The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-13
Latest Foreign News.

Washington, December 2l.-Ellword E.
Thorne called at the State Department yes
terday on behalf of the New York, Phil
adelphi4 and Boston sugar importers and
refners, to ask that the Departments letter
called for by the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, with regard to the political bear
ings of a proposition to abrogate the Haw-
allan Treaty, be withheld until certain facts
relating to that branch of the subject may
be submitted. He was assured that the
reply would be withheld and it is thought new
that the Committee's inquiries at the Treas
ury Department respecting the commercial
bearings of the proposition. as well as the
State Department, will, with facts to be SUBJ
mitted by trade, come up for discussion at
Fridays Cabinet meeting. The rumors of
| a possibility of an establishment of an Eng
lish naval station at Hawaii, perhaps, as IN
some way a punishment to the Government
if the treaty should be abrogated, have for
some time overhung attempts OF action here,
and it is understood the State Department
has been influenced by them. Our commits
sioners. Hon. J. Mott Smith. Mr.. VIM. Bal
ley and Mr.. H.. P. Baldwin, are diligently
and faithfully laboring for our interests in
New York. They are universally received
with courtesy and consideration.
In relation TO the Hawaiian Treaty, the
Philadelphia Record truly says that it has
the merit of affording some relief to COM
merce, but that "how to prevent the rail-
road monopoly from insolently defeating
the object for which a railroad is con-
structed, by putting up rates so high as not
to carry produce, is another question:" The
Examiner says, that is a fair statement of
the issue. The treaty is doubtless a good
thing, considered by itself; but taken in
connection with the combination of the
sugar and railroad monopolists, which puts
such high freight rates on Eastern sugar
that it cannot be profitably brought here,
the injustice is plain. If the railroad ras-
cality cannot be prevented, it looks as if the
treaty will have to be sacrificed.
The only topic prominently engaging atten-
ton at Berlin is the relations TIVE Ger
many and Russia. Russian exchange was
never lower on the Berlin Bourse since the
battle of Plevna than now. One hundred
rouble notes of the nominal value of 800
marks were quoted on Monday at 295 marks
offered. The panic seems mainly due to an
article in the Ndssiche Zietung concerning
the massing of the Russian army on the
Galician frontier. This is regarded in we'll
informed circles both in Berlin and Vienna
as absurd but its effect on business shows
tina uneasiness has been raised in the
minds of the public.
Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle, is dead.
John G. Runder, who sent a letter threat
ening the Prince of Wales and Gladstone,
has been committed for trial.
Gambetta is again confined to his bed,
owing to intestinal troubles. A consultation
of doctors is to be held.
Some prisoners at the recent investigation
regarding the Phonix Park murders, when
pressed, admitted that they had been prac-
ticing with revolvers for the purpose of COM
hitting murder, but did not regard carrying
out their object as a crime, but only as an
act of war. =