The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-07-28


last week the writer expressed his gratiica-
ton at the way in which the Kamehameha
Hymn had been received during recent
entertainment. We heartily endorse that
writer's sentiments We desire to see the
utmost respect paid TO royalty. We think
the people of this country are very remiss in
this matter. When the King enters public
room the people should certainly rise W hen
he leaves he should certainly go first without
being jostled and pushed by the crowd
These are small matters of politeness which
we are sure every man, even of the severest
republican stamp, could not refuse to offer. A
simple, unostentatious court, a diguifed
demeanor will always command this respect;
an attempt at aping the paraphernalia of
European royalty will inlallibly lose it.
Royal ostentation is against the spirit of the
age. European sovereigns whose thrones are
stable dispense with il much as possible
when they have the opportunity 1t is only
snch parvenu monarchs as Napoleon the Great
and his nephew, who lavished vast sums on
show with the avowed intention of dazzling
the people. We can well remember how, at
the opening OF the Suez Canal, the simplicity
of the landing of the Queen of Holland was
noticed and admired. She walked mp the pier
at Port Said as simple tQfy. but the honors
paid to her were as great as if she had come
surrounded by q brilliant suite A few years
ago the Emperor of Russia lost nothing Of his
dignity by driving about ST. Petersburg in
single-seated sledge as a private gentleman:
in fact he was far more of an Emperor then
than he is now when the spread of Nihilism
has compelled him to surround himself with
guards.
We remember little story which may point
n moral 4 fatx rLara
met at Worms the Diet of the German Empire
Hobnobbing together over their Rhenish,
the Princes took to blasting about their pos
sessions: this one lauded his gold mines, that
his silver mines, another vaunted his castles,
another his cities and manufactures, another
the broad extent of his land; the glasses
clinked and the vaulted roofs re-echoed with
the shouts in praise of such grand things. At
length a rugged old warrior arose, grey
bearded, gruff of voice he could not boast of
mines of gold and silver, he had no frowning
castles, his cities were the merest villages,
his manufactures Just served 10 supply the
simple wants of his people, but this thing he
could boast of, he could go alone into the
deepest recesses of the forests of his own
wild country and lay his head upon the bosom
of the poorest peasant and-seep in peace
and security. AS he ceased one universal
shout proclaimed that he possessed the bright
est jewel, the most priceless gem that mon
arch could own, The hearts Of has subjects!
Now that subject SO utterly strange and
undreamed of hitherto, in this community, as
crowns and coronations, has come to be pro-
minent theme for discussion on every street
corner, it might be well to remember what a
crown is and TO what purposes it has been
put. The first crown we find mentioned in
the BiRle was ornamental rim or edging of
gold to be placed round the margin of a wood
en- table. The oldest crown at present in ex-
isteuce is probably the so called Iron Crown"
OF Lombardy, a circlet of gold containing with
in 1t thin rim of iron said to be forged from
nail Of the Cross Of Calvary II was con-
structed in A. D. sci, and was used to crown
Charlemagne IN the year 500 and Napoleon
Bouaparte in 1905. At the coronation of
Henry III. of England there was no crown
available, as his estimable father King John
had recently lost the whole regalia in cross
ing the quicksands on the coast of Lincoln
shire, thus we have a historical precedent
showing that crown is not essential to 4
coronation. Theodore the unhappy King of
Corsica in 1886 finding himself the sovereign
Of small insHhdr kingdom, very sensibly de-
termined to forego both crown and coronation
Napoleon III. was never crowned, he was not
so strong a man as his uncle, who sternly re-
buked some time serving fatterers who wished
to provide him with pedigree, bus was al
ways painfully conscious of his doubtful place
in the cousinship Of European monarchs and
thought that coronation might unearth IN
pleasant questions as to antecedents and as 10
the means by which he reached his position.
A crown or royal coronet was worn by
Richard Ill at the decisive battle of Bosworth
field and after his death was found in hedge
by Stanley. ancestor of the present Earl of
Derby, and by him placed on the head of Rich
mOnd, thenceforth Henry VII; it is scarcely
necessary to say that this story may be found