The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-05-31

IN the partial ClcCLlUuS 10 lahe pace iOI elSHt
Departments, in the course Of 4 few days. all in
terest seems to De concentrated on the struggle in
PaTis-the Derby Of contests. At the same time
all excitement appears to be confined to the news
papers and the posters. Respecting the latter,
there is a band to paste them up, and another
band % tear them down; this is all the pleasantly
to be noted, if the election itself be excepted.
1t may be accepted as granted, that notwithstand-
ing all the writing in the journals, and all the de-
bates in the clubs, and all the manifestoes from
public men. individually or united, not a convert
has been made; not a newspaper has precisely
changed sidcs-for the press at present follows,
but never leads public opinion. Parties are just
where they were before the campaign opened,
their opinions like their votes, are decided upon;
the result of the poll is all that remains Of Curl
osity.
There are three Richmonds in the field, R6mu-
sat, BarOdet, and Stoffel, who possess the merit Of
disuniting their natural supporters. NJ. Remu-
sat, if personality were involved, wonid be as he
merits, elected. But it is not a struggle of men,
nor of measures, and excepting Barodet, nor Of
principles; vet the result Of the battle will
largely affect and shape the future of France. 81.
Remusat is like NJ. Theirs, Il republican by ne
ccssity, and would return to Orleanism or any
other ism tomorrow, if the nation pronounced
for such; he is 70 years of age, and old monarch
lists rarely become sincere republicans after reach
ing three score and ten. His candidateship has
been manipulated by NJ. Theirs on the see-saw
plan; n sort of marriage IN erfremiS with the mod
crate republicans, who will vote for him, fault of
a better partner. As the impossible is possible
in France, he may be elected, but runs greater
chance OF d defeat. This calamity will not be n
death warrant for France, DOR will it bring back
the Prussians.
Barodet belongs to the school Of Louis Blanc
and GaInbetta; his address has the merit of being
very short and to the point. He insists on the
dissolution Ct the Assembly, the handing over to
its successor the making of laws to establish the
republic; the raising of the State of Siege, and
4 political amnesty. These are not violent doc
trincs, and more than Radicals hold them to be
as necessary as sound. Barodet belongs neither
to the upper ten nor the fashionable world; he
las been a school master like Louis Philippe, has
pOetical wild oats to his accOunt-iust as NJ.
Theirs, who was once an associate of Blanquis,
or the now sage and severe GTevy, that formerly
defended barbados. Barodet has not violated the
DecalOgue, and if he be poor and humble his
success will be the more honorable. He has
every prospect of being elected; among other
reasons his triumph would vex the government,
u state of things eminently gratifying at all times
10 IarlBldnS, anu WOulu nc an aulDOnltlOn ana q
notice to the deputies to strap their baggage.
The government would not object to his views
heading the poll Mt Lyons; his wrong is coming to
Paris. The republic can certainly support stauuch
republican deputies.
The third candidate, Col. StofFel, is the latest
in the field and the best of the lot. 1t was he
who forwarded as military attache at Berlin, such
faithful reports on the Prussian army, while
pointing out the defects of his own, and that the
late Emperor never read, as the dispatches were
discovered unopened, in the Tuileries. He is
also an able officer, perhaps one of the abest
France has, and which may explain why he has
been so quickly placed on the half-pay list. Fur
Their, NJ. Theirs has a personal dislike to him.
He has been selected at the twelfth hour by the
Legitimists and the Bonapartists-extremes meet
whose impossible and obnoxious principles he
does not share; but he divides the conservative
vote, develops confusion, and above all tormeuts
the powers that be. As Paul de Cassagnac, q
leading Bonapartist, observed at one of the COM
mittee meetings on behalf of his own friends and
their allies, the COmte de Chambord's party
we agree with NJ. Theirs assertion, that 'the
republic divides us least because it disgusts us
The allies also are united in a common
of the Orleanists-who are the Giron-
dins of the moment, and consequently as danger
Gus from their equivocal and undecided attitude.
You may hate a politician for his declared views,
but you can only despi c one who processes to
have none at all, that is in being all things to all
men.
a NJ. Allard, by means of tricolor posters,
proposes himself as candidate; he demands an
amnesty, both for Communists and Bonapartists,
the liberty for priests to marry, and the suppress
of the confessional. Ex-Eather Loyson ought
to come from Geneva to secure the poor candidate
)ne vote Mt least. As usual, the electoral meet
Ings were managed by medical men; the colonial
ton of New Caledonia having absorbed the sons
Of ST. Crispin, who formerly monopolized this
work, and the politics of the moment are too I'M
decided for the legal profession to speculate largely.
DR.. Blanche, director of the city lunatic asylum,
presided at some of these reunions, and by
taking notes, compelled the liyeliest of the
to descend from the tribune.
1t is q proverb, that the best compliment that
be paid a lady is, that the world does not talk
lbout her. OF late NJ. Theirs is in this position;
MS slightest movements that once were anxiously
ollowed with more than a Court Circular" in
crest, do not now attract. Is his popularity
up? He has lost ground by his mes
that of November was enough; his
,laying monarchists against republicans, and
nee rerSd, has succeeded in disgusting both his
neddling in the pending city election was a grave
and the present deadlock into which the
omlnercial treaties have fallen, do not rebound to
lis fame. In lberating his country from the Ger
nan, he has enough to balance these drawbacks,
uOugh to he carried to the profit and loss account
or gain. Excepting Henry the Fourth's, the
french retain no gratitude for the memory of
heir public men. To-day the idol is worshipped,
O-morrow it is demolished. The Ruler of France
must be ever a success, this is Monsieur's ideal of
nfallibIlity.
Every village, no matter how small, has in
an anniversary in honor of its patron
those in the neighbOrhood of Paris are
cry numerous and indeed important they sup
ly the means of livelihood TO a vast ambulatory {
So considerable have been the Saints,
hat their anniversaries fall between April and
when the weather is favorable, and some
illages are so grateful as to duplicate the ictes, I
of these festivals has commenced at Bondy. {
nd is gratefully considered as the harbinger of G
spring, like lilac and the swallows. Now
IL these induces exist, but not the fine weather; &
he vanguard of the swallows has returned in /