The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-25
From Our Own Correspondent
Partisan Items.
PARIS. An


From Our Own Correspondent
Partisan Items.
PARIS, August 18th, 1880.
Volumes might be written on the parallel between
the voyage of Marshal MacMahon three years ago to
Cherbourg, and that just made by NJ. Grevy. The
former had arrived at the Zenith of re-actionary
politics, and the country was in the throes of a pre-
Daration for that general election, which has decided
the fate of France. II was at that moment Gambetts
made his famous speech at Lille, where he laid down,
that when universal suffrage should have spoken the
Marshal must either submit or resign. Then the
Government of the day was, as De Girsrdin said.
g manufacturing fear. which meant fabricsting re
volution.'' On the Marshal quitting Cherbourg,
10000 persons pursued him to the railway station
with cries of " ViUe Theirs, ViUe la Republigue.' -
and singing the Marseillaise. To-day, NJ. Grevy is
received as the honored chief of the nation. in whose
hands legality runs no risk. and whose dominant
care is respect for the national will. He represents
France in full political repose. work, and CONNER
ciaI prosperity, with dynastic parties reduced to
debris, and each successive expression of universal
suffrage an unequivocal appreciation of the constitu
ton which France has chosen for herself.
As was to be expected, the knot of noisy people
that called themselves socialists, aud that relied on
musket. barricades, and dynamite to ensure q
second edition of the rights of man. have nearly ex
hausted themselves at one of their recent frugal
%banquets, they denounced not only Blanqui, but
R%ochefort, as being too aristocratic. The Republic
has nothing to fear in such u quarter ; it can crush
Instruction as terribly as il did in 1871. Every
man has now a vote, and to efec. fundamental re-
forms, to execute new programmes, agitators must
first commence by converting the electors.
Baron H~arden-Hickeyi is aged %, and reputed to
be wealthy. Some say he is an Irishman, others an
American, or u combination of both nationalities.
For the Minister of the Interior he is a foreigner.
He married three years ago to an Italian lady, whose
family Sampieri, trace their origin up to st. Peter.
as the De Courcy do theirs to Noah. The Baron had
an itch for writing, and under the name OF Saint
Patrice not only composed a few NOVELTIES descrip-
tive OF man upon town life, but founded q weekly
periodical called Iri6ouiet, an limitation of Punch,
less the latter's genial fun, Wit. and healthy satire.
Ii was devoted to scurrilous abuse of the republican
institutions. and above all offensive personalities to-
wards the authorizes it never of late couformed 20
the law of submitting its skiIs and senseless cartoons
to the censOrs before publication, consequently it was
always in court. and Saint Patrice. when not in
prison. was occupied paying fines for violations of
the law. To end the matter, the chronic and
wilfal delinquent has been expelled France, a step
the opposition journals lament like Jeremiah, though
they uttered no protest when Hartmann was request
ed 70 try the change of air. The Republic has no
more than any other free Government ever professed
the doctrine of unlimited liberties, and has a weak
ness for upholding the respect of the Law. Nothing
hindered Baron Hickey of the Fifth Avenue. New
York, to criticise in a manly and national form the
aofa of tho Eropoh Gouaror.a,k b.. 30 la.oanl ~
the arena of personal politics and scurrility. to be-
come the partisan aud exponent of the hates Of the
defeated dynastic mamelukes was not the role Of q
stranger, still less the manner of thanking France
for her hospitality,
Not much Importance is given in France to the
meeting of crowned heads at Ischl. Bossuet has
long ago described. and events every day confirm his
eloquence, that the best laid schemes of mice and
emPerors gang aft a-gley. Ischl is a pretty thermal
station near the Bavarian frontier. and its climate,
rather than its saline springs. effects most benefit
for fatigued constitutions. Thanks to a luxuriant
vegetation, it possesses an enViably mild and
equal temperature. In addition to the waters which
must be drank, the . perfect cure necessitates
also. drinking q kind of whey, and indulging in ex-
cursions (; the latter are not made either with horse
or ass, but in q sedan chair carried by hardy noun
taineers. The Emperor of Germany never hated the
rrencn, Dut MS parsonage covers Bismarck and De
Moltke, who do he ever held the Napoleon dynasty
IN detestation, in consequence of the treatment his
mother, the heroic Queen Louisa. aud his country
received from Napoleon / hence, be never DISCUS
ed bis personal satisfaction at having Napoleon LII
his prisoner. Lord Pslmerston said in 1866 of His
Majesty, " those thick moustaches will yet make
Europe tremble." The Empress Of Germany and
The Princess Victoria are not enemies Of France the
former was particularly marked in her attention to
the prisoners of the war of l870-7l. She is deep
~ read In French contemporary literature, and .
few years ago che made a trip through the south Of
France, when not even the Government was aware of
her incognito. The Emperor Nicholas said of Fran
els Joseph, who astonished him by his ingratitude
that be was only q scabbard without 3 sword.
at IL years ofage the Emperor of Austria received.
crying. his crown, and has since never had q dry
eye his life has the stamp Of fatality no person in
Europe 10 superior to him in aristocratic appearance.
he has drunk the cup of bitterness to the dregs.
politically and privately. He married for love, bat
aber fifteen years that passion evaporated, owing to
his liaison with g circus rider aud produced copse- |
quences that necessitated his Empress TO 20 to
Madeira to recruit her health. and left behind Q
nervous affection that compels her 10 find excitement
~epileptic. attacks, and the possibility Of such ending
fatally, 10 the chief reason for the early marriage Of
bis son. tA@ sUa
Mdlie De Vailly. ruedes RYramides. has been
frightening her fellow tenants. who concluded she
had from extraordinary noises in her rooms, relst-
ions with the evil one a warrant was obtained to
n s~estigate, and the commissary of police on enter
* vas met By q battalion Of 90 cate, shat Co.'S
need splitting At hin, besides displaying archsa
5Esks and tails at angles Of 45 degrees. Mils 1s-
aes &c part with 8 single one Of the pets. !