The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-04-11
Foreign News Summary.

Jag Mist, 20 days passage, and on Thursday Of the
steamship .Mitado, 81 days passage, both from San
Francisco, We are IN receipt Of full files Of dates from
the Sh 10 the 3lst March. inclusive. Instead Of
copying kilograms; We shall make a general summary
OF the news, which, though interesting, IS not strik-
ing or particularly important.
The bark d. {. Murray, hence Feb. 25d, arrived
at san Francisco March 29th, after an exceedingly
long passage of s4days. She would leave on the re-
turn voyage about April 18th.
Willard Fillmore, ex-President of the United
States, died at Brooklyn, Y. Y. March 9th, aged a.
He was installed Vice President March 9Th, Is49,
and on the death q Zachary Taylor in July, 1850,
he BECAME President and occupied the chair until
March 18th. 1853.
Charles sumner, Senator from Massachusetts,,
died Of heart disease at Washington, March 1lth.
Mr.. Sumner was distinguished as an orator and a
finished scholar, bat more particularly noted as an
original abolitionis. His last words are reported TO
have been" Do not let the Civil Rights bill fail"
The temperance revival in the United States con-
tinues to attract public attention, and immense meet
ings have been held, many saloons throughout the
country have been closed and large accessions made
to the cold water amy.
James c. King, recently convicted in New York of
murder in the second degree in killing Anthony
O'Neil, about a year ago, was on March Is sentenced
TO the State Prison fer life,
Prince Bismarck, who was reported by a previous
arrival as dangerously i'll, had improved, and was
able to transact business. The report that Prince
Frederick Charles of Prussia was about to start on a
tour around the world, is contradicted.
The Ashantee war is over. After some hard fight
ing, in which however the direct loss from the enemy
was trifing, Sir Garnet WOlseley entered COomassie,
and the King sued for peace. He agreed to pay Co.,
600 ounces Of gold as an indemnity, to renounce all
claims on the disputed territory, and to open his do
minions to commerce. His capital was garrisoned
by ! 900 British troops, the remainder of the army
returning home. These reached England in the lat
ter part of March, and were received with a public
ovation, and q vote of thanks passed in Parliament.
The Queen reviewed the returned troops at Windsor,
March 50, in the presence of an immense crowd:
Before the entire force, the Queen made Sir Garnet
Wolseley knight Commander of the Order of the
Bath. Parliament had adjourned over for the Easter
holidays.
Henry Rochefort and a companion escaped from
New Caledonia in an open boat, and after being three
days at sea, we're picked up by a vessel and carried
to an Australian port.
Charles Orion has published a lengthy statement
in the Times, in which he declares that the Tichborne
claimant is his own brother, recognized by him as
such from the first, but that his silence was procured
by a monthly allowance of e5, and a promise of some
thing handsome in the event of a successful termina-
tion of the suit.
London was gaily decorated March 18th, ON the
entry Of the newly married Duke and Duchess Of
Edinburg, the Queen taking part in the procession
from Paddington station to Buckingham Palace. On
dit, that a set of diamonds sent to the Duchess as a
x-oJI;n, aca from, bnr ,,pclo -, fbo Cr;,ao ho1
been stolen ON tho wap-"h- %~-iT~i "vins
found empty.
March 20, i'll the British House of Commons, an
amendment was proposed to the address to the Throne,
representing the dissatisfaction of ireland with the
present system Of government, and declaring it the
duty of Parliament to consider speedily the means of
removing such dissatisfaction. The Lord Mayor of
Dublin seconded the amendment, not in favor of i'm
mediate Home Rule, but for a complete policy of re-
Cancellation. The amendment was rejected by a vote
of ia 10 81.
Canada has sent a special envoy to Washington to
negotiate for a renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty.
From Spain, it is difficult to learn anything at all
satisfactory as to the real condition of the respective
contestants-the Carlists and the Republicans-who
are carrying on a bloody civil var. One telegram
announcing the success of one of the parties is fol-
lowed the next day by q contradiction. 1t is however
quite evident that Don Carlos is stronger in Spain
than earlier accounts led US to suppose. But it is
equally evident that if he wins the Spanish Throne it
will be through much more bloodshed.
\ Washington dispatch dated March 80, says ga
careful review of the ground and calculation of
chances indicates beyond a doubt that the financial
legislation this session will comprise the legalizing of
the issue Of the reserves, and the enactment of the
banking law
The Legislature of Massachusetts, were busy bal
loting for q successor to Sumner. The contest is
pretty even between Dawes, Hoar, and Curtis.
The body of DR.. Livingstone had arrived at Alden,
on its way to England.
In respect to the proposed Geographic cable across
the Pacific, the .4ia of March 3Ist has the following:
Captain Celso Cesar Moreno, whose projected
cable enterprise to connect China and Japan with
America only failed of passage by the lack of a sin
gle vote, last session, arrived on the steamer .Aricoaa,
to enlist the influential citizens of San Francisco in
forming n new cable company to carry out his pro-
iect. With the Endorsement of the business men OF
this city Captain Moreno will return to Congress, and
there will then be no difficulty in obtaining a char
ter; the Chinese are ready and willing to supply the
most of the capital. The plan is to go from San
Francisco, by way of the Sandwich Islands, TO Japan;
or by way of the Aleutian Islands if the Russian Gov
eminent will give the required assistance.
NOTICE