The Portland daily press., 1872-11-18
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
The Sandwich Islands Becoming Bank

! kamehameha V. present ruler I'm Hawaii.
on the Sandwich Islands, is childless, but un-
der the Hawaiian Constitution has the priyi-
| Iege OF naming his successor. Public opinion
points points 10 Prince Lunalilo as the person who
T Tili PROBABLY be selected to fill the throne ON
tho tho uemlse % OF the King He was considered
M tne rghlful heir previous to the accession of
t .he rulihg kamehameha, but was set aside by
| .sI ~ ois nihS. His claim comes from the fe-
| h%d'ue % Siue oi the reigninp family being a son
vi the sister Oh kamehaneha III, and has at
taiieu tle aye OF thirty-four years. He il
| popular WIN the people OF his own race. is
| well educated, and has a fine personaI ad.
dress.
The Prince, when he attains the tbrora
will inherit debt with his Kingly title. The
revenues of the kingdom do not seem to be
adequate to meet its expenses. Two differ
ent loans have recently been thrown upon the
market-one to pay tor the erection Of ho-
tel, amounting to $4,000, and another to
meet deficiencies of S250,0O0. Every year
there is falling off in the population from
disease, while very little is added by immigra-
ton. There was in the seven inhabited is
lands, in 1923, population of 100000. In
lSl2, It had diminished to 130, ,3l6; in 1916, to
l03,519; in 1850, 81, ,165; in 1852, to 1890.
1t Is estimated that the population at this
time does not exceed 10000 souls.
| The government would seem to be more
complicated in its machinery than so small a
| population requires. Its expenses from the
fiscal year 1872 foot up 81, ,130244. There are
no less than twenty-six Supreme and District
Judges, drawing salaries of $4,000, $4,000,
| 81, 600, down to 5000 each; besides clerks, in-
! terpreters, &C.; and there ale also Police
Judges and host of other officers, all receiy-
ing good pay. The Attorney Generals De-
partment alone costs annually S97. POS: the
Department ofForeign Affairs aud War, S94,-
| Ipf aT-
| the finance Department, 1884, $50, Two
omnibus items in the Interior Department
are, "Leper establishment, $50, 900; travelling
! physicians and nurses, $4,000" There can
be scarcely doubt that the annual expenses
OF the Kingdom might be reduced one-half,
II not more, and the government be better adj
ministered than 1t is now. Unless entrench-
| ment be inaugurated in few years the King
dom will be hopelessy swamped in debt.
THE Paris correspondent of the Manches-
ter Guardian is responsible for the follow
| ing
The celebrated pianist Leopold de Mayer
gives his experience at the Turkish Court in
letter which is going the rounds of the pa
perS: LII was, he says no easy matter TO play
music In the seraglio. You are sent for at
ei9nt IN the morning in order to play at three
IN the afternoon; you must be in full uniform
you wait seven hours in very fine gallery,
where it is forbidden to sit From time to
time you are informed of what his Highness is
doing. His Highness has just got up-you
must PROSTATE yourself. A little later you arc
told that his Highness is taking his bath
you PROSTATE yourself again. His Highness
| is dressing-you reprostrate yourself His
Highness is taking his coffee, and you repros-
trate yourself at each sof these particulars
more profoundly than before At length your
piano is brought in. The legs have been
taken OF, so as not to injure the floor, a pre-
cious mosaic of rare woods The immense
grand piano is placed on five Turksl The
wretched men support the crushing mass on
their knees. why" you say, II can't play
on five-Turk piano." 1t is thought that
you hesitate because the instrument is not
horizontal A cushionis therefore placed un-
| der the knees of the smallest Turk. No one
| supposes That sentiment of humanity makes
you hesitate. After a long explanation of
this refinement of civilization the piano is
placed on its own legs again. The Sultan ap-
pears. After all sorts of salaams you are told
to play. You ask for a chair; there is no
chair. No one ever sits in presence of his
Highness. NJ, de Mayer suppresses one de-
tail, which, however, is current as authentic
He played long fantasia on his knees, and
when,at the eud, the Sultan saidhe thought he
must be very tired, NJ. de Maver convinced
his Highness of the contrary by moving round
the gallery on his hands