curiosity
of antignarianS.
The first Japanese child born outside of Japan
for the last ten centuries was born lately in London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamajkari Sadakichi, members vi an
acrobatic troupe. are the parents.
Napoleon has given Lambert, the French travel.
er, $4,000 francs toward paying the expenses OF =
trip 10 the North Pole. He wants $4,000 more.
BY the laying of a cable under the Rhine, all the
fortresses along that river are placed in direct te,e-
graphic communication with Berlin.
The Universe of Paris says that the American
Consul in Rome fought in the battle OF Nerola. by
the side of the Papal troops. and was slightly
wounded.
In the manufacture of steel pens at Birmingham.
2,500 persons are employed. The yearly product is
over 125, 100000 pens, consuming about .000 tons of
steel.
The charge brought against the soldiers of the
Roman Legion CHE troops in the service of the
Pope) of having shot the Garibaldidn prisoners, is
Indignantly denied by Col. CommandaDt DARCY.
If he had given such a cruel order, he says, the
heart of Plus IN would have repuised ii.
\ new rife has made its appearance in Paris
called the Tavageur, which, according 10 the asset
tons of its inventor. eclipses both the nea6iei gun
and the ChasSepot and can be fired fov' dnds
per minute, or 2400 per hour. SOL
4 sharp Englishman lately advertised in the
French papers to send two beautiful engraved
and colored portraits of the Queen OF England TO
any person inclosing him the modest sum of six
pence. Receiving several thousand letters inclos-
ing six pences, be sent to each ofhis correspondents
two postage stamps exhibiting the lineaments Of
Her Majesty.
FIowERs-Here is a receipt. said TO be p~racticed
by the Belgian florists, by which a bouquet can be
kept IN fair condition for a week or ten days:
Change the water every other day cut of. with
sharp scissors, u quarter of an inch of the stems, and
put a pinch of salt and 4 grain of saltpetre into the
water. If very much faded, the stems may be put
into hot wafer for a minnie or two. or into high
wines. Eau de Cologne. or ammonia.
The Germans are beginning to print their books
in Roman type. 1t is found much clearer and less
trying to the eyes. Ophthalmy-which killed half
the poor compositors before they had been ten
years at the business, and caused Il German print
ing Office to he hefunniest assemblage OF pale faces
small forms. and big green goggles ever cen-wil
be banished by the change.
Princess Louisa of England, the sixth child of
Queen Victoria. is reported engaged To be married
to Prince Christian Frederick, heir apparent to the
crown of Denmark. She WAS 20 years old on the
18th of March, and the Prince will be 25 on the Sd
of June, so That in years at least they will be well
AS he is brother to the Princess of Wales,
the two royal families will be still more closely al
lied. Four of the Queens children remain to be
ulSpbStu VI III tllTIitSt. VIZ Ut Bih OIL Gitl-
burgh, aged "a Prince Arthur. aged Is; Prince
Leopold, aged is, and Princess Beatrice, aged ii.
ENGLISH CoNSUIS.-The British consular establish
ments now employ 254 persons. at salaries ranging
from 5000 to $4,000 in gold, per annum. There
are 10 British consular officers i'm the United States,
"a in France. IS in Italy, - in Russia. ~ in Turkey,
l6 in Spain. II in Greece. 10 in Brazil. . in Egypt.
3 in Morocco, 5 i'll Peru, and s i'll Portugal. OF
these % are called "Consuls General" the addi-
tional title, Minister Resident being given TO
hose residing at Hamburg and Tanjicr, and that of
agent" to those at Egypt, Tunis, and Bucharest.
Constantinople. the Consul General is also Judge
Of the Consular Court. The total annual cost of
thesc officers is $3.50 $40. nearly all for salaries.
During 1867, the British Government received SSJ,-
500 in fees from the consuls.
The British subjects wrested from King Theodore
nearly u million sterling apiece. Thcy arc
worth it, every pound. That is the one great glory
Of England, that her flag waves over each of her
subjects, the meanest as well as the greatest, on
land or sea he may travel-or lift do not
md he comes wrOngfully to harm she will make it
wave there il men and money can carry il so far.
rom insult for half "a century to come in whatever.
portion of the world they may be placed. Money
hus expended in a national cause is not los.
" hatever faults England may have, ii cannot be
of her that she fails to give ample protection
o Der people abroad.
A NOBLE EARL--The Earl of SALISBURY, whose
lame is distinguished and honored among all phi
anthropists as well as christians, has recently come
the StNtIc CtUotIe Ot tUoSe WHO represent /
he High Church in England. He has violated
heir ideas of ecclesiastical propriety, and refused to
onfine his influence for good within the limits they
ssign. He insists that he has a right to recognize
md work with Christians wherever they may be
ound. He even appeared on the platform of Exc
er Hall, in company with Mr. Sturgeon. the noted
BAPTIST preacher. Afterwards he presided over
ertain meetings, which hose who assume to be his
TO do duty on such points, do not approve,
nd for all these things he is rebuked. The style
{ his reply is such as we might expect from SO no
lie a man, and the spirit he manifests might be
assessed by many others with profit. After declar-
lg himself to be a sincere member of the Church
f England, and his purpose TO maintain the vigor
t that Church, he adds: Although / do not con-
ur in all Mr.. Surgeons sentiments. nor always
pprove the language in which they are conveyed.
regard him as a man of great ability, of great
and doing a great work. And in these
avs of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, | will, ii
give the right hand of fellowship to him
nd every other. who will preach Christ to the
lasses of the people" There is the ring OF chris
an fidelity in these words. and neither bigotry nor
itterness can effectually cheek theSS1T::Tnr fy which
- Were prompted.
THE DErcS@2YTS0F DRINK-The most prevalent of
II decisions in self-delusion. No one hUmbugs us
o thoroughly as we humbug ourselves. And in
o particular are we more self-deccptive than in the
abits that are born of our %appeutes. We are con-
inually making excuses for them, instead of openly
vowing and j~ustifying our inclinations. Thus they
,ecomc forbidden fruit, and thus the danger of Illicit
Indulgence is heightened. So much of artificial
timulus enters into our hves-mOral. mental, and
,hysical. that periods of reaction and depression
re inevitable. practically unavoidable. Therefore
ecoursc is had to the insPiriting devices alluded TO
n the following. from the London Lancet:
Tho growing tendency of those whose lives are
emile. snd whose minds are educated, to indulge
n alchoholic stimulation. is a fact which the profess
ion would do well to recognize and protest against.
he vice is not the vice of our grandfathers the
Iottle or two ofpoTt which often laid them Hnder
he dinner table. and always sent them Keeling into
he drawing room. The sin of our day is less oh
risive and even more disastrous. 1t takes the
Of an occasional glass Mt odd times during the
ay. an extra dose at lunch. a glass of sherry Or
vo more or less frequently in the course of the af-
srnoon. another from the table when the cloth IS
i'd for dinner. Not ~uucommOnly a flask of sherry
companies the blue book in the carriage. And IL
worth nothing that this kind oftippling is not done
secret. So tar. indeed, from this. il is rather q
latter of boasting on the part of those who indulge
it. and they press others, often warmly. to follow
example. Sometimes, it is true. a mild kind
E nrcusc i. Offered. The dnse Is iak.nn .. iust II