The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-28
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST %, 1859.


desire 10 zee; but is state of things brought alb
gable conduct Of Austria We shall be glad If this ciou
shall psas away but just row II 10 lowering dHkiy.
Trade with Japan.
tGyom the LONDON Gazette Of the il.h August
attention 10 the already rapidly developing trade between
the northern ports and japan; and We have mad an
instance or two OF direct trade between Britain aud Japan
two or three veeses having arrived toe Thames oaied
chiefly with COMMODITY tnat BIDS fair TO become 40 i'm
porant staple,he hard vegetable OF japan, which
much in esumaton but vt present held at too hsn
price for general consumption among the manufacturers
From shanghai alone thirty of 620 toas
Lad sailed Tor Nsgs-ak ana twenty OF l0soo tons
had arrived from that port rhe distance between t~o
ports 4t0 miles, and there regular steam communca
ton. Instead Of beiOg blank Board Of Trade
turns We trust TO the commerce with the japanese
ards, both in imports aud exports rise shortly 10 re-
The Governor CT Nagasaki reported TO have selected
site for the foreign quarters which has been approved
Of but much time and labor mus be expended dyking
before il be ct for occupation We regret 70 learn
that In the absence OF European consus, f~e0u sailors
hare been committing Iacs ercesses IN os Of The ports
American Consul General nad arrived Nsgasak the
steamer Mississippi from Suoda aud had endsavored in
eneenAnv " inouce the Japanese Ambassadors TO tho
Udiied Staes TO voyage the Nissssipp
c,aled ~ SnaSa; one hundred tons delivered into
spoken well Of the streets being wide and clean and the
bszaars filed with the productions the country
snops are Is wen supplied as those OF oner ports Con.
nothing has been done yet for the 10 Surrounding
country are full Of the richest Silks craoes
be found In the world and copper and brRss eutui
al ia per pound The Americans consider that IA
gswa will be better place for than either HaEodadi
or Nagasak The repeated shocks of earthquake
Japan from volcanic origin ia subject are source OF
continual dread There have been shocks almost every
fortnight At Smoda during the last ear Atnoagh ortu
pately they were but sight AMI did li.se dsSsse.
Dutch vessel OF wsr prosecuting the the ia
panese ISLANDS which, view Of the large nu@ber OF for
egn vessels navigating the yellow sea- ben
ehcal TO the interests o! commerce and navigation
At late meeting Of the Berlin Geograpbics Society,
uhn t,C r>~-
expedition, and has pubihed interesting German &C.
count Of II in three Volumes d~et with gteat force In
compared that group Of saSds in position to The United
Kingdom, considering them TO possess the impor
Atlantic "Under the fortunate comons,ion The OBJ
served) OF fruitful soil and genial climate,
nearly une5plored mioers wealth, and arsce Of iutel
gent and Industrious Inhabitants spite their present
simple manners and primitive requirements there is every
reason 10 expect that they will become large
FOR European produce and manufactures for which they
bave an abundance Of valuable commodities TO Offer In
exchange"
The Dutch government has just out the we'll knowo
Eastern traveller, Herr Won 3ebold Trade Commls
tioner and Consul under the provisions Of the recen.
treaty between Bolsnd and japan he well kno xn for
bis costly and valuable on Npon and 10 intimately
acquainted with the Japanese Language, having been for
years medical adviser to the Ouch factory q. Des
ma enjoyed tho exceptional permission to make ram
bles and ecentfc excursions through the country He
was thus enabled to acquire more Information than fell
TO the lot OF others, and formed valuable ethno Il
and scientific collection. which ia in toe Roya,
Au.eum At the Leyden Unveraity. During his
towards preparing the Japanese for free intercourse
with other nations and opening the foreign
the country whose riches and valuable commodities
the importance Of Tor the benefit OF the
commerce Of the world In general and for the welfare Of
The Dutch have had larger business transactions with
ana are better known to, the Japanese than other
oregn nason. but the Russians the Americans and the
British are all now nee TO pArtcpa in the trade
empire on certain agreed conditions According 70 the
nS me port; and
British subjects for trade ana residence the LIST of July
Of IBIS MGegs; or G ns. unsuitable nnt
Let Of January next; and Aiogo the LIST January
1868 fhe regulations under which British trade is
TO be rducted we have already given former occa
sion.
Engllsh View OF the Macdonald Murder.
From the London Globe, August 10
The records of our summer asszes abound
OF the more violent crimes We do not sude 10 those
atrocities 20 hdeous in their details that only psssibe
TO alude to them, but the class Of MURDERS
peculiar section OF this class The murder at tedpury
for instance, of those In which plumber alone
seems to have been the animasing MOTIVE and is there
rest that attached TO it's extraordinary details lay in their
bearing on the guilt or innocence Of the accused
not in the illustration they afforded Of phase
Of human passion. Not 90 The murders Committed at
Hull, at Ludlow aud at Newport. Ia these in
s sos e sse w a fed d
from her husband-from his violence, his drunkenness
The husbands professed great affection for their wives
ey could not live without them they could not suffer
the women to live apart from them Tue professed afsc
ton took the form Of the most egregous adshness me
used to indulgence, that sustained in them for weeks
and days the homicidsl passion The effect Vas
pie, soeer or dissolue John Riley, killed his wife
ct Hull ,HwAs man OF debauched habits, but Francis
" %n0 sT his s a. in the
killed his wife on the public road near LUDLOW,
were men Of ordinary sobriety INDUSTRY They were
not the less the victims OF pure seshoess passions
that had know restraint The love they pro ssed
was mere love for themselves The thought Of condgu
punishment even did not weigh with them iots against
the qualification OF their passions T~o sought 10 evade
the gallows by trying to kill themselves; but not the
worst Of the three fairly faced the of bis
criminal conduct and expressed bis readiness for it
But our English murders of this class pale be-
Ss ns s % % the S1s
work, but the action is more dramatic, aud the
principal actor Of higher class than our criminals
On the 23d Of July the promenaders In the New York
gregate round "drue store" What drew them tbereY
had u shot by her % vs M
victim had been carried to hospital and the crowd had
s HeIs "sa'h" says local Journal % life New
The story which this referred is full Of dramatic in
teres One Robert C. Macdonald, ia well to do cotton
broker, Of MOBILIZE induced certain Virginia Stewart to
admit him to IN intimacy which priest had ever conse
Grated Two children resulted from this union. Happily
both are now in the grave The lover in this case like our
English murderers loved his drink and the qualification OF
his passions better than he loved his mistress While
sober, II 10 recorded he was extremely afecsionate
but he bad fierce appetite for drink and when drunk
he threatened the woman with knife and pistol Virsiuia
Stewart growing weary Of this and having an eye 70 the
main chance bore with only 20 long as enabled her to
save little fortune or course in the interval abe had
to forgive her drunken lover and exact from him pledges
OF amendment which abe knew he could never keep
When she had saved enough when the mans violence
grew intoerable she fed away to New York and TOOK
refuge in the society OF her cass Furious a. this
Macdonald pursued with all speed, and unable to and
the woman he gave loose 70 his worst PASSIONS and
plunged reck!essly into whirlpool Of excuses Hearing
that his mistress had gone South TO Augusta Georges
be rushed thher and finding that she was not there he
turned his northward led by some faiu
intelligence that the woman at Boston Daring the
RAPID pursuit up and down the country, he continued
what the New York papers call 'hs insane derum of
dsspaton On the 23d Of July he foot more in
New YORK his passions on fire with perpetual drinking
and ready for any atrocy In Of the Of that
CITY ne accidentally met with his mistress refused to
hear his that she would 70 Mobile She left
the room, and he followed utterng savage threats Her
efforts 10 dismies him futile At length she turned
towards him and said, 'I wish you would keep awav