The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-03-09
Intri.ue~ Of the French In
.Eapa.i.

correspondent q the New York Word,
wri,ir.. from YokoLsma. japan, recently, S!yes
the ~IIowin. account II the manner IN WHICH
the French are operating IN that country
As | have iutiJnaJed on former OCCASIONS, the
French are irving hard % take the trst place IN
the ewes Of the japanese. The indifference OF
Na-n-t DE- Cachoa. an ex Jesuit and priest. has
been used INST iuGG>JriouSly By The french Mn
lister 70 Push forward every enterprise that woIld
ha mosr likely 10 El0rIiy < grand empire Ire
Fr-n,b clurch h.s been enlarged ana ceAuJItvd-
\ French school house has been built. y french
ri6!ug-schouI has ban opened. with french on
GERS Toy masters \ large and snowy fFeHe"
legation and hospital LIS been erected. WIN L
hospital annexed On the hl-I out oi town rive
OF SIX French h.-~ are - be seen every day from
one end Of tae town - the other. The french
Minister rides ont in e splendid carnage drawn
BY four horses, elegantly t. !arI>unel. WIKI PNS'"-
ions and mounted guards HE French Govern
menr his undertaken 70 build L navy-yard tor
the T.Ikun. al I place called by foreigners
oaimbo Bav.r some fifteen miles OF more south
Of Yokohama. \ colony Or French artisans are
on the way 70 japan % be placed upon those
works. \ French doctor with his vile h@s
arrived from France 20 attend 10 the medical u-
plrrnent ~ the new nayy-yurd. To accommo-
date the officers going and coming between tins
PLACE and CoquinoO Bay. the Jalanrse Govern
uent has purchased q small steamer built IN
Boston and sent there for sale Il i affirmed
that the French Government has contracts with
the Jallnt>e amounting 10 SO-ptN-p''- NN47
De true. and it i generally credited. the Iaikun,
what with paving tie IS COG, 600 indemnity TO
England. France, the United States and Holland,
ami this additional 81. 900. COO. ana the expenses
OF lis large army now threatening Chcchln, Will
have all lie can 10 10 meet the demands upon MS
treasury.
Trade Is almost stagnant here now. The news
of war in Europe. between Austria and Prussia,
came by the last mail. though it was only te!e-
graphic, and added 70 the previous depression IN
business. and lately it is said thar the main rea-
son WHY 50 little silk comes into market i that
the French Government. Is the Iaikun i IN want
of money are to take raw silk, and the Govern
ment therefore prevents the 1edo merchants from
bringing their stock 70 Yokohama. The Japan
PuRch has been hitting of the French Minister
and his aid. Mermet de CachOn, pretty sharply
for this Interference with the legitimate trade,
and consequently WeTgman, the editor II Punch,
received a challenge from q French officer. The
matter has, however, been hushed up, and there
viii be no coffee and pistols In the case. Our
community il too small for a Punch" 1t
necessarily or naturally runs 10 personalities that
are not productive of good feeling. Still, the
effect upon tue French officers shows that there Is
rather too much truth in Wergman's caricatures
To be agreeable. If the French demand the silk
at YedO in payment Of their contract it will be
handed over u them. ard the result viii be that
Louis Napoleon viii Iponopolize that branch of
trade in JaTan for some time. The merchants
very naturally feel indignant at this imperial
competition in the market.