The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-02


lesser spectacle in their presence, the aria and
the ballet were unheeded for time. a great
murmur and hustle in the audience announced
that its attention and its opera-glasses were
turned toward the two benefactors. They formed
a strange contrast. One had served his country
in war, the other in peace; one by dealing hard
blows, the other by giving cheques; one by de-
stroying, the other by building up. Which of
them had served the best it were hard to decide.
But the lion and the lamb were repOsing there
together; and had you then seen the two amiable
creatures for the first time, it would have been
hard for you to decide which was the fighter and
which the phIlanthropist.
With the present week the name of George
Peabody will pass into less frequent mention;
but his record will live for centuries that of
one of the most blameless well-wIshers of his
race.
a young Prince of the royal blood divides the
public interest with the name have just men,
toned. Prince Arthur of England is among us.
He is more refined in manners than his elder
brother who visited Honolulu some months ago.
With smiling compOsure he undergoes the ordeal
of iostling crowding, and Misunderstanding, and
goes to balls dinner and places OF public
Amusement as if determined to observe thoroughly
all the habits and peculiarities OF the native
Americans. His programme of movements is
kindly published, for several days in advance, in
the daily papers, so that all curiously disposed
NAV follow him around if they choose. Last
Sunday he attended Trinity Church; and after
he LETT his pew a number of young ladies crowded
into it, in order to enjoy, successfully, the fine
imaginative pleasure of occupying a seat that
the Prince had pressed. On the same afternoon
he promenaded Fifth Avenue, to see the favorite
strolling-ground of New Workers: but he was so
crowded by the young ladies that he found it
difficult to make any observations other than
upon American female beauty. In June. 1867,
( saw Prince Arthur at the Paris Exposition.
He was then straight, slim, well grown youth,
apparently sixteen years of age, with clear COM
plexion, thin face, and aquilne nose, and of the
sanguine temperament lie has gained consider
ably in flesh since then. His bearing thor
oughly gentlemanly, except for tinge of uneasy
nervousness, which is natural enough in lad
who is SO constantly stared at by the public.
Yet the crowd did not worry or pursue him. He
was in the English department Of the exposition
when L saw him, looking at the great WhitwOrth
and Armstrong guns; a couple of intelligent
looking and muscular gentlemen, his tutors, ac |
companied him, and the official in charge ex- |
planned TO the Prince some points connected with |
the working of the artillery. A few persons fol- |
lowed him; but there was no jostling. This
was explainable, however, quite much by the
fact of the superior attractions, in the way of
royalty, that were present at the exposition, as
by the superior Difference Of the Europeans. A
few minutes after Prince Arthur had gone by the
Slo
tude, :. LIE Roi d Egypte! LIE Roi d. Egypte!
and hundreds pushed and struggled to catch
glimpse of the dark-skinned successor of the
PharaOhs, whose tall and stalwart guards made
swift passage for him through the crowd But
it is not necessarily snobbishness that makes peo-
pie run to catch glimpse OF royal personages
1t is a natural curiosity to see how people will
behave when placed in exalted and exceptional
station. We all anxious to see what cannot
be seen every day. The same principle leads us
to attend weddings or executions.
So the Prince goes blithely through our coun-
try, seeing at least the brighter side of our in
stitutions, if no other. What the darker side is
your readers may gather from these facts: that
we have had, during the past month-of January,
fifteen murders committed here in New York.
and host ten times as many attempted assassin
ations and robberies and that nine out of ten of
the criminals remain at large, or, if arrested,
escape the penalties of the law. In the most
shocking case of all. the Hudson street murder
of a few days ago, the criminal (Reynohs) coolly
remarked to the officers, upon his arrest, &" Hang
ing for murder is played out in New York"
This philosophic assassin spoke the truth. Not
more than one per cent. of our murderers suffer
M Al A.
nifty in respect to crime is something unexampled
in the character of civilized natious. The most
rightful murders arc absolutely forgotten in three
or four days. We blame our laws, our mercenary
Judges, our social institutions, everything but
he right cause, for these terrible phenomena.
Il is the character of the people that makes them
possible, that permits them, that watches this
horror of crime without protest or
IN effort. Within ten years moblaw will be the ,
aw of New York City. CALAHUs.