The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-05-01

European.
r. Is rcuortei that Russia i pushing her rail
.e roads forward with great energy, ana IT l. believed
to be probable that the entire distance from ~.
N Petersburg TO Odessa will lie completed IN the
:; spring of 1869.
Since the lst of January, Greece has been I'M
rcmittingly engaged in OrganIzing-m addition 70
n her regular army-l5.O 600 guerillaS. forming
/ thirty battalions of 500 men each, IN order 10
d provide for the efficiency of her marine and the
:; Qualifications Of the vulnerable points OF her
" Northern frontiers
PArc> VEEEA-.A Noodle writes to ask
:, Punch IL there j, any truth in tine old saying that
y . Pig zee the wind, and If 50 what wind Is It
~ tLrv see. Ptnsh l. not To be =. done. Tie has
his reply ready. Why of course they can. and
n the particular wind in question Is a "sow-
= weStcr.
j. The persons in England who. during 1868.
u have abandoned the Established Church for the
= Church of Rome. it L. stated by the English
F.; papers. amounted 70 two thousand two hundred
=" IN number. including nineteen clerSymen, seven
or eight university graduates. and two peers.
{" \ French Mayor. who wished to Ice very anna
!, bic toward a duchess. who was o~ue-eyed, in
> making ont her passport. wrote Is follows
D" 81. Eycs-dark. beautiful, soft, full ut expression
N one If m,m absent" This is surely the triumph
"a of courtesy, and worthy of the nation that plumes
" itself on its politeneSS.
DESTRUCTION or FoRESTs.-Within Il few years
ii some twenty thousand acres of the Coorg forest,
llNllt NdNt al ~ NiC u
= coffee. As a result of this removal of timber,
e the quantity of water and the fertility of the
:; surrounding country are very seriously dImln-
ii ishing.
The English War Department have thrown
" aside the Armstrong gun altogether, after eX-
pending untold millions and k~nighting the in
3" -entor. The thing is Il failure. The British
e CONF r Office has issued an order inumating its
purpose to withdraw all the breech-loading ritled
or, ,:.uns and substituting muZzle-loaders
49, No S,ar,ub oI,rr- oro rrnatIv o1,rp,a1 Nv
y lie of Protestant books, and an association
~ -N""een formed for the purpose of reinstating
entail alcoholism rs the sole religion of the State on Il
ID ut h~alt-posis than ever. and TO the exclusion of all
IL. Joining. At SarragoSsa the women have held II
NO sArring in favor of the abolition of the conscrip-
=. \, IN both for the army and the navy.
IT,, celebrated cliff in Denmark. the " Queens
~ '"" - has fallen bodily into the Baltic from a
of earthquake. The rock. about four
ID feet high. was an object of great interest
lists from the magnificent view 10 be had
Mn rn,r,, On Il clear day, Rugen and the coast 0.
- Il could be plainly seen. Everything
nave "''''e 1peared except some masses of chalk,
e letter TO thom 4 sort of island near the shore.
ID thatir. Jefferson Davis. accompanied by Mr..
clidell ard two officers of the late army of the
n South, recently visited the Military School OF St.
t Cyr, near Paris, where they Were received by
General de GondrecOurt. The cadets were called
: out, and went through their drill and military
{ exercises in the presence of the old leader of the
G Southerners, who was then shown the marble
!. tablets ON which are inscribed the names of all the
n cadets who have attained the rank of general.
. \ small fishing village, called Schwarzort, on
: the shores of the Baltic, between Mcneil and
{ Dantzic, has of late acquired considerable import
i ance in consequence of the discovery of Il supply
+ of amber in its neighborhood. The site, which
seems 10 be unusually rich, is near Cape Korning,
, and is worked by the fishermen who work tor
! eight hours. and are then replaced by others.
= There are also four steam dredging machines,
which are kept going day and night. This
valuable substance is generally found in separate
pieces mixed in the sand with Ignite, and at no
great depth.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are attempt
ing a quiet tour of Europe on their way to the
Nile but their inoog. only partially protects
them. They are assailcd mt every capital by
royal and diplomatic, if not by popular rccep-
tions. At Vienna they were met by the Austrian
Emperor, several arcEdukes, and the British and
Danish embassies. The Emperor, who wore the
uniform of Il field marshal, with the Grand Cross
OF the Order of the Bath, kissed the hand of the
Princess when helping her out of the carriage,
and conducted his guests TO the Hofburg. What
is called a family party took place later i'll the
evening.
The SUEz CANAL.-At a late sitting of the Geo
graphical Society of Berlin, one of the members,
VI. Ienker, gave some interesting details relative
10 the Suez Canal, which he had not long since
passed through from the Red Sea To Port Said.
/. According 10 his account the works may he termi-
mated next year, and the canal will then have
become n ycritable maritime strait. 1t has Il
length of 100 ilOmetreS Give Fights of a mile
each,) and a depth of 26 feet its width varies at
the surface from Is To 100 metres; while at the
bottom it Is %. NJ. Ienker considers that there
Is no danger of the channel being filled up bv
sand, as the portions which were in ancient times
constructed have been found free except in one
point.
Royalty AND THE COOPERATIVE MovEMENr.-A
story of the Right Hon. John Bright and the
royal family was told by Mr.. Bright friend. Mr..
Thorold Rogers, on the occasion of his delivering
a lecture in Rochdale. In acknowledging a vote
of thanks, Mr.. Rogers said Mr.. Bright had told
him that when he was introduced into that hon
orable position which he occupied now, and when
he was brought into company with the sovereign
and her family, he spoke to one of the royal
princesses i'll relation to her eldest sister i'm this
iashion-cXpressing Il hope that. although she
now lived in n foreign land, she had not lost her
sympathy with an interest in the country of her
birth. The reply, was - No, indeed there is
one institution she takes profound interest in, and
that institution is i'll your native town | believe,
the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society,"
Russian FrNANCEs.-The budget of the Russian
Empire for 1869 amounts TO 1852. OO0, 900 roubles.
In the revenue account figure Il surplus of + ,000,-
coo from the budget of 1867, and n surplus of
10000 600 from the budget of 1868, these amounts
serving to cover the increase of Is. 600. 900 in the
eI cnditure. Thirty-one million roubles are ap-
propriated from special sources for the construc-
ton of railway lines and for harbor works at Riga
and Odessa. The Minister of Finance ascribes
the increase i'm the revenue to n more than usually
satisfactory harvest, and TO the stimulus given to
commerce by the extension of the railway system.
He expresses his conviction that nothing but Il
peaceful development of the moral and material
interests of Russia can consolidate the finances of
the country.
The Income of Queen Victoria is fixed by law
ut 81 ,925 600 per annum, but this amount is not
under her personal control. The sum mentioned
is divided into six items, the first of which
(S30O, OOO) l. the money paId u the Queen in
monthly instalimcnts. Item second is S65G,300,
for the payment of the salaries of the household,