The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-12-16

There were $50 deaths by cholera last week in
Constantinople.
California has exported about twelve million
pounds of wool within the past nine months.
Two thousand tickets, at ten dollars each, have
been issued for the grand ball to the Grand Duke
Alexis, in New York.
The once stylish clerks and book-keepers of
Chicago are now making a living by selling news
papers upon the streets or serving as private po-
licemen.
Victor Emanuel having suppressed nunneries
and other religious houses in Italy, the Pope is
about to issue a protest to the Great Powers
against it.
The New York Tribune gives the names of tf-
ty-one insurance companies that have suspended
thus far, as the result of losses by the Chicago
fire. L14o- a4 41f CO.,
1t is asserted that MANY congregations of Ro-
go to England and America, where they propose
to found converts.
Governor Hoffman and Senators are consulting
as to the p~ropriety of calling AZ extra session OF
the New York Legislature, to pass reform char
tiers for New York and Brooklyn, already pre-
pared by O'Conor, Tilden and others.
Mr.. Taine is publishing some g Notes on
England " IN the Paris Temps, wherein ne lately
spoke with more point than politeness OF the
English country gentleman as having s. the air OF
a fat pig. who has a recollection Of his grand
father, the wild boar 81
The sea serpent has neither died of old age nor
been drowned by its long immersion. 1t recently
visited KiIkee, on the coast OF Ireland, and came
close enough to the shore to terrify a number OF
yeracious bathers, each of whom is willing to
swear to a different account of the monsters ap-
pearance.
Mr.. Gladstone has announced the determine
ton of the British Government not to yield to
the appeals for the release of the remaining FEM
an prisoners, ON the ground that their offenses
were not political, and the release of other Feni-
ans imprisoned for political ofenses forms no
precedent for dealing with those for whom pardon
is now sought.
President Grant has been making a tour of New
England. Before he left Washington the Com
mon Council of Boston appropriated $40 900 for
a grand banquet at which to entertain the Presi-
dent at their city. Hearing of this action the
President telegraphed to them that it would be
much more agreeable to him to see the fund APP
propriated for the relief of the Chicago sufferers,
which was done.
Aid for Chicago has offered in all sorts of ways.
A notable instance is that of the New York Tn
hume, which autographed an order to place at the
disposal of its Chicago namesake all the material
neededto enable it to resume publication at once.
The New York Tribune, since it was. burned out
in l845, has always kept on hand duplicates of
everything needed for the publication of the pa
per, 50 as to be ready for another FIRE.
A writer in the New York Tribune says that a
very simple and highly probable conjunction of
circumstances would destroy New York, even
more completely than Chicago has been destroyed.
New York, he says, is liable to be burned when
ever a FIRE shall get under way on a winter B night,
the weather being at the same time cold enough
to freeze the hydrants, and e gale blowing sufi-
GENTLY strong to carry the flames across the
streets. The fate Of Chicago should remind US
that a like calamity may follow like conditions at
any day. The so-called fire proof buildings go
down almost as surely as wax in these great con-
fagrations. saH "a
The FAIR C.sE.-The Supreme Court met Mon
day Nov. 13, Elisha Cook, of San Francisco, made
his argument for a new trial in the Laura Fair
case. 1t was merely the presentation of old facts
in a new form, but in excellent shape to influence
the Court to grant Mrs. Fair a new trial, for rea-
sons already given and repeated in these columns,
viz: Alleged erroneous rulings of the lower
court and incompetency of jurors that sat on the
case. Cook was in a feeble condition of health.
At the conclusion of his argument the Court
granted twenty days for respondent to file a brief,
and twenty days thereafter for a reply. Mrs.
Fair has, therefore, a judicial lease of life extend
ing beyond the LIST of January, 1872.