The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-01

THE DEATH is announced of the First Loru OF the
British Admiralty, the Ri. Hon. George ward hunt
His demise will occasion several changes IN the
executive of Great Britain.
PLOT to blow up the Suez Canal was discovered
saws a despatch from Alexandria, and the govern
meut of the Khedive are now taking precautions 20
prevent any injury being done to the canal, oy the
organization of a special police force as q canai
guard, under the command of two English ohcers'
We notice in the Sydney Morning Heard the
announcement of the death on June 10th near
SYDNEY, of the Hon. John Fairfax. M. L. Z. IN the
7Srd year of his age. The deceased gentleman
was the Senior Proprietor of the Sydney Morning
Herald. He was a member OF the Legislative
Council of New South Wales.
THE London Times has a long editorial headed
I" the Attack on the Hunscar'' which incident has
caused a good deal of comment in England.
The matter was noticed in the House of Commons,
and Admiral de Horsey's dispatches to the Ad-
miralty. relating to the transaction, were laid be-
fore the House by that government.
THE POPE has decided to make the Romanlst
American church directly dependent on the Ro-
man Pontif, and no longer governed by the Cardi'
nal Project of Propaganda. The result will be that
a Papal Nuncio will be sent to Washington, and
concordats concluded between the Pope and Mr..
Hayes,-so says a Roman telegram before US.
A NEW newspaper, in the Malay language. has
lately been issued at Singapore. The editor is a
clever Malay, who has been educated in English
schools. This new Malay journal has a large cir
culation at Singapore, the Dutch East Indian
Islands, the Malay coast, and the Chinese seaports,
where Malay is much spoken. We hope some of
our editorial friends at Palmerston will send us a
copy, as a linguistic curiosity.
COLONEL WELLESLEY, the British Military Cor
respondent with the Russian army in Turkey in
Europe, challenged Mr.. Aksakoff. the head of the
Sclavonic Society at Moscow, to fight a duel, in
consequence of that gentleman's having called the
gallant colonel a spy y. Mr.. Aksakoff does not
appear to have accepted the challenge, or met the
Colonel in single combat For the present, the gal
liant Colonel cannot go to Moscow to horsewhip
Mr.. Aksakoff. The rod is in pickle, thought
SUrrEE.-Three wives of the late Sir Jung Bahia
door, Prime Minister of Nepaul, were burned at
the suffice for the cremation of his dead body. Sir
Jung Bahadoor got up the famous elephant hunt
for the Prince of Wales in the Terai. He died on
February 18th, 1877. Those three poor widows,
who were burned at Sir Jung's suffice, entertained
the Prince, and sent a present to the Princess of
Wales. Sir Jung's own son set FIRE to the pyre
which consumed his mother. Such is India, even
still, after centuries of European influence and
intercourse. Hawaii nei is not so bad, thank God
THE special correspondents in Bulgaria of twenty
journals drew up and signed a joint statement of
- the acts of inhumanity committed against the inof-
fensive Mussulman population of Bulgaria, " by the
Russians. The names of the journals are: London
Times, Morning Advertiser, Manchester Guardian,
Standard. Morning. Post, Illustrated London
Neoos, Daily Telegraph. Manchester Examiner,
Graphic, Scotsman Journal deS Debats. Republique
Francaise. KoeEnische Zeitung. Franktiwter Zeitung,
Weiner TagbIatt, Pesther Lloyd. Nee,e Freie Presse,
Veiner VorStdd Zeitung, Eggptersetz, and Neto
York Herald.
The REPORT that Earl Beaconsfeld was about to
resign. appears to have originated from the recent
vote of censure passed on the British Premier in the
House of Commons, by a majority of four members.
Earl Beaconsfeld lately appointed the son of his old
Parson as Controller of the Stationery Office, although
the government seems to have been pledged to give
that Office henceforward to practical printers.
Hence arose the adverse vote in the House, censur-
ing his Lordship for the appointment. His Lord
ship rose to explain his condnct in the Lords. but
Lord Granville objected to discussions on the matter
in the Upper House. Possibly, as Lord Beacons6eld
is known to be very touchy, he may throw up the
Premiership in high ~dudgeon. The Times says that
had he been still a member of the Commons, his pre-
sence there might have cowed any fellow from max.
ing this attack upon him. AS it was, his party has
met with a defeat, and the Liberals of course shouted
Justify on the occasion.
A SPECIAL correspondent of the London Times,
writing from lara, on the Adriatic coast of Aus
trian Dalmatia, throws some new light on the
motives of the policy of Austria in the present
Turco-Russian War. According to his statements
the Dalmatian Slavs want to unite with the Slavs
of Bosnia and the Herzegovina, and would even
try to make a cats paw of the Austrian Emperor,
by pressing on him an Austrian occupation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Herzegovinian in
surrection of 1875, is attributed by this writer to
the Emperor's visit to Dalmatia that year, and
the false hopes which it awakened amongst the
Herzegovinians. Amy movement to establish an
autonomy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, would at
once incite the Dalmatians to raise up a claim to be
included in the new State, and released from Aus
trian rule: hence, the caution Of Austria, in avoid
ing interference with Bosnia. Italy, the anne writer
states, is watching for some happy chance of TAX
ing Dalmatia from Austria, which makes that
power doubly cautious of meddling with fire in a
powder magazine.
THE AUGUST number of the American journal
of Science and Arts, contains a very curious
paper from the pen of Professor Henry Drap-
er, M. D., on the Discovery of oxygen in the Sun,
and a new theory of the solar spectrum" According
to the Professors theory, oxygen and probably
nitrogen are found in the Sun; and hence it fol-
lows that atmospheric air probably exists in the
Sun. Consequently, animals like man and the
Drutes, may also exist on the surface of the Sun.
Ibis Is a startling theory for those who look upon
u Gun as an immense ball of fire. However,
rom a supernatural point of view, it seems of
small Importance what the Sun is made of, provid-
- poot mortals on this planet, when they cast off
NC earthly coil, find themselves eternally in pres
ence OF the great Creator of the Sun and the stars
and the planets. moons, comets and will o,tbe-
"NSps' immortality is before all human Science.