The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-10-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial OOtrtlstr
SATURDAY. OCTOBER ..
OUR PARIS LETTER.

The battle respecting superior instruction Eou!a
seem TO be only commencing. The Radicals object TO
the clergy having the right TO found universities,
and 10 propagate Ultramontane views. Now there
cannot be two tolerations, no more than two morai-
ties. The French Bishops, must be left as free to
organize new colleges as other citizens. The extreme
Republicans are here very prudent, and the more so,
when they threaten, that the new Assembly VIII
rescind the legal liberty accorded 10 tie clerical party
to open high schools This attempt at violence IS
what has hitherto lost the Republics, by Identifying
that form Of Government with anarchy. Ii Is owing
to having abused liberty. that extreme politicians are
to-day deprived Of free speech and free meeting
These faults are lamentable; it is unjust to attack
the rights Of others in the name Of n false equality,
and people can only claim to be tolerant when they
can accord liberty TO their adyersaries. These re-
marks spply equally to these extreme churchmen,
who, because France is vastly Catholic, demand, that
no consideration be paid to their Protestant and
Jewish fellow countrymen. France is Catholic, but
very far indeed from being Ultramoutane, and the
reason why Ultramontanism makes q fair appearance
before the eyes Of the country is, owing TO the ability
with which it confounds its cause with liberty. Three
or four UltramontaDe colleges cannot uproot the
Unborn liberalism of Frenchmen, nor is it clear, that
these colleges can ever become numerous; competi-
ton would destroy them, and they would moreover,
in point of professional education, have to struggle
against the faculties of the State. A no small part
of the French clergy, it is well known, lament the
loss Of independence of the Gallican Church In a
word, the contest between lay and clerical instruc-
ton cannot injure France; and the system which
turns out men of the world, instead of Dominic
Simpsons and Dryasdusts, will carry the day.
Inc SESSIONS OF the COUNCILS GeDefal nave nearly
terminated, and the proceedings have been charac-
terized by great tranquility. Hence, new homage to
the new Constitution. There has been everywhere
the desire to practice political Cancellation, and to
accept the Republic loyalty. These Councils General
are rapidly becoming schools, or centres of political
wisdom and local self-Government, and anything
which promotes these public virtues is to be COM
mended. The central administration takes-in every
sense-too much upon itself. The ministry drags
itself along as well as it can; according to certain
ATTITUDES of the country it blows hot or cold. In the
north, a Project praises the Constitution, in the
south another snubs it, and both functiunaries are
equally blessed. This extraordinary state of govern
ing must continue, till the Assembly makes-not its
testsment-that being already executed, but its codi-
Gil, and by the dissolution, allow the only issue to be
decided at the urns, a sagacious and liberal Republic,
or an arbitrary Empire.
So far as returning to power, the Imperialists have
no more chance than the Monarchists at present
holding the reins expect to continue in office. The
chief Bonapartist journal menaces the Republicans
with the ~guillotine, in case the Empire be restored.
This is not the way to make converts, or to obliterate
the "reminiscences of the coup d'etat and Sedan. 1t
is overlooked. that honey catches more flies than
vinegar. However, the opponents of Imperialism
require no additional proofs that the leopard cannot
change its spots.
Many who would never subscribe to Mr.. Glad
stones views respecting the Vatican, do not the less
regret the prohibition of the Home Ohice-for he has
committed an error in charging the Foreign Office
with the Notwithstanding his work on the
DEGREES. &C., to be sold on the thoroughfares of
France. OF course his book can be sold at all libra
ries. The author may feel annoyed at the refusal of
the powers that be, but France must feel Inundated.
The late Home Minister in refusing a similar permits
sion to Nine. de Gasparin, assured her that the
liberty of hawking books was given only to books
8 not serious and licentious." Let this be a conso-
lation for the ex-premier, and also the circumstance
connected with forbidden fruit, that his work, which
ordinarily could not count upon many purchasers,
will now have several. Be its doctrines fierce or
mild, they are not likely to affect the interests of the
Vatican in this country. Where Hyacinthe and
Michaud failed, Gladstone need not hope to succeed.
Frenchmen occupy themselves only with the political
aspect of the Roman question, leaving the religious
side of it to their wives and sisters, and so long as
the women are in favor of His Holiness, the church
has nothing to fear.
The Prussians make no progress in assimilating
Alsace to their views, and they are now well nigh
five years in possession Of the conquered territory.
and menaces are alike impotent to con-
queg~the affection of the Alsatians for the French.
A second edition of the Arminius monument in the
coded territory might be tried to bring back strayed
sheep to the fold. As it is, Colmar and Alulhouse
are not less hostile to the conquerors than is Stras-
bourg. The fusion is as impossible, as between the
branches of the French Bourbon family. The Asa
tians reply to the Prussians, as did formerly the
Venetians to the Austrians-'sw W. wish nothing from
you, only that you 60 away
French families are becoming strangely economical,
this season has introduced the fashion of only one
half of the members of a family going to the seaside
at q time, so that if four heads of houses club for q
villa, expenses will be much reduced. Some moral
growl, that the free and easy life at bathing
t1uaRtSs all IuC SSHEEdl llItut6S lldt |
sap the best intentions to remain good.
it cannot be denied, a watering place seems
to be the natural home, of hatred, malice, and all I'M
Travelling incognito has its draw
backs as well as its advantages. If an humble title
be taken, it is charged proportionately in the bill.
Admiral Romanof, better known as the Grand Duke
Constantine, occupies the third floor of the principal
MOTEL in the city. Did he arrive as Grand Duke, he
would be forced to occupy the first story. But there
3 another class of incognitas who pay dear for their
whistle, in Paris at all events; people who have been
10 baron6ed in Germany, or made SO happy in Italy
With Eccellen=G, that they cannot exist without a
handle to their name. These DAVIS in the borrowed
are placed without mercy in hotels, where
heir vanity is well-knoWn. Many are not aware.
hat q private guide is printed at Geneva, in French,
or the use Of European hotel proprietors, and where
respecting too notorious travellers are sent " the
The best ~incognito voyager was Peter the
treat, when he worked for five months at Saardam,
s q shipbuilder, under the simple name of Michailoff
Every Frenchman if he cannot become chief of the
tate, aims to arrive at the Office held to be next to 4
|, that of Project; Lyons possesses a Viceroy named I
)ucros, the model of reactionist functionaries. 1t is
elieved that some free thinkers are Sc ferocious, as
D have cold clergymen on their side board; the
reject in question is considered to dine off Repub- 4
cans, as Jack the Giant Killer did on babies
rance is less amused than afflicted at his misfor-
mes. An accomplished seoundrel named Bouvier,
ho had been imprisoned for robbery, and whose
I'D character was notorious, led NJ. Duros to believe '
e was able TO betray the secrets of the Radicals, and
produce letters from Gambetta favoring the organ
ing conspiracies. To trip up Gambetta vas a prize
orth riskiDg. So the Projects private secretary
as despatched to Italy to bring back Bowler. On .
e i atter's denunciations, the police made domiciliary 4
to the papers of most respectable citizens, but n
othing was found in the way of treason, save q poem
some thousand stanzas on the exhibition of 1867.
was the case of the Spanish feet you cannot see,
,cause it is not in sight. But Gambetta's letter -
as discovered in the pocket of a detective, possess
o the romantic name of Coco. The result was a
Isco, and the judges, independent of the Govern
ordered Bouvier to be tried for forging docu-
ents, and he has been fined, and sentenced to three
,ars imprisonment. The citizens reserve the right
taking actions against Ducros, when another King
Uses that shall not know Joseph. =
When Parisians have a moment TO spare from the n
Iestion of heat, they devote it to the discussion of
pital punishment, the reformed postage stamps,
ID the statue Of Chateaubriaud The last first, be- -
cause the sculptor Millet works on it IN the open =