The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
Foreign Items.

been found guilty OF murder M the bTst degree.
The British Columbians are rejoicing over the
prospect OF the commencement Of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad in the Spring.
One Baleh has hled notice that be vii apply for
an act Of incorporation OF the Darieu Canal Com
pany under the laws OF Massachusetts.
Thirty three thousand copies OF Mr.. Gladsionels
pamphlet on the Vatican have been sold in Eng
land. at half q crown, and a cheap edition Of 40
600 copies at sixpence has just been Issued.
The New York Times cites the fact that seven
thousand mechanics and two thousand laborers
have abandoned trades Union in New York during
the last year, as an evidence OF the declining power
Of such organizations.
Charles Bradlaugh publishes a letter saying that
Wm. PENIS heirs have been for seventy years.
and are still, receiving $4,000 annual pension
from the British Government as a reward for the
successful endeavoFs Of the Penn family 10 prevent
Americas achieving her Independence.
George Bancroft. the historian, who is seventy
four years old. but still very active, has bought
the house in Washington recently owned by ex-
Senator Harlan, where he Is diligently engaged in
closing bis History of the United States down TO
the adoption OF the Federal Constitution.
The divorce act passed at the last session Of the
Massachusetts Legislature has been declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court OF the
State SO that il still remains almost as difficult
to get unmarried as to get married in Massachu-
sets.
Alexander II. Stephens tells a reporter that he
has a friendly feeling for the President. whom be
ISkaIuS u "a StuSAukcs HAaGtlGA uAus alQ uONS Ett
hesitate TO avow it but sensational rumors TO the
effect that he, Mosby, and other Southern men are
in Grants confidence, and secretly furthering his
third term aspirations, are wholly unfounded so
far as Mr.. Stephens is concerned.
Says a California paper: 'Our civilization is
not a failure. and the Caucasian is not played out
at Ruby Hill, Nevada. a heather Cbinee out
there, having been i~mpudent enough to accost Nick
Garland, an honest miner, and suggest that it was
high time his wash bill was paid. Mr.. Garland
promptly rose up and slew the heather. Much
sympathy tor Mr.. Garland is expressed, and there
is talk at Ruby Of getting up some kind Of
estimoni to him. The heathens are not popular
in the mines.i
The London Times says: "Bendigo. formerly
a we'll known prize fghter and Champion of Eng
land delivered a religious address recently to a
crowded audience at the London Cabmen's Mission
Hall at Kings Cross. He began fghting when he
was sixteen years of age, and gave it up when he
was forty. Two years ago, at the age of siXty-one,
after spending his time alternately in the police
cells, the prize ring and the public house, he was
converted as If by a miracle. Ever since he has
been the happiest man alive, and be should be
happier still il he could only learn to read the
Bible for himself"
A FoRCIBLE CoMPARIsoN.--In YOnkers, New
York, with a population of $4,000 there are las
licensed liquor-saloons, and 70 unlicensed, S37 900
is appropriated to the police, $4,000 for the salary
of judge and clerk of police court. $4,000 are ex-
pended by the Commissioners Of Charities on rum
made paupers, and the total expenses for the last
year accruing from the use of liquor were $50. 600.
In Vineland, j., in q population of 10000, where
there are no liquor-saloons licensed or unlicensed,
and consequently no police court, the appropria-
ton for one constable was SIS, and $500 were ex-
pended by the overseers of the poor. Can not the
taxpayers see the point?
1t is given out from San Francisco that King
Kalakaua's visit to the United States is purely one
of ceremony and pleasure. The King does not
disclaimer was hardly necessary. The King, we
take it, has as much dignity of character as his
station would seem to imply, though bis sover-
eighty is O small one. He would not come here as
his own ambassador to secure a commercial con-
vention. Nevertheless, his visit must have an i'm
portant influence upon the proposition for reel
procity between the United States and Hawaii,
and undoubtedly it was undertaken at this time
with that sole purpose in view.
Great changes have lately been made. and are
still making, in the ancient empires Of China and
japan. The hUdlide, a well-iniormed and semi
official st. Petersburg journal, declares that the
Mikado is determined to admit foreigners into the
interior of Japan. and is resolved that his country
shall become an important naval power. China"
the semi-oficial organ continues, " is equally anx-
ious to strengthen her defences. She has already
loo, 900 men armed with European rifles, her
European gunbOats have proved q perfect success
in a raid against the Yellow Sea pirates, and she
has just ordered a fresh supply of Krupp cannon
at the cost of Il, 0O0, 900 roubles."
The triennial conclave of Knights Templar
which began in New Orleans on the LIST December,
has drawn together delegates from oil parts of the
country to The Crescent City. representative Of
the North, the West and the South meet in New
and powerful order. which has its branches in
almost every State and Territory of the Union.
Such an assemblage must not only be of advantage
to their society, but tend TO strengthen the bonds
of q common patriotism among all citizens of a
common country. The bringing together in social
and fraternal intercourse of influential citizens of
various sections cannot but increase a mutual good
understanding among them, and through them
exert a salutary influence upon the various COM
munities to which they belong.
T The ravages of the smallpox are causing serious
in London aud New York, and the antbor-
tiles are taking energetic measures TO prevent con-
tagion. In New York the disease is spreading
rapidly through the city. The number of cases has
much increased during the past week, and the
vaccinating corps is instructed to investigate and
see that everybody in the infected districts has
been vaccinated. Under the new law, those who
refuse to take proper measures to be vaccinated
and have their children protected from the danger
of Infection may be compelled TO submit to the
The disease is creating a panic in the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, where eight or ten per-
SONS have been attacked. The buildings have
been thoroughly disinfected and all the 600 inmates
of the institution have been vaccinated. The
small pox hospital on Blackwells Island is said to
be crowded with patients. Strange to say, in the
of all experience, the Franco-Canadfa ply
sicians of Montreal have just formed themselves
an anti-compulsory vaccination league.
A remarkable unanimity of opinion seems to
preVaH IN tue larger EnRAsn cities as 10 the pro-
priety of introducing the lash as a punishment for
of violence. The English law, always ready
to step in where property is concerned, allows the
:" cat " to fall on the back of the man who robs
another with personal maltreatment but in other
cases of assault, no matter how brutal or violent,
the criminal is at present shielded from this whole
some instrument Of punishment. OF late, however,
public sentiment demands that the ruEian who
beats and kicks his wife or companion without
reason, should be logged as we'll as the man who
knocks another down for his purse or watch. The
press is almost unanimously in favor of the propsi-
lion. The state of things now existing in England.
It is confessed, makes it necessary that the use Of
the lash should be extended to all cases of brutal
violence, whether committed for robbery or not,
and whether committed on man, woman or child.
Should it be agreed to extend the use Of corporal
punishment for the purpose Of suppressing this
particular class of crime, care will, however, have
10 be taken into whose hands this power is en-
trusted. Perhaps it would be best if Parliament
were to settle what tribunal or tribunals are to
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