The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-11
Foreign Notes.

The Hon. Mr.. Caldwell, formerly a Minister of
the United States in Bolivia. and now accredited to
it, from Bolivia, has reached Washington, and been
refused a reception by the government. In a re-
cent similar case Secretary Fish said that the u. S.
Government could not receive one of its own citi-
zens as a Minister from Il foreign government. Mr..
Fish also informed the Minister that the case of
Burlingame was not analogous. as he was a Especial
envoy to all the treaty-making powers, and not
subject to recognition by the United States.
The SUN.-Neyer, says the London AHteneatD,
has the sun been so much looked at as now. In
Europe and America, in India and at the Cape, in
any place where there are telescopes and spectre
scopes. and astronomers to use them, there the sun
is closely watched. a t Kew Observatory photo
photography is q part of the regular daily work of
the establishment, and from time to time the results
and the conclusions they warrant are laid before
the Royal Society. Out of all this it is thought that
our knowledge of the suns constitution must be
increased. All possible advantage will be taken
of the eclipse of the sun in December next and,
under instruction from scientific committees, par
ties will be sent to Algiers to make observations,
aided by the best modern appliances. Meanwhile,
Father Secchi, of the Observatory at Rome is pub
fishing every day a picture of the sun, in which all
the visible spots and all the prominences, with their
changes, are represented. A daily solar bulletin,
though a rough one, may perhaps be useful.
THREATENS TO REsIGN.-It is rumored that Sec
rotary Fish intends to resign the portfolio of State,
il the treaty for the annexation of San Domingo
should pass the Senate. This Government with a
San Domingo appendage is something which that
statesman cannot regard with favor. 1t is against
his principles to recognize. in his official capacity,
the annexation of that volcanic community. As a
foreign nation the Secretary is perfectly willing to
discharge every duty which San Domingo may
impose on him, bat he is unequal to the task of so
altering his ideas with reference to it, as to view
it in the light of q part and parcel of this Republic.
It's annexation would be, so far as the Secretary of
State is concerned, nothing but a measure to
relieve that functionary for the future from all
trouble in keeping up a correspondence with it
and about it.
How TO REACH THE NORTH PoLE.-Now that the
Senate Committee have resolved to
spending 500, 900 for new Arctic explorations,
they should give due attention to the claims of the
Kuro-Siwo route. Captain Bent was the first to
erful series of papers. supplemented by Professor
T. B.. Maury's able contributions to Peanam's
Magazine, he proves that the probabilities OF
reaching the open Polar sea and the North Pole
are decidedly in favor of the passage via the great
warm current of the Pacific, the =" gulf stream" of
that ocean, the Kuro-Siwo, which sweeps from the
equator up through Behring Straits, carrying its
gigantic volume of warmed water, it is supposed.
into the ~unfrozen Polar sea- For several hundred
miles north of the Straits whalers have found open
water. extending as far as the eye could reach.
The western side of this continent being much
warmer on the same parallel of latitude than the
eastern, it is likely that an open course will be
found under ordinary circumstances much higher
mp than on this side. All that is necessary, on
Captain Bent's theory, to reach the pole, is to keep
in this current, by means of test soundings with q
thermometer, sailing or drifting with it. At times
the course Of n ship would be obstructed by float