The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-06-19

PARfs. MAY The Geographical Society 10
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\ communication from Rome states that tic
authorities are engaged in organizing a service o
reporters for the proceedings in the HcUmcnical
Council. The Able ligidius Marchescs. 4 Pied,
moute>c. has been placed by the Holy Father N
the head Of tile shorthand writers. This cccle-
~siastic, q subject Of the King Of Italy, has only
been in holy orders five years. Before pronOUnc-
Ing the vows, he was for 4 long time hrst reporter
70 the Parliamcn; Of Turin.
The comparative Observance Of Sunday relig-
lousy in England and France i set forth differ
emily from tie ordinary tatcmcnt IN these words
OF the Westminster Ga-st..
The State may enforce q people to abstain from
work and from open traffic ON Sunday. but there
it. mission ends. IL cannot compel them 10 20
10 church. In England. with no hindrance in
their way the MASSES OF the people stay away
from church in France. where the temptation of
working IN the fields, or OF buying or selling in
the cities, throws every obstacle in the way. the
masses of the people. in spite of the sad havoc
which NOltarianism and matcrialiSm have made
IN their ranks, keep the religious observance of
Sunday better than the same classes do in Eng
land. We say this with the full knowledge that
there are whole districts in France where scarcely
n man Is to be seen IN church. In the Seine and
Disc, an area Of forty miles round Paris, for
instance, gUdlessness l. the rule; churches are
deserted. or LETT 10 the use of women and chill
dren. But making full allowance for this still
almost normal state Of certain districts in France,
it Is, nevertheless, true that OF Il population Of
thirty-two millions in France, Il greater percent
age attends church ON Sunday than is the case
with the twenty-Seycn millions of inhabitants Of
England, Scotland and Wales.
The New GERMAN NAvY.-It NAV be remem-
bercd that the Parliament of the North German
Confederation last year voted n loan ofl0, 900 900
thaylers 90, 800, 900 trlncs,) To he exclusively
applied 10 the development of the German navy
and detcrce of the coasts. The works were to
have been spread over q certain number of years.
But since that time they have received so rapid
an impulse and 80 considerable an extension that
the credit is row exhausted. The Chanccry of
tine Confederation has in consequence Just laid be-
fore the Federal Council Il new bill To accord to
the Ministry of Marine II supplementary credit of
5000 600 of ~thaylers 90, 500 900 irancs,) like
wise 10 be realized by means of Il loan. To Justify
this demand. the necessity has been urged of fin
ishing works already commenced, and of d~evoting
more funds To the increase of the naval material.
Such expenditure Is declared 10 he INDISPENSABLE
To give To the North German Navy the amount Of
strength that ought to Dc insured to it.
The Duke of Argyll, n clear author and n prom
inent statesman, has caused Il stir in aristOcratic
circles by placing one Of his sons in Il mercantile
business in London. Nobility has never thought
II could venture any nearer honest labor than
politics or, in Il pinch, u learned profession. The
Duke is sensible, and American young men, who
in their way are rs foolishly aversc to mechanical
trades or agriculture, may get Il good hint from
him. They want To be statesmen or travelling
agents, and they crowd u the cities, elbow women
out Of the work that naturally belongs to them.
live Ola ha~nd-to-mouth salaries. while independ-
incc and sclf-respect 20 into bankruptcy. \
man with good health, pluck and a well
trade can snap his fingers at the world.