The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-30
Notes From European Journals.

If we might judge of the situation in Portugal
from a perusal of the metropolitan papers we
might suppose that the government only existed
on sutferance, and that the country was ripe for a
revolution. The actual subject of the attack on
on the government is a subsidy which it has
granted, or promised, to a syndicate which under
takes the construction of a railway from Sala-
manca to Oporto. The larger portion of this
line will be in Spain, and that PORTUGAL should
subsidize the enterprise to the tune of more
thanzS 900, 900, is denounced as q disastrous
u Splication of the national resources. As for
the ailway itself everyone acknowledges its
utility and its special value to Portugal, but the
matter has been seized upon for political ends,
and is not treated on its merits. Great weakness
and a lamentable want of courage on the part of
the ministers has left the way open to the Pro-
gressist and Republican parties to make the
most of the situation, and they have not been
slack in taking advantage of it. The language
they have been INDUCING in is absolutely revolu-
tionary in its character. The measures which
the government have taken against the pro-
motors of the republican agitation appear to
given this young and weak organization an ad-
vertisement than done anything to repress ii,
Besides taking strong measures against Journals
which are openly republican, they have unwisely
made martyrs of the chiefs of the party, and
thus given them notoriety they could not have
acquired on their own merits.
The affair of the Able Auriol has caused quite
a sensation in France, partly through the rather
OLAA1At - IL lCn IL DdIIlN
on account of the behavior of the accused him
self. The Able having become infatuated
with the pretty choolmistress of the village of
Nohedes, in the south of France, and desiring to
fly the country with her, poisoned two ladies
who had made him their heir, and having
realised the inheritance, took the train TO Spain
accompanied by his mistress. No suspicion
existed against him in regard to the death
of his victims, and the fugitives would
have got clear away if they had been a
little less fond of one another. The guard
of the train surprised them in what by way of
Ell hemism may be called an indelicate position
iuthe railway carriage and the Able was arrested.
A sum of nearly &c, 600 francs was found upon
him and the suspicious of residents at Nohedes
seem to have been at once aroused against him;
the death of his two benefactors having been
s~hockingly sudden and unexpected. Auriol made
a partial confession and then denied everything
except his amour with Mademoiselle Nernet.
the school mistress, as to which his state
ments were very sensational. He declared he
had struggled and prayed against his infatuation,
and had even offered to bargain with the AL
night that if he should be delivered from it he
would purchase and present to the church at
Nohedes a statue OF saint Joseph, of the value of
three hundred francs. He was. at the trial, most
eloquently defended by al able cousellor who
took the line that the prosecution was instigated
by political motives, declared that the prisoners
confession was but a pretence to draw the po-
lice from the pursuit of Mademoiselle Vernet,
and tried to show that the poisoning had not
been brought home to Auriol. The jury thought
otherwise, but said they believed there were Eek
tenuating circumstances which perusal of the
evidence does not enable us to discover, unless
it be that the man was probably not quite sane.
He was sentenced to penal servitude for life.
The following graphic account of Cetywayo's
visit to the Queen at Osborne, in the Isle of
Weight, is from the London Times -" Cetywayo
and his two native generals of division left Vic
toria station by special train this morning for an
audience with the Queen at Osborne. Lord
Kimberley, Mr.. H. Shepstone, and Mr.. Dunn,
were also of the party. The train.
which was in charge of Mr.. Williams, made the
distance between London and Portsmouth in
little less than a couple of hours, without stop
ping, and of the marvels which Cetywayo will
have to describe on his return, not the least
viii be the remarkable rapidity with
which the English people travel from place to
place. 1t must, however, be said of Cetywayo
that he has a wonderful command of counten-
ance, and his equanimity is of the highest
character. Nothing appeared to surprise him.
gaping, struggling crowd, the capacious har-
Dor, the gigantic men-of-war, and the other
sights of the port never disturbed his imper-
turable gravity. Only once did he appear
moved, when a peripatetic photographer, with
professional bad taste, his lens upon him
without so much as asking leave. Cetywayo
quickly hid himself behind the deck-house until
the yacht got under way. On arriving upon the
jetty in the dockyard he was met by Admiral
Ryder, Prince Edward of Sake eimer, and
the District Military staff, Admiral McCrea, and
other officials, while the jetty was occupied by n
curious crowd, largely made up of ladies.
Cetywayo was dressed in the morning costume
of an English gentleman. On leaving the train
the party embarked on board the Fire Queen,
the yacht of the Commander-in-Chief, and pro-
ceeded at once to Osborne. The interview with
the Queen lasted ID minutes. After luncheon
the Fire Queen left Cowes at 3, and Cetywayo
left Portsmouth for London shortly after 4
o'clock.