The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-11

she requires neither Turk nor Gaul 10 help
or TO advise. If she adopt this charter she
VIII compel the French To be as mute as
corpses, or as NJ. de Lesseps is now. In any
case, no nation will 60 TO wal TO restore the
Joint contrOl-the day dream of France, and
that she would give her eyes TO have abol-
lshed in Tunisia, but where England koldS
her. There is nothing to prevent France
going ahead in Syria, on the Congo, in Tim
buctoo, in Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows
where.
Strenuous efforts are being made to revive
Gambettaism. Not much success has so
far attended the aim. Gambetta intends
taking an active part in the coming Parlia-
mentary session if such implies the GUST
ing of the Cabinet, thai would be only
forcing an open door. So long as the divi-
sions reign in the Republican ranks, Repub-
lican Ministries Will resemble but the dura-
ton of the snowflake on the river. The
political education of the country is back
ward the blind lead the blind. Men set
themselves up as teachers without having
graduated rs students. JHpiter's head pro-
duced but one Minerva.
Attention is being directed To Socialism.
more, however, from the retrospective than
from any Immediate view. Indeed. as
Theirs said, Socialism has emigrated from
France. Louis Blanc holds that all poor
are Socialists; but the spectacle To be wit
messed now is the separation of the artisan
or poorer classes from n band of political
tramps, who are pure demagogues, avoided
by the true working men, laughed at by the
audiences they collect, and too Insignificant
to be even watched by the police. The two
Congresses which have just been held AT
Etiennc and lsOanne prove that the age of
Utopias and violence with the working
man IL past
The prowess of a standing army of three
men and Il corporal is proverbial but their
feats sink into insignificance compared with
the achievement of the naturaiiZed Italian.
De Brazza, who, in the name of France, AMI
aided by ten grinning niggers, has taken
nnSSRSSl0n of the ttOnOO StnninN lan .IInFS
the act as a coup dc JdrR0c, ami scouts the
idea. He represents an Anglo Belgian conf
pany and has no intention of being BOWED
out of the prOprietorship OF the Congo. But
the matter has become complicated from
the discovery that De BraZZa has not been
legally Frenchi! ed, and so, being am italian
subject, his - fine" becomes the property
of the Italian nation. The French are
getting up steam on this subject. and de-
mandt that their Government at once back up
their new-fiedged countryman. One paper
pleads that the dominions of the King of
Congo would be an equivalent for the Khe-
dives.
The opening of a Girls College at Rouen is
an experiment of no ordinary kind. 1t has
the merit of being worked in that part of
France, Normandy, reputed to have a pOpu-
lation the shrewd"st in the universe. Tn
Inhabitants occasionally walk round each
other, and that's equivalent to an eighth
wonder of the world. odd, too, that the
trial should come off in the region reputed
also the richest in France, and where the
population willfully refuses to inc rease and
multiply. To allow her daughter out of her
sight a single instant is what no French
mother ever dreams of; if kept at home,
she will ever sleep in a bedroom off her
mothers, and this AIgus-eyed surveillance
is continued till the girl be married off; if
sent to a convent or an ordinary young la
dies boarding school, the vigilance is also
extreme. How far a Government College
can equal existing plans remains to be seen.
Lh.nt - h nrn not = nf N
higher education far their daughters, pro-
vided such will not turn their heads and
that the superint. ndence be perfect. know
American and Russian lady students who
have won high collegiate hOnors, and which
have made them accomplished without be-
ing blue stockings, and of deep common
sense without being prudes.
Paris is filling in rapidly, and the season,
which is on the point of opening, promises
to be brilliant. The number of rich Stran-
gers that have taken residences for the win
ter is markedly large. The theatres have
opened with many excellent revivals, and II
few trashy original plays that deserve not
the honor of being named. We are waiting
for the real opening OF the theatrical ball,
Sardou's new drama. Its representation Is
near at hand, as the puffs preliminary are
numerous. No French author can enamel
pate himself from the ~recJnnae and the
cidQu~. In a recent run through the Mid
land counties / was happy Ia meet with a
calm uniformity nf resolution among Eng
ishmen that England will not allow her
self to be elbOwed cut of Egypt. Este per
petud. Accompanie by II very intelligent
friend, and "a warm admirer of Old Paris, we
drove to visit Melbourne Hall, rich in SOU
venirs of perhaps the only English foreign
minister never foreign to his duties. 1t was
preaching to a convert to eXpatiate to me
on the merits of that statesman, whose
shadow it may be sincerely hoped will fall
on the Cabinet of the day. Melbourne is a
typical English village, calm AS a paste
- ~In2 Co. Xlo .-aA ry = - ,xaf nHl III,
wounded to die. 1 do not intend entering
into statistics of the village. | leave tina
to the Times. Suffice to say that | visited
the Atheneum School, extremely orderly
and clean; but why not utilize its walls
with colored prints of useful knowledge, to
be periodically changed, as in French pri-
mary schools? We can learn by the eyes
as well as by the ears. The gardens of Mel.
bourne Hall are extremely well kept; they
are Versailles IN petto, but then the designs
of LIE Notre have made the tour of the world
like the tricOlor. The yews and cedars have
a greener green than L have ever observed
other historical memento pleasingly visited
was the house where Tom Moore passed
his honeymoon. Not n slab, not a bus
to indicate this bower of roses by
Beudemeer's stream! To erect a mu
raj slab to mark the place of birtl
or death of a celebrity is common; but t.
record a honeymoon-that comes home t.
every mans bosom, is rare. To recall
our pullnS or lean ana Slippereu, pahIalool
stages is less emotional than the creates
event i'm ii mans life. My friend, who il
himself no mean poet, lamcnted this absenc'
of cutie for the distinguished. Could tn,
house not be converted, say, into an hotel
and called 1.-The Loves of the Angels" o.
"The Peri Arms?" 1t would be a Thousand
times superior to a MORA or a bennington
Inn-though "Little Tommy dearly loves
lord.n
In reference to the right of Il traveller t.
- 80. rI,f - In - n IN unS ~. ~ ND ~
orc occasion two persons We're riding in
diligence; one objected to the current of air
the other replied, II shall be suffocated in
few minutes; but you will not catch a colo
before three days"
4 man went into an old cIO' shop Mt dusl
the favorite hour for timid purchasers; h,
selected n dark brown coat; in the morning
he was mortified to find it was green
colored on taking it back the 'Ebrew re
commended him to keep it till it got ripe
9. What ACE has the COunteSS2v tShe ha!