Year: 1872

and tho MikadO.


The steamship America has arrived at SAN
Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama, as
was briefly announced in our columns yester-
day. She landed q large number of passen-
gers for the United States and Europe; tho
advent of the latter reafirming the correctness
of the first position of the HERALD, to the
effect that the current Of travel, as we'll as the
flow route of trade between AsiA and the Euro.
pean countries would soon be revolutionized
and In our favor, the United States becoming
the grand reservoir centre for the reception
and distribution both of the travellers and
cargoes. The news by the America was tele-
graphed to us overland and published in our
issue on Sunday. It is not of very decisive
import, but goes to prove, as have the bulk OF
our Asiatic advices Of late, that the japanese
are more active, more enterprising and more
sincere in their efforts for the attainment of q
solid, substantial national progress than
are the Chinese. China inclines towards
reactionism, instigated and directed by nativist
feeling and the influences which succeed from
! SS3Hfy9 Ct long-preseryed and jealously
guarded isolation; Japan looks aheatt i FAX
ious to see what is beyond her own limits, td
compare tde foreign systems with the home, to
expurgate some and hold fast to that which is
good The Mikado was preparing for his visit
to France and Great Britain by way of tho
Suez Canal. He will thus be enabled to at
once learn of the social and governmental
changes which have ensued from the sudden
effacement Of very ancient royalism and the
substitution of an almost newborn plan Of
democratic republican government in it's stead.
An Ambassador has been appointed for Japan
to Paris and high functionary Of the Execu-
tive will be despatched to London TO prepare
the way for His Majesty the Mikado The
friends Of the ex-Tycoon attempted revolu-
ionary demonstration in favor Of his restora-
ton. It was suppressed by the authorities,
many lives being lost in the effort.
England is engaged in quarrel with
Japan on ground of ministerial official
etiquette which promises to overshadow in its
gravity the great Court coat-tail question of the
United States with Queen Victoria, and that
Of Mccartney, on the part Of Her Majesty,
with the late Emperor of China 1t appears
that a new English Charge d'Afaires has been
presented to the Mikado. The Eastern poten-
tate requested the European envoy to sit
down. The latter refused to ''squat," as it is
written in the despatch, and insisted on retain
ing his erect position. Terashimo-Tozo, inn
perial Minister of Foreign Affairs, would not
receive the Queens envoy unless he sat down,
so the Englishman retired, head erect and
straight on his pins, promising to write to
Earl Granville, asking him to say what he is
to do about it. The Japanese Ambassador,
Terashima (not Tozo, the Minister, but per-
haps of the same family, will not, it is said.
be received OF st. James until this difficulty is
adjusted. Queen Victoria may be slightly
puzzled at first on the subject but she win,
no doubt, do what is fair and meet and proper
in the premises One would imagine that the
Britsher would feel more comfortable when
seated on fine carpet or rug than he would
standing up, but then it may be that it was
more convenient to him to stand up. Perhaps
he is very fat Englshman and one well
versed in the law of consequential damages.
It is well that the japanese reception question
is brought out just now in such portly shape
at moment when the Psychologists and
diplomatists are on the q'd vive oil over the
earth and when science herselS is receiving
new light from New York to Geneva and
onward thence to the source of the Nile and
the hoary seat Of government in Pekin. It is
to be hoped, however, that the British official
in Japan will take seat somewhere before the
Geneva matter is finally adjusted, and permit
the cabinets to maintain their intercourse in
peace and harmony. Let us attend to the
Alabama case first and compel this English
man in Japan, if it is right for him to do SO,
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