The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-24
FOREIGN NEWS.

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Fairfield this morning was 40 degrees below zero
LONDON, March GA severe gale, with snow,
has prevailed for the past twenty-four hours.
Two vessels and three men were lost at Dundee
three vessels at Marlborough, one at the Isle Of
Man. and two lives were lost at Whtstable
Pans. March On the Chamber of Deputies
to-day, Clemenceau argued in favor of a revision
Of the constitution, but Ferry declared it was i'm
possible at present to make the question a Cabi-
net one. The President of the Chamber read a
motion declaring the Gambler, having confidence
in the government, rejected the proposal to cou-
slider the matter of revision.
The Lighthouse Board at Washington has
given notice to mariners under date Of February
%, 1882, that the w~histling buoy at the mouth
of the Columbia River. Oregon, has been shifted
to the entrance Of the south channel. south Of the
middle sands. At present there are twenty feet
OF water in this channel, while the ncrth channel
has filed up gradually ill now it has but seven
teen ieet OF water
Ii is believed in Canadian official circles that
the Prince of Wales will reach Montreal the first
week IN March, and stay in America until after
the Science Association's meeting in 1884,
making a journey through the United States and
the far Northwest.
The schoonerS Page and Sophia johnson have
started for the Arctic Ocean. where they will
serve as tenders for the whaling bark Sea Breeze.
OTTAWA, (Ons.) March 6.-Prolessor Virgins
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big blow he predicts Tor the 9fh, 10th and lllh
instant. A heavy snow storm Is blocking the
roads.
QUEBEC, March 6.-It is terrible cold weather,
and a storm, presumed to be Virgins, is set
ting in.
MONTREAL, March G.-Thcre las been a heavy
snow-storm here all day.
DUBLIN March G.-Dcnnis Field. iuror IN the
Hynes case, who was aics nbed after the convic-
ton Of Hynes. has lodged L claim Tor so 900 as
compensation for injuries.
LONDON, March 6-rhc House Of Lords has
appointed another committee OF inquiry into the
effect of the Irish land act.
Governor Butler. OF Massachusetts. dined with
the Saturday Night Club at the Hoffman House
last week. Mir. Clark Bell presided, aud, after
dinner, Governor Butler spoke
:" 1t takes away all tie pleasure for Il dinner "
he said, " when one knows that he has t. make
ii epeech alter it. Whence arose this purely
American custom of spoIlIng Il good dinner by
making intellectual, or rather unIntellectual,
remarks after it? How absurd it is, too, our all
being attired ON these occasions in white cravats
tnd swallow-tall coats, Willie tie servants who
wait on us are clad in carIcatuTes Of our Costumes.
The latter, TOO. are SO well bred that 1t Is difficult
to tell who are the gentlemen and who are the
servants.
Now, il in place Of making stupid speeches.
We would do as our fathers did tell Il good
story, or sing a good sOng-how much better il
would be. And, in that case, We ought to i'm
itale our fathers simplicity OF dress. Now,
suppone We had gone back To the plain
simplicity of our fathers. and were clad
~ ThnInns Jefferson was when, as Secre-
tary of State to George WashinIton, he
went to a ball in Philadelphia. This stern
Republican and Democrat wore on that occasion
an deliberately pulled and powdered Wig. Il blue
satin coat, a purple waiscout Ut velvet yellow
pllAh brooches white six Stprkiurs and silver
bucklcd shoes, and carried ii c,ckci hat under his
arm. How much SIN pier Is such a costume than
thai Of our day. Nay, how even more simple were
the tastes and habits OF our father. Washington,
the great father OF his people. will say nothing
as to his desire to be called Your Serene High
ness, aud will merely alludc to the fact that he
never went TO Congress except in an ornamented
coach drawn by six white horses. whose black
ened hoOis were SO polished that they snone like
the boots which will be LETT at our bedrooms to-
morrow morning. His secretary followed in il
coach and four and when the immortal Wash
ingtOn assembled the steps Of the building in which
Congress then held it's sessions. he stopped and
turned around in order that his admiring cUun-
trymeu might rec the Father OF his Country. As
he disappeared within the doors. too. he put out
his shapely leg in order that they might zee the
last of him. How much, indeed, have We degen-
Grated from the Republican simplicity Of our
ancestors We are even different from the genera
lion which preceded Us.
" can remember when. at a night session OF
Congress before the war, many of the m~er,bers,
because they had been dining a. We have been
dining here tonight. were unable 10 perform
their duties.
The world is growing better. Now a de al
cation il heard of here. and another there but
it i- not that there are more delalcatIons in pro-
portion to the population. but that We hear Of
them through the newspapers a. soon as they
occur. There arc only more on the schoolboy
principle that white sheep give more wool than
black, because there are are more white sheep
than there are black sheep. There are more
thieves IN j nation Of so 600. 600 Of people than
in one OF ten and we are really houester than
our fathers, and don't anyone forget it. Ora;ory.
too, ID growing better-except IN the case OF the
Governor Of Massachusetts. Were you, Mr..
Bell, or | to make a speech IN the language and
manner OF forty years ago. our friends here
would think us dcmcuted. Let Inc repeat one
which | can remember verbatim
"'l rise. Mr.. Speaker, to present a petition of
merchants whose sails whiten every sea-of mer-
chant princes whose stately mansions ornament
the city that contains Faneuill Hall, the cradle
Of American liberty and palladium of our most
cherished institutions, to have the tax on the raw
hides of Borneo reduced 10 per cent.
After repeating these concluding lines in the
Websterian manner, Governor Butler sat down