The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-10
THE JAPANESE EXPEDITION AND
AMERICAN FOREIGN DIPLOMACY.

We COW the subjoined article from the
London Globe, for the purpose of showing ou'
readers the views taken by "outsiders' o.
n,o,ress;ye movements in America:
[rrou the London Globe, July 23l
The American newspapers, which are gar
rulous enough, and sufficiently communicative
on public as we'll as private matters, have Of
late been remarkably taciturn on the subject
of The great Yankee armada fitting out in the
various backwards of the Union, and destined
IN On forth against the Islands of Japan. Some
mos,hs ago the New York Herald intmated
that the Commodore found considerable diff
Guilty in obtaining supply of sailors ade
suate TO the requirements of a large squadron
and when the superior attraction of the dig
giugs for adventurous spirits is borne in mind
thai could scarce have been otherwise. There
is natural willingness on the part of our
ausatlantic kinsfolk to disclose the failure OF
SO ambitious project; and il is from Amster-
dam that the first intelligence Of It's being de-
fniiively abandoned accordingly comes.
The Handelsblad, of the 18th, announcing
the fact, states that in place of the hydrogra.
phic survey of the japanese coast" the Amer
leans prefer employing Dutch medtatiop-not
merely on their own behalf, but on that of the
rest OF Europe, towards the accomplishment of
the point, viz: general free trade with these
obstinate islanders. When the peculiar nature
of the monopoly Holland enjoys in this quarter
is considered, the alacrty OF its diplomatic eff
forts, and the intensity gifts zeal in the cause,
may be conjectured. There will be full time
for cutting ship canal across the neck Of
Darien, pending the negotiations, and when a
fresh expedition is ultimately found requisite,
but half the distance will intervene.
Powerful for defensive purposes, and efi-
ciept as q means of domestic security, the ma
val and military resources of the Union are
far less available for distant exploits and ag-
gressive warfare. Hitherto the annals of the
great western republic have only one record
of successful foreign expedition and if TO
have been victorious over the feeble forces of
what was once Mexico can be construed into
an achievement, they have their claim to sport
the brush but
Poor is the triumph Ger the timid hare.
Nevertheless. we notice laudable vigilance
on the part of the American executive in the
protection of its citizens on the European con-
tnent from injury and wrong. In Austria,
the tone adopted by its representatives. has
been fav orably contrasted with the submissive
diplomacy of our present Foreign Office in the
in the case OF the plundered and expelled
Scotch missionaries of Pesth and while we
write, news came from the Mediterranean of
two fIigates and two war steamers, bearing
the star spangled flag, being on their woy to
the Pir2us to enforce by something more per-
suasive than, hitherto disregarded, remOn
strances, the Liberation of an American cler-
gynaD, imprisoned by the Greek authorities,
on exactly the same grounds which Austria
put forward tojuslify our countrymen's pillage
and expulsion,