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the "Mo-ch'ow" (Sans Souci) Lake, and in spring, when the lotus-leaves float on the water in all their beauty, it is a great resort of native Does A GYAYY chemines. The great Tring Kwah fan, after he had quelled the rebellion of the Priping treaded anscriptien-to-repair and beautify this Templi In a pavilion in it called the Sheng-k'i low, is a very fine portrait of Si Chang Sha Wang who in older days affected this payilion as a place of repose; and behind a screen was another portrait of Thing Kwoh-fan, but this one fnced north. The Provincial Treasurer (Fant'ni) of Kiangsi, vexed that so great a patriot should have his face turned in such an undignified and unerthodox direction, his lately had another pavillon erected to the West of the Sheng-ki Low, to contain the portrait of Thing. Kwoh-fan, which now fronts southwards in a manner worthy of a man who although of our own time, compares with the greatest of antiquity.
On 6th May an apprentice in a cotton-shop at Wenckow outside the Great South Gate caught a large rat, and out of revenge for the tats having enten his clothes, put in practice a cruel but very common cu tom among the Chinese. Smearing the rat with kerosene oil, he took it to an adjacent samshu shop and set it alight. Like the oxen in history, which, with lighted firebrands tied to their tails, carried destruction into the camp of F, the rat scampered back to the cotton shop, and running into its burrow soon set the whole place 3 blaze, the fames spreading to nine teen buses. The guardians of the White Iforie Temple near hurried to the rescue with their fire. hose, and three tin buckets; but the bottoms of
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THE US. DYNAMITE CRUISER
VESUVIUS"
The Philadelphia Times gives the following description of this new addition to naval warfare; which was launched at Philadelphin Saturday, April 18th --
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was exploded at rest and in contact with a vertical peace armies of Germany an Austria combined. in Asi. The Tartar rule of China is essentially The total force f trained men which ought to that of Russia. The latter country is com- target made up of eleven plates, each seven- eighths an inch thick, bolted together, probably he camly and rapidly mobilised by Russia, compelled to face, the new era of popular govern- representing for rent rotor sight-incken of desing the figures of bet continuents and the ment and to hear the sullen waves of revolu solid armor, which is by no means heavy for character of her military system, is about tion breaking continually in the very heart of the empire. Absolutism is subject-to-constant modern ships. The only effect was an indenta 1,000,000, n's a ainst 2,600,000 for Germany and tion about two and a half inches deep and two | 5,250,000 for Austria, More slowly Russia could assaults from within and without. It is in the i feet in diameter-no cracking or shattering of the place 6,020,000 men in the field. The power of firat stages of decay. As sure as the world her paper inoves, constitutional government will at no very plates whatever-from which Commander FelgerRussia to realise in fact the power safely concludes that a modern armorclad will figures has recently been denied; but the neceat distant day be established in Russia, not receive material injury by the explosion sity of taking into account the 'Russian military Persia, Siam, Morocco and Turkey are against her side of dynamitechar, es in superficial movement which th gen after the Matheus of practically dead. These countries are retro- contact. The effect of a tamping would increase 78 as or been suficiently lept in mind." (Pgrading. Even revolutions do not wake up the the destructive power, no doubt, and it is claimed 149) After showing in other passages the com- Oriental mind. They rarely progress further by some that the velocity with which the shell erative weakness and unreadiness of the British than the destruction of Intolerable rulers and
army, lie, says:
It is strikes the side of an ironclad will act like
as certain as almost any the substitution of others who are no better, The tamping and carry the force of the explosion in thing can be that sooner or later we shall be living, progressive world is today divided the direction in which the shell is moving when gaged in war with Russia, and the nearer she. between republics and limited monarchies, all it strikes. This, however, is merely conjecture. us upon our Indian frontier, the more committed to the principle, that the sources of The effect of these shells against wa den or difficult it will be for us to fight her. But I have all power are in the people. Here is the figure unarmoured steel ships may be very destructive task that there is no need for the growth which the republics make: The indentation in the armour in the experi-of a hopeless feeling, inasmuch as we cin, for ment described would represent sufficient force any years to come, both hold our own upon. especially as the dynamite shells will have a to blow a hole in the side of an unarmoured ship, mur Indian frontier, and if we properly organise eur forces, carry the wat into the quemy's camp charge twice as heavy as that which Commander by an attack upon the Russian possessions in Folger used in his experiment. The destruction the Pacific." (p. 332.). of the schionner Silliman at Fon Haliton. though she was a rotten- and shaky old bulk, proved that the concussion was very great and that the gun may be aimed with accuracy. Even if these Sheils are not sufficiently, powerful to sink an armoured ship, they may destroy her unarmoured parts, while, the force of the con- cussion will have a moral effect upon men that must not be under-estimated
With a Chiness alliance, which we ought to ale to gain and retain, our position, lo Manchuria would be very strong. It is there, and there only, that in the event of war Russia can be bled to death; for of the mtack upon the Caucasus, and the attack upon Cronstadt, both of which Colonel Malleson originally recomm acted, I fear that the one and the other are about equally unlikely to succeed." (p. 334) Again: "Englishmen are hardly aware of the stringed Pussin in the Pacific, where, if we and where if we are to adopt the handless.policy f reinasuing only on the defensive, we shall still have to meet her for the protection of our own possessions,”
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Beside these there are one or two smaller republics, such as the Grange Free State. It is Worthy of note that there is left to-day in the civilized world but one absolute monarchy.OUSE NO 1, "BALL'S COURT," Bonham Every ather is limited, and some of them have republics There is only the shadow of monarchy in Great Britain; and even the shadow long ago. departed-from-France. The principle of populer government has, within a century, modified" every monarchy in Europe. That is true of Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Holland, Portugal, Spain. Austria and Germany. It may require another century to obliterate all traces of absolutism. But the revolution that has been working for two centuries, and sometimes almost imperceptibly, never had more power for the destruction of despotism than it has now-SaxZET LAND Francisco Bulletin.
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Another experiment made by Commander Folger is very interesting in this connection. two of the buckets soon dropped off, rendering He placed twenty-five pounds of wet gun coltori,Į are to stack at all, ye inust in vitably fight / Constitutions as broad and liberal as are found in then useless, and it was not till similar help. ntrived, from the Temples inside the City of Arrear on horizontstarget near the ground Wenchow, that the fire was got-under. The representing in strength a two-inch steel deck. Shen-pao observes that considering last yearThe explosion blew, a hole seven by eight ches through the target, and its effect reached to a similar accident originated from a similar
"On the 1st of August Russia will have upon cause in a bamboo-basket shop at Tsang kan depth of eighteen inches in the ft earth under Kw, the youth might have been more prudent, neath. This was a comparatively small charge, her North Pacific station-dising, that is, adaken warning from the overturned cart
bistic shows that the wave of explosiveffect between Vful.vostock and Yokohama-three ahead "not to run in the same track,
has a tendency to go downward, possibly awing now second-class protected ships, two of 6,000 to the fact that the portion of the charge tons, s-piece and one of 400 tons, one uller near the target has the superincon best weightpeed ship of 3.0 olen, four fast-sailing of the remainder of the charge above it to ruisers, and four gunboats, of which two are brand new this year. While talking about their act as a tamping, from, this experit ent we can see that the effect of a charge of dynamic European fleets, the Russians are paying no eight times as leavy the pun cotton charge alattention to them, and are more and more used by Commander Fulges will be terrific if concentrating their strength in the North Pacle" (p.320.) And again" It is vital to us that we should have a-chaling station and a base of operations within reach of Vladivostock and the Annor at the Leginuing of a war, as a guard-house for the protection of our China trade, and for the prevention of a subden descent upon, ou colanies; ultimately, as the head station for our Canadian Pacific Kaileval track; and at all thues, and especially in the later stages of the war, as an offensive station for our main attack on Russia. It is possible that Japan might be tempted, by the offer of Saghalich, which we could busily detach from Russia, to join us in the way, and her alliance would be useful, But that of China would be essential, and. wie her sho required to be guaranteed in the possession of our conquests in the Pacific and on the Amoor, or whether she asked for Upper Burnysh, her alliance sught at all hazards to be secured. China and England Have identical interests in Asia, and they are inenaced by Russia in an equal degree. They trade together to an extraordinary extent, and are more closely allied by trade than are any other two countries in the world. Surely these considerations point to a permanent alhance between the countries," (P. 175)
The dynamite cruiser, this unknown potential in the equation of marine supremacy, is must innocent and modest in appearance. High up in the stucks, surrounded with the scaffolding of the shipbuilder; it looks like a big rowboat, some 246 feet long it is true, with a knife-blade bow and stern, and body of a stout cigar. With its great length it is very shallow, being about fourteen feet in depth, with a mean draught of ine fect. The breadth is about twenty-six feet ive inches The side of the ship-is-crowned- with a very light railing of galvanized iron, which gives it the appearance of a pleasure boat" and not a war vessel. This idea is further accentuated by the thinness of the iron plates of which it is buiff, which are only three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and which could be pierced by the most ordinary cannon. The cruiser does not intend to give its enemies a chance in hit it, g it is built so that from any one of the throats of is, three dynamite guns it can throw boo pounds of dynamite two miles at its enemy, and then, like a bad boy, it scurries off at the rate of twenty knots an hour. Its motto is not to give and take, but to give and run,
landed on the deck of a ship. Here, then, is the great power of our dynamite gun. Since it has an elevation of ten degrees the shells will strike much like mortar shells at a comparatively large angle with the horizontal, thus increasing the downward tendency of the wave of explosion, and creating general havoc above and below decks. The effect upon men's nerves will be very demoralizing and everything movabl: will be,set in met,on,
AUSTRALIA AND THE CHINESE
EMPIRE.
Under the above heading, Mr. L. F. Heydon writes to the Sydney Morning Herald:--
As an Apstralian born, anxinus that my country Shall not utterly disgrace herself over this business. I cannot refrain from contributing a few thoughts, which I have not yet sen expressed. That the Chinese must be prevented from swamping this country goes without saying: and that we must exclude them at whatever east, I heartily agree. I write as to the method of securing this end, for it is of some importance, whether we shall bear ourselves with dignity and propriety, or shall degrade ourselves by ignorance and selfish unreason.
regard both proceedings as selfish and stupid,
It looks very deure now in its coat of Quaker gray, which is a special preparation to counteract The noisy Australian pseudo-patriols call upon the effect of sea-water on the iron, but before it England to do everything, and, if be hesitates slides into the Delaware it will be painted black to regard Australian interests as paramount and above the water line, which line will be repre-alone-to-be-considered cry out for separation. sented by a narrow red band, while the keel is gray. The cruiser has been built under the Bupervision of Foreman Harry Long, and he and all the gangs ofen who have worked on it at different times take the deepest interest in it on account of its novelty in construction and its ultimate use.
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1 conclude my extracts with that question, to which there can be but one answer; and 1 may add that surely those considerations also point to the propriety of Australia taking upon herself the responsibility of whatever necessary offensive truths have to be spoken to the Govern ment of China.
A
A few centuries ago despotic governments ruled the world. Wherever a popular form of administration was advocated the suggestion was put down at once as treason. It was a sign of revolution, nut to he, tolerated for a day. Absolutism was everywhere asserted. The English Constitution as it now stands was the result of many revolutionary struggles Kings no longer reign by divine right, but by the will of the people. Absolutism was very dear to heart of Richelieu and his royal master. But France has became republican and has trampled in the dust, as it were, the doctrine of irresponsible power. The decadence of despotism progresses slowly but surely. It is now almost exclusively confined to Oriental countries. Here is what is
the
If we had separation we could not exclude the THE DECADENCE OF DESPOTISM. Chinese at all; and, while we are a portion great empire, we should behave as such; insisting on vitally necessary points, of course, such as the exclusion of the Chinese, but recognislag other people's claims, and doing all The three dynamite guns are to be placed in we can to make the gaining of our own ends the forward part of the boat, They look like consistent with the interests of other members long, slender, reflecting telescopes, being about of the empire. Sir Henry Parkes, in his fifty-five feet long, and project out of the forecastle despatch, claimed that every subject of the deck like a star-seeker from an observatory. Empire should be protected by the treaties of They do not look like any guns ever made. The England. True enough! but how about those angle they make with the deck is less than 45 subjects of the Empire interested in the great degrees and is quite acute. Following them, fact that 80 per cent. of the enormous foreign below the deck you find that the three long trade of China is done with England, Hongkong tubes side by side tun down at an incline almost ranking as the third port in the British Empire to the first boiler room, where the breeches are Is it not right for England, and for Australia ton, mounted and firmly fastened to the bottom of if she is anything but a crying spoilt child, to the boat by masses of iron and bolts and barr, endeavour to harmonise, if possible, the opposing The guns are right-and-the-whole-boat-has-to-be-interests of different subjects? The rabid anti moved to take aim.
Imperialist will instantly rejoin that the solution of the difficulty would be found in separation. But how would he propose that New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland should stop China from sending, if she wished, half a million of men to the Northern Territory, supposing the painter to be successfully cut,
All around the gun at the bottom of the boat are the great pipes into which the compressed air is to be pumped to charge the gun. There are about thirty-six of these, twenty-five feet long and sixteen inches in diameter. From these, by a complicated arrangement the air is let into the gun and the terrible projectiles are acst out on the errand of destruction. Through the middle of the boat runs a pasange way, which is of an ordinary man's height, 15 inches wide at the bottom and az at the top. Its size indicates that the officers and crew are to be thin men, as no other could get from one part of the vessel to the other. The four boilers arc forward and aft of the great smokestack, which The is exactly in the center of the vessel. engine-rooms are toward the stern and will contain two triple expansion cagines, developing about 3,300 horse-power. The engines will furnish the motive power for the two propellers, as well as compress the air in the reservoirs,
Ungke the general impression of transatlantic Iravelers, the choice berths are in this curious vessel, just over the two screws. Here are the officers, while the crew sleep forward, near the bow of the boat. On the upper deck, which is of iron floored over with white pine, is the house, which is of iron, where the cook will do the best he can. This is built around and about the smokestack. In front of the smoke suck is the conning tower, where the enemy is sighted. It is just back of the guns and is built of one-inch plates, The Dynamler on launching will be a mere shell, and all the work of putting on the guns and machinery will take place after she is afloat in the harbor.
The very danger we ate in of a Chinese invasion demonstrates more than anything else the need we have of the Imperial power. The anti. Imperialists, who object to Australia's paying even a small fisction of the cost of her own defence, would find the expense of fighting China single-handed something much more con siderable.
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lo len the face of the Emperor and live. While the physical progress of the country must have Instead of asking England to do the work of culminated centuries ago, it can hardly be said insulting China for us, we should do it ourselves. that despotism itselfshows any signs of decadence. We should be very angry, and pass most stringen! It is the same rule from age to age. China maid. laws, and make a tremendous clamour, and tains the strongest barriers against Western ideas ATLANTIC AND OTHER CONNECTING
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rgovernment, From the highest subject be safe amongst us, and meanwhile we should to the lowest there is absolute contempt for The Chinese not object to English statesmen diplomatising Western civilization and progress. and even refusing the Queen's assent to our who come to this country, and are brought faceTHE Scanship laws for a time, if they protected us from China's to face with all the marvellous progress, take anger while we did all this. The difference nothing back to their own country, save the gold between my view and that of the anti-Imperialist they have hoarded here. They profit here by the will be despatched for San Francisco, vid fanatic is this: He claims that England shall use of machinery, but they adopt nothing perman Yokobaina, on WEDNESDAY, the sath June, quarrel with France and with China for Australianently. It is morally certain that succeeding 1 THREE P.M interests, while Austraila paye-nothing for even generations will know no more than
Connection will be made at Yokohama with preceding her own def nee. I ho'd that we should insist ones. Every Mongolian is cast in a rigid mold. Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports, on vitally necessary questions, but in such a way So much is possible and no more. He is the as to consist. best with, the interests of the other product of Asiatic absolutism which never members of the Empire. My view of the true changes, except when broken and utterly attitude of au Australian statesman thus differs destroyed by revolution. Western ideas have widely from the course taken by our Premier, impinged upon China only far enough to cause who flattered and caressed the Chinese Come the Chinese to collect a formidable navy to missioners, so that to him alone of all Australian defend and take absolatiem more, secure. The dynamite guns are known as the ZalinskiPremiers they sent State presents, and who now Probably the last stronghold of irresponsible gun, and the first one has bot recently been truculently demands that England shall do all completed, and is mounted at Furt Lafayette, by a treaty. His conduct ought to have been power in all the world will be in that part
To other European Points at proportionale Japan is still classed as an autocracy. - But New York The telectics thrown by the guns exactly the opposite; he should have told the of the new cruiser will weigh goo pounds. The Commissioners, with all personal politeness, that thint form of government has been decaying rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers loading apparatus is hydraulic, and can be Australians would not tolerate large numbers of rapidly. Japan is permented and saturated with of the Army, Navy, Civil Service and the manipainted by one cannoncer. The contracts Chinamen amongst them, and he should now Western Ideas, Courts have been established Imperial Chinese Customis, to be obtained on the new cruiser were signed on February tell England that as it is Australia's quartel which administer written lawa. Schools and angers, who have paid full fare, re-embark-
Australia will fight it out with China, and that colleger have been organized on American and A his cruiser ens conplete an inno. as China's friendship is most valuable to England European plans. A written Constitution and a ing at San Francisco for China or Japan (or Steamer lying In the harbour or "coming „Nation as was the Monitor when i first appeared, and of no value to us, we will understand National Legislature are amorectiently discount of re per cent.” This allowance dess | alongside the KowLoCHI WHARP-on-application:
the gains vice ·within' one year will be allowed a iris by nd means probable that it will revolutionize England's seeming to check our violence for atexity costs has been uiterly broken dows, hot apply to through fares from China and to the Undersigned. kuval warfare or prove to be anything more than time. an auxiliary in offense and defense. The probable, In what I have said above I have made no Japan is emerging from the shell of autocracy Japan to Europe. affect of the dynamite shells upon armored or mention of the extreme value of China to the and will soon probably take her place among unarmored ships can only be judged by the Bitish Empire as an ally again t Russia. On the constutional governments of the world. experiments that have been made.It is to be this point I give the
extracts from Sir Russia has made no essential progress in that stubered that the shoe are not designed for Charles Dilku, valuable work of The prescut direction. The date ground. Westemt penetration, and so they must produce, their position of European politics, or Europe in 1837, and Oriental ideas come in deadly conflict is now effect from the outside of tre target aimed at which has been generally acknowledged as in Russia. The old Tarlar rule left its stamp of In 1884 Comunander Folger of the navy made authoritatives The Russian peace, army is absolutisin there. It was the stamp of deadly serles of experiments at Annapolis to determine nominally in the present year 840,000 men; but, hatred against all forms of popular rule That the effect of dynamite upon armor. One of these really, if we take into account is Cossacks is the case of Russia to-day. The physical experiments will be sufficient to illustrate the permanently, embodied, it amounts to 800,000 progress is at Western origin. The form of ter 93. A one-hundred pound charge of dynamite men, wallet oven the smaller figure exceeds the government le corentially Oriental, If originated
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