The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-29
OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, SEPT. s.
In the SEQ Deputies elected, only lightweight
are Monarchists, and fifty fervent Radicals if
both these extremes united they could not put,
as in the late Chamber, the Ministry in check.
But will the remaining 40 deputies, Of whom
the majority are the avowed followers of Gam
beta, the others being Grevyists, keep together
and support a Gambetta Ministry. People hope
for, rather than trust in, such n result. Gam
beta himself is not very sanguine of receiving "a
permanent support and if he do not, he will
certainly decline every overture to form "A
Cabinet. The cry of the country is Gambetta
Minister ;" his enemies join in the cry. be-
Hevlng he will, when IN office, be sooner played
out honest citizens desire to see him at the
head of affairs, to crown the work he so largely
contributed to found too many protesting
friendship for him would only be too delighted
to witness his fall. Happily Gambetta knows
the instability of politicians-and those of France
in particular. 1t is quite on the cards he will
play the roll of great commoner, aiding some
expediency Cabinet to vote reforms.
In his starring tour through Normandy, Osten-
sibly to efface the souvenirs of his sorrows at Belle
vile, Gambetta betrayed evidence of fatigue and
a little loss of heart. His discourses undoubtedly
lacked fire, and had no stint of common places.
He spoke rather as a Minister than n leader, and
pronounced only feebly in favor of all the good
things promised to constituencies during can
vassing days. His position is most difficult and
delicate.
Sunday is the principal day for visiting the
Electric Exhibition during the week there is
room enough, and to spare. The tiny electric
railway has more admirers than passengers it
runs from the Place de la Concorde to the Palace
of Industry for the democratic fare of five sous
it has encountered opposition-as an old woman
with goat-caIriages conveys young savants of four
years of age the same distance for three sous.
The clinical lectures on electric appliances are
not markedly in favor. Visitors are, however,
interested in the sewing-machines worked by
box-lightning in the domestic lamps fed by the
fluid similarly stored the telephone salons are
besieged to hear the singers and actors at the
opera and theatre-a mile away. One country
man avowed he did not quite understand the
matter-the actors appeared to have a uniform
voice, and kept continually crying Lemonade,
oranges, barley sugar, and beer The unfor-
tunate was listening to an interlude.
ABOUT KING KALAKAUA.
Pending his swallow-hight visit to Europe,
His Majesty King Kalakaua, accompanied by his
suite, came to Paris twice, and did all the lions
like a working tourist. He was everywhere
received with the honor due to his position, and
the respect and popularity that his intelligence
and affable manners commanded. He had only
to regret being unable to make the acquaintance
of NJ. Grevy, who had left for his country seat
in the Vosges, to enjoy a short vacation, but
ostensibly to escape the ugly period of general
elections. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, NJ.
Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, called three times on
LID NNJN"Ns
pressions of NJ. CREWS regret at being unable
to make the acquaintance of the King. The
government paid His Majesty all the attentions
in its power; the directors of the museums and
public institutions, specially assisted by their
officers, received the King with every honor,
giving him full explanations, and many of them
told me His Majesty knew the history of each
attraction by heart, and requested to be shown
such and such an object. At the grand opera he
occupied the Presidential Box, and heard the
"Prophete " but unhappily Paris has now no
singers. At the Palais Bourbon, where sits the
Chamber of Deputies, NJ. de Many. questeur,
and the secretaries explained the working of the
French Commons: the King demanded where
sat the various Parliamentary groups, the place,
and the seat of NJ. Gambetta when he was pre-
sent as a private member the King also took
the large brass mounted Presidential chair from
which Gambetta directs the debate. His Majesty
gave several dinner parties and received com
plimentary ones in return; the Danish and Bel
gian Embassies were specially attentive to
the King, and the whole diplomatic body
called on him. In the members of royalty that
come and go to the capital, after the Prince of
Wales, King Kalakaua, ranks next in the eyes Of
Parisians, for popularity and good wishes.