The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-24
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SATURDAY.. AUGUST 81.
Resignation Of the Cabinet.

The authorizations Of weeks past Of coming Min
~isterial changes, assumed on Thursday last the
form Of rumors to the eject that all the members
Of the Cabinet bad placed their portfolios at the
disposal Of Ills Majesty. We are in a position to
state that such is the fact, and that while Minis
ters may continue to formally hold their positions
until n new Cabinet il formed, the executive de-
partments Of the government are IN reality mop
entiye in the interim. The causes which have
led TO the dissolution Of the present Cabinet are
well-knOwn 70 the public, and do not require any
heightened explanation at our hands. This jour
nal has been the plain and outspoken reflex Of
public opinion, and n reference to our columns IN
the past will plainly indicate what that public
opinion has been in regard to two of the advisers
Of the Crown. As such, their acts and tbeiB policy
have been fair and proper subjects Of criticism.
Casing to bold ofbee,-while the consequences Of
their official misdeeds will remain to burden and
retard our prosperity and serve as a warning to
their uccessOrs,-they personally sink beneath the
horizon Of our notice.
The public will await, with no little sOlicitude,
the announcement Of the formation of a new Min
istry. Whoever may be honored by His Majesty
with the task of suggesting the material for a
Cabinet, should bear in mind that, while the late
Ministry, as a whole. was utterly obnoxious to
the public sentiment, two Of its members pos
sessed, and do still possess the fullest confidence
Of all classes, both foreign and native, throughout
tie kingdom. We need scarcely say that we re-
fer to the Minister of the Interior and the Attor-
ney General. In the administration of the i'm
portant and diversified duties Of the former de-
~partment the hate incumbent has displayed 4
degree Of industry, zeal, public spiritedness, and
above all, stern honesty, that has won he appro-
baton Of all parties, and we know that we speak
the public sentiment when we declare that his
permanent withdrawal from Office would be re-
garded as a public loss, one that we trust we shall
not be called upon to record. The feeling of
confidence in his truthlulness and honesty that is
felt by the natives was forcibly illustrated during
the late session of the Legislature. Whenever
the Minister Of the Interior rose to speak, there
was Immediately to be heard a subdued buzz Of
qualification, and members listened as to one
who honestly meant what he said for the general
good. Equally strong, but different in degree for
obvious reasons, is the public confidence in the
ability, discretion and honesty of the gentleman
who occupied the peculiarly important position of
Law Adviser to the Crown in the late Cabinet.
The assurance that the government of the country
will continue to enjoy in the future as it has in
the past the benefit Of his wise counsel and clear
Judgment, viii have the effect to quiet uneasy ap-
prehensiOns and calm the public mind, which
Ministerial complications Of late have so con-
fessedly disturbed.
While the public sentiment is thus strong and
unmistakeable in its estimation of the respective
merits and dement's of the members Of the late
Cabinet, the feeling of confidence is none the less
prominent and marked that His Majesty, in the
exercise of his sound discretion, will call to his
eounsels none but those who are known to be the
true friends of the nation, and who will serve the
country in it's present needs with pure motives
and upon a liberal, enlightened policy. The
present is undoubtedly one of those political crises
in which the Crown is called upon to strengthen
the government of the country by the selection Of
such constitutional advisers as are known to pos
sess the popular confidence and s~upport,-men
who, being untrameled by private business rela-
tions, can give their undivided, unbiased atten-
ton to public affairs.