Nuhou, Volume I, Number 10, 6 January 1874 — HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH [ARTICLE]

HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH

ls, we arc happy to st;ife, according to various private reports receiveci per on Friclay'afternoon, mueh improved. But, we may repeat our fornier observation, that owing to the absence of any kind of offleial informatioil, puhlie speculation anel surmise are very busy, and the uneasy state of feeling that has existēd for sonle time past, has not been quieted by rec"erit news from Hawaii. THE COURT GOSSIP From Kailua has however somewhat changed ihe apprehension of iast week into an expectation; and the fear of an alarming issue to the inroads of disease gives way to the hope of a happy union for the Sovereign. We mention this īn the splrit, with whieh we as oitizehs of Hawaii, and devoted to its best interests;, wouy discuss any question of immediate or of probab!e interest to the public welfare. " AN ALLIANCt: EOR THE KIJN"Ct v Was a plank in our platform—an article of our politica! cre i ed--announced in the first number of the second volume of our N uhou, and we shall not be teckward to maintain and discuss ilie position then taken. This is a paramount public question, as regards the stability of this Kingdom, and rnust not be confined to the surmises of the street, or the gossip of the private circle; and a patriotic Soverejgn. will not deem it an improper intrusion 011 the sanctities of private feeling, if the love of a people, prompted by a bold, open spoken, yet loyal monitor, should signify a ciesire for His Majesty to enter* into those relations whieh must eontribute to his happiness, and to the peaee of his dominions. s : * . We have long entertained the belief that an allianee of rhe Royal Family of Hawaii with a princely memheu of $ome Southeastern Asiatic State, woulel not only «011tribute to the strengthening of tlie Hawaiian Thrqne, but indirectly to the increase of the Hawaiian nation. We discussed this important question with his late Majesty Kamehameha V., a£ the commencemeut of his reign, when he #as a pnnee of great vigof and of mueh promise, and he gaye u$ assuranee of liis appreciation of the itnportance of oui vmvs i and we doubt not s if earnestly considered, they ought to have an equal significance and importance at this day. But the foreign alliances may be proper!y reserved for consideraiion in respect to htu presumptives to the Throne; whilst its acjual occupant may happily seek an allianee at home, and in this view, public opinion jfnd public wish point in only one direction to an: iilustrious j>ersonage beloved by t!ie nadon| and highly esteenied abroad* ; We are now introdācing the gossip of the £treet into the didcussion of weighty aflairs | of State. But what else have we? "the! responsib!e Cabinet is a it fills now ! ihe role of supernumerary clerks ; vvē must look to the chamber tātfle of Kallua for ia-!

form;ation, and we are led to believe that the important question of the succession is to be settled by the intrigues of a BEĪ) CHAMBER CABINET. This has been the practice of despotisms, anel we have seen ngainnnd again in history, how the wishes and welfare of a nation were,j set aside as nought, to gratify a prejudice,; or to satisfy an unworthy favoritism. But! we will not, we cannot expect this from King Lunaiilo, t[ie "King of the People." The love of a free people placed His Majesiy r on the Throne ; and he has ever since regarded and them, not so mueh as his subjects„ as his electors (makaainana). Should His Mhjesty have offspring, there wou!d be but one thought about the succession, the hereditary principle would be recognized and maintained by His Majesty's people. But in the settlement of a new reign, when a new order must eome in, the people will be aggrieved if not consulted in respect to their ehoiee. They are law abiding, doubt it not. In this respect Hawaiians show a high intelligei}ce; tl|ey will acquiesce in any legal appQintment—it may be this or that illustrious lady—whose ap|)ointment is supposed to subserve oqe foreign interest or another # but in such ihe memory of their King whom they; chose will sufler, and they will exercise a legal opposition to any government whieh ignores their wish, whieh will prove theiv right,to be consulted in ■ the ehoiee of their natiue. Sovereign. This ehoiee we have already ind,icated.