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Palmerston'a organ, had suddenly commenced an attack upon the proceedings at Villafranca. "WhoevA heard of Bach a thing as the conversion of an intelligent English gentleman to Mahommedanism It is announced from Ceylon that lion. Mr. Stanley, a son of Lord Stanley of AlJerly, has become a Mussel-man. The matter is mentioned in three local journals, bo that we suppose there can be no doubt as to the truth of the honorable gentleman's conversion.

Rarey has been very successful in London, taming a Ticious horse, the "King of Oude." The LonJon Xewt says the audience fairly trembled when be unlocked the iron pole, gave to the groom, and, with not even a stick in his hand, stood in the ring with that screaming savage of a horse, and then fairly outmanoeuvred him by his weird-like tact. Pajrtagnl. The Queen of Portugal died on the 16th of July. United Slate. Washington-, August 1, 18o9.

THE TREATY WTTII MEXICO. I am enabled now to send you a more complete synopsis than hitherto, of the project of a treaty with Mexico recently sent hither by Mr. McLane for the consideration of the President. The chief stipulations ef the Convention provide 1. Rights of way across the Northern States, between the Rio Grande and ports on the Gulf of California, with guarantees for their protection and safety.

2. Rights of way, and valuable privileges of transit, secured to the American Company holding the Isthmus of Tehuantepec 8. The privilege of erecting and maintaining ware houses at the termini of the several Transit Routes. 4. The right of transporting troops and munitions of war over such routes and to send troops to protect them in default of Mexico fulfilling that duty.

5. Free entry and transit of goods belonging or consigned to American citizens in Arizona, through the Dorts of the Gulf of California, and across bonora. 6. Entire and unquestionable freedom of religious opiaiou and religious worship throughout the riepno-lic. 7.

A clause inJicatiug the willingness of the Mexican Government to accept a modified form of Protectorate at the hands of the United States; in other words, to solemnize another Treaty one of alliance, offensive and defensive, but in substance creating a Protectorate, whenever the United Slate shall signify its willingness to enter into such engagements. It will be seen that our Minister to Mexico has failed entirely in his efforts to obtain the cession of Lower California to the United States. This was a leading object with the Aministration, and as upon its success was based the provision for a pecuniary indemnity to Mexico it is feared the whole negotiation will prove fruitless. Tbe States mentions the receipt of imporiant private dispatches from Northern Mexico. It was expected that within ninety days, three thousand American tro ps would be organized on the Rio Grande, properly armed and equipped, for the purpose of marching upon the city of Mexico, and exterminating the whole Mira-mon faction.

Xrw York A grand swindling scheme, conducted by knaves in this city, wh used the name of Rothschilds, the great Eur bankers for their purposes, has just been discovered. The scheme consisted of a pretended loan of 14,000,000 florins by the Grand Duchy of Baden, connected with a lottery. The swindlers had received numerous letters, with remittances, through the poet-office, chiefly from the South and West, brX as soon as suspicion bg in to be aroused, they took the alarm and decamped. A more general observance of the Liquor Law was remarkeJ yesterday than on previous Sundays. Many of the principal hotels kept their bars closed, and most of the corner liquor saloon were apparently shut up.

Not single arrest for drunkenness was reported by the police yesterday at the Tombs, where more persons are usually committed to prison on Sunday than on any other day of the week. Portland, O. A rumor prevailed at the Dalles, (Aug. 22), that Capt- Wallen's command, consisting of 140 well-armed and equipped men, had been massacred by the Indians at Warm Springs. A private letter to Portland says the Advertiser, reports this disaster as coming from tbe Indians and says the Indian Agent at tbe Dalies puts faith in it.

Locusts and Frogs. The Oregonian mentions the fact that large numbers of locusts had been constantly eecn in the air at Portland. It says When upon Mount Hood, a few days since, there were millions of these insects constantly on the wing, on and near the summit. We also observed large flocks of them on the Cascade range amid the timbered country, the entire distance of our travels." The same paper is informed by several persons that the country east of the Clackamas and the Willamette is alive with frogs. They all appear to be travelling west.

This strange phenomenon will attract the attention of soothsayers, philosophers, and believers in signs. Vnncwwvrr'e Ielaud and tbe disputed Territory By the San Francisco Evening Bulletin of Aug. 26, we have information from Victoria, V. to Aug. 22.

The San Juan difficulty is in statu quo so far as the British forces are concerned. The Americans are increasing their men and throwing np fortifications. Tbe Bulletin says Day by day the two Victoria papers contained tone scraps of latent' intelligence from San Juan Island and long editorials on the subject. In the House cf Assembly on the 12th August, the following address to Governor Douglas was adopted, on the subject The House acknowledges the receipt of your Excellency's communication of the 3d relatins to the clandestine invasion of San Juan Island by United States troops, and the steps to be taken in relation thereto. Since that communication it is known that additional forces have been landed.

The House would, therefoie, respectfully inquire why the British forces were not landed, to assert our just rights to the island in question, and to uphold the honor of our country and our Queen. The House would most urgently impress upon youi Excellency to enforce upon Her Majesty's Government the necessity of demanding from the Government of the United States nt only the withdrawal of all the troops, but also strenuously and at all risks to maintain her right to the island in question, and also to all other islands in the same archipelago, now so clandestinely, dishonorably and dishonestl invaded. It is not for our country to be wantonly and insolently insulted, but redress must be demanded. 'The weakness of the colony is its greatest danger, and at the same time an inducement tor the repetition of similar ofleces by similar persons. Let it, therefore, be urged upon her Majesty's Government, that sending out colonists rapidly from Great Britain is the surest way of not only maintaining peace, but of preserving intact her Majesty's possessions.

Coupled with this, the House would that free and liberal grants of land be given to such emigrants, after settling thereon for a certain Gold Qcaetz Discoveries near Victoria. Some excitement has been created in Victoria by the discovery, on the beach, immediately below Beacon Hill, and within one and a half miles of Victoria, of a rich vein of gold-bearing quartz. The Colonist says that the vein varies in width from one to two feet or so, and is situated at high-water mark. As nearly as could be ascertained, it would pay, it was said, $liOO to the ton. The Colonist adds that, in many parts of Vancouver Island, quartz gold has been found.

Dispatches to the New York Tribune contain the following items The treaty negotiated by England with Guatemala, covering her jurisdiction over the Balize and other possessions, was in accordance with tbe understanding here, and a part of a general arrangement for the settlement of the Central American question. Under tbe same plan, the Bay Islands were to be receded to Hondaraa, which has not yet been done. The American part of the programme is in no way advanced, while England is perfecting her interests. Gen. Lamar and other Ministers of tbe same caliber are responsible for the delay and failure.

President Buchanan is announced as having yesterday returned to Washington from Bedford Springs, in good health and spirits. The last dates from New Mexico mention the hospitable reception accorded by the people of that country to the Hon. John S. Phelps, who was honored by a public dinner and other demonstrations of regard. Horace Mann, President of Antioch College, died at the Yellow Springs, in Ohio, at hair past four o'clock, Aug.

2d. The Hon. Richard Bush died in Philadelphia on Saturday morning, July 80th, aged 79 years. A member of the North Carolina Legislature mads a decidedly Rood hit" a short time ago. A bill was peadiaf which imposed a flat fat wiling liquor to free negroes, to which he objected on the ground that such a law would make them more decent than the whites." A convention of colored men, to consider upon the best course to pursue during the next Presidential can vass and provide measures tor the advancement oi me negro race in its moral, social and political condition, was in session at Boston.

There are delegates from all the New England States present. The session will continue three days. There was also a colored military demonstration in Boston on 1st August, commemorative of the West India emancipation. A very large and enthusiastic meeting was held at Philadelphia on Sunday evening to devise means to obtain the repeal of the laws which prohibit travelling on Sunday. It was composed of citizens of all creeds and conditions, and will without doubt lead to good re sults.

Thomas M'Elrath has withdrawn front The Century newspaper, of which James S. Gibbons, its editor, baa become the principal if not the sole proprietor. Thom as L. M'Elrath succeeds his father as publisher. An American Citizen in the British Parlia ment.

Another singular and intereslins case has been exhumed by the gossips at Washington, during the recent discussion of the question of naturalization. It is stated that the member for Dartmouth in the new British Parliament is Capt. E. W. Schen-ley, whose marriage with a wealthy heiress of Pitts burg, is not forgotten.

Less than nine years ago the gallant captain, who 60 brilliantly carried off the beauty and jewel of a boarding-school on Long Island, (where her family had fondly hoped she would be, like the Roman Virginia, the bride of study for a while,) was naturalized, in due form, as a citizen of the United States. According to the usual older, he renounced and abjured forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, or State sovereignty whatever, and particularly all allegiance and fidelity to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, whereot lie had been previously a subject. Here is a nice case for the naturalization debaters. Is he a citizen of the United States, or subject of Great Britain, or both, naturalized as to the former, and native as to the latter Could he le elected to Congress from the Pittsburg district, where he holds, by right of his wife, immense landed property, and yet take his seat in the Imperial i'arliament THE POLYNESIAN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, IS59.

We have no intention to write a treatise upon names, to explore their origin or trace their development from the first-born Cain who travel ed Ea6t, as people now travel West, and took up a township in the land of Nod down to His Serene Highness Charles Augustus Maria Joseph Frances Albert Xavier Jean Antoine Leopold von Hohen- zollern, Frince of, or Her Grace Amalie Josephine Maria Caroline Pauline Therese Agathe Mathilda Eugenie dela Rochefoucauld, ne'e de la Rochejacquelin. The descendants of the first probably never made use of a patronymic, unless perhaps on Sundays, or at the public fairs in the town of Enoch aforesaid, when we have reason to suppose that they were known as the Beni Cain, in contradistinction from their cousins the Beni Zeth. Such, however, were rather the names of the collective nation, tribe or clan, than the indi vidual family names within it, corresponding to the Roman cognomen or the modem surname. The Greeks used the collective name, such as Alcides, Danaides, Atrides, Ac, but used no individual family name. The Romans improved on the Greeks, and used both collective and individual family names, the nomen and cognomen beside the given or Christian name, the preenomen.

No people have been more proud of their family descent than the Romans not even a German baroness with twenty quarterings in her shield and twenty groschen in her pocket the Julians, Fabians, Claudians, Marcians, were the FFot Rome, the upper ten of the Mons Palatinus and the Via Sacra, and looked down upon such parvenues as the Catos and others with quite as much hauteur as a Howard, a Stanley, a Mowbray (if any vet remains), would look upon the latest batch of cot ton-lords from Manchester. However, Roman modes of appellation may have followed Roman habits and the Roman speech into France, England and Germany, yet, when the Goth came and hung his dirty linen to dry on the plinths of the Pantheon, the euphonious names of the South gave place to the uncouth gutterals of the North and as the possession of family names marked their owners for proscription and exile, they were dropped in so much hurry that when the 6torm had abated and better times brought softer manners, not one of the old ones could be found again. The Goths, the Vandals, the Franks, the Norsemen, never owned but one name or one shirt at a time, and counted all else as effeminacy. And it took some five hundred years before the nobility of France began to assume the names of their demesnes as patronymics to distinguish one family from the other (about the year 987 A. In England, family Dames began to be assumed under Edward the Confessor, but did not descend to the commoners until the time of Edward II.

In Germany, family names among the common people only began with the development of the Ilanse-towns, about the commencement of the fourteenth century. In Scandinavia, surnames were unknown until about 1314 A. and are seldom used among the farmers and country people to this day. What are we driving at 6ays the reader. This that one of the marks by which civilization distinguishes the individual from the crowd, one of the motives to dare and to do which incites as well as restrains the actions of men in other lands, is still wanting here.

With the exception of the Kame-hamehas there is not a family name among the native Hawaiians. Ask any one what his or her name is, and tbe answer will be, John, Peter, Jack, or their equivalents in Hawaiian and if you ask again, John who! Peter what! he will tell you, "That's all." Irrespective of the ethical beauties and moral responsibilities of a family name, we would call the attention of those who write, preach and teach to the Hawaiian people more directly, to the civil and social advantages of having a family name as a bond of unity, as a mark of legitimacy, and as a stimulus to such exertions as will acquire for it the blessings of one's contemporaries, the admiration of posterity. As a civil and prospective advantage from the assumption of family names by the Hawaiian population, we are free to speak our full belief that such an act would lessen in a very great degree the number and the complications of those frivolous, wearisome, but apparently inexhaustible law suits which now occupy the time of the litigants and the attention of the judges, and all because of tbe want of family names whereby to distinguish one heir or one occupant from another. We think end we offer our suggestion to the i next Legislature that the Register Office might be made a powerful means, beside others, of gradual ly but surely inducing tbe Hawaiian people to as sume family or surnames, and thus place them selves in a civilized conformity with other nations. If it were made necessary to the validity of a deed and its being properly recorded, that the agents on both sides should sign their family names thereto, and they were forbidden to change those names, unless by application to and consent of Parliament, we are sanguine that the subject of our remarks would neither be long nor difficult of attainment.

f3T In the third number of the lloku Loa (native newspaper,) for September, we read a stirring appeal to the native Hawaiians upon the decrease of their number and their approaching extinction. Starting from the supposed fact that in Capt. Cook's time there were 400,000 inhabitants, and now hardly the editor indulges the following very eloquent, but very silly if not mischievous remarks Alas for this nation If the people decrease in the next fifty years, as they have decreased in the past fifty, then alas for the desolate condition of the land! Who will thtn cultivate this pretty garden Who will sing the friendly requiem over thy grave, Hawaii The foreigner shall dwell by the side of our blue streams, and he will speed his plow over our graves Then will be fulfilled the great desire of some people, who wish the extinction of the natives of this land that they may obtain their rights and possessions. But whence comes this great distress which is approaching us You are dying, Hawaii, by your own hand. You are dying through your own sins.

Let no one be astonished at this, for it is the truth. And if we could search the records of the ancient empires in this world, from their beginning to their downfall, it would be manifest that the cause of their ruin was their neglect of God's laws. Rome was a very great state, respected and powerful, but it despised the laws of God, and it died in its sins. So with Greece, Persia and Assyria they grew large and but as soon as they constituted evil as their law, in that day God's punishment overtook them. And the lloku Loa now declares without hesitation, that if the Hawaiians refuse the laws of God, it" the great sins of this people keep on increasing, and if God is denied in this land, then the time is close at hand when the sceptre of the Kamehamehas will fall to the ground, and yi.ur name will be extinguished, Oh beloved ptople of Hawaii." We hope that the llok Loa is more successful in its religio-polemical articles than in its socio-political ones.

But we would ask what object the editors propose to themselves by feeding, if they do not kindle, the jealousies of race and why the foreigner should be dragged in as a bug-bear for dramatic ef fect The obvious impression on the native reader's mind is that all his misfortunes and evil destiny is attributable to the foreigner nor are the subsequent expressions calculated to reassure him. He is told by this Daniel come to judgment that he i3 now dying by his own hand," through his own sins," and that the national decrease from 400,000 to 70,000 is the consequence not of a transition so thorough and so hurried as he has been subjected to, but of his sins; as though they were greater now, with the country studded with schools and adorned with churches, than they were in the heathen time when sin is said to have had no darker shade than what rested on the brow of the Hawaiian. Having constituted evil as his law" for a thousand years and prospered under the procedure, it will be strange logic and incomprehensible ethics to the native to tell him that God's punishment is now overtaking him, when he has turned the corner and is seeking that knowledge which will enable him to appreciate the laws of God. If God has borne with this people through the long night of their barbarity when no hand was raised to stay wickedness and vice, will he now blot out their name and race that the sun of a new day has risen and is actively combatting and gradually dispersing the cold fogs and the noxious vapors of the past Gentlemen of the lloku Loa what do you think of your God what do you think of yourselves To what lower depth of individual despondency and national gloom would you reduce this people, ere you choose to offer a dose of encouragement, a ray of hope? As you have taken the Judgment Seat, pray tell us is there no credit to the account of this nation, or will you say (against the evidence of our own senses) that the labor and progress of your fathers during forty years have only produced a barren harvest or a damaged grain And when next you speak to the native in his own tongue, if you are not sweet tempered enough to sprak pleasant words of confider.ee and hope, pray do not at least misquote history or add your little mite to create or widen a breach between races. THE PAST Swimming Extraordinary.

Our readers will remember that sometime during the last fall season two Hawaiian seamen, who had shipped in the Hawaiian whaling brig Wailua, jump ed overboard, and after swimming one day and part of two nights landed safely in the neighborhood of Pearl river inlet, whence they walked up to Honolulu and embellished the story of their escape by introducing a tiger shark as a Deus ex michina which had taken them up on his back and conveyed them safely into shoal water. Leaving the shark story to those by whom it is believed, the fact was soon as certained that the men had really been over thirty hours in the water and had swam over twenty if not twenty-five miles. Making a note of that fact as another instance of the hardihood, perseverance and endurance with which the Hawaiians are still gifted, spite of all adverse influences, we have this week to record another feat of equal daring. On board of the American whaleship Franklin 2(1, of New Bed ford, which sailed from this port on Thursday morn ing the 8th there was a young Hawaiian seaman, by name Kamoione, and native of Lahaina. About 7 o'clock in the evening, the ship being off Barber's Point, some twelve or fifteen miles distant, this man jumped overboard, intending to swim for the shore.

Having been in the water a short time he found that the current was setting out from the point and up the channel between Oahu and Kauai, so as to defeat his intentions of reaching land in that direc tion, nothing daunted, our hero alters his play and boldly turns his back upon the land, steering up the channel for a little coasting schooner which had been in sight from the ship at nightfall in the far off distance. Luckily for him and for our story, the schooner, being the Mat gar el from Kauai, was be calmed all night and the following morning, and cleaving the water with strong and confident strokes, our swimmer reached her about 9 A. M. on Friday morning, having been fourteen hours Jn the water. and on Saturday morning landed safely in Honolulu, where the romance and the story were suddenly ended by lodging the hero in jail as a deserter.

We wish that we could invest this and similar en terprises with motives worthy of so much daring. but in most cases where Hawaiian seamen jump over board in the neighborhood of the islands, they do so either through fickle-mindedness or through premeditated mischief, expecting, if successful, to have another opportunity of shipping again and receiving a fresh advance from another ship twenty-four hours in the water and twenty miles from Lnd being looked upon as a good, but by no means uncommon, feat. Special Terna mf the Supreme Corl. On Monday next, Sept. 19th, commences the special term of the Supreme Court, for the purpose of trying Capt.

Thomas Mason, of the British ship Orestes, who has been in confinement since the unfortunate affair to hich we alluded some weeks ago in connexion with the death of one of the nun of said ship. The new French treaty not having gone into effect at that time, the English Consul exercised his right under the parity clause of the old treaties and selected the following thirty-six jurors, of whom this government has approved, and from among hom the panel to try the accused will be drawn, viz G. T. Law to J. Hardisfy, J.

J. Meek, J.C Raiding, L. Severance, C. L. Richards, W.

F. Allen, J. C. Hailley, J. T.

Waterlioute, J. S. Walker, J. O. Dnininis, C.

Brewer 2d, F. L. Hanks, U. N. Flitner, A.

Harris, A. J. driwriglit, Thos. Hughes, ('apt. Milne, C.

P. Ward, C. N. Spencer, O. O.

Clifford, E. P. Adai.it, H. Macfarlane, G. C.

McLean, G. Rhodes, T. Allen, D. Foster, ll. M.

Weton, O. W. Vincent, F. Spencer, (ieo. Clark, VV.

K. Snodgrasa, G. II. Luce. J.

I. Dow sett, J. M. Ureen, More Terrapin. We noticed sometime ago that the latest quotation from Honolulu by the Australian papers was some eleven months old.

but the latest intelligence which the good people of St. Louis, seem to have received from these islands refers back to the summer of 1857, more than two years ago. We quote from the Missouri Republican, Aug. 4, 1859, the following "The Hon. W.

L. Le, at one time Chief Justice of Honolulu, has died and been buried. The local papers say that he was respected and beloved by all his acquaintances, and almost idolized by the people of Honolulu, for whose interests and happiness he devoted the last energies of his life," Is our Missouri brother aware that we read his paper on the 37th day after it was printed, and that it takes twenty-six months for our journal to reach St. Louis But such is fame: to have your name misspelt in the papers, as Byron said, and have your death recorded, as having just taken place.two years after vou are buried. French Cor Telle Conalantine.

On Saturday morning last arrived the French cor vette Constantine, 22 guns, Capt. Majou'eaux. 37 days from Punta Arenas in Central America. The Etat Major is composed of the following gentlemen, viz Huguet de Majonreaux, Capitaine de Vaiseau, Commandant. Joubert, apitatne de Frigate, Commandant en second.

Massiou, Lieutenant de Vaisseau. Boncarat, Enseigne de Vaisseau. Roy, Psrisot, Pouvreau, Dtipour, Chirurgien Major. Huas, Officier d'Administration. Leblanc, Aspirant led.

Perrain, Aspirant 2c cl. Lefevre, 2e cl. Gaudin, Cantaloube, Pottier, Escande, Lecierc, Roux, second Chirurgien. At noon salutes were exchanged with the shore Sunpenoion Bridie ni Ililo. By letters from Hilo, Hawaii, we learn that the suspension bridge over the Wailuku river, for which the Legislature appropriated $4,000 last spring, had been finished and that it was opened for public travel on the 3d inst.

Knowing that the chains were tested and laid, and the materials picked out under the personal superintendence of R. A. S. Wood, Superintendent of Public Works, we have faith in its durability and take a pleasure in giving a faint echoof the flattering opinions which he has earned for himself and the Government in laying this, the first, suspension bridge in the Hawaiian Islands. Fatal Accirirnl.

On Wednesday afternoon last, as one of the bullock carts, bringing ballast into town, were passing the head of Richard street, a little Hawaiian girl, about eight years old, and belonging to Kakaako or Fisherman's point, attempted to get down from the cart where she had been riding, but in so doing stumbled and fell directly in the way of the wheel which passed over her body and crushed her to death almost instantly. Aloha ino. The name of the child was Apikela, daughter of Peluhu and Nalulu. Thunder Storm. On Saturday last the wind set in from the south bringing up material for one of those sublime thunder-storms which once in a while pass over these islands.

Early in the evening the storm was upon us and continued through the night, cleansing the atmosphere and refreshing the earth. As the first of this season's southers this came earlier than usual and came but foremost." Tne southerly wind continued through Sunday and Monday, with occasional showers. More Gnano Expedition. From Koloa, Kauai, September 6, we learn that an American schooner, Captain Ch. St.

Clair, formerly of the American sloop Splendid of San Francisco, and lately of the Hawaiian brig Advance from this port, had arrived on the 3d inst. at Koloa in 24 days from San Francisco in ballast, having cruised for several days, bt fore arrival, to the X.W. of this group in search of guano islands. The vessel touched for supplies, and would prosecute her discoveries further. ICT" ur contemporary is pleased to banter us upon our Extra of Saturday, immediately after the arrival of the clipper ship Flying Eagle, and it tries to console itself with the idea that we announced unimportant news." Sour grapes, perhaps The importance, or not, of any news depends on the capacity of the reader to appreciate it.

tt- On the 8 th it pleased His Majesty the King, on the recommendation of the Judges of the Supreme Court, to restore Wm. B. Barnes, of Hilo, to all his civil rights said Barnes having served out his term of imprisonment at hard labor for forgery. Sf From the Boston Correspondent of the Alia California, writing July 27, we clip the following regarding the steamer for these islands. "A steamer of 314 tons is to be built at East Boston, to be used in carrying passengers and freight between the Sandwich Islands.

She will be 130 feet long, 28 feet 6 inches beam and 10 feet deep. She will have a composition propeller nine feet in diameter, and will be rigged as a hermaphrodite brig. Her hull will be built by Mr. Paul Curtis and her machinery by the Atlantic Works. She is to be completed in four months.

The parties for whom she is being built have an exclusive grant from the King to run a steamer between the Islands for the term of five years, and this boat is the pioneer of their line. The reputation of the contractors of this boat is a sufficient guaranty that she will reflect credit upon our Boston mechanics. It is not improbable that you will have a chance to see this fine vessel In your part ere she arrives at her destination. Lectnre. Thursday evening the Hon.

G. M. Robertson delfv-ered a lecture at the Bethel Church before the Honolu lu Lyceum, on the "British Parliament" Such subject from such a speaker was not only well chosen, but, what might have been expected, well handled. rrf nonnested to call the attention cf 1 our readers to the advertisement of the Hudson's Bay Company of new goods just arrived by the British ship Gomelzafiom London. ntananal Eejaiaws.

Next Friday, the 2Sd, day and night are of equal length throughout the world. The sun crossed the equator in the morn irg at 15 minutes before 4 o'clock. Seamen will probably ex pect a gale. CF The non-arrival of the United States mail may be attributed to the light winds and calms which have prevailed for tbe past few days. COMMERCIAL.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, IS59. Trade the past week has shewn symptoms of Improvement, owing to some inquiry for goods for the Fall trade It does not, however, deserve to be termed brisk. The GomtZza arrived yesterday in 138 days from London, with assorted cargo for the Hudson Bay the bulk, however, intended for their station at Vancouver. The fears entertained for the Sea Kymph's safe ty, so long overdue, have now lapsed Into a certainty of her loss. or of disasters forcing her to put into tome port, from which, if so, it is time we should have heard.

The Flying Eagle arrived on the 10th, seeking freight or char ter. She brought dates to the 27th from San Francisco, with New York dates overland to the 1st August, St. Louis the 4tb At an auction sale of 3. Island produce ex held 26th August, at San Francisco, the following prices were obtained SCGAR 1500 hf bbls sold at 5J for very dark, to for No 1. 17 pigs very choice realised $9 90.

4000 mats sold 5 SO (5 80, all dark grade. MOLASSES 43 kegs sold at 88. 125 bbls at 32X STRCP 46 bbls at 47c. COFFEE 1200 lbs Island at 13'c. PULU 200 bales on p.

t. In demand at H.215c. FUNGUS 14 bales in bond at 14c, for export to China per Jfantiff. POTATOES Irish IJir, sweet dull at 2Xc The Jenny Furd arrived the 11th from Teekalet with lumber, spars, kc, and on the 12th the clipper ship Xor'vetUr, from San Francisco to Singapore, was spoken in the channel. The Jenny Ford reports having st-en a burning ship at sea, an account of which will be found under head of Memoranda, The Felix sailed for China on the 14th with liquors and domestic produce.

We notice shipment of 81 package quicksilver ez wreck J. B. Lancaster, and 62 bales fungus (11,975 lbs) among the list of exports by her In the market report of the San Francisco Daily Time, of the August, we find the following in relation to Tea. It coin cides with our knowledge of the market and will, we think, meet the assent of dealers in this article. Drinkers of the beverage had made np their minds some time ago to the fact.

Tia Notwithstanding the large amount of Tea in this mar ket, good black Teat are sought alter. The large assortment by the bark Comet, which was sold at full prices in May last, hat gone out of market rapidly, and some of the heaviest purchasers of it have cleared out their stock. This shows a growing appreciation of the good article, to which importers should hare an eve. A few years ago, if tea was in a one pound canister, it mattered not whether it was tea, dirt, or dye-stuff. At last the evil reached a climax, and then there arose a demand for black tea in bulk.

The demand for black tea has led to the importa tion of large quantities of second-hand refined tea. and various bitter herbs scented to imitate tea. This w.U bare to give place to genuine good tea for consumers in California are willing to pay for good goods if merchant will permit them at fair profits. The Raduga having discharged her cargo deliverable here. proceeds to Hilo to discharge balance due there, and will proba biy be put on the berth for oil, bone, Ac.

Whale Skeletons, Bones, Ml, tfC Notwithstanding the face tious remarks of our contemporary about the new branch of business he accuses us of endeavoring fo start in these articles, we are there every time," as to its feasibility and the probability of its paying. We obtained our information from a Mas ter, and from merchants who are not given to romancing, and' to whom the edge of a dollar appears of the recognized commercial width. We must own that we got our figures rather steep on Bone Dust, from the fact that we were unable to get a New Tork or quotation, and took the one we used from Lloyd's market report of 26th June, as follows MAXCRE3 AND OIL CAKES. Moxdav, June 20. There were no imports of Peruvian guano last week, but tii6 tons exported.

The demand for artificial ma nures is now drawing to a close, but, owing to the low price of corn, it lias not beeu so large as expected. Peruvian guano, per ton (for 80 tons) 1-2 0 (under 30 Un9) 12 13 Nitrate of soda, 16 15 Nitrate of potash or saltpetre, do 29 0 Sulphate of ammonia, 14 0 Muriate of ammonU, do S3 0 Superphosphate oflime, 5 10 Soda ash or alkali, do 11 0 iiypsum, 1 10 Coprolite, do 2 10 Sulphate of copper, or Roman Vitriol, for wheat steeping, do 85 0 Second quality, do .24 0 Salt, do 1 0 Bones, half inch, pr Old 1 Oil of vitriol, concentrated, 0 0 brown, do 0 0 Rape cakes, per ton 6 0 Linseed cakes, thin American (bbls) Ill 10 bags do 10 5 Marseilles, do 9 10 Knglish, do 10 lit Cotton-seed cakes, do 510 Oto 0 11 0 5 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 17 10 30 0 15 26 6 12 2 3 87 2S 1 1 1 0 0 0 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10 II 0 1) 15 10 0 0 0 8 0 and calculated the quarter at 23 lbs instead of 8 bushels. The rate at which it sells in the Cnited States, we are told, is from 9 bushel. Capt. Lunt was not pleased with our quotation of report concerning the Eliza if Ella having been offered $6 per ton, but there was no intention of a slur upon him or his vessel when it was made.

It is very far from our wishes ever to say any thing in our column to offend parties we are under to many obligations to as to masters of vessels. We notice by overland papers, August 1st, from New Tork, St Louis August 4tb, that the Siam, no date, was spoken in lat 7 40 Ion 33 40 that the Zoe sailed for this July 28, and the Henry Brigham arrived at New York July 26 from Jarvis Island. We have no transactions to quote at private sales. On the lith A. P.

Everett sold at auction, to close consignments, terms liberal, sovereigns at $5, and without reserve, the following Blue serge shirts 6 pr dot, blch Huckabuck towels $1 (1 SI, white Gr Cambric printed jacconets 14c, blue shirting wht do 2 pink prints 1 1 grey cotton nnder shirts $3 75, blk alpacca coats $1 13, fancy cotton pant stuff capers $2 06V, cotton umbrellas dot $6 blk Coburgs 23c, ptd muslins 5V, brown Hollands Tur red hdkfS $-2 06, wht cot shirts $2 69, bbls Hawaiian beef $10, fancy shirts SI 65, fancy biscuits 81 5031 62, Windsor soap pr lb 27.) 31, honey soap 14816, porter $2 62, sheathing nails 23c, canvas $6 757 20, hoop iron bar iron square iron 23V, Manila rope 5J, hemp do EXCHANGE On Eastern States, scarce. From appearance we should think the rate for the coming season would rule in favor of the seller of whalers' bills. In a late issue we referred to the probability of the report of the committee on changing the British currency to a decimal form being adverse, owing to the contrary opinions of Lords Overstone and Monteagle, who were on the committee. We now find it confirmed by the following, which we dip from a late English paper Dkcihal Coisacb. The final report of the commissioners appointed to investigate this subject has been sent in.

The document is published in the form of a blue book, the bulk of which consists of drafts or preliminary reports, and copies of documents put in evidence, some of value, but the greater number partaking of the ordinary character of blue book appendices. The actual report consists of a statement of the reasons in consequence of which the commissioner! have decided not to recommend any change in the existing coinage. The following are some of them: That there appears to be no approach to unanimity of opinion, on the question of the introduction of decimal cnate, in the commercial or other classes of the community. That it it very difficult to come to any useful conclusion at to the merits of the decimal principle in the abstract, distinct and peculiar duties attending each separate form in which it hat been proposed to introduce the decimal principle Into the coinage of the country. That the pound and mil scheme is the only form In which, under the present state of public feeling in this country on this most important question, the introduction of the decimal principle into our coinage can be contemplated with any reasonable probability of sufficient support.

That at regards paper calculation there appears to be a preponderance of advantage on the tide of decimal coinage but the extent of the superiority in this respect may be the subject of much difference of opinion. That as regards the comparative convenience of our present coinage and of the pound and mil scheme, for the reckonings of the shop and the market, and for mental calculations generally, the superiority rests with the present system, in consequence principally of the more convenient divisibility of 4, 12, and twenty as compared with 10, and the facility for tbe successive division by 2, that is, for repeated halving. That as regards the comparative convenience of the coins provided by the rival systems, the advantage appears to rest with our present coinage. That the advantage in calculation and account-keeping anticipated from the decimal coinage may to a great extent be obtained without any disturbance of our present coinage, by a more extensive adoption of the practice now in nse at the National Debt office, and In the principal assurance oOcet via of reducing money to decimals, performing the required calculations la decimals, and then the result te tbe present aotatlee- Lasleet Fe-reiga Date. Hongkong, Juue 6 Jaiy Liverpool, July 23 Paris.

Juy 53 Manila, May 30 san Francisco, Aug 37 Melbourne, May 2S St. Louis, Al 4 Nangasaki May 13 Tahiti julT4 New OHeans, July 27 Valparaiso, Juuej) New York, Aug 3 Victoria, V. Auj 23 ASTRONOMICAL. PHASES OF THE MOON IN SEPTEMBER. dhmt 1 dhms First 3 05 33 14 P.M.

Last 19 II 42 2 A Full .11 09 59 50 P. Moon, ..26 03 24 i A For Lahaina, add 4 minutes 44 seconds. SCN'3 RISING AND SETTING. Sept. 18 do 19 Sun rises do do do do do 67 5 Sun sett do do de do do do 6 03 do do do do do 20 21 22 23 58 59 00 01 04 02 01 00 59 24 do Nearly the tame throughout the group.

Mail te Leave. FOREIGN. For Melbourne, per bk Orestes, uncertain. For Victoria, per in Gomelza, toon. IXTERISLAS'D.

For Lahaina per -Moi, to-day; per wti or Maria about Monday per Lit.oliho about Wednesday. For Kahului, per Jiui, to-day per Moikeiki, about Monday For Kalepoltpo, per Maria, about Monday. For Kauai, per Clueen, to-day per Kaluaa, about Tuesdsy-per Moiwrahiae, about Friday. For Kohala, per Manuokawrai, about Monday; per Liholiho ahotit Wednesday. For liana, Maui, pr Maauokawai, about Monday.

For Hilo, pr Liholiho, about Wednesday. For Kawaihae, per Mary, on Monday. For Kona. Hawaii, pr Kekauluohi, about Wednesday. MARINE Kim.

PORT OF HONOLULU. Arrived. Sept 10 I M's sloop Constantine, Majoureaux, 22 guns, 37 ds fm Punta Arenas. Am clip sh Flying Eagle, Bates, 1094 tons, 13 days fta San Francutco, in ballast, en route for China. Haw sch Margaret, fm Anahola, Kauai, with cords wood, 50 timbers, 1 horse, etc.

1 1 Haw sch Kamoiwahine, Kuheana, fm Koloa and Nawi. liwili, with 8 cords wood, 58 hiJes, 4 bbls tallow, 2 kegs tongues, etc Haw sch Manukina, fm Waialua, with dom. produce. Am bkt Jenny Ford, Moore, 897 tons, 22 days fm Trek- alet, with lumber to II Hackfeld Co. Am wh bk Caroline, Pontus, 252 tons, 26 mos out, 3-2 men, 34 ds fm Kodiak, 240 wh on board, 2 whs 2 tO bbls, 3000 the season.

Am wh bk Union, Hedges, 300 tons, 24 mos out, 25 men, 32 ds fm Kodak, IS sp. 500 wh, 4500 on board; I wh, aiK bbls, 150O the season. 12 Haw sch Kaluna. Antonio, fm Niihan, Koloa ond Na wiliwili, with 9 cords wood, 2 horses, 8 hogs etc. Haw sch Queen, White, fm N'uhau and Koloa, with native produce.

13 Haw sch Kalama, Borres, fm Hilo, with 30 tons sugar, 100 hides, etc, etc. Haw sch Maria. Molteno, fm Lahaina. with butter, etc Haw sloop Louika, fm Keanai, with psi ai. 14 Haw sch Warwick, Keoni, fm Molokai.

with 68 hap lime, etc, etc. 15 Brit ship Gomelza, Knight, 521 tons. 140 ds from Lon don, 137 days fm Lizard Point, with asst cargo. Haw sch Kamoi, Wilbur, fm Lahaina, with wheat, pulu, etc, etc. 16 Haw sch Mary, Berrill, fm Kawaihae, with 53 head of cattle, 45 sheep, 200 bbls potatoes, 2 hogs, 250 hides, etc, etc.

17 Schs Liholiho, Maria and ManuokawaL Cleared. Sept 13 Brem bk Felix, Wintzer, for Hongkong. Sailed. Sept 13 Brem bk Felix, Wintzer, for Hongkong. Haw sch Kaluna, Antonio, for Koloa.

Haw sch Kamoikeiki, Hall, for Kahului, Haw sch Kamoiwahine, Kuheana, for ports on Kauai. Haw sch Maria, Molteno, for Lahaina. Haw sch Margaret, for Kauai. Haw sloop Keaupuni, for Molokai. 15 Haw sch Warwick, for Molokai.

16 Haw sch Kalama, Borres, fr Lahaina, Kohala and Hilo. Haw sch Molokai, Kanuku, for Molokai. MEMORANDA. Tbe Flying EagU left San Francisco Aug 28. Had light, baffling winds the latter part of the passage from 8 and S.

Tbe best day's run was 200 miles. Tbe Ocean Ei press and the Aspasia, one of which would probably bring the mail. were to leave for tbis port about tbe 30th. Tbe Yankee wit to tail about the 4ifa of tbe mouth. The Jenny Ford experienced very light and windt.

Aug 27, it about 5J M. in lat 35 0 19' long 134 3 22, came up with a large British ship on fire, with everything gone but her mainmast and part of her main-topmast, the starboard side being burnt nearly to the water's edge. Sailed round the wreck, but it being nearly night and the weather squally did not attempt to board her. On her stern were tbe letten For- est Jtm foic, the intermediate letter being all burnt away, but from those that remained it was easy to infer that the hit was the Fortut Monarch of Gkigoic. Could see no one about the wreck, and she had in ail probability been aban doned, as a large boat, with a barrel and compass in it, was picked up about a mile to the of her, the crew very likely, having been picked up by some other vessel.

The sbip bad probably beeu on fire about twenty-four hours, and, when last seen, Uie dames appeared to increase. Tbe boat was brought to this port. Lett at Teekalet Am sh Arab, loading for Sydney Am bk Friendship, loading for San Francisco and a Dauish sbip, loading for Catlao. Tbe Caroline cruised on Kodiak and found tbe weather very bad and foggy most of the season. In the early part of May, in Bherring Sea, had several severr, easterly gales.

which carried away 3 boat, stove the bulwarks and strained the vessel so badly that she has leaked very much ever since. Several more vessels sustained more or less injury, and a number of boats were lost. Whales were very scarce and wild. Saw the first April 5, in lat 41 3 10, long 154 3 30', Saw the last Aug 6, off Cook's Inlet. Left tbe ground Aug 8, and from the lat of 44 30' bad very fine weather to this port.

Took the trades in lat 29 3 Reports the following ves sels: May 5, Arab, Grinnell, il, had lost jib-bosm and fore- topmast in a gale, but had been supplied witb new span by the Julian; May 18, Metacom, Hinds, I wh May 27, bk Gen Scott, Huntling, nothing; May 29, bk Fortune, Lester, Hon. nothing, had lost jib-boom and fore-top-gallant-mast May 3i, bk Jireb Swift, Earl, I wh, 30 bole June 3, Montreal, Sow le, 1 wb; June 10, bk New England, Hempstead, nothing June 30, bk Harmony, Kelly, Hon, 1 wb, 200 bbls June 9, Rambler, Willis, I dead wh. 60 Ibis Aug 4, Ta'nierlane, Winslow, whs, 500 bbls. Tbe Union cruised on Kodiak aud experienced good weather in June, but found very fogey and rugged in July. Wbalet were very tcarce and shy.

Saw the first May 27, in lat 58 06, long 3 -25. daw ad took tbe last Aug 1. in lat 57 a long 147 30. The morn were seen in tbe neighborhood ol lat 57 0 30', long 137, near which place the vessels spoken also saw the most. Left the ground Aug 10, bound to Hono lulu and Zealand.

Had such fine weather on the pastage down, that a wbaleboat might h.ive come with perfect safety. Make the following report May 27, bk Augusta, Tabor, S. IL, lat 58 06', long 138' 25', nothing; May 30, Dromo, May, lat 57' 45', long 137' 30', nothing; June 10. bk George. Si lva, B.

nothing; Montreal, Sowle, off Cape Fair- weather, with a whale alongside; bk Wm Gilford, Baker, off Cape Fairweather, nothing June 11, off Cape Fair- weather, Metacom, Hinds, whale alongside; Robt Ed wards, Wood, B. nothing; 1 sp wh, 50 bblt June 25, in 1st 0 40, long I40, Corinthian, Lewis, 1 right wb. SO bbls; July 20, in lat 56 56', long 15050', Jefferson, Hunting, 3 whs. 8cb Kalama. on Sunday the 11th, when to windward of Molokai, fell in with the Am thip Norwetter, A I my, 12 days fm San Franrisco, bound to Singapore.

Came through the channel together and were in company nearly all day, having light wind. The Gomtlz left London Apr 28, and took ber departure front the Lizard May 1. Crossed the line June 7, in long 25' 26' ard again Aug 23, in long 114' 9' having made States Island July 14. Wat as far South at 58 35'. Had a gale in tbe Atlantic.

ben she shipped a tea which ttove the bulwarks and did tome other flight damage. Wat detained about two weeks off Cape Horn by a succession ef westerly gales, in which several spars were lost. The weather wae very cold off the Horn. In the Pacific had pleasant weather and light breeze. May 2S, spoke Dutch bark Nienw day fm Rnterdam, bound toBatavia, May S9, taw lark Concord tame day, saw bark Roeetta, fm Calabt.Coat Of Africa, bound to LiverpooL Jul 14, off Cape Horn, tnw a bark, tupposed to be Italian, standing to the northward.

From the Lizard to the Line the Line to Staten Island Staten Island to the Line the Line to Honolulu the Lizard to Honolulu .........137 the ten Qu wm days beeaned off Barter'! Petal, and it land a Waltm Ut wzr..