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

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John G. SAKE has iectured more than 4 thousan,
times In the Atlantic and Western States, and be
now goes TO San Francisco TO deliver a course o.
lectures. He will (. crate; on the way il asked
He ought to stop ut Salt Lake City and furnish
brigham with an epigran.
The journal O1fciei. 81 Paris. denies that Mr.. J
y. A Warren, the American citizen who was ar
rested during the late riots. received Ill usage. and
asks tor the suspension OF pnblic Judgment pend
lag "a Judicial inquiry into The circumstances o
the case
The Prince Of Vale. unvailed the Peabody
statue near the Exchange recently. with imposing
ceremonies. Minister Motley. the Lord Mayor
and Miss COutis were among the spectators present
An immense crowd witnessed the ceremony.
The London Times, in n long article on Spain
and Cuba. says the former is better of without
Cuba than with it. and as she cannot hold IL any
way. may think herself particularly fortunate il
she gets paid.
ISsrRKEcrIOx IN MADEIKA-S Spain seems destined
TO lose all her dependencies. A cable despatch
from Madrid announces the reception Of news in
that city TO the effect that . republic had been de
ciared in Madeira. Troops were at once despatched
from Cadiz to the Island
The Emperor. in commemoration OF the hun.
dredth birthday Of Napoleon the First. grants
complete amnesty to press and political offenders.
and persons convicted of evasion OF taxes, desert
ers from the army and navy, and sailors of the
merchant marine who have abandoned their ships.
BErssEIs. Aug. 25.-The Independence Belize
says the reconciliation Of the Sultan and Ismail
Pasha Is perfect, and the Egyptian question is over.
Ismail Is to have u grand reception at Constantine
pie.
The United States sloop of war jamestown.
which has been at Panama since the latter part of
May, Is under orders for the Feejee, Caroline and
other islands in the Pacific, to settle some mission
airy troubles and redress grievances OF American
citizens. She will sail about the 2lst, and on her
return Join the South Pacific Squadron at Valpa-
raiso. The cruise will involve about 20, 200 miles
OF sailing, and consume from seven to eight
- Star.
NAsBY-ME Nasty during a visit to Washington
was turned Out of his = post offs " and a niger
put in his place. There was wailing among the
parsons creditors ut the corners, especially as his
bondsmen were called upon to make good TIE
losses by the late pOst-masters thefts. Ii is no
longer safe for him TO remain at his old quarters,
and be is in despair. He says Il would fasien
myself TO \. johnson, but unfortunately there aint
enuif in him TO tie to. / would az soon think NV
tyin myself to a car wheel in a storm ut sea-"
The German gambling bells are all doomed 10
be suppressed ut the expiration Of their present
lease ; Il recent vote of the Belgian Chambers has
fixed the Slst day OF October, 1871, as the date on
which Fatal Zero shall come UP for the last
time in Spa and now a petition, signed by fifteen
hundred Inhabitants OF Nice. has been presented
to the French Senate, praying that body TO use its
to procure the suppression Of the great
stronghold Of gambling at Monaco.
4 NEW RACE.-The London Nelcs SAYS that Mr..
a Calcutta savant, has discovered u race
of men with tails in northern Borneo. They are
said To adopt u costume as economical as IL Is
primitive to live exclusively by hunting and to
sbun all intercourse with the tail-less tribes which
inhabit the better known districts of the island.
Mr.. Cameron thinks that IL only the Asiauc Society,
OF the authorities OF the Indian Museum. will assist
him in raising the funds necessary to defray the
OF an expedition, that - the missing link will
At last be brought to light. and that Bornco will
supply the means OF enabling man To form acquain-
lance with bis primeval ancestor. Here is u chance
for the English theorists who believe in "a gorilla
DR. monkey origin OF the race
NUN LIBERATED-There was n great excitement
ut Vienna, in Austria. over the liberation Of a nun
rom q Catholic convent, where she had been con-
ined for more than twenty years.-From the way
he account reads. we conclude, although the fact
= stated, that she had been confined against her
and was finally liberated by the civil authority
u disregard, or in defiance Of the ecclesiastical
avs applicable TO such institutions. There was u
trong popular demonstration on the occasion.
which ended in such an excitement and such dis
urbances that the military was called ont to re-
tore order. The particulars OF the case will be
ooked for with interest. !
LET GLASGOW FLoCEIsH."-The Washington
administration appointed as American Consul at
glasgow one HaSgerty. who had been u Fenian.
nd on that account the British Government refused
o recognize him. and now the telegraph tells ms
Motley. American Minister To England. has
emporarily appointed to the place one Eastman.
nd that the American Government will take no
ction in the case of Haggerty a. Consul to Glas-
'ow, the Fenian question having assumed such n
omplexion that the administration has no desire
D fuTther complcate the subject.
VINO ARE THE CAHrIsrs Don Carlos, the cause
I the present Carlist outbreak in Spain, is a lineal
zion of the elder branch of the ancient honse of
Bourbon. He is the son of the old agitator. Don
arlos. and had for grandfather. King John VI. OF
Ortugal. His immediate comrades are hangers
n Of the old Bourbon dynasty. and the multitude
ow rallying under his standard are the present
imirers OF the old Bourbon policy Of absOlutism.
he slow progress OF the Spanish revolution and
lie ineficiency Of the Serrano regency is what has
the opportunity for his present mutiny
saiust the existing authority and government OF
pain.
The scene of his warlike operations is now con-
ned mostly to the province of Ciudad Real,
the neighboriBg district Of Cordva Is more
less mutinous- The object which this Bourbon q,
,scendant Is striving to accomplish is the over ,
row OF the Serrano-Prim government, and the
establishment of bis ancient house upon the I
rome of Spain. But the power OF his family I
srished with the dethronement of Louis Philippe. {
I'd it Is probably not destined to participate ]
,ain in the government of Europe. II has been l
uitful of so many destructive and such uncalled 4
T outbreaks, without ever securing a single bene-
ial result to the people whom it professed to !
'netit- th-t It's name IS a byeword among all gov 3,
nments and population OF Europe. .
PEERAGEs-The recent debates in the English !
ouse OF Lords on the bill providing for the crea- ,
IN OF Life-Peerages were of an exceedingly inter- !
ting nature. Among the ablest speakers were !
e Marquis OF Salisbury, the Duke of Argyle, +
e Earl Of Malmesbury, Lord Houghton, Earl q
Earl Russell and Lord Stratford de G
;dcliae. The speech of the Earl of Malmesbury O
IS very caustic. He argued that under the bill s
ular Donors would lose their value by becoming !
mmon-ihat next they wonld become worthless. a
ID hnally, discreditable.-so that, ut last, when a !
IN was made a Peer. people would say, " Served !.
u right" For Englishmen such u prospect is !,
pailing-not only for the possessors of titles, q
Tor the great body Of the people. who worship
even more than their possessors. +
To The NORTH POLE BIZ BAIIooN.-A new and y
ring experiment Is noted by the Pail Nall Ga a
s:-"The invnrIable failure which has hitherto d
ended nautical expeditions to the Arctic regions Z,
; induced TWO Frenchmen. Messieurs Tissadier i,
d de Fouvielle, to undertake the enterprise OF q
.ching the north pole in a balloon. The ma :.
Inc in which the bold Adventures are about to =
bark on their perilous journey. and which is ap- e
named "a lie Pole Nord, " is now being q
npleted l.. the Champ de Mars. which the gov +
iment have placed at their disposal for the pur- e
se. The monster balloon, beside which even eli
famous Geant would seem n mere toy, will el
itain over 10000 cnbic metres Of gas. and is
imposed entirely OF n cloth manufactured from
1utchouch, which will alIox of great ernauzian