New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-26

the Japanese in th-ir intercourse with the Cali
fornis merchants who have lately attempted TO do
business there and were blnfed of We have
only got very slight foo,hold 10 Jaoan, though as
q gentleman by the nan of Shakespeare one re-
marked
-But wbep Ire fOl hath once got IN biz aose.
Ben soon End me 4 to make his cody follow"
Give US once an excuse to set too; on shore in
that country, and, depend en- il, an opportunity
shall not he wanting to do all we please in few
years inc specimen of Yankee that vas that
called in vessel at three different ports purchased
supplies, aud set sail without paying for the CAB
bape leads and oranges that he bought to refresh
himself and crew. These are the sample. of the
Great republic that the barbarian japanese
have TO base ar opinion on. let the name Of that
sea.captain-his employers, TOO ifthey don't make
an example OF him-be herslded 70 the far ends OF
the earth and pointed at on the role OF intany as
villain who would steal peanuts of hungry child,
rob his Own grandmother and toke Der crutches
to make even God If But the country is " saved =
we are rot going to war to-day.
MI Champion, the know ing ones say, will not
remain long as her Britannia Msjestys Minister
near this Government. He has undoubtedly st
tempted TO do the dirty work of the PsDerston
mjnitfry-bas touched pitch aud been detilri In
diplomatic matters " our trans Atlantic cousins
as they aff,ctioDstely term us-are very apt to go
in those paths that are crooked rather than move
suai. httOrward, openly and abOVeboard. Mr..
Champion is not a minister Of any great ability
but be is too good man to have been invegled
into so disreputable scrape as this affair OF the
United States VS. Henry Hertz ct al"
Mr.. Wilson OF Jamaica has just been here
with specimens Of The various productions of that
island particularly raw mate ial for Manufactures.
He exhibits the hbrous portions Of yarou. plants,
some Of which are particularly beautiful. The
leaf OF the pineapple has a fiber which will make
strong and elegant cloth, that could be used for
all those purposes for which we now employ hemp,
sisal grass or flax believe it is the wis1 OF Mr.
lsOn 10 induce capitalists 70 embark ID the cul
tivsrion Of these various products in Jamaica.
The British government has many colonies, so
much territory, and so many irons in the fire. That
one of the fsIest portions of creation must 90 to
waste and stsnd mere desert. ] rather think
tie Rev. Sidney smith was right when be wrOts
this:
Every rock in the ocean where a cormorant
can perch is occupied BY British troops has gov
eIDOr, rty.goyernor, stOrekeeper aud deput'
stoTekeeper, and will soon have n a'chdeacOn and
bishop military colleges witt tnirtt four pr0ie.-
sors educating seventeen ensgns per annum-be
lIg half en- ensign for each Jrofessor-wits every
species OF nontense athletic sar'oTial aud plumig
eTOus. lips, and Necessary" war costs this
country about one hundred pounds minute
wbip-cOId, fifteen thousand pCuGds aud tape seven
thousand pounds; iace for drummers and tiers.
nineteen thousand pounds a pension for one man
WHO tas br,beA bis head a. the Pole 10 anOtoer
who las shattered bis leg at the EqGarOr; -ubsi
dies to Persia secret service L ney 70 rhlbet
an annuity to Lady Henry Somebody and her
seven daul hters the hubbard being snot II some
place where We never ought % have bad any sol
diers at all and the elder brother returning four
brothers TO PsTlament-such a scene Of extrAv..
gsnce, corruption, and expense as mn-t par,lyze
the ildustry and mar the fortunes of the most in
dustrIus, spirited people that ever existed
That's what l call portrait of Britain By a
Britisher. II hope Mr. Wilson may succeed in get
ting somebody to cultivate al The land end al the
productions that Jamaica can produce He GOES