The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-17
Foreign Items.

London at a cost o. s750.OOs.
Every convict now discharged from he Nevada
state Prison receives SIS 10 gold TO start Hfr
life with. AetN
A Law forbidding lho payment Of diGctrnt aaia-
I ries in the public schools on account Of sex has just
passed the Legislature Of California
The installation of the Prince Of Wales as Grand
Master OF the Free Masons will take place at the
Albert Hall. ia London. on Wednesday April 2s.
IL Is expected that about seven OF eight thousapd
MAsOas win be pre@en, at e cercmoRs.A Ell
The coal supply OF the future will come from
China. In SzeChuen. coal occupies an area OF
100, 900 square miles. In another section there are
coal beds OF an average thickness oi 80 feeis wun
an area Of $4,000 square miles.
Thebudget committee Of the Austrian rischrath
have thrown oat the special appropriation OF ST.
600 which the government proposed % defIIay nc
expenses OF representing Austria fn The Uneee
States centennial.
The Aheneun states that Mr.. George Smith has
discovered among the Assyrian tablets IN the
British Museum the legend Of the building OF the
Tower OF Babel This discovery ~ quite as in-
portant as that Of the tablet relating 20 the Deluge,
made known last year by the same gentleman.
The London papers sunounee the arrival Of q
new phenomenon IN the shape OF a v~eritable
Cyeiop that Is to say, a gentleman with only one
eve. aud that in the middle OF the forehead. He
does not hail from Mount Rtna. but Australia, and
bears the unclassieal name OF Piper Wilson, aged u
The rebel element at the South Is getting holder
every day, and now the telegraph reports that Jeh
Davis has gone to Arkansas and advises Governor
Garland 10 resist any action President Grant may
take after Congress adjonrns. Iis barely possible
that the people In the North will tolerate a party
which permits Jea Davis TO dictate lite policy.
Governor Ingersoll OF Connecticut and his stat
will participate in the celebration Of the centennial
anniversary Of the opening battle OF the reyolu-
tionary war. at Concord, Mass, 90 April lsth'
The Governor will be escorted by the Putnam
Pbalanx Of Hartford, which includes many Of the
prominent residents Of that city.
1t having been charged that Messrs. Moody and
Sankey, the American revivalists In Great Britain,
were getting rich out Of the sale OF their hymn.
book, Mr.. NJ. stated In London that they received
only $500 for every million copies sold. Such q
copyright would not demand a high price IN the
market.
A bill has been made the special order 70 the
State Senate Of Tennessee which contains the fol-
lowing section That bRchelorism 10 hereby de-
clared a privilege. and every male inhabitant OF
mind and enjoying good bodily health, remaining
unmarried after the hrst day OF May, 1873. shall
pay a hne Of ten dollars annually"
Unfortunately, y as the English express Il. DIR.
Kenealy has done nothing TO make aim ineligible
to Parliament. The fact that he is disbenched aud
disbarTed does not affect bis political rights. He
is a poor man and there Ia an expression ofcurlosity
as to who paid bis election expense, some crediting
the deed to the ultra Orange party. He will be q
strenuous worker against Romanism.
The time.honored custom in the House Of Com
mons has been for a new member 90 be introduced
by two members Of the House before taking the
oath and his seat. DIR. Kenealy. the Tichborne
counsel, on bis appearing in the House. February
18th, had no one TO introduce him, and IL was only
after quite n debate, with an explanation that he
could not secure the two members, that he was
allowed to appear alone and be enrolled.
General Sherman says that gold hunting expe-
ditions TO the Black Hills will be prevented. or u
any 60 there they will be driven ont. Troops will
be put in the field as soon as the weather will
permit, with instructions 10 prevent incuFsiors into
the Sioux reservation, that the integrity Of the
Sioux treaty will be maintained at all hazards. IL
necessary troops will be sent to bring out the
party now in the Hills. H9aia
The abuse of the ranking privilege has been
practically restored. The bill as passed provides
for the free transportation OF speeches and public
documents through the mails, and also that the
Congressional Record" or any part 81 IT., OF
speeches or reports contained ia II, shah be carried
free in the mails. on the frank of any member or
delegate, to he written by bimself also that public
documents already printed to be carried free on
the same conditions.
The proposed observation OF the solar eclipse 10
Siam next year. will be attended with some Danger.
Ia 1868 a French expedition visited Siam 10 take
observations OF the great solar eclipse. and several
of the savants were attacked with n malarious
fever, then the King himself falling n victim 10 his
going to the obse. @a1ory to learn the process, was
taken sick and died. His successor In equally In
terested in the approaching observations.
In consequence Of the civil rights bill, and fear
ing trouble, both Of the principal hotels at Alex
andria, Va, have cancelled their licenses and
closed. At Richmond on Tuesday several negroes
visited various restaurants, including the bar room
at the Exchange Hotel. and In one instance q
barber shop. and demanded to be waited upon.
They were refused in every instance, and ordered
out. In Baltimore the proprietor or the Park
Hotel has closed his house on account OF the new
law.
On the 6rst day of April Prince Bismarck, born
in 1914, will be sixty years old. The comic papers
Of Germany, bearing in mind that the above ami
versary bears the popular and legendary title Of
" All Fools Day, /" have begun to make capital out
Of 1t. One Of them depicts the great antocratic
statesman sttired in a peasants costume and
quietly enjoying himself by basking In the rural
sunshine. Another shows him Ia a farm-labprer's
dress. so bent and worried by the cares OF q farm
such as a superabundance Of weeds. the Inroads
of pigs In a field OF wheat, the dangerous fracti-
BUSINESS Of an irritated bail. the inroad Of foxes on
the poultry-yard, and so iorth-that be casts aside
the implements of aeld-labor and rusbes back TO
Berlin and to the abandoned cares Of the Chancel-
lorship for peace and quiet. There does not APP
pear to have been any foundation for the recent
rumor that Bismarck desires 10 resign once on bis
next birthday. Health permitting, be Is likely to
remain during the rest OF the reign Of Emperor
William. w
By a vote Of I'll against I42 the second reading,
in the House OF Commons, OF a bill TO legalizs
marriage with a deceased wife's sister was rejected
the other day. The majority was composed Of $50
Conservatives. I8 Liberals and Eve Home Rulers;
the minority Of Jl0 Liberal members "a Conserv-
atives and 10 Home Rule members. Year after
year-as was the case with Catholic emancipation
and the right of Jews 10 sit in Parliament-this
measure has been brought mp 70 be voted down.
Once or twice 1t actually got into The House Of
Lords, where II was summarily rejected. IL In
chiefly on the restrictions imposed by the Canon
law In England that marriage with a deceased
wife's husband is strongly interdicted. The curl
Gus point is that, though illegal in England, Il IL
permitted in Canada and Austaiiag The Roman
Catholic members vote against the measure. which
the Times has invariably and strongly opposed.
MI. Toulou Claude, OF Annapolis. now a cadet
engineer, was ordered to fence with the negro mid.
shipman, and this be refused TO do. He WAS then
told to resign. He would not do that, though he
much disliked to disobey orders. He was then
informed that be should consult with bis parents.
This he did with his father, DR.. Abram Claude,
who said be would not advise him, leaving lt 10
the young mans judgment DR.. Claude. however,
went to the Superintendent and told him that his
son was raised as a Southerner. and not on social