The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-29

WARDS Ice Wv steam ice boat was
put into successful operation Mt Prairie du Chen on
the 18th January, and proved adecided success The
trial trip to Lafayette, a distance of thirty-two miles,
was made In z hours 10 minutes, returning in two
hours and carrying twenty passengers. On the 18th
jan, at 4 r NJ, the boat left with a large party
for Galena, instead Of 81. Paul, on account of there
being less snow on the ice in that direction Profess
sor Wizard hopes to make the trip from Prairie du
Chen 10 Dunleith in less than five hours. The in
ventOr and his friends are greatly elated with the
success of the ice boat, which will prove a new era i'll
steam navigation. Orders have been given for the
construction of another ice boat, which, when COM
pleted, will run between Galens and Prairie du Chen.
-ROcJord (U) .Nsps.
\ Busy MAN.-The busiest man in the city of New
York, is Mr.. Burdick, the publisher of Helpers
''Impending Crisis" A man cannot walk Nassau
street without the Crisis staring him in the face.
A New York exchange says encountered Mr..
Burdick in his shirt sleeves, on the steps of the third
Hight of stairs, giving orders to a small amy of men
who were working the ropes of the hatchway. He
held In his hand a telegraphic order, just received,
for nine hundred copies. He informed US that the
sale had just turned sixty thousand copies, and was
increasing at the rate of from a thousand 10 sixteen
hundred a day. Eight presses are kept running to
supply the demand. Paper had just been received
for fifteen thousand volumes"
BUoNAPARTE's VIEws.-While at st. Helena, Ma
poleou expressed himself as follows on the KO-tou, re-
quired of all who visit the Emperor of China, and
which the American Minister refused to perform
1t is my opinion that whatever is the custom of a
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nation towards their chief, cannot degrade strangers
who perform the same. Different nations have differ
enLcustoms. In England you kiss the kings hand
at Court. Such n thing in France would be consider
ed ridiculous, and the person who did it would be
held up 20 public score, but still the French ambassa-
dor who perform it in England would not be consid-
cred to have degraded himself In England, some
hundred years back, the king was served kneeling.
The same ceremony now. takes place in Spain. In
Italy you kiss the POpe's toe, yet it is not considered
as a degradation: A man who goes into a country
must comply with the ceremonies in use there, and it
would have been no degradation whatever for Lord
Amherst to have submitted to such ceremonies before
the Emperor of China as are performed by the first
mandarins of that Empire.
"It is an error, but still one which is very gene
rally believed, that an ambassador represents the
Sovereign. An ambassador, however, does not re.
present his Sovereign, as in fact none of stipulations
OF affairs he signs are valid until after n ratification;
and as to his rank in etiquette, there never has been
an example of Sovereigns having treated them as
equals-never having given way for them, nor treated
them as they would have treated q foreign Sovereign.
The false idea that ambassadors represented the
Sovereign Is a tradition of the feudal customs; accord
ing to which, at the rendering of homage, when a
great vassal was prevented from rendering il in per-
son, he caused himself to be represented by an am
bassadOr. In this case, the ambassador really receiv-
ed the honOrs due TO his master. The character of an
ambassador is of the same nature as that of a minis
ter plenipotentiary or an envoy, with this difference,
that an ambassador is in the first degree, a minister
the second, and an envoy the third; and in negotia-
tons, these three have the same rights; whatever
they ~stipulate or sign must be submitted for the rati-
fcation of their prince; but in etiquette there is a
great difference. The English and Russian ambassa-
doris had a right TO the same distinction, and ought
to have followed the same etiquette as was practised
by the princes and chief mandarins. Now, these last
performed the ko-tou, and therefore the ambassador
ought TO have done the same, and tle Emperor of
China had n right TO require it. A man charged
with a diplomatic mission ought to have performed
the ko-tou, and could not refuse it without being
wanting in respect to the Emperor, in the same man
ner as this last could not refuse TO receive him with
out showing d~isrespect TO his character of ambassa-
dor.'