The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-21


known" The following is she latest news
from Peru:
LIMA, December 5th-The last detach- !
ment of troops leaving here for ChorriIlos !
last night did some indiscriminate firing at
the railroad station. Much alarm was
caused, but only one person, a woman,
was wounded. The object of the soldiers
was to desert, and some did So All is
now quiet. The Urban guard is doing
patrol duty in Lima
All the political prisoners have been lib
Grated Colonel Frias, an adherent of
fglesias the ruling President, has been
imprisoned at Callao. He is charged with
having been implicated in the false
assumption of the Governorship of Callao,
which resulted in rebellion among the
troops, and with having fired on a train
for having been hiszed by some passengers
while proceeding 30 Calao. \ deputation
OF school children waited on General Ca
ceres Yesterday with congratulatory adj
dress. dispatch from Piura says all is
quiet i'll that department. Caceres' resig-
nation Of the Provi;i onal Presidency was
published yesterday.
Disastrous storm Rt Panama.
PANAMA, December 5th.-Meager adj
vices from AspinwaII this evening report a
severe storm off that coast last night and
to-day. The wind reached the velocity of
hurricane, and did great damage along
the coast. Scvera, vessels are known to
have been wrecked, but It Is believed their
| crews succeeded in reaching shore. The
railroad at A~pinwall was diinaged, and
| no trains left there to-day Telegraph
! communication i interrupted by the
| storm. the real extent and seriousness of
! which cannot be known until tomorrow.
| From the location of the shipping at Colon
| it is feared many lives have been lost.
! The terrific storm which commenced in
! Colon on Wednesday afternoon, and con-
| tinued with great severity on Thursday
did considerable damage to shipping in
| the harbOr. OF twenty-nine vessels an
chOred there only fifteen can now be seen.
Many were sunk with their crews. The
loss of life cannot at present be estimated.
| Several docks were badly injured, notably
that of the Royal Mail Company and the
Pacific Mail Canal Company. The newly
built office of the Royal Mail Company is
in a very critical condition. 1t was dis
lodged from its foundation. The traffic
on the Panama Railroad has been sus
pended. The track at Ahorca and LagartG
is submerged.
English Politics Holds thS
Balance OF Power.
New YORK, December 6th.-The Liberia
successes in the English counties have fal
outrun Liberal calculations. The results
so far as known this morning, give The
Liberals ninety-eight county seats, and thu
Tories eighty-one, leaving fifty-five un
ascertained. Many of these voted yester
day and only small number of election
are still to be held. The ParneIlites ant
Tories completely monOpolize Ireland
The actual returns from the whole King
dom so nearly balance that with five-sixth
of the House already chosen it is still un
certain whether the Liberals will have
majority over both parties. Whether it i
few more or less matters little A Liberia
plurality over the Tories, if obtained, o
l even 100 would be too slight to do NOR
Y than to expel the Tories from office.
Gladstone, who has passed from extrem
r detection last week to extreme elatiOn thi
{ week issued fresh electiOneering addres
on Thursday, which some of his friends re
gard as singularly wanting in dignity an
prudence. He attempts to belittle the sig
nificance of the Tory gains in the boroughs
, and intimates that they are the work {
: landlords, churchmen, mobiles and Parnel
= ties. whereas, in the counties you hea
. the true voice of the English people" TIL
{ excitement of the contest perhaps, excuse
this perversion of the facts. Gladstone ha
his answer on the same day from Cbambel
lain The Radical leader, like his nomini
chief has passed through hot and col
q fits Chamberlain was disposed Il wee
r ago to recognize the fact of his own II
e sponsibility for the Liberal disaster i'll tn
e boroughs, but now he totally rejects
@ and boldly accuses Gladstone himself
e compelling the party to enter upon til
@ contest at a great disadvantage. He d.
clares that the Gladstone manifesto did NJ
include one point to which extreme Lii
= erals attach amy great importance. Tt
r election, he says, has not been fought O
! the programme of the advanced Liberal
They have made great sacrifices, and the
4 guns have been silenced, in Difference I
/ instructions. He plainly intimates that
4 will submit to no diCtatiOn in future. Il
singles out disestablishment as a questio
# for the very next election. He abates L
+ lot of his extremist opinions or demand
a This most important speech puts plainl
/ before the Liberals the alternative of con
q plete submission to the Radicals or disrul
o ton of the party.
ParneITs Ability Recognized.
: Both parties admit that Parneu h;
, played his game with courage, skill and a
II curate foresight, and is likely to find hin
= self when the election is over, exact
where he meant to be, holding PRACTICAL.
II if not numerically, the balance of pOwC
between the English parties He will
y master in the Parliament, unless the mos
II crates OH both sides combine on the Iris
question. Suggestions of this sort continU
d to he heard in many influential quarter
II but the spirit of faction is exceeding
Il strong, nowhere stronger than in Gla
e stones address. and is not likely to dmil
ish. Gladstone cannot easily forget TIL
If he appealed to the country to give him
4 majority over both the other parties,
e order to enable him to establish a strOI
and perfectly independent Government
The country has declined to do anything
the sort. Yet the diSmay of the Tories
: the disappearance of their expected IN
. ioritv is but slightly modified by the sigr