The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-31
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

SAN FRAxctsco, May I4.-From the incomplete
returns, calculations give the present majority in
favor of the new Constitution at 9,e49.
Washington, May 13.-Ex-M;nister Scherck is
very Ill and his friends are very apprehensiye, as it is
thought he has q serious attack of Bright's disease.
Washington, Ma 13.-The resolution recently iu-
troduced in the House by Garfield authorizing the
Secretary of War TO issue rations TO colored refugees
in Kansas was called up for action in Committee, and
q proposition to report the measure to the house with
favorable Recommendation was rejected. This viz
tually kills the measure.
Providence (R- u, May IA meeting was held
at the State House tonight to consider the exodus Of
Southern negroes and devise means for their relief.
Addresses were made by President Robinson, Of
Brown University Capt. J. NJ. Addemsn, Secretary
of State, several ministers and others. Resolutions
were adopted expressing sympathy with the colored
people Of the South flying from their homes on &C.
count Of prosecutions, and promising aid.
Washington, May i3.-At the Cabinet meeting to-
day, the subject of the double standard was discussed
at considerable length in connection with the more
recently expressed views of European nations on the
subject, and it was understood Secretary Evarts
would reopen correspondence with foreign Govern
ments looking to fresh negotiations for the adoption
of q dual standard.
Washington, May 13.-The Senate Finance Com
mittee has authorized Bayard to propose, as an
amendment to the pending Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill, that $50, 900 be appro-
priated " For Diplomatic and Consular service, to be
expended in the discretion Of the president" The
purpose OF this Appropriation Is for establishing, II
possible, through diplomatic agencies, a common in
ternational ratio of value between gold and silver
coinage.
Richmond, May Is -The miscegenation case of
Edmund Kenney, colored, and Mary Susan Hall,
white, confined in the Virginia Penitentiary for Vio-
lation Of the State Statutes prohibiting white and col
ored citizens intermarrying, was before the United
States Circuit Court to-day, Judge Hughes presiding,
upon a writ of habeas corpus. The chief ground al
legged in the petition is that the Act Of the Legislature
of the State of Virginia making it a penal offense for
white and colored citizens to intermarry, is contrary
and void. That marriage having been celebrated in
the District of Columbia, and valid there, must be
valid throughout the United States. Decision re-
served,
HoNGKoNG, May 13.-General Grant and party
have sailed for Japan. All well.
LONDON, May 13.-Germany sold e100 900 oil
silver yesterday, at SOLD. per ounce.
= ROME. May Is ,-The Pope to-day presented
the beretta to the newly-appointed Cardinals.
lie said he felt that in appointing DR.. Newman
he rendered a signal service to the Church, to the
Sacred College, and to society.
The young German prince Heinrich is expected
to arrive daily in Yokohama on q pleasure tour.
Extensive preparations have been made for his
reception and entertainment.
The second general industrial exposition in Tc.
ko is announced for 1881.
a marine Insurance corporation is to be started
Immediately in Japan by a body OF wealthy
mobiles. combined with the Mitsu Bishi Steamship
Company.
The latest census gives Toxic a population o
1,042, 600.