d, our Heavenly Father, throughout our
islands; and we earnestly invite all good people to a sincere
and prayerful observance of the same.

Done at our Palace this 3d day of November, A. D., 1856.
KAMEHAMEHA.

DECEMBER 9, 1856.

_His Majesty's Address at the Stone Church, before the Meeting of the
Native Agricultural Society, from the_ =Polynesian= _of Dec. 13._

Our reporter caught only some of the more prominent ideas embodied in
the King's address, which was delivered in the pure idiom of the elder
chiefs, by which device he connected, as it were, modern science with
ancient feeling. His train of discourse was nearly as follows:

It were useless, his Majesty said, to make further
suggestions, for to hear is not always to obey. If only a
tenth part of all the practical hints that had been given from
time to time, by persons standing where he then stood, had
been systematically pursued, the usefulness of the Society
would have been more apparent. Not but that the Society had
done much good, and awakened an interest, in the minds of many
besides its members, which might be considered as the dawn of
a brighter day. His intention was briefly to examine the
actual condition of agriculture science and practice; to show,
not what we might be, but what we are.

His Majesty spoke of the short-comings of the people as an
agricultural population, and though he set down naught in
malice it is equally certain that he extenuated nothing. This
plain speaking tells with the Hawaiians, especially when it
falls from the lips of their hereditary rulers. In the first
place allusion was made to the almost universal want of
perseverance which marks the character of the laboring classes
more than that of any other. The King showed in few words how
necessary it is to make agriculture an absorbing pursuit, the
only pursuit in fact of the man who engages in it, proving
that the intermission of a day may often render nugatory the
labor of a month. No man in fact having put his hand to the
plough ought to look back, till the last process of all
dependent upon ploughing has been brought to the best possible
issue. In the next place, the want of capital was touched on,
and spoken of as a