Commerce Of Japan

writing Irum Efrwagawu, Maroh 12, com iiui.ic ..ei the fullowing Qveresting, faote : 'Some people are never sr.tisiiud vvith the rate at which Lbo world mnves, hosvever rapkl it tnay be, and raany heregrumblent tho alow progresa of Lhings. li it for niy part I am rather urnazed at what has been done. Aíter raorethan 20Ü years oí exclnsiou trom the rest of the world (tor I do not count the Dutch trade anything) we have now had twenty-one montha' trade ut Kanagaga. It ia believeci that fully $7,0J0,000 wortíi of tho preducts of' this couiitry were cxported the last ye. ir. Solar as I kno.v tlie Dutch never carried ny stik from Japan. JJiC,-80,0UU bales ol silk havo been xported wiihiu u twelve month, i;ico the porte were opened to the treaty power. A few days ugo a Japnnese from a remote provino, oelebrated for the finaneaa ol itn toas, carne to thii place and Sjücitöd an iniroduction to tsotne foreign iijerchaur, through ai; Amerionn müwionary, dosiring to muke a eontraot for the aula of teas. Ha said he uould pradl'otí 30,000 chests this year, and inore tho next. Moroover, he desired to ma thA Chinese procesa oí firing the lett, so m to be ablo to put it tip in atit condition for immediate transpurtation to E.irope Of America. I montkw the case to show thut the peoplo oí this country aro boginninir to open their eycs to tha advantagea oí foreign commeree, and bow the trade in teas and silks and other stuple artioles will increase as timo advanees. To nny but an in patiënt, unruasonablo man, tha extont of the foreign trade hither.o is ecrtuinly as greataa coild have bsen expactad, I have had Bome experiem ia Qhina, and when I compare tho HUarty whioh, toreiners enjoyed at Cantón, in 183ft, with tbat we have here in 18GI, I mut eay that tbe Japaneaa treat ua with fat more li1 erality than the Chinese did, and the aocomp;mnnents of a residente, in this country two years or lesa, tran thö time the treaties went into ciFect. are inuch more ;;.ïreeal)le than tliey were in Oiiinn, after two hianircd ycarj of commercial intercü,uro vvuh. that country." i i -i, i é