The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-28
THE PACIFIC
ab6rrtiser,
The News.

.bIs5msnt OF mail steam service between San
.rciseo. New Zealand and Australia, via Homo
The subsidy is named at $500, 600, and the
+,ct will be made with ". ii. Webb, who
|. three large steamships now ready to be put
tbe route, and Holiday and Brenham, of the
III p T Co.. who now run the line between
o,oInIu and San Francisco. The bill will, it is
IA SILENTLY thought, become q law. The first
- Of the new line, the Nerdd1, will be
,5v +, sail on the 10th proximo, and Will pro-
NJ hear the news of the final passage of the
IN The same committee also reported a bill
lido, for 4 steam line between this port and
,,at Sound. This, it is to be hoped, will also
.c1me n law, in which case it is probable that
lie boats now employed between this port and
s1n Francisco will be transferred to the northern
E,s. 1t is to be hoped that these bills for the
Increase OF the Pacific commerce will be promptly
~eonsidered and passed by Congress.
By way of New Zealand, we hear it stated that
an English company of capitalists has been or
ranised who have secured three f~rst-class boats,
AMI who intend to bid for the American subsidy
for a line between San Francisco and Australia.
II Is intimated pretty strongly, that if they fail to
get the subsidy they will run IN opposition to
Webb's line. Again, the report comes that Webb
has been in treaty with the authorities at Tahiti
for the establishment Of n branch line of steamers
between Honolulu and Papeeti. Tahiti offers a
subsidy of sos 900 per annum for a monthly
steamer to carry the mail and forty head of beef
cattle each trip. Webb will close with the offer,
| provided the Hawaiian government will subsidize
the line to the amount of $50 900, the sum ap-
uropriated by the last Legislature. There are
many and cogent reasons why our government
should act promptly in this matter, and guarantee
the amount asked for.
Tie end of the year 1871 will doubtless see US
in semi-mOnthly communication by steamer with
the North, East, and South, and in all probability
with China and Japan also, for the steamships of
that line must eventually make Honolulu their
Stopping place.
The war news from Europe is interesting. The
French have suffered an utter defeat at lie Mans,
and this time it appears that they had a much
superior force than the Germans. The latter cap
tured large quantities of supplies, which the
French could Ill afford to lose. Bourbaki at
tempted a diversion in the East, but failed. The
b0mbardment of Paris may be said to have vir-
tuaIIy commenced on the 9th, as on that day
shells burst, inhabitants were killed, and houses
set on fire in the suburbs of the city, inside the
forts. These forts thirteen in number, are dis
tant from the city wall from a mile to three miles
and a half, and the Germans must reduce them
before they can attack directly the city proper.
ROsuy and Noisy, the strongest of these strong
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walls, have been bombarded, and their capture
exc this is probable. AS soon as the principal
forts on the south and east are reduced, the Ger
mans viii be able to command the city with their
siege guns, and q sortie would be to rush to GER
tain destruction. The troops in Paris under
Troehu are daily becoming weakened from bad
and insufficient food, and no help can come from
without. Meanwhile the stern determination Of
the Germans to conquer and dictate peace in
Paris itself, is plainly apparent. There is some
Tux of peace propositions by the other powers
bat while Bismarck listens politely, no one be-
Ieyes there will be peace until Paris has sue
c1mbed and Paris, it has often been said, i:
France. She has not however, to-day reached the
depths of humiliation to which the first Napoleon
J CAIu III 1AuccAd AOi6OSSCu
that fact. But the French are gallant fighters
and We may assuredly hear of one more desperate
attempt by the brave defenders of Paris to break
the German lines.
England is getting her navy on a war footing,
and in the dock-yards much activity prevailed
Formerly, Britain felt secure behind her " heart.
Of oak" but in these days, it is hearts of iron
She possibly sees in the distant political horizon
portents of trouble about the everlasting Eastern
question, and wants to be prepared for any emer
eency. The Times, at this juncture, is disposed
to be amiable to " our American cousins, a" ant
says that General Schenck, representing the bes
and most honorable section Of the dominant part
In the United States, is one of the most usefu
representatives that America could send to pres
for a settlement without compromising England
honor, that Will satisfy the claims of the Unite
States in sespeet to the Alabama claims, and an
other 81 national irritableness " now remembered
after which only international interests will re
main. Thus does the Thunderer dispose of tn
whole matter, with a few hourishes of the pen.
The Conference of the Powers on the Easter
question is delayed in consequence Of the absenc
OF French representative. 1t IS stated howeye
that the conference will certainly meet before th
end OF January. From London, under date c
jan 9Th, comes a telegram to the effect that th
British government has assured the Sublim
Porte OF Its fidelity to the treaty of 1856. If tha
Is 10 De believed, of what use to confer with Rus
sia' who viii decidedly demand the abrogation G
that treaty?
FROM Cuba we hear of no further fighting, bu
there are evidences enough that the fires of tn
revolution are only smouldering.
BY way OF Alexandria, we learn that Chang
now the Chinese Ambassador, had reached ther
on his way to France. 1t is doubtful if Bismarc