The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamship Ceylon, Capt. R. W. Evans, arrived at
Southampton at 4 p.m. yes'erday, with the heavy
portion of the abovenamed mails. She brought 87
passengers, of whom 46 were first-class and 19
second, 13 children, and 9 servants, and on freight
5 packages of specie (value not stated), 16 cases of
shawls, 32 cases and 158 chests of indigo, 12 chests
of samples, 9 live turtle, 1 box of plants, 1 case of
pictures, 3 cases of sculpture, 88 boxes of empties,
and 55 packages of general merchandise.
The Ceylon left Alexandria on the 27th nit.,
Malta on the Ist inst., and Gibraltar on the sth. in
the Mediterranean she had fine weather, with light
winds and calms ; along the coast of Spain light
northerly winds and fine weather; across the I?.ay
of Biscay northerly winds and dull weather ; and
in the Channel, thick, foggy weather. _ _

Her Majesty's ships Revenge, Meeanee, Marl-
borough, Trafalgar, Pelican, Malacca, Caradoc, and
Supply were at or cruising off Malta on the Ist inst.
The screw corvette Cossack, Captain Rolland, nine
days from Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the
29th tilt., and left for Malta at 11 10 a.m. on the
30th.

The British brigantine Meese, of Hartlepool,
laden with coals for Galatz, was fallen in with in
distress on the Ist., off Cape Trafalgar, by the Lion
Beige steamer, bound from Cadiz for Tangier. The
Meese was descried close in shore, with a signal of
distress flying, bowsprit broken, and making water
very fast. The Lion Beige was obliged to ground
her off Pantales, to prevent her sinking.
The schooner Emily Wylde, Captain E. Wylde,
twenty days from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 28th ult., having on board Captain J.
Franks and the crew (six in number) of the late
brig Hinde, of Shields, which vessel was aban-
doned at sea on the I2th ult., on her voyage
from Shields to Cadiz, with five feet of water in her
hold and deck stove in, in long. 7 40, let. 45 30.
The crew were picked up on the same day by the
schooner Comet, of Bremen, Captain Harman, from
Shields, bound for Alexandria, and were tran-
shipped to the Emily Wylde at the entrance of the
Bay. The Comet proceeded on her voyage.
The following British merchant ships had ar-
rived out at Gibraltar ;—June 27, the Thessalia,
Captain G. Clare, six and a half days from Liver
pool, for Malta and Constantinople ; the Prince
Alfred, Captain W. Byes, 16 days from Plymouth
and five from Vigo, in ballast, for Constantinople ;
28th, the London, Captain W. G. S. Hall, six days
from London; the Palermo, Captain J. Greig, 10

days from Glasgow and two from Lisbon, for Genoa,
&c. ; 29th, the Sicilian, Captain J. Groome, seven
and a half days from Liverpool and 28 hours from
Lisbon, for Genoa, &c. ; July 2, the Sir James
Duke, Captain J. Greig, 12 days from Liverpool
and seven from Cardiff, for Alexandria ; the
Ellora, Captain J. Kellock, four and a halt' days
from Southampton, with mails, &c., for Malta and
Alexandria; 3d, the Memnon, Captain H. Mackay,
seven days from Liverpool, for Malta and Alex-
andria ; and the Sydney Hall, Captain T. Waite,
seven days from London and two from Lisbon, for
Tangier, &c.
The GibraEar Chronicle cf the Ist inst. announces
the following change of quarters among the regim
ments in garrison ; The 7th Royal Fusileers move
out of the Waterport Casemates, and replace the
100th Royal Canadians in the barracks at Town
Range, 'Wellington's Front, and King's Bastion.
The Canadians take the place of the 3d Buffs at
Buena Vista and Europa, and the Buffs move into
WnowateiruporttheCasseomutahtesji
Barrack
exchange h (King's Regiment),
quarters
withista the 2d at Windmill Hill and Buena
Vista

ivy
oPs STRANGE ANTICIPATION OF
HENRY
"went of death and danger
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revived, an
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iii: vat---low pastimes ; the society of his friends was irk-
some;often the pen with which his Majesty had
a
sketched a plan of latid campaign was thrown aside with
words of desponding weariness. Throughout Europe the
awe gloomy expectation existed ; the marching forth of .
the hosts of France, under the banner of the greatest cap-
tain of the age, excited no terror, and no potentate quailed
with the fear of overthrow.
were predictions
multiplied
dofeaAthprilof Henry's demise or approaching
throughout
roughout Europe ; and omens and
presages of coming calamity were reported everywhere,
from persons doubtless prepared by rumour far such a catas-
trophe.

VOLTAIRE'S ESTIMATE OF ST. LOlJlS—taken from
the Fifty-first Chapter of the Essai sur les Mceurs.
—King Louis IX. appeared a prince destined to reform
Europe if it could have been reformed; to make France
triumphant and well governed, and to be in everything a
model to men. His piety, which was that of an anchorite,
deprived him of no royal virtue. A wise economy did not
interfere with his liberality. He reconciled profound po-
licy with exact justice, and is, perhaps, the only sovereign
who deserves that praise; prudent and firm in council,taif in.
he
trepid in war without rashness, as
c°"*"sicj
rnaasns to carry
had always been unhappy. It is not given to

virtue further.
The .Reveue Archeologique states that interesting
discoveries are still being made at Al se-Saint-
Rein; (Ccte-d'Or), and that more than 200 coins have been
already sent from that place to the Emperor. All have
been found in the part of the entrenchments close to
Gresigny. The majority of those coins are Gaulle, the
others Roman—and all anterior to the year 57, a strong
proof of the identity of the place with the ancient Alesia.
A number of weapons, as well as the complete armour of
a Gaelic horseman, buried with his horse, having been
placed in the Museum at Alise.
A lady has just died at Agen, at the advzneed
age of 106. Her maiden name was Marie de

Galaup ; she was twice married, and enjoyed the lull exer-
cise of her mental faculties until a few months before her
death. In 1814, at the age of 57, she bought an annuity of
2,400 fr. per annum for a sum of 24,C00fr. As that capital,
at 5 per cent, simple interest, would have amounted at the
end of 40 years to 82,800 fr., while the annuity during the
same period amounted to 117,600 fr., the company which
agreed to pay the money lost 34,800 fr. by the bargain.

Mr. Durham Weir, of Boghead, has caught, for
the fifth successive season, in tho toolhouse of his
garden, at hi:: seat in Linlithgowslaire, a male red fronted
or chimney swallow. During the five years it (with its
partner) reared in the same nest between thirty and forty
young. The bird was identified by a piece of gut which
was attached to its logs on the occasion of its first capture
in 1859. 'Scotsman,
TIT FOR TAT, OR A ROWLAND FOR AN OLIVER.
—"The Devil's Doad, minister," said two fellows
scoffingly to an old Scotch clergyman. "Aye, to I heard,"
repli©d the assailed, "and I'm was for ye, /tea infs,*
fatherless bairns'',

'ERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
Eve o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Tamworth and Harrington—Bridge Road—Wake-
field Ings Road—Mistley Thorp Walton Railway—Fries-
tone Proclamation, Worcester, Dean Forest, and Monmouth
Railway—Newhaven Harbour and Ouse Lower Navigation
—Madras Irrigation and Canal Company—Bala and Dal-
gaily Railway—Midland Railway (Bristol lines)—Midland
Railway (new lines)—Glasgow and South Western Rail-
way (additional powers)—Duke of Cleveland and Earl of
Sandwich's Estate—Duke of Norfolk Estate—and Leacon-
field Estate bills were read a third time and passed.
POLAND.

Earl RUSSELL said, as he had just learned by tele-
graph that the reply of the Russian Government to the de-
spatch of the three Powers would not be sent off until the
14th or 15th, and, consequently, could not reach her
Majesty's Government until it was too late for
for him to make a statement, he would on Monday next, in
answer to his friend Earl Grey, enter into an explanation
of the state of the negotiations with respect to Poland. In
the meantime he begged to lay upon the table a copy of the
despatch containing the six points.
OUR RELATIONS WITH JAPAN.

The Earl of CARNARVON moved for copies of any
instructions given by her Majesty's Government to her
Majesty's diplomatic servants in Japan or to the officers in
command of her Majesty's land or naval forces, to make
demands upon the Government of Japan, with the alter-
native of immediate hostilities on the rejection of such
demands. The noble earl referred at some length to the
events that had brought about the present unfortunate state
of affairs, and said he considered the breaking out of hos-
tilities in that distant part of the world a circumstance of the
gravest importance, and he should be glad to hear an ex-
planation from the noble earl opposite of certain matters
which it appeared were about to involve min war with Japan.
He did not think the differences as they had come to his know-
ledge were sufficient to justify such a step, and he advised
the Government before they committed the country to a
long and costly war to reconsider the determination
they had arrived at. Before they decided for war
he hoped they would not overlook the immense
difficulty and expense of sending out troops ; and if it should
be decided to carry on hostilities by a combined expedition
he must say he for one greatly diapproved of such a pro-
ceeding, because combined expeditions only engendered
jealousy, distrust, and irritation.
Earl RUSSELL said he thought it unnecessary to enter
into defence of the treaties with Japan. because he thought
hey had been assented to and approved of by everybody.
When he came into office, he found that assasinations had
been committed, and) he felt it his duty to do his best for
the protection of British subjects. Mr. Oliver was one of the
gentlemen who had been severely wounded in the hand,
and he had attended with a deputation at the Foreign-office,
and given an account of some very cruel murders that had
been committed by the Japanese upon British residents,
especially that of Mr. Riehardaon, It oecurred to him that
it was his duty to ask for reparation. (Hear.) His noble
friend had alluded to the fact that certain of the Japanese
were opposed to the residence of British subjects amongst
them ; but was that circumstance to be taken as a jus-
tification of the barbarous murders that had taken place
upon the highway ? (Hear.) He felt bound to demand
redress—(hear)—but it was not the fact that he had caused
war to be declared. He had demanded pecuniary repara-
tion for the families of the deceased, and no more. The
instructions he had sent out he was in daily expectation of
receiving the answer to them. The demands made were
upon the Government of the Tycoon, which was after all
the de facto Government of Japan—but no demand had
been made for the punishment of the daimios, or other
persons implicated, though it was clear they were well
known to the Japanese Government. The person sought
to be held pecuniarily liable was the daimio who was
known to be sheltering the murderers—and the last ra.
MMUS were that the demands of the British Govern-
ment were about to be complied with. As soon as
the actuol reply had been received he would lay the whole
despatches upon the table. The trade with the Japanese
was large, valuable, and increasing, and it was not true
that the general body of the people were prejudiced against
the trade. Comments had been made upon the exit
both to Japan and China ; but with respect to the latter, he
believed no expedition had ever better answered its purpose
—(hear)—and he hoped the former would succeed as well.
The policy pursued in China had led to the most friendly
relations between the British and Chinese Governments,
and to the opening up of a most profitable trade with a na
tion of 400,000,000 of inhabitants. He could not but cons

der that as both a just and successful policy—(hear, hear)
—and he trusted the course adopted with regard to Japan
would be equally beneficial.
Earl GREY regretted that the noble earl had declined

to produce the despatches asked for. He admitted it was
the duty of a Government to stand up for the protection of
British subjects where a treaty of trade had been entered
into, but it should be remembered, upon the testimony of
Sir Rutherford Alcock himself, that that treaty had not
been voluntarily entered into by the Japanese, but had been
forced upon them against their wishes and inclinations.
The noble earl then proceeded to show that the English had
been guilty of gross injuries and insults to the Japanese,
and to show the animus of the British towards the natives,
mentioned the case of an Englishman who had shot a na-
tive policeman in the execution of his duty. The English-
man had been prosecuted in the Consular Court, but on
conviction was only sentenced to a ridiculously dispropor-
tionate fine, which was Immediately subscribed amongst
the English, and the man set at liberty. Further than that,
he had proceeded against the British consul for some defect
in the judgment, and had actually recovered damages. Such
a course of conduct naturally irritated the natives more and
more against the foreign settlers, and while the present
spirit of hostility remained unpacified, it was hopeless to ex-
pect to succeed in making commercial treaties. But were
coercive measures likely to allay that spirit of irritation ?
(Hear, hear.) If coercive measures were to be adopted they
would have to be upon a very extensive scale, and it had

been stated already that the force at present in Japan was
useless without large reinforcements from India. The
natives had been purchasing large quantities of European
firearms and ammunition, and after a long, bloody, and ex-

pensive war (the last war with China cost £8,000,000) what
would be the result ? Should we annex Japan and hold it 1

Certainly not; it was not in our power. What was the
alternative ? Another treaty, not worth the paper it was
written upon any longer than it suited the orientals to ob-
serve its provisions. He confessed he had heard with asto-
nishment the speech of his noble friend (Earl Russell), who
in 1857 had made such eloquent orations upon the duty of
justice and humanity to the Chinese. (Hear.) With respect
to China itself he could not understand how the noble earl
could derive any consolation or satisfaction from the present
state of affairs in that country. (Hear.) As for Japan, all
he recommended was that the Government should treat the
Japanese with ordinary justice, and he suggested the esta-
blishment of a system of police, with proper tribunals at the
various ports, for the punishment of British subjects who
might be proved to have committed offences against the
natives. Let it be also impressed upon the British merchants
that they were not to make haste to be rich at the expense
of truth and justice to the natives, and then he believed the

resources of Japan might be developed for our advantage to
an extent not hitherto dreamed of. (Hear.)
The Duke of SOMERSET defended the treaty, which,
he said, had been obtained years ago, and acted upon by
several successive Governments. The Japanese, so far
from having the treaty forced upon them, had proposed
to our Government to modify its provisions, thereby clearly
acknowledging its legality. Besides, had they not sent am-

bassadors upon the subject of it to this country only last

year. As for telling merchants not to make haste to get

rich, what attention did the nbble earl think he would re-

ceive if he went and preached that doctrine down in the
City? (Hear.) And why, did the noble earl think that he

would get more attention in Japan ? As for hostilities,
every possible means had been taken to procure compensa-
tion without resorting to them ; and as the reparation de-
.

manded was clAefly due from a well known daimio who re-

sided upon an island a short distance from the mainland,
and carried on a large trade which we could easily intercept
or destroy, it was hoped that the claim would be satisfied
without the necessity for violent measures.
Lord WODEHOUSE also defended the policy of the
British Gov9rnment ; after which,

The Earl of CARNARVON withdrew his motion for
papers for the present.
BRITISH COLUMBIA BOUNDARIES BILL.

The bill was read a third time.
The Removal of Irish Poor, Marriages Registration (Ire-
land), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (St. Mary Magdalen's Hos-
pital), Sir Robert Hitchin's Charity, and Police and im-

provement (Scotland) Bills were read a second time.
The Colonial Lettlers Patent, Poor Law Board Continu-
ance, and Loan Societies Bills passed through committee.
Statute Law Revision, Public Works (Manufacturing
Districts), Thames Embankment (South Side), Militia Bal-
lots Suspension, and the Walmer Vesting Bills were read a
third time.
The lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS--Last; Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock,
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time :—Carmarthen
and Cardigan Railway (No. 1), Law Life Assurance Society,
and Sligo and Ballaghaderreen Junction Railway.
The following bills were read a second time :—Dublin
Metropolitan Railway and Finch Hatton's Estate.