Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-04
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Additional evidence is constantly accumu-
lating that the opening of Japan. accomplish.
ed through the agency of Commodore Perrys
expedition, will prove more real and of more
value in commercial point of view than was
at first supposed. The intercourse between
the Japanese and foreign nations assumes
every day more liberal character. Already,
by a marked departure from the long-estab-
-lished usages of the empire, European wo-
men have been allowed to take up their resi-
deBce in Japan. The Russian Consul Gener-
al at Hakodadi, and also his Secretary, have
their wives with them, and at Nagasaki the
Dutch commanders who took out the two
steamers built in Holland, one for the En-
peror, the other for the Prince of Fizen, have
been granted residence along with their
wives. 1t is proof of the advance which
has been made by the japanese in European
arts, that these steamers, Immediately on their
arrival, were placed under the exclusive con-
troll of Japanese officers and crews.
Another great step toward bringing Japan
into community with the Western World is
the appointment of Commissioners, under the
provisions of the recent treaty, to proceed
to the United States A judicious selection
, appears to have been made for this purpose.
One of the Commissioners is stated to be
man OF intelligence, well versed in mathema-
tics and navigation. who, in 1857, conducted
from Nagasaki to Yeddo, with the sole aid of
japanese engineers and sailors, the first steam
er which came into possession of the japanese.
Both he and his colleague were Commission
ers for negotiating the late treaty.
At last accounts rom Hong Kong, the
steamer Mississippi had proceeded to Yeddo
bay, for the purpose of taking these Commits
sioners on board, with their suite of fourteen
persons. The steamer was to sail for Pana-
ma, by way of the Sandwich Islands and San
Francisco, and the japanese were TO be sent
over the Istbmus, in charge of Lieut.. Haber-
sham. Their arrival here. unless delays
should occur in their embarkation, may be
expected in the course of month or six
weeks.
The only other embassy ever sent from Ja-
pan to any prince of Christendom was one in
1854 to the Pope during the fiourishing peri
cd of the Portuguese missions in Japan-not,
indeed, by the Emperor, but by three con-
verted princes in the neighborhood of Nagas-
aki. 1t consisted of two young princes scarce
ly sixteen years old. attended by two coun-
sellors. and conducted by three Jesuit mis-
sionaries. They sailed from Nagasaki for
Macao, which they reached in seventeen days;
but. the season of sailing for Malacca being
passed, they were obliged to wait there six
months. When at length they did sail, they
encountered great perils from storms in a
twenty-nine days passage, and, after recruit
ing for eight days. sailed again for Goa then
a splendid city. the capital of the Portuguese
possessions in the East. In this voyage
they were cast away on the Island of Cey-
Ion. and, though it was in January that they
left Macao, it was September before they
reached Goa, and nearly year more elapsed
before. by the way of Good Hope, they ar
rived at Lisbon, whence they proceeded to
Rome. The benefit of steam will secure we
trust, to mese new japanese adventures in
In the diplomatic line much shorter and
more comfortable passage.-N. T. Tribune.