HAWAHAN ISLANDS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1783, 7 April 1863, Page 4

HAWAHAN ISLANDS.

The Right Rpv. Dr. Rtaley, Anglican Bishop, accompanied liy tho Rev. Mcsiis. Mason and Ibhotson, nnived at Honolulu on Iho 11th of October, and weio most wftimly received. The Hawaiian Ministers have ie<uimed office. Piince Lot Kamehameha, however, only holdi the poi tfolio for the Department of Fiuaucc and Trade provisionally. A college for Hawaiian females was about to bo opened, under the pationagc of Queen Etnnra. Tlie pioceiy otoie of Mr. A. D. Cartwright, in Foitstreet, Honolulu, liad been destroyed by fire. The low was estimated at $13,000. But for the promptitude of the volunteer fire companies, and tho assistance of a detachment of the King's Guards, commanded by Prince Lot in person, the fire would have greatly extended.

A Canadian Ick-boat— A special class of craft are these ice boat% peculiar to Upper Canada, and their navigation lequiies an amount of skill and courage not every day to be found combined. They are barges or pinnaces, cutter-rigged for the most part, and built of the tonghest timber the colony pioducM. Below the keel is a raised runner of polished iron, sharp as a skate at the edges, and designed, not to plough the waters, but to skim across the ice of the great lakes. These ciaft are propelled by sails, and steered by helm, exactly like soft-going 1 ve^eh ; it is haidly necessary to add that with a favouring breeze they can attain n. speed never equalled by ft ship that has to cleave through water, ami not much inferior to that of au express train. But they have the diawback of danger, So many accidents have occurred from tho breaking in of the ice, from suddm squalls, collisions, and so forth, that llrsse winter yachts have never attained the popularity of tho safe and convenient sleigh.— All the Tear Round. MURDKR OF A NAVAL ENGINEER AT MARSKTLrXS—lnformation has readied Portsmouth that a mur. der has been perpetrated at Marseilles on a naval officer, named Mr. Thomas Bullions, engineer on board her Majesty'R despatch vessel Psycho. At the same time an attempt was also made to murder another engineer belonging to tho same ship. The circumstances first became known at the Engineers 1 club, Portsmouth, where a private lottor \\ as read to tho members, which stated that Mr. Bullions and Mr. Gray wove engineers belonging to her Majesty's ship Psycho, which despatch vessel left England a short time since for Marseilles to convey Lady Elgin, wife of the Governor-general of India, to Alexandria en route to Calcutta. When tho Psyche was moored at Marseilles, the two engineers above-named went on shoro and visited several of the eqflt, and were returning to their ship at night, when they were accosted by bix men, by whom it is alleged they were in»ulted. A m&l4t ensued, during wiiioh the ruffians murdered Mr. Bullions by bentiug his brains out aguinit the paving-stones. They 'also stabbed Mr. Gray in the thigh, and severely wounded him. The body of Mr. Bullions was conveyed on board the Psyche, 'at wot also the body of Mr. Gray, vrho is not expected to aurvive.