The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-05-17
MOTIFS or TIE MEEK.

y The Polgrssf,a in its las; issue, takes us to
task for having alluded in a short paragraph TO the
Meeting # the New Bedford ship Agents. hold in
February last. in relation TO corsunr grievances, and.
in q manner characteristic &c that journal, heaps any
amount o. coarse aud abusive slang ON said agents,
because they happen 20 complain that they are made
10 lly NJ thee islands. what they deem heavy sums
in the share Of consular charges. After dovoting
nearly . column to the subject, II leaves it quite as
much ~bcforzsi as before. We stated in our last issue
~h.t was and is well known, that an investigation
was icing had by the American Commissioner in re-
gard to certain charges made concerning the admin
.istratian Of the American Consulate and Hospital.
What those charges are, We 10 not know, nor DO we
know whether the Investigation will amoun; TO any
thing. They may have originated in and may refer
TO the management II the consulate AMI hospi-
tai under q former administration, FOR auEht that
We know. L, is Wen known that the American Con-
.sulnr system, n allowed at these islands, is defective
and even Cumbersome to its commerce; every one
knows 10. AMI 10 one is more convinced Of it
than Judge Pratt himself, who when he arrived
here. found much fault with the administration u his
predecessor. and set himself 20 work 20 rcctly what
be declared 90 he abuses, it not frauds, and We have
supposed that he succeeded in correcting them.
II. however, he did not, and such Irregularities
continue, they must he iu part attributable 10 the
system adopted and sanctioned by the Unitei States
Government, and which Congress alone can change.
SO hr from our language implying that any fraud
existed under the present administration, we 10
not believe that it exists, or that it would bee per-
mit,cl IS either the cousuls. physicians. or puryey-
ors employed. They are men above suspicion, in
this or any other community where they are
known and If the UnitcI States Government or
the shin owners % New Bedford are dissatisfied with
the system which j. tolerated, the fault surely Is not
with those who are called 20 administer it's affairs ac-
cYrliug 20 prescribed rules, tut with the Congress,
which sanctions these ru',s. Judge Pratt being now
Ia Washington, We have TO doubt ne will be able 10
set tine matter right to the satisfaction Of the authori-
ties Of the home government, Il not to that of the Ship
Agents Of New Bedford, which city, he informed Us,
he intended visiting during his stay in the United
States. -
TnE ForNpfEED BRIG ELLESIrA-We published
some weeks since the account Of the laundering Of
this vessel. on her way to Sydney. By a late arrival
the following list OF passengers and cards Of thanks
were received 10y Mr.. Damon, at whose request we
publish them. 1t viii he remembered that the Ellie
ai1 is the same vessel that cludel the vigilance Of
Trealway Of Maui, who didn't capture the
Lst qCFesoes in ne Boat nat rnr array r ON ne Rgr.
,aI.- ~! - ',; FT AZ. ma 'l7' AI +rI % 'S.r'n'
john Anderson and MIR Clark.-l3u IA al.
Henry yarr. Joseph Aml.ls. Luxe c"nroy. Thomas Williams,
Joseph Md-airr Gs1rEe injury S~-l"r"-Whiatln IreHhaia'
steward, Joseph White, COOK. ped-a colorei man, steward.
To CAPT. cr,nrtov, OF Il. L. Ms BRIG ELK.
sa W ar. aesiroa- q elp.e=s.Hs TO- You our warmestthanAs
rom a rsrrry crave. xl.rl floating about The OCEAN on a simple !
~ ths mercy q The waves. On our arrival 1T Wallis Isl
noble manner, lrtl Instructions with the Priest and natives
raft reaching before your return from the search fr Us 70 rs
uHT-miiunE attention LAS n..N .t"at 'hat we ma di'-