ity with that and the laws.

Immediately afterwards, His Highness the Kuhina Nui repeated the words
"God preserve the King," which were re-echoed everywhere throughout the
Church with loud cheers; His Majesty's Royal Standard and the National
Ensign were hoisted and a royal salute fired from the fort.

Afterwards it pleased the King to make a solemn and eloquent address, in
native, to His subjects, which was received by them with great
enthusiasm, a translation of which is as follows:

_Give ear Hawaii o Keawe! Maui o Kama! Oahu o Kuihewa! Kauai o
Mano!_

In the providence of God, and by the will of his late Majesty
Kamehameha III., this day read in your hearing, I have been
called to the high and responsible position of the Chief Ruler
of this nation. I am deeply sensible of the importance and
sacredness of the great trust committed to my hands, and in
the discharge of this trust, I shall abide by the Constitution
and laws which I have just sworn to maintain and support. It
is not my wish to entertain you on the present occasion with
pleasant promises for the future; but I trust that the close
of my career will show that I have not been raised to the head
of this nation to oppress and curse it, but on the contrary to
cheer and bless it, and that when I come to my end, I may,
like the beloved Chief whose funeral we yesterday celebrated,
pass from earth amid the bitter lamentation of my people.

The good, the generous, the kind hearted Kamehameha is now no
more. Our great Chief has fallen! But though dead he still
lives. He lives in the hearts of his people! He lives in the
liberal, the just, and the beneficent measures which it was
always his pleasure to adopt. His monuments rise to greet us
on every side. They may be seen in the church, in the school
house, and the hall of justice; in the security of our persons
and property; in the peace, the law, the order and general
prosperity that prevail throughout the islands. He was the
friend of the Makaainana, the father of his people, and so
long as a Hawaiian lives his memory will be cherished!

By the death of Kamehameha III., the chain that carried us
back to the ancient days of Kamehameha I. has been broken. He
was the last child of that great Chieftain, but how unlike the
father from whom he sprung. Kamehameha