The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-04-20
THE PACIFIC
GOmmertialAObertlser
TUESDAY, APRIL 20. 1881.
Foreign News.

ond reading. The Saturday Review says OF 1t:
9 Practically the Bill throws the soil OF Ireland
into the hands of a Land Commission, who as
sign it to tenants, charged with an annuity to
landlords"
Bradlaugh has been reelected at Northampton
by a narrow majority.
Lord Beaconsfeld has been seriously i'll, and
his condition still april 9TH caused great
anxiety. Two physicians were in attendance on
him all night.
The Duke of Argyle has retired from the Cab
met, disagreeing with the Land Bill. 1t is re-
ported that Lord Carlingford will be his
successor.
O'DonnelI has given details of the attempt on
the Mansion House. He says that there were
six men engaged i'll the plot. 1t was decided
that if the Coercion bill passed, vengeance was
to be wreaked somewhere. The Lord Mayor
was selected, because he, although himself an
Irishman, was a strong advocate OF coercion,
and voted for ii. In n box were 1OO pounds OF
Giant powder, and the box was bound with the
strongest hoop iron. At the Egyptlon Hall side
of the Mansion House, where the attempt was
made, there are three policemen on guard around
the semi-circle which is there formed by George
Street and ST. Swithen's Lane. Each officer
patrols his post every four minutes. Coleman
took the box under his arm and walked close be-
hind an officer until he came to a niche IN the
built-up window. Coleman rapidly conveyed
the box to the niche, reaching over an iron rail
to do So, and placing a piece of carpet on the
base OF the meme TO ueduSn the cum II IL u
as it fell upon it. He then gave the box an in
ward slant, so that the force of the conclusion
would be directed inward. He cut fuses to reach
the powder IN a minute and IA half, or about a
minute before the policeman would have re-
turned. As he left he met a woman and child.
Coleman joined his a~ccomplices, who waited a
few blocks away for the report, but the woman
observed the fuse on fire, and the policeman,
whom she summoned, cut it when about IA
couple of inches from the powder, and saved
the Mansion House.
Great floods had again occurred in Spain.
Both Seville and Malaga were, at one time, in
imminent danger, and much loss of life had
happened in the submerged districts.
The terms to be ubmitted to Greece and Tur-
kew bv the Great Powers are fixed upon, and it
is understood that Greece has received plain in
timation that if she does not accept them she
will get no national aid in the event of war with
Turkey. The Greek Government are straining
every nerve to be prepared for war, and there
can be little doubt that both Greeks and Turks
would much rather fight it out, if assured that
on-lookers would let them alone.
Commencing on the afternoon of Sunday,
April Bird, n series of earthquakes devastated the
Isle OF Scio, almost entirely destroying the prin-
cipal town, and many others. 1t is believed
that. out of the 20, 900 inhabitants of the island,
one tenth were killed by being buried under
falling buildings, and that twice as many more
are more or less injured. About 10000 people
were left without shelter. One marvellous eS-
cape is recorded. A woman who was buried
under ruins 50 hours, was recovered alive, having
in the meantime, given birth to a child. In the
town of Kastro, which contained A, 600 inhabi-
tants, only $50 were known to be alive.
In Russia the appointment of Gen. Ignatieff
to a portfolio, and that of Gen. Tchernaieff as
Governor of Okenburg, are regarded as indica-
ting a strong Sclavonic and reactionary tendency
on the part of the new Gar. 1t is probable
that he recognizes that the cultivation of a
strong National feeling is the best safeguard
nnI1Nc tho Snrno1 { hill nfrIn Tho
murder of the late Gar has caused a reaction of
public sentiment, which will naturally strength
en- the hands of the present Gar. The trial of
the Nihlist conspirators was going ON at st.
Petersburg. After the indictments were read,
the prisoners made statements in which they
confessed themselves conspirators, and all, more
or less, participators in the assassination of the
Car, and in previous attempts thereat. They
one and all give political reasons only for their
crime. They claim that their wish was to gain
their objects by a peaceful propaganda, but, be-
ing unsuccessful in that way, they were ere
luctantly abliged to adopt terrorist measures.
The terms of peace which Chile proposes to
enforce on Peru, are a cesslon of territory a
war indemnify IN money, and one-half the rev.
enues derived from the guano islands. The in
demnity is to cover all expenses of the war, and
claims of Chileans for vessels destroyed, and for
losses through being expelled from Peru and
Bolivia. Chile is to hold the guano islands I'M
til the indemnity is paid, and to have the right
to maintain a force of 0 1000 men on Peruvian
soil for the same period. Peru and Bolivia are
now joined under one government.
When the City of New York sailed from San
Francisco, the Missouri, at Omaha, had entirely
submerged the lower-lying part of the city. In
the neighborhood of Council Bluffs 5000 peo-
pie We're rendered homeless by the flood, and the
river was doing considerable damage to railway
and other works.
Fierce fires have been burning in some of the
Leadville mines.
On Thursday, April 9TH, Messrs Moody and
Sankey held their last service in San Francisco,
at the church of the Rev. DR.. Stone. Mr..
Moody, at the conclusion of the service, told the
audience that he had, on his arrival, set his
heart on freeing the Y. III. c. A. from a debt of
nearly $S4, 500, by which it was burdened. He
had secured promises to the extent of $78, 600,
conditional on the rest being raised, and also a
promise of Sc 700 from one person, for future
E~sIaelisric vCik, on the same condition. He
'sFeG Che audience to provide at once the further
$4,000 clear Of the debt. lady in the con-
-g-- .l sent Jp her name for $500; then fol-
lowed . subScriptions of 500 each; then
aicther S5Gu, and before the meeting closed the
whole - ,0nu aad oeen secured.
Tho attorney fc- Mr.. Whitehead, the secret
II r'u torpedoes was purchased by the British
Government some years ago, but refused by the
Government of the United States, has preferred
a chsrge to the latter Government that his secret
LUi IN obtained by improper means by u. S.
y Officers, and asks that the drawings of the
to- pedo be given up, and the U. S.. Navy forbid
den to use the invention. Commodore LETTERS.
Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy
Department, acknowledges having had the in
formation voluntarily sent to him by naval Off
GERS, but says he does not know where thev got
it from. He adds: 81 am of the opinion that
it was not only the right but the duty of every
officer of the navy to make himself acquainted
with every means of warfare to be used by the
possible enemies of his country, provided al
ways that he does not corrupt any employe and
says the owners of secrets are bound to to take
get hold of them whenever they can"
Thomas Carlyle has, by his will, given the
books he used when writing the lives of Oliver
romTell "nd Frederic the Great, to the Harvard
University.
Commodore j. c. McDougal, U. S. N, In
spectOr of Lighthouses for the Pacific coast. was