The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-14
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

NNAN"-o - ~1NF 49,
TO make a note of the vents TO enter int
the pageant, but find that we have only
outlined them but our latest news enables
Us to furnish the following supplementary
report There will be fairs, monster con
certs, dramatic and operate performances
and 500 acTobatS have been engaged t.
amuse the people. y festival, at which
three hundred thousand persons VIII be fed
is on the programme. The nobility intend
to offer a ball to the Emperor, the prepare.
tiOns for which will tax the ingenuity OF
the skilled artisans of all Europe. The
crown jewels are are already being reset.
Their value is estimated at six millions OF
dollars. The crown is valued at three mill
lions of dollars. 1t was first used at the
coronation of Catherine II. The sceptre is
ornamented with the famous Orlof dia-
mond, which is valued $4,000 600. Two
royal robes for the Emperor and Empress
have been ordered. They are TO be royal
purple satin, lined with ermine."
New York, March 31.-A Paris special
has this: The intense activity of the
prominent Socialist and anarchist leaders
points to the imminence of a revolutionary
movement. Eleven revolutionary meet
ings were held last night, mainly in those
quarters of the city inhabited by working
men, and all were largely attended. AT
the Belleville meeting, one of the orators
declared that $4,000 men, provided with
arms, were ready TO rise in insurrectlon at
a moments warning. An officer of the
secret police, who was present at the meet
ing disguised, attempted to arrest the
speaker, but the latter was hustled away
by his friends. The situation is like that
which preceded the fall of the empire.
California is rejoicing over late rains, which
- is worth golden millions to the people of the
State and of the Coast, while San Francisco's
business of 1855 is assured"
The sugar trade continues to be very good in
san Francisco. Hawaiian grocery grades are
about &c. higher. The coffee and rice market
has been firm, and the prospects are very good.
New York, March IA Washington dis
patch to a morning paper yesterday announced
that efforts were making in Washington to have
an extra session of the Senate called to consider
the Mexican treaty, and it was intimated that
the President might be induced at an early day to
summon Il session of the Senate for that pnr-
pose. To ascertain what truth there was IN the
report, reporters Yesterday called upon General
Grant. Grant said he knew of no efforts making
to obtain an extra session, and did not believe
any extra session of the Senate would Ce called.
Grants attention was directed to the contrast
between the hasty passage of the
treaty, and the opposition and
delay which the Mexican treaty encountered.
He replied Ae had nothing TO say as to the
causes which may have led to such u summary
action in the case of the Madagascar treaty, but
he understood that the failure of the Senate to
pass the Mexican treaty at the last session was
due to the opposition of the Louisiana Senator,
who regarded the clauses in the treaty relating
to sugar as detrimental to tue interest OF forty
nine uTmS 6nSa6Gu III the mdnulacLuro i sugar.
The forty-nine firms, 1t may be proper to add,
receive a yearly bounty from the people of $780,
172, 06S, the 30, 600, OO0 consumers paying them
Sl55, 4S2, 915 for that which can be bought IN
the open market for S1O0,372,S17. The earnings
in 1880 were over twenty per cent. upon their
capital, and they pay less than So, 900, 600 in
wages.
Washington, March 10.-Special Agent n. W.
and L. L. ChamberlIn selected by Sec
rotary Folger to visit the Pacific, and make in
vestigatiOn as to the frauds i'll importation of
Hawaiian sugar, are the most experienced men
N the Department.
London, March ia terrible explosion oc-
Cured in the local government board Office in
at 8 o'clock tonight, destroying
much property. The report was heard in the
House of Commons and caused alarm. The
coucussion was so great that it shook the side
aud the reporters gallery. 1t being
the dinner hour, few members of the House
were present in the hall. The Duke of Edin-
ourgh was in the peers gallery. No one was
injured. 1t is believed the explosion was
caused by dynamite, and that a deliberate at
.empt was made to blow up the government
)ffice.
The explosion was undoubtedly the work of
Fenians. The adjacent streets are filled with
nyriads of fragments of glass, and heavy plate
glass Is lying In heaps on the ground. A
tone weighing 200 pounds was projected against
he King street police station, making a hole
he size of a mans head. Nothing will be ala
owed to be touched until an inquiry is madeS
o-day.
The full extent of damage cannot be esti-
mated until daylight. Five hundred constables
re guarding the scene. The building has the
ppearance of having been bombarded. There
a deep trench ten feet by three in dimensions,
4 one room, the floor of which has been liter
lly p%loughed up.
&c to the amount of e4,00 was Oc asioned by
ne explosion.
The Government has offered a reward of $1,000
II the discovery of the authors of the explosion.
The reward also applies to the attempt on the
lines Office. Anyone, not the actual culprit,
wing information as to the origin of the explo-
will be pardoned.
Sir Charles Dixie, president of the local gov
board, says he thinks the attempt was
OF upon himself or other officials of his depart
tent. The evil doors intended to cause a
ide-spread destruction of property. He is of
lie opinion the plot originated with the man
of the skirmish fund.
Sir VIM. Harcourt and other home officials
the attempt was directed against the
iminal inquiry department adjacent to the
1ices of the local government board.
The guards have been doubled at the maya
ne and military centres. :
Dublin detectives are assisting the London
olice in their inquiry concerning the explosion.
New York, March l6. -ODonovan Rosa saws ,
tAAC -OLNNCh AFo ~ NONA INV IL
out our system unless We used dynamite,
nd that is what caused the explosion. There
as no accident about it. 1t was intended to do
l the damage possible, and it was done to
England she had better give Ireland her
yn parliament" 1t could not be claimed that
actions were dishonorable. AS for weapons
| available ones would be used. !
Peoria, H., March 16.-In an interview with
ynamite Pat Grove of this city, he professed
exultation at the attempt to blow up the
overnment buildings of London, but did not
vor the means employed. He prefers the
lent but destructive flames of the torch to the
of dynamite. he thought Rosa
light have been aware of the plot, and thinks
undoubtedly the work of the invicibles.
Patrick J. Sheridan. whose extradition Eng
nd has requested, said, 1.-THE work is that
II shmen, and is but the advance picket of
uch more which will follow. England will
lortly see that she must either free Ireland or
lffer the consequences"
A London dispatch of March 10th says "a
rye party gathered TO witness the trial here to-
ay of the electrical train car. tt ran q distance
four miles satisfactorily and fulfilled the re-
1irements of the Board OF Trade