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

Foreign Items.
Late mail news from India fully confirms the
fact that 65 out Of 80 KOOhna prisoners were
blown from the mouths Of cannon withOu: trial.
The officials responsible for this diabolical outrage
on the English name and also on Christendom were
Commissioners Forsyth and COwan.
NM Henri Rochefort and Asst. with a num-
Der VI other prominent Communists, were dis
patched from CherbOurg recently, en- route for
New CaIedUnia,. South Pacific Ocean, where they
are sentenced t0deportatiOn for life.
curious confirmation of the truth of Thack-
cray 3 assertion that lady could not write let
ter without undcrscoring some OF the words, was
shown in Queen VictorIas recent letter to the
people, acknowledging her qualification at the en-
thusiastic reception with which she was greeted.
In it three words are underscored.
TUoBoATs FOR THE STRAITS OF MA0ELLAN.-A
project is said to be in contemplation for estab-
fishing line of tug-propellers in the Straits OF
nstgellan, 70 enable sailing vessels to avoid the
Longer and more dangerous circumnayigatiOn OF
Cape Horn. The passage of the straits by sail
ing vessels ha seldom been found practicable,
but with prOpeiess furnished with intelligent
pilots the difficulties or'.he case could be readily
overcome
The Danbury NelUS says: San aged but rather
rural deacon OF this town somewhat astonished
his family on returning from a recent visit to
Brideport. by disclosing IN the recesses OF his ca
pacious valise two valuable volumes IN blue and
gold, prize package Containing gold coin. cake
of ig paste, two pictorial papers, and package OF
ice cream candy. tie said boy on the cars gave
him these things. He confessed the boy
entire stranger. but fervently hoped Heaven
would paint him q sky-blue if he ever forgot the
kindness"
In regard to China and Japan perhaps America
il destined 20 become what Germany and in some
respects France are an relation to America-the
place where ones education may best be finished.
Hardly week passes in which we do not hear of
q batch Of Young japanese - princes " arrived
in this country intending To study at our colleges,
and now il appears that the Chinese Government
has appropriated one million of dollars for send
ing annually thirty alumni of the Government
colleges To the United States I'd complete their
education. The fret invoice is expected To reach
Sun Francisco in July OF August next.
The new ships now being constructed for the
German navy are formidable At the Government
dOck-yard at WIlhelmshaven they are busy nm
ishins the cuirassed iFigate Great Elecf0r ut the
state establishment OF Kiel the Friedrich der
Crosse a vessel of equally imposing proportions,
is rapidly approaching completion; while the
BarbarOsSa the last iron caSed trio, is IN the
hands OF the Vulcan company Ht Stettin. Two
mure cuirassed irigates, the Metz and the Sedon,
are beng constructed England, that the
-.ua-rI navy wifi receive addition Of i've first
class vessels in the next four years.
Prince BismArck's recent victory in the Prus-
sian Hcase Of Lords on the school bill was the
result Of a warfare against clerical influence
which the distinguished statesman has urged with
his characteristic bOdness and vIgOr. The pur-
pose of the bill in question To seculariZe the
schools turn out the ecclesiastical element from
their management, and compel more thorough
education in the German tongue among the alien
subjects OF Prussia. 81 sweeping measure Pro-
yoked q bitter opposition, and it was thought
that il would be defeated in the House of Lords
but instead, Bismarck was triumphantly sus-
tanned in that body, and the bill is now law.
The boy Louis, prince imperial, ETC., reached
his sixteenth birthday the 10th OF March,
and the occasion of rejoicing at Chisel-
hurst This was his second birthday passed in
England He reached that country weak ard i'll
frUm the disastrous campaign which drove the
imperial family from France; but English soil
has been good Tor him, and on this occasion he
Was stout sturdy and rUsy of cOuntenance, to
saw nothing OF the inevitable prcpOssessiOn and
=. stamp of nobility" that belong fash
hereditary nobility. Perhaps, with his fathers
ambition, be will struggle for place and fame IN
some uf the days to come but, successful or not,
he can acquire more of happiness and placid
satisfaction than he is enjoying to-day
Every leader of advanced thought in an un-
civilized country assumes his leadership at the
risk Of his life, a well-known saying that has re-
ceived fresh cinhFmati ton lrUm the TACT that the
Mikado of japan came very near, on the 10th of
March, paying the death penalty for being to his
empire an apostle of liberal opinions and en-
Iighteued IDEAS. That the attempted assassna-
ton was unsuccessful Is indeed cause tor gratua-
ton TO every friend OF progress throughout the
world, for the death Of the MikadO at the present
iuncture would have the effect OF crushing out OF
exiTence the measures Of reform that he has in
auourated, and of throwing japan back into the
midst of the barbarUus night, the dark clouds OF
which have as yet hardly passed away.
Now that public opinion in England has had
time 70 swing back from its sudden v.ndictiveness
aoainz. the TicbbOrne claimant. il is beginning
10 he perceived that he did not have fair trial.
The rulings of the Court were, TO say the least,
tinged with bitterness against him, and the jury,
ON two occasions ntimated that they were - sat
is6ed " and would not change their minds what
ever evidence was offered When the second
announcement was made, Orton TIchborne had
epent all the money he could raise, and was
Obliged to submit 10 the non-suit 1t Is aueS-
tionabIe whether the jury had any right TO bring
the case 20 such summary close. Inc evidence
that finally satisfied them was that OF young
Barynet who swore To the indelible tattoolng OF
the real Sir Roger. 1t is n'.w said that an equal
Iy credible witness 10 ready to swesr that In the
tattooing frolic Sir Roger escaped from the hands
of his c1mpaniOns, and was not marked. lt is
far more likely that the plaintiff is Orton than
that he is Tichborne; but he ought TO have bad
fair play.