The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-15
Foreign News Items,

nate for the King.
Queen Victoria has intimated her intention o.
giving Lady Cavagnari the next vacant suite o.
rooms at Hampton Court.
Adherents in England of the doctrine of ami
hilation have organized a society called the
." Conditional Immortality Association
Miss Mildred Lee. daughter of the Confederate
General. is about 10 be married to an Euglishman
"a Birmingham merchant.
Mohammedanism has I5e, 600. 900 followers. In
Syrian universities Ie, 900 boys study nothing but
ye Koran.
Carlyle is in his s4th year, Victor Hugo is in
his 18th Longfellow is in his 73d. A. C. Swinburne
is Al. Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson was ~ years
old on 25th May.
Great Britain holds at present not to exceed
S130, 900 900 of United States bonds. and Ger
many, France and the rest of Europe about $780,
000, 900.
The Russian Golos states that IL ,S54 persons
were incarcerated at Moscow during the Summer,
l0,477 of whom were condemned to exile in ST.
IBERIA.
The Massachusetts, Mills, Lowell, are running
to their fullest capacity on s~heetings and heavy
goods generally, fully one-half of which will go
abroad in answer to the export demand.
The annual exports from Great Britain have
fallen in value since 1872 to the amount of $780,
600, 900. The largest decrease has been to the
United States, the amount being S1l3 ,000, 900.
IA az hOlI VI OGpNCDhbCl a. -llI III
San Francisco coined Sol 900 double eagles, 40
600 eagles and l $50, 000standard dollars in all
1858. 900 pieces, of the value of IS, 440 900.
The culture of rice is increasing largely in
Louisiana. 1t is considered a more certain crop
than sugar, and does not command the same con-
slant attention.
Official returns show that 400 men died of
cholera and other diseases on the return march
from the Afghan campaign, while only 100 men
were killed in action.
The BasIe Conference of the Evangelical ALI
ance adopted a strong protest against the British
opium trade in China, which is to be presented
to the English Secretary of State for India.
Lord Derby has expressed his opinion that
fogging in the army and navy is doomed, but
that it would be useless to press the question in
the House of Lords-it must be left for a new
Parliament.
In America cotton is no longer king, having
been dethroned by wheat. During the eleven
months ending May Both, 1879, the exports of
wheat from the United States amounted to 1892,
900 900, and those of cotton to $3.50, 000, 900.
The IOO-ton gun at Greenwich has a circumfer-
ence of 20It. and is 36it. in length. 1t is not likely
that such unwieldy monsters will ever be of active
service in war, for no enemy is likely ever to come
near Them.
The work of Biblical revision is not confined to
England and America. La Germany the Lutheran
version of the Scriptures is in course of revision,
the New Testament having been completed and
published Il few years ago.
There are at present only 16S American vessels
engaged in whale fishery, as against 6S8 in 1854.
New Bedford, Mass, still leads in business, only
25 of the vessels employed not being from that
port.
Ernest Longfellow, the %artist-son of the poet,
has a large categorical composition which he
painted IN Paris, and which he will shortly ex-
hibit. He is going to build himself a studio at
Cambridge.
The merchandise and produce exports from San
francisco by sea last month amounted to S4,20S,-
707, against 81, 84S 500 in the same month last
year. OF the total S2,S23 1872 went to Great
Britain.
The Spanish government has sent 4 900 men to
Cuba to relieve those already there, and 4 800
more will 60 this month. Banks in Spain and
Havana have advanced nearly SIS, 000, 900 for
military expenses in Cuba.
ALI workmen in the shipbuilding trade at
Grimsby, England, are on a strike against a res
olution of the masters to extend working hours
from ~ffty-four to fifty eight and one half-hour
weekly
1t is stated that the poet Longfellow has re-
ceiyed a gift of pen made from the iron letters of
Bonivard, the prisoner of ChilIon. The socket
is made of gold, set with three rare gems, and
the handle is a piece of oak from the old frigate
Constitution.
1.-The United States Unmasked,' being a
80 searching into the cause of the rise and pro-
gress of these States and an exposure of their
present material and moEl condition. - is the
title of a volume announced in England from the
pen of G. Manigault.
William Ii. Vanderbilt intends to spend $780,.
900 in pictures by foreign artists. The great
picture by the eminent French painter of battle
pieces, Detaille, the largest chat he has ever pro-
duced, passed through the New York Custom
house only a few days ago.
Justin Mccarthy, the rovelIst and the new
Home Role member, is Parliamentary leader
writer on the London DAILY NeiCS. He was born
in 1880, in Cork, and began newspaper life as a
reporter on the Cork Examiner under Mr..
Mcguire. He has a son who is winning some
credit as a writer.
A London journal congratulates the country
that, for the first time in the history of the
nation, a time of general business distress is not
made worse by high-priced bread. 1t says The
loaf which, thanks to American corn, the people
can put on their tables to-day, is a bigger and
better loaf than they have ever been able to put
on their tables under similar circumstances be-
fore.
The CunaTd steamer in the beginning of
September conveyed 80 practical cutters and
their families from Sheffield for the Feary Cutlery
Co. Of Bridgeport, Conn. They speak dis
couragIngly about the outlook at Sheffield, and
say that there are in that place sc, 900 men to
perform work which 200 can do. Late in the
fall about 500 cutters from England and Germany
will go to New York.
The sensation in South Australia just now is
the discovery of diamonds at Echunga, the report
of an eminent authority having been published,
showing that what were considered worthless
crystals are really diamonds. The delighted
colonIsts already believe they will cut out South
Africa in the market for these precious stones,
and the migration to the diamond fields, which
has already commenced, will speedily become a
rush and a stampede.
Professor Colgrove and Charles Ii. Williams,
the manager of WoOdward's Garden, were killed
in a balloon ascension at San Francisco recently.
Quite a heavy gale was blowing when the balloon
started, and the ropes which held the basket to
the balloon caught against the telegraph wires,
and all of them were broken but one. Both men
chung TO the basket as long as possible, but fin
ally fell to the sidewalk. Williams was in
stantly killed, and COlgrove lived only about an
hour.
The late Queen-mother Christina of Spain left
| nrdara In her will that a ann of rnnnau shnuId ho