The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-12-17
Late Foreign Items.

Ex-Secretary Boutwell, thinks the banks
cannot, but the q. S. Government may
practically resume specie payments.
Seven million two hundred and fifty
thousand persons visited the Vienna Elk.
position-that is, that many tickets were
sold.
Silver is to be more generally coined at
the mint and branch minis of the United
States to assist project of silver resump-
ton.
Orders from Washington send the Mo-
docs to the Indian Territory, and not to
Wyoming. The change is good for the
Modocs.
Stocks have fallen off and the Bank of
England has fixed its discount rates at
nine per cent. AT this time nobody seems
to see the end.
Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily, is
in very violent state of eruption. The
eruption is accompanied by very destruc-
tive earthquakes.
The Committee of Seventy, who went
after the Tammany thief ring, resolved to
disband, their work being finished as far
as they could do it
President Grant will recommend new
United States security at low rate of in
terest, convertible into currency at option
of holder, and recoverable into bonds.
BERLIN, Nov. THE German Minister
of Finance has decided to sell twenty mil
lion thalers of disused silver to the United
States Government, which is the highest
bidder.
French monarchists now favor a re-
gency and the appointment of Lieute-
nant-General for the kingdom. This was
what they fell back on after the abdica-
ton of Charles X.
Gen. Belleware of the French army
sent letter to the Minister of War, say
ing if the monarchy should be restored
he would resign his commission. His name
was at once placed on the retired list.
Mr.. Coxwell, the celebrated aeronaut,
has been making series of balloon as
cents to height of 10000 feet from Lon
don, to investigate the supposed westerly
current He is not yet certain about it.
Justice Swayne is now confidently NAM
ed by the Boston Globe as the man most
likely to succeed Chase as Chief Justice
of the United States He is said to be
the personal preference of the President.
English high churchmen have initiated
movement for a general expression of
sympathy with the Old Catholic party of
Germany, and with the cause of Bismarck
against the Pope and the Jesuitical party.
Young Walworth, the paricide, writes
to the keeper of the Tombs: "Please in
form Ned Stokes that we are going to
get up first-rate reception for him in this
glorious institution, as soon as he puts on
The uniform and has his hair cut in fashion,"
Silver is now paid out to limited ex-
ent in Washington City. Dr. Under
nan, Director of the Bureau of the Mint,
avs silver will be III general circulation
IS currency on Nov. 1st. All the minis
n the country have been ordered to work
o their full capacity in coming silver.
There is paper church actually exist I
ng near Bergen, which can contain near {
Y 1000 persons. 1t is circular within, I
without. The relieves outside, {
nd the statues within, the roof, the cell {
lg, the Corinthian capitals, are all of pa '
Ter mache, rendered waterproof by satu- !
alton in vitriol, lime water, whey and S
'hite of egg. e
From Berlin paper we have news that " .
ne preliminaries of an eventual alliance
etween Italy and Germany have been :
between the two nations, and
lat it looks chiefly toward the part which
icy may be called on to take in the cleo
on of the next Pope and the relations of :
9th with the Holy See. 1t appears to II
e the opinion of Italian statesmen that I
efore the next papal election occurs there
likely to be Bourbon on the thrones C
France and Spain and a Jesuitical Holy p
lliance to control the papal election. Il
England is announced to be the only -
vilized country in the world which has " "
ot sent homegrown tobacco to the vi =.
ina Exhibition. Varieties are shown VI
ON Norway and Sweden, as well as from .
e tropics, and from all intermediate ter :
tories. 1t is remarked that the value r
Iries throughout very much according =,
the distance from the equator, and :.
us while the unmanufactured leaf from .
avana is valued at almost $3.50, gold, r r
'und, that from Holland is priced at no :,
ore than about s25 hundred-weight. -
OPINIONS OF GOVERNOR BooTH.-Gov- T
nor Newton Booths great worth and m
ability is recognized by the 70
ople all over the United States, as will Il