Omaha daily bee., 1882-09-23


pathy with Arab, and sought through
his fundamentally to throw off the
British yoke. III Arab is a rebel he
ought to be punished by the sultan
II he is to be disciplined for opposing
English arms, both the sultan aud tho
khedivo ought to be included, for
both were secretly in the same boat,
Ga either grounds the infection of
capital punishment by England would
be an outrage without justification in
modern warfare.
Alexander III, has gone to Moscow,
and, it is rumored. has been crowned
by stealth in the kremlin where his
ancestors for generations have pub.
licly assumed the bonors of royalty.
The date of the event has been care
fully concsaled. The journey was
made from Gatschina in the most SO.
cret manner. All railroads and tele.
graph lines were in the hands of the
military, and Moscow was made a for
tilted camp for the purpose of corona
ton. And thore, in silence, mystery
and almost in solitude, cut off from
the subjects no fears, and surrounded
by the soldiers whose weapons alone
he trusts, filed with dark recollec-
tions aud still more gloomy forebod.
ings, in hourly fear and danger OF
death by the hand of the assassin, the
car of all the Russias has probably
received the crown and precious unc-
tion which will entitle him to a tomb
in the royal vault of tho Romanoff,,
when nihilist dynamite shall have ac-
complished his translation from this
world, 80 full of trouble even for
princes. II is not even certain yet
that the czar is to be qualified for his
ancestral tomb before descending to
it. 1t is not yet certain whether the
first message to be cent from Moscow
upon the raising of the t~elegraphic
embargo will announce the coronation
Of the car or his assassination.
The cost OF modern warfare is so
great it probably deters nations from
getting into serious troubles, and for
that reason aids in making arbitration
popular. Some idea of the expensive.
ness Of the bo~mbardment of Alexsn7
dria in July last may be gathered from
the cost Of each round fred by the
iron-clad fleet. Every round fred
from the 80 ton guns on the Inflexib!e
cost 1927 so per gun. The 25,ton
guns, Of which tho Alexandria carries
two, the Monarch four, and the
Temeraire four, coat S35 per round
per gun. The 1S.toa guns, of which
the Alexandria carries ten, the Sultan
eight, the Superb sixteen, and the
Temeraire four, coat S26. 90 per round
per gun. The l2.ton gun, of which
the Invincible carries ten, the Mon
arch two, and the Sultan four, cost
Sl8 per round per gun. The Penlope,
which alone carries 9.ton guns, has
eight of them, which were discharged
at 3 cost of Sl3.75 per round per gun.
The Monarch and the Bittsra each
fred one 6t.ton gun, tho cost being
1876 Per round per gun. The Beacon
and .hs Cygnet have 64.pouuders
each, the cost Of disoharging which was
81 80 per round per gun. The Pen.
lope carries three ~40-pounders, the
Beacon two 40 Founders, and enc Bit
tern two 4o'pounders, the cost of dis
charging ws..sn was SO per round per
gun, In addition to this there is a
: aNm to be calculated for the firing OF
the smaller armaments Of the CygIet,
Condor ead Decoy. Besides the dam
sge done to public and private build
ings in Alexandria by the lombard
ment, Egypt will have an enormous
bill to pay for missils and powder ex'
pended by the hset in causing the de-
atruCtion.
China does not propose to let Jspar
deal with Corea alone If these two
countries should be so unfortunate
/, as to go to war with each other i
would bo hard on their inhabitants 90
a time, but there can he no doubt tina
the result would be to hasten thei
, civilization and draw them into close
communion with European natl
Sunday is TO be observed in Euglan'
as a day OF Thanksgiving over the vic
: tories in Egypt.
TnE Republican urges Mr.. Turue
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