The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-13


to the penitentiary, like Tweed, for the
balance of his days.
The work of evangelizing the natives of
India is progressing satisfactorily, accord
ing to the missionary statement. The In
dian railroads have zenana cars for the
use of native women. Lady missionaries
in them, improving the opportunity by
teaching the native women the Gospel.
In this way a far greater number of fe-
males can be reached in India than before
the railroad era, by the active female
agents of the Christian propaganda.
The departure of the Guards for the
Soudan was the occasion of popular
ovation in London long to be remembered.
The populace were worked up to a high
pitch of enthusiasm; but the utter collapse
of the English military system is apparent.
If Great Britain is to remain a frst-class
military power it must organize its army
as continental armies are organized.
Voluntary enlistment will not fill its
skeleton battalions. Moreover, the stupid
trading policy OF the Liberals, and the
emigration craze encouraged by the Gov
eminent, have jointly depleted the country
of the raw material out of which armies
are made. It is the fashion in England
to say that Republican institutions have
proved failure in the United States; but
the States, with much greater truth, might
say that Government by Parliament has
played itself out in England. There is a
considerable substratum of truth in both
statements.
There is a good deal of misery in the
| old world, and the outlook is not, on the
whole, very promising. Speaking of the
condition of the poorer classes in Paris,
the special correspondent of the PACIFIC
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER at the French
capital says "The actually of the
moment is the misery which exists in
Paris. There are but few street corners
that do not present famished individuals
imploring aims. They were artizans yes
terday-they may be mendicants to-mor-
row; they are desespereS to-day. They
suffer not only materially, but morally.
They look as if they had not particle
even of hope-that only medicine of the
miserable. Balls and skating fetes are
organized to obtain funds, but fear they
are weak reeds to lean upon, and can only
be stop-gaps. Even the well-to-do have
not the air to be iE carnival vein, and il
was only Louis XII. that decreed that ali
! the peasants of France were to dance
under pain of being hanged. There can
| be no immediate relief, in the shape Of
public works, till the 1889 Exhibition be
commenced, or loan negotiated to com
plete unfinished city improvements
dies that must be sanctioned by Acts o.
Parliament. Nothing is sadder than tc
see honest Frenchmen reduced to such
straits, as they make the noblest self
sacrifices to escape them. When thu
Chevalier de Montmorency was an en1igre
he opened a pastrycook's shop at Ham
burg, and the daughter of Marshal de-
Noailes herded cows in exchange foI
milk to buy bread.
The " strained relations - between
France and England are entirely owing
to the supersensitiveness and jealousy o.
the French. They want to make war Oh
China without assuming official response
bility. They seek also to exercise thu
right of search without making forma
declaration of war. To this England OBJ
jected, having greater interests in China
than any other country. Moreover, Chint
claimed that England committed breacl
of neutrality by permitting French ship
to obtain supplies and recruits at Hong
kong, the British settlement at the mOutl
of Canton river; whereupon England, a
a neutral power, ordered Sir GeOrgt
Bowen, the Governor, to enforce the
Foreign Enlistment Act. France tool
offense at this, and England made som,
concessions. The Governor of Hong
kong has been instructed to relax the
regulations of the Foreign Enlistment Act
so as to permit French men-of-war to Goa
and repair in ports under English control
upon condition that the French squadron
exercise the right of search without de
tanning English vessels. But the French,
not content with this concession, declar,
rice contraband of war, and Lord Gran
vile has notified the powers that England
does not recognize the validity of the
declaration. The sensitive Frenchman is
again offended. Should the Government
of NJ. Ferry antagonize England and pre-
cipitate conflict, it is safe to predict tina
despite the trouble in Soudan, the British
would be able to send feet which would
clear the China seas and the waters of
Madagascar of the French flag. In the
interest of civilization, however, it is tC
be hoped that the two great Western
powers will remain friends. A war be-
tween France and England would be
disastrous to constitutional government,