The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-25
European Miscellany.

european miscellany.
A chancery suit that was commenced in 1905
:. has just been compromised in London.
Along the outer boulevards of Paris, steam
cars are now running without rails on macada-
mized road.
A s~anguine holder of rebel cotton bonds writes
to the London Morning Post that he thinks IN n
few years the Southern States will pay the bonds.
Father Gavazzi, IN u letter to a friend IN the
north of England, says : that a crisis In Italy Is
approaching" and '' that he is preparing tor 4
great crusade"
The cholera, which broke out in the beginning
of July, at Teheran, in Persia, where the deaths
rose rapidly to thirty a day, is making Its way
westward.
During the present year 900 petitions have
been presented to Parliament for woman suffrage,
containing Al 900 signatures, and 1890 pam
phlets distributed, written by Mr.. Mill, Miss
Cobbe, Mde. Bodichon, Prof. Newman, 'and others
The Russian Government has issued a ukase
for u universal exhibition to be held IN st. Pc
tersburg next year, to open on May 10. 1t is SAID
that the Emperor Napoleon is expected to visit
the Court of Russia on the occasion of this exhl-
bition.
1t is announced that the Car of Russia has
issued a decree, under which parents In that
country forcing their children to marry or to
enter monasteries or converts, are liable to an
imprisonment of from four months to q years
duration.
The foundation of an American College, has
been laid out at Constantinople on the exact spot
where Darius crossed the Bosphorus to war
against the Scythians. Darius, at that time, had
never heard of the Yankees.
Isaac Pitman, of Bath, England, the inventor
of photography, has published a complete edition
of the Bible in photographic characters. This
is by far the most extensive work ever produced
in any system of short hand. He has received
from the Queen public recognition of his great
services in the invention and introduction of
photography.
STUDENTS IN GERMANY.-Thore are at this
moment 1862 students at the University of
Berlin. OF these, 403 are foreigners, chiefly
Americans, English, and Scotch. There arc no
less than 90 American students, mostly sons of
rich planters from Southern States of the Union.
The Antiquarian Society of Scotland have just
received the sea chest and carved cocoanut cup,
which were the property of Alexander Selkirk,
the prototype of Robinson Crusoe. He had them
with him in his solitary residence on Juan Fer
nandez.
The Emperor Alexander has removed the re-
%strictions against emigration from the Russian
empire. Many inhabitants of Poland and the
other western provinces of Russia are preparing
to come to America.
The American use Of the verb to indorse, in the
sense of approving or supporting, is ut last natu-
rallied in England. In his speech on unwilling
the Peabody monument in London, the Prince of
Wales said: sI have little to say, except to in
1OAHS Vhot AAo oSSh ~ " coAN " tIbo
In Prussia during the present year COO, 900 tina
ieIs per annum are to be employed in raising the
salaries of teachers in elementary schools in the
eight older provinces of the kingdom. Since 1852
a gradual increase has been made, SO that in 1866, |
9S9 1864 thalers a year more than at the earlier
date were expended for this purpose. Thus in
all one million and q half thalers per annum are
now devoted by the State to improving the posi-
ton of the teachers of the poor.
A CHINESE SUB MARINE Observation-Disclosures
Williken, of Philadelphia, has obtained Lord
Clarendon's sanction for instructions to be issued
by the admiralty to the British fleet in the
waters of China, to cooperate with the Asiatic
squadron of the United States in laying and pro-
tecting a telegraphic cable along the coast of
China. This is an American enterprise, in which
some English capitalists have also invested.
AN INTERESTING EPocH.-England, France,
and Spain are now each undergoing organic
in their political constitutions. There
never has been before SO critically interesting an
epoch in European history, and we will not likely
again i'm our time see three Kingdoms. each in is
own way and independent of the others, altering
radically the very structure of their government.
Mr.. Gladstone has been burnt in efigy IN
Ireland. At first a procession marched round the
and the flies and drums played the
March," Ample satisfaction having
been secured in this respect, the figure was then
burned, and, as it was about being finally con-
sumcd, revolvers were freely used, and balls sufi-
cient to destroy the whole Liberal Cabinet were
poured into the unfortunate representative of the
First Lord of the Treasury.
The Carlsruhe Zeifung is informed by its
Vienna correspondent 50 that the Hungarian Gov
is firmly resolved, in case the court of
is unable or unwilling to furnish certain :
guarantees required as to the spirit and tendency
IF the approaching council, TO strictly and abso-
utely forbid the members of the Hungarian Epis-
opate to attend it. 1t is selfevident that if such 7
resolution be taken in Hungary, it may be imi-
ated i'm the other half of the monarchy"
Drunkenness is on the increase in Russia. The
consumption of alcoholic drinks has increased in &
he empire since 1868 over 100 per cent. The "
lumber of persons who died of drunkenness last
in Russia was 2 ,74S, seven and a half n day.
n a single district, that of Kazan, the deaths from =
have risen from IL in 1854 to III L
1864. AT Moscow, according to the statistics
furnished by she Chief of Police, the number of
.224 and 81 .794 in 1868. Who will send tenn =
,erance missionaries to Russia?
SATISFIED WITH THE SITuATIoN.-A sensible Eng
ishman, travelling in the United States, says, in
letter to a member of the British Government
never felt so ashamed of our sympathy with the
outherners as when [ was in the South. The =
owners tell you with the most brazen faces i
they are better now than they were before.
large slave owner said to me, IS the Yankees
us out of slavery, but they could not
Ihip us into 1T again. Another told me that
e grew larger crops with twenty-five free negroes
nan he had done with seventy-6ve slaves. They
ave found out already that the rebellion was
an enormous blunder a handsome
ause for us to encourage them in-thereby
the North for a generation or two.
1t is currently reported in Catholic circles that
proposition is to be made before the coming
Ecumenical council to unite the Greek and
atholic churches, on the ground that they are
ne in doctrine, and that their disciplinary differ
nee can be reconciled by means of mutual con-
,ssions. 1t is well known among theologians
rat the principal obstacles to the union of these 4
nurches were in relation to the J~fLfogue in the
or the procession of the Holy Spirit from
he second Persons of the Blessed Trinity and
the supremacy of the Pope but in all else, the
20 churches are one in doctrine and usares. a
will publish the distinctive pecuiiarities Z
the Greek church before the council. Should l.
lis union be effected catholicity will snddenIv