Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-08-13

Hrs MAJESTY KING KALAKAUA has visited
London and has been received as the guest of
tho Queen of the United Kingdoms. He has
seen grand review at Windsor, has occupied
the Royal box at the opera, attended cricket
match between two great public schools, has
wandered through the Great Crystal Palace at
Sydenham and inspected the art treasures of
Burlington House and Kcnsington, the libra
ries of Lambeth Palace, has participated in a
banquet at the Mansion House, and has been
Hospitality entertained by the Royal Princes
and the Chief nobility Of the British Empire.
His Majesty is not without capability of oh
servation, neither does he lack good memory.
He must return here with enlarged views and
fresh determination TO uphold the dignity and
independence of Ills Kingdom. His Majesty's
experiences moreover have not been confined
to social or artistic treats; the King has met
and conversed with several of the most.pro-
minent statesmen oi the age; perhaps even
Mr.. Gladstone might be unable to teach much
in q short afternoon call, but a serious talk
with Lord Granville the present Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Lord Tenterden, the perma-
ncUt ullucl-StCtctuTy III tIc SaIuc OUlCe, DIT
Charles Dixie and other RESPONSE
bic members of the Government can
not fail to impress the mind of the King, as
to the importance of the tIust placed on his
shoulders, and how best to avoid difficulties
and complications with his great neighbors,
how to secure and maintain his indepon-
dence, how to use his personal influence in
obtaining and retaining the service of good
ministers, how 70 avoid the shoals and quick
sands laid in his way by hungry adventurers,
how in fact to steer the course laid down for
him as Constitutional Monarch, to use his
legitimate influence in appointing the best
men to the highest posts and to refrain from
the use of illegLimate influences in attempting
to influence elections to the House of Repre-
sentatives, how 10 reward independence rather
than servility, and many other lessons which
tie Stewart family in English history called
King craft" but resulted in deposition
His Majesty King Kalakaua cannot fail to
learn some lessons, not in King-crar," but
IN craftsmanship, from conversations with the
great statesmen of Europe. He has yet to
meet tho statesmen of America on his way
home, and there he may get many whole
some idea. We take it as q matter of course
that he will meet and confer with our repre-
sentative at Washington. that the idea of free
dom and Independent nationality will be strong
ly reinforced, that he will return here, enlight-
encd, we'll informed, determined to avoid the
councils of mere sef-seekiug adventurous,
10 make his Kingdom, as he has his person
respected, and respectable, throughout the
countries lie has visited. His Majesty trav-
elled hastily from Italy to England, and has
gone to the Continent and we wait the reports
OF his visit to Berlin and Paris
We trust, and indeed doubt not, that the
King will learn salutory lesson in his visits
to the great capitals of civilization. 1t would
not seem possible for so intelligent man as is
King Kalakaua to converse with the states
men of Rome, London, Paris, Berlin and
Washington, without learning something.