The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-19
Partisan Notes.
FROM ouB Own CORRESPONDENT.
PRS. july l3.

said the French at Fontenoy they repeat
the same now, but leave the English TO do
so alone. So much the better for English
interests. Public opinion here is delighted
and irritated at the same time respecting
the conduct of England delighted that she
mas all the fighting to do and all the Arabian
difficulties to contend against, and irritated
at her r~esolute action regardless of any
European help or permission TO vin6icate
her honor and chastise broken faith. The
French know very well iheir backing out
will reflect on their reputation in the East,
as Egyptians and Mahomedans in general
are not skilled in the art of trimming, and
the sciences of hesitation and indecision.
Those who laugh last, laugh best. There
is no necessity for the England to quit Alex
andria and the same remark holds good
for Cairo. She has put her hand to the
plough, let her not look back. She can re-
organise Egypt a la mode T%unisia, lest the
kimmir overture. She can farm or rent
that satrapry like Cyprus indeed there is
no reason why the Sultan. who claims to be
head of his church, ought not to be detem-
poralised, left in charge of the Grand
Mosque of Mecca, and paid a fixed income
out of the states of his church to keep up
his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and eunuchs in
cluded.
The continued April showers, followed by
November chills. commence to compromise
harvests prospects. The weather and the
crops" is a serious matter just now. |
have retired from a run through Northern
France and the Midland Counties, and pros
poets in both countries are nearly identical.
The lands around Lille and in Picardy are as
wet as the clays of Bedford, Leicester and
Nottingham shires. The soil is a sponge,
ODD cold &c tho racantion extapdad IN a noor
relation. A warm, healing and a continued
sunshine is required, a business tempera-
ture, not to develop, but to mature. People
have more hope in such than confidence.
Despite Professor Tyndal it would be no
harm to employ a forty parson power
wherever available, in the end to secure fine
weather.
In Paris the rain is chiefly mathematical,
on its proving a possible ~extinguisher of the
preparations for the 18th July fete. These
have already been affected by the heavens
teIling;'' the spirits of Republic ms are
dampened; the hot decree, warning boys
with the fate of Arab Pasha if they set off
squibs in the streets. is likely to prove su-
perfuous. But the special industries con-
nected with the national rejoicings, will
solely suffer. Only brass bands could at
present. discourse outdoor harmony, these
are not numerous. as no fair and straight
haired sons from Vaterl nd could count upon
receiving any voluntary contributions. The
rehes rsel of the iIiuminations takes plIce
nightly, but all present a winking look, and
devices approach kaleidoscope patterns.
The Royalsts boast they can see the finger
of Providence in our daily waterfalls, and
when reminded that during last years fete
patriots were only gulled, only see therein
stronger proof of Divine dispIeasure for de-
molishing the Bastille.
1t is more than a peacock's feather. restor-
ing the drums to the army Their abolition
on the part of Gambettis war minister, was
a great blunder; as that premIer's reform
bill for abolishing public prayers to endow
the Legislators with more wisdom-an arti-
Gle so much wanted, that no means for Sc.
curing it.. should have been left untried.
War can have no pomp or circumstance
without the ass skin. 1t forms one of the
th%irty-nine articles in the religion of every
son of mars; a few rolls will collect more
nurses and their young hopefuls, than half a
dozen t%rumpeters blowing with apopletic
cheeks a monotonous quick step. Hence
the temperance of the drums is every
where welcomed like a lost maltreated
friend.
The Hanseatic city of Bremen claims to
nave under its cathedral a 'leaden vault
where the dead undergo no decay. Some
of the bodies, though over four centuries
buried, are very fresh still; among others is
a lady S~tanhope. inferred 260 years ago,
and an English General whose warfare has
been over since $50 years. At Bordeaux
there are bodies to be seen in a crypt, and
mostly English, which were buried at the
time of Edward the Black Prince. The
clock tower is filed with them; ranged like
sticks or muskets against the wall. they are
tanned in look and partly shrivelled, but
with a good lamp, features can be discerned.
The hair, teeth, and nails are as perfect as
at the moment of death.
AS Arab may possibly invite Teufk
and Dervish to fly to the desert with
him, there would be no necessity for
filing up the vacant v~ice-royship; the
dis~banded--the latter to cure the
of acknowledgement could well
act as agent direct for Turkey, paying
corn of Egypt to the Sultan and all the
creditors. She could promise to leave
the country after recognizing it; bind
ing herself to do so when Austria would
from Bosnia, the French from
Tunisia, or when Rothschild could be
converted to Christianity, Under her
rule, and a few Boobies from division Y,
the small boys of Arabia would be pre-
from throwing stones at the
passing India mail express, or making
aces at Cooks eXcursionists, or anti
pursuing their Lawful calling. 1t
IS to be sincerely hoped that England,
once established as the peace maker in
will tell the Congress she has no
want of special Constables from other
parts of Europeans the natives are pal
itself in presence Of a vigorous
raised arm, Some of the six great pow
era at this will cry like ladies when their
husbands or poodles breathe their last.
for the French they will have faces
than any magic mirror could re-
feet.
Being now free from the screaming
of mastery inaction, it is to be
that England will seek no more
alliances of concerted do nothing in the
interest of general business and of