The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATROICESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
I nEsIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CITAIRMAN—TIIO9 Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S.,
DErtrry-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.

_ _ ..... _
APPEAL.
he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal
The Committee of Management have toNsattai
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments -n the Coasts of Eng.and, Scotland, and Ireland.olth e
Society. nd other means, since its formation, is 12,8a0n0 _
tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, d
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion
nag also expended £67,. 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart cages, and Bo at-h on ses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful "se of
the n
ge-eruus support which they have received from the
Pritiali public during the past few years, a support which
has enab ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
o* 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom
Deeply sensib e, however, of the great responsibility that
res s on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h can only be effected by a large and pc, manent
annual Income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid teem in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions :

£ s. d
annual 50 0 0
_
Mrs. G. .. .• .. annual 5 0 0
Campbell, the Hon.
ITer Majesty.
.. annual 1 1 0
Clerk, Colonel, K.A. ••
Bankers
Currie,•..annual 10 0 0
..
Coutts and Co. Messrs.,
the Queen .. •. ..
.. 4th don.lo 0 0
Rrie, Lord Wm.,blef •
A , K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
ls'sq.,
sir ::. :: . don. 10 10 0
Panshawe, Vice-Admira
• .• •• ••
PenVelek, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and 'Fran-
-250 0 0
sporting, Carriage • • • • _ don. 3 0 0
IT arvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs.
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • • • don d0n.15 15 0
.. 7th lO 0 0
Moore, Rey. G. B. • • •. .. don. Simi
• 3 0 0
. annual 2 0 0
Smite sirs. George, Greenwich _ • • • •
Stirlin, Col. Sir Anthony, Ii.C.H. • •
59. Strand; N•I
Thoni:',,L d Weston-super -Mar-,
4-. colle.ctedby her 1
DonationYs and d'Eresby,
f_2u
LadyNhipa y•
• ' • • • • • • 6 16 0
Willoughb e• : Lord .. • • • • annual 5 0 0
jived by the Bankers of filo Inetitn.tie , 5
)soriptionsw.illube tiheassnrkils:afies-
Co.,
and 16, S
Percival and Co, 76 Lombard-street, Mesers. Coutts and
amens-stye L,' 1' oe6daorn.: by a 1 the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the 1? •ied&m• ,dor, ; and by the Secretary
Elichszd Lewis, Esc,:mat he—(slfiet of the kastitiatic42,.p,
Jan-street, 44141,43:L0nd0n, WAL ' -
' s Berries, Farouhar. Co.,.
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Yokohama is a considerable town of 80,000 inhabitants.
The Japanese houses are rarely more than one storey, and
most consist of two rooms, a front and a back. Built of
bamboo and mud, and rarely of stone, they are always
painted nicely outside, or varnished, and generally kept very
clean. All ornamentation is eschewed except on tha roof,
which is generally edged with chequered tiles. Wherever
it can be afforded a small garden, with dwarfed trees, is sure
to be in good condition ; and almost in every room you see
vases with flowers or dwarfed trees growing in them.
The floors are carpeted with a very even kind of matting,
laid in strips a yard wide—the edges bound in black, so
as to make an agreeable " parqueterie," and it is always
kept very clean, even by the poorest classes. They take off
their shoes before entering a house, leaving them outside
the entrance, and look as jealous at your boots when you
enter as any English lady could, proud of a new drawing-
room carpet. They never sit on chairs or stools, but squat
down on the floor with their feet underneath, so that they
appear to sit on their heels. And as you pass through the
street thus you see them round a sort of square trough in
the front room, in which there is always charcoal burning.
They are either working or eating, or smoking a very fra-
grant tobacco out of a small bowled pipe, enjoying it im-
mensely, and puffing it out slowly through the nostrils.
Women, even girls, smoke as much ar, the men, and with
equal pleasure—or they are chattering with great earnest-
ness and volubility in a language much sotter and more
liquid, less twanging and more harmonious,than the Chinese;
or ►they are singing, accompanying themselves on an instru-
ment like the banjo, which they play with great dexterity.
They enjoy their own music immensely, and turn up their
eyes, and beat time and look wisely critical, all in the most
approved style. I cannot see much, or rather hear much
beauty in their music, though some of the airs are plaintive ;
but, on the other hand, they can see none in ours, and say
it is too loud, and fit only for deaf people. Or they are
washing themselves without any reservation, and apparently
qu to unconscious of any harm therein. Indeed in the baths,
which they frequent very often, the women are always
washed all over by men, smiling in the most innocent man-
ner. This almost total disregard of mooesty, as we should
say, is oue of the most curious features in Japan, and does
not appear to lead to any licentiousness. Or they are busy
at their toilette, which is soon accomplished, all but the
hair.

A Japanese lady appears to spend all her talent on her
head. Her hair is black, glossy, thick and long, and is
done up in a most imposing superstructure with the aid of
cushions, false hair, combs, and daggers or cross bars of
tortoise shell. I cannot describe it exactly, but there ap-
pears to be this plan :—Brushed back in two lateral and one
central mass from the forehead, it meets with the back hair
brushed straight up, and the consequence is a series of rolls
intertwined with gold thread and silk stuff, and curiously
fastened up with coral-headed pins, gilt combs, and tortoise
shell bars. It really has a very pretty effect. The married
ladies further adorn themselves by pulling out their eye-
brows and blackening their teeth, though I believe the ori-
gin of this was with the husbands, who, always free them-
selves, wished to make their wives unattractive to others.
Any infidelity is punished by death; but before marriage
women are perfectly free. Their faces, when they don't
powder themselves—which they are very fond of doing, and
painting their lips with red—are very pretty when you are
become a little accustomed to the genuine Mongolian type.
Their figures aro absolute perfection, and their hands and
feet smaller and better shaped than any I ever saw in Eu-
rope. This is owing to their dress, which is never tight ;
and to their never wearing boots, but only straw sandals,
or a kind of patten in wet weather.
The dress of men and women is almost the same. A long
" knee-mo-no," descending to the ancles in men, and to the
ground with women, though tucked up any height in walk-
ing out, is like a nightgown open in front right down,
folded over the breast, and secured at the waist by a girdle.
The sleeves aro very large, and hang down nearly to the
knee. In addition, the women have a long piece of figured
silk, which they wind twice or thrice round the waist, and
then hang up behind so as to droop in a kind of rectangular
festoon down to the back of the knees. Colours are generally
sombre, and as well as the patterns, which are commonly
checks, are regulated by the laws for the different classes.
No cap is worn, but the coolie class generally bind round the
head a piece of coarse stuff. The Yakonins wear a closer
kind of kee-mo-no, and over this a kind of mantle,
generally of gauze or crape, and marked with the
devices of the Damio, to whom they belong, They
wear various shaped hats, and always carry two
swords at the left side, one longer than the other, and
both generally in admirable working order. You must keep
an eye on these two •sworded men. If they draw, you
must shoot the cur le champ, for there is a law (originally
doubtless with a humane object) that if they draw their
sword they must use it, otherwise they are either decapi-
tated, or eonimit hari-kari, that is, slit up their bowels.
diet, however,
The Japanese oat like the Chinese with chop-sticks, and
appear to live chiefly on rice and fish. With this simple
If you enter a house, they rise up
jug, b y (may you be happy).
not tail '.. or fine men, appear able to endure much fatigue,
they have very robust frames,
VOtrci'aw deference
ecr eunpc of saying, " 0-hoo-io," and do the same when you leave, say-
They generally
Si -Morr-o"
cburientgomyos,u
andsom epthreianegutton and make a deep salaam,
ftoteyao.ur European
customs,
will then take a sweetmeat between her fingers, and you
will be expected to open your month, swallow it, look as if
you liked it, and say "a
-ring-a-to" (thank you), to which
she will bow and say " Do-it-ashinaafti" (equivalent to don't
mention it). Afterwards, she \lll'and t ight a pipe, rens-
fort ing it from her lips to yours, will watch you smoke it,
and then give you some more tea. They are exceedingly
polite, and are much gratified if
you are equally so. T ney
are very curious, and examine everything about you—but-
tons, cloth, watch, knife, pipe, &c.---with various exclama-
tions of astonishment, almost invariably asking how much
you gave for this or that.
I think them a most intelligent and interesting people.
All classes appear to be able to read and write, and to calcu-
late, which is more than can be said of us at home.

Four hundred and seventy emigrants left Queens.
town on Tuesday for Queensland, on board the Fiery Star
one of the Black Ball line, specially chartered by the En
gration Association. Just before the vessel sailed three
respectable looking men, said to be from Manchester, were
arested on warrants granted by the magistrates of that city
for having forged certain documents by which they ob•
tained cheap passages. Each of them lead a wife and a
large quantity of luggage with him.