The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-09-04
THE PACIFIC
Commercial
SATURDAY,. SEPTEMBER !.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

The feelings and opinions OF those Frenehman
who place their country above the ambition of
the pretenders, unanimously condemn the con-
duct of the Assembly, in according ITSELF proro-
CATION, instead of voting n dissolution. Those
deputies who believe that France, and perhaps
the universe, will never be great, glorious, and
free, till she possess n Divine Right Monarch, or
an arbitrary Emperor, arc simply in their role,
in endeavoring by all means to trip up the Re
public, despite it's being now the law of the land.
Not so those r~oyalists who voted the Republican
Constitution, convinced opposition was useless,
but who now lend themselves 70 every petty
subterfuse to prevent that Constitution being
applied. These three Glasses of deputies are
after all but partlzans. not patriots and the
great consolation the disappointed patience and
good sense of the country possesses, is the con-
seriousness that when the general election do
come, a clean sweep will he made Of Representa-
tiyes who abuse their trust, by defying opinion.
Very little importance is attached 70 either the
programme or the promises Of a ministry, which
possesses neither craftsmanship nor courage. The
Cabinet, only drives the. people deeper into
Republicani5m, in trying to give the cold shoulder
to the Republic. Indeed popular opinion accuses
the chief Of the ministry of a desire to entrust the
new Constitution only to It's enemies, and of being
III AAB lAAEN n punt AS1 CENh ~ otAoN As
that his political reputation is ruined. No one
in France believes of course the general elections
will take place this year, and those not altogether
cynical, entertain the same belief for 1876. The
deputies have non-dissolution on the brain, and
sacrifice the peace and security of the country, to
the god Hazard, expecting to reap benefits from
unknown eventualities. All this is intended to
provoke the Republicans to commit, in their
natural disgust at the situation, excuses, and
then pitch the Constitution to the winds. But
the Republicanism Of the country, that is to say,
its good sense and patriotism, will still continue
to be patient, and not less yigilant. 1t is loves
labor lost intriguing to restore monarchy, which
is as dead as q mummy IN France. 1t had its
opportunity, and lost it. The tide was not taken
at the foed, or, like the book of the Sibyl, where
each unsecured page, was torn and vanished for
ever. To judge how craftsmanship has fallen,
the leader of the Cabinet advocates the puerility,
that candidates ought not to be allowed TO pre-
sent themselves before the electors, as he who
had the sweetest and most honeyed tongue, would
obtain the majority. The same politician, would
prefer for Senators, all the political MANNED,
and blind crutches and rheumatism wigs and
govt false eyes and chronic constipation; Of
men more in want of nurses than of curule chairs.
This recalls the history of an operation performed
by the celebrated DupuytreD, who had so ampu-
tated the patient, that the hospital assistants
demanded of him, which moiety of the %unfortu-
nate, was to be carried back to bed.
The revenue of the country is on the whole
good for the first six months of this year at
present the augmentation in receipts is not so
satisfactory, and the cause may be largely traced
to the unsettledness of the political condition of
the country. Direct taxes are as punctually
paid, as they are increasingly productive, and the
savings Of the country increase each year by one
milliard. Stamps and registration, are product
i've, the former markedly so. The Indirect i'm
posts yield well the custom import duties, which
produced in 1863, only seyenty-nine and a half
millions of francs, amounted to one hundred and
forty-four millions in 1874. The tobacco tax
seems to be as inexhaQstible as Il wizards hat.
The Post Office returns do not indicate Il loss.
but n more moderate scale of tariffs would BRING
more grist to the mill. France ought never to
lose sight of a saying of one Of her wise statesman
Make me good politics and | will guarantee
you fourishing finances"
The Geographical international Exhibition,
being now in shipshape, is b becoming appreciated.
Perhaps it is the reigning favoritc of the numer-
Gus exhibitions now open. 1t is an ethnOgraph-
zeal gallery, a museum, and q picture salon, and
is above oil, attractive by its variety. 70 traverse
the various sales, is to make a tour of the world,
in eighty minutes, or eighty hours as the traveller
pleases. Each country has its own installation,
thus being an exhibition within an exhibition.
Russia occupies n large space, the largest perhaps
next to France. After visiting the 30 or 40
rooms devoted TO the exhibition, one is not
inclined to ratify Clothes remark, &" that which
distinguishes the French, is their Ignorance of
geography" The vast military map of France
covers the entire wall of the Gallery of Annals,
and the coded territory, poor Alsace, looks like n
moral in an apartment destined to record all the
glories of France. This map occupied 80 years
to complete. 1t is curious to note, that while all
the chief European nations expose freely their
military maps, Germany sends none. As a COM
pensation, however, there are geological maps of
Saxony, and statistical charts of Bavaria and
Prussia there are in addition, field glasses and
photo albums, and portable medicine chests.
Germany is thus the least war-like nation in the
world. There is a planisphere that Napoleon /.
had executed for the instruction of his son, the
King of Rome the lad never used it. France in
relief by Mile. Kleinhaus, is a work of extraordi-
nary patience; she commenced the chain of the
no less than seven times. Among the
eccentric exhibits is 4 map, " creation corrected
by the creature" and which is appropriately
signed "Asinus." Xavier de Maistre made an
agreeable voyage around his room, but an excur-
sion through this exhibition will give the visitor
more q knowledge of the world !" in a day, than
he could obtain from books in years.
According to true friendships laws, we . speed
the parting guest" The Sultan, or "Citoycn
Zanzibar, " as a republican journal of the purest
subjects. as did the Doge of Genoa, after visiting
Louis XIV. at Versailles, respecting what most
surprised him, replied, " to find myself there
Few sovereigns now a days but are familiar with
railways; some leave their dominions, and are
relieved from the necessity of taking q . return
ticket - for crowned or to be crowned heads,
there are now no L" extravagant countries as
Don Caesar de Bazan would say. The Sultan is
a vast Improvement on the Shah of bizarre mem
DRY, who only took pleasure in aerobats and wild
beast tanners, and who esteemed the best qualif-
cation for an able Cabinet Minister, was the
being able to jump like the circus rider, through
twelve tissue papered hoops in succession. The
Seyyid was most attracted during his visit TO the
Maritime, &C., exhibition, with a man repairing
broken China with glue-a feat daily to be
witnessed at any street corner in Paris. But
when the present Gar visited the capital in 1867,
was not his greatest amusement to witness the
changing of the wheels Of the tram cars, near the
entrance of the Champs Elysees? Far different
was Peter the Great who before the tomb Of
Richelieu in the Sorbonne, exclaimed - Great
man, had you been born in my States, 1 would
Lnrn n;rnn fhn half Of my Ennnirn "a learn !