The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-12

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many of the people coming are OF a high, class,
having money, skill and brains.
From the year 1880 10, the present time eniy two
ruling soveTeigns of England have visited ireland.
In 1921 George ". went there and staid seventeen
days. Queen Victoria has visited the island three
times-in lS4s. 1853 and 1861, and sfad about "
week ON each occasion.
The English royal family. with the exception OF
Engiand's hope and heir, evidently have a passion
for literature and art. Prince Albert was an anna
feur In almost all the science. the Queen has writ
fen a book, the Princess Ioase has made = bust OF
her brother Arthur that Is highly praised, and
Prince Alfred. now on his way home from Austria
liza, composed u waltz that has become very popt-
lar.
Seychelles. n dependency Of Mauritins, is using
coral tor building material in place cf wood. which
is very scarce. The coral about the island is grow
ing so rapidly that the soundings made in 1925 are
of no use. In ONE places only six fathsms of
water is now found where there was forty. Where
four years ago safe anchorage for vessels OF war
was reported the coral is within two and a haiti
fathoms of the surface
\ correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who
processes to know, says that the circulation of the
London Times is abont 60. 900 daily. that Of the
Telegraph 100000 to 10000. of tbs Standard not
far from 100, 900. the Sfar p, 600. the Post 1000,
the idcertiseT 5000, the Pal Nal Gazette 1000.
The Daily -Ne,cS began its circulation rs q penny
paper at so, 900, and is increasing rapidly. The
Saturday Rerielc has a sale of less than e,000, and
the Spectator averages 1000.
The Queen of Saxony has expressed displeasnre
at the untidy, disheveled style of wearing the hair
which has lately come into fashion. Having fire..
quently TO receive English and American ladies,
who sometimes appear with their hair hanging
loosely about their shoulders, her Majesty has es-
tablished a regulation that ali persons with such
%coifures shall not be admitted ut conrt.
On June 10th the University of Cambridge con-
ferred the degree of LII. ID. upon Henry w. Long
fellow. The ceremony took place in public, and
was witnessed by a vast audience. On coming
forward TO receive his degree, Mr.. Lopgfellow was
greeted with loud and prolonged cheers. The
Vice Chancellor, on comforting the degree, made
/ an address IN Latin. in which he alluded i'm suif-
able terms. to the poets life, character. and works.
He also spoke OF the generous reception given To
Mr.. Dickens by the American people, and after
expressing qualification al the appointment of Hon.
Reverdy Johnson to represent The United States i'm
England, concluded with expressing q hope for an
enduring friendship between the two nations.
Most of the religious societies. says the London
FreeRcn. whose anniversaries have just been held
in Exeter Hall, have reported largely increased in
comes. The Bible Society, from gifts and sales. has
an income of SS9S.590. while last year il was $780,
Gt5. The Tract Society reports its receipts, from
gifts and sales, at S565, 400 last year they were
Sj53,S75. The increase of the Church Missionary
Society in this year s7s6:44o, as against s75l,7sO
last year the Wesleyan Missionary Society S74G.-
$50, as against S742,05o. The Baptist Missionary
Society 174.560, instead OF I50.525 ; and the Lon
don Missionary Society s4I2. SIS. instead of $751;
SOC. There is evidently no lack of money, and no
diminution of interest in the great missionary work.
Punch usually hurries after success. but the spirit
of funkeyism sometimes disturbs this simple rule Of
its life. The objects of the idolatry of P,rnch,-the
men whom it initiates. whose shadows bend it in
homage,-are the Lord Dundrearys of London So
ciety the empty, frivolous men who are ont of the
conflict of opinion and sit aside. Punch is the con-
centrated essence of what Thackery called British
snobbism, and not a paper showing an independent
spirit, scarcely a generous thought has appeared in
Punch for years. Every writer in its pages asks
himself over every line: Will this please the
- mess-rooms W So Punch continues to depict the
southerners as deprived of their rights by physi-
cal force, and to ask sympathy for that injured peo-
pie. Its hero is Mr.. Eyre, at whose altar-not alto
gether innocent of human sacrifce-it burns its
weekly incense. The natural consequence is the
removal of Punch from the list of the organs of
opinion. 1t is now a sort of specimen of the inanity
which can be found in England among people who
read and write.
ABYssINIA-A London despatch says that letters
from Abyssinia, have been received. Anarchy ard
civil war prevailed all over the country. The re-
leased chleftains had raised armies against Golaz-
ava. The general of the latter. Mashesba, pursued
one of the released chiefs named Ali Funns, and a
battle was fought on the 10th of April, IN whic&
Ali was victorious. When the Walda men wiz
Mashesba saw Ali. their former chief. they rever-
spears and rushed to him with Joy. They IT,
turned on Mashesba, defeated the remainder of his
army and took him prisoner. Queen M~ustevat,
with IL 900 horsemen, held Magdala. The priests
say Menelek is the legitimate king. Sad stories
are related of the cruelties practiced by Theodore.
1t is believed that when the English leave the
country the Egyptians will take possession of it.
E- The recent suppression of the Lanterne (the
Paris Punch) by the French Government. will rem
der the following of interest. We take it from the
Paris correspondence of a Boston paper, written, Of
course, before the suppression.
The extraordinary success of the Ldnterne is o
journalistic phenomenon deserving a paragraph in
my letter. When nj. IL. Rochefort, its sole editor,
turned out of the Figaro, in consequence of q
threat of NJ. Pinard, the Home Minister. be asked
an authorization to found, on his undivided re-
q weekly paper. The history of this
application and the refusal it met with are humor-
ously given in the first number of the Lonfcyne
which was brought ont the Saturday following the
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and when the necessity for previous authorization
no longer existed. No less than $1,000 copies of
this impression were sold by Sunday evening.
The success of the paper was consolidated by an
order from the ministry of the interior forbidding its
sale on the Boulevards. Seventy-fve thousand
numbers of tie second impression were rapidly
disposed of; AID last Saturday and Sunday the I'M
precedented figure of 5000 was attained. M.
Rochefort has already paid upwards of 14,e00f. in
stamp duty. But as he has only to give wages to
printers, folders and s%titchers, his profits must be
considerable, even though he takes in no advertise
mcnts. The style of the Ldnterne is caustic and
incisive, and its attitude is aggressive. In politics
1t is opposition quand meme, and will be according
To the present intentions OF the editor, so long as
indscriminate praise of the government is the sys-
of the official and subsidized press here and
in England. The attacks on the Imperial family
are the most daring of any that l remember.
I6rOpOs of certain disabilities under which natural
labor, such for instance as being obliged
to pay 5 francs 30 confines more than an Legitimate
child for Il birth certificate at a French marie. M.
observes that this anomaly is all the
more remarkable in a day when our leading men
by right should have bars sinister painted across
their shields. In this order of ideas he wonders
la Refine Hortense is so glorifed and lie Roi
Louis, her husband. SO neglected. The national
ymn is more in her honor than in honor of France;
streets and avenues are called after her by the ad-
ministration statues of her are erected in the pub
lie places. but not a word is said by the most SER
courtier at the Tuileries of the man through
her children are related to the great En-
peror. Talking of courtiers brings NJ. Rochefort
10 NJ. Belmontes, the poet laureate, who began life
As a rabid republican.
NJ. Rochefort is essentially a froRdeur. He can
Only WELD the pen on the condition of its being
militant. 1t is well that such men exist when there
are so many abuses and such severe penalties i'm
nesed on those who show them up. He writes as
hey talk in Paris literary clubs. The first lance he
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