The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-06

suO S"o'0Oub expense required Tor It's CONSTRUCTION
had cfevented its being brought into operation.
With such wonderful rapidity has the population
o. the far West increased that that of the town of
Cncago alone is at the present day twenty two times
greater than 1t was in lS4l. Also Milwaukee town
winch has sprung up since Chicago, has within the
space OF twelve years increased its population TWEEN
~ fold. Toronto has also trippled It's population
within few years. Hence it Is reasonable TO sup
pose that all this great mass OF commercial skill and
TALENT which exhibits so much power and energy Will
not be long before it asks itself the question whether
1t would not be desirable and possible to find
nfer. q quicker, and more direct route than the
allow and dangerous route Of the lakes by which to
dsgorge and pour upon the Atlantic coast the vast
amount of rich products accumulated and, as 1t
were, imprisoned in the Far West In 1855 the value
Of merchandise exported from Chicago and import
ed by the lakes amounted to the sum of $233 O00
The amount in value, in the same year, Of the
expectation and imp0rtations from and into Mil
vaukie, by the same route, was 30 ,0oO,o0O'
1ne tonnage employed by Chicago on this nav,ga ~,
non amounts to 54,l79 tons, and that OF Mil
waukie to 45,96l. The expectation of the article
Of wheat alone from Chicago, in 1856, amounted to
1900 ,0CO of bushels: from Milwaukee the amount
exported in the same year was 3ooooooO bushels
To all this immense commercial activity and move
nent Of commodities which depends upon the route
Of the lakes for outlet ought TO add the trade
from the neighborhood of Lake Superior from the
various mines in that region, and from the coastng
trade in general which Is carried on upon the lake.
OF which it is impossible to form estimate from
he want of regular and sufficient data At all
events the single value Of the copper and iron drawn
from these regions ia estimated at 50 ,70O,0 900.
Here. then, we have before our eyes the spectacle
Of an immense trade and commerce, which goes
sn every year increasing and increasing, 1t is
subject well worth the most serious consideration,
hasmuch az it is this very commerce which
has built up the city of Buffalo, and transferred the
riches of the West to New York city Could not
also our French shipOwners and merchants find in
this great field Of the Far West new opening for
the Introduction of French Industrial products?
Why not! The memory of the French still fingers
IN all these regions. These are countries which
were originally settled by the French. Our Ian
toms AID manners still prevail in the cities founded
BY our progentOrs. Surely the various articles of
Injury and of elegance-those superhuities which
n proportion az riches and well being increase
those little memorials and traditions of the
old country which are held so tenaciously
BY those who live in far distant countries
surely all those tender and invisible bonds which
bind the hearts of exiles to the land where their
eestors once ivedsurey those brave of France,
whose names are echoed in the wild woods, on the
bfty mountains, upon the vast lakes, and in the
crowded cities of that New World where their me-
nory is, as 1t were, eterualized-surely all these
would be received with enthusiasm by the people Of
Ganada-not, indeed, as new things brought from q
great distance. to satisfy the new wants Of new
civilization, but rather restored recollection of
ancient "reminiscences which still cherished
among them and talked over with feeling of pride
1t the family Preside, when men take pleasure in
calling to mind the ancient glores of their ancestors
who, coming from ancient France, brought with
them to that distant shore those sentiments of Chi
valry and that poteness of manners which still pre-
serve their empire among them.
The Japanese Treaties.
ransassd for the NEw YORK HERALD from the Paris Pa
tre, March 81
The worlds attention is now fixed en- the events
which are going on in the far East. In India, the
hst efforts of an insurrection wh:h has shaken the
British power; in China, the French and British
Aou al olla ofC Tor in
hr BARRIERS overthrown by peaceful negotiations.
Such the curious spectacles in the extreme
eastern part Of the Old World, and which thanks to
the unhcard of speed of our means of communica-
ton, interest us quite as much If our frontiers
were the theatre on which they were acting.
Among those events, the most recent, il not the
brightest and most fruitful is the opening of the
trade Of the latter country (Japan), which has re-
NAMED closed up to the present time.
We know how Japan has recently opened sue
cesaively some of its ports to the United States,
England and Russia in pursuance of the treaties Of
March 81 and Oct. IA, 1864, and Jan. 26, 1855 and
how, in virtue of another treaty of JAM 30. 1856,
Japan has granted better conditions TO the Neither.
lands government, that IL to say, to the only Eu-
ropesn government to which for two centuries it
had allowed difficult and limited interc purse. IL
our information il correct, the Netherlands govern
ment has obtained from the Court Of Yedo such
ceasions equal to q complete commercial revo-
htion.
This is the result of persevering efforts during
the last fourteen years, which have until now OBJ
tanned but little publicity.
God forbid that we should doubt the initiative
taken by the United States, that should try to
lessen the glory Of Commodore Perry. But it Is q
fact that the ground which the Americans
boldly advanced and where Commodore Perry has
shown no much firmness and Judgment, was prepar-
ed long time since by the government Of the Meth
erlands. Two reports sent 10 the King Of Holland
by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1855, the
other in 1857 and recently published in the Annaies
dx Commerce EIxrisur, contain the most precise
e. hat sa.t
As carly n ls44 King William ii. wrote TO the
Emperor Of Japan to invite him to abandon volun-
tarily a system Of exclusion which the then existing
era did not tolerate, and this letter has served as an
nvarable basis for the policy followed since then by
the Cabinet OF the Hague with the Empire of Japan.
n,ch ljberality on the part OF the trading n>on,e
vho. in their days Of power and spler.11o showed
themselves 10 exclusive and so iesious, will perhaps
incite smile. hwa b ssa that they made virtue
Of necsssfy, by tehouncing with grace monopoly
which, In the nineteenth century, they unable
70 defend Whatever may be the cause the sagacity,
which has understood the signs Of the times, or the
loyalty which has necessarily endeavored TO obtain
m object Of general interest cannot be forgotten.
The facts speak for themselves on that point
An uniformed government would, with mar.
row minded and blind interest, have aattered
the prcjudiccs Of far distant country,
separated from the rest OF the world II would have
increased suspicious strongly justified by the fate of
other nations Of Asia who in contact with Euro
peans; would have tried by its intrigues to para
I've all enterprises OF the western nations. The
government Of Netherlands has done quite the con-
trary.
The Court of Yedo having answered bya polite
refusal the letter of William H. and having declared
that the laws OF the empire did not allow more ex-
tended intercourse with foreigners the King did not
despair, and obtained through his influence that
help should be granted TO wrecked sailors, and that
foreign vessels visiting the waters of Japan should
On the first receipt Of this news an American
expcdition was about 10 SAIL the government
of the Netherlands renewed its applications. An
energetic letter written by Mr.. Donker Curtus the
chief Of the factories. TO the Governor Of Nangasak
ended AZ follows" His Majesty the King Of the
Netherlands hopes that peace will be maintained IL
the japanese government answers the President Of
the United States, in accordance with the advice
which take the liberty TO give"
II was q few months after this that the American
squadron dropped anchor In the Bay OF Jeddo, and
that Commodore Perry entered upon negotiations
which, a. IL known, did not meet with immediate
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