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Co. Chim Chia Long Te accomplished nothing beyond keeping Col. Long from the command of the Korean forces which had been fendered him. Indeed, it was probably never Ms. Dre certainly never con'tmplated any work intended that it should accomplish anything else. |
of a serious natire, while Mr. Commins was In any work of a military nature, Beyond a little physically incompetent to command trops or aid drill and a few matters of trivialdetail, the Korean authorities under Russian advice, auslated by theft own innate inertia and the meddlesome Idiocy and mare of the Inte so-called American Foreign Advisor," touk good care I should not even haven chance to net, I look upon the whole thing as three years of my life wasted, and re'ur bomo a wiser and poorer man. The chances of my receiving what is das me are very slim so as long as the United States has a State Department as at present cinstituted. We want diplomatists de carriers and not de kasard--not pettifogging shyster lawyers fresh from whittling toothpicks on the we mach further use for broken-down merchants, steps of their village grocery store. Nor bare If my Government is ever to regain its old t-duence and crestige in the East, new leaf must be turned over by the next Administration, For beyond appointing dentists to consular positions-probably on the principle of tampering with the enemy's teeth l-sed the sending to foreige Crusts of ministers ignorant of the language and customs of the countries to which they are accredited, the present wlalders of
executive power in America scem void of any well-founded public policy in the "proper pidgin sense.
The colossal flasco of the Pan- American Congress, followed. incontinently by revolts, revolutions' and wars in several of the South American states; the McKinley and Silver, Bills Interfering with and disturbing the resources and finances of my country, are a few instances in point. Unjil now by education, conviction and experience I have always been a staunch Republican in every sense of the word-hatred of disorder and misrule, fear of the evils et monarchy, and a destre for liberty with fair laws. But now traditions scem to be vanishing, and justice, truth, and bennur sem to be disappearing in the treacherous quicksands of financial greed the seldab seeking after personal argrandizement and the fadiffer ence of the few to the welfare of the many. Thus I waver, uncertain whether America has not pursued a winng course! After darkness there sometimes comes light.
The recent shocking miscarriage of justice and subsequent catastrophe at New Orleans centainly indicates that improvement of some kind should be sought for ↑ it is, tadeed, greatly needed. Natives
course, expect to Charot, of progress through cycles of years without using steel and expending blood and treasure. The timidity of equity has not and can never
"have a prédominant share in the polity of nations. Politics and sentimentalism are incom patible. The - Introduction of Asiatic savn- gery in so civilized a community as Louisiana Ceatly shows a flaw somewhere either in the form or strength of those who pretend to rule and govern in the name of the sovereign people; the clever manner in which Sir Julian Pouncefote has managed to get the Fisheries Question sub- mitted to The U.S. Supreme Court is an argu- "ment”in favour of their want of diplomatic
sagacity.
jand
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1891.
in and out of the State Department in Washing- tos are not worth much,
With their own cogent reasons brought for ward with sufficient diplomatic skill, backed by as the doubtless should and would be by her wealth and masres of population supported
England's moral support, the Empire could without firing shot, and bring that simiesque compel the modification of the L-Ito tray race of Confucianistes to try and imitate the annexation policy and colonization schemes of their betters resulting in a merited realization of their true position. For the cause of Korea's troubles in 1884, the Japsrese have been and still are a curse to the land in which, as the inhabitants are almost all pro-Chi-ese if any- thing, they are most unpopular.
Indeed why wait? Why, in the exercise of his Imperial prerogative, should not the "Master" at Peking at onen dethrone the present | Wang (or prince) and place in his stead, if such can be found, some Korean mare intelligent and able, and who, further, may be trusted to make the easternmost bulwark of the Chinese of Korea what she by nature le designed to be Empire. The sooner this is un fait accomp the batter for those who have vast commercial and political interests, at stake in the event of a sudden outbreak of war in this part of the world. I have given you my views on questions: at issue, and if they prove of value in clearing up the clouds of intrigue and rascality now hanging over the peninsular kingdom I shall feel well repaid for having gone to the trouble of carefully studying the situation in the "far-away land of Chao-helen."
THE ENGLISH FLAG.
[The following Jingle, by Rudyard Kipling, has got into the National Observer. Opt readers will see the prescient aliosion to the serious fatality which occurred yesterday at Pok-ta City
"Above the portice a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fistrering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when it fell the crowds rent the air with shouts, and seemed to see significance in the incident."-Dally Papers, Winds of the World, give answer! They are And whispering to and fro of England who
only England know?—
and fume and brag,
The poor little street-bred people that vapour They are lifting their heads in the stillness to
yelp at the English Flag. Must we borrow a clout from the Boero
plaster anew with dirt?
An Irish lias's bandage, or an English coward's
shirt?
We may rot speak of England; her Flag's to
sell or share.
What is the Flag of England? Winds of the
World, declaret
The North Wind blew :-From Bergen my steel
chod vanguarda go;
I chase your lazy whalers home from the
Disko Ave;
By the Great North Lights above me I work
the will of God, And the liner splits on ice-field or the Dogger
fills with cod.
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Saturday week. On the way down Mr. Douglas ast week and! was taken over by her owners, vatnabijent took it, and was prescribed for by a medical. and the third steamer, the Emprest of China, gentleman who happened to be on board. He
was 'aunched a fortnight age. In the yard there recovered suficiently to be conveyed on shore on the afternoon of Sunday and to go to his residence | sizit, and it is understood that negotiations were are at present building nine steamers of various Macdonald, Ardrossan, who, perceiving the serious Harrington Syndicate, for hullding four fast at Ardrossan. He was at once seen by Dr.
In progress, hinugh what is known ne the charne'er of the illness, called in the assistance steamers for a new line from England to Canada. of Dr Samuel J. Moore, of this city. It is These steamers, which were to be of the twin unposed that Mr. Bryce-Douglas had caught strew triple-expansion type, were destined to cold on board the new ship, and peritonitis andrews the Atlantic in less than five days. The set in. From Monday morning, Dr Macdonald, hopes of War at a shipbuilding centre, pur correspondent writes, were largely centered in Mr. Fryer Dourlas, end it is felt that his place at the head of the Naval Construction 'and' Armaments Company will be very difficult to fill.
sted by trained nurses, remained in constant attendance on his patient day and night, with Dr Moore in consultation sometimes twice a day, but the inflammation had got so firm a hold on the system before active treatment was com- menced that human skill proved unavailing, and death took place at ten minutes past five yester day morning.
Mr. Bryce-Douglas was born in the year 1840, and that ben but if in the prime of his life, to the mid-time of his usefulness, and before he anticipated for him by his friends. He was the had reached the fall measure of the eminence
of 28 years parisla minister of Ardrossan, where son of the Rev. John Bryce, who was for a period he died in the year 1859 Like many another son of the manse, young Bryce was destined by his parents for the ministry of the Church; but his beat lay in another direction, and as from his carllest days he had a mind and a will of bis own, his father wisely gave way, and allowed bim to carve out his own path through lie. At the age of 17 he was apprenticed to Mr. Robert Diape, joiner, Ardrossan, and at that occupation he remained for three years. But not yet had he found his vocation, and at the end of that time be removed to Glasgow, and entered the engineering establishment of Randolph, Elder & Co, at that time situated in Centre Street. Here he found congenial work, and throwing himself into it with all the ardour of his nature, he soon attracted the attention of Mr. Randolph, the head of the firm,
Be a wide circle of friends Mr. Bryce Douglas was highly esteemed, indeed. It is not too much. ton say that, wike by the warten en than th
and gentlemen with whom he was in his later superintendence and the distinguished noblemen, reass, asciated, he was, held in affectionate regard. He was a man of sterling independence, much kindliness of heart. In the work of and under a rough exterior was possessed of organisation he had few equals; as one who knew him well remarked, he was a born leader of men. In polities Mr. Bryce-Douglas was an lion of 1885 he was approached with the advanced Liberal, and at the general elec- view to his being brought forward candidate for the representation of the burgh, af Goven. Assurances WCTO given of almost certain success, but he declined to oppose Sir Wilam (then Mr. William) Pearce, As an indication of the estimation in which he was held by his professional brethren, it may bë mentioned that he was elected as their repre sentative on Lloyd's Committee by the Institution, of Naval Architects; and he was present at the first meeting of the newly constituted committee held only the other week in London.
AS
Some years ago M. Archibald Douglas Bryce. who predicted for him, even at that early age, a Douglas on succeeding to a small landed pro- as he was then known, 'aisumed the surname.of perty in Ayrshire bequeathed to him by two distinguished career. But he was not content to remain for more than a few years in the Centre
aunts He was married to Mi«s Jessie Caldwell, Street establishment. He had always been of Seamill, Avrshire, who died while they were re- possessed by a spirit of adventure, and early insident on the Pacific Coast. The death of bis young the sixties he shipped as a steerage passenger in sailing vessel for Australia. On the way out
and gifted wife was a great blew to Mr. Bryce She the carpenter died, and young Bryce was offered,
was cut off during an epidemic of spotted fever, 'and so great was the consternation which its and accepted, the situation rendered it as racant, ravages had created that he was left without enjoying the stirring life of the colony, and laying servants, and had with his own hands to lay her up a wonderful store of experiences, with which Bryce was survived by an only daughter, but In the coin and prepare her for burial, Mrs. afterwards he was wont to entertain his friends. she als died about ten years ago, Two of Mr. But neither was this life to his liking; and next Bryce-Douglas's sisters, remain, with many he shipped as a sailor before the mast with a well-known captain
thus
one of our ocean
devoted friends, to mourn bis sudden and unex-
The news of the death of Mr. Bryce-Donglas; nur Barrow correspondent writes, created a feeling of gloom and depression over the town, Innumerable flags half-mast high on the public buildings, public works, shipping, and elsewhere tested to the great respect in which he was beld and the loss Barrow has sustained.
liners,
for Callao,
on the Pacific Coast,pected death. Here he found employment as an engineer with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and thus formed a connection which may he said to bave terminated only with death. In the year 1865 he revisited Scotland; and alter spending a few months with his felends he returned to Callao to, become assistant engineer of the Pacific company. This position be occupied bli 169. In that year the head- THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of Pure quarters of the company were removed from the Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting island of Tabego, in the Bay of Panama, to Diseases is shown by the accompanying state. Callao, on the establishment of a line of steamers ment from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, Aust:- to sail direct between Liverpool and Valparaiso ;
Having been a great sufferer from pulmonary and a vacancy taking place at the same time in-attacks and gradually wasting away for the past the office of superintending engineer, Mr. Bryce two years, it affords me great pleasure to testify, received the appointment, which he held for a
and cheerfully recommend it to all suffering in a similar way to myself. In addition I would say that it is very pleasant to take." Any Chemist in Hongkong and China. - (Advt. Can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Ltd.), agents
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ROW.
As for the polliical prospects and future of The lean white bear, hath seen it in the long prind of six or seven years. On his way how that the above medicine has given me great relief, 'A SATURDAY next, the 16th instant, to the contrary be given before noon, TO-MOR.
Kores, I think they may be covered by a cipher : embarrassed by excessive and useless expendi ture for such white elephants as a mint, never yet used; a costly powder mill, now la ruina ; að ex- pensive electifë light plant for the palace, now out. of order; the equally costly and useless machinery for a fraudulent mining scheme; contracts for decayed steamers; and misconducted schools of various descriptions, the legitimate expensesofthe land were they paid would far exceed is revenues. But they are not paid. Instead of being handled with judgment and honesty they are frittered sway on various wild-cat, adventures. As to the foreign salaries which should be paid to the Employé, they pass through the hands of the Korean mandatins, who deposit them in the Japanese Bank, and are ultimately withdrawn from that institution when pressure is brought to best on them. I need hardly add that the rascally Japaness are perfectly aware of the pro venance of this money which they use to their own advantage. all parties save the foreign employé of Government being satisfied.
Wthout money the country can accomplish Dobing in the way of developing its resources. The opening of roads, the introduction of proper means of transportation, etc. etc., the first steps which should be taken along the low of its Industrial and commercial development, are anthought of.
That under its present unique foreign manage. ment, any country, corporation or sensible finan eler would lend to a Government already proven faithless to its public and private engagemeris I simply preposterous. A mere glance at, and an inquiry into, the history of its bydra-headed foreign maasgement are sufficient: The one an enthusiastic idealist, the other s. hungry adventurous jack-of-all-trades, are hardly the men to inspire much confidence eliber in Korea fisalf or abroad; especially when it is a remembered ibat neither nicle of executive power And party to this duumvirate possesses that any day the pro-Japanese-Korean faction, of which they are the mere creatores, may fall, or else divide on some lane, may split and the two Fiat Achates find themselves-sworn enemies. Signs of this eventuality were not wanting when I felt Korea
the
No, I do not think that Korea will get upon Its lega noon. For such to be the case things would have to change considerably. Yet I hope to live to see change there for the better.
The present monarch though well meaning la a delicate young man, physically weak and morally weak, nad" is surrounded by a host of ambitious and venal counsellors. Korea being a monarchy complicated with all the evils of za oligarchy, in cars of his demise the throne would be occupied by the Crown Prince, already designated for and invested with that title by his suzerain at Peking. This is an oyll which none ** who care for the interests, of humanity and civilization in the Far East Could wish for Koren,
· The youth in question being a blasted sensus líst of the worst type a slobbering klot who would, be nothing more than a tool in the hands of the worst elements in that country. Fortunately an ancient prophecy predicts the extinction of the present dynasty at or about the time of the expiration
long Arctic night,
The musk-ox knows the standard that flouts
the Northern Light:
What is the Flag of England? Ye have but
my borgs to dare, Ye have but drifts to conquer. Go forth, for
It is there 1
The South Wind sighed "From the Virgina
my mid-sex courre was ta'en Over a thousand islands lost in an idle main, Where the sea-eeg flames on the coral and the long-backed brakers croon Their endless ocean legends to the lazy,
Jocked lagoon.
albatrous,
My basking sunfish know it, and wheeling Where the long wave fills with fire beneath
the Southern Cross.
What is the Fing of England? Ye have but
my reefs to dare,
Ye hare but my seas 10 furrow, · Go forth, for
It is there 1"
The East Wind roared:"From the Kurites,
the Bitter Sens, I come, And me men call the Home-Wind, for I bring
the English home. Look-look well to your shipping By the
breath of my mad typhoon
I swept your close-packed Praya and beached
your best at Kowloon I'
The desert-dust hath dimmed it, thɩ flying
wild-211 knows,
The scared white leopard- winds it across the
taintless snows, What is the Flag of England? Ye have but
my sun to dare,
Ye bave but my sands to travel. Go forth,
for it is there!".
ד'י
The West Wind called "In squadrons the
thoughtless galleons fly
1
That bear the wheat and cattle lest street
bred people die.
They make my might their porter, they make
my house their path,
And I loose my neck from their service and
whelm them all in my wrath,
But whether in calm or wrack-wreath, whether
by dark or day,
I kesye them whole to the conger or rip their
plates away,
First of the scattered legions, under a shrieking Dipping between the rollem, the English Flag
aky,
*goes by,"
The dead dumb fog hath wrapped the
frozan dews have kissed--
The naked stars have seen it, a fellow-star in
the mist,
What is the Fing of England? Ye have but
gg my breath to dare,
Ye have bot my wares to conquer. Go forth,
" for it
DEATH OF A FAMOUS ENGINEER.
an incident occurred which was an index of the 'character ofthe man.
1. A small coal-laden vesael with him from Callao a staff of men and the had stranded in the Bay of Panama. He took necessary appllarces with the view of raising her. On arriving in the Bay he learned that the Tagul, one of the Royal Matt Com. nany's steamers, had gone ashore near Color. Unable on account of the heavy sa to accom- plish the work which he had come to do, he Craserd the isthmus with his staff and appliances. and successfully canied out the more difficult task of raising the Tagus. The other vessel w alto raised in due course, Mr. Bryce not only directing but taking an active part in working
in the diving bells and reparing the bulls, his fertility of resource being displayed on the arcision by the employment of a locomotive to work the rumps. For the raising of the steamer the Pacific Company claimed 30 000 as'salvage, on the ground that Mr Bryce, who, in terms of his engagement, had obtained free passage service. This claim Mr. Bryce resisted, and heme in one of their vessels, was still in their
raised an action in the Court of Session, which prover unsucessful. On carrying the CABC, however, to the House of Lords, his contention wa parially sustained, and he received a sum of £6,000.
On his return to Scotland Mr. Bryce
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resuined his connection with the firm in which he had received his early training becoming head of the engineering department at the Fairli ld Works, which were then carried on under the denomination of Messrs. John Elder & Co. Here | he remained until he removed to Barrow, in years afterwards. The history of the Fairfield Works during that perlod it is unnecessary to recapliulate. Briefly, it may be stated that it was during this time that the Arizona, Alaska, the Oregon, and other vessels for the Cunard fleet were launched, and that the revolution in the construction of ocean-going steamers, which has not yet seen, its close, was The whole of these vessels were engined, under "the superintendence of Mr. Bryce-Douglas, as | Captain J. G. Spence, will be despatched for the well as the Orient, the Austral, and the Ormus above Ports ou SATURDAY, the 16th lost, at for the Orient Line. He also constructed the Noon, engines for the Czar's yacht, the Livadia, for the Italian Ironclad Magicianni, and for several of the numerous vessels for the British Navy which were turned out of the Fairfield yard. He also re-engined the Russian warship Peter the Great
commenced.
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"ARRATOON APCAR,"
THE
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Mr. Bryce Douglas's connection with Barrow commenced in 1886, when engines of his de ign were built under his supervision for the Pacifc and Orizaba, which were constructed by the Under Steam Navigation Company's steamers Orkda the Barrow Shipbuilding Company. These wor two of the earliest examples of engines of the triple. expansion type patlato ocean-going steamers. 1888, influenced by Lord Hartington and other capitalists Mr. Bryce Douglas accepted the gestion of managing director of the Naval Con THE struction and Armaments Company, which took over the works of the Barrow Shipbuilding. The Later company had all along been an unsuccessful J. enterprise, but under the now rigins several Important Improvements and extensions were of the fifth century The Glasgow Herald of April 8th gives the made, and new plant and machinery were laid of its existence, Disturbances and other fallowing interesting account of the career of down. Important contracts were soon secuted,
coming to pass have shown Mr. A. Blyce-Douglas, one of the best known which rapidly brought about of this
& renewal of themselves often of late. And it is not too and most acomputed in our columns a few trades of the port. Among the arst orders Mr.
accomplished marine engincas, activity In the
and much to hope that when such an event accesso
engineering the Imperial Government at Peking will be
Bryce Douglas procured were four steamers of ready to deal promptly and energetically, with With regret we have to announce the death large size and full power for the Pacific Steam the difficulty. Otherwise the peninsula will of Mr, Archibald Douglas Bryce Douglas, Navigation Company, a number of steamers Infallibly pass into the hands of either progres managing director of the Barrow Naval Consti ac for the Brlish and African Steam Navigallon sive Rusia or superficial and artificial Japan fon and Armaments Company, which took place Company, and for Mesars. Elder, Dempster & Should Rurals get the Herall Kingdom, resterday morning, at his Ayrshire residence, Co, of Liverpool. He also obtained the contract while not lost to civilisation it will, of course, Beated Tower, Ardenesan, Mr. Douglas was a for three second-class cruisers to be built for the be closed to the commercial world. Should man of splendid physique and naturally robust
constiturlon, but he had been suffering from and one the Za for which have been launched and one (the Latona) delivered; while the second nerve of her treacherons policy to do, Kores occasional llness for the
prat six months. On cruiser, the Melampur, will be handed over to will be lost to both, The Interests of Wednesday of last week he was present at the the Admiralty at the close of this month, He peace, bumanity and commerco demand that Launching of the Empress of Japan, one of the also undertook the building of three high-speed this bould not be. - Hetter by far for China, feet of vessel built at the Barrow establishment before it is too late and the game is still in her | Sơn- the Canadian Paclic Railway hands, to insist upon a modification of the meddling policies of Russia, Japan and the United The latter's interests being but of
purely sentimental nature, fakat the more ghlineras of a few self-interested phlanti
Japan get control as she is straining every
6,000 tone steamers for the Canadian Paclic Rallway Company, and Intended for the service Fealing at the time somewhat indisposed, he between Vancouver and Japan and China. The did not, according to custom, go round with the pioneer of these steamers, the Empress of India, to: Liverpool, but, a proseding by rail, is now on her way from Hongkong to Vancouver owed bar has gens portare vessel left for the an, her maiden voyage, The Bater this, the Carte en we tried try on the morning of - Zmirtis of Japan, rad most sucpereful iriala
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DENTISTRY,
FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP
AND
MODERATE FEES.
WONG TA 1.TONG
Surgeon Dentist (Formerly articled Apprenties, and latterly Sheetal azafatant to Dr. ROGERS),
HAS REMOVED
THE MARINE HOUSE, QUEEN'S ROAD,
(next to the Telegraph. Comi
AURENT CONSULTATION FREE,
· Hongkong, 7th March, 1591) |
No claims will be admitted after the Goods
undelivered after the 15th insicut, will be gubi have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining
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presented to the Undersigned on or before the : 15th inst, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance hits been affected.... Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL, CARLİLL & Co.,
Agents Hackmi, 3th MaY. TROL
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"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
STEAMSHIP “TÅRTAR," " FROM ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, LIVER- POOL, AND STRAITS.
CONSIGNFES of Cargo & hereby informed risk, Into the Godowns of the Hongkong and that all goods are being landed at thele Kowloon Wharf and Godowe Company, at delivery may be obtained. Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves
All claims agalost the steamer must be
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless noties to the contrary be given before NOON, TO... : MORROW.
No Claims will be admitted after, the Goods ́have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the rÿth inst., will be subječt tā rent.
All claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the rgth Inst., or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insuranes bas been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co. Agents. Hongkong, 8th May, 1891.
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