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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1863,

(No, 3.)
FISHMONGERS' FORE-STALL-AGE OF
SEA-STRAND—BRIDGE NAVIGATION,
On H. B's 1536 deed—' Wat Tyler and'Ric. rx.'s Kentish
word of faith-treaty—' You've lost your Leader ; as your
Red-gloved' King I'll be your leader, and by Council-9
grant your wishes' of no tax without Poll-representation."
SOTICE TO QUIT, ON SALMON-RUN RIGHT.
If within seven days, the pile-driving as a Weir obstruc-
tion to the tide set be not removed, as militating in prin-
ciple against the embankment of the Thames—and its
Weir• clearance for Ova-pisiculture and consequent Salmon-
way to its WINDRUSII fork-font L'Bourton on the Water,
via Atkins Swell•bowl of Stove's E Cutsdean Font, the
Filth Commissioners of ,'-ewers having (by Ketly v. Caner
trespass, 12 J. I. £2OO fine) no clear water court.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

mands that our Government shall instruct the',
prince to arrest him, and hand him over to them.
In other words, these great feudatories, like those
of the middle ages, are independent within their
own territories. We should like to know under
these circumstances what are the chances of the
murderers of Mr. Richardson being given up. It is
abundantly clear that if our countrymen are to re-
main in Japan, this state of things cannot be
allowed to continue. They may be, as they have
been, the victims of the most frightful outrages,
without the prospect of a remedy. Two marines
posted at the door of the legation are butchered in
cold blood, and we are told by way of reparation
that their assassin has committed suicide. An Eng-
lish merchant is murdered on the highway in broad
daylight, and after a delay of five weeks we are told
in effect that it depends upon the pleasure of the
feudal chief in whose service the murderers are,
whether or not theyshall be given up. We repeat
that the present state of things cannot be suffered
to continue. Either the Government of Japan must
be made responsible for the acts of its subjects, or
Englishmen must cease to reside in a country where
every crime may be perpetrated with impunity.

TimEs.—There is a favourite piece of sentimen-
talism which says that " God made the country and
man made the town." Of course, it is both an actual
untruth and a moral untruth ; and the sentiment
simply expresses an Englishman's intense preference
for the country. But anybody to compare London
with another metropolis might suppose that we
brought all our country notions with us when we
first migrated to this metropolis, and that every
citizen's wife sits with her rural teraphim under
her sofa cushions. Where time and space are more
precious than anywhere else in the world, and
where fortunes turn on the arrival a few minutes
earlier or later at a given point, we have as many
zigzags and detours, and valleys, and narrow lanes,
and choked-up crossingo, as in a parish occupied by
fiv.? farmers and fifty labourers in Cumberland or
Devon. That lane which leads from nowhere to
nowhere, and which answers no purpose but
to take you out of your way, to be found in
most country parishes, is a prevailing feature in
the map of this metropolis. You may go straight
enough in many useless directions, but if you really
want to go from one point to another, you have an
agreeable choice of routes, all equally discursive.
There is, it is true, " the City direct," but the
actual value of that route, when time is an object,
may be known from the feet that two large and
prosperous companies expect to realise immense
profits by taking passengers from Pimlico to the
City by a circuit through Chelsea, across the river,
through Battersea-fields, across the river again,
through Kensington, Bayswater, Paddin gton, Mary-
lebone, Euston-square, King's-cross, ClerkenweLl,
and Farringdon-street, to fall into the old line at
Ludgate-hill. So true is the country saying that
the shortest way is often the longest one. How-
-1 ever, we are now about to have a really direct line
from Westminster to the City, along the river side.
We fought for it hard, for even at the last moment
the principal traffic of the largest city in the world
was on the vLry nick of being once more stopped
and diverted, lest one or two gentlemen at their
breakfast should now and then see over their gar-
den walls the hat of an omnibus passenger. There
is really to be it carriage-way from Westminster to
Blackfriars. But now presents itself the sweet
rural question, " Why should this route not stop
here ?" What can a man want better than to be
put down by the river side, at the foot- of a beauti-
ful bridge, or, if he does want to go further, are
there not Ludgate-hill and Thames-street ? Are
there not the river steamers, and Paul's-wharf, and
London-bridge ? That is the very question that
was asked on Monday
night in the House of Com-
mons. There really is nothing to which Parlia-
ment and the metropolis are more committed than
a good thoroughfare from Westminster to the City,
and the principal part of this, along the Thames
Embankment, is already authorised and commenced;
3et there were a dozen objections to the formation
of the link necessary to complete the chain. Mr.
Locke thought the City ought to make the street
and pay for it. Mr. Walpole thought the house
ought to do nothing, unless it had the money in
hand. Mr. Doulton wanted to wait till all the
engineers were agreed, and the Metropolitan Board
thoroughly satisfied. The Lord Mayor thought the
City ought to have the job. Mr. IVilliams thought
they had better do the Surrey-side Embankment
first. Mr. Crawford preferred the old fashion of
sailing through the City by alternate tacks. Lord
Fermoy thought the City ought to pay. indeed,
had not Lord Palmerston risen to remind the house
that this was only the first reading, there would pro-
bably have been a hundred more objections. .But
never was there more occasion for the rule of "one
thing at once." If all the intended or desired im-
provements are to wait till they can all go on toge-
ther, we shall have the entire metropolis in a muddle
of unfinished operations for twenty years, and per-
haps run out our funds. When Talleyrand was
asked how he managed to get through so much
work, and amuse himself too, he said it was by
doing one thing at a time. But the English, when
they do begin to advance, are always choking up
the passage. It is the penalty they pay for their
long delays and their Saxon unreadiness. In any
French town, you may see early in the evening se-
veral hundred people standing by twos and threes,
in a column, for an hour or two hours, w,,iting for
the order to advance. They are the queue who al,
half•past seven will steadily march onwards, and
take possession of the parterre or the gallery in the
theatre. By submitting to enter one at a time
they avoid all chance of injury to themsels -s and
their clothes; and though the prepare, ion is
tedious the actual entrance is soon done. As
we have been waiting for some of our metro:01B an
improvements several centuries, it is not for us to
smile at a poor fellow standing two hours in the
street to secure a front place at the play. But,
now that our performance is really begun, please
let us enter one at once. Senfores priores. The
Northern Embankment is older than the Southern ;
and the Northern will be comparatively useless if
it is not supplemented by the new street, which
ought to he in progress at the same time. This is a
boon to the whole metropolis, always excepting our
own little share of discomforts, and the whole metro-
polis must pay for it. Everybody in business—
that is, everybody with anything to do—must go
into the City sometimes, or, at least, have some in-
terest in the visits of others ; and it is everybody's
concern that valuable time shall not be wasted in
narrow, winding, crowded thoroughfares. We have,
too, we hope, a pardonable jealousy for the dignity
of a metropolis which at present is the butt of many
a continental jest. "'Phis is the house that Jack
built," and reflects very little credit on Jack's taste
or engineering skill. The new street, after all,
won't cost more than one of our new ironsides, and
is much more certain to be wanted.

Action of trespass will have force on the first 500 marks
fine Pat. IS, Ed. 1. m. 15' in Exchequer Court against the
civil law § papal Fishmongers' Walworth-PALL-guild
assumption on Tyler's (murder, A.D. 1381—to sell and exa-
mine Royal monkfish, Wales, sturgeon, mer)maid &e., out-
side the stalls of City Stocksmarket, now Mansion-hs. scite
under Crown-rota Escheat in O.S. data, 12 H. 7, 2 Car. I,
1699 by 1832-42-3 Act, in Canada's Quebec Fish'ry Statute,
by reason of 29th Nov., 1827, Brazil Sovereignty Cresar-
set seizin of Fishmonger's 1536-deed-grant by Henry
VIII., on the total abolition of Pope and Holy Alliance of
Kings, independent of being Henry 7th and Bth's life-
executor, yet in Henry Bth's Corporation ' sole' capacity.
:' ' . (Signed) CHARLES 6 A CKERLEY, J. P.
Born, Montague *Chamberlayne, of Ric. Ws brother
J. Holland's 3ty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4, N.. 54 in Planta-
genestella O.S. Evesham's—pollen-food fish trust 14 J. 1,
exemplified 1774-1836 as—its late Ist peeral Prior.

PETER BASQUET, England's Carib incl. Chief, of 1842-3, as
Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 22 yrs no pay.
" In ANSPACII River•-set-font as of the Ratisbon Ca3sar
penny Ist tax by Confederate-Zollverein of Prussia's sole'
resign on Wales'-christening at Windsor Castle—to Ame-
rica's Indian Germanicus -tax"—therein set, on Bulo, Pal-
merston, Labouchere's 2nd March, 1811, Toll-Customs
'Bei Rhine-land'sch Ruthe' Mesh-meter Convention.

§ Neither the holding over 1862 office of CUBITT on
the Wat Tyler fi protest tax as Warden of ' Mark under
Walworth's Pall-cloak token-keys—' Sub accipe annulum'
in Fisherman's ring of yr. 1381, or their Vintner's Portugal-
wine-landing agent Rose, M.P. for Southampton, on Tower
Ordnance-office shift, for King John's illegal life-right (8d
per ton on wine) cancelled in ' 1825—can be admitted, as
'lawful ordinances' on their Merman & Mermaid-armorial
craft-mystery with 5.6 W. 4, c. 63, the State-meter Act,
for Leet Crt. Jurats Ova Fishery-park plant.
London-notice, February 11, 1863.

POST.—On the night of the 26th of July last an
attempt was made by one or more assassins to enter
the building occupied by the British Legation at
Jeddo. Several hundreds of Japanese troops were
posted round the house, and it was their duty to de •
fend it against intruders. Through these troops, how-
ever, the assassins made their way into the build-
ing occupied by Col. Neale and the other mem-
bers of the legation. A couple of marines, who
were posted as sentinels at the door, were mur-
dered. But, fortunately the alarm had been given
by one of those victims of Oriental perti ly, and
there was no further bloodshed. The j ipanese
officials expressed their profound regret al the oc-
currence ; but they stated that only one person
had been concerned in it, and that he had coo, mitted
suicide. It is remarkable that the outrage took
place on the anniversary of that which the year be-
fore was made upon the legation, when some of its
members were seriously wounded. Since the last
attack on the British Legation another savage on-
slaught has been made on the public highway, and
in the open daylight, upon a party of unoffending
Europeans. On the 14th of September three Eng-
lish gentlemen, accompanied by an English lady,
while riding out in the neighbourhood of the capi-
tal, met one of the great nobles, or dai,nios, of
Japan, accompanied by a numerous escort, without
which, it appears, they never travel abroad. As
the English party approached, the foremost of the
daimio 's retainers called upon them to stand aside.
They were immediately afterwards attecked in the
most savage manner. One of the party, Mr.
Richardson, was cut down and murdered on the
spot. Both the other gentlemen, although severely
wounded, escaped with their lives, and the lady who
accompanied them seemed to have owed her life to
the swiftness of her horse. The survivors all declared
that neither by word nor gesture did they give
the slightest provocation to the bloodthirsty mis-
creants who assailed them in this unexpected man-
ner. It is not probable indeed that, without any
object whatever, they should have risked an en-
counter with several hundred armed men. The
news of this fresh outrage, of course, created im-
mense excitement and indignation among the Euro-
pean residents in Japan. It was even proposed
that, as the Government either could or would do
nothing to put down such violence, the Europeans
should take the law into their own hands. It
was ascertained that, on the second day after the
occurrence in question, the daimio in whose pre-
sence and by whose retainers Mr. Richardson had
been murdered was to pass along the same road
where the encounter took place, and it was pro-
posed that he should be seized and detained a
prisoner until full reparation should be made. The
plan was a bold one, and with the marines and
sailors at the disposal of the different Powers it
might easily have been executed. But the attempt
would certainly have led to bloodshed, and in all
probability to war, and it was finally and wisely
decided it should not be made. The daimio and his
fierce retainers were allowed to pass on their way
unmolested, and recourse was had to the proper
quarter,
namely, the authorities at Jeddo. But
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now learn that it is very doubtful whether they
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interfere in the matter. After a delay of seve-
ral weeks, the Japanese Minister, in a despatch to
Colonel Neale, dated the 21st October, states that
Although our Government examines the crime,
and inflicts the punishment on the criminal,
yet when the retainer of any daimio commits
a crime, the old established law of the country de-