The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-19 00:00:00

the Inland Sea, and who had recently engagements
with French and Dutch men-of-war. That Prince
is now in possession of both sides of the strait at
Simonosaki, and threatens to hold the passage
against all foreign vessels, though it has been open
for several years. This is the view likely to be en-
tertained by other Daimios who are not conversant
with naval logic. We have indeed terribly avenged
the murder of Mr. Richardson ; and it is to be hoped
the Daimios will never again allow their retainers
to commit such an atrocious act ; but the monetary
indemnity exacted from the Government of the
Taicoon is a much better security against the repe-
tition of such offences than the destruction of ft,
Japanese city can well be. When Prince Satsuma
thinks quietly over the affair, he can scarcely fail to
see that he and his people have been the chief losers.
He may still hug the conviction that he has repulsed
a British fleet, but this idea will probably do good
in allaying the feelings of anger which must have
been roused in his bosom. So far as we are concerned
there must surely now be an end to the Richardson
case, and it is devoutly to be hoped that the Japanese
are prepared to allow matters to rest as they are.
Even the Emperor of the French j udges that" a policy
of forbearance" is necessary in Japan, and the affair
at Kagosima has rather frightened the parties who
have been crying out loudest for " decided" mea-
sures in that country. The very fist step taken
in that direction has been calculated to provoke,
rather than to control, the Japanese, and. at the
same time, to revolt the moral sense of Europe.
Two or three more victories such as that of Kago-
sitna would be indeed disastrous—ruinous to our
good name, and ruinous to our prospects of further
intercourse with Japan. It cannot be too strongly
impressed upon our countrymen in that part of the
world that the development of relationships must
be left to the natural working of those interests
which elsewhere are allowed to regulate the inter-
course between people of different nations. Until
Englishmen pay some respect to the feelings, and
even to the prejudices. of the Japanese it is hope-
less to look for anything like a good understanding.
This last mail, in a case which was tried before
Consul Winchester at Yokohama, affords a good
illustration of the manner in which difficulties arise.
Morotamon, a Japanese official, brought a complaint
against three British subjects, one of whom, it was
not denied, had fired at him, and had shot him
through the arm. The Englishmen were on horse-
back at the time of the encounter, armed with re-
volvers, and had used abusive language towards
Morotamon, when he was only futfitfing his duty.
Now, it seems that the Japanese law of honour does
not allow a military officer to receive an insult
without demanding redress; and as the three bold
Britons were on horseback and armed, Morotamou
drew his sword in advancing towards them to de-
mand their names. On this they fired, probably
remembering the use to which Japanese swords bad
been put in former instances, and it was only by
accident that he escaped with his life. Cases of this
kind are not easily prevented where there is muck
mutual and suspicion ; but the Japanese
may well doubt whether they are likely to receive
justiue at our hands. If this official had been killed?
Mr. Consul Winchester would have been equally
bound as now to refuse redress, on the ground
which he alleged, that the danger to which the
foreigners were exposed was " of such a character
as to excite those reasonable apprehensions of
injury which justify the use of means of self-de-
fence." The Japanese, with such cases before them,
naturally argue thus :—" We are no longer inde"
pendent in our own land, Here is a foreigner killed
in a dispute with one of our princes, and his Coon'
try men immediately claim the exclusive right of
passing judgment—they levy upon our Governm
en
an enormous sum of money, burn our steamers, BM'
destroy one of our most populous towns. Here lel
one of our officials insulted and killed by several
armed foreigners ; and these same overbearing
people, still claiming an exclusive right of judr
went, pronounce the act proper, and refuse redress'
If these things are to be tolerated then our honour
is lost, and we are only slaves in the land of our
fathers. The Japanese cannot help considering
that if these things are done in the green tree there
is no saying what may be done in the dry. If tire,
of three hundred foreigners, located on isolated
points on the coast, thus pass judgment ups"
and punish the most powerful of the Japanese
t
Daimios, what may not happen when these two
three hundred have grown into two or three thoa'
sand, or two or three hundred thousand ? The peo0;
pect thus opened is calculated to excite resistaeFe
even in despair. Our position in Japan, as varioin
illustrated by the case of Satsuma and by that e
Morotamon, is one which must be intolerable to saft
independent, high-minded people ; and the be 0,,
thing her Majesty can do in re Japan is to appoieb
a competent representative to confer with represea
tatives both of the Mikado and of the Taicoou
as
to its being placed on some better footing.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

-.1-

LYNN--TUESDAY.
At to-day's market there was a good supply of wheat•
and the prices of last week advanced 6d to is
for fine samples; other sorts as before. Barley fully sup-
ported late rates. Oats and leans were firm,
ql's to 39s
White 455 to 46s / Barley ....... "'- 4. 323
Red.. ..40s to 41s Grinding .295
• to 264
226
Beans .40s to 44s I Oats.. ..... to
New 38s to 40s Poas quarter

HULL—TUESDAY.
At this day's market the show of English wheat vil
moderate, with a ready sale, at fully late currencieo,,Bl34
in some instances an advance of is per qr was obtainv...
for really dry samples. Foreign held firmly at ls lora
money. Barley met a slow sale, at prices in favour of i&
buyers. Beans and peas declined. Oats were dull, but 0
quotably lower.
Wheat.... Old white per qr.
Old red lf
d
43s
white .. ~
New redw
.... „ 4433
0836
ssso Od0:
ddd tttt
0000
4443 5941 ssso Od
Od
Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 3,68 0,1
Grinding 26s 6d to 2,s 0
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 318 nci
28s Od to 0
Grinding
, Od
Oats English, old 22s Od to 20 d
'
Archangel and Riga, per st Osl2id tO 1.3,a
Friesland and Dutch ... osl3d to Oslala
Swedish and Danish
Beans ....English, old, per qr
New pigeon
New tick.
Egyptian
Peas .. Foreign boilers ... 44334
000422 ssesss I
020000
ddiciddd
to
0000tL o.
44131 1
ou,o, .13:0
aciacicia
Grinding
0
Tares .... Spring
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding s2s Od to rks v,.1
crushing .. .... 40s Od to 520 v 7,
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 5 oto £0 0 '0
Foreign: Bl5 oto 9 0
Rape cakes . .60 0 to 00 3
Bones 5 5 oto 510

MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY.
The following were the currencies :—New white whOt!
41s Od to 45s Od ; new red, 39s Od to 43s per 36 ston",
beans, 39s to 41s for old ; new sorts, 36s to 38s per 38 154.t,,'
barley, 35s to 375 for malting, and 28s to 32s per qr. o'l6
grinding; new oats, 20s to 23s Od per 24 stone; old, "-
to 295.

COAL k
Prioes of Coal per 'ron at
s. d.
Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 9
Eden Main
Hastings Hartley l5 9
Lambert's West Hart- _

ARK ET.

the close of the market.
N.
West Wylam.. ..... ..16 °

Walls End. 0
Riddell..... l7 ~
Framwellgate.. l6 7„
Wharncliffe ......... •17 u,,
Tunstall . ..... l7 u
Hatton 19 6
6
Haswell.... ...... l9
0
... lB 6
Ca w
Caradop c 18 0
la oe el IfOer t h
1/

—.ly l5 6
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ...15 9
Holywell 17 0
Cowpen Hartley 15 9
ranfield Moor 15 6
ranfield Moor Butes 15 6
West Hartley .. 15 9
Wylam 17 0

Births.
wife Oc
CARPENTER.-0a the 17th inst., at Surbiton, the w"of
Esq., Deputy Commissary-General,
G-1111211.1-5-IFA.: S. e_liciater,ter,
rte.hnelB'th inst, at 22, Westbourne-place, baton'
square, Mrs. Charles Gray, of a son.
SA.LMON.—On the 15th inst., at Westminster, the wife of"
H. C. Salmon, Esq., of a son.
Gil tlO
TRAITERs.—On the 16th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. ntra.-5
Travers, of a son.
Marriages.
riolj
CHASTON—COIJSENS.—On the 17th inst., at the . n "
013
church of St. Alphege, Greenwich, James Chastoo,lo6
of Brundish Lodge, near Framlingham, Suffolk, to Jilcar
Atkins Sanders, only surviving daughter of the late
tain Wm. Cousens, H.E.I.C.S.
CLARE—COLLINS.—On the 12th inst., at Saint ""ix-arYth'go'
Islington, William Clare, jun., to Frances Jatteiyio'
eldest daughter of Mr. H. H. Collins, of Great
cheater-street.

Deaths.
BEECH.—On the 15th inst-, at Surbiton, Mr. James 33eeclIP
aged 61.
BOLTON.—On the 16th inst., at the Rectory, Odihalo,
Right Hon. the Dowager Lady Bolton, aged 87. Eel,,
DYNE.—On the 13th inst., suddenly, Edward Pyre,
of 61, Lincoln's-inn.fields, aged 61
FULLAGAR.—On the 16th inst., at Chichester, the BO'
Fullagar, aged 83.
MARSHALL.—On the 17th inst., Richard Marshall, ,4.
(5,1.'
0 Muswell-hill, late of Stationers'-hall court, aged 00
PINE.—On the 17th inst., at Maidstone, Mr. 'Milian'
Pine, aged 48.
RICHARDS.—On the 14th inst., at Woolwich, Cal:'‘•
Lord Richards,tb•
WlLLis.—On the 18th inst , at 72, Gloucester-street,
Belgravia, Elizabeth, the wife of Major-General
R.A., aged 78.

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