known besides that he has protested in vain against the charge for dr it is known that he has himself applied for an advance and been refused money is certainly a grave subject on but respect costs nothing and officials might have judged it wise to make up in extra politeness for what they of pomp or comfort one instance may suffice appeared last summer on a public occasion the president was there � and not even the president rose to greet the entrance of the sovereign since about the same period besides the monarch must be described as in a state of a white man an the true type of all that is most gallant humorous and reckless in his country chose to visit his majesty and give him some excellent advice to make up his difference with unhappily in vivid and language the adviser now sleeps in the pacific but the evil that he o eight years of trouble in chanced to do lives after him his majesty was greatly and i must say justly offended by the freedom of the expressions used he appealed to his white and these whether from want of thought or by design issued an intending visitors to the palace must appear before their and justify their business the majesty of buried was henceforth only to be viewed like a private collection under special permit and was thus at once cut off from the company and opinions of the self respecting to retain any dignity in such an abject state would require a man of very different virtues from those claimed by the not he is not designed to ride the or direct the storm rather to be the ornament of private life he is kind gentle patient as job well of charming manners and when he pleases he has one accomplishment in which he now begins to be alone � i mean that he can pronounce correctly his own beautiful language the government of accomplished a good deal and was continually and i and attempting more the government of our two has confined itself almost wholly to paying and receiving they have built indeed a house for the president they are believed if that be a merit to have bought the local newspaper with government funds and their rule has been by a number of into which i feel with relief it is unnecessary i should enter even if the three powers do not remove these gentlemen their absurd and disastrous government must perish by itself of native taxes except perhaps from true to his own private policy have long been beyond hope and only the other day may th on the expressed ground that there was no as to how the funds would be expended and that the president refused to allow the of his cash the council has the proposal to call up farther taxes from the all is well that ends even ill so that it end and we believe that with the last dollar we shall see the last of the last now when it is so nearly over we can afford to smile at this io eight years of trouble in passage though we must still sigh over the occasion lost the way to lies round the shores of bay and through a succession of pleasant groves and villages the road one of the works of is now cut up by pig fences eight times you must leap a barrier of posts the take off and the landing both in a patch of mire planted with big stones and the stones sometimes with the blood of horses that have gone before to make these obstacles more you have sometimes to wait while a black over the so called pig fence nothing can more thoroughly the worst side of the character than these useless which their only road it was one of the first orders issued by the government of after the coming of the chief justice to have the passage cleared it is the disgrace of that the thing is not yet done the village of is a scene of prosperity and peace in a very good account of a visit there published in the the writer f a and describes it to be fortified she must have been deceived by the appearance of some pig walls on the shore there is no no parade of war i understand that from one to five hundred fighting men are always within reach but i have never seen more than five together under arms and these were the king s guard of honour a sabbath quiet over the well green the horses the troops of pigs the round or oval native dwellings of these there are a surprising number very fine of their sort yet more are in the building and in the midst a tall house of assembly by far the greatest structure now in these islands stands about half finished and already makes a figure in the landscape no bustle is to be observed but the work accomplished to a still activity the centre piece of all is the high chief himself king � or not king � or king � of all goes to him all comes from him native bring him gifts and are in return white travellers to their indescribable irritation are on his approach waved from his eight years of trouble in path by his armed guards he summons his dancers by the note of a he sits nightly at home before a semi circle of talking men from many quarters of the islands delivering and hearing those and elegant in which the heart delights about himself and all his surroundings there breathes a striking sense of order tranquillity and native plenty he is of a tall and powerful person sixty years of age white haired and with a white moustache his eyes bright and quiet his jaw which gives him something of 