The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-30
Foreign Miscellany.

AT the next session OF the Fruselan Dlet LII
Liberal party will introduce a proposition Oh
ministerial responsibility.
Cardinal Cullen has ordered prayers Of thanks
giving in the Catholic churches for the termina'
ton of religious ascendency in Ireland.
The bark Sehm, from Singapore, May 10, for
New York, was burned at sea. The captain and
crews were saved and landed Mt st. Helena.
Lady Thorn beat American Girl and Gold
smith Maid at Philadelphia on the 9th, three
straight heats, in 2:233 2;l9i and 2:23t. The
Girl took the second money, though being third
in the first two heats.
The New York Gold Board and the National
Stock Exchange have appropriated S3,OOO for
widows and orphans of those killed I'm the Avon
dale mine disaster, and a large amount is sub
scribing in the city.
Dispatches from India state that half of the
Municipal Council of saigon, in Cochin China, Is
hereafter to be chosen from the French and
Americans born in the country, while the natives
and Chinese are made eligible to the Council.
Ross Browne discredits the report ria London
of the massacre of twenty-one missionaries IN the
province ST Zechun, China. One escaped, and a
number of Chinese converts were murdered.
Prince Kung has ordered an investigation of the
affair.
An Eastern exchange remarks that Z" house
rent is a cancer which eats away the wages of
the workingmen in this and all other countries :"
and adds: "The co operative building system
works well in England-why not adopt it here"
The growth and Development of Atlanta,
Georgia, since its partial destruction in 1864,
have been remarkable. 1t claims how a popula-
ton of thirty or forty thousand, and nearly
twelve hundred buildings are in course of con-
struction at the present time.
On the continent of Europe it is shown that
in various German States, out of every 200
deaths before vaccination was used 77.5 were
from smallpox but that out of every 200 deaths
n after u acina tinn came int, use the deaths from
smallpox were only 90.
The press Of San Francisco are unanimous in
denouncing Ned Buntline for q slanderous state
ment made before the Chicago Temperance
Convention, that seven-eighths of the adult popu-
lation of California, male and female, die of
drunkenness.
The Byron revival continues. In the shop
windows are displayed pictures of Byron and
editions of his works, in all sorts Of binding at all
sorts of prices. There was never n great demand.
:. Child Harold will find thousands of fresh
readers, and - Don Juan :" will become the de-
light of countless boarding schools. For this
Mrs. Stowe is responsible, although she declares
her motive was quite another kind.
DIR. Hayes found mosquitoes in the Arctic re-
gions, more vicious " than elsewhere. People
generally suppose that these dreaded insects do
not exist in the high attitudes. Audubon wrote
Of that region: {" Mosquitoes in profusion,
plants blooming by millions, and ut every step
YOU tread on flowers, such as would be looked on
in more temperate climates with pleasure In
fact, no portion Of the earth is 90 left out in the
cold - entirely.
Every school boy has read how SIR Isaac
Newton was led to discover the law of gravitation
by seeing an apple fall from a tree but it Is
doubtful whether this pretty story has any
foundation in fact. \ manuscript letter from
Newton to Mr.. L. Folkes, the antiquary, has just
come to light, in which a minute account of the
discovery is given, but nothing is said about the
apple.
At the Inauguration Of the monument recently
erected at Prague to it's first archbishop, the
ancient city was not n little surprised to see the
Jews houses and the Synagogue gaily dressed
with flags in honor of the occasion. The Jews
had not forgotten (what had slipped from Chris
tan memory that five hundred years ago the
Archbishop had been a kind-hearted man toward
their cruelty oppressed race.
SPAIN AND CUBA.-The revolution has received
n new impulse from the recent success of the
Cubans ut Las Tunas-a success, which while it
brings hundreds of recruits to the Cuban army,
makes Spain only the more determined, and
"a 600 more troops are TO be sent out. Relieving
the late dispatches from Cuba of all irrelevant
details, the fact remains that the insurrection
holds its own, and that the mother country finds
it necessary to use more force.
The proposition to divide Tennessee and Ar
kansas and create new States therefrom has been
heretofore alluded to. Another State is about to
SCu a. IiAI u u tiIitOlN " iDil0 u ~
from the South says that the Governor of Florida
has just issued his proclamation calling for a vote
of the people on the cession of the western half of
that State to Alabama for 81 900 900 of eight
per cent. bonds, running 30 years. The election
comes off on the LIST of November next. 1t will
undoubtedly be agreed to, and the consent of
Congress is then required.
DIR. Franklin's fund of 81 900, which he willed
to Boston in l76l, and expected to increase to
fl3l 900 in a hundred years. amounted to only
S133 .493 sc on the LIST of January last, and at
the appointed time. DIR. Franklin directed that
it should be loaned in small sums to young
married a~rtifcers that fl00,0 900 should be ex-
pended fer public works in 1891, and the remain
der continue on interest another hundred years,
when a portion was to go to the city and some
SO ,000, 900 to the State.
The ABrssISIAN "BnL.'-The English are
paying for their last little war, and when they sit
down to count the cost they do not altogether like
the bill. The campaign against King Theodore
to cost between two and three millions of
pounds but already the bill has reached GS,-
600 600, and is not all in. Then there is the
China war, which was to have cost three millions
and n half, and actually cost some seven millions.
was the Afghan war, which was estimated
to need between three and four millions, and
which ran up the bill to ten millions.
Apropos to the telegraphic dispatch regarding
annexation, we present the following
from u letter i'm the Quebec Chronicle of August
al hesitate not in saying annexation,
annexation only, will bring prosperity to
these Provinces annexation only will cover this
with manufactures annexation only
relieve us from the dizziness and monotony Of
our trade annexation only will infuse into our
population a new spirit of vigor annexation
only will bring capital to this country, develop
our mines, utilize our water power, foster our in
dustry, and we will have it sooner OF later"
Madame Olympic Audouard, a literary lady
who lectured in the United States last winter,
feeling herself aggrieved by an article in the
Paris Figaro, has called out NJ. de Villemessant.
This fiery authoress begs to inform the editor of
the Figaro that he need have no scruples as to
accepting her challenge, seeing that she is a
and has neither father nor brother. She
is, moreover, a capital shot, and informs her adj
versary that n ball fired by q feminine hand is
quite as murderous in It's result as any other.
We have not heard the result of the challenge.