The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-09 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Dec. 9.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly ; light breeze, and cloudy weather, with a
heavy fog.

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HOLYHEAD, DEC. B.—Sailed —Arabian, for Melbourne—
Volant, for Gibraltar.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Eva, for

Havannah.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Onus,
from Valparaiso for Cowes.
SUNDERLAND, Dec. 7.-'-Wind S,W.—Arrived—Ffede-
rick Ratzell, from Quebec.
MILFORD, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Henry Pad-
'
densey, from Liverpool for Singapore, with her rudder
carried away.
NEWPORT, Dec. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sarah Pay-
son, from Bristol for Matanzas.
PrLL. Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mont Blanc,
from Mauritius—Agnes C. James, from Riehibucto—
Yuba, from St John's, N.B.
RAMSGATE, Dec. B.—Wind
from London for Quebec—with jibboom carried away and
cutwater damaged.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. B—Providence, from Gravelinea—Mary,
from St Michael's--Warbler, from Pomeron—Ceara, from
Mauritius—Jane, from Dunkirk—Glenesk, from Dantzie.
City of London, for Cape of Good Hope, returned, da-
maged, on the Bth.
Tasmanian, from Newcastle, for Genoa, returned, da-
maged, on the 9th.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Arrived and Pasaed—Clotilda (s.s.), for Cadiz; Baron
Arnim (s.a.), for Trinidad—both from London.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is fired for the opening
of the new musio hall, the Royal Cambridge, close to the
Eastern Counties Railway terminus.

We yesterday mentioned the report that the
Governor of one of the metropolitan prisons had disappeared
in a manner that implied misconduct. The officer in ques-
tion is Captain Craig, of the Model Convict Prison at Pen-
tonville, and it is said that a deficiency of £2,000 has been
discovered in the moneys entrusted to his charge, besides
other defalcations.

THE LEEDS BANKING COMPANY.—This after.
noon a meeting was held before Mr Buckley, chief
clerk to Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, at the chambers in
Stone-buildings, for the purpose of making a call on those
shareholders who have been placed upon the list of contri-
butories. Mr Denton, from the firm of Freshfield and Co„
stated the circumstances of the case, and having put in the
affidavits of Mr Jarquand, the official liquidator, said he
should have to apply for a call of £7O per share. The chief
clerk allowed the application, and made an order that the
call should be made payable before Jan. 11. He added that
the date of the call would only apply to those shareholders
who had already been placed on the list. A different ar-
rangement would be made with regard to those to be placed
on the list hereafter.

ORDER IN BANKRUPTCY.—By an order of the
Lord Chancellor, dated the 3d instant, and to take
effect from the 11th proximo, Mr Mansfield Parkyns, the
official assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy for the Exeter
District, is transferred to the Court of Bankruptcy in Lon-
don, and appointed an official assignee of the London Court,
to act in the room of Mr Herbert Hillis Getman, one of the
official assignees in the London Court, who has resigned his
office, Mr T. Carrick, one of the official assignees of the
court fur the Leeds District, is transferred to the Exeter
Court, and appointed the official assignee of that court, in
the room of Mr Parkyns; and Mr George Young, one of
the official assignees for the Leeds District, in addition to
being appointed official assignee in all bankruptcies prose-
cuted at Leeds, is also appointed the official assignee in all
bankruptcies prosecuted at Hull and Sheffield.
FINGULAR DEATIL—An inquest was held at
Filey, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Monday
last, before Mr Jennings, the coroner for the district, on the
body of Mr John Ferguson, who had been found dead on
the seashore under somewhat similar circumstances. The
deceased, who for 40 years had been an of in the Coast-
guard service, but for the last two or three years had been
pensioned off from actual service; left home on Saturday
last, with a dog and a gun, to visit a farmer named Jackson
at Hunmanby, Low Moor, about three miles from Filey.
According to the evidence adduced he left Mr Jackson's on
his return home, about half-past four the same afternoon,
and nothing further was heard of him until search was made
for him in the evening, hen his dead body was found on
the seashore. Previous to search being made, the deceased's
dog reached home. The animal was wet all over, and
showed signs of uneasiness and distress. The body of Mr.
Ferguson was found laid flat on the bank, with the hands
stretched out, The gun, with the stock broken and both
barrels loaded, was found 265 yards from the body. It was
conjectured that the deceased had fallen over a stone or
large clod of clay, many such being on the seashore, and so
had come in contact with the gun, as he had received a
severe gash over the left eye and some bruises on his face.
It was further supposed that after his fall he had sufficiently
recovered to be ab'e to walk a short distance, when ho had
again fallen, but had then been so exhausted as not to be
able to rise again, when the tide had overflowed the spot
and drowned him. A medical man who had examined the
body said death had been caused by drowning, and not by
the wounds on the bcdy of the deceased. The jury re-
turned an open verdict—namely, " That the deceased had
been found drowned." _ _

AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.—WO have received, via

Holland, a letter from Japan three days later than
the news already published. It has been already stated that
the Prince of Negate, having refused to pay the war indem-
nity stipulated in the treaty of peace signed by him, a judg-
ment of the criminal tribunal of Yeddo had decided that
his two palaces should be razed to the ground and his ser-
vants put to death. We now learn that this singular and
sanguinary sentence was approved of by the Mikado and
by the aicoon—the spiritual and temporal sovereigns of
Japan— and that the number of servants killed in execu-

tion of it was 420 men and 215 women and children. The
Prince, on learning those facts, was deeply concerned, and
sent to the capital his first Minister on board the English
corvette Barossa, which was placed at his disposal by Vice-
Admiral Kuper. The Minister on arriving at.Yeddo waited
on the representatives of France, England, Holland,
America, and Russia, and besought them to intercede with
the Taicoon in favour of the Prince his master, who had
decided on executing all the, pro-visions of the treaty, and
immediately paying the sums due, Such was the situa-
tip affairs at the 'set date►