The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-28

on Cnba will be such that in less than thirty DAYS
they will have possession of the entire lsiaha out
side of Havana. They claim that the pe0p'e VI
Cuba all sympathize with the oesPe onish troons
would leave the Spanish Government wi'nou' I'LL
army.
LONDON. August "A company is organizing to
lay a cable from Scotland. by way OF the orkneys
ana Farce Islands. to Quebec. When completed,
the line will probably be purchased by the fost
Office Department..
The Commissioners of the Worlds Fair in 1851
have issued a prospectus for an International EXIT
biiion OF Fine Arts, Industrial Arts, and Inventions,
in 1871.
PARIS. August 2. The draft of the Senatus Con-
sultum gives the Emperor and Corps Legislatif the
initiative in making laws. Cabinet Ministers can
be members of the Senate or the Corps Legislati.
The SittingS of the Senate are to be pubiIc. EacH
body is to make its own internal regulations. ana
members of both Chambers have the right to ad-
dress interpretations to the Government NO
amendment to a law is to be adopted unless It mas
been previously referred to a committee charged
with the duty of examining the project.
LONDON, August 3.-The coming International
boat race is still a matter of great interest. The
London press generally comment in an umaVor-
able style on the Harvard crew. The latter were out
again last evening on the Thames. They use a
boat of London make and practice much better
than before. They attained a higher rate of speed
than with their own boat
The yacht D~danteSs is in the harbor of Cowes.
LONDON, August Sat the Royal Yacht regatta,
yesterday, the Eyeia won the Queens prize.
New YORK, August A London letter says that
a meeting has been held i'm London. consisting Of
the most eminent representatives of the Pacific col
onies. and presided over by one OF the most emf
nent colonial Governors-Wyatt. At this gather
ing general dissatisfaction was expressed with the
political relations of their important and growing
countries with the parent State. All the influential
Colonists here present, representing in fact all the
important interests of their respective settlements,
have Joined in the expression of a determination to
require some reconstruction of the British Colonial
Empire which should offer them Il guarantee that
the interests of the various Colonies should receive
prompt attention. In the event of this being found
impracticable-and the sense of the meeting was
decided that it would be so found-it was declared
by all present. that they should use their influence
with their respective settlements to leave the Brit
ish allegiance. and seek in some form protection
from the United States, or at all events become in
such manner as may be decided by members of the
system of Government of the Great Republic. The
meeting was not public. but its results are likely
to be known at an early day.
A ST. Petersburg letter states that the peasant
who saved the Cars life did not commit suicide,
but was murdered in his own house. Several per-
sons have been arrested for completely in the crime.
LONDON, August 4.-The Daily Telegraph says
that France has now entered upon a career of ma
tional development uneXampled at any previous
state of her existence. The Emperor assumes the
character of n constitutional sovereign under cir
cumstances which encourage us to hope for the sue
cess of an enterprise fraught with immense cOnse-
quences, not for France only hut fer the world.
At the Brighton races to-day the Brighton stakes
were won by Winfred, the marine stakes by Neu-
chateI. the champagne stakes by Suffolk, beating
BttteJOlcn, the favOrlte.
LONDON, August Sat Cowes, ~to-day-the third
of the Royal Yacht Squadron regatta the race for
the town cup, valued at el00. was sailed over the
Queens course, fifty miles. The weather was fine.
yachts started. The race was won by the
Arror ; schooner Alice, second cutter Oh
mdkd third.
800 - 49, - -
ing, during the session of Parliament. great excite
ment was caused by a load explosion in the build
ing. Search was instituted. and q tin can which
bad contained powder was picked up on the terrace
near by. Not much damage was done. and there
were no arrests. The affair is involved in mystery.
The Harvard boat crew have received a new
boat, %forty-four feet and a half long.
LONDON, August 6.-The press comment on the
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE British Government has
refused to grant an exquatatOr to James Haggerty,
appointed Consul of the United States at Glasgow,
on the ground that he was connected with the
Fenian movement:
A dinner was given to the members of the yacht
at Cowes Castle yesterday. James G..
Bennett. yr.. and many other Americans were
present. Benefits yacht, the Da1tess, remained
ut anchor yesterday, declining to enter the contest.
LONDON, Aug. T.-The regatta of the Royal
facht Club closed yesterday with a race of schoon-
Prs over thirty tons. The course was around the
of Wight. There were eight entries, and the
Alice won, beating the Cambria 6 n minutes
The Oxford crew are expected at Putney on
Wednesday. The new boat for the Oxfords has
it is forty-four feet long. The Harvards
we're out for practice last evening ; their speed is
,reater than ever.
The Lewes Handicap on the 9th was won by
oriory. the Queens Plate by Biueskin the Lewes
irand Handicap on the 9TH by arlington.
QuEENsTowN, Aug. 10.-The American yacht
arrived last evening, making the voyage
rom New York in twelve days, nine hours and
minutes. All well.
LONDON, Aug. 1O.-The Times, to-day, in a long
rticle on Spain and Cuba, defended the latter on
he ground that the former was better off without
'uba than with it, and as she cannot hold it any
ray, she may think herself particularly fortunate
she gets paid for it.
The Harvard crew were out in their new boat
O-day, and being timed regularly, made forty
rokes in a minute. 1t is the common opinion
nat the boatmen of Harvard are less steady in
heir rowing than the Oxfords, but their strokes.
Though apparently short and deep, make good
istance in a short time. Wednesday, the 2sth OF
.ugust, has been finally agreed upon as the day
( the race.
LONDON. Aug. 11.-An inquest was held on the
ody of Cornelius Grinnell, of New York, who fell
ON the window of q club house in the Isle Of
light. yesterday. A verdict of accidental death
as rendered. James Gordon Bennett. jr. and
leopard Yeomsns. who were with him o short
me previous, testified that he wa sober.
Gladstone has gone to the sea shore, at waImer,
recruit his health.
CowEs. August 12--The regatta of: the Royal
ictoria Yacht Club commenced on Monday and
i'll continue through the week. In the race for
e Vice Commodore's plate, yesterday. sixteen
,chts started, and time was allowed for the differ
ice of tonnage. The Cambria came in second,
I'd was declared the winner by an allowance on
ne.
The International ocean yacht race will not,
Ike place. and the Dduntess will shortly return
lthout sailing against the Cambria but probably
latter will 60 to New York and sail in a race
their waters with American yachts.
LONDON. Aug. 12-Parliament will assemble ON
3lst of October.
The Times has an editorial on the relations be-
England and the United States, suggested
the Queens closing speech. The writer says.
e Queens opening and closing speeches are ap-
rently inconsistent, but tho explanation is found
the fact that international relations depend on
3 reciprocity feeling of the people. and not on
gotiations of their Ministers. Messrs. johnson,