The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-09-30
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Dr. Newman Hall says the churches of Great
Britain have lost 10000 members within three years
by intemperance.
The Japanese government has abolished the old
national holiday, which was every fifth day, and has
ordered the observance of the European Sunday as q
day of rest.
II is said that no Chinese bank has failed during
the past five hundred years. When the last one
sswent up'' the heads of the officers came oh and
we're thrown into a corner with the other assets.
1t is a curious fact, and one not generally noticed,
that the title of Beaconsield, now assumed by Mr..
Disraeli, occurs in his earliest novel, where Lord
Beaconsfeld and his family are repeatedly mentioned
SANKEY'S career in Central Africa recalls the ro-
nance of bygone years-tbe days OF the Vikings,
the expeditions Of Raleigh and PiZarro to America,
and of the early slave-traders to Africa. The days
of chivalry and hardihood are not gone.
An Irish landlord writing to an English magazine
says there never was a time within the memory OF
any one living when Irish tenants were making go
much money or rents were as well paid. MI. Glad
stones measures for the amelioration OF that coun-
try are now beginning to bear fruit.
The monster eighty-one-ton gun has finished its
wonderful performances at Woolwich by firing ninety
five rounds in its various stages of caliber, the pow
der charge ranging from one-hundred to three-hun-
dred and seventy pounds, the largest on record.
The gun will now be taken to Shoeburyness Tor
advanced trials.
1nat IS one Oh II uOS cACt1lSut 0eS VI II WI
tennial Exhibition that is being made by the tutors
and preceptors of the Chinese students, now in
course of training and education in this country,
There are over a hundred of them, and they are to
be brought to the Exhibition to study it, and all the
instructive objects to be found there.
From all accounts the Turks have been committing
some terrible atrocities in Bulgaria. "Sixty villages
have been burned and twelve thousand persons
killed. says a letter to the London Daily Ive!cs.
At Batok ssseven thousand bodies have been lying
- ~ T0I kAs- 80 kha cY1n . Cunh harhHr-
tiles will furnish a sufficient plea for something
more than remonstrance on the part of other pow
ers.
A prominent business house of Chicago, sent the
following to Congressman LeMoyne: "H this gov
eminent had c~ounselled with small-fry swindiers II
could not have done SO more effectually than when
it authorized the coinage of the twentycent pieces,
SO near in size and exact in appearance with the silveI
quarter. dollar. An experiment has just been tried
here with a twenty-eent piece, and in every instance
it was taken for a quarter. After passing it was
recalled to victimize the next receiver. This coinage
should be stopped Immediately
People are discussing the question of value stand,
ards all over the world now, and while silver II
struggling to keep its place with gold IN q compare
tive degree in popular estimation, II Is not I'M rhe onlI
standard that has its character assailed. The dia
mond, that prince of precious stones that IN all ages
and all countries has been q standard OF valu'
promptly fixed and subject to but very slight muta
tons. is now as g cheap as dirt -" at cape coast, w
i OLu ny q ACSCAt SIt~
that country.
Under date of Sc Vienna, July So" a speeia
newspaper correspondent writing on the expectet
abdicatiou of the Sultan of Turkey, writes that hi
Maiesty's malady is incurable, and that his state o
health IS has, indeed, SO much deteriorated that Their
can be no danger of any opposition on his part
He is lying for the most part Of his time quite IN
conscious, and in O few lucid moments Wnen n
himself feels his hopeless state there would be n
difficulty in getting him to sign his own abdicatlon.
Earl Russell again writes a letter calling for al
Autumn session Of Parliament, and o letter from u
Bishop of Manchester calling upon the people as
nation to subscribe for the relief of the Bulgarians
contains the following sentence: Come what may
and 1 do not see that anything is likely or evel
possible to come which can endanger the position {
England, it seems impossible, if we are tie have an
regard for our honor and our good name, tnat W
should any longer throw or even allow it to De sup
posed. that we threw the shield OF p~rotectien OF n
GLAND over a power which relying on that protection
has done deeds which have startled and shocked IN
conscience of the whole world"