The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-07-29

Insurrectionary plaeards have begun to lppeal
= Paris gain
News from Mexico represents a general reVolu
ton as imminent.
Secretary Seward is ON bis way to Europe from
India.
Five hundred and twenty-five thousand six hun,
dred trains leave London in the course OF one
year.
| tba French government to New Caledonia for set,
ting fire to buildings.
It is stated that a plot to assassinate the Pope
OF the occasion of the jubilee was discovered and
frustrated.
DIR. Bush thinks the reason the Germans die SO
rarely of consumption is that they are in the habit
of SINGING from their earliest childhood, and the
habit expands their lungs in the most heaithfui
manner.
A Rome letter says that Father Hyacinthe re-
ouested an interview with Pho Mono recently, and
that the Pope peremptorily declined to see him
under any circumstances whatever, declaring him
to be one of the worst enemies the Church has
ever had.
Corner loafng," with the use of abusive, in
decent OF insulting language, whether addressed
to any person passing upon any highway, to any
other persop. or to no person in particular, has
DGcu d d ia BNN
ishable by a fine not exceeding seven dollars.
An attorneys clerk at London recently robbed
his masters Office of over half a toms weight of
manr-cript documents belonging to clients, and
sold the title deeds to estates and the representa-
tives of a vast amount of property, for about a
cent and a half a pound.
Germany rewards her heroes by pecuniary do
nations. America rewards hers by permitting
them to solicit aims, with an organ and a monkey,
at the expense of narrowing the musical senslbil-
tiles of the community.
The New Bedford Mercury says the great bust
ness of that port, the whale fishery, has been,
wear after year, less remunerative till now no man
fits out a ship with anything more substantial
than a wild hope of getting back his money and
interest.
W. Douglas, owner of the yacht Sappho, chal-
lenges any yacht on the Atlantic coast to sail with
an eight-knot breeze twenty miles to windward and
return, for S., 900. 1t is said the Lorillard's
yacht Wandere r will accept.
Charles, Duke of Brunswick, the great diamond
fancler, now at Geneva, is 80 concerned about the
safety of his rare jewels that he keeps them guar
ded day and night, and frequently starts from his
dreaming he has been robbed. The posses
of his precious stones is such a fearful respon-
sibility that he has little rest, and no peace. In
his will he has bequeathed all his diamonds, esti-
mated to be worth So, 900 900 or So, 900 900, to
the Prince Imperial.
A New York paper thus lays Town the qualif-
cations of a president Sc 1t takes a peculiar type
Of man for president. He must be reticent to
;ome extent, and have a hide and a constitution
greater than a rhinoceros. Besides this, he must
lold his sou. in more than sanity patience through
hours upon hours of every day, while dreary files
If office seekers bore him slowly into absolute in
anity. All the sovereigns of Europe put to-
bnua NOT n fINha kIa x,4,l % -
alls to the lot of our chief magistrate"
ST. JOHNS, N. B., June 29.-The delegation
rom the New Brunswick Government to the Nova
Scotia and Prince Edward Island Governments. to
ndeavor to procure a concerted action against the
clause of the Washington treaty, returned
yesterday. They are very reticent as to their do
ngs, but say that the fisherman and fish traders
f the Island and Nova Scotia are favorable to the
realty, and intimate that owing to the game the
Nova Scotia Government is playing with the OF
AVA Government it is not to be relied upon to op-
the treaty. The belief is the deputation has
allied in its mission.
The Russian journals direct attention to a cir
umstance which occurred in November last, but
Notwithstanding its Importance, passed almost un-
in consequence of the absorbing interest
f the war between Prussia and France. The
vent in question was the opening ola Geographic
ne ten thousand versts G. of a mile eacb) long.
81 ICtOtSuuiS u 1HS ulOheH oi the AMOR
nd to Vladivostok-from the Baltic to the Japa-
ese Seas. Europe is thus placed in direct com
with the Pacific, and will soon be
18th Shanghai, Hong Kong, and the other Chi
ese ports. The idea was first started in 1854, by
Ir. Schafner, an American, but was not COM
lenced until January, 1861. The accomplish
of this immense work has thus occupied ten
ears.
NEW YORK, June 30.-A cable dispatch from
t. Petersburg states that a notice appeared yes
in the official Journal of st. Petersburg,
ating that when Grand Duke Alexis has re-
lrned from Ems, where he remains at present ,
it'll the Emperor, he will at once proceed to
ronstadt, to attend in person the preparations ]
sing made at the Imperial Navy Yard for his
wage to America. The Grand Duke has stated
lat he intends to carry to America one of the
ost perfect naval squadrons that ever left Euro
IAN waters. In ST. Petersburg the Grand Dukes
'yage is the principal topic. Those who have
fiuence at Court are exerting themselves to the :
most to secure an assignment to his Highness'
lite. Prince Gortschokoff states that the Grand =,
uke will certainly embark at Cronstadt the last /
August for America. =