The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-09

30 crush out.
The japanese Embassy to- washfs gton
Triumph Of American Diplomacy.
Yesterday we published the interesting intel
Ggeuce, by telegraph from Springfield, Mo-,
brought by the overland mail from San Fran
cisco, March 10, that the Japanese steam cor.
vette Candinamarrah of ten guns, had arrived
at that city on the l4th, forty days from Jeddo
having been sent by the Emperorto announce
that the Japanese embassy would leave by the
United States steamer Powhstan, on the 18th
of February, via the Sandwich Islsads and San
Francisco, for Panama, whence the embassy
will proceed by railroad to Aspinwall, where it
will be taken on board the steaM frigate ROAD
obe, and conveyed direct to Washington, up
the Potomac.
The embassy consists of eighteen officials
and fifty. three servants, seventy one persons in
all, and may be expected to arrive at any mo.
ment. AS soon as the POwhatan reaches San
Francisco, the Japanese corvette will return
to report to the Emperor her safe arrival.
The object in sending this vessel before
hand to announce the coming of the am
bassadors is to manifest the high respect
in which the japanese government holds the
American people. No armed vessel Of that
nation has ever before been permitted to leave
its shores, and the FIRST country which it is per
mitted to visit is the United States. She has on
board the chief admiral of the Japanese navy.
1t is signal proof of the confidence reposed in
Americans by the government of Japan that
the navigation of this vessel was entrusted to
Lieut.. J ohm N. Brooke, U. S. N. The Japanese
know little or nothing of the Pacific ocean, for
their laws do not permit them to leave their
own islands, and hitherto, whenever tempest
carried off any Of their sailors to sea, they were
never permitted to return. The penalty for
leaving the country is death, and it was this
law--which reaches back into the most remote
antiquity-that stood in the way of the embassy
leayi ing sooner than it did. 1t is relaxed for
The first time ia favor of the United States
the greatest triumph of diplomacy on record.
The Russians, the English, the French, the
Dutch, the Portuguese and other nations, have
attempted in vain to overcome this prejudice.
Lord Elgin besought the japanese to send
an ambassador direct to England, and Of
lered to furnish them with any vessels
which they might require. The Japanese
evaded the application by saying that it was
not yet determined to send ambassadors to any
nation. In the convention made with Japan
by our Consul General, Mr.. Harris, on the 10th
Of March, 1859, it was agreed in article second
that mo embassy shall leave Japan for any
foreign nation before the mission bearing the
Japanese ratification has arrived at Washing
tom But after that it is probable the en-
bassy will proceed from the United States to
England, Holland France and Russia, return
ing via Egypt and China, in place Of the Pa
cifc route. II, however, it should not visit
Europe, our government will be prepared to
send it back again by the way it came.
/ The Senate has already appropriated $4,000
for the expenses of the reception Of the embassy,
in pursuance Of the suggestion of Mr.. Harris
who reminded our government that when the
Burmese ambassadors visited Paris, and the
Siamese envoy visited England and France,
all the expenses Of these embassies were borne
| by the governments to which they were re-
sion is to exchange Publications of the treaty
made at Jeddo between the representatives of the
| United States and Japan on the 10Th of July,
| 1858. The exchange was to have been made
| on or before the 4th of July, 1859; but it was
| postponed by the Japanese government till the
present year, and the postponement assented
| to by our Consul General on condition that the
clause of the third article of the treaty of Jeddo
| relating to the freedom of trade between
| Americans and Japanese, shall be made public
| by the Japanese government in all parts of the.
empire on the first day of July next.
1t appears that the Japanese government ap
| piled to Mr.. Harris for a steamer to convey
| this embassy to the United States, because they
| had no vessel of their own suitable for such
voyage. In their application they say" As
the exchange of ratifcations at Washington Of
the treaty that has lately been signed is the
first instance Of mission ever sent abroad by
our nation, 1t has been proposed to convey
that mission and have it returned in United
States man. of war"
The United States may well feel proud Of ills
peaceful diplomacy, and of the policy of Mr..
buchanan, who refused to join England
and France in their crusade against China;
thus, by practical proof, assuring Japan
and the other nations of the East that
they have nothing to fear in their
Intercourse with the American government,
whose policy is totally different from the colo
NAL system Of European governments, who,
under pretence Of trade, gain footing in dis
tant countries, and by fraud or force wrest
from them their territory and found colonies
by conquest. The guilty career of the English