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

Iican majority in the State is from $4,000 to IL 900.
The Legislature is two-thirds Republican In ooth
Houses.
New YoRK. Nov. 9.-General Barlow, the newly
elected Attorneys General of the State, says crimi-
nal proceedings will be Immediately commenced
against every man implicated IN the city irauds.
He SAYS, further, that we can now easily rid orr
selves of all corrupt officials. The Mayor. the
Commissioners Of the different Bureaus, the Judges
in the city interior Courts and Judges of higher
Courts will be reached by impeachment. The new
CITY Charter will be repealed and a new election
ordered.
DEPUTY Comptroller Green states that the result
of the election is already felt in the improved
price of city bonds. and he will now have no trou-
BILE in raising any amount of money.
New HAVEN, Nov. 9.-The Jarvis collection of
Italian paintings was sold at auction to-day to
Yale College for S22, 900.
NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-THE Democratic Reform
Committee have evidence that $4,000 fraudulent
votes were counted on Tuesday. They expect to
punish thirty-six repeaters already under suryeil-
lance. There Is evidence against the police.
WASHINGTON, Nov. I5.-The American and Brit
ish Claims Commission will adjourn on Friday I'M
til early in December. 1t has been enormously
stated that the Commission have decided that the
claims of persons heretofore British subjects, but
who have become naturalized American citizens,
shall not be presented to them. The truth is, in
structions to that effect came from Her Majesty's
Government, in response to enquiry by Howard,
the British Agent. This instruction will govern
his conduct In the presentation OF claims.
BosToN, Nov. 15.-The loss of the Gloucester
fishing feet during the present season is greater
than during any previous year, and the number of
lives sacrificed exceeds that of any other year ex-
eept 1862. Twenty-Five vessels have been wrecked,
sunk, or abandoned, valued at Sl63, O60. on which
was $50 ,3l6 insurance, nearly all, however, on the
mutual plan 136 fishermen lost their lives, forty
FIVE of whom left widows, and upward of ninety
children are rendered fatherless. During 1870 the
number OF vessels lost was thirteen, valued at
S73.5OO, on which the insurance was S50,493
number of lives lost. lightweight.
LONDON. Nov. 9.--The Times, in a leader on the
election in New York, rejoices in the defeat OF
Tammany. 1t congratnlates the electors on the
result. and hopes an example will be made Of the
men guilty of corrupt practices.
The Chicago Relief Fund, at the Mansion House,
aggregates EAT 600.
LONDON, Nov. 9.-The Lord Mayors show. with
the usual display and procession to Westminster
Hall. took place to-day. The festivities closed
with the usual banquet, given by the Lord Mayor
at Guildhall, which was attended by a brilliant
company, consisting of Ministers. Member OF Par
lament, Ambassadors and other distinguished per-
sons. Among the guests were Gladstone, several
members of the Cabinet, and Schenck, the Ameri-
can Minister.
The toast to the Diplomatic Corps. which was
fully represented, was responded to by Schenck,
who, in the course of his remarks, made a graceful
and feeling allusion to the sympathy shown Tor
Chicago in its great calamity. His speech was
loudly and significantly applauded.
Gladstone replying to the toast of Her Majesty's
Government, said that he was thankful to be able
to state that, at the present moment, England had
actually no quarrel, feud or controversy with for
eign powers anywhere on the surface of the globe.
England's place in Europe was that of one among
many sisters inseparable from the European family.
but be was glad that her peculiar position removed
her from risks of European discussions. Peace
was never so certain as new. He believed that
the sentiments of friendship and attachment which
had been expressed by the Minister of the United
States on the part of the American people for their
brothers in Great Britain, were universally felt in
the breasts Of both nations. When, said Gladstone
with much earnestness, the American Minister
spoke of relief for Chicago, the heart OF this great
hall answered him. America has been before
equally ready to pour out her treasure for our re-
lief. prolonged cheering:1 The Treaty of Wash
ington. he continued, not only obviated future
controversies, but 1t was an extension of that in
ternational code which was the most remarkable
of the triumpbs of modern civilization, and might
possibly iuaugurate the peaceful a~rbitrament of
all disputes among nations. The Premier con-
cluded by declaring that England had little to
fear from internal troubles. and that the Interna-
tiOnal Society, a source of so much apprehension
to her neighbors, caused no uneasiness here.
PARIS. Nov. Sin the General Council Of the
Eure yesterday. Minister POuyer Quertier said that
Theirs. who had been opposed to making Military
Service obligatory, was beginning to yield before
the necessity of such a measure to bring the army
up to the proper standard of efficiency.
The General Councils of the Departments
throughout the country are considering the subject
of Compulsory Education. Several have already
adopted that system, many have declared in favor
of it, and there is good reason TO believe that all
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operation.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Queens health is won
d%erfully improved, and all proposals for q partial
Regency have been abandoned.
LONDON, Nov. l3.-Pigott, the proprietor of the
Dublin LiSh5ndn, is sentenced to imprisonment for
six months for publishing articles of an in1amma-
tory nature in that journal during the trial of
Kelly for the alleged murder of Constable Talbot.
LONDON. Nov. ia formidable plot of Bona
partists, headed by Fleury. to arrest Theirs and
| nroplaim the EmDire has hppn discovered The
plotteis' papers are in the possession of Theirs,
who is confident of the failure of the conspiracy.
LONDON. Nov. 15-On the Fete day OF the ex-
Empress of the French, a large deputation from
Paris arrived here and proceeded to Chiselhurst,
where they offered the congratulations of his
Majesty's officers Of the late Imperial Guard, and
sent a boquet to be presented : @
ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. B.-The Moscow Gazette,
in an editorial article. counsels Russia to demand
the naturalization of Denmark and the cession of
S~chleswig to the latter as a means to counterfeit
the power Of Prussia on the Baltic.
LONDON, Nov. l5.-Disraeli has been elected
Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow over
Professor John Ruskip, who was also nominated.
LONDON, Nov. IA Vienna letter states that
the retirement of the late Chancellor of the Aus
trian-Hungarian monarchy, Count Beust. is prob
ably due to the fact that he was believed to be as
sisting secretly the Hohenwart party while retain
ing the leadership of the Liberals. There was
much jubilation in Vienna among the Liberal
Constitutionalists over his resignation.
Mail sdvices from Africa say that on the west
coast people are dying off from smallpox like
sheep. The deaths are over twenty per cent. of
those attacked. The Juju priests are very busy
Installing into the minds of the ignorant natives
the idea that the disease is a judgment of their
Juju or gods on the people for SO many of them
embracing Christianity.
South America.
A heavy earthquake occurred at Iquique and
the interior of Peru on the 5th of October. Con-
siderable damage was done to buildings in Iquique,
and among the people the effect were most disas-
trous. In the interior the towns of Plea and
Matilda were destroyed, and scarcely a house left
standing. A FIRE succeeded the earthquake in Plea.
At Valparaiso, the church, Pantheon, eighteen
bonses. and the dam of the river were destroyed.
The towns of Usgamaga. Guazquina. and Pachica
also suffered severely. Very few lives were lost.
The steamer Panama ielt the earthquake at sea 30
AT ArequiPa they had shocks on the 4h and