The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-04-25

Tenny~on earns $50 600 n year

$4,000 in It's profits.
The sending of conviets 10 Australia has ceased
In 1864 the English Government entered into an
engagement with the Australian Government that
no eOnv;cts should be sent out 10 Australia alter
the end Of 1867
Out of FIVE Young men in Berlin. Prussia. who
recently tried TO 20 a week without sleep, three
died.
Oxford. vino was convicted many years ago, Of
firing NJ Queen Victoria. has been released from
the prison for criminal lunaticS. He i. however.
never - be permitted 10 reside in England.
Bismarck met his barber at Baden Baden, and
spoke 70 him. The barber gave himself airs and
complained of the mixed society ut Raden Baden.
The Count replied with a happy ggIG pro gU0:
=. Welt @,wc cannot all be BARRIERS, YOU know
\ Russian paper announces that while the
Turkish Council Of Ministers was delibcrating on
the means OF procurins money for the Sultan :
VOYAGE. one Of the disnitarieS proposed 10 sell
Jerusalem to Russia. Everybody here is con-
WINGED that if the sale i nor vet effected il will
take place. Negotiations ON the subject are said
10 be in progre>s. The price of Jerusalem and
Jaffa Is supposed TO be fixed NJ one hundred mill
ion of piastes-twenty million of francs.
ATELsGRAPHICTH ERxONETER.-An English Pro
fessor has constructed a registering thermometer
which tells the heat of q given locality at any dis
tance. By it a captain of a vessel can ascertain
the temTsrarure at the bottom of any sea over
which be may be sailing. BY and bye We will
have . barometer which shall tell us what the
weather Is at the AntipodeS. and from that the
shall record the prevalent weather here and else
where next week. The future is full of thermo-
metrieal and meteorological marvels.
The italian army amounts, according 10 official
reports. TO Ito. 600 men. which IL 60, 200 short of
the number fixed for the army when on a peace
footing. The troops ready 10 take the field. how
ever, do not amount 10 more than $4,000 men,
- - - =
hospitals. The Government has now called on the
contingents Of the frs, class, which are expected
10 furnish 10000 men more, and also two classes
of the reserves
The cleanest village in the world is Brock, in
Holland, which no horse or carriage has ever been
permitted 10 enter, and where everything Is kept
with the most ScrupUlous neatness. Before enter
ing many Of the houses YOU are required to re-
move Your shoes. 1t Is said that even the En-
peror of Russia was compelled 10 comply with this
custom
RUssIA.-lt is stated on good authority at
Vienna that Prince GortschakOff Is about 10 re-
sign his past in the Russian Cabinet. and that he
viii be suecceCed by General I~gnatioff, now the
Russian Ambassador OF Constantinople. This
news If true Is very mk-rtant, as General Igna-
tiOf is known 10 b. strongly in favor of 4 hos
tile policy on the par. Vi has Government towards
the Porte.
Russia PREPARING FOR Waffle movement
- ltc VARIOUS ulNl>lOI- OF the 6Ucl1n army
eastward, which We noticed the other dav. has
been completed; and the Government Is now il, a
position 10 send 2U3 900 men 10 the Turkish or
Austrian frontier II q few DAYS notice. As 900
men are stationed between Dunaburg. Poiotsk.
and Nitebsk, 10000 at Borizoy and Ora. Is. 900
at Minsk, $4,000 in other parts OF Lithunia. and
10000 at Tcheringov. ZytOmir, kiev, and Ostrog-
Speaking Of these warlike preparations, the Coz
oS says: "Our Government may continue to
circulate peaceful phrases among the public in
Paris, London, and Vienna, but We know here
that war l. imminent
The Duke of Montrose in reply to Lord Stanley,
explained thar no other Company have rendered
for the conveyance Of the East India and Austria
Ian Mails besides the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company Inc government had
eventually concluded a contract for twelve years
nj E4OO, 900 a year Additional ships would be
and the service improved. There would
be a weekly mail 10 Bombay and the mails 10
would be accelerated.
EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLASD.-Tbe London N,,c,
has the following:
About FIVE minutes past FIVE O'Clock on Sat day
January ith, 4 shock of an earthquake
was observed in the valley of the Parrett. between
and Stoke sub-HamdOn. At Nartock 2
low rGmbling noise was heard, which lasted for a
lew seconds, and beds and houses simultaneously
shook. At Tintinhull and Stoke-sub-Iamdon the
shock was felt, the noise being described a. SINH
ar to something flying rapidly past the windows.
a Z E@Ael L@lllDEt-tN IA houses were shaken. and
Were awOSe by the rafting OF the glass
md Of the furniture in their bedrooms. AtSay-
IngtOn the pOstman distinctly heard the shock.
which re-embled 4 train Easing the house at full
speed At Compton. Petherton. the shock was
by several persons, and one woman was 50
much frightened thar she either fell or rolled out
IF bed. At Muchelney and kingsbury, near
LangpOrt. people were awoke by the rafting of
and windows. There has been a rumor
circulated in the county during the past week that
he Fenians had visited Yeovil, and left a barrel
IF gunpowder at the railway station. Several
oersons 1T Tintinhull, upon hearing the noise,
imagined the gunpOwder had exploded. This
will give some idea of the nature Of the subject.
DR. CoLESso-The highest tribunal known To
lie Church of England. the PTivy Council Of the
queen. acting a. lawful head Of the Church. has
decided that Dr. COlenso l. the lawful Bishop of
Natal, and a duly oonseerated Bishop of that
,hurch. Under this decision be draws his salary
and performs all episcopal functions.
the Bishop Of Cape town. who holds his Of
Ice by the same authority. under the laws of
'arliaInent, but assuning a power independent
{ tie laws Of England az a Bishop Of the African
;hurch, has given notice to the Council of the
Bi.hoprjcs Fund that immediately after
he arrival of the next Natal mail he shall bring
eEore them the means that should bc adopted Tor
eTrIying Bishop COlenSo Of the letters-patent
10 him by the Crown.
TRUrH N JEr.-M. Bosco. the wel-known
onjuroT, spent the Winter % ISj>-j9 in Berlin.
nd was one day summoned to appear III the Pal
&C. in order 10 exhibit has art before the King. at
hat time Prince Regent, and the court. Among
Their apparatus he had 4 terrestrial globe uIon
Shich Prussia was made To appear extremely
mall. Bo-o advanced 10 the Prince. who was
ittlng on an armchair in the front row. and ask
d him 10 take the globe in his hands. The Prince
id -, when, Ia his establishment. the formerly
Prussia began to assume much larger dinner
ions. Your Royal Highness perceiyes.r said
sO=cO. - how Prussia viii become argrlndizei
nder Your hands The trick was loudly ap-
lauded az the time, but little did the spectators
nagine that what was intended a. 4 oourtIv ieet.
destined 10 become political earnest within
zyen wears fr1m that time. .