The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-10

\ letter ,rom FasISnano states that a wealthy
landowner named Angelo S~Inigaglia was captured
a few days back by ~brigands. and no; released ua-
til q ransom uf , 05J francs bad been paid.
\ statute OF Charlernayr,. was inaaguratcd at
Liege recently. but without any great ceremonial.
The local authorities were present and, after n
short address from the Governor Of the Province.
the linen cloth was removed and the tg1re exposed
TO public view.
Paris eccentric advertised that he was Souty,
had a violent temper. and was very quarrelsonsc.
but that be would settle $4,000 a year on a Young
and handsome wife. He received IS applications,
and II how married.
The revenue derived by the Spanish Government
from the Havana lottery during the fiscal year end
ing June seth. according to an Official statement
just published. was 81 3a, 2SS-about Si.S54 less
than the preceding year.
1t is now definitely arranged that a new direct
cable between Malta and Alexandria is to be sub
merged this Autumn. The English war ship Ne,c-
port is under orders TO take the necessary soundings
previous 10 the suhmersion of ths cable.
The Australian cricketers will pass another year i'm
Europe. but will Winter in France. Ga Friday,
they defeated a Norfolk eleven in a single innings
by 235 TO Isl.
The quantity of sovereigns issued from the Svd-
ney Mint averages fully 81 900 a week, or nearly
100000 a year besides from 50e,ooo to 200, 600
half-sovereigns.
\ musk melon was sold recently in she Central
! Market of Paris. weighing forty-four poands. aud
measured in circumference four feet two inches.
The English executors of the will Of ARENAS
Ward have published a card in the London papers
explanatory Of their neglect to account for his prop
! erty in England. He was SO short a time there,
they say. that il is impossible that he could have
made IA large fortune. They add that sbey have
sent a letter to the American executors, requesting
them to appoint an American gentlemen, resident
in London. to inspect the papers and accounts rela-
tive to the executorship.
Ottawa. Sept. S-The trial of Wheian was re-
sumed to-day. Several witnesses were examined,
all of whose testimony was circumstanlial, but
pointing strongly to Whelan rs the perpetrator of
the crime. The counsel for the Crown appear to
he satisfied that they will be able TO convict Whelan,
while his counsel, on the other hand. are equally
confident that he will be acquitted. There are
said TO be seven 0rangemen on the jury. Tho ex-
element has been very great.
Sept. ia large crowd gathered outside the
Courtroom this morning. but very few were adj
lHitted. Whelan. on being brought in, looked pale
and nervous. The jury returned n verdict o!
Guilty The prisoner. who heard the announce
ment W it'll great composure. then made a long adj
dress Ia the Court, in which he very einphatically
and solemn,v asserted his entire innocence of the
crime. lie denied having any connection with the
Fenians. and declared that be had been condemned
because he was a Roman Catholic that evidence
had been deliberately concocted to convict him.
He was going on TO speak Of the cruel treatment OF
%Irishmen by England, when he was interrupted by
the Chief Justice. who pointed out that whatever
might be the case elsewhere, in this country Irish
men and all other classes were treated alike before
the law. and had no reasonable grounds for com
tDtdlut- At pNttht u ~ ff~oh
against entertaining any hopes of pardon, and mn
ploring him to prepare for the future. his lordsbip
sentenced him to be executed ON Thursday, Deeem-
Der 10th.
waited on Lord Stanley on the 9th. He will sub
NIT his credentials to the Queen on Monday.
The Times has three columns of editorial mainly
devoted to a discussion of the views advanced by
metropolitan journals regarding the American
Chinese treaty. The writer reviews the course Of
Britise policy in China, which he cbaracterizes as
one of peace. submitting to frequent aggression,
disregard of treaties, fraud, ill-faith and evasion,
until clemency is interpreted at Pekiu as fear.
Chinese diplomacy is, seemingly, master of the sit
uation. They laugh at English treaties. jockey
England into quelling the Tapping rebellion. and
now they give her the go by as the principal lead
ing power in foreign policy. They send a mission
to defer indefinitely the claim under the treaty Of
Tien-Tsin for the opening of the Empire admitting
civilization. They must be told that ii they want
war they can have it that, while England desires
peace, actual treaties must be enforced. and no
steps further will be taken until this is done. Then
they will submit and will be at peace. China Will
not be the theatre of war between foreign powers
unless revolt is the American policy. The article
ends with the assertion that only the rulers Of Chi
course, and it is the duty of England to sustain this
wish of the people against the rulers.
The Times has a long editorial on Mr.. Johnson,
the American Minister. 1t says he has a carte blanche
from his government for settling the Alabama claims.
The case presents little trouble. The only difficulty
is in the reluctance of the American Government to
settle a difficulty growing ont of war ~resentments.
No American statesman ever believed that the ALd-
bdrna escaped with the connivance of Great Britain.
There might be a question of inadequate laws,
making England answerable but this could be
easily settled. The real grievance of the United
States was in the Indifference of England in the
American civil war, and her willingness to see the
Union destroyed. OF this the Americans were
conscious all the time. and they remember it keen
ly. They think we should have had active sympa-
thy with the North that a confederacy based on
human slavery should at once have been condemn
ed that the Republican party was the true friend
Of England that ii was wrong ever to doubt the
success of the Federal arms. After all the anger of
Americans was due to their consciousness of Eng
lands want of sympathy in their hour of peril but
their anger. if right, has been enough INDUCED.
Mr.. Seward has refused a handsome offer which
should be credited to England. He now cuts the
past adrift, and the thing is as good as settled.
The legal points will not stand in the way the
only thing to ascertain is the responsibility of
SO as to fix the proper indemnity.