The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-07-01
The Gazette. Paris Letter.
rSeLAND's BLUsHEs.
prs MAY 20th. 1885.

PARIS May Goth, 1886
As England has renounced the doctrines OF
Smashing for scuttling and humiliation, Contl-
mental opinion now agrees that the British Lion
may count upon peace. In the whole history OF
Ministerial blundering, the "Art of Sinking" was
never elaborately illustrated as by the present
foreign policy of England. Here, all is put down
10 the veather-cock fluctuations of the British
nation itself. II So this explains the chronic blum
dering; the absence of conviction; OF clear con-
crete programme; of abandoning alliesi of the sad
and dismal fiascoes, commencing with Egypt and
eliminating with the defeat on the Afghan from
tier, and the recall of Lumsden, for simply doing
his duty. Englishmen grieYed, sighed and vept,
but they never blushed before.
Out of evil sometimes comes good. Unlike
France, that performs the pious duty of homilist,
it is to be hoped England viii never have Sedan
following any Me1icos. moment arrives IN the
life of nations, when they must eyacuate Homes,
and patch up peace with Celestials. 1t is busi-
ness policy to endure what cannot be cured: per-
haps interest has its claims, well as honor, and
when speculation does not pay, sagacity suggests
TO renounce encountering only loss. Russian sym
pathizers naturally are elated at English liDeEal-
ism being defeated by Muscoyite absolutsm,
Cooler heads lay down. that If a conflict with Rus.
sa, within distant future, is to be avoided
on the question of India, England must defend her
frontier, not in, but behind Afehanistan, and as
much against the uncertain Afghans, as the too
certain Iartars; TO ever expect that Russia VIII
surely wnggle, or worm orwards, and that only
prompt and efficient plan of offence, as well as Of
defence, will compel the Komaroffs to remember
the crossing of q hard and fast Rubioon, viii be
followed, not by sentimental protests but BY Bis
marck's blood and iron panacea. This implies the
adoption of the modern, the scientific plans OF re-
sistance: facilities to concentrate troops and war
material. Indeed modern warfare may be oonE1d-
cred rs resolving itself into simple question OF
transport. Good railways and good roads, with
entrenched camps, are the bases OF modern veto
ries. England can no longer remain the peaceful
money making, old Granny nation, that she has
been of late years. She must adopt the newer CIV
ilization Of bloated armaments on sea and land:
that's the only way to dictate affection and to eI-
act respect. Bets are laid that the next Cabinet,
will first of all, enter into matrimony with Ger
many-the darling life-aim of Prince Bismarck.
Respecting the Soudan, nothing so becomes the
English, as the leaving of 1t. 1t was capital
farce, only for what it cost in blood and men.
Fever was the trse of governmental dust-throw
ing IL the eyes, so audaciousy practiced. But the
pity of 1t, Iago Z; Oh Iago the pity of 1t And
the abandonment of the "Friendless,' to Osman
Digna and his "Black Decrees.r That was not
the manner Milton interpreted the duty of England
which was to teach nations how to live. And when
will Cooks excursionists be able to take
return ticket on the Suakim and Berber railway
When will the scuttling take place from Egypt
better take the dose of humiliation at single gulp
than in home apathetic potions. Even on the Suez
Canal Convention, the English delegates are being
"cornered." 1t is the general conviction on the
Continent, that in the present degeneracy of the
English-for if they wished q Spirited" foreign
policy, they would dictate 1t, anything can be
squeezed out of her. The next turn of the screw
on her will be the DardanelleS. As a set OF, Eng
land will have new Electoral law. Jules Ferry
sop for his colonial adventures, guaranteed
the French, the scy'tniH de Liste plan of voting.
If the New Workers are only half as tired of that
old gal-"Liberty enlightening the World" as
Parisians, they may be thankful. Since years, we
have been pestered for subscriptions to complete
her, with pertinacity only equalled by sollcita-
tlons for aid TO convert the 'Ebrew Jews. Some
times il was to finish her gigantic arm; other
times her lpvIatbnO lpo laStly her Goliath feet.
which, could they but walk, would serve as
capital clod-crusher on heavy clay farms. A re-
duced copy of the giantess has been cast, at the
expense of Americans, and has been Just set up in
this city, temporarily, the Place des Etats Unis
Ultimately 1t will be located at the extremity OF
the island Of Bllancourt, so that it will marx the
entrance TO the "harbor" of Paris, its original
does that of New York. The coincidence is not SO
inappropriate, as the project-old as Lutice, TO
making Paris seaport, Is still on the tapis. Ii
Will likely be taken up, after the gold mines OF
Ionkin are in working order. The ceremony OF
the Inauguration was, in point of mutual admira-
ton, as happy as a reception at the Academy. No
allusion was made to the duty on American pork
and cereals; and the refusal of cousin Jonathan to
help to thrash the Prussans in 1870, was kept in
the cupboard. England rejoices TOO in Americans
having won their Independence, that lunatic
king, and not the nation, so obstinately denied
them. Since, she has made the amend honorable,
by admitting American pork and corn, aye, even
wooden nutmegs, free of duty, and paid over three
W aSi
iokngs. .Hrar-
The Coreans have had red letter day in their
calendar. They never count upon obtaining look
at their sovereign, even from behind screen. His
Majesty and his household had recently to fit like
an ordinary mortal on quarter day; the old palace
was no longer safe from ''protectorates," 80 he
went TO more secure home. In the procession of
the departs, the queen was escorted by eight de-
moiselles d'honneur, on horseback. Only these
eight damsels were compelled to be ladies in
waiting, because their fathers were prescribed or
dishonored. The Kings mother-inlaw WAS es-
corted by eight old women, on foot each with q
lighted taper in one hand and a warming pan in
the other.
France is in brown study as to how to dispose
of her recidirsis, inveterate rather than habit
ual criminals. The one aim is to shoot the rub
bish out of the mother country. Wind, weather,
but above all, the Australians permitting; the
Southern Pacific would form an excellent ciodoa
MARINA; failing this. Cayenne. The Legislature
keeps tiukering and foundering away at bills-but
no safe progress can be reported-unless of the
Penelope kind. What the Deputies do the Sena-
tors undo. rich scoundrel, who may have rela-
tlyes to support him, may enjoy his sesta all day
in cafe, in Noumeai or under the shade of mel
ancholy boughs in Guiana; if be be a poor scoun-
drel, with relic of the angel left in him. he must
work Thus, as in the time of Lamennais, one
can e1claim, HidlheHr dHr JaHrres! The bill as at
present voted, invests the Government with the
selection of the filth to export, and where TO con-
sign the ship-loads! viii New Caledonia, that
protests against any more of the home rufianism
being imposed on them be selected as the happy
land, far, far away2 And will Australians accept
such nelghborsl --.r.sf..r =.
As usual, welcome the coming, and speed the
parting guest. Minister Morton, on his retiring
from diplomatic business was paid the usual fare
well salute of a dinner. And right good one it
was too, only for the orating. The blowing was
as tremendous as on "Fourth;" but. such is the
consequence of "the day we celebrate" Custom
and use doth breed habit in man. Mr. Morton
was never as popular as Mr.. Washburne, or that
brave old soldier, General Noyes, whose very
wooden leg begot sympathy in his favor. Pariaian
republicans were delighted to see Mr. Morton-a
self-made man and a once shop assistant, rise to
represent his country abroad-his country being
the First of Republics and which practices liberty
equality and fraternity, instead of uniting the vir
tues over the public buildings and there leaving
them. But Mr.. Morton never got over the aheayy
SELF the royalists played on him-his political
entertainment: given TO the Comte de Paris and his
suite. Venice had her aristocratic republic, and
French democrats concluded, one falls ever on the
side we are inclined to.
China demands time to eyacuate Tonquin and
the Black Flags seem to advocate Bismarcks doc
trine of bcdti possideHtes. 1t won't do TO remain
secret clause in the treaty of peace, is said to
secure France pied de feTTe in the Pescadores
It is high time to cease the Madagascar specula-
ton also.
Accounts from the Chinese Archipelapo attest.
that England has made a happy take, in occupy
ing Port Hamilton, the magnificent harbor. of the
island of Sunbodo. The island has a population
Oh COlnIuanQS that other
Yladivostock. In this neiRhborhood, !
not Russian man-of-war ever appears, but she is
followed by British cruiser, the DAUGHTER doubt
less of some "SaHey AgefhHsd." England is said to
possess tho title to Port Hamilton ratified by the
King of Corea, China and Japan.
A woman passing by the Morgue few DAYS
ago, concluded that the body of man exposed on
the slabs, was the father of a nurse she knew.
She at once informed the latter, who saw for her
self, and was convinced of the indentity. The
daughter next acquainted her two brothers and
sisters, and all were agreed, the corpse was that
Of their father, and formally applied to possess it
for burial. They next went 70 Creteil where the
old man resided, and found him at his loom, in
the best of health, and as jolly as tho Miller on
the Lee.
A button manufacturer on visiting the Salon,
was surprised to find in one of the prize pic
lures, the likeness of his pretty wife, as an
oyster girl on the sands listening to what the
wild waves were saying: the artist assured him,
he had not the honor of knowing his wife, or even
that he had one; and if the TraisemJiaHee ap-
preached SO much the V,ai, he could only accept
the coincidence as complimentary-to them
both. This has not satisfied Billy Buttons, who |
has appealed to Coasar to have the painting des-
troyed