Tue contrast in character between the Chinese and Japanese, is forcibly and ually illustrated by out relations with both, the question of freer intercourse is each country at the present moment, In
being mooted, and causing much anxiety tothe Native Government, But while, on the west of the Yellow Sea, every energy is bent to repel our advance, the cast, the desire for trade springs from the Japanese themselves. While the Chinese Foreign Board nnd Sir Rutherford. Alcock are exhausting logic, to rebat the arguments of foreign merchants in favor of railation with the interior, fever: politi ways, telegraphs, and free commnnical excitement is caused at Osaka the demands of Japanese daimios for permission to invite us to their ports. And, actually, instend of, as in Chinn, labouring to destroy specious arguments advanced in favour of exclusion, the foreign press in Japan deprecates, on hob of foreign merchants, any undue haste in the contrary direction. The Tycoon is thoroughly convinced that thio opening up the country is morely." question of time, and that nothing that the daimios or Guvernment can do wi able to stop it, But even foreig ers deprecate the opening, sudden: of too man; 2 And this, while ter in China admits thettiontsin treaty, that the Yang. should be closed to foreign steamers. Prue, there is this difleronce, tht whereas China has but one ruler and one Government, Japan is split into number of provinces, each ruled by semi-independent feodal princes. And that it is these Intter who are crying for a share in the advantages from foreign trade that have hitherto been monopolised by the 'Tycoon—it is they from whom determined and even armed opposition is now anicipated," unless the Tycoon pormits' at Toast the great daimios on the seaboard, to open their portland to trade with fo But Governor of provinces in China also derive mense pecuniary advantage from the prosonco of foreigners at ports under hoi jarsdiation: The prosperity the revonno it yields olden days at Can ton, Sir Jon Davis compared the Hong anerehauts. to sponges, which were ale lowed to absorb large profits from for~ igners, and then judiciously squeezed into the public exchequer. But neither did the advantages derived by Kwantung then impel the Gorornor of Chekeang to solicit at Peking permission open Ningpo; nor, now, do the offi cials of Kiangsu appear to. regard as other thin a necessary evil, the presence of foreigners at Shaughni.
One of the arguments used some mouths ago by the Forvigu' Board, when advocating the establishment at Peking of a college for imparting instruction in foreign science, was that, while oven Japan was making' an energelis effort to become powerful," China ought to be ashamed of obstinately oh iquated routine, advant; foreign ropresoutatives, Cuonot this argoment be recall, with wwhon pressing on the Government the vlvantago of permitting intercourse, Mandavius are im. pervious to argument; are they so Wrapped in conceit us to be insensible also to shame Could not the example of Japan in the matter of bonded warehouses, and in the employment of coast steamers, be used with advantage, in ing the adoption of a similar liberal i And might not a stion, why Eh should be afraid of intoreourso which n little state like Japan" 60 freely courts, wound the avon pride whicl is a proving charnotovistic of the Chinese? Or wou!
only ovicit the stereotyped answer——China is different from otter countries! At all ovants, the trial is worth mak: the mere presence of the sill in a sus; We publish elsewhere, a brief roy
Norham and. of alk, apparently from for robber sugar from the of two trials before the Mixed ore tection of a thief. Until, however, ous cighborhood may lend to the the Mixed Court is able to inflict a
cargo-boats during the process of tran-heavier sontonco than fourteen, days Aotoction is of little use, Wo trust thu imprisoument_ for so grave an often shipment. Both are fair samples of their class; and as cargo robbery is just the arrival of the new Magistrate and now attracting some attention, a sketch the establishment of a river police of the process may not be uninteresting. will soon enable sterner moans of re-'This, as regards robbery froma the ship' pression to be employed. side is simple in the extreme, and depends mainly for success on the well known principle that there is honor
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