g the past year have exceeded the deaths.

It is to be regretted that the Chinese coolie emigrants, to
whom has been given a trial of sufficient length for testing
their fitness to supply our want of labor and population, have
not realized the hopes of those who incurred the expense of
their introduction. They are not so kind and tractable as it
was anticipated they would be; and they seem to have no
affinities, attractions or tendencies to blend with this, or
any other race. In view of this failure it becomes a question
of some moment whether a class of persons more nearly
assimilated with the Hawaiian race, could not be induced to
settle on our shores. It does not seem improbable that a
portion of the inhabitants of other Polynesian groups might be
disposed to come here, were suitable efforts made to lead them
to such a step. In a few days they would speak our language
with ease; they would be acclimated almost before they left
the ships that conveyed them hither; and they might bring with
them their wives, whose fecundity is said to be much greater
than that of Hawaiian females. Such immigrants, besides
supplying the present demand for labor, would pave the way for
a future population of native born Hawaiians, between whom,
and those of aboriginal parents, no distinguishable difference
would exist.

May the issue of your deliberations be crowned with those
successful results which the will of the Almighty only can
bestow.

JUNE 16, 1855.

_His Majesty's Speech and Proclamation on the occasion of Dissolving the
Legislature._

NOBLES AND REPRESENTATIVES:--The Legislative Session of 1855
is now about to close.

For some of your acts I thank you in common with the meanest
of my subjects, for they embrace the interests of all.

Newly admitted elements of action have operated upon you, and
given to certain of your measures a vitality that authorizes
me to hope much for the future.

For the relief you have given to the estate of my Predecessor,
for the feeling of respect and love evinced by you in assuming
with alacrity, the expenses of his obsequies; and for the
loyalty you have shown towards me, and my family, I thank you.

Mixed with many circumstances that will always make