Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-11 00:00:00

JAPAN.

that
from Japan to December 31st, mention
at the Japanese commissioners appointed- to
nrr°ceed to Washington to exchange the ratification
jthe American treaty are Nagaai Genba no Kami,
Tway
Of Accouats and Minister of the Navy, and
Say Higo no Kami, Imperial Inspector. The
`tlissian Consulate was to be removed to Kanagowa.
The Russian steam-frigate Askeld was undergoing
repairs at Nagasaki. Cholera has been raging in •
the northern part of Japan to a frightful extent.
Aa
Yeddo alone the deaths are reported at 150,000
'4l. one month. Allissima and Odowara had also
'jafrßred greatly. The outbreak of this dreadful
•eourge so soon after the foreign J embassies were
_mottled. at Yeddo had led the people to
attribute to them its introduction into
their country, and superstition points to' the
tolecidenee as a punishment for opening Japan
foreigners.. By the latest accounts the disease
et
less virulent. The Danish brig Vilhelmine,
f
Ora Shanghai, arrived on the 18th December, and
deft again on the 21st, not having been permitted to
trade, in consequence of there being no treaty
between Denmark and Japan. Another steamer, the
Nagasaki, built in Holland for the Prince of Fizen,
arrivedon the 15th November. The Russian Consul-
General; dwelling
at Hakodadi and at lonya, on the side of
the bay opposite to Desima at Nagasaki. The mer-
y 8;It commanders who took the two steamers
and Nagasaki from Holland to Japan were
of,residing with their wives. At this place, also, some
tilue officers and crew of the Askelcl were lodged ;
remainder live in a temple in the town.

AUSTRIAN VESSELS IN SARDINIAN PORTS.
The followi is the article of the Piedmontese
°clzette, makingng public the decision of the govern-

ment relative to Austrian vessels in Sardinian ports :
His Majesty's government would have willingly, during
the present war, proclaimed those liberal principles, accord-
ing to which the mercantile vessels -of the enemy are
allowed a certain, space of time to leave the ports of the
state without molestation. The government has been
unable to do so, because the territory of the state
is invaded by a powerful army, which oppresses the
occupied provinces with acts of violence of every
description, thus disobeying both the rules of the law of
nations, and those of humanity, recognised in our present
state of civilisation Orders have therefore been given to
lay an embargo on the Austrian vessels lying in the ports of
the state. This measure bf precaution and security was
imperiously called for by circumstances. And although the
enormous requisitions and extortions of all kinds practised
by the enemy. on our territory, to the injury of the unarmed
population, justify even now an order of capture of the
said vessels; nevertheless, the government still reserves
its deci.,ion in that respect. . Meanwhile, the goiernment
hastens to notify to all whom it may concern, that the
property of neutrals that may be on board the sequestered
vessels shall be immediately restored to their owners,
conformably to the declarations in favour of neutrals
signed by the high powers, at the Congress of Paris, 'in
1856. The application of such principles can naturally
only be invoked in the case of such vessels as -shall scru-
pulously observe strict neutrality. .

THE MERCHANT SHIPS OF

GERMANY.

In a Hamburg letter, dated Friday, last we

In the possibility of the armies of Germany being called
upon, sooner or later, to take 'an active part in the war
against France, our senate had deemed it prudent to beg,
through our minister at London, the English government' to
take under its protection- the numerous merchant vessels
which sail on every sea with the flag of the three
ports and. free Hanseatic cities. The official reply
has not been long coming. Lord Malmesbury
has informed our senate, that if Germanic Confedera-
tion'should, by the turn of events, 'be brought into a war
against France, England would not be able by any inter-
national treaty, to take under the protection of her fleets,
. .

the merehant-;re'ssels of the German- states forming part of
the Confederation. This resolution of the English Govern-
ment, which became knoWn to-day at our Bourse, has
caused a profound sensation.amongst the shipowners.