JAPAN.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 17 February 1863, Page 2

JAPAN.

In Japaa^ the departure frrnnJ|J'cWf« the'Daimi <>a^ an<J}lieir Tamilies still **ou Consequent^ upon •* th'V breiikirtg^ lo^ many stitoptudus festabHshment*,^ I'!™.'1 '!™.' tities of val l aal>resAiMi< curibMtie^lx^ told in the-eepital- nnd the bonse«B&wqi taken down. ,K jiT*cry^ißrideiJK|oi witbdijiwal gf the nobility fponf ordinary movement pn A thc part (MKBlg pancse, but ast«ftrwultlng

a^fnfc-'-the- consequence SSKdiate- and apparent are a total H imeposition of Foreign AmbasgafiSmrthe complete destruction' of fosßn altogether ; for it is clear that ilmUons for a residence at Teddo, to Sißla?e persistently adhered, are now iiJßsSg and '*wr object defeated. yßlar flag 'may still hang orer the n !«alegaSon buildings, and the perSSlSfc&guard may be posted more SKe British Ministers PlempotenfvKLe men in whose eyes xt was inHpear dignified have all left the 3 »*ne retainers against whose atJcfKr stronghold is being constructed U'Waway to Miako with their mas~J mint of fact, ire **™ no position S apan at present, beyond the mere 29 fee of our being in the country, S& tis to be feared, to the laws of j I ' It has come to our knowledge of j lIS "indirect manner, that we hnve no 2? whatever with the highest authori- \ *3. country, a«« the discovery is cal- *■-' naralyse all consular and diplomaf Ol ™f thJ mrt of out officials. The Si^lJSd with foreign affairs mainly in devising and ■Jfjmt Plans for the more strict seclui iB-ei'niers from all intercourse with *\m' they also receive reports of as- | •vtt and go through a form of f raming 't^rfltnem. But the frailty of our po~>i» | Mt late, been so exceedingly appa—■Jßtlie idea of peimitting matters to their present footing cannot be NT'Jw Although there, are no reasons .■in" that the Japanese rulers intend patl an openly hostile attitude towards i powers, yet it would be a mistake Vrt? ' that they are unprepared for war. fiT r have long been making patient) " ns for the worst is the opinion of *'? ie observers; and it is an opinion 1 8I 8 always been urged in our own coere we have likewise ventured to r ?/! t the Japanese diplomatists will Bi, iest of it in any complications that eh between Japan and the repre)Ul of the West. It is most likely ' «^» t events, and particularly the with- , m Yeddo, are movements planned, ipr irovoke foreigner"? to some decided ' ri Wp ar tly to prepare for whatever step r Hftken by the intruding nations. Ja- £ M)liticiau3 ( undoubtedly desire' to rttMR crisis, and they also wish to ahun T .T e initiative. There is also some■^SßirAble in the fact of a iiation that -••Wlong c ecluded from acquaintance ' anMwld and from connection with the r ,«ty of nations, as the phrase goes ; refßjraethiHg admirable in the fact that 1 £ tion feels itself amenable to-univer-»nlf n, and- proceeds cautiously in the I*-' jreakingoff a connection that had 1 "*f gularly formed, and which the go»?ij neither sanctioned nor desired. We ** aid ■ri'specting the care taken by the rt j! to do no act, in regard to foreigners, f«fi i appear as arbitrary or unjust. i/-, it to wish that when their share in i> i ig quarrel is written do>yn, it will 'aili iriy and defy censure. So far as we >*tf hey have committed themselves to ito * licy as yet.