The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

JAPAN.

The intelligence from Japan leads to the conclu-
sion that however bad foreign relations with that
country may be, they are not so bad as has been
represented. The British Minister at Yokohama
remonstrated with the Tycoon's Government at the
obstructions placad upon the transit of produce from
the country. The Japanese authorities replied that
no such obstructions existed, but that a combination
of native merchants had arranged that produce
should only come to market in driblets, and that
these merchants fabricated the story about Govern-
ment obstructions to suit their own ends. In a situa-

tion of alarm foreign merchants naturally seek to
realise their imports and to invest in exports, so as
to restrict their liabilities. This natural impulse
the Japanese merchants have macaged to excite by
the extravagant stories lately current.
Then the massacre of the native merchants at
Nagasaki, referred to in last report, is quite untrue.
Still matters are in a bad state. The Mikado, and
the leading hostile Daimios have undoubtedly corn-
bined to expel foreigners if they can. The Tycoon
is powerless, and is temporising—seeking to keep
the treaty if he may. Foreigners are confined to
the settlements of Yokohama and Nagasaki. A
French officer has been assassinated wantonly at a
very short distance from the former place. Produce
is prevented from coming to Nagasaki by the
Daimios, and a lege body of their followers are in
that town threatening the native merchants. A
rumour prevails that a civil war has commenced,
but the accounts cannot be relied on. Admiral
Kuper is wisely awaiting the arrival of land troops,
and Satsuma is preparing to repel another attack.

The Loss of Fishing-Boats on the East Coast,

GREAT YARMOUTH, Dec. 12.
To-day the crew of the steam tug Volunteer, five
n number, were brought into Great Yarmouth by

the smack Eliza. The tug, which belonged to Mr.

S. J. Fill, left the harbour on Thursday with three
other steamers, for the purpose of cruising in the
German Ocean and obtaining intelligence of the
missing boats. The weather was exceedingly bois-
terous, and the sea ran fearfully high. After cruis-
ing about 20 hours, at a distance of from 60 to 70
miles off land, without falling in with any of the
missing smacks, it was found that the Volunteer
had sprung a leak and was in a sinking state. The
crew at once took to the pumps, but it was with the
utmost difficulty that, in the heaNy sea, the steamer
could be kept afloat. About 5 a.m. yesterday, see•

ing a light ahead, they made for it, and came up
with the smack Eliza, of Great Yarmouth. The tug
was then on the point of foundering. The crew of
the Volunteer got out a boat, but it was instantly
swamped. They then ran their vessel alongside of
the Eliza, and, at great risk to themselves and to
the smack, they jumped on board the latter and
were saved. Toe Volunteer, which was valued at
£1,600, and had been recently fitted with new
boilers and thoroughly repaired at an expense of
£6OO, soon afterwards disappeared. She was unin-
sured. It appears that the total number of smacks
belinging to Yarmouth, and still unaccounted for,
has been reduced to-day to 11, bat little hope is en-
tertained that these boats or their crews will ever
again be heard of. Each smack, with nets and fish
tog gear, cost from £6OO to £7OO, while the
ds averana gO.
crew carried by each ranges from six to drownedseven
is
worst
already known to exceed 30, and, should
the
to some-
fearsc be realised with regard to the lliesdmacks still
missing, the total deaths will be
where about 100. It is computed ar
that about 20
with the greater portion of
smacks have been lost ; disastrous gaies ; and,
late disastrOUß ga'eb; and,
as may be supposed, the utm
their crews during the
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THE INTERIOR •,' - 2
as described
h n
recent book of Travel.-4 had
fancied aanonymous writer) that nothing could
did saloons of the Hotel de Ville, but when
surpass the splendid
(says I in
ted with those of theTuileries
centres they are nothingelegance.
The of the furniture, the richness of the cl
The green and
crimson velvets and satins, the
crimsonvariegated brocades
which festoon the windows of each successive
saloon, the
e
magnificence of the chandeliers and mirrors, th beautyof
marbles the bronzes, of the Florentine tables, and of the arblesand
n
cabinets, and the splendour of the Gobeli
and
palace, a
tapestries—all combine to render this now fur-
nished, the beau ideal of an imperial home • ' and Is
can easily
imagine that when the many thousand dazzlinglights are
reflected from the mirrored walls the richly dressed forms
and bright eyes who crowd these ov n
asta apartments
on
the oc-
casion of an imperial ball, a sight will be presented of which
even an Arabian poet could scarcely dream. I remember,
gg
when traversing those o us rooms, I was called by the
attendant towards the centrere° balcony which overlooks the
gardens, from which there is a vista of wonderful splendour
and beauty, extending from the palace and its gardens
.
across the Place do la Concorde, and along the Chtunapd..
Elystles, to the Arc de Triomphe, with all
thandulY animated
juncts of moving life which throng that lovelyßciiadere balcony
scene. But when my foot reached
this: that made me alto-
recollections swept athwart my
I in,:rmr'bered, when first in
gether forget the landscape. --- rr ouisx.Vlll. showing
Paris, I had seen the portly form of ..-,
himself to his subjects on
the
everyherospot where I then stood.
of Marengo and Aus-
I recollected that there,
t"ed
' th
to the deafcninc; cries of "Vivo
terlPz had frequently li,forcnorles
X.
and Louis Philippe
l'Empereur"—that
theretiattering salutations of "Vivo le
had each received
thilefore the last named king, when flee-
Itoi," and that evenni:4;
13 of an infuriated mob, had reached
ing from the th.rreatnely
the cries of " Vive la Republique"
the road
to Is'
aabello'wed. Neither could I forget that the
had been thence
the nui hbania • Levee room
bieh then occupied _ g 6
throne yv
had been bat a few years ago borne away in triumph and
t erned amid the demoniacal exclamations of a maddened
,
populace.