The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-01-06
Foreign Items.

Thirty Hindoos are studying law in London.
Partisan sporting characters are betting that
Napoleon will be back there within n year.
The Senntus Of the Edinburgh University have
decided TO admit female students to examination
for n medical degree. The University Of Leipzig
has also opened it's doors TO women.
Cardinal Atonelli lies dangerously i'll in Rome.
The Cardinal is an eminent man in every sense Of
the word, and his loss, should he be carried on
by death, will be n truly serious ono TO tho Pope.
1t is reported that NJ. Theirs intends 10 recon-
mend, at the approaching session OF the Assembly,
the termination Of the present provisional Gov
ernment of France, and the formation Of q gcnu-
inc Republic in it's stead.
New Bedford, Massachusetts,, takes m honest
pride in the creditable fact that ardent spirits nro
not openly sold in that city, and that every one
found engaged in the liquor traffic has been ar
rested for violation Of law. .efFFrr
The Emperor of Germany has consented 30 act
as arbitrator between the United States Of Amer
lea and England upon the question of the disputed
line between the former country and Vancouvor's
Island, in the Strait Of San Juan dc Fuca.
The Louisiana sugar crop this year will fall very
much below an average yield. Not only was the
surface under cultivation less than usual, but the
growing cane has suffered severely from the un-
favorable season.
Paul Il. Du Chaillu, who has Just returned
home. says that as one effect Of the rascality Of
the New York city government, even the Swecd-
y DtdSdlb1 dlH III lIdNtitI WIFI JIG To
mark that 5000, 600, 900 have been stolen, and
that no one will be banished for it,. I'gutlf
1t is a singular fact that the ablest and most in
~fluential journals now published in Italy are
either edited or controlled by Jews. In Rome
the liberal journal most read il edited by n jew.
They demand liberty OF conscience, and discuss
the religious questions now uppcrmost in Italy,
with great intelligence and perfect freedom.
Chicago and the Northwest are not the only
sufferers by tie extraordinary drought Of tho
present season. The Ohio river has for many
weeks been unmanageable by reason Of it, and n
coal famine all along that river and the lower
Mississippi Valley is the result. Ten millions of
coal are lying a6Oat at the Pittsburg docks, wait
ing only for a rise Of the river TO be transported
below, while Louisville, Cincinnati and the towns
below them arc shiyeriBg with the fear Of a Win
ter without fuel.
LIQUoR LAw.-Michigan appears to be the
champion temperance State. Under her amended
liquor law, now tn force, any person found drink
ing in a saloon, tavern OF public place, or la the
streets, is liable 10 n fine of five dollars and costs,
or imprisonment for not more than twenty days.
No cOuntenance, much less aid and comfort, is
given 20 the great enemy Of social peace. Such a
measure is equally sound as n principle Of polit-
ical economy, and ar a cODservator Of morals.
Every now and then the clergy and the prese
unite in condemning extravagant funerals, but
still the custom goes on. The fact is that fashion
has decreed that 50 much Grape. 10 many ear
riages, and "A certain style OF coffin is the proper
manifestation OF grief. The clergy and the pres
have but little power over fashion, and help or
hinder it in a very small degree. The reform
must begin in the Glasses where the evil has been
encouraged. 1t must be made fashionable 10
mourn with but little expense, and only then
will the public be independent Of the present GUS
tom and the influences Of the undcrtakers.
Among the bills which Congress has on hand
to commence business with the next session, arc
those admitting Colorado and New Mexico 20 tho
Union abollshing the income tax removing
sion, and coinage laws; the postal telegraph bills,
and those for the removal OF disabilities under tho
fourteenth amendment. Something might be ex-
pected Of Congress in regard 10 these matters Of
general public interest, were it nor for the over !
whelming number Of other bills concerning pri- B
yate interests, which usually overshadow more 4
important claims upon the attention Of Congress.
The nearness Of the Presidential election, how
ever, like a rod in pickle, will incitc the MEMBERS !
to the transaction of business which cannot DO
any longer delayed with safety.
A Doctors war is the sensation In Boston. A
consultation is being beld upon the mnch-abused
system of homeopathy, or method Of curing dis
eases by infnitesimal remedies. The a~llopathB
are the contesting parties. The charge made by
the former was intended 10 be Of vigorous char
acter, but the homeopathists, in defence, did not
cOniine themselves 10 minute agencies, but OBJ
tanned and welded the tbunders Of the law
against those who proposed TO make them medical
outlaws. The fight between the two schools be-
gan in Washington, and now RACES bitterly in
the ranks Of the Massachusetts Medical Society, J
which would be better employed in saving and
prOloDging the lives intrusted 20 the skill Of its
members rather than in exhausting their intel
lectual energies by assaults upon the followers OF
Hahneman's idea that - like as cured by like I