The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-02
our Foreign Correspondence.
[rEoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
no25 dim WIN.

SAN FRANcIsCo, November 20, 1882.
The echo Of the blow struck upon the we'll
beImeted head Of the Republican party on the
Tth of November is still reverberating. and rag
ments of helmet and head seem floating through
the air, atoms divorced past all hope of future
IMPACT a thorough rOnt and total dlsintegration
have conclusiyely shown that for a time at least
Republican principles and platforms must retire
up. Elections held in thirty-three States with
Overwhelming democratic majorities. speak the
peoples will quite audibly enough 10 make
.esyins easy. Over 200 600 majority in New
York. 25 600 in Pennsylvania, 10000 in Massa-
chusetts, I0, 900 in Indiana, and 81 on through
the guodly ~rOll-call, give the Democrats some
right 10 be what the schoolboy phrase Z" cocky
expresses to u triumph. And the Democrats
heve not held their hand, either. There rang a
more than usually bitter rae UictiS in the call.
Move up, Ohio. and make room Tor your sis-
tiers - a line in one Democratic pecan. The
universal shout seems to betOken a genuine revo-
Intiun IN the politics of the nation, and will
probably result in a Democratic President in
1884. that loOked-GUr and longed-Ior ruler. How
ever some OF the Republicans may feel about it,
this political turning Of the tables is by no means
Iikely TO prove distasteiul to the friends of Ha-
wa:ian reciprocity. England. too. deisns TO be
interested in the results of the newly ended con-
test, and finds herself, somewhat against her will,
not a little agitated at the prospective changes IN
the Capitol and in the White House | tremble
to think of the feelings Of England when she
learns that Ben. Butler has been elected Governor
OF Massachusetts a Republican reign of twenty
two years has given her time to adapt her AmerI-
can commercial relations To Republican methods
The change of tie reins to the hands 81 the De
mOcracy may possibly prove embarrassing, though
in the possible fifty coming years OF Democratic
supremacy she will have ample leisure to re-
adjust her position.
Herbert Spencer has spent his two or three
months in America and has given expression 10
more OF less doleful cummings up of the conn
try-s politics. L. is the usual JeremIad "f broad
but shallow culture. VulgariIy, crudencs- aud
corruptioa-the thrice told tale by the English
traveller, be he hard-fact philosopher like Spen-
Ger. or sOft-shell Rstheie like Oscar Wilde. " nh
all his lugubriOus painting Of our politicais ky,
however, Mr.. Spencer does not leave u without
the Joyous intelligence that he sees IA ruy of hope
piercing the horizin. Without subjecting the
ray to any exhaustive analysis, he has gone home
protesting himself amazed ut the extent of tile
country, Of which it appears he saw very little.
His mind works differently from w. W. Srory's
lizards mind. That limited saurian
aGliding DER the pyramids huge cone,
Knows not the pyramids. but only every stone
From 4 series Of dinner parties in New York
Mr.. Spencer has been enabled to divine the prai-
ries Of the West and the savannahs OF the South.
In Egypt Arabi's trial seems TO be about to
result in nothing but a solemn farce. The Eng
lish insisted up n a British judge shmrIng the
bench with the Egyptian court, and British
counsel has been appointed to defend the captive,
whose sentence will probably be exile. The BAN
ishment of his person from Egypt will doubtless
suit Arabi's book better than the bani-iment al
his head from his shoulders. or the unpleasant
shower Of cold lead from which even Baker 8 con-
templated reorganization could not save an IN
surgent OF a prisoner Of war tried by a strict aud
impartial court-martial. But 1t is understood
that Arab will not be so tried; too much general
completely Of all parties concerned would become
inconveniently apparent under such remarkably
high light. The true issue of all the ENHANCEMENT
ia not the punishment Of a rebel, but the estab-
lishmsnt of British supremacy in the East. Glad
stone has already admitted that England was at
war with Egypt in the late troubles. the weak
and unpopular Khediye and the still weaker Sui
tan being ID reality highly uninteresting gentle
men to England, and the strengthening OF their
power a matter of very small moment to her
when weighed in the balance with the strength
ening of her own
Lord Dufferin has arrived in Egypt and been
gigen precedence over Sir Edward Malet in the
solution Of Ell Eastern difficulties. and from the
universal npts 0f prpjse sounded Tor his tact and
perspieacity, the outlook for Egyptian indie
pendence is not just what might be called rose