The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-07-09
FOREIGN NEWS.

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By the clipper brigantine W. G., Irwin we are
IN receipt Of papers to the 22d Of June. The
news % hand from Europe Is important and dis
quleting- From the States there Is little Of
Importance - note. Attention was still centred
on the Legislature Of the State Of New York,
whose duty il il % elect Senator'S 20 I'll the
vacancies made by the resignation Of C0nkllng
aud Plat Tn daily vote suffers but few
changes, and mp 70 the 2lst no one had secured
the requisite majority. neither was there any
sign OF a solution OF the deadlock. On the
evening Of the 2Ist three caucuses were held IN
Albany, thus pIthIly described by a newspaper
correspondent The Administration men held
one, the CJnklingites another, and the third was
made up Of members who did not seem % know
Just wAere they belonged. Aftsr all this con-
terrInS 1t - TO be hoped somsthing will be done
besides killing time with scattering ballots
On the same day, IN the Convention, there
were tFO ballots. \ motion to adjourn. made
after the first ballot, was lost by % 10 50, and
the second came out a. tOllows;-For the short
tenn (COuklsng's), Jacobs, o. COnkling, 81
Wheeler, 30; Cornell. l, Lapham, p; Bradley,
l. Crowley, 3; FOlger, 2; TremaIn, l. For the
long term-kernan, 81; Platt, p; DePewY %;
Cornell. .; Crowley. 3; Lapham, i; Wheeler, 4;
Freeman, j, Bliss, l; Folger, /. Comparing
these Fl sures with the long series Of previous
votes, Il Is evident that something more nearly
approaching unanimIty was being attained The
scattered votes are much fewer In number.
Governor Cornell, who at one time obtained a
considerable number Of votes, IS now manifestly
out Of the running. Conkling's friends are try
ing to secure an adjournment, 50 that the
election by the Legislature may fail entirely, and
the issue be sent to the polls.
In Europe the most important events are
those which threaten 10 evoke a war between
Italy and France. II IS strange to have TO con-
slider the possibility Of these two nations being
cOmbatants, when We remember how their recent
fortunes should rather unite them against the
common German foe, than allow the latter TO
watch with sardOnic smile these Latin nations
Gas 1t Is the fashion to call them) wasting one
another.
In a circular Just issued by VI. Barthelemy St.
Hilaire, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs,
he sets forth the policy Of France on the Mon
tenegrin, Greek, and TuIisIan questions He
points out thGs the French foreign policy Il con-
stantiy inspired by a desire % maintain peace,
a. nobody in the world, he says, can doubt that
France would Immediately take up arms If COM
PEELED by honor OF self-defeuce. The Govern
msut has no difficulty in declaring that 1t wishes
20 settle amicably all international questions.
The circular repeats the assurance that the
Tunis expedition was only undertaken to chas-
tiss marauders, and concludes a. follows:
France, in fulfilling the dusy imposed By her
moral and material superiority, VIII assist IN
regulating the TunisIan administration and eX-
tend her impartial protection to the enterprises
Of all nations"
Eowever pacific the ideas and desires of the
n Government, war may be precIpitated by
the enyiOus feeling which Hnimntes the Italian
pOpulace and the leaders Of the Liberal party in
Italy. A violent row, Occdsioned by national
feeling, had occurred at Marssilles, during
which many lives were sacrificed. This row
was followed by a time OF comparative quiet,
but the Italians We're being mObbed on the
streets, and employers had, IN many cases,
been cOmpelleI to di5char2e their Italian
workmen. The Project Of Police had decided,
IN the event of further disturbances, 20 proclaim
martial law. Details of the disturbance show
that the rioters on each side did not come into
conflict in bodies, but confined themselves to
hunting down isolated individuals, some Of
whom were barbarOusly murdered. A mob at
tempted to raise an anti-French demonstration
in Rome, but . large force OF military and
police came on the scene and cleared the streets,
making number Of arrests. When the last
dispatches left, the fight at Marseilles between
the French and Italian workmen had been re-
sumed, and troops had been sent for to quell
the riot.
The accounts from Ireland are a wearisOme
reitsration of the story We have been reading
for so many months. The British Government
have deemed IL advisable to call the attention of
the Administration at Washington to the in
c~sntives to CRIME Published in Irish papers in
America. Among the articles to which the at
tentiou OF the Washington Cabinet Is called Is
one speaking Of what Is termed o TIL last visit
o. the Prince Of Wales TO the Continent, and
indicating the methods by which a fatal railway
accident might be produced with impunity, aud
another consisting OF what Processes - be an
account Of the trial of Gladstone by a secret So
cIety, followed by his condemnation 20 death
In Germany domestic AFFAIRS en9rOSS the At
tautiou Of the Government and Legislature.
Bismarck has issued a letter which Is in fact a
manifesto, IN favor of 4 protective policy. 1t IS
addressed 20 the agriculturalists and entreats
them to combine among themselves and, with
the representatives of either OF the productive
trades. endeavOr to return only such Deputies As
are resolved to protect and advance German
labor and production, aud assist them by re-
duciug direct taxes and commercial burdens
Official aivicss have been received from Can
dahar announcing that the Ameers forces
defeated the troops OF AyOOb Khan with heavy
loss on the 18th June, at Kariz Safed.
Mrs. Garfield was recovering her health, and
had. for the first time for two months. taken a
short drive.
Western Missouri had been visited by terrific
cyclones, by which a considerable number of
people were killed. a great many were injured,
and property 70 a large amount destroyed.
At a fire in Furman Street. Brooklyn, property
to the amount Of 800, 600 had been destroyed.
II The following particulars of rainfall at
the Nuuanu Dairy are taken from a record which
has been kept by Mr. James W. Hingley. The
rainfall for the last six months was, January
1854 ms, February Z ins, March 22.91 ins, April
1886 ms, May 4.66 ms, June 1914 ins. giving
a total fall for the half year Of SO.O1 ms. The
occasions of unusually heavy falls of rain were
January 2ud Ia ms, Jan 10th "a ms. Febru-