The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-06 00:00:00

The following are the last two despatches of the

series
6/ LIEUT,. COLONEL NEALE TO EARL RUSSELL.
(Received January 9 )
(Ertrect.)
" Yokohama, Nov. 17, 1863.
" With reference to my preceding despatch by
this mail, your lordship will be less surprised to
learn that the Prince of Satsuma, hastened to a
sense of the increasing danger attending his obsti-
nacy in withholding the redress and reparation
sought at his bands, and by the urgent declarations
I have of late addressed to the Tycoon's Govern-
ment respecting a renewal of hostilities, has him-
self come forward and through his envoys sought
to terminate the difficulties into which he had fallen
with her Majesty's Government.
" I had no scruples in respect to receiving the
Prince's envoys, more especially as they were ac-
companied by two of the Tycoon's officers, and I
have the satisfaction to inform your lordship that
after long and protracted discussions, extending
over three days, the result has terminated in
the agreement to make immediate payment of the
indemnity, in an earnest written engagement not to
relax in constant search for the murderers of Mr.
Richardson, and to subject them to capital punish-
ment in the presence of one or more British officers
when arrested.
" I could hardly hesitate to accept these engage.
ments, for it would have amounted to an unceasing
and indefinite protraction of hostile action to have
insisted upon the immediate arrest and execution of
malefactors, while their power or ability to find or
arrest them I was in no condition to assert or prove,
" That the Prince of Satsuma should acknowledge
the perpetrators of the murder to be deserving of
death, and that he should engage not to relax in his
efforts to bring them to justice, are of themselves
guarantees for the future, while these admissions
will, moreover, be suspended iya terrorem over him
should he fail in this or any other matter to act with
good faith in regard to British subjects or British
interests.
" The immediate departure of the mail precludes
my offering any further observations upon this un-
expectedly sudden and satisfactory termination of a
most difficult transaction. I cannot, however, omit
to acquaint your lordship that the information which
has reached us from various sources, including some
of the officers of the Prince of Satsuma, establishes
the fact that the losses sustained by the prince and
the punishmentinflicted by her Majesty's squadron
at Kagosima were very considerable. The destruc-
tion of property is estimated at £1,000,000 sterling
and the number of Satsuma's adherents killed and
wounded is stated to have been 1,500."

" EARL RUSSELL TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NEALE.
" Foreign• office, Jan. 11, 1864.

" Sir,—l have received your despatches of 16th
and 17th November, the one reporting the with-
drawal by the Government of the Tycoon of the
order for the expulsion of foreigners, the other giv-
ing an account of your communications with the
agents of the Prince of Satsuma, which terminated in
an agreement that the prince should pay the indem-
nity demanded of him for the sufferers on the 14th
of Sept., 1862, and should endeavour to the utmost
to disuover the murderers of Mr. Richardson, and
should cause them, when discovered, to be executed
in the presence of British officers as witnesses of the
execution.

" Her Majesty's Government have received with
the greatest satisfaction this intelligence of the ter-
mination of the pressing difficulties with Japan, and
I have to convey to you their entire approval of the
conciliatory and judicious manner in which you
have conducted yourself generally in these matters.
" Her Majesty's Government trust that they may
now look forward to British intercourse with
Japan being carried on without giving occasion for
future collision. It is their earnest desire that
nothing should occur to interfere with peaceful
commerce, and they are prepared to make full allow-
ance for the peculiar character of the Japanese Go-
vernment. In short, the employment of measures
of coercion or retaliation could only be warranted,
in their opinion, by the necessity of prompt inter-
ference for the protection of the lives and properties
of British subjects, or for the vindication of the
honour of the British flag if assailed by wanton
attacks on the part of the Government or influential
nobles.

Her Majesty's Government are glad to find that
the return to friendly relations has been quickly
followed by an increased trade ; but her Majesty's