The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-05-23
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Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDA Y. MAY %.

News OF me
. fns MAJESTY THE KnG has been suffering from a
I severe abscess for the pat ten days. and has been
confined to his rooms. Though conyalesccnt, he Is
/ unable ., get out yet
- Tn. steaEI,r IDAHO j. supposed to have reached
san Francisco yesterday, the z2d. and will leave
again on the zsh. arriving heie on the morning Of
june S. She will bring New York dates 10 May .,
and London dates to May /.
Her Majesty QuEES VrCToEn's birthday occurs
tomorrow. slay "a. but will be observed on Mon
dIy following. She was born in 1913. We under
stand that Il. Ne Commissioner and Consul Gen
er.I will give "a ball in honor OF the occasion at his
residence in Nuuanu.
The proposal TO subsidfze the California Steam
Line Is still the great topic of discussion. and will
probably be decided by the end Of next week. We
think that public opinion grows in favor Of the
MEASURE. and that it will finally be adopted by n
small majority. The arguments on both sides have
been very full. and the discussion IS well nigh ex-
hausted.
\ statement made By the opponents Of the sub
sidy needs correction. II is this. that the Colony Of
Victoria. after n fair trial in subsidizing steamers,
had abandoned it, on the ground Of injury to the
interests Of the Colony. If it was abandoned at all,
Il must have been on the ground Of poverty. for the
last mail brings advices that the Home Govern
meut a Ridltcu tnc peAAttsu VI tne bp
eminent. and will pay half the subsidy asked for,
the COLONY raising the balance y steam line Is to
he established at once.
The news by The mails which arrived this week
is Of a more varied and important character than
is usual. The Abyssinian Warts ended after a short
campaign aud a brilliant victory, in which the whole
army surrendered, with all their arms, cannon and
everything. \ more complete victory was never
won, aad Gen. y 1?isF merits the honor and per-
haps The title which will be awarded to bin. IL
will be- a lesson to balEeivilized nations to respect
the power and the rights OF their more civilized
neignbors. AL the eaPtives. about sixty, inclUd-
ing men, women and children. have been released,
and are on their way home.
The attempted assassination Of the Duke OF Edin-
burgh in sydney on the 18th of March. is one Of
those cowardly, Internal acts which stir the indig-
nation Of every man. The telegraph reports the
assassin to have been n Fenian. This may or may
not be- true. We can tell better when the full par
ticulars are received. \ newspaper report. how
ever. should not be made the text for an editorial
onslaught in the Government paper on Fenians aud
the Irish generally. NJ one can apologize for the
crimes and murders which Lave been committed
and charged to Fenians. but no one will condemn
the Irish for attempting to obtain redress and free
themselves from a bondage and system which the
nobIest of English statesmen now contend must be
~ AAh1Nf anu W1A<N 66'
u il il not done Immediately.
XPOlitics in England have conc To- a crisis, on this
very subject OF Fcnianism and Ircland's wrongs.
Gladstone and Bright, as the champions OF Ireland,
say that her cries must and shall be hceied. The
powerful aristocracy, represented by the Disraeli-
Stanley Cabinet, beg for n little delay,-a vacil-
lating, procrastinating policy. Unwilling to yield
up the power. they hold on aud refuse TO resign,
though the Commons have rolled up an increased
majority of % against them. Such u scene was
never Witnessed in England as the struggle now
going ON between the waning power of the minis
terial aristocracy and tine growing strength of the
DeoDIe, which 70 SIRE TO cUU1-sr In the end ~L~-
the leading London papers utter such language as
this, which We clip from the SPECTATOR, it means
+" 1t bebOOves the peers TO set their
house in order and speedily. unless they wish to
lose their special place in politics" The house re-
ferred to- II. OF course. the House OF Lords. which,
in the opinion OF many is threatened with abolitio1[
The recall OF ADMIRAL THATCHER and bis transfer
to the CharIestown navy yard are quite unexpected.
Whether his acceptance OF the order OF Kameha-
meha has had ANYTHING to do with this change. we
can not say. but il Is not improbable. Congress
granted him permission to accept. the President
having nothing to say and Congress and the Pres
ilcnt don't agree nova days. IL Is against the spirit
OF American institutions for any public officer to
accept the decoration Of a foreign pOtentate or 4
gift or reward that may tend to influence his official
and the quickest way to injure one Is to
decorate him. We're the facts known. we doubt
not that this decoration. more than anything else. \
has caused his removal from a station to which beS
has had n strong partiality-
Two clippers-the MYsrc BELLE and WAE HIwK
To leave San Francisco for HOngkong and
Manila the week following our latest dates. and
may touch here in passing. by one Of them We
may receive n few days later news and perhaps the
decision in the trial Of President JOHNSON. the re-
OF which IL thought to be extremely doub tfll.
The bark CoNEr arrived ut san Francisco on
the 9th. Fl days passage. and leaves again for this
port today probably. She will be due between
the 5th and 10th Of June.
No vessel l. in port for san Francisco. and we
Of no opportunity for dcspaiching n mail
thither till the departure a the IBAHo. June 18th.
We would call the attention Of our readers to the
the auction room Of ME- BAErOw. The goods are
all new and well worth examining.
On our fourth page Is q variety Of foreign news.
article on the China STEAMERS Is from the New
York Commercial ADVERTISER. and we insert it to
correct the statement made regarding the depth Of
water in our channel and harbOr. The lowest
water Is "a feet. four feet more than the largest
China steamer draws when loaded to her utmost
y large portion Of our paper today is taken up
with the discussion Of the subsidy question. the
foreign news being crowded on to the extra. which
j. issued in order to give all \ chance to be heard.
- The LcgIslnturc.
The election of \. F. JrDD, Esq, rs delegate