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CHINA.

HER RESOURCES AND HER GRADUAL CHANGE

OF POLICY WITH REGARD TO THE OUTER BARBARIANS.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1883.

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battery of six 6 inch rifles, 80-pounders. Armored with steel plates; has inclined turrets; the front and rear batteries, where the large guns are located, are strongly made with steel beams,

A correspondent writes the following interest-forming a very solid protection for the gunners; ing letter to the San Francisco Bulletin on the above subject:-

The Pacific Squadron, under the command of Rear-Adminl ́ A. K. „Hughes, is composed as follows:

Pensacola-second, rate (flagship), 22 guns, of which two are 11-inch calibre, eighteen 9-inch smooth bores, and two 60-pounder rifles. Speed, 9 knots.

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To-day's Advertisements

the bow is armed with a very formidable ram that extends forward under water and is com THEATRE DORK. ROYAL posed of steel bars. Speed not given, Expected to be very fast.

Following are unarmored cruisers -

To-day's Advertisements.

KELLY & WALSH'S

LECTED LIST

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CITY HALL, HONGKONG.

..E, S. WOLFE.

W. HARLAND.

An Old Fogey

So they were Married

LESSEE and MANAGER

- General O'Higgins-Wooden, corvette, ship- rigged, lifting screw propeller. Armament, three and four 40-pounder Armstrongs on the broad- 7-ton Armstrong guns, pivots; two 76-pounder side. Speed, to knots.

Chacabuco-Sister ship to the General O'Hig‐ | STAGE MANAGER. gins, same armament and rig.

Pilemogyo-Bark rigged (captured from Peru- vians), armament two 70 pounders, four 40- pounders and four 12-pounders. Speed not known.

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Magaliens--Composite vessel; armament, one 7-ton, one 6s-pounder and two 20-pounder Armstrong rifics. Speed between eleven and twelve knots.

There are also five small paddle gunboats; canying from two to five guns each, and a num Lackawane-second rate; 9 guns; two 31-

ber of armed transports. The latter are large inch, six 9-inch smooth bores; and one Go-steamers purchased to meet, the requirements of pounder rifle. She has also two zo-pounder the war with Peru, from the South American Steam Navigation Company, which was started breech-loading rifles. Speed, 9 knots,

as an opposition line to the English South Pacific Iroquoir-third rate; 7 guns; one 11-inch, four Mail Company. They carry a battery of five 8-inch smooth borse, one 8-inch rifle, one 30- heavy guns-rifles-and are very fast. pounder rifle. Speed, 11 knols.

Every tumour we hear confims the impression that the political system which has so long para. lyzed the industrial forces and cramped the re Bources of China, is destined soon either to break | up or to undergo important modifications. The exclusiveness of the Celestial empire has for many years been yielding to that moderate world which now hedges it in on all sides, and there can be little doubt that the time is coming when its gigantic dormant powers will be effectually into modern life. It is notorious that quickened

Hartford-second rate; her original battery difficulty of opening China to commercial intercourse has been solely due to the weak was sixteen 9-inch smooth bores: she has lately jealousy of the Government and the ignor joined the station; was fitted out at the Boston ance and corruption of the Government officers. Navy Yaid as the relief of the Pensacola. Her The Chinese nation is really among the most

armament has been changed. It is not known industrious, and most disposed to general and active commercial intercourse, in the world. at Mare Island Navy Yard exactly what it is at Should the obstacles which have hitherto existed present; most probably two 8-inch rifles, twelve to its commercial progress be permanently re-glach smooth bores; and two do-pounder rifles. moved, we may expect nothing less than a rev olution in the trade relations of the East, and Speed, 8 knots. probably of more than the East. In one

e respect China is far more favoured than some European nations, Coal and iron-in their combination the sinews of industry and the master-key of trade-lie in abundance ready to hand. Science and practical experience are to be had from Europe for the asking, while labour, of unpar- alleled excellence and cheapness, and simply unlimited in quantity, is ready for so profitable an opportunity at home instead of

spreading in ill- rewarded profusion over America and Australasia. China, roughly speaking, includes within its limits about a fourth of the human race, more homo- geneous, more industrious and perhaps hardly less when the opportunity occurs, than enterprsing, the inhabitants of any ofthe more modem nations which have hitherto outstripped her in the path of wealth and civilisation. She is no longer a remote and forgotten corner of the earth. She lics in the very centre of the modern world, as Constantinople lay in the centre of the world of fifteen hundred years ago. From America, Australia, Russia, and India, as well as from Western Europe, modern ideas are now irresisti bly impressed on this slumbering nationality, It is not easy to forecast exactly the ultimate result of introducing the vast industrial forces of China into the general current of commercial enterprise and competition; but if such a porten. tous change should in process of titue be made, the value of labour throughout the world must as necessarily fall as the value of silver fell with the discovery of the mines of Peru.

For several years attention has, from time to time, been drawn in this country, not only to the magnitude and local importance of the Chinese coal fields, but to the remarkable excellence of the coal which they afford. Some years ago, among the specimens brought home by Admiral Hope, was found a steam coal, pronounced by analysts to be fully equal, if not superior, to the best steam coal of Cardiff At the present mo ment there is not a single coal-mine in China scientifically worked. There are no steam-en- gines, pumps, or tramways; and though fron has been immemorially in use, and the trade is even now represented by very creditable pro- ductions, it is carried on, from the fint to the Inst af lis processes, in the most primitive man- ner: the present moment there is no rail- way in China, and we need not, insist on the obvious consequences which may be ex- pected to follow this irresistible pioneer of modern ideas. The Chinese, after their fashion, have long been excellent engineers and indefa- tigechanice Their bridges and canals, which preceded similar works in the Western world, even now rival them in no mean degree, and most important results may be certainly anticipated from the introduction into the Empire of modern science and modern experience. The iron trade in its higher branches doubtless demands a high degree of scientific skill; yet a comparatively small degree of practice under proper supervision would suffice to enable Chinese iron manufacturers to produce bolt and rod iron, and to compete with us in the manufacture of rails. Several additional iron steamers are now

being constructed in this country for the Chinese Government, but the time will probably come when the Chinese will build them for themselves, They are expert shipbuilders, though they have hitherto followed their own obsolete types; and they are excellent pilots and sawigators. A there glance at the geographical position of China

In connection with the great regions of production and consumption which lie all round the Pacific and Indian Oceans, with such chan- nels of inland traffic as the navigable Amoor on one hand, and the route to India by way of Bri- tish Burmah, now beleg explored, on another, makes it unnecessary to insist on the conclusions to which these/considerations tend., But, with the opportunity afforded by the Pacific Railway for extensions of the Pacific trade, perhaps the most important of the immediate results would be felt in the Western States of America. The Chinese, it must be remembered, are by no ments, in the common' acceptation of the term, Orientals. They differ in a remarkable degree from the inhabitants of British India. Inured to sever toll, they live most frugally, while their inbour power almost comparable to that of Europeans, and in industry and docility they are even superior.

Essex-third rate; 6 guns; four-inch smooth bores, one 8-inch rifle, one, 60-pounder rifle, Speed not known. Under orders to join the Asiatic Squadron."

It is of course understood that.all the vessels mentioned in the above list as cruisers, are screw ateamers, and that a knot is the seafaring the guns and their weight in tons may be some term for a nautical mile, but, as the calibre of

what puzzling even to old sailors, from the fact that naval ordnance has entirely changed of late Adams-third rate, six guns; one 11-inch; four o-inoh emocth horse; one. 6o-pounder rifle. years, it may not be amiss to explain the weight

of projectiles of different calibre,

It will be Speed 11 knots. At Sitka, Alaska.

seen what a vast difference there is between the Onward-store ship (saila). "At Callao, Feri. elongated projectile of a rifled gun and the round shot or shell of a smooth bore of the same nom- inal calibre.

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AT MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD, Monongahela--Second rate; nine guns; six 9-inch smooth bores; two 8-inch rifles and one Go-pounder rife. Speed 8 knots. Out of cam- mission. Requires extensive repairs. ·

Rifles-Seventeen-inch, rexton, gun-weight of projectile, 2,000 pounds; 16-inch, 80-ton. 1,700 pounds; 12-inch, 38 ton, Bo pounds;

launched before November. Proposed arma-inch, 18-ton, 400 pounds; 9-inch, 12-ton, 300 Mohican-Third rate; on stocks; will not be 600 pounds; 11-inch, 25-ton, 535 pounds; to 12-inch, 35 ton, 700 pounds; 12-inch, 25-ton,

ment & guns: six 9-inch smooth bores: one pounds; B-inch, gton, 180 pounds; 7-inch, 8-inch rifle and one 60-pounder rifle.

6lton, 115 pounds ; 6-inch, 4-ton, 80 pounds.

Alert-Third rate; four guns: one F1-inch, two g-inch smooth bores, and one 60-pounder rifle. Speed to knots,

Ranger-Third rate; sister ship to Alert. On Special surveying duty. No armament at pre-. sent except one 60 pounder rifle. Speed, roj knots. Repairing damage to propeller.

IRONCLADS,

Camanche-Single turret Monitor); two 15 Inch guns. Speed 3 knots, Thickness of arinor 5 inches.

Monadnock (double turret Monitor)-Rebuild ing at Vallejo. Old armament, four fifteen-inch guns. This vessel is really new and on the stocks. She contains a few plates of the old Monadnock, which is lying on the Vallejo mud flats.]

Following are sailing vessels: Independence-Receiving ship, She was faunched in 1814, and was the first line of battle ship belonging to the Navy. She carried seventy-four guns on her first cruise, but was being sufficiently high above the water. Her rasced on account of her lower deck poris not timbers are well preserved.

Cyane-Stoop of war-In ordinary; timbers in good condition; would make an excellent store ship or supply vessel. The popular error con ceming this vessel is that she was captured in the War of 1812 The Cyane, which with her consort, the Levant, was captured by the United States frigate Constitution, was a corvette carry. ing thirty-four guns. She was broken up at Philadelphia in 1836. The Cyane at Mare Island was built at Boston in 1837.

Smooth Dores-is inch gun, 450 pounds; iirch, 166 pounds; 9-inch, go pounds; 8-inch, 68 pounds; the latter gun, though called a 68- pounder, does not in reality throw a shot of over 64 pounds.

The smooth bores above described are what are known as Dahlgren guns, being the inven- tion of the late Admiral ́of that name. They were considered the most powerful guns afloat until the introduction in the English service of the Armstrong and Woolwich rifted guns, Almost all of the American naval vessels were thus armed until lately. The 8-inch rifle mentioned in the armaments of some of the ships of the converted, on what is termed the Palliser system Pacific Squadron is an 1-inch, smooth bore

into rified ordnance. It is converted by the in- sertion of a rifled steel tube as a lining to the eleven-inch smooth bore. As this throws the preponderance of the weight of the gun forward, the after part of the trunnion has a sleeve of brass or composition metal placed upon it. At best, it is a patch-work gun. ́ ́ Such as it is, how- the United States navy. ever, it is, at present, the most powerful gun in

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The fact of it is, we have neither a ship nor a 'gun in the American navy. What is meant by this assertion is that the United States, have not an efficient man-of-war afloat; not one solitary vessel which, with any hopes of success, could en gage in battle with a vessel of her rate belonging

the navy of any other foreign power Chilean navy has been described in full as a contrast to our Pacific squadron. The account of both has been taken from official sources, and can therefore he relied upon as rect. Certainly it is very greatly to our disadvan- tage, because, as matters stand now, this coast is entirely at the mercy of the Chilean fleet. It will be scea that if war were to break out to-morrow between the United States and Chile, the Ironclads of that small South American republic could quickly and with- out injury to themselves 'sink' or capture the American squadron, composed as it is of a few wooden ships and inferior

guns, and then coming up the coast place San Fran cisco under tribute or bombard it, inflicting im mente destruction on life and properly. The Chilean vessels could select their own distance, bombard the city from outside of the Heads, or if they chose to come into the harbor, could knock the forts at the entrance and at Alcatraz down on the heads of the defenders, and an- choring close up to the wharves, rake the streets with the fire of their heavy artillery. The forts, oven if not speedily illanced, hare not a gun that would penetrate the armor of the Chilean ironclads. The only means of defence that could be hastily impro- vited would be stationary torpedoes, and in such a wide bay and harbor as that of San Francisco it would be a sheer accident if they now so many ingenious means for evading and injured any of the attacking fleet. There are destroying torpedoes that, as stated by Chief Engineer King of the United States Navy, in be valuable work on the "Navies of the World," "It has become a recognized maxim of torpedo warfare now to lay submarine mines only within range of protecting batteries, under which conditions it is an arduous and dangerous | tusk to remove these obstructions." Brick and mortar forts, as worthless as small wooden ships against ironclads, can hardly be termed China, in the desire of communication with this An Interesting comparison may be made of the defence against the Chilean fleet, what sort "protective batterics," If we cannot make a country. Our fron trade, though comparatively, Chilean Navy, which consists of the rows of a chance would we have against the British leas independent, cannot be afd

MADYvessels, Almíránta Cochrane Twin, maTOWI „years to come, though

is quite possible that Ima bulle; double bottom; and is divided by feet with the enormous artillery which they. this nadon may, gooner than has been anticipated seven water-tight, transverse bulkheads; pro cay or the navy of any other European

¡power? The

In addition to the above vessels at Marc Island there is lying in what is termed "Rotten Row" the Alaska and Benicia, second rates: Tus- carora, Nyack and Saco, third rates. They have all been condemned and stricken from the at of naval vessels and will be sold at public auction before long. The Alaska and Benicia were both excellent abips of their class. The first was built in Boston in 1868, and the latter at Portsmouth, N. H. the same year. Though their timbers were white oak, they should have lasted much longer than they have. Both of them were very fast, the Alaska logging over twelve knots. She came to Mare Island last December from the Hawaiian Islands, baving only been refitted and newly officered some eighteen months previous. It was thought she only required slight repairs, but when docked and thoroughly examined, her lower timbers were found to be much decayed, and a Board of Inspection condemned her under the law that no naval vessel can be repaired if it required an expense to exceed one third of her original cost. The Benicia was condemned from the aume cause The engines of these vessels are in good order. They are costly machinery, which could not be purchased from contractors for much less these vessels are sold they will bring one-tenth than $200,000 each; and yet, most likely, when

With regard to our own commercial Interests, of the value of the machinery they contain. The of course, the free competition of the huge popu- law is an unwise one, being the very reverse of lation of China would revolutionise some conditis paired both have been far better to tions of our native industry. But such an effect have repaired both the Alaska and Benicia must be very gradual; and in the meantime the even if it was at half the expense of their original mere influx of English skill could not fill in pro cost. They would have lasted quite as long. ducing a beneficial effect on our ordinary trade Somehow or other, we always manage to blunder and other relations with China, and a connection in the most extravagant manner with regard so close as that which bida fair to be established | to everything concerning the construction and would certainly lead to an increase, on the part of repairs of our naval vessels.

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LEADER OF ORCHÉSTRA.......................J. NEIHOFF.

CosibUCTOR.....

..R. THORNE.

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THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, the 19th May.

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GRAND CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.

NOTICE

ALL MILITARY AND NAVY in uniform will be admitted any Evening

to the Back Scals for 50 cents.

PRICES OF ADMISSION,!

Dress Circle

Orchestra Stalls Back Seats

$2.50.

$5.00.

+

Box Plan at Messrs. KELLY & WALSH's where Scats can be, secured, and where Subscription Packets are obtainable containing,

6 Dresa Circle Tickets for....$12

6 Orchestra Stalls for.........

310.

Doors Open for Sale of Tickets at 8.30.

Performance will commence at 9 O'CLOCK. Sharp

Hongkong, 19th May, 1883.

John Inglesant..

The Interpreter

Hany Joscelyn.....

For her dear Sake.......

High Spirits........

OF CHEAP LIGHT LITERATURE.

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J. H. Shorthouse. The Beautiful Wretch

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Max Adeler. An Ocean Free Lance

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Miss Braddon.

Mrs. Oliphant Early History of Charles James FOX Mary Ceci Hay. Paul and Virginia.... ......James Paya. An old Maids's Diary

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Reminisences of Thomas Carlyle Chivers Voyage in the Sunbeam...........Lady Brassey.

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VIOLIN MUSIC WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT.

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TERMS OF SALI—ÂS customary.

G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 19th May, 1883.

FOR SALE.

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THE American Bark

JOHN WORSTER," Built at Medford: Main, in 1867, the now lies in Hongkong Harbour, with all her SPARS, SAILS, STORES, &c., &c. For Particulars, apply to

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even by those who have threatened us with an 1 tected on water line by an armor belt; maximum fronclad ghty ton gun of the British approaching exhaustion of our coalfields, be thickness amidships, nine inches, backed on

or the one hundred ton gun destined to undergo a struggle for her commerteak having an average thickness of ten faches of the new ironclads of the Italians, would crash cial supremacy. We may perhaps, hope that armored citadals complete all-round firet armor, through the walls of our forts as though they this prospect will afford matter for some serious eight luches, backed on teak fourteen inches thick. were pasteboard. It is downright nonsense to consideration to English capitalists and labourers Her antrament consists of six pitic-nich 121-ton fall back on the self-complaisant issection in the midst of the disastrous and suicidal strug guns, throwing a projectile of 300 pounds. They that a country like the United States, with glea which have become almost epidemic among are Argustrong muzzle-loading rifles, and can be over fifty millions of people, and immense us. The edifice of our trade lias not been built fred by electricity. In addition there in an resources, need fear no sitack. That is all up by the blind operation of unintelligent force, eighty-pounder breech loading rifle on forecastle, very true, if prepared, but unprepared the very nor by the mere calculation of proportions, baẻ three light guns, and two Nordenfeldt or Gatling wealth of the country is an incentive to attack. lasices, and percentages. Minute economy, pri- guns. The ship is provided with the Harvey It takes nearly three years to construct an iron- dence, and enterprise are no necessary to sustaini torpedo and steam launch, fitted with spar tor-clad and many months to manufacture a very found a commercial system, and those pedot ram bow, bark rigged, as sailing sülser; large gun. Wars are won now-a-days not by qualkies are no longer so conspicuously developed speed, thirteen knots

line added to the most complete preparation. mart force of numbers, but by skill and discip as they once were in those with whom lies the Blanco Encalado-Ironclad; sister ship to is criminal carelessness on the part of our maintenance of the main trade which has given Almirante Cochrane samo armament and rig national legislators, that with four hundred No. us our present sovereignty in the markets of the world-British Braffi

Husscar-Ironclad, single-turret ram (cap millions in the treasury, they have not appro- tured from Peruvians.) Armament was origpriated the few millions that are necessary to pally two 9 inch, 12) ton, 300-pounder, mumle This is the pretty welcome Helen Hint gives loading Armstrong rifles in turret two 40 pounder build up the navy and place the country in a SIXT DOOR WEST FROM POFTINGER STREET.

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