The Daily Bulletin

The Japanese Government, some little time since, sent a mission to England to enquire into the working of the Christian religion: that mission has reported to the effect that it found so much drunkenness, crime, and misery generally, that it most emphatically set its face against the adoption of any portion of the Christian belief, as the latter was infinitely inferior to that at present prevailing in Japan. Flattering, is it not, to our State religion? I remember, too, that a like estimate was formed of our manners and customs by the Japanese Commissioners to our late exhibition. Owing to some intimate literary business relations with these little gentlemen, they were perhaps more communicative to me than they otherwise would have been. Consequently, in the course of various conversations, I learnt the humiliating fact that some of our people were the rudest they had seen in any part of the world. And now they despise our religion,--Melbourne Paper.