A JAPANESE VIEW OF THE COREAN TREATY.
(Translated from the Nichi Nichi Shimbun.) 3 Wo published in our paper of the 8th Jane a copy of the treaty concluded in Corea by the American Commodore Shu-felt through the medium of the Chinese Government. Our readers have no doubt thoroughly mastered it, The treaty subs quently entered into by Admiral Willes of Britain has not yet been made public, and we are unable to state its purport; but it is rumored to contain several more arti cles than those which are contained in Commodore Shufeldt's treaty. Nevertheless wore convinced that, apart from this increase in the number of articles, it diffora very slightly from its predecessor.
Tu regard to the method of Commodore Shufeldt in resorting to the intervention of the Uhinese Government, there may, we think, have me special robson for it, When he first wont to Corea carrying with him the powers of his own nation he asked our country alone to support his wishes, And, accordingly, our officials in the peninsular kingdom did all in thei power to aid him, and our Government recommended that of Seoul to meet his wishes, But the latter, procrastinating and intractable, did not act upon our advice, and stubbornly insisted upon sending the Comn dora back unheard, In the prosont tance he has changed his tactics, and applied to the Poking authorities to exert their influence in his favor. As for the internal conditions of Cores, we hour that ther have long progressionists votives—who were former, sires to open his country to foreign intercou Hence the other party seems to have lost all influence. However, the progressionists themselves have been divided into two parties, one of them insisting on op the kingdom through the medium of China, the ether through that of Japan, counsels of the former have p So long as Cor: communion, our desire is accomplished, it matters not whether this has been effected by the mediation of China or of our own country; and so we need not care about such a trifling matter, But, in consideration of what we have done for Corea hitherto, she on her part ought to have Meanwhile we are convin Chinese Goi must have some particular reason for energetically acting as a go-between in the affairs in question, in opposition to its usual conservative policy. Beyond all doubt, it must be ite wish as much as ours to induce Coren to take a place among tri ions, and that she be maintained independent by the balance of their respective powe But it may be said that the intervention of China may to some extent have been motived by her desire to manifest to foreign countries that Corea is her dependency, directly casting a slur upon the treaty between that country and our Empire. Should this be #0, we cannot assort that the intervention of China was a mi testation of respect towards her neighbour, Japan, In the Shufeldt Corean treaty there are many unintelligible points; but for the present we will only refer to the principal ones. The introduction states that buth countries (Cores and America) troat on an equal footing, and accordingly we may fairly conclude, as is doubtless meant, that Corea is regarded as an independent king-
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