Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-03-18

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The connivance of snb-ofiicas.
Japan is as insulated in manners, habits
government aud rel gion as in stuation.-
Every thing strikes the stranger as anomal-
Gus like the animal aud vegetable life Of Aus
ltalia. The social scheme is entirely sub
ordinate to the purposes of Government A
more perfect system of checks and balances
never entered the head of the constitution
maker II IS perfect network Of espou-
age Each private citizen IS BY law spy
upon his FIVE nearest neghbors. The COM
nlssioned and secret SPECS of Government
reside IN every village. Each magistrate is
surrounded toy spies. The prince, who rules
. million subjects. has lis two secretaries
pponted at 1eddo, where one resides while
the other, the shadow of the vicetoy IN his
remote pveruiuent, transunts constant Ia
( formation To- his fellow At The capital Even
I these suburdinates are ia their turn subject
ed to surveillance aud Cor better security,
the prince Is obliged to spend each alternate
year at the Capital, where his family remain
all the while as hostages
The Council aud the Sogoon are equally
watched and 10 be detected in error or dis
honor or neglect, entails upon the unfortu-
4 ''t' "'''~'' NV Nn'1 ~ '"t''"- f+i'fir1ti 'Pth
ia The presence of his trends This cur-
Gus mode ct sell Destruction is part OF the
education OF every Japanese chId To ac-
c"mpl'sh II gracefully, and upon hearing The
INST whisper prrJndlcial to ones lame, T. The
great object OF the national ethics. la
scheme so tngfnlousiy tied aud ku0tted up,
u IS impossible for an, advance or improve
ment to be made. The people are victims
OF an ln'eieraie vicious aosufdty
Ana YET the Japanese hunger and hurst
l"r fragments OF Lntopeah learning hey
PICK up win the utmost aviduy any scrap
"l knowledge their Dalch or Cuhese visit
lets may lel drop. MAny ol the leading
rench aud German scieuiiic authors have
been rendered 90 The 'erhacuiar, and are
esteemed >landafd authorizes lhey have
ihcf a-tronomcai instruments, calculate
ibeir almauacs and eclpses, AMI knoN more
about every ether planet 900 the solar system
than they do OF Their own. They have nome
ct The Chinese supefc'lioos contempt for
barbarian accomplishments Their motto
Is To get al' they can, and keep all they
GET
But the oldest the national idIosyncra-
sics Is the rooted aversion to outsiders. A
glance at history, perhaps, with The couser-
rathe scheme Of checks aud balances we
have referred to. borne 10 mind, viii serve
partially to elucidaie this pecullariiy
The Portuguese were the frs, Europeans
who found aud landed in Japan This they
did 30 1912, meeting with cordial and
hospuable welcome Commerce at once
sprung up with great animation, the Portu-
guese naturally cndeayoring to obtain an
entire monopoly Of it, The early zeal of
the Jesuiis, then an uucorrnpted order Of
r holy men carried ia'ge body of '''e.,o'.a-
ues to the new land, where the attractive
dosmas OF Roman Catholics were remarka-
by successful M dispacung Snioolsm and
Buddhism, tie prevalent religions Of the
people he converts numbered nearly
one hundred Thousand souls, embracing the
members ot the Imperial family. and the
Mikado himself Is said to have become a
believer. In the course of hundred years,
iht lrade with Europe had waXed exceed
wglN The commercial Importance OF Tie
discoveries had declined, however, and The
Da'ch, always ready 90 extend their traffic
we're so"u located at ever! japanese port If
ans moment