The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-05-11
Late Foreign News.

By the bark D. C. Murray and W. H. Dimond
from San Francisco, we have the following later
intelligence from the Eastern United States and
Europe:
The steamer Oceanic on her last trip from Hong
kong had been placed in quarantine at San Fran
CISCO having had a number of cases of smallpox
during the passage
King Kalakaua has been received with great
respect by Chinese and foreigners in Shanghai
LoScoN, April 19th.-Beaconsfeld physicians
regard his present symptoms as giving grounds
for more grave anxiety than at any period dur
ing his illness.
LONDON, April 19th.-At $50 o'clock Beacons-
field died. He had very serious relapse during
the night and died peacefully He was perfectly
conscious to the last. Doctors Kidd and Quain
and Lords Rowton and Darlington were present
when he expired.
LONDON, April 19th.-Beaconsfield took nour-
ishment up to half-past l. About o'clock he
became comotose, breathing with much difficulty.
Drs Kidd and Bruce at once applied the usual
resoratives, but for the first time since his illness
they failed to produce any effect, and it became
evident that death Was imminent. Lord Bar
rington. DR.. Quain and Sir Philip Rose were
hastily summoned. Five minutes before he ex-
pired the breathing became slow and gentle, his
face very placid. The hearts action and pulse
continued a few minutes after the breathing
ceased to be apparent; Friends and nurses con
tnued around the bed a few minutes after the
pulse ceased, as the end was so quiet that it was
difficult to realize that he dead.
The evening edition OF the Standard and Globe
appeared in mourning.
The executors of Beaconsfields will are Sir
Nathaniel Rothschild and Sir Philip Rose
LONDON April 19th.-Earl Beaconsfeld will be
buried by the side of his wife in the grave yard of
the Parish church of Hughendon Manor. This, it
is understood, his earnest wish and direction.
glad TO honor him with grave in Westminster
Abbey, but it Is proper that his own wishes should
be respected
LONDON. April 19th.-Beaconsfeld's will divides
the property of the deceased between Ralph Dis
raeli and Lord RowtOn.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 15th.-All the Nihilists,
excepting the woman Helmann, condemned to
death for connection with the Gar assassination
namely, Russakof, Michaeloff Kibdllschitisct,
Jeliaboff and Sophie Pieoffsky were hanged at 10
twice. Order was not disturbed. There was an
immense concourse of spectators.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 15th.-The appeal of
Russakoff and blichaeloff for mercy were submit
fed TO the Gar to-day, but he replied, 'The
sentence of the Court must be carried out. The
condemned were escorted from the fortress to the
place of execution by Cossacks and infantry, with
drums beating and flies playing. Detachments
of all the regiments of the guards in st. Peters
burg surrounded the scaffold.
All the prisoners received ministration of the
priests, and kissed the cross and each other They
were very firm except Russakoff, who tainted at
the last moment.
Many thousand people passed the night at the
place of execution, in order to obtain good view
The executioner was a reprieved convict. The
prisoners were conveyed from the fortress in two
carts, with their backs to the horses and their
hands tied to boards on their Breasts bearing the
word " Regicide," in large letters.
After hanging twenty minutes, the bodies were
cut down and taken to a cemetery outside the
city. When the prisoners mounted the scaffold,
the head of each was covered with a sack. They
were then placed upon stools, which were drawn
away, and they were left to strangle.