The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30

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to Boston for Mrs. Langtry's use during her
engagement there. This, Mrs. Labouchere an
nounced she could not endure unmoved, and, MS
Mrs. Lang.ry bore with fortitude her threatened
withdrawal of the light of her countenance. Mrs.
Labouchere forthwith sailed away on the SeryIa
leaving this beautiful Ephraim Joined to her idols.
Mrs. Labouchere went incoguito, entered in the
cabin list as the - friend d Of Miss Roberts,
who proved to be her own maid. Tie reason for
this mystery was an aversion in the lady's mind
from seeing herself in print, The Maynard Lang
try vagarges had caused her much pain and the
sooner she was safe in England the better it
would be, all around. Meantime Langtry, re-
pulsed in New York, seems to be about to mako
a conquest of conservative Boston. The Papyrus
Club invited her to a reception and even the in
ner circle seems making up its conventional mind
to be hospitable. She declined the Club invita-
ton through nervous prostitution caused by the
gossip about her; people FASTENED e. infer. but
the story that she telegraphed to a New York
paper that professed itself ~thirstipg for items that
she never read the papers and would be glad to
know what they had been saying about her, has
someway the truer ring. Ii is noticeable that
while Mrs. Laboucherc is quite garrulous about
the quarrel. Mrs. Langtry says it is nothing and
refuses to dilate upon the reason OF the separa-
tipn. Her self-possession in her unchaperoned
state is su pernal. Meantime her intimacy with
Baron Chetwin is Gercely denied. and Americans
are instructed that il is English custom for
actresses to receive open alteration. The perfect
freedom with which the American papers have
discussed the Gebhard affair may en-
courage some one to talk plainly about the Chet-
win affair too. While waiting for it's turn to SEQ
Langtry, San Francisco shows that at least it is
not on the verge of bankruptcy, since it pays
between $28 900 and $50 900 to hear Nilsson
four times. By a happy accident the Princess
Louise and Lord Lorne were in town during the
brief season, and. as Madame Nilsson has always
been a hyorite with the English royal family, the
Marquis and his wife have usually been present at
the concerts, and have been powerful magnets for
q certain proportion of the audience. The YER
dict of all musical critics is that time has treated
Missions voice most generously, no touch OF de-
cadence being apparent in it.
The Grand Opera House where she sang has q
stage too large for concerts and the immense
width was adroitly diminished by two specially
built boxes at the inner end of the lowest tier OF
stage boxes, to be occupied by the yice-regal party
on one side and the managers party on the other.
Wilson's favorite singing was the Miserere from
Trovatore. the Jewel Song in Faust and Swedish
Volkslieder. In the first two she used something
OF the dramatic action that belongs to the arias
in the operas from which they are taken, but the
violation of concert etiquette was immensely pop
ular, and the house rocked with the applause.
On the strength of this impassioned appreciation,
San Francisco is promised a visit from Adelina
Patti.
The Marquis and his wife intend to prolong
their tour for four or FIVE weeks more, to visit
NJ diiaO hihu auu OIUeT Dlfls OF the |
Union, while General Sir Patrick McDougall as
sumes the duties of the administration in Canada
during their absence. They go East by the
Southern route, spending a few days in each
principal city along the line of travel, and will
reach Ottawa, it is expected, by about February
LIST. The corvette Comus remained in San Fran
cisco harbor only as long as the Princess and her
party were in the city, and then sailed for Vic.
toria with the ultimate intention of going down
to the South Pacific and remaining at Callao.
Arabi's prophesied exile has indeed been the
sentence passed upon him in due submission to
the compromising papers that he held and knew
so we'll how to use. The letters from the Sultan
him in his revolt were to have been
used at his trial in evidence that he had been act
ing under instruction. He was not executed be-
cause the Sultan opposed the sentence of death,
and the English Government in whose hands the
of the trial lay, would not offend the
Sultan. So Arabis sentence is Punishment,
either to Ceylon or to the Cape of Good Hope,
where, it may be expected, he will be pensioned
by the English Government if not invited to Lon
don to he feted as a distinguished guest, an Isla- |
mite Napoleon after an Egyptian Waterloo,
rather than a hardly ~pardoned insurgent which
state of things may possibly have been exactly
he was aiming at in bis attack on the Khe-
dives authority. But justice demands a victim,
and Arabi's Lieutenant or Chief OF Staff is to be
sacrificed, shot by due Court Marshal, poor
wretch, while his commander goes free, an inter
esting exile and prospective lion.
Englaud's position in Egypt is sufficiently ano-
nalous. Legally she has no more power at Cairo
han she had a year ago. but practically she rules n
The country, and certainly is regarded as respon-
.ible for what goes on there. Gladstone wrcstIes
lobly with the situation, and the honor of the
OF Athens has been conferred upon
him.
The detectives imagine that they have found
,lues to the Phoenix Park murders, and new
arrests have been made. Persons were pres.
INF or tho aYuOaipofi0n Vuho nlaip,aI ok H.
inquest over the body Of Lord Frederick
to have seen the assassins drive away,
)ut the Identification Of the recently captured
men was deemed insufficient by the Queen
Mr.. Curran. The prisoners were held
or public examination however, aud further ar
ests were contemplated.
Among the illustrious dead who have left the
world during the past month, Louis Blanc, Sir
Joseph Napier. Anthony Trollope, and the
Professor Henry Draper, should be
ounted, also, Henly the well-known Geographic
ngineer in London. The blind postmaster who
las done so much to reform and cons0l date the
english postal system. is dangerously i'll. Ills
blindness and his arden: benevolent and political
ceilings and energetic action have made him often
ompared TO Milton, though lacking the accom-
'lishment Of verse, yet by no means mute and
either. American political journalism j
lso mourns Thurlow Weed whose name comes up
ust now as one of those prominent ia forming the
nti- Masonic party after the mysterious disappear I
nee of Morgan whose death has been Witty ex-
claimed as suicide, because after conscientious
tudy of Masonry there was nothing to find out j
nd nothing to disclose. '
Eastern sugar refners continue to insist upon
he abolition Of duties on sugars imported INTO !
Eastern ports, which will materially influence !
he consideration Of the Hawaiian Treaty when }
t comes up in Congress. The careful revision
{ the whole tariff question, which is pending, 1
laces the matter beyond guessing just now.
PRESIDENT Arthur in his message while he adyo- !
ated reconstruction of the tariff, distinctly stated /
hat he does not advocate abandoning the prOtec- J
ion policy. Secretary Of the Treasury Folger, like
rise in the annual Treasury report advised re- =
ision OF the tariff with a view to reductions on I
ugar, iron. cotton and raw materials generally; !
dding that the duty on sugar should be adjusted :
ccording to some other standard than that Of {
olor, which no longer indicates value correctly. y
he treasury report was published early in De- I
ember, and on the 18th. Secretary FOlger d. ,
ected the Collector Of Customs of New York 70 =
l.