The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-27

cOntempIates Will be quite another work
from the one he undertook to build. His
critics insinuate that a part of the thirty
million francs already expended may nave
gone toward securing the good Will, or at
all events, the silence of the French press,
for not an adverse whisper Is heard, though
the crossing of the Chagres river remains as
great a problem as ever. But the patrotlc
French regard the cutting of the canal as n
good deal a national enterprise, ana the
debOnnair LesSepS presiding at q banquet
given by the contractors on Public Works
in Paris, announces that the scheme for the
creation Of inland sea in Africa will be re-
sumed by private enterprise, which sounds
as If his spirits were not greatly dashed.
Herr Most, the German Socialist ar
rived in New York on the 18th December
and created very little enthusiasm, his per-
sonal appearance and voice are against
him, hard luck for an orator but his
speeches seem simple and comprehensive,
the one note of Communism-kil- In
Chicago he assured his audience that the
time had come when the people had best
kill everybody, and divide up everything;
but no immediate massacre seems to have
supervened. 1t is said that this terrible
| Jewelers. claims to notoriety are that he is
q foreigner, and has been in gaol a dozen
times. 4 discerning public must judge if
this is fame.
San Francisco had an odd visitation on the
last day of the old year in the shape of a genu-
inc snow storm, and many absurd or clumsy ex-
pedients were resorted to in order to turn it to
advantage in the matter of sleigh-riding. Two
men hit upon an ingenious plan. A spectacu-
lar play called Siberia was on at the California
and, as its name implies, had a mise en- scene the
reverse of tropical. The friends hired the
sleigh from among the stage properties OF this
piece, harnessed four horses to it, drove till the
snow began to melt and returned their dramatic
conveyance not much the worse for wear.
Prince AriZugawa and four travelling COM
panions spent a few days in San Francisco
early in January. The gentlemen are Japanese
mobiles then on their way home after a six
months trip round the world, and they civilly
professed themselves pleased with the trip
across the American Continent.
The very last has been seen of Arab, he has
been led off the stage to his Indian Eliza to wait
till some discomfort or uprising fetches him
home to Cairo for his Hundred Days. On
Christmas Day he and his brother Pashas i'm
plicated in the war were publicly degraded from
their military rank at Cairo, and yesterday he
and his fellow exiles arrived at Colombo IN Cey-
lon. 1t was said of him that if she would take
lessons in brutality-at 100 francs he would have
a much better chance of getting on" and also
that he is incapable of speaking an untruth but
enough was indicated in the suddenly checked
intricacies of his trial to establish his reputa-
ton for a measureless duplicity, which, it is be-
lieved will go far TO weaken his moral influence
with his former followers Egyptians though
they are.
Madame Patti seems destined to rule the I'M
fortunate public on her own despotic terms for
the newly discovered, or at least newly be-
praised song-bird, Madame Scalchi, is an alto,
ana Madame NILSSON since neT NlSlI 10 Odn
Francisco has been seized with such a severe
throat trouble as threatens permanently to affect
her voice. She has cancelled some engage
ments and postponed others and gone to New
Orleans for a mild climate, while the Princess
Louise who visited us at the same time with
Madame Nilsson, contemplates wintering in
Chaflestown, South Carolina.
An interesting mark of the decrease of super
stition is England's step toward communicating
with the Pope by means of an openly accredited
nfe6yaP- Hitherto the cry of No Popery' has
,een so near the Cps Of tie middle class that al
British ambassador to the Vatican would have
regarded implying or paving the way for
of the spiritual claim of the Papacy.
'uch an envoy, once permitted by the people,
easy the creation of a regular British
legation to the Vatican and the Pope's assist
nee in beneicially influencing turbulent ireland
an hardly be overestimated.
The two plays, Tennyson's Promise of May"
nd Victor Hugo's new-old lie Roi S'amuse,'
ell both extremely flat. The laureate's name
ad not sufficient power to keep his play from
eing numerically hooted in the theatre, but
name and presence preserved q respect
BILE decorum in his audience during the per-
ormance that was more chilling, considering
be high emotional pitch of 'Le Roi L'amuse,"
han an outward demonstration of disapproval.
he health of the poor old poet seems to be
luch impaired, for when he wished to place a
upon the body of Gambetta lying in
in the Palais, Bourbon, his strength failed,
e could not go in and confide his wreath to
else to deposit.
The Germans naturally express relief at the
cath OF Gambetta, but fairly incomprehensible .
} a foreigner are the rejoicings of the ultra
and royalists, equally so the now
lmost universally received story that so earn
st a statesman met his death at q woman's
and. The newspaper of which he is proprie- {
or, the Republigue Franchise had made for
i'm a fortune of $50, 600 francs. His life reads J
Ike a romance, for he was but forty-four when =
e died, and his story comprises a studious .
hildhood, a wild youth and a suddenly and .
distinguished manhood. His body
as bestowed in the Cemetery of Pere La
'haise until his fathers wishes could be ascer- =,
ained, but last night it was removed to Nice, a
of members of the Chamber of i
equities acting as escort.
In compensation for the acutely felt loss of
ne choice Hamilton collection of manuscripts
nat have been gathered in by Prussia, the
British Museum has just received a consignment
{ curious small terra Gotta figures, draped
male divinities of somewhat rude modelling,
ne fruits of recent experimental diggings at
alamis.
Letters from Folger, Secretary of the Treasury,
nd Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State, in re-
Ition to the proposed abrogation of the
hawaiian Treaty have been received by Williams,
of the Foreign Affairs ommitte of
ne House, but he considers them private docu- {
tents, aud will only present them to the con-
Iteration of the committee on Tuesday, Janu-
~ 9Th, when the final vote will be taken on the
roposi;ion to recon mend the abrogation of the
eaty. Secretary Folger's letter enclosed a set
{ tables showing in detail the trade between
ne United States and the Islands. These show
nat the value of exports TO the Islands for the
asst fiscal year amounted to 50, $50, IT'S, and the
ilue of the imports for the same time to
$40, 294. Had the sugar imported been sub
ct to duty, that duty would have been
8. 405, 406. CoMRADE.