The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-05-14
Foreign Miscellany.

Colonel BueIS new FuTnace at Nnlte
Pine IS turning out about seven and a half
tons of bullion per day, worth on an average
$500 per ton.
Horse flesh is still sold in Paris. In the
months Of September. October and November,
1869, were sold 273, 200lbs. from 6S3 horses
killed for the purpose.
\ custom in Paris Is 10 allow mendicants
TO BEG in the streets on New Years Day. 1t
was ascertained there were more than 2,OOO,
and the sum obtained by them $4,000 francs.
The United States COMMISSIONS of Agri-
culture has - ed a report, In which he states
that the cor. ,nued high price Of cotton has
made its culture more profitable than at any
other former period.
Professor Davidson. Of the United States
Coast Survey, has discovered 2 mountain
range Of iron ore IN Alaska, convenient TO
the sea coast. The range IS 1000 feet high
and Of unlimtied extent.
The Archbishop Primate Of Hungary, who
IS the richest primate in Christendom, the
diocese alone has 100000 of rents, has re-
ceiyed from MS Holiness the announcement
OF his proximate elevation to Cardinal.
At Natal. while the 20th Regiment were
out on dill, a thunder storm came on, four
teen men Of the company were struck by
Fl. lightning. cNC iiid al iiiSN 0NL AD '"A~
split; four Of the men were sent TO hospital.
An earthquake was felt in Balse at noon
of the 2Si OF February, and the people were
greatly alarmed. The shocks were wave like
aud accompanied by a rolling noise. A
second shock was felt at seven o'clock next
morning.
The present Earl Of Derby IS disposing Of
his fathers stud, Just as the late Earl dis
r. g. III ,-nr.y
Repulse and Inspiration brought 1000 and
$50 guineas respectively. Thirty horses
were sold for 4,S40 g~uineas.
\ great telegraphic movement is about to
lie introduced into France, consisting in the
sending Of money orders by electric tele-
graph. The amount may be as high as
81, 900, in addition to the cost of sending and
usual commission of a post office order.
The Mikado OF Japan is so much pleased
with a piano sent 10 him by the Austrian
government, and which he had never seen
! before, on hearing 1t played, at once directed
his wife TO take lessons. Lady PaTkes, the
wife of the British Ambassador at Yeddo, is
to give her lessons.
In India the elephant is made serviceable
before d gigantic plough. The implement is
guided by two men, and turns up a huge
Hugo anu lbltllS a lullbH liliCc ieEL htGp ID
four aud a half feet wide at the top. This is
the deepest sub soil pIoughing we have any
account of.
WaAcalled attention sometime ago in our
columns 10 the remarkable conversion Of the
Queen of Madagascar and many of her SUBJ
iects TO Christianity. She ordered all the
idols 10 be destroyed in the Royal temples ;
but declined TO make it compulsory in private
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of the Holy Spirit.
MI. Cross, naturalist, of Mason street,
Liverpool, lately had a consignment Of SER
penis from the West Indies, and among them
a female python, which, whilst on lis passage,
of the iftttge sefPshTs fburr6wsd INTO a stable
and cooled itself round n horse. The animal
freed itself by eating the head of the serpent.
OXEN FOR THE PocKEr.-. Whitehead's
Solid Essence of Beef" is q new Australian
preparation, In which the nutritious matter
of an OK is condensed into nine pounds Of
compact substance. Thirty pounds of beef
are concentrated into one pound Of little
cakes. each about as large as n silver dollar,
and weighing half an ounce. One of these
cakes will make a bowl of good beef-tea.
4 WIFE FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA
The British Australian Telegraph Company
are about LAYING n cable Of 500 miles from
Singapore TO Batavia, where il will ioin the
Dutch line which crosses to the southeastern
extremity of Java, from which point another
cable of 1853 miles is TO be laid to Port
Darwin. A land line of about o miles
Will connect this with the Australian COLO
MES. There is already 4 continuous line
from England to Singapore.
Many precious stones are now found IN
the Australian gold diggings. Beside dia-
monds. what is called gem sand has been
found ia considerable quantities IN the Cud-
gegong River. 1t contains stones of differ
ent colors, and when placed under a glass
s~parkles with diamonds of minute form,
valued at $500 per ounce. a company OBJ
tanned IN a few days 1l9 diamonds, one of
them-the largest hitherto found in that
part of the world weighing upwards of 81
carats. 1t is described as a perfect octahed-
ron, and will scarcely require any polishing
at the hands of a l%apidary. 1t is now IN
London.
The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte for
the murder of the editor. Noir, has resulted
in acquittal, evidently to the establishment of
all Paris. Tha: there was some provocation
to anger was proved, but making charitable
allowance for this the killing was still muir
lCEs dti0 lit dtHuAltdl Il a uISgIdCc ~ Il ICLCll
At the close of the criminal prose-
cution a civil action was brought against the
Prince in the interest of Noir's family, for
100000 francs damages and a verdict for
$4,000 francs allowed. The reports of this
trial exhibit the French people in a most Iu-
iicrous light. The proceedings In court were
hardly on a level with our police courts the
accused was constantly, rising and denounc-
ing witnesses and the opposing counsel as
liars and slanderers; Rochefort, who was
present as a witness. acted like an insane
nan, branded the prisoner as an assassin in
open court, and had to be sent to Jail ten days
or contempt. As a whole the trial was
without dignity, decoram or decency. &
The New York correspondent of the /.
Boston Journal describes a new invention :
or displacing steam by electricity, and j
avs that lathes, planning machines, and other I
mechanical arrangements are driven by this y
,OWeF- To run an enrine of twenfv-horSe