The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-08-11
FOREIGN GLEANINGS.

says the rupture of the Cabinet on
such grounds would be incompre-
hensible alike to the Chamber and
to the country. La Justice holds
that the rebuffs recently expert
enced by the Ministers must not be
attributed to any combination
against them. Strength in re-
publican government must be meas
ured by the manner in which it
responds to public opinion. Several
opposition organs predict the fall OF
the Cabinet within three months,
The French flagship is still July
21l in the drydock at Mare Island.
The rudder is unshipped and part
of the copper torn off in order to
allow of repairs in the neighbor-
hood of the keel.
Four sugar laden vessels from
the Islands arrived at San Fran
cisco On the Goth July. Two were
from Honolulu and two from Ka-
hului.
1t is said that the rumors that
Mrs. Parnell has in her possession
compromising correspondence with
Mr.. Gladstone, which she obtained
while acting as go-between when
Parnell was in Kilmainham Jail,
have little bases of truth. She was
in constant communication with
Chamberlain, Morley and others,
but not with Gladstone.
The United States steamer Alba
tross sailed from San Francisco on
the 18th ult., having on board Com
missioners Thomas c. Mendenhall
and G. Hart Merriam, who will act
in conjunction with the British
Commissioners, and will bring back
full information regarding the seal
industry.
Papers relating to the slave trade
from East Africa during the year
1890, recently issued from the
Foreign Office in London, are of an
unusually satisfactory character.
Admiral Sir Edward Freemantle
writes that he has no doubt what
ever that the slave trade is at a
very low ebb at present. Captain
Henderson, of II. M. S. Conquest,
writes that the establishment of
the British Protectorate, the I'm
perial British East African Com
pany and the German Colony in
East Africa, have quite altered the
aspects of the slave trade in that
region. The Germans, he says,
state that they will soon be able to
stop any wholesale expectation; in
fact the slave trade is on its last
legs, and the carrying into effect of
the Brussels Act, which the Sultan
has ratified, will soon stamp out
what remains.
Unfortunately, however, the
French have rejected the terms
of the Brussels Conference. Accor-
dinghy the Portuguese have done
the same, so that, as regards the
Congo Basin at least, the efforts of
the conference to check the slave
trade are for the present doomed
to failure. In obedience to his
chief, Cardinal Lavigerie, the di-
rector of the French Anti Slavery
Society, has addressed a letter to
the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
begging him to work with the other
powers, in order to reverse the gen.
eral Act of the Brussels Conference
in such q manner as to meet the OBJ
| iections of the Chamber to the
right of search clause. Cardinal
Lavigerie himself pleads that only
Arab luggers of small tonnage will
be submitted to this right.
The Paris Figaro, in a recent
article, says that during the first
eight days of the Emperor's visit
to England there was no ques-
tion of politics, but that after a long
ride with Sir E. Malet, British Am
bassador at Berlin, the Emperor
entered Lord Salisbury's study at
Hatfield and remained there for an
hour and three-quarters.
1t is now certain that the states
man talked of Europe and disarma-
ment when the Emperor said, "Ger-
many cannot go on for ever arm
ing, arming, arming."
To this Lord Salisbury replied,
I" It is only powerful ruler like