The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-07

Great Britain imports more wheat from Russia
than from the United States. During February
last the importations from Russian ports amounted
to e469, 999, or S2,S4 495.
Captain Haynie, one of the pioneer silk growers
of California, lost half q million of his worms,
valued at So. 900. The casualty occurred from q
deposit of creosote which collected in and descend
ed through a chimney stack, connected with the
heating of the laboratory, and Infused a poison
through the department. fatal to the worms.
THE "CoMIc" EPrDEMIc.-We are threatened
with another comic under the title of the
Camera. Meanwhile. a halfpenny weekly concen-
tration of the contents of Punch, Judy, WiH-o'the-
Visp. the Iomdha,ck. Echoes. the O,ol, Fun, the
Free Lance, the Porcupine, Ii Petit journal pour
Riz, La Vie PdriSieRne, and some transatlantic
absurdities has appeared under the title of Wit Of
the Week.
The ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE TELEGRAPH-
There is no other spoken language so cheap and
expressive by telegraph as the English. so the
electric wires are becoming teachers OF our motner
tongue in foreign countries. The same amount OF
formati can be transmitted in fewer English
words than French, German. italian, or any other
European language. In Germany and Holland
especially. it is becoming to be a common thing to
see the kilograms in English to save expense and
ensure precision.
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.-There is on foot a power
ful movement in favor of the annexation of Nova SEQ
tia and of the Canadian Provinces to the United
States. A strong deputation of Nova Scotians who
were in Washington and who speak for the people,
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boldly prefer being added te the United States, since
they were corruptly and against heir will, and in the
face oftheir protest, sealed to the new Canadian do
minion." The correspondent fthe Press says: They
declare that connection hateful to them. and, as 1t
seems to be the policy of England not to interpose
against any free movement of the colonies to set
up themselves, they do not anticipate any resist
ance should they vote for annexation to the United
States. 1t is said on good authority that Hon. K.
J. Walker will sustain this movement In a power
full argument. He is quoted as saying that Con-
gress should vote down the proposed reciprocity
treaty with Canada that, free-trader as he is. he
postpones his favorite theory before the necessity
of refusing free trade to the dependency OF a nation
that was so steadily our enemy during the rebellion.
If CDuada aoants free trade she must join the Ameri-
can Union. This a new and startling view of an
old subject, and becomes an important ingredient
in the adjustment of the Alabama claims. Refuse
free trade to the Canadas, and they will be COM
PEELED to cut loose from the home government.
They cannot exist with their products taxed under
our tariff and so it may happen that long before
England agrees to settle Our SO little bill " for pro-
teeting the rebellion and driving our commerce
from the seas. at a cost of hundreds of millions of
dollars to our merchants, Canada may be in a
blaze with the annexation fever.