The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-30

The Bishop of Mayenoe has written a pamphlet
censuring the German Government for is perse-
cution of the Jesuits.
CHICAGO, Oct. ll.-Mayor Medill has issued n
proclamation ordering the police 10 enforce the
laws forbidding the sale of Intoxicating liquors on
Sunday.
The Governments of Belgium and Germany
have, in consequence of the increased cost of lv-
ing in Europe, increased the salaries of their en-
ployces.
In consideration of the present high price Of
provisions. the Governors of the Bank Of England
have added Eve per cent. TO the salary of every
officer, clerk and porter in the establishment.
The operation of the Compulsory Education
Act in England is creating some uneasiness. A
class has arisen that refuses 10 recognize the right
of the Board TO take away the fathers control
over his child's education.
Mr.. Boutwell, said in a speech ut n fag-aising.
q few days since, that the vacillations of Horace
Greeley were not the effect of dishonesty, but that
the record of has life showed him 20 be 40 cOnsti-
tuted that he is incapable Of forning an opinion
to which he can adhere.
The New York Ercning Post thinks it a curl
Gus coincidence that Mr.. Summers political career
should have begun with a coalition and is likely
to end with one. The difference is between "A
combination based on a principle and one founded
only on personal feelings.
Af6davits have been taken in the Mountain
Meadow massacre, fully corroOorating the testi-
mony of Bishop Smith, and giving further de-
tails, showing still more positively the gull. Of
the Mormon leaders. Testimony was also OBJ
tanned proving the identity of the assassin of DR..
Robinson.
The venerable Caleb Gushing, now in his sd
year, while in Paris last May, devoted three
hours each day to the study of French under an
eminent teacher. Now, when we reflect that he
has spoken and written the French language flu
emily for over forty years, some idea of his devo-
ton to study may be arrived at. If, at such an
advanced age, he desires 10 acquire, rs be says,
"a greater felicity of expression - is anybody
justified in considering it " too late I" to under
take anything?
The new French loan has swollen the debt of
France TO gigantic proportions. 1t is difficult for
the mind unaccustomed to Enumeration to grasp
the sum as it is represented by figures. That is
to say, it will reach, according to late estimates,
twenty-five milliards and seven hundred and fifty
millions of francs, or about 81, 500, 000, 900.
This is 1913 ,OO0, 900 more than the debt of Great
Britain, and double that of the United States.
The interest on this debt is itself q burden which
some of the nations less prosperous than France
would find it oppressive to bear.
An anomalous genius is responsible for the
unique idea that the seats of our churches be ar
A0D@S1 WI HAfONCT ~ bbob kbO lOl
of the congregation who enter at a reasonable
hour, may more conveniently turn around to ex-
anime the elaborate toilets ard decorations of the
late corners, whose entry fifteen or twenty min
utes after service has commenced is apparently
designed to be spectacular and to attract the notice
and admiration of the audience, in utter disre-
gard of the annoyance it occasions the minister.
The United States has agreed to assist Great
Britain in suppressipg the slave trade on the
eastern coast of Africa, and orders have been
issued to the commander of the Ydatic to stop at
Muscat, while en- route to the East India squad
ron, and inform the Imaum that America joins
with Great Britain in desiring to sec the immedi-
ate abrOgation of SO much of the commercial
treaty as reserves the right to transport domestic
slaves by sea within certain limits of their own
territory. After the abrogation of the treaty is
obtained, England, France and America will join
in putting down any further slave trade in that
section.
Following the vote by ballot in England, is to
be a Redistribution of the seats in Parliament.
In other words, England is TO be reapportioned.
Under the present system, cities with 300 900 in
habitants, like Liverpool and Manchester, have
but two representatives in the Commons, while
Bath and Brighton, with only so 900 population
each, have an equal number. The district of
Tower Hamlets, i'll London. with 400, 900 popu-
lation, has but one more representative in Parlia-
ment than an obscure country village. Give the
people a free ballot, and in the end they will re-
form all abuses.
An extraordinary story is apparently gaining
credence in Madrid. 1t is nothing more nor less
than to the effect that King Amadeus was a
party 10 what is supposed to be the assassination
hoax, and designed the same with a view to the
favorable result of the dastardly attack. He, says
the report, was much chagrined to find one of his
instruments killed, as he had no such intention
toward any but his horses. The prisoners will
soon be discharged it is said. Another sensation
is that the Attorney General has discovered evil
dence duplicating the Duke de Montpensier in
the assassination Of Prim, and demands his arrest.
Stanley has made arrangements with Sampson
Low & Co, of London, and with Scutner, Arm
strong & CO., of New York, for the publication of
a book of about 500 pages octave, giving, of
course, his account of the discovery of DIR. Liv-
~ingstone, with very valuable matter incidental
to his adventures. The public is, however,
likely to be cheated by one of the private pub
fishers of London, who announces 1.-The finding
of DR.. Livingstone, by III. NJ. Stanley" which
will be made up, doubtless, of the published
letters of Mr.. Stanley aud will have no plates or
additional matter. This work will be out before
the legitimate one; but that part Of the public
which reads the newspapers will not be cheated.
MOSQUITOES SOME USE AT LAsT.-The Scientific
American describes a strange fertilizer. At STRAIT
ford, Conn, where mosquitoes are thick as fog,
lives an ingenious Yankee, so they say-believe it
who may-who puts these insects to profitable
uses. He has invented a large revolving scoop-net,
covered with lace, which is put in motion by a
windmill, water-power or steam. The lower
part of the scoop is placed in water. The upper
half moves through the atmosphere, and at each
rotation draws an immense number of the
50 squitoes" down into the water, where they
and sink to the bottom. Every revolution
of the net draws in IN ounce of mosquitoes, or a
ton for every thirty-two thousand turns of the
machine. The mosquitoes thus collected make a
manure for the land, worth $45 a ton.
SUGAR IN New YoRK.-Tbe hardening tendency
of the New York sugar market Is said to be due
to increased consumption. This increase during
the first eight months of the year has been re-
markable, averaging 38 900 tons per month in
1868, sc, 200 tons in 1869, Al 900 tons in 1870,
46 900 in 1871, and $1,000 tons per month in