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duty ' was the delivery of the yacht at Jedclo , 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 -laud in state , amid the thunder ot salutes , the inspiriting strains of a naval 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 2-i-pound howitzer in her bows , enclosing between them the Ambassador ' s barge , the remainder of the ships' boats , with captains and oiheers all iu full dress , leading the way . The band struck up " God « ave the Queen " as Lord Elgin landed , and w ; is received and put into his chair by sundry two-sworded personages , the rest of the mission , together with some officers of the squadron , following on horseback . The crowd , which , for upwards of a mile lined the streets leading to the building fixed on as the residence of the Embassy , was dense in the extreme . had
The Commissioners , six in number , having an interview with Lord Elgin at his residence respecting a treaty , his Lordship and staff , with some officers , visited the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Emperor ' s palace , where they 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 steaiii yacht to the Emreror of Japan of
from her Majesty the Queen England ; preliminary arrangements were then made for transferring her , and it was proposed that her name should be changed to any other that they might suggest . Accordi ngly , 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 in 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 b ^ e capable of containing 40 , 000 souls . JEDDO AND ITS IXIIA-MTAXT 5 .
We extract from the Times correspondence the following description of the Japanese ;— " Among the members of the expedition but one opinion prevailed with respect to the extraordinary evidences of civilisation which met the eye in every direction . Every house was surrounded by gardens laid out with exquisite taste , 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 bo 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 tho fragrant tobacco of Japan , ho resigns himself of of fair damselswho lido
to tho ministrations n lievy , g rapid ! v and noiselessly about , the most zealous and skilful of attendants . Iu their personal cleanliness tho Japanese present a marked contrast to tho Chinese : no deformed objects meet tho eye in the crowded streets ; cutaneous diseases scctn , almost unknown . Towards evening a largo portion of the mnlo and female population might bo soon innocently ' tubbing' at the corners of the streets . In Jeddo they frequent largo bathing establishments , the door of which i $ open to tho pnssorby , und presents a curious spectacle , more especially if tho inmates of both soxes ingenuously rush to it to gazo at him . As if to harmonise with its surpassing natural endowments , Japan is peopled by a ruco whoso qualities are of tho most niniablo and winning description , and whose material prosperity has been so equalised all classes
ns to ensure happiness and' contentment to . Wo never saw two Japanese quarrol , and . beggars have yet to be introduced with other luxuries of Western civilisation . Their exclusivoncss has arisen , not , as in China , from an assumption of superiority over tho rest of tho world , but from a conviction that the well-being and happiness of tho community would not bo increased by tho introduction of foreign tastes ami luxuries . A propensity to imitato and adopt tho appliances of civilisation is ho strongly dovoloped in Japan , that the changes now being efl ' eutetl 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 tho crazy old junks of his ancestors when tho Japanese is skimming along Ills rivers in hlyh-pressuro BlQiunor * , or flying across tho country behind a locomotive . " SGIICSOIC XN JAl'AN . Another correspondent eaysi— " Tho Japanese nro
eairer for knowledge . Never was there a people more ready 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 tilings—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 brandies of science which it has taken nations in Europe hundreds of j-ears 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 . Tliey 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 . "
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLIC E COURTS . The 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 . Council ! 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 clearly established his guilt , and several former convictions having been proved againsfhiin , 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 genteel-looking man , wearing three military decorations , was found guilty of stealing a glaziers diamond . After the witnesses had 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 sentenced to six months' hard labour . —William Jones and Priscilla Allen were indicted for breaking into the shop of James Robinson , and stealing a quantity of boots and slioes , 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 years ' , and Barnett to ten years' penal servitude .
A French advocate named Griesdon , who has been in this country about eighteen montli 3 , preferred a charge at Murlborough-streot police-court against Jean 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 respectable persons ^ " this wag followed by others , and each succeeding game found his purse getting steadily lighter , until it was relieved of the sum of 200 / . The case was adjourned for a week , until Victor , who ia in custody at Liverpool , con be produced . with tho
Brown , the coachman charged causing death of Robert Langhom , by striking him on tho head , was brought before Mr . Beadon , « t Marlborough-street , and on tho evidence of tho surgeon being heard , tho prisoner wns committed on tho charge of manslaughter , Mr . D rewell , pyrotechnist , has been lined HI . by Mr . Elliott , for the dangerous practice of selling fireworks . Michaelmas term commenced on Tuesday , All the law courts in London wore opened with the usual formalities . The Chancery and Common Law Judges , Queen ' Counsol , Serjeants-at-Law , and other functionaries , ^ breakfasted with tho Lord Chancellor , at his house , whoro tho Lord Mayor of London oloot was presented , and her Majesty ' s satisfaction ot tho choice of tho oloctora was declared .
At tho Court of Bankruptcy , on Tuesday , assignees wore chosen In the case of George Montaguo Evans , who practised jis a solicitor ot Farnham , Surroy , but who was adjudicated bankrupt as a scrivener of Boulogne , to which placo , it appears , ho travelled a few months ago . At the Murylobonc police-court an extraordinary application was made by Mr . Overtoil , a member of tho Mnrylobono vestry . Ho statcti that ft daughter of hla had boon engaged ns a companion in a gentleman ' s family , ami that tho , result was her conversion to the Catholic religion . Ho wished to know whether ho could
demand the restoration of his daughter and her submission to parental authority . As the young lady wae twenty-two years of age , and therefore old enough to judge for herself , the magistrate could not interfere in the matter . At the Marlborough-street police-court , a Mr . John Ilaman charged a number 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 scano occurred in the Court of Bankruptcy this week , of which the Daily News give 3 tlie 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 by Mr . Commissioner Pane is almost incredible . After the bankrupt had explicitly admitted tho utter falsehood of the statements on his balance-sheet , tlie 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 oath . 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 vou would do 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 , w ill 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 himself . His conduct became w-orse and worse . He called on a fresh cause . He took notes and signed documents relating to other bankruptcies . Finally , breaking through Mr . Ssfrgood ' s address , the Commissioner , turning to the banltrupt , asked abruptly whether he Avas 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 the circumstances was too strong a measure even for Mr . Commissioner Fane . He returned to make an entry that the bankrupt could not be sworn to his statement , and then
—retired for his vacation . " Tho Commissioner has written a letter to tho Daily News , giving Ms version of the case . Ho says that he considered tho bankrupt hardly dealt with , and that it wns his duty to protect him . He adds : — . "I have not presidod in a court of justice twenty-five years without being able soon to see who are honest and who knavish . I soon saw that Saunders was an honest man , and of course took his part against hia son , who had made him bankrupt , and hia son ' s supporters . My reward 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 tone expressing what I felt towards persona aiding such a boh against such a father , "
At tho Guildhall , Oliver , tho stockbroker charged with unlawfully appropriating to his own use the sum of 5000 ^ . bel onging to Miss Ada Dance , has undergone another examination . Somo additional ovidonce was forthcoming , and the case against tho prisoner resolved Itself into two charges . The first was the misappropriation of the Canadian securities , which Uo had purchased for Miss Dance to tho extent of 36007 ., ftBu tho sccondj tho entire appropriation to his own use of tho balftnoe of the money , amounting to 1500 / . Tho prlsoi ?? 1 ' W * 4 commit tod for trial , and tho AUlorman required two sureties of 50001 . each ns buil . Another charge was also proforrod against tho prisoner , by n gontlomnn rosident in Northumberland , of unlawfully dealing with , Bharoa of various , companies , said to liavo Loon abstracted from a box of doedd . Tho Airthor investigation , of this now chargo is udjoumod until Iho arrival of tho . prosecutor from 1 ' uria , Parochial matters appoar to bo Iu a vorj unpleasant stflto iu St . I ' dncraa . A Cow weeks ago sovoial collectors
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/5/
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