The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-03-19
Foreign News.

President GarficId's Cabinet is complete.
Blaine has been appointed Secretary of State,
Judge Hunt, Secretary of the Navy and Wayne
MacNeagh Acknowledgement. Morton has the
mission to France, and Evarts has been asked to
take the English mission. Lowell is TO remain at
Madrid.
There has been a frightful earthquake at
Ischia. The first shock occurred at 80 pm,
on March 4th, and the second an hour later.
The whole upper part of the town was destroyed,
and two thermal establishments are seriously
damaged. The second and fatal shock, lasted z
seconds, and was accompanied by a noise like
subterranean thunder. Then came a crash Of
falling houses. accompanied by the shrieks OF
the victims. Two hundred houses were thrown
down and many others damaged and made unin-
habitable. The killed number 104, and many
more are injured. The total number Of victims
are estimated at 800. The wounded were being
conveyed in steamers to the hospital Of the Pelle-
CRIME, Naples. The panic-stricken inhabitants
are camping in fields ms they are afraid to
venture back.
The lighting between the Beers and the British
in the Transvaal. has been interrupted by an
armistice. The following are the latest
dispatches.
NEWCASTLE, March 7th.-General Sir Evelyn
Wood went To Mount Prospect to-day, and
subsequently had an interview with Joubert,
which resulted in an armistice TO the 18th.
Rumors of peace have been brought into camp,
but it Is improbable. unless the English agree 10
all the Beers terms. These are formally stated
as the complete independence Of Transvaal in
fact. all they rose 10 obtain, and an amnesty 10
all the leaders. BY the armistice, permission is
granted to send provisions for eight days to the
beleaguered garrisons.
LONDON, March THIN the House Of Com
mons, Gladstone confirmed the report Of the
conclusion of an armistice with the Beers until
the l4th instant, III order to give time for a reply
from Paul Kruger to General Colley's and sub
sequent communications. made with n view 10
the peaceful settlement of affairs.
On the LIST instant the United States Senate
agreed to a motion by Senator Eaton, discharg-
ing the Committed of Foreign Relations from
giving consideration to the subject of ship canals
and railways across the lsthmus on the ground
that = : the time had not arrived when Congress
should express an opinion as regards any particu-
lar route"
The New York Tribune says +" According to
a decision just rendered by the United States
Circuit Court at Chicago, a Chinaman cannot be-
come a naturalized citizen of the United States.
White men and black men have that privilege,
but yellow men and brown men must forever
remain aliens. 1t seems, however, and the fact
is an illustration of the fearful and wonderful
way in which our laws are made, that there was
a brief period between the adoption OF the Re-
vised Statutes and the passage of an act correct
ing errors in the revision, when a MOngolan or
a Malay might have stolen q march on Uncle
Sam and taken out n certificate Of natu ralization.
Speaking seriously, it is n disgracefdl anomaly
that while the most ignorant HOttentot or Congo
negro can become a citizen Of this Republic, the
best educated Chinaman is shut out from that
privilege. An odious color test is applied TO
foreigners seeking naturalization, because Con.
gress is too careless or too prejudiced to remedy
an odiOus defect in the law"