Nuhou, Volume I, Number 24, 14 April 1874 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Euhopean PoLiTics,are strangely mixed. What we may thiulc about them tnay be idle guesses;—sfill \vc venture 'on a few. The congratuladoDs expressed to the Prince Impenal, at Chiselhurst, by 6,000 Frenchmen, on the day that he aftaiued his majorliy mdfcate great coufidenee iu the restovāilon of the Empire, We thmk it is uear at liand. When several Frencli jouruals \vere lately suppressed, or suspended at the instance of Prince Bi6marck» tliey were alī repxiblican joiJrnals ( Wjtli a 8(rong; imperialist party in Fraiice, aud a foreign in(luence iavoring iraperialism } \ve raay expect to see by and by, Napoleon IV. at the Tuillevies. Wheii lie is there, and his mother, the ExEmpress be alive, then \ve may expect allianee wlth Spain, and a revival of the Pope's temporal cause in Italy. Germany and Russia fraternize so cordially, they must have eaeh a great hope growing out of their ent€nte cordiale. The hope of Rus*ia we all know,—to cccupy judicious!y chosen seat of Empire at thc poilal of the interior seas of Furope and of jfeia, but the hope of Germany is uot so munifest She coutemplates advances 011 the Danube, and would like to (ind some great interest eastward in Europe to occupy tlie attention of her enterprising > migrating people, who are helpiug to build up the great Empire wesWard, across tlie Atlantic. | And besides, Germany hope§ to absorb Hol-| land and control Scetndifraviir Then when the Cossack is master in Constantmople s and j the lines of Germany ruu to ihe mouth ofj the Khine when the Sclave Controls the ] Black Sea, and thc Teuton the Baltic, the j Empires of the Hohenzollerns ahd of the Romanoffs will divide bepveen t!iem jill Eastern ? Central and m Eurofte ; and ihe Latin race may org;u)i/c a power on the West and South, so reduce femope fo threej powers, But England is left out of. our speculation. and it just Eugland that may spoil our sp<?eWlafive po!iticat i3f'ramme. She, with ;< strong, aud ardent mind like that of tVfaraeli, guiding her Stiito, will shap£ hfT o\W destiny in u nuister!y marmer, and a!so Miape fhat of others, Sbe'* h*as yet the stomarh for gvea

i things ; and vve hppe for the sake of her I renowu, she may be put tō heroie tests and j eome oiit victor; —heeaiu-' freedoin wil! be pafe in her handi>. i j . ; ! • -> -■= ;>■- - • j Ada Clarp M dead. She was bit by a! ! mad dopr in t!ie face, and died after terrible' She wa*-* buried at Monmouth, | New Jersey, on tlie Sth of Mareh. Many j will .re(T»embe|vher -in tlie islands. She eame | | here in 1864, on board the Onward. Mr. ■ I Wyllie; our then Minister for Foreign Af-j ifairs showed her mueh attention, but our s society would not countenance her. The| spirit of gossi|) made her an object ol soeialj Üboi>. \Vt knew her in years past. She| was born in Sbuth Carolina, ,near Darling(on, and of highly respectable parents, namedj McElhenny. She was lcft an orphan at 1S : years of agej with about §30 } 000 at her* command. Slie had an uncontrollable desirej to bccome a li|terary and histrionie celebrity.! We were pres|ent at her Grst debut in a play' entitled Orlando, and written forherby Wm. Bcnnett, at the Metro.politan, in New ¥ork, in when about SOO gentlemen, and no' ladies, were present. The effort was a pain-1 ful fiasco. She niade other attempts and ! utteriyfa'iled. But she wrote with vigor * aud bri)liancy, and heeanie noted throughout' the Cnited Stptcs as the Queen of Literary| Bohemia/* She wrote a hook. whleh has ! touched many souls, as mueh any other, work of fiction ever did,.and is entitled to a' foremost plaee among works of imaginatioo.! īt is entitled.' " Only a Womau's Heart. ? 'j fts pages have moved hearts most deeply,! and will no dcubt incite all who read it, to' entertain a kindly and teiider memory of her! who wrpte it 5 ~~wlu) iiow sleeps in peaee. ! Ffer |iusbani3 ? Mr. Noyes f was with her at the time of hcfr death. I ■ : : ■- ! !:'-■ I

O:\IA FiNE|KALs v Tlie black kearse aiul, plumes every day; but 110 whiie favors or flo\\eife of \\cdding days v Ha\vaiiaus have no \veddiugs,, or cliristouiugs. The only! eventis of mteresl in these kle.s aro la\vsuitsj j and fuuerali?. The gravesione is the onk*altar # j and to pui.on ( fro\vsy black aud ho\^Tis the , j most noiaule of Hawaiiau life. |We have no |vedding\s because there is jloving It \V4S lrashod out aud frii- ! tered a\vay u !ōug time ago; $o that the \vife ' : has nothiug give, aud tliere oan bo uo J l?s\veetj teuder, |treiuulous hopes eeilteriug i,u ! the liie of ui;ii*nage wliieh U ouly a buriht}n to ihe native ii.npo*ed by foveigu law. Cou|sc4ueutly thc irui(> of such burtheus are uot wanted; the C|hildren gy lHicl>toj|io of ; and we daily ihe' cuiaed knell oi po riug out just. onee, tbe joyous, ej}iming telU for a ian wejJdiug»' aud let au Ulaud l>ride bc! | * - | j *i. * ♦z' * i !deckcJ iu all £lory of aud lot i bo jprouJ of auh aud| losc thoir ini-ev,iMi' (a-to for Puuoieal para4c. i i'