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THE POLYNESIAN.
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4 Ah !' said he, I did not know that.
That will certainly be bettor. Iicsidc3 thoso
farewells ! those farewells ! they weaken
one.'
" 4 Yes, yes,1 said I, 4 don't make a child
of yourself, that's much the beet way. Don't
kiss her, if you can help it; if you do. you
are lost.'
I gave him another good grasp of the
hand, and left him, Oh ! all this was very
hard for me !
"He seemed to mo to keep the secret
well; for they walked arm in arm for a quar
ter of an hour and then returned to the edge
of the water to take the rope and the dress
which one of the cabin boys had fished up.
Night came on suddenly. It was the
moment I had resolved to seize. Hut that
moment has lasted me till the present time,
and I shall drag it along all my life, like a
cannon ball." Here the old commandant
was obliged to stop, and I took care not to
speak, for fear of turning his ideas out of their
channel. He began ugain, striking his
breast:
44 That moment, I assure you, I can't un
derstand it yet. I felt the deepest rage seize
upon my whole heart, and at the same time
something or other, I don't know what, was
forcing me to obey, and pushing me forward.
I summoned the. officers and said to them:
44 4 Come ! a boat in the water, since we
ure now executioners. Put that girl into it,
and keep rowing ofl" until you hear the re
port of firing; you will then return.'
(To bo Continued.)
THE POLYNESIAN.
OFFICIAL JO I'll SAL OF Til II A 1 1 VI 1 1 AS
UOVHIiSMEST.
HONOLULU, SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1844.
To those that feel that concern for the
maintainance of general peace throughout
the world, which its real importance de
mands, the news that has come to us by the
late arrivals, is of the most gratifying nature.
It shows that statesmen have become more
alive to the welfare of the human race as a
whole, and are leaving behind them, as un
worthy of their age, those sentiments which
have hitherto so strongly influenced the cab
inets of nations, viz : national and individu
al aggrandisement at whatever cost of blood,
treasure or principle. Indeed there is an
openness of conduct and frankness of avow
al of measures by the leading political minds
now in power, that must put to confusion the
advocates of the old policy. And not the
least interesting feature in this developement
of righteous principle, is the dignified cour
tesy which prevails among these master
minds. Wc also find their measures to be ably
sustained by the best talents and good sense
of their respective nations. Long may it be
thus. This state of affairs cannot but afford
peculiar gratification to the younger and
weaker powers. It proves to them, that if
any difficulties should unfortunately arise, in
which they may be involved with older and
powerful nations, they will be heard with
courteous attention; and justice, not force,
award the decision. Under such auspices,
peace cannot but be maintained. Could the
man be found who would seek their destruc
tion, it would be bettor that his tongue cleave
to the roof of its mouth and his right hand for
get its cunning, than that he should compass
his designs. We have been led to make these
observations by the gratification we experi
enced in perusing the Karl of Aberdeen's re
marks in the Knglish House of Lords ; an
extract of which we gave in our paper of the
tHh. inst. To day, we add another from Sir
Robert Peel's speech of March Hth. in the
House of Commons, which is highly honor
able to him as a statesman and gentleman,
(iuizot as worthily represents the interests
of humanity in Fi ance. These are men that
xliould be cherished as ornaments of their
countries and mankind. Their measures are
of vital importance to tho welfare of na
tions, and it is to bo hoped that the strong
good sonso of their course will effectually si
lence that senseless clamor which to gratify j
its own morbid ends, seeks to embroil kin
dred nations in warfare.
The news from the United States is none
the less pleasing. The re jection of the Tex- j
as treaty lias well tested the strength of mor
al political principle in that country, and j
proved to the world, that it possesses states- j
men no less careful of their own and nation's
honor, than England or France. Ambition,
avarice, territorial aggrandisement and all
other passions that usually influence nations
to such acts, loudly declaimed in its favor.
Hut justice sternly forbade it, and triumph
ed. In uddition to this act, we hear also of
the rejection, by a majority of ten, on the
21st. March by the U. S. Senate of the res
olution advising the President to give notice
of the termination of the joint occupancy of
the Uregon I erritory.
While such measures are carried, thero
need be no fear that the harmony of the great
Nations will be disturbed ; and the lesser
will be able to rejoice in the sunshine of their
prosperity. '
The month of November with the excep
tion of a few rainy days has been one
of uncommon sultriness for the season of the
year. December has opened with equal
warmth. Vegetation however is becoming
quite luxuriant, and the planting and garden
ing spirit has been taken up in real earnest,
by several. The ladies ure the most for
ward in this good cause, and wc can point
out several grounds of late which have been
made 44 to flourish and blossom as a rose,"
under their fair auspices.
Advices from Lima inform us of a cargo
of (Juano being on its way here, per the
"Dcnia." This vessel is bound to India,
but the supercargo will sell such amount, at
English prices, as may be desired at this
port; and also give ample information as to
its applicability and utility to various soils
how it is used in the West Indies and other
climates and such other information as may
be desired. Wc consider it highly impor
tant to test its value here, particularly in
the light red soil, which becomes so soon
exhausted by the culture of sugar-cane.
Individuals will no doubt experiment to a
considerable extent, in various M ays. Those
who have charge of His Majesty's cane
lands, should by no means neglect this op
portunity of giving the manure a full and
satisfactory trial. It is not at all improbable
that it may be made the means of adding
greatly to the vegetable resources of the
kingdom, and consequently to its general
wealth. It therefore merits the attention
of all those interested in developing the
natural wealth of the country.
BY AUTHORITY.
Beforo the Infkrior Judges or Honolulu,
Tuesday, Nov. 2bth, 1844.
Mr. Dudoit, Consul for France, entered a com
plaint against Mr. Jean Bernard, for enticing a
French sailor named Felix Segear from the French
whale-ship Meuso, commanded by Capt. Hivaleau;
and upon hearing the parties and the testimony,
Mr. Bernard was fined by tho Judges, according to
the Hawaiian Statutes, Sixty Dollars, which was
duly paid.
It is due to Mr. Bernard, to say that he urged in
his deft-nee that he had no intention to persuade the
sailor to desert hi vessel, but that as the captain
was willing to leave him on the Islands, and he was
reputed a good bri( k-makcr, Mr. B. told him and
hi captain, that if he remained, he (Mr. B.) would
give him employment; and this seems to have been
the real fact, although involving a technical breach
of the law.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
The following is extracted from the debates in
the British House of Commons :
"Sir R. Pef.i. said that, in the first place,
he could not but hail with great satisfaction
that declaration made by the hon. gentleman
towards the close of his speech, to w hich he
declared, that as an independent member of
Parliament he would give his support to eve
ry measure of Her Majesty's Government
which hal for its object the security and
peace of the world, and the maintainance of
the amicable relations which now existed be
tween this country and France. Tho lion,
gentleman might depend upon it that there
was no compromise of honor no comprom
ise of principle in the courso he was persu
ing, lie might depend upon it that by such
declarations he was doing much more for
the real advantage of, the country, by
strengthening the hands of the government,
and so enabling them to preserve the peace
of the world, than if, merely looking out for
some paltry party advantage, he cast at them
weak and foolish imputations of acting with
undue subserviency to France, and risking
the honor and interests of the country, by
acting in concert with a French Administra
tion to secure the peace of Europe and the
world. (Hear.) He (Sir H. Peel) wished
most heartily that others would follow the
hon. member's good example in this particu
lar. He wished that great minister of France
who had been persuing n course so perfect
ly consistent w ith the honor and the interests
of his country he heartily wished that he
was met by less obstruction of this sort, for
he believed most firmly that that great man
was influenced by precisely the same mo
tives which influenced the government of
iMigland, namely, by an anxiety to maintain
intact the peace of the world, by ifi hearty
desire to improve the good understanding
which consistently with the honor of both
countries, subsisted between England and
France. That M. Guizot was determined
to purchase that peace and good understand
ing by the exertion of no influence which
was injurious to the interests of his own
country, he (Sir R. Peel) could bear un
doubted testimony, and he did hope with the
hon. member that an enlightened public feel
ing would bear him up above all opposition,
and especially above the clamors of those
who were making an attack upon his public
reputation, grounded upon assertions which
he would most undesitatmgly undertake to
assert were totally without foundation.
There is a striking article in the Revue
des Deux JFo tides on the occupation of Scinde
and the reduction of Gwalior by the India
Government; the writer labors to prove that
those proceedings are less defensible than
the French assumption of sovereignty in the
Marquesas and the Society Islands. This
question, as between Great Britain and
France even if Europe and Africa were
embraced might seem idle or ironical.
dnncjculion, per fas et nefus, has been the
business and habit of both and of all the
Powers for centuries past. Russia, Prussia,
Austria, Sardinia, and Sweden, have also
grown by it in their respective dimensions.
We shall see in due time a nice distribution
of the Turkish empire. The Island of Mad
agascar has been some years in the eye
of each of the Governments of France and
Great Rritain; that protest about Texas, and
St. Domingo, and Cuba, are consigned in
their memorandum-books. Paris Corre
spondence JVul. Int.
Flattery is the ladder by which ambi
tious men climb to power. In a royal gov
ernment they fawn around the prince, and
flatter all his whims and foibles; in a demo
cratic government they bestow tho same
fulsome flattery upon the people.
Life Beyond the Grave. Among all
the fine and beautiful figures and modes
of reasoning that the universe in which we
dwell has afforded for the illustration of the
bright hope that is within us of a life beyond
the tomb, there is none more beautiful or
exquisite that I know of, than that which is
derived from the change of the seasons
from the second life that bursts forth in
spring in objects apparently dead : and from
the shadowing forth, in the renovation
of every thing around us, of that destiny
which Divine Revelation calls upon our
faith to believe shall yet be ours. The
trees that have faded and remained dark and
grey through the long dreary lapse of winter,
clothe themselves again with green in the
spring sunshine, and every hue speaks
of life. The buds that were trampled down
and faded, burst forth onco more in fresh
ness and in beauty; the streams break from
the icy chains that held them, and the glori
ous sun himself comes wandering from his
far journey, giving summer, and warmth,
and fertility, and magnificence, to every
thing around. All that wc see breathes the
same hope, and every thing wc see rekindles
into life.
Latest Dates.
From London, July IS; Paris, Julv 17; United
States .(New Orleans) Aur. 24; (New York) Aug.
4; (Boston) Aug. S; Mexico (San Bias) Oct. 8;
Society Islands (Tahiti) Oct. 26; China, J no. 14
Imports.
Nov. 28 New York; per Jfrioct2 boxes
Merchandize; Rev. S. Damon. 2 do., Rev. S.
Dibble. 3 boxes Specie; L. Chamberlain. 5 cases
Merchandize, 15 banket Champagne; C. Brewer
& Co. 2 piece Ordonnanee, 1000 pigs Lead, 140
boxes Soap, 2 bbln. Cijjars, 2 boxes Tobacco, 7
boxes Cigars, 1 Winch Chain and Gin, 5 bbls. Vine
gar, 3 Medicine Cheats, 119 Handspikes, 6 bbls.
Dried Apples, 4 hhds. Hams, 3 boxes Shorn, 3.1
boxes Spleen; K. S. Benson. 3,007 bbl. boxes,
bale and packages, Stores; and !2 boxes Medi
cines; tor IT. S. Pacific Squadron, and to l S.
Naval Stoie. Keeper.
Dec. 5 Lima; j,rr Julia 15 cases Rum, 6
casks Paints, 18,540 lbs. Iron, S bdls Hoop Iron,
3 cases Fowling Pieces, 3 casks Knives, 2 cases
Hardware, 26 Iron Pots, 19 bags Shot, 1 case
Bead, 115 dor. Looking Glasses, 1 case Umbrellas,
13 Accordions, 19 gro pearl Buttons, 20,000 Sponges,
5 do.. German Harps, ready mad Clothing, Prints;
to master.
Safes nt Auction ' ''
By Paly S( Co. Dec. 2 Tho hull and appurte
nances of the Am. whale-ship Wilmington and
Liverpool Packet, wrecked off tho harbor, and sold
upon the award of the arbitrators appointed by the
Audits for the owners of said shin and of tho salvor.
The first bid was $50 the second, $1000 at which
she was knocked down, no other oiler being made.
5Cr Notice. Should Mr. ROBERT FIND
LAY, who left New York in the year 1839, on a
whaling voyage, and who resided some timo since
at Hawaii, on a Sugar plantation, bo now residing
on any of these Islands, he will receive intelligence
from his anxious mother, by applying to E. O.
HALL, of Honolulu. Dec. 7.'
1811.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
FOR THE PORT OF HONOLULU.
ARRIVED.
Dee. 1 Br. ship Peruvian, Brooks, St. Johns 30
months; 300 sperm, 2200 whale. Br. brq. Emma,
Elbournc, London 22 mos. ; 200 sperm. Am. brq.
Ann, Leek, Sag Harbor 15 months; 1200 whale.
Dec. 2 Am. whale-ship Uncas, Gillett, Now
Bedford 15 months; 2400 whale, 50 sperm.
Dec. 5 Br. brq. Eliza Francis, Miner, London 25
months; 700 sperm. Am. whale-ship Narragansctt,
off and on sailed same day. Hamburg brig Julia,
Wilken, Lima 37 days. Ami whale-ship Charles
and Frederick, Allen, New Bedford 30 mos.; 1800
sperm (Japan.)
Dec. 6 10 o'clock, off tho harbor, an English
Sch. said to be the Swallow, from Callao laden
with Guano.
SAILED. ' ;
Dec. 5 Am. whale-ship Martha, Saver, Fair-'
haven; to cruise, and homo. Danish whale-ship
Neptune, Sodring; to cruise. Mexican Sch. Julia
Ann, Lcidersdorff; Monterey, California.
Dec. 6 Br. whale-ship Peruvian, Brooks; for
St. Johns. . :.
Shipping Memoranda. The Hamburg "brig
Julia leu at Callao, Oct. 30, H. B. M. ships Dublin,
Fisgard, and Talbot; also, U. S. sch. Shark. ' A
brig the Swallow we believe left Callao, for
this port, to touch at Paita and the Gallipagos,
previous to the sailing of the Julia.
Oct. 4 Am. ship Inez, Knox, 138 days from
Boston, for this port put into Valparaiso for water
and provisions. The U. S. brig-of-war Pha-nix, had
also arrived at Valparaiso, from tho United States.
Another vessel of war was to leave for the Pacific
station, in September, name unknown.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Select School.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends
and the public, that the Fourth Term of his
Select School, will commence on Monday next, 9th
instant. A. JOHNSTONE.
N. B. The California scholars having been with
drawn, there arc at present a few vacancies for day
boarders, if required. Dec. 7. .
For New York.
THE fast-sailing coppered and copper
fastened ship MARIPOSA, Jotkam
Pakhons master, will have immediate de
spatch for the above port, ror freight or passage,
apply to the Captain on board, or to
WOV.au. u E. . BENSON. ,
Dissolution of Copartnership.
THE Copartnership heretofore existing under
tho firm of JOHN BALLOU & C. II. NICH
OLSON, Tailors, is this dav dissolved, bv mutual
consent. JOHN BALLOU.
Honolulu, Nov. 27, '44. C. H. NICHOLSON.
jC'N. B. JOHN BALLOU will rontinuo to
do tho TJilLOHhYti business, in all its branches,
on his own account, at his present shop, (over the
store of Mr. E. C. Webster.) The accounts of the
late firm will be settled by me.
Nov. 27. 3w JOHN BALLOU.
Journeymen Shoemakers Wanted,
WANTED, 2 good steady Journeymen Shot
maker, by J. STONE.
Honolulu, Nov. 30, 1811. tf
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Compositor Wanted m .
iOOD COMPOSITORS can find omployraenl
by applying at this Utlicc, tl fi8
Halted Reef.
CTffh BBLS. superior Hawaii Salt Beef; 2000
tPHV lb. Tallow; bOO lbs. Suet; for sale by the
Receivers of tho Estates of French & Grecnway, .
Honolulu, Nov. 30, 1844. tf
Notice.
DOCTOR C. F. WINSLOW, from the United
States, having established himself a permanent
resident at Lahaina, (Maui,) offers his services to
those persons who vicit that port, iu need of Medi
cal or Surgical attendance. , '
Lahaina, Maui, Nov. 30, 1844. 6m