The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-30

sary Of the metropolitan saint, whose day we are
now celebrating. My friend Mr.. Green, has alluded
to the insolent and offensive sneers leveled at our
cslebrauon, and has branded that miserable news
paper article so i~ndelibly, that | will not cut deeper
into the cruel raw which he has inflicted. ST. George
Is the typical champion of truth and beauty. and
passed his days in confronting and conquering moi
some and pestilent beasts. That such a character
should be dIstasteful TO some persons, L can easily
understand, as easily as l can understand why it
shouId De very dear 10 US, for where Is the English
man, Scotchman, or Irishnan, who is not ever ready
to strike for the good cause of truth aud beauty, ave,
ana to strike hard too. Under the red cross of St.
George, our fathers have fought and conquered, and
SO, please God. will We. God, England and St.
GEORGE was the war cry of Richard Ceur de Lion
and of cur stalwart Edwards and Henrys as they
rushed battle axe in hand, and g right joyously.'
as Old troissart says, upon the serried ranks OF their
foes. st. George for Merge England shouted
our lusty yeomen, when they let fly their cloth yard
shafts against their mail-clad enemy. Shakespeare,
whose birthday this is, dearly loved to do honor TO our
patron saint. Neither will We be ashamed of him.
81. George is the type of victory. When the fierce
Dragon terrified ali other knights and the world
threatened to become its prey. st. George leapt
into his saddle and with his trusty lance trans6xed
the mighty brute who made all others tremble.
There have been periods in our history when innu-
merable dragons deep mouthed bayed around US,
and when we were compelled to become a nation of St.
Georges, and come to the rescue and liberation of a panic stricken
world. But the legend of ST. George is an anegory to be studied
90 destroy. William Makepeace Thackeray, whose loss the
Maroche,tes statue of St. George and the Dragon placed facing
his bed, that he might ever he reminded of the dragons that he
- are Incidence and luxury" All of us too have our dragons
to Stay, they may be Incidence and luxury, they may be mig
gardiiness or seitrighteousness, they may be too much love for
ourselves, too little love for others. Let us, like st. George,
this.
1 will now take the opportunity of suggesting that conviyiaI-
iy (and they all had a pleasant and convivfal evening" should
be sutservient to something better-to Charity;-not that 1 dis
approve of cOnyivialty, for l agree with DIR. johnson, that the
man who does not respect his dinner will not be likely to respect
higher and h9lier things. Let u : then raise a fund for the sup
port OF such distressed natives of Great Britain who may be
living among us, and who may not be entitled to Consular re-
others better qualified than myself to hammer into shape my
crude idea, and to give it {" a local habitation and a name"
meet Is we 5o-men If all III c paaS ami mPa go anu Int :" Is nj gI Sorn 10
together by the indissoluble tie of a common love to our distant
home. There are here shrewd statesmen. stainless judges, eo-
handicrafsmen, thews and sinews of the nation; men who work
with the brain and men who work with the strong right hand;
ing it to realize what the poet calls
The fairy tales of science and the long result of time"
We are all bees in this hive, I don't see a drone among US, but
" you r remember m@ e e tn the , seh9Soib b PTOver6, . al work and no play
ing 23d Of April, wipe the sweat from our brows, shut up our
take Of Burgess good cheer, to eat, to drink and to be merry,
"That Heaven in kindness sent the grape
That little fools may too much take,
But great fools not at ALL"
The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, "OUR
EMPIRE observed that England was a
small Island but she had a gigantic offspring in every
part of the world, reproducing her institutions, and
~ VhNAN NShS hA OhS IL UNIV Ott
of Spain, encircling a pictured representation of two
globes UnaS non Su6icit"-''One does not SUFFICE
might with greater truth be said Of England. He
called upon them all present to drink to our Colonial
Empire, and upon the Honorable John Montgomery
to respond
MIR. MONTGOMERY said he felt very much fattered
at having this toast placed in his hands. The only
difficulty he felt in responding was that the subject
was too large to be properly dealt with in q single
speech. He would therefore confne his remarks chiefly
to Australia, in a portion of which fine country he had
spent two years, and from what he saw of it. princi-
pally Victoria, through which he travelled. he felt
that in fertility and natural resources few
could surpass it, and its future must be q
great one-and this extensive colony was only one of
England's vast colonial possessions on which, as
has been SO often said. the sun never sets. East,
west, north or south, go where you will, there is the
lag Of Great Britain waving over you. We have at
least 40 colonies, and if he were to attempt to speak
IF one quarter of them he should have such a redun-
lancy of material as to be fairly puzzled where to
begin and how to deal with such a mass of subject
In all or most of our colonies, the ele-
nents of material wealth were amply spread out and
needed only the hand of industry for their full developement.
.nDa AgstTaii" g alone w we haitian. had a r1 sa soil oIm ana 81 great ,hs agricultural sFrmsn, al
rational wealth: The supply of gold was wen kept up and
of Sydney, and called MOretOn Bay, when he (Mr. Mont
Xqui:iGGely fine quality that it was absolutely too fine for the
british manufacturer to weave. This he stated on the authority
If Mr.. Bailey, NJ. p. for Manchester, who had received a sam
pie of Queens Land cotton, which being too fine to be woven
II home. was spun and forwarded to India, from which it was
returned woven into the finest muslin Mr.. Bailey
ver saw, and here we had a striking instance of the results of
he skill oi IL liHiuOo suppGneHlihS lS hluslTy Vi uslrdI
Assam we had plantations of teas of such extent and
Inality as would at no distant day rival those of China and
Japan. There was another product, chinchona bark, for the sup
of which Indispensable material for the manufacture of
an absolute necessary in countries subject to intermit-
fevers, we now looked to India, and thanks principally to
he energy of our fellow countryman Mr.. Markham, not in vain.
rhe trees which grew this bark, better known as - Peruvian,
from the fact of its formerly being supplied from Peru
lone, (where however the supply was failing and promised soon
o be altogether exhausted) were being planted at the rate of
many thousands per month, and in a short time we should have
o Vancouver's IIand and British CoIumbia-there we saw a
constant and increasing stream of Immigration poured out from
he mother country for the deyelOpement of her rich gold fields
md her numerous source sof wealth. He could pursue the sub
ect to an almost indefinite extent but most of those present
we're as well acquainted as himself with the vastness and wealth
our colonies, and they could refer to their books and magazines
mi get their information as he did. There was no more striking
presented by Great Britain and her Colonial Empire. He could
ag much more, but felt that perhaps he had said sufficient on
or the honor they had done him in placing this toast in his
hands.
The final toast was THE LADIES' given
from the CHAIR.
MIR. RHODES, being called upon by the Chairman
10 reply to the toast. said MIR. Chairman aud Zen
l consider, and L have no doubt you will
agree with me, that without having had any time for
consideration, it is a great piece of rashness on my
part to undertake responding to such a toast-a
theme which, to do 1t justice, would require a mans
life time, and even in that time could not be sutt-
GENTLY honored. Nevertheless, having been called
upon, l shall say q few words, for L should be a
re.reant Englishman indeed if that toast did not in
me, touching as it does all our dearest associa-
ions, and the most tender spot in our hearts. L am
,ersible, however, that l cannot say anything on the
ubiect which will not have been better said ten thou
times over. l shall therefore quote one of our
own immortal bards. In the opening of the sixth
"a ato of Marmion, | believe, Sir Walter says:
40 woman. in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
When care and anguish wiring the brow,
A ministering angel thou"
Yes, Mr.. Chairman, angels indeed. We all know
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