The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-24

vlslr TO JApAN.--TRE CoLLlSs STEAA-
nRs.-The N. Y. Herald publishes letter
from SilAs r. Burrows, ! citizen Of New
York, who has taken . Tip to japan, and
who says he was treated there with much
HOSPITALITY. He states that the coasting cons
merce of the Japanese far exceeds our own
on The Atlantic coast Of the United States,
and that on two occasions he counted heets
Of three hundred and thirty and two hundred
and eighty junks, averaging, he thinks, about
one hundred and thirty tons, and the Japan
ese say they have fifty thousand vessels from
sixty to three hundred tons. The present
treaty, as now made, Mr.. Burrows thinks,
win not be attended with any commercial
advantages, and every device viii be adopt
ed by the Japanese to deter our ships from
entering their ports; bat he thinks they can
be pleased. and eventually induced to open
trade with Us, which win be attended with
great benefit to the United States.
This, he is of opinion, will be brought
about by going to Japan without military
power. and showing the Japanese the advan-
tages that commercial intercourse with the
United States would produce on the inhabi-
tants and country.
Mr. Burrows leaves the subject of Japan
for the Collins steamers, which he maintains
are better fitted for warlike services than
those built by the government Of the United
States This is the rankest sort of nonsense
If the treasury Of the government must De
drained to enable Collins to make money,
let him be content with the spoils but let
not the honor and interests OF the govern
ment bejsoparded by relying upon his steam
ers for war purposes-steamers which are
totally incapable of carrying the armament
of a government vessel; which even bare
collision with another vessel sutfices to
sink; and which one broadside of the small
est men of war would blow into pieces so
small that even the soul of a government
leach couldn't find room to squirm about
upon it.
PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE FRENCH
ARMY OF THE EAsT.-Referring to the gross
mistake made by one of the French Ministers
in haughtily refusing the proffered gifts Of
the French to their countrymen in the East,
and reserving exclusively for his Majesty the
privilege of relieving the distresses of the
army, the Paris correspondent of the N. T..
Herald says, that an awkward explanatory
note was inserted in the "Moniteur," to the
effect that while the elected chief of the ma
ton was bound particularly to take care of
the wounded, the special objects of national
gratitude, private gifts for those who are not
wounded, would be not only allowed but en-.
couraged.
p" 1t is probable" adds the correspondent,
"that the wounded themselves will not be
prevented from sharing in the New Year S
gifts which have swelled the voluntary con.
tributions of the Frerch: for the Empress is
not alone in devoting part of each day to
the preparation of lint, with her own hands,
in aid of the good Sisters OF Charity. Lint,
linen, medicines, medicaments, cordials, pre-
serves, wines, liquors, segars, blankets,
clothes, books, journalism word, provi-
sions of every imaginable kind, as well as
money to be converted into provisions, have
been literally supplied. The house of the
widow of the late Marshal Magnan, in the
place Vendome, was, am told, encountered
on the very day when that lady published
her readiness to receive gifts for the eastern
army. with a greater variety of articles than
is exhibited by even country grocery store
in the United States. The baggage trains of
the Lyons railway have been laden heavily
with the gifts which Paris alone sends to the
east. And in addition to the vessels which
are continually transporting men and NUM-
tons, many vessel now eastward bound is
floating variety store. What heterogene-
GUS mass of articles-from snuff to powder,
from pins to cannon, from sugar -plums and
plum-pudding to railway-will have been
sent to the Crimea! Five vessels will suf
fee to carry the men and the materials for
the Balaklava railway"
The FOREIGN LEGIoE.-It is said that the
foreign States are Directing to their subjects
entering into the English foreign legion that
Prussia and the Federal Swiss Council have
forbidden it. Still, it is thought, the legion
will be formed, probably of men from all ma
tons. The French have similar legion in
the Crimea, known as Gen. Bosquets d.