The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-22
FOREIGN NEWS.
Per ID. C. Murray" Nov. 10.

CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-Lleutenant General Sheri-
dan has consented to act as Chief Marshal on the
occasion of the reception of General Grant on his
arrival in this city on November 18th. A grand
civil and military procession will escort the dis
tinguished guest from the depot to the Palmer
House, where, after a formal reception by the
citizens. he will then become the guest of the
Army of the Tennessee.
NEW YORK, Oct. pa World cablegram
SAYS 1t Is rumored to-day, and the recent public
speeches as well as the private conversation OF
Lord Salisbury give the rumor consistency, that
the British Government are disposed to enter in
to a direct alliance with Germany and Austria.
Objections are made in the Cabinet on account of
the bad effect such an alliance might have on
British relations with France.
Ten millions OF gold belonging to the New
York clearinghouse Association are lying in the
vaults of the Bank of America. AS soon as the
vaults have been enlarged SIS 900 900 more will
be added to the deposit.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 2S.-No new cases have been
reported within the past twenty-four hours.
Citizens continue to return in large numbers.
Merchants report marked improvement In bust
ness. The weather is clear and pleasant.
GARDEN CITY, L.. l., Oct. 3J.-Major General
Joseph Hooker died here this afternoon.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The inquiry into the massa-
ere at Cabul Is proceeding. The Amer s father
in-law, the Ex-Governor of Cabul and the Minis
ter of Finance are under close arrest. 4 CORES
pendent at SImla writes The idea must be aban-
don that we intend to stand aloof from the in
ternal affairs of Afghanistan. 1t cannot be too
soon published that we mean to remain in the
country. Those who now resist us will not here
after be left to settle accounts with a future
ruler. The correspondent indicates that the ten
dency of opinion at Simla strongly favors a pol
lev of disintegratiOn rather than an attempt to
set up a strong central government at Cabul.
He points TO the fact that Herat-Candahar and
Afghan Turkistan remained tranquil under their
petty chiefs months after all control from Cabul
had been withdrawn.
CABUL Oct 29th.-The five men who were
hanged for completely in the massacre of the
British Embassy, include the Catwal ofCabul, the
head OF the city Mollahs, and two generals, one
of royal blood. One of the generals, it is charged.
dragged the head of Major CavagnariI from the
British Residency to Balahissar.
BERLIN, Oct 27.-IEtelligence from St. Peters
burg has reached here that a new revolutionary
party in Russia has distributed the first number
of it's journal, entitled The Will of The people.
1t declares war against the Government, and its
tone is very violent.
MADRID, Oct 2Sth.-Oficial statistics of re-
cent foundations in Murcia show that four-ffths
of the arabic land was ruined and 3 600 per-
sons missing.
LONDON, Oct 2Sth.-An arrangement has been
concluded between the Oriental Steam Naviga-
ton Company and the Pacific Steam Navigation
Company, Liverpool, under which the two COM
panies will run steamers fOrtnightly between
London and Australia direct, commencing Janu-
airy next. The magnitude of the trade and the
increasing degree In which the Australian colon
les are attracting settlers and visitors is believed
to justify this extension of the enterprise.
LONDON, Oct 2Sth.-Michael Hicks Beach,
Colonial Secretary, in a speech at Birmingham,
referring to the agitation in Ireland said " Ii
is clear that a most dangerous agitation is 60
ing on in Ireland which assumes the magnitude
OF an Agrarian agitation OF the worst type"
RoNE, Oct 29th.-General Garibaldi has writ
ten to the President of the Italia lrredenta Com
mittee as follows - Some persons talk of peace
and friendship with Austria. Peace Yes
since we have not the courage TO drive her out of
a sacrilege and a lie"
LONDON, Oct 29.-Cardinal Manning will
leave London for Rome on November 9th, to en-
deayor TO win the assent of the Vatican to his
long-cherished scheme, which by admitting GER
tain changes in the external organization of the
Catholic Church in England, will facilitate the
return to Catholicism of an important group of
English Protestants.
Adolphus Rosenberg, of the Totcn Talk, was
sentenced to-day TO eighteen months imprison-
ment for publishing defamatory iibels against
Mrs LangtTy. and to six months imprisonment
on each of the indictments charging similar Of
lenses against Mrs. CORVALLIS West and Lord
DOuutcDOIOuBus dhu at III cApiEhb1Oh u us III
prisonment he is TO be bound over in his own
recognizances in $1,000 for good behavior for
eighteen months. Justice Hawkins regretted
that he could not add to the sentence hard labor.
These sentences are concurrent with the eigh-
teen months sentence in the case in which Mrs.
Langtry vas complainant, and therefore his
whole term of imprisonment will be only eigh-
teen months.
LONDON, Oct GA Berlin correspondent ex-
plains that the absence of any reference to
European politics in the speech of Emperor Will
liam at the opening of the Prussian Diet yester-
day, was due to the fact that foreign affairs are
the exclusive concern Of the Empire, and their
mention would be out of place in a speech from
the Prussian throne, and that was the reason that
no reference was made to certain vexed questions
of school and State. The policy would seem to
lie in the circumstance that no legislative step
in these directions is at present contemplated.
LONDON, Oct 3Ist.-At yesterdays Confer
ence OF the Evangelical Alliance, at Edinburgh,
DR.. White, of New York, gave an interesting &C