The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-24
PAR1s. Nov. 3. ISL.

the election OF tND-LlllEu- ol Us h1tulbcISf
the House has consequently been declared
legally constituted and so tit and proper for
the despatch Of business. The contested
elections are few and Of no serious or prac-
teal Importance; the protest Is chiefly
maintained to annoy the successful candi-
date. and j. kept up till the last moment
when the petition committee declares there
exist no proofs for quashing the election.
The protests besides cost nothing. 1t was
i'm this sense the radicals endeavored to
annoy Gambetta /; after pouring out some
more venum upon him, they the
opposition. In the opening of this Cham
Der after the general elections, there were
no incidents strange to say worthy OF being
recorded the ancient deputies dropped
into their old places, and the new took
possession like the sheep of Panurge. The
Republicans have so increased in numbers
that many of them now have had to be ac-
commOdated among the monarchists.
Bishop Freppel has for comrade an able,
and these representatives of the church
have in front of them, a pastor of the Cal
vanist persuasion, who will t~heolOgically
and politically say no to their doXy.
Indeed it may be observed, that nothing so
much resembles an old House of Repre-
sentatives as n new one.
Gambetta has played his cards we'll he
insisted on being elected provisional presi-
dent of the chamber, thus he was able to
show by the majority of votes that he
scored, ne was still the first man in France.
| represented the nation, and was hence as 1t
were imposed IN NJ. Grevy to select as
| Prime Minister. Thus Gambetta avoids
the ordinary course of being sent for.
Another significant fact was the complete
] collapse of the radicals. During the Yaca-
ton they kept up a hurly-burly recalling
skedadling dog with tin kettle attached TO
its tail once in the House they were as
gentle as sucking doves. On their first
indulgence in their usual rifle practice,
that of vitaperation, the entire House
cOughed them down this had more effect
than at first could be imagined not a few
deputies who had decided to march through
| Coventry with Louis Blanc and
ceau, whose programme is all or nothing,
coupled with a mortal jealousy of Gam
BETA, at once sheared round to the
mOderates.
1t is a cut and dry arrangement the Gam
BETA Cabinet; his accession to office, will,
like charity, cover a multitude of sins of
the Ferry Ministry; the mess and muddle
of Tunisia is rapidly fading into ancient
hi. tory I; the dead has buried its dead the
soldiers are better off now, and the Tuni-
slams have vanished on the approach of the
French, or demanded pardon, the better to
reform, if circumstances favor that
strategy, a year, or a century hence. In
fact, Tunisia must be occupied, and posts
pushed in advance.
The accession of NJ. Tissot, to the Foreign
Office, is a. excellent nomination. He is
about 80 years of age, and has been thirty
summers in the diplomatic service he is
the ugliest, yet one of the most agreeable
men in France; is a charming cduseuT,
promises everything, but accords nothing (;
he impresses you with the idea, that he IS
devoted to you heart and soul, but he is as
false as n flirt he has promised about one
thousand persons, that if nominated Min
lister of Foreign Affairs they will all be pro-
yided fOr-no such thing-theywill be all for
gotten, for in this sense he has independ-
ence of heart. He has the pen of n ready
writer, which can be used with a Swiss
zeal on any side of diplomatic correspond
ence. as his dispatches prove he is a dis
/ esnrxrrTuha1 nrnIaan1nniEf hfG writings no
ing OH this ology so profound, that only the
Pickwickian elect understand them-ap posi-
ton, like every mystery, which enhance
his reputation. he is more devoted to Gam
beta than to the ladies he c~aptivates the
hearts of the latter at will-but none can
catch him he flirts better than his Secre-
taries. He possesses another marked quail
fication /; he can have an attack OF govt,
rheumatism, enlarged liver, the gravel &c,
on the receipt of a ciphered telegram, and
he allows his sufferings to be witnessed in /;
sulphur or an electric bath. The necessity
for the malady passed, he throws away the
c%rutches, as quickly as n Pope SiXtus.
What a marked contrast between Tissot
and the poor innocent st. Hilaire, whose
chief error was that of trying TO be honest
and tTuthful-the greatest drawbacks to a
successful diplomatist.
The new Wa Minister will be NJ. de
Freycinet he is too well known to need
observation he becomes for the second
time Gambetta's Minister of War. The
1 IuIuTe GIGSluGUl u lit IL III DC W.
Henri Brissou, naturally marked for that
part. Heis, after Gambetta, the mOstnotable
man of the day he is about 10 years of
age, or four more than Gambetta; he made
his way rather by his own resources than
by independent means when a student, he
never associated with the foibles of his
comrades, but studied the French Revo-
luton, Rousseau, and philosophy; when
called to the Bar in 1859, he lost his voice
from a heavy cold, and for seven years
lived by journalism along with Gambetta
andhisschool. In 1865, he published a journal
devoted to the philosophy of independent
morality, his doctrines were denounced by
Father Hyacinthe Loyson, at Notre Dame,
then a cupucin Brissou predicted, that
Loyson's doctrine would ultimately compel
that divine to secede from the Catholic
Church-an event that ensued, and NJ.
Brissou, like a gallant warrior AFTER con-
verting or conquering the priest, occasion
ally attends his new church as an inter
mittent parishioner. NJ. Brissou was the
first to propose the amnesty OF the Com
munists, and that too when Iarls was al
most smoking in the ruins the insurgents
had made and the amnestied return that
benevolence by vituperating him q la
Gambetta, only they have not condemned
him to death it was BriSsou also, who IN
sisted on bringing MacNahon's coup-d'etat
Cabinet to trial it is he who also insisted
On the DEGREES for the expulsion OF the
Jesuits being applied, and his project Is
accepted in principle, viZ:-tor secuIarlslng
all the property of the religious orders in
France. He is the only leading Republican
caused him 10 be accused of holding mon
archicaI ideas. BY doctrine he is a Giron-
dist in means n Dantonist, and in action
he displays all the GOODNESS and perseve-
rance Of a Jacobin, linked to the sentiment
taIism of j. ]. Rousseau. He has n dash OF
the Puritan in his grave air, and has this
advantage over Gambetta, that OF never
losing his temper. He lives on the nth
story, of a very unprepossessing house, In a
kind OF respectable alley the tenant over
head. is the man who sticks up his electoral
addresses; the value of his furniture being
set down 30 francs; he reads old books only,
tempered with parliamentary papers. Con-
TEMPORARY history, has no jokes of his TO
record: for him life has not enough of time
for serious affairs. 1t will be with heavy
heart he will quit his attic for the official
Palais Bourbon.