The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-03-21
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOfrtlser.
SATURDAY. MARCH y.
OUR PARIS LETTER.
PAsIs. February 10Th, 1874.

TO hopeless, where every person is g doctor, ana
not a few supplement that Office by being a judge.
The elements of life are, however, vigorous and
satisfactory, il j. their expression and develop
ment that leave much to be desired. Pending
the voting Of some Constitution, the future i:
not without clouds. Confidence persists in re-
naming in an inert state, and it cannot be man
ufactured like laws. l. is a plant Of proyerbially
slow growth in aged bosoms, and it would seem
to be equally tardy Just now in young ones also
The short intervals Of calm, represent not the
extinction Of fierce passions, but the smOuldering
Of the fire. Mems minds are agitated, and I'M
easiness paralyses business. There are always
rocks ahead, and storm clouds gather again as
fast as they disappear. The majority in the
Assembly display serious family differences and
the government tar :alises the opposition by re-
naming either proVokingly reticent or ably am
biguOus. Such is the vocation OF the Ministry
-chdcun a son gOui-and as Falstaff rules, - It's
no sin for a man to labor in his vocation" 1t is
not very certain, aH a consequence of recent ex-
plantations, subtilties, and commentaries, under
which King Bezorian lives. The absence of
Henri V, of Louis Philippe H., of Napoleon ",
led many to believe, that like NJ. Jourdan and his
prose, one was dwelling under a Republic with
out knowing it. To-day this is not so clear,
since the name even is called in question. Per-
haps when the crucial moment arrives, public
opinion may insist that after all there is some
thing in a name.
The tendency of the situation is shadowing
forth, on the part of the majority in the Assem-
bly, to substitute for seven years the appellation
Septennat, for the existing name Republic, or the
more coveted title-by said majority lie it under
stood-of monarchy, which would involve a spe-
cies of legally enforced truce, worked out by a
policy at once negative and repressive. This
truce would resemble the case of the sportsman
who fell into a deep ditch, and there encountered
a wolf man and animal remained observing one
another, neither daring to stir, well knowing
that at any moment a tragic ending could ensue.
Surprising that this miracle succeeded for seven
years, why not repeat 1t for seyenty-times-seyen,
and prevent all parties from being inter-devoured?
If Ministers be the prisoners of the Legitimists.
the latter will not the less follow the lead of the
Ministers, for the moment this Siamese union is
served, both will perish. To prolong this union
is the anxious care of the interested to destroy
it, the aim Of the opposition. When will this
game terminate? OH U!Urd, Ucrra. The Com
mittee of Thirty occupied in drafting the totally
new Constitution, could do much to improve
matters, in bringing the contest to a crisis by
its report. But the thirty Lycurguses
are not in the slightest hurry their plan of work
a combination of the squirrel in the
cage and Penelope's web, because they did not
begin at the beginning. 1t is not very clear for
whom they work, or what party will profit by
the fruit of their labors, their mediations, dis
and inventions. 1t is even thought
that the Committee does not weigh the laws it
prepares in the balance of the just and the unjust,
but in that of passion and interests of party.
constitutional laws should be instruments of
peace, not weapons of war, and the country itself
ought to be regarded as something higher than n
field for experiments. The decision of the As
'embly on these Sister-Anne coming laws, that
governmental pressure cannot even hasten, would
10 more good, than the corrected editions of the
speeches, or the inspirations of the
)fieial press. &" Intervening ?" is becoming use
ess as a means of making known Ministerial
unless two respectable householders, in
ali po1errri"r, "f th~ir civil ord rnlitioAl -ishes
De present. Four would be required in the case
IF Bismarck.
1t is three years Sg9, day for day, since France
humiliation, was called upon to elect the present
Assembly, ostensibly to decide upon the question
# peace or continued war. A Hobson's choice
With all respect for Gambetta. The candidates
we're then considered to be liberal conservatives
none protested an adhesion to monarchy
,r Comparison. \ complete metamorphosis has
Iince taken place, but not at all astonishing. He
would be a real Verdant Green who felt surprise
It a Frenchman not keeping pace with the
,hangeableness of the times. Oddly enough, it
g the country which has least altered it appears
% have a growing affection for what is c~onserva-
i've, liberal, anti-radical, as well as anti-mon-
The partial elections within the last
.wo years and a half have been generally in this
;ense, and of late eminently Republican. The
.wo that have just now taken place, though in
he centres Of royal and imperial sympathies, are
40 exception to the reigning verdict. It is not a
title strange in any case after the fall of the
econd Empire, to observe a candidate avowing
himself manfully-One admires pluck however
its associations-a Bonapartist, and
polling 40 900 votes, as in the department of the
pas-de-Calais. This fact, with the circumstance
If NJ. Rouher being elected Chairman of a Com
nittee of the Assembly, must act as a sursum
Orda for the Bonapartists. Imperialism like
2epublicanism has the advantage of protesting a
olain policy-though differing as the polls, and
renee, why many regard the Empire as the heir
apparent of the Republic.
If business be not furnishing, it must not be
concluded that the country is exhausted conf
lence and security are the remedies only, and
lone, required. Enterprise is discouraged by
,%olitical instability, and the budget is deplorably
,uffeted by schemes of taxation injurious when
lot impracticable. In place of adopting solu-
ions, frank, decisive, perhaps cruel, and that
Yould put an end to the uncertainties of COM
nerce and industry, and the perplexities of capt.
all are fatigued by an interminable success
ion of new imposts, that are made and unmade,
and augmented, as 4 rule, increasing
ever improving, and worst of all, seeming TO
no end. Each year-following an ancient
ustom, the nation is promised Il full and exact
OF us finances, put cacn year witnesses
hat the usual economy of truth has been prac-
iced. Not that the people, France, has lost the
courage; but the wish to see clear, to know
nee for all the extent of the liability and the
leasure of the sacrifice required, predominant.
he country is prepared TO pay all the taxes
ecessary, but is impatient at their being admin
in homeopathic doses. 1t would prefer a
emedy immediate and heroic, after which the
eople would be free to work and repair their
overs.
The very excellent Fat Cattle Show that is now
eing held in the Palais dc IIndustrie proves
there is no famine in the land, though many
eople, owing to the want OF work, are on the
erge of want. The organization of this exhibit
on is perfect, and to which the building itself
much. 1t is only in making war
nd that but of late years-that the French have
lien away in their tIme-honored character for
ldicious provision and arrangement. The Cattle
how has quite a drawing-room character owing
the prevailing cleanliness. The animals them.
SOON IN hn .aAn5aT1-- ~ IL.