New-York tribune., 1885-01-17

whom the hostile feling most active AGAINST the
Chinese had be closed becsuse the owners feared their
destruction Tho Prutestant missionaries Msuited
including the districts mentioned and those about
Swatow no hess than twenty Protestant chapels have
no reparaton has Ieen made " The Catholics. who NUN
Der some 500 converts within the lmits have
hand Of Iner property destroyed or converts murdered
but 1000 poor Chinese women of the Christian faith.
cared for st the Catholic convent in Hong Kong
TO his first atrociy in the responsibility for which one
months ago memorial TO the throne which he caused TO
oS widely Disseminated among the Canton popnace
ways which would have inevitably led to their dasfruc-
uoh hon ese ere distinctive dress and inscriptions on
being by neans OF ridcue and disgrace to reconvert
them from Christianity to paganIsm Translaons we're
published IN the English newspapers and the matter
was brought at once by the missionaries before their
respective Legations at Pekin.
THE ARSENAL.
made an excursion through the old city in company
with guide and six chair-bearers The yceroy does
not strenuousy object admitting foreigners within the
wall but as they liable to insult and 1t is quite
wei they should not know what going on he does not
encourage the practice The visitor first supplied with
the usual passport, blanket size. with hfs name and
nationality and the signature Of hs Consul attached,
and then let loose with his gnde and to find
his way as he thinks best to tue objects OF greatest In
terest. I first inspected the arsenal to do which
permission had been asked OF the Viceroy. The man
DARN In charge being absent the honors OF the place
were done by his son. md-nannered young gentleman
OF not more than twenty The place is not arsenal in
any extended or useful sense 1t lies the wall,
comprises within Its limits several OF yards and low
buildings and Is approached through series OF narrow
and unconmonly dirty streets and lanes Within 1t
some rectangular fed by rains later in the season.
but at present covered with 3 dirty green scum. and
flower gardens with asters. chrysantbemums and coz
I'm nd Nna than Al
where Confusion regned in all departments The
shops were dirty and l-kept The workmen and bosses
were all Chnamen There was lack OF discipline every
where The capacity Of the works Is limited Shells of
all sizes made, bat only small for field
xingals. which are still used In the Chinese army for
certain purposes The Chinese are much the slaves
Of tradition that they will give up such weapons
the gingal bows and arrows and spears The east
guards at the and OF the squads and
where within the old city. The machinery that saw In
fas pa Much o M dome pa
ring OF guns and the making OF Shells looked we'll to
Chinese taemSives hist it was defective and that the
arsenal sadly felt the need of foreign superntendence
There yarso that the great Viceroy OF the two
kwangs is without feet with the Exception OF the toy
gunboats that seen here and there the Bogue
within the arsenal but powder Is mao ut dstan 70
from the city gTnnng foreman & who showed M, me
against smoking, seemed 10 understand something
about America at least far rs related 10 the manufac
his hand on certain cases containing rifles and
cartridges whicn bore tue name OF two shanghai hrns
who knew had rereyed consgnments from contractors
In tho United States.
Later in the day found gate leading on to the wall
nady erteny let open and took adv antage OF
negligence OF the guard ~ ascend the slope TO the
grassy parapct- The average height OF r1e wall IL
twenty five Feet and the thickness from fifteen TO TWEEN
y-ve feet The 500 years that II has stood are apparent
In it- look aud the disntegraton OF the
stone OF the parape on which there grows uxnriant
crop Of grass. ...,
ants with Its boat population OF half million. 10 not
that which easily IN the business quarter or
among hauns OF laboring CLASSES And yet IL Is that
which Foreigners Will have To reckon with II thu French
attempt take Canton. should such an event happen
no foreigner remain. The Shameen Will have 10 be
deserted. Should the channel be entirely blocked ny
closing the barrier foreigners who 10 escape
with their movable property will have the opportunity
afforded 10y English passenger steamer whoh lies
waiting of the Shameen for that purpose Only two
VESSELS OF remain now for the protection OF foreign
ers the Alert Captain Barclay OF the American squad
ron. and British d.spaich-roat OF nr osna proportions
but only able 20 Land a snall contingent In case OF
trouble The Alert land 100 men II needed she Is
tho real hope of the foreign settlement. Her great
draft fourteen feet renders impossible FOR her 10
escap. with the barrier open A. She Is appar
emily locked for indefinite peri aud entirely
useless 10 the American squadron In the Pacific