The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-10
FOREIGN NEWS.
LaIe TeieoramS.

Late 1efeSrahSs
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Thc public debt state
ment for tine past month shows a decrease OF owe
S13, OO0, 600. The total debt is a little over 81,
500 GOO, 900.
BosToN, June A. p. Loring, Captain OF TIT
Harvard University Boat Club, has sent an &C
ceptance of the challenge ofthe Cambridge Univer
sity Club OF England, to row a four-oared race TIM
summer.
NEW YORK, June AIR Fisk has decided te
close the Grand Opera House in this city, which
he purchased of Pike. Fisk states that his losses
have been SO heavy in theatrical ventures else
where that in spite of the fact that the opera
House was filed every night he is compelled to
close 1T. Saturday night will witness the last
performance.
BALTIMORE, june 10.-This mornings passen-
ger train from Washington ran over a COW, neal
Annapolis Junction. Two cars were thrown of
the track. One person was seriously, and n num-
Der of others were slightly, injured.
President Grant and family were in one of the
cars on the train, but escaped injury, although
every one on board was roughly shaken by the acct
dent.
There were exciting rumors IN city the of the
accident it being reported at one time that the
President and his entire family were killed.
Dispatches were received, however. setting ut
rest the thrilling report before 1t had obtained
any general circulation or credence. At the first
announcement of an accident. many believed that
it was caused by design against the life of the
President. The safe arrival of the President was
greeted by Il large asscmblage with immense en-
thusiasIn.
kilograms from London, received this evening
10th report that desperate fighting is going on IN
the streets of Paris.
The carnage is said to be fearful, and to rival
in atrociousness the scenes OF AS
1t is generally believed that the conflict was
precipitated by the Emperor, in order to afford a
pretext for Withholding concessions already de-
,u.-1~I --1 .-I.-I Il-l. e l. - - al
of the new Corps Legislatif.
There Is an intense excitment in diplomatic cir
clcs OF Paris and in London. on account of the
ascertained result of the elections throughout the
Empire. The result of the elections is regarded
as fatal to the dynasty of Napoleon, and the over
throw of the empire is predicted as only a ques-
ton Of few months.
COLUMBIA Is. c., juno 1.-the negro post
Wilder. lacking geographical knowledge,
is creating great confusion by mixing the mails in
every conceivable direction.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-President Grant went
to Boston this evening.
NEW YORK, June l5.-The money market is
very stringent. Rates are equal to 0O7 Der
cent per annum.
At last the Quaker Indian policy has been
fairly inaugurated. The unpaid agents have
been appointed, and the great experiment is to be
tried, whether the " Indian question:" insoluble
under all tests, will yield to the mild influence of
lhdclicait CnTlstiiifily- II WI!Olc clNlllZeu WOrlu
will watch the result with intense interest.
Boston, June I6.-President Grant was received
with high honors.
In n speech to the Governor and officers of the
Legislature, President Grant said he took great
in visiting the Capital of the State
whose principles did so much to give him political
He reviewed Buffers militia this after
noon. They were 5000 strong.
WASHINGTON, June l7.-Sec'ry Fish has asked
Attorney-General Hoar whether the Tenure-of-
Office Act, as amended, allows the President to
ill Consulate stations made vacant during the SEES
lions of Congress. 1t is believed that the Attor-
ney-General will reply in the affirmative.
WASHINGTON, June l3.-The Cuban sympathi-
.ers were premature in their hopes for a speedy
recognition.
Secretary Fish is disposed to make haste slowly.
lie think the past policy of the Government best:
4 the United States had recognized belligcrent
lights for the Cubans, it would have created un-
pleasant complications.
Peru has granted bclligerent rights to Cuba.
More Cuban expeditions are being talked of at
York.
The Herald says the proclamation of bellisercnt
lights to the Cubans from General Grant would
low settle the question in Cuba i'm less than n
In fact, the Peruvian proclamation may
cttle it within that time.
LONDON, June l3.-At the Cabinet meeting
yesterday it was reported, but rot authenticated
hat an Official communication from Minister Mot
ey was presented to- Lord Clarendon informing
i'm of the rejection of the Alabama treaty. Min
Motley represents that the grounds for its
were insuficiency of the treaty as to the
settlement of the question in dispute, and in
that the present administration concurs
4 tie reasons which led the Senate to decline To
itiiy. He says lie is instructed to express the
desire of the United States for a speedy
nj friendly removal ofail differences between the
NO Governments by n treaty which will do JUS
&C To ali parties, leaving no question open for
Irther misunderstanding and entailing no COM
lie announces his readiness TO receive
nd consider with liberality any proposition Eng
nd may make for n full settlement of the impor-
mt international question ut issue. as well as the
Of individual citizens growing out of the
'tion of either Government during the late war.
The &" ALABAMA" Observation-Disclosures Grimes
Iowa, now in England, has written n letter,
in the London Times, on this question,
which he says:
90 England's oficnse, in the eyes of Americans,
not that she conceded belliSerent rights to the
onfcderacy ut u time when the Southern States !
ID apparently established themselves as an indie {
'ndcnt Power nor that she recognized their I
rights mt any time, nor that we did I
It enjoy the full sympathy of her citizens during c
C rebellion. Their real grievance is that the 1
ALBANIA, built and fitted out in an English port, s
yer ran into n Confederate port so as to acquire t
c legal character of a Confederate belligerent, L
or otherwise; that she was i'm truth v
English vessel, sailing from a British port t
der a British flag, WAS manned by British 6
lors, was everywhere cordially received, sup +
ed and coaled at British stations, while such t
was denied to American cruisers that C
, never had any other home than the port of a
verroOl, from which she originally departed, u
l remained in law and conscience a British II
until she sank beneath the waves. This is II
r grievance. All else is the establishment of '
advocate and the orator. The IL
of the United States, by their vote on Ia
at is called the Alabama Treaty. simply il
to the conclusion at which Sumner arrived st
lis speech in the Executive Session Of that body, b
| not to the processes by which he reached G
t conclusion, or the arguments by which he =
'ported it."
Spain. F.,
The new Spanish Constitution was formally L
claimed on Sunday, June 6. 4 rioe among the :
pie of Madrid, 1O0, 900 of whom were collected