THE POLYNESIAN.


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Those who have watched the progress of
Hawaiian polty must have been lavorably
impressed, with the rapid progress which
they have of late made, towards IA regular
and settled form of government. The oppo-
sition which has so often embarrassed the
movements of the rulers, and the various III
trigucs set on foot to defeat their attempts at
legislation, or to commit them by the per-
tormance of some overt act which mi ght be
construed into an expression OF hostile feel
ings towards the subjects of other ,,owers,
seem to have failed, and the tree of state has
been strengthened by the very storms which
have been raised against it. The adoption
of the recent Constitution shcws IA rapid adj
vance towards the principles Of liberal pol
ity, by which the rights of the mcanest sub
ject are respected, and ali allowed IA voice in
the formation of their own laws--and this
was an optional change on the part OF dos-
potic rulers. who for the benefit OF their sub
iects and the encouragement OF national IN
dustry, have surrendered to the people a
portion of their long preserved hereditary
power. 1t is change from an absolute
despotism, a grinding tyranny, to cons'ltn-
tional freedom and written laNs~~and tha'