The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-14

will be the putting III end 10 comforting honorary
degrees upon anybody except profcients IN some
field Of learning or literature. With his CUSTOM
AIRY assurance and d~tdly smOothness Butler at
tended the Harvard commencement, however,
with his Li4utenant-Governo and members of
tLe staff and National Lancers as an escort. H
wore citizens dress and occupied an open barouche
drawn by six horse-. President Eliot, IA dipIo-
matte IN his way us the unfathOsIabIc Ben him
self, met the Governor without forIHality at the
college, AID, when the commencement Of the
procession formed, escorted Butler and led the
line. The Harvard graduating class, by the
way, numbers 2l0 this year-the largest class in
the history of the University.
1t - rather curious that if there Is a bad dis
sster. q huge embezzlement. or q brutal murder,
! Of which the world takes heed, another lapse Of
tke same sort. nom the laws of nature or Of
( nan immediately follows hard upon. Az ii!u~tra-
non IF the principle Of duality which we cruid
happily toeTgo. 7 wrote You Of the sense!ees,
but tragic panic on The Brooklyn Bridge, At,
companion horror was iu the town of Sander
land IN England, where the victims of the
calamity were children exclusively, and the
deaths reached the appalling number % 2O2.
4. ronjuror was giving an entertainment
before nj audience Of several thousand children.
The performance over, the body Of the hail WAS
cleureA Of it, occupants and the children who
Ladt been in the galleries began 10 rTin down the
stairs An announcement had been mad that
prizes would be distributed aud some one fast
cuet the exit door - that bat one child could
go through at = time, receiving its prize Us it
went. Tn crowd pushing forward Was 50 great
and tho egress so SLOW that many children fell
and were trampied and suffocated. The dead
were Laid ont il the hail. aud the scene when
the parents were admitted To- identify their chlI-
drru ~ a. hrartr-nding. One man fell III con-
wilson's, another with terrible calmues3 picked
our four bodies belonging to him and then with
u terrible CRY ri My God. my whole family
g%onei'' completely lost consciousness. the
Queen teiegTaphed her sympathy. ThoIr are NJ
eud Of runors about her aLiication. This
injury 70 her knee that has been te!ceraphed aud
ecTre-pondcd about 80 much. Is said to have pro-
duced a generous affection If tho knee joint.
while her general health J. failing and her un-
willingness 10 perform the duties incident t.
government Increases every day. She is 60 years
old. II Vas telegraphel, with the appended
st1teneut that the Prince was said to grow more
popular every day, that Wales won 10000 at
the Ascot races, aud had paid on several Of has
old debts, when behold, il appears this morning
that Peek, who won the Orange CHp at Ascot.
felt 50 sorry that the Prince had lost heavily by
betting against the winner that he tried to con-
sole - Berthe - by presenting him with the TalU-
able cup. All sporting society IN England slu1-
ders 70 hear that the Prince accepted the
cup and had it sent hone. The
Princes friends rush 20 the rescue with the
explanation that though the Prince has ia his
possession the cup won in fact on the turf
by another man it Is not "a gift, but Wales
bought it for 500 hard pounds. The explanation
was considered worse than the supposed uffense,
and Peek and the Prince are TO he punished for
dealing in prizes. The Princes friends MAIN
tain that Wales indignantly declined the cup as
a gift and only bought 1t because Peck was de-
termined to raise money on it and il would be
an everlasting disgrace If the Ascot Cup shonld
reach a market. Peck has certainly had the
Princes check for $500 cashed. and there
they arc.
Our friend Louise Michel has just been con
yicted II Of attempts to incite the Partisan pop
nlace to deeds Of violence, and has been
sentenced to six months Imprisonment and ten
years of police surveillance, that Is, after the
term Of her Imprisonment she must report at
stated intervals to the head OF the po-
lice Of the district in which she re-
sides. She bseathes flames, ~scatters
pamphlets among the soldiery inviting them to
set FIRE to their barracks aud murder their Off
GERS. Yet there were friends Of the sanguinary
lady found to apply for a communication Of her
sentence to exile, but the application was de-
MED. The French authorities had tried exiting
Louise and it had not the desired effect OF tam
ing her ardent spirit. She got herself pardoned
from penal servitude in New Caledonia and re-
turned to Paris more of sn anarchist than ever
The French Government Is trying to breed little
disturbances with the Chinese by depredations
aud military demonstration in AMMAN, that is in
Tonquin, the province Of AMMAN which IS next
the Chinese border. An old missionary diff
Guilty, alleged cruelty to q Bishop in 1858. led
the French to demand reparation, then in 1874
. treaty was concluded between France aud the
king Of AMMAN. but the half civilized tribes
OF the interior committed actions in violation of
the treaty. the king of AMMAN would not
coerce them. FIAnce determined TO with an
armed force Of exploration. when nina inter
posed u protest to the occupancy OF the
province by French troops, and much diplomacy
hes becB the result. \ reported adjustment Of
the difficulty proves .. ne a miS-ststemcut. Ii
Hung Chang. the Chinese Envoy, i said IN have
been sighted by the French Cabinet, and the
TOHquiu unTiessIntness remains in Statu quo.
In Madagascar, where France has also been
showing herself aggressive. while q corps of NAL
ssa-y Ambassador has been visiting the United
States, England, Berlin and 1T. Petersburg to
solicit sympathy and protection from French op-
precision, matters axe decidedly complicated by
news that the Queen Of Madagascar has been
dead six months, and the military party in
France has been concealing the fact for the sake
of maintaining the French attitude in the island.
FrHUco was never successful a. a colouist
nor III capturing outlying dependencies.
80 after killing IL few Annamese ana
burning r few Madagascar villages. she will
probably sheathe her claws and think that
enough has been done Tor glory.
Th- coronation III Russia, which was tele-
grnphed III such glowing language j. called by
GeOrge Augustus Saia. the London journalist,
a distressing sham, and the Russian nihilist
StFphaHie, author of Underground Russia. "