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duty was the delivery of the yacht at Jeddo , and to deliver the yacht there it was necessary to remain at the present anchorage . No sooner was this settled than the Japanese became perfectly reconciled to the arrangement , sent off supplies with great willingness , and began to prepare a residence on shore for Lord Elgin . His ' Lordship , to the increasing astonishment _ of the natives , proceeded to land in state , amid the tlmrfdcr of salute 3 , the inspiriting strains of a ut # al band , and the flutter of hundreds of flags with which the ships were dressed . The procession was formed of four paddle-box
boats , each with a 24-pound howitzer in her bows , enclosing between them the Ambassador ' s barge , the remainder of the ships' boats , with captains and officers all In full dress , leading the way . The band struck up "God save the Queen " as Lord Elgin landed , and was received and put into his chair by sundry two-sworded persoiiaaes , the rest of the mission , together with some officers of the squadron , following on horseback . The crowd , which for upwards of a mile lined tho streets leading to the building fixed on as the residence of the Embassy , was dense in the extreme . Iiad
eager for knowledge . Never was there a people more readv to adapt themselves to' the changes and progress of the world than they are . It is curious that while some of their customs are what we would deem rather barbarous , and while they are ignorant of many common things- —while they still rip themselves up , and shoe their horses with straw because ignorant of any other method—they have jumped , to a knowledgo of certain branches of science which it has taken nations in Europe hundreds of years to attain . At . Nagasaki they can turn out of their yard an engine for a railway or a steamer ; Japanese captains and engineers command
their men-of-war , of which three are steamers ; they understand the electric telegraph ; they make thermometers and barometers , theodolites , and , I believe , aneroids . Their spy-glasses and microscopes are good , and very cheap . They have a large , glass manufactory which turns out glass little inferior to our own . They have a short line of railway somewhere in the interior , given by the Americans . Many of them speak Dutch , some English , all anxious to learn ; everything is done by themselves , and when it is considered that it is not much more than ten years . ago since they made this start , the advance they have made in that short time is perfectly wonderfuL "
The Commissioners , six in number , having an interview with Lord Elgin at his residence respecting a treat y , his Lordship and staff , with some officers , visited the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Emperor ' s palace , where the } ' were received in the presence of several official personages . ' On the 16 th of July the treaty was formally signed by Lord Elgin and the six Commissioners . At an interview held for the . purpose some days previous Lord Elgin delivered to the Prince Minister the letter of Lord Clarendon presenting the steam yacht to the Emreror of Japan land
from her Majesty the Queen of Eng ; preliminary arrangement ' s were then made for transferring her , and it was proposed that her name should be changed to any other that they might suggest . Accordingly , after the treaty was signed , the party went on board . A salute of ' 21 guns- was fired , in excellent time , from the fort , and the British colours were hauled down and the Japanese hoisted , the Retribution and Furious each saluting the flag with 21 guns . The Commissioners gave Lord Elgin a letter to Lord Clarendon in reply to the one they had received from him . On the : 27 th the expedition / left Jeddo for Shanghai , arriving there , on the 2 nd
of September . The aspect of the country , as far as seen by the members of the expedition , is described as very fertile , the scenery iri some instances romantic , and the climate delightful . Jeddo is described as a vast city , with two million and a half inhabitants , and an area equal to , if not greater than , that of London . The castle of the Emperor alone is computed * to be capable of containing 40 , 000 souls .
JEDDO AND ITS INHABITANTS . We extract from the Ti ? ncs correspondence the following description of the Japanese : — " Among the members of the expedition but one opinion prevailed with respect to the extraordinary evidenced of civilisation which met the eye in every direction . Every house was surrounded by gardens laid out with exquisite tasle , and the natural features of the country were admirably taken advantage of ; a long ride was certain to be rewarded by a romantic scene . The tea-house is a national characteristic of Japan . The traveller need never be at a loss to find rest and refreshment ; stretched upon the softest and cleanest of matting , imbibing the most delicately flavoured tea , inhaling through a short
pipe tlio fragrant tobacco of Japan , he resigns himself to tho ministrations of a bevy of fair damsels , who glide rapidly and noiselessly about , the most zealous and skilful of attendants . In their personal cleanliness the Japanese present a marked contrast to tho Chinese : no deformed objects meet tho oye in the crowded streeta ; cutaneous diseases seem almost unknown . Towards evening a largo portion of the male and female population might bo seen innocently ' tubbing' nt tho corners of the streets . In . Joddo they frequent largo bathing establishments , tho door of which is open to tho passerby , and presents a curious spectaclo , more especially if the inmates of both sexes ingenuously rush to it to gaze at him . As if to harmoniso with its surpassing natural endowments , Japan is peopled by a raqo whoso qualities are cf tho most amiable and winning
description , and whoso material prosperity has boon so equalised as to ensure happiness and contentment to all classes . " We never saw two Japanese quarrel , and beggars lmvo yet to bo introduced with other luxuries of Western civilisation . Their oxclusivoness has arisen , not , as in Chinn , from an assumption of superiority over tho rest of the world , but from a conviction that tho well-being and happiness of tho community would not bo increased by the introduction of foreign tastes and luxuries . A propensity to imitate and adopt tho appliances of civilisation is so strongly developed in Japan , that the changes now being effected will , in all probability , some day or other revolutionise tho country . No one can doubt who has visited tho two countries that tho Chinaman will still bo navigating tho canals of his country in the crazy old junks of his ancestors when tho Japanese is skimming along , his rivers in high-presaure stenmcrs , or flying across the country behind n locomotive . " SOIIiNOlS IN JAl'AN . Another correspondent says ;—" Tlio Japanese are
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Tiik four men in custody on a charge of having in their possession copper-plates for the purpose of fraudulently manufacturing ten-rouble notes of the Bank of Russia , were finally examined on Saturday , when John Webster was discharged , and Woolley , Richard Webster , and Barnett committed . Councill , remanded at Woolwich on a charge of firing a pistol at Inspector Budd , of the dockyard , with intent to murder him , has been again brought up , and the wounded man attended and gave his evidence . Councill was committed . The November general sessions for Middlesex have commenced . James Skyen , alias Nicholson , was indicted for stealing a gold watch and chain , and other property . The evidence dearly , established , his guilt , and several former convictions having been proved against him , on one of which he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude , the court now condemned him to penal servitude for eight years . —William Robinson , a genteeUlooking man , wearing three military decora ^ tions , was found guilty of stealing a g lazier ' s diamond . After the witnesses ha ' d been heard , the prisoner strongly protested his innocence , but said he declined to call witnesses to his character as it would be his ruin . He was
demand the restoration of his daughter and her submis sion to parental' authority . As the young lady wai twenty-two years of age , and therefore old enough to judge * for herself , the magistrate could not interfere in the matter . At the Marlborpugh-street poliee T court , a MrC J ' ohn Haman charged a numlKjr of prostitutes , and two other persons , with , having been parties to a robbery of banknotes and gold which had been effected on his person in a brothel near Leicester-square . If gentlemen from the country will go into brothels during their visits to London , this is the treatment they may expect to meet with , and they may also anticipate the consequent exposure .
A most extraordinary scene occurred in the Court of Bankruptcy this week , of which the Daily News give 3 the following version : — " Mr . Sargood , a barrister of some standing , having considerable practice in such cases , appeared for the assignees , to oppose the passing of a bankrupt named Saunders . The principal grounds of opposition were urged by Mr . Sargood with perfect temper , but with firmness . The manner in which they were met bv Mr . Commissioner Fane is almost incredible . After the bankrupt had explicitly admitted the utter falsehood of the statements on his balance-sheet , the Commissioner , resolved apparently that the man should pass if possible , in spite of Mr . Sargood , endeavoured to . make him retract his retractation , and
unswear the contradiction that he had just been compelled to make on path . The only result of this attempt on . the part of the Judge was to involve his insolvent protege in a still more hopeless entanglement of equivocation and falsehood . When Mr . Sargood earnestly entreated the Commissioner to take a note of a particularly important answer , his reply was , I am not to be dictated to as to what I am to do ; of what I choose I will take a note . ' Mr . Sargood asked it as a favour ; the answer was , * I shan ' t do it . ' Mr . Burkitt , the solicitor , fared no better when he made the same request . ' Will your Honour be kind enough to take that down ? ' The Commissioner : 'It would be better if you would dp your duty , and not interfere with mine .
You know perfectly well that it is the duty of the solicitor , to the bankruptcy to take down the evidence . ' Mr . Burkitt : ' Then , if I do so , will your Honour sign my notes ? ' The Commissioner : 'If you do not conduct ¦ ¦ yourself with ' decency and propriety I shall not stay here . ' The Commissioner did stay , but it was only still further to expose liimself . His conduct became worse and worse . He called on a fresh cause . He took notes and signed documents relating to other bankruptcies . Finally , breaking through Mr . Sargood ' s address , the Commissioner , turning to the bankrupt , asked abruptly whether he was prepared to sign the papers—the papers , be it observed , which he had sworn to be false . Mr . Sargood : ¦ ' You are not at liberty to
pass him if I show they are wrong . I do not think any judge in the kingdom would allow him to do so . ' The Commissioner : 'I allow him to judge for himself . ' The barrister ' s further expostulations were cut short by the Judge putting on his hat and rising to leave the court . Mr . Sargood : ' Do you adjourn this sitting , then , sir ? ' The Commissioner : 'I cannot . You must go to another court . ' His Honour then retired , leaving it a subject of animated discussion whether the bankrupt had been passed or adjourned . It appears , according to Mr . Burkitt , that to pass the bankrupt under tho circumstances was too strong a measure even for Mr . Commissioner Fane . Ho returned to make an entry that the bankrupt could not be sworn to his statement , and then
—retired for his vacation . " The Commissioner has written a letter to tho Daily Neios , giving his version of the case . He says that he considered the bankrupt hardly dealt with , and that it was his duty to protect him . Ho adds : — "I have not presided in a court of justice twenty-five years without being able soon to see who are honest and wlio knavish . I soon saw that Saunders was an honest innn , and of course took his part against his son , who had made him bankrupt , and his son s supporters . My roward was the adoption of atone of insult from Mr . Sargood and the solicitor who instructed him , to which I dare say I replied in a tono expressing what I felt towards persons aiding such a son against such a father . "
At the Guildhall , Oltvor , the stockbroker cbargsi with unlawfully appropriating to his own use the fliUR of 5000 / . belonging to Miss Ada Dance , has undergone another examination . Somo additional evidence was forthcoming , and tho enso Against the prisoner resolved itself into two charges . The first was tho misappropriation of tho Canadian securities , ' which he had purchased for Miss Dance to tho extent of 8500 / ., and tho second , tlio entire appropriation to Ins own use of tho balance qf tho money , amounting to 1500 / , Tho prisoner was committed for trial , and tho Alderman required two sureties of 5000 / . each » s bail . Another chargo was also preferred against tho prlsonor , by a gontloinun resident in Northumberland , of unlawfully dealing with , shared of various companies , said to liav ' o boon abstracted from a box of tleodd . Tho ftirthor investigation of this now charge id adjouruod until tho arrival of the prosecutor from Paris . ' I ' aroelniil matters appear to bo In a very unpleasant state In St . X ' anoras . A fow woolw ago eovoral collectors
sentenced to six months' hard labour . —William Jones and Priscillrt Allen were indicted for breaking into the shop of James Robinson , and stealing a quantity of boots and shoes , his property ; and John Barnett was indicted for receiving the stolen goods ; they were all found guilty . Nothing was known against Allen ; but the two male prisoners were proved to be very old offenders , who had been previously convicted . Barnett was the last of a gang who had been nearly all transported , and he had gained a living by receiving and selling stolen goods . . Allen was sentenced to hard labour for twelve months , and Jones was sentenced to seven 3 enrs ' , and Barnett to ten years' penal servitude .
A French advocate named Griesdon , who has been in this country about eighteen months , preferred a charge nt Murlborough-street police-court against Joan Cazador , a designer , of Tottonham-court-road , of conspiring , with another man named Victor , to defraud him of a sum of money . The prosecutor had accepted a kind invitation to join in " a little game with some respects able persons ; " this was followed by others , and each succeeding game found his purse getting steadily lighter , until it was relieved of tho sum of 200 / . The cuse was adjourned for a week , until Victor , who is in custody at Liverpool , can bo produced .
Brown , the coachman charged -with causing tho death of Robert Langham , by striking him on the head , was brought before Mr . Beadon , at Marlborough-street , and on the evidence of the Burgeon being hoard , the prisoner was committed on tho charge of manslaughter . Mr . Drowell , pyrotechnist , has been fined 51 . by Mr . Elliott , for tho dangerous practice of soiling fireworks . Michaelmas term commenced on Tuesday . All the law courts in London were opened with tho usual formalities . Tho Chancery and Common Law Judges , Queen ' s Counsel , Serjeants-at-Law , and other functionaries , . breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor , at his house , where tho Lord Mayor of London elect was presented , and her Mnjosty ' s ' satisfaction at tho choice of tho electors was declared .
At tho Court of Bankruptcy , on Tuesday , assignees were choaon in tho case of George Montague Evans , who practised as a solicitor at Farnhain , Surrey , but who was adjudicated bankrupt as a scrivonor of Boulogne , to which place , it appears , he travelled a few months ago . At tlio Murylobono pollce-coUrt un extraordinary ap * - plioation was made by 'Mr . Overtoil , a member of tho Marylobone vestry . lie statod that < v daughter of Ills ' had been engaged ns n companion in a gentleman ' s family , mid . that tho rosult was hor conversion to tho Catholic religion . He wished to know whether he could
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 1181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2267/page/5/
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