The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

FBA 2

PA N.

The lihmileur of yesterday published the follow-
ing correspondence from Jeddo, dated September

22, 1859 :
"The exchange of the ratifications of the treaty concluded
between France and Japan on the 9th October, 1858, took
place to-day with great solemnity at the Palace of the Minis-
ters of Foreign Affairs. The Consul General of France in
Japan, M. du Chesne de Bellecourt, proceeded thither on
horseback, accompanied by the Commander and Staff of the
Imperial screw corvette Duchayla. The treaty bearing the
ratification of the Emperor was carried by sailors on a sort
of stage adorned by French flags, and escorted by a guard
of honour of 50 armed sailors. The members of the mis-
sion followed in palanquins.
"After two hours' march through this immense capital,
in the midst of an innumerable multitude attracted by so
novel a sight, the procession entered the official enceinte of
the city, a sort of fortress to which usually only the feuda-
tory Princes of the empire, their families, and the officers of
the Court are admitted. M. de Bellecourt and his suite on
reaching the Palace of Foreign Affairs, situate near the
third inner enclosure which surrounds the Imperial Palace,
were received with great ceremony by the First Ministers
of the tai-coun of Japan.
The exchange of the ratifications and examination of
the treaties lasted for nearly two hours. In the presence
of the Ministers the French and Japanese Plenipotentia-
ries compared them. The Abbe Girard, the Superior and
Apostolic pro-Vicar of the mission to Japan, who provision-
ally acts as interpreter of the Japan language—in which he
is well versed—for the French Consulate, compared the
Japanese text with the French. Everything having been
found regular, the treaty which bears the ratification of
his Imperial Majesty was handed over to the Japanese
Ministers, and that bearing the ratification of the Emperor
of Japan was handed to M. de Bellecourt, after having been
placed in a double box of black japan of the most exquisite
workmanship.
" On this occasion the Abbe Girard was in full canonicals.
Thus Providence reserved to the glorious reign of the Em-
peror Napoleon 111., and to exclusive French action, the
solemn re-installation on the Japanese soil of that religion
of which the ministers; apostles, and adherents were
hitherto doomed by the laws of the country to certain death.
It is not secretly and timidly that the Catholic religion re-
turns to this land which has seen so many martyrs ; it is in
the very midst of the Government itself that it publicly
shows itself, though still within certain limits, in virtue of
a right consecrated by the diplomacy of a Sovereign whose
name is also in those distant lands a veritable symbol of

power.
"As the ceremony concluded at the palace of the Japan-
ese Palace of Foreign Affairs, the screw corvette which
brought the Consul-General of the Emperor to Japan
saluted the French flag, hoisted for the first time on the
habitation which that agent occupies on an elevation, which
' commands a view of nearly the whole Bay of Jeddo The
Russian frigateAskolde and the corvette of her Britannic
Majesty the Highflyer, in the roads, courteously joined in
the solemnity by hoisting colours and saluting the French
flag installed at Jeddo with 21 guns."

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will and two codicils of the Right Hon. Lord
Patrick James Herbert Crichton Stuart, commonly
called Lord James Stuart, M.P. for Ayrshire, and
Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Bute, late of
Whitehall-place, .were proved in London on the
12th of December, by Lieutenant-Colonel James
Frederick Dudley Crichton Stuart, M.P., his son,
the sole executor. The personalty in the United
Kingdom was sworn under £45,000. To his
daughter he has bequeathed £lO,OOO, and £6OO a
year ; to his younger £20,000, and has left him the
gold watch he usually wore. To his eldest son he
has left the residue of his property, real and per-
sonal. Lady Stuart has a provision under settle-
ment. Several of his relatives are named to whom
he wishes some article from his effects should be
selected by them as a mark of his regard, and that
Lady Stuart should receive a sum of £2OO, to be
laid out in charity at her discretion, and that she
will select a carriage for herself, and any furniture
she pleases.
The will and codicil of Sir Thomas Isaac
Horsley Curteis, Knight Bachelor of Great Britain,
were administered to in the London Court of Pro-
bate by a legatee, Mrs. Emily Curteis Rogers,
owing to the death of the sole executor, John
Brooke, Esq., of Berry Hall, Old Walsingham. He
has bequeathed his residence called the Villa Twy-
ford, near Foulsham, Norfolk, to the daughter of
his executor. He has left to a few friends some
small legacies. Bequeaths to his old servant
Henry Shorting his sword and wearing apparel,
and a sum of £lO. He gave particular directions
that his coffin should not be finally closed till he
had been dead eight days, having a great horror
of being buried alive, believing that such has often
occurred ; his armorial bearings and helmet of
knighthood to be engraved on a mural tablet •, also
directs that the old pictures of his grandfather
and grandmother Horsley, and the old
crayon portraits of himself and his deceased
sister, shall be taken out of the frames and burnt ;
but that the large pictures of himself and his sister
should be placed on the walls of the great chamber
at Berry Hall.
The will of the Rev. George Nicholas Dealtry,
M.A., Rector of Outwell, was -Droved in the London
Court of Probate by his son-in-law, John Fraser
Macqueen, Esq., barrister-at-law, the sole executor.
He wished to be buried by the side\ of his wife, in
the family vault in the chapel called Beaupre
Chapel, in the church of Outwell, and that a marble
tablet on the wall of the chapel should record his
death, corresponding with one there. He has left
liberal legacies to all his servants. The residue of
his property he has bequeathed to his son-in-law,
Mr. Macqueen. His freehold and other estates are
held under settlement. The will is dated the 25th
of January, 1859.—Illustrated News.
1c;

The Norfolk is announced from Melbourne with
68,054 oz. of golyl.—worth about L 272,000.
The dollars brought by the Mexican steamer
have been sold at 610. per oz., being an advance of
upon the price realised for those by the previous packet at
the beginning of last, month. Meanwhile, however, dol-
lars have been sold at 611 d. and 62d., owing to the pres•
-
sure of the demand on French account, which has now

TIIE

ceased.
All the leading Manchester houses in the City
and retail firms at the West-end have arranged to keep
holyday on Monday, the 26th, Christmas-day falling on a
Sunday.
At the Great Ship Company's meeting called for
yesterday, but afterwards proposed to be postponed to next
month, only a few shareholders were present, and an ad-
journment took place, no business having been transacted.
It is proposed to carry on the business of Messrs.
Calvert and Co. by a limited joint-stock association, to be
I called the London Brewery Company, with a nominal ca-
pital of £600,000 in shares of £25 each. Since the concern
has been conducted under the direction of inspectors the
profits have been at the rate of about £50,000 per annum.
It is therefore hoped that the greater part of th© unsecured
creditors will come into the arrangement. Their claims
are to be received for shares at the rate of 18s. in the pound,
and cash subscribers are to have a preferential interest at
the rate of 6 per cent.
THE HOLYHEAD TELEGRAPH TO LIVERPOOL.
—At the meeting of the Mersey Docks Board yesterday
(Thursday), it was elicited that men were at present em-
ployed in relaying the submarine cable between Port Lynas
and the Ormshead, which has been broken by the Royal
Charter, or in some other way. It was said that, owing to
the state of the weather, the men had not been able to touch
the cable, but the engineer expected it would be completed
in a few days, when the line of telegraph would be again
in operation.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon,
the 15th inst., the Hannah Moore, 1,130 tons, belonging
to Messrs. William Roberts and Co., of Liverpool, to sail
from Birkenhead for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l6
Os. 9d. per statute adult, to be ready for the reception of
passengers on such a day as the Commissioners may appoint
between the Ist and Bth of February. The ship is to be
furnished with Diblo's ventilating apparatus and Dr.
Normandy's fresh water distilling apparatus.
MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOlR.—Tilit body of
amateurs, under the direction of the most distinguished
amateur of the day—amateur, indeed, only in name, for he
does not yield, in talents and acquirements, to any of out
professionally-educated artists—commenced their fifth sea-
son with a concert at St. Martin's•hall last evening. These
concerts of Henry Leslie's choir have obtained a firm foot-
ing among the regular entertainments of the London sea-
, son ; and they deserve to hold it, for none of our musical
entertainments are of higher quality, or aro more condu-
cive to the progress of music in one of the most delightful
branches, the harmonious combinations of the human voice.
Last night St. Martin's-hall was crowded in every part,
and the performance was probably the finest that Mr.
Leslie and his choir have ever given.
DEATH FROM INHALING CHLOROFORM.—The
Newcastle chronicle states that Mrs. Jenkinson, daughter
of the late Sir William Gordon Cumming, Bart., of Altyre,
and daughter-in-law of the late Bishop of St. David's, was
last week on a visit to her relations at Cresswell Hall, and,
having been suffering from the toothache, rose early on
Friday morning to inhale the vapour of chloroform.
Later
in the morning the unfortunate lady was found a lifeless
corpse. Overcome by the vapour, she had either fallen or
reclined upon the bed, and the contents of the bottle which
had contained the chloroform were discovered to have been
spilled upon the pillow.
ATTEMPTED MURDER IN IRELAND.—A bailiff
named Reid, a Scotchman, in the rent office of the Earl of
Bosse, at Parsonstown, was tired at on Wednesday evening
about rix o'clock, when passing through tho dark walk of
Woodville House, about half a mile from the town.
escaped, hut his murder was clearly intended, since the
assassin was close to Reid when he fired, and Several slugs
wore lodged in the wall beside him.
A CONSCIENTIOUS JUROR.—At York assizes OR
Monday, on swearing the jury, one of the jurymen refused
to take the oath, on the ground that ho had conscientious
scruples. His Lordship (Mr. Justice Wightman)--" What
scruples ?" Juryman— I consider i‘t objectcontrart the Bible
in several places.' His Lordship--‘ Do you jto take
the oath ? " Juryman--" Yes, I do." His Lordship—
" Very well, then, you can leave the box ; but you must sit
there (pointing below it) and remain every day till the end
of the assizes. It would be very easy for any one, by
stating that he had conscientious scruples, to escape the
duty of a juryman altogether." The juryman accordingly
took the place assigned to him, amid considerable amuse-
ment in court.

TES.

A letter from New York, dated Nov. 30, says,—'
Friday next, the 2d of December, is appointed for
the execution of " old Brown" and his confederates
in the Virginia invasion. This ill-conceive the
d and
worse executed plan is then to be wound up by
deaths which properly close a tragedy,
public will retire to meditate upon the moral of an
invasion of a State by 16 white men and three ne-
groes, the capture of an arsenal by them in a town
of 2,000 inhabitants, and the uproar which they have
caused throughout the State ever since. Like the
and the
true Sbakspearian tragedy, the heavy business of the
piece has been properly and artistically interspersed
with lighter touches. If the old Puritan mad
stalked about in heroic garb, majestically donnas
the tragedy in an exceedingly captivating ways not-
withstanding his crimes, the Governor of the State
has equally filled up the interstices with comedy
of the most approved order. He has stirred up the
whole State of Virginia, from the eastern shore to
the base of the host western spur of the Allegha-
nies ; all are in motion towards Charlestown, the
place of confinement of the condemned, for the pur-
cution of the accused. Daily
pose of preventing a rescue and assuring the exe-
the volunteer corps that have offered their services
to do guard at the expense of the commonwealth.,
The Governor moves his militia about to and fro
lists are published of •
from the scene of action as necessity seems to re-
quire. They, on their side, are on the alert for a
hay-
every
hostile demonstration, even to the burning of
rick or the moaning of a cow. It may with truth be
said that this mad expedition of " old Brown" hat;
done more to expose the weakness and star fears or
the white population of the slaveholding s thsa '
all the tirades of the maddest abolitionists or the
assaults of the blackest of black Republicans
could have done by any possibility. When a whole!,
community rises simultaneously and puts itse ,y ~,T" j
under arms, when the minute-men are called out t-
ive of the j
the sound of an alarm bell and the Execut, ,
State are the foremost in leading them on,
when i;t11
the burning of a hay-rick can throw a county into :;'
convulsions, there must be some real danger at ~,
bottom to justify all these convulsive efforts foga . '
persons who are usually courageous. There muss
be a real feeling of insecurity, notwithstanding the
undoubted attachment of most slaves to their
masters. To say that there has been nothing all'
The
ing for such a demonstration is incorrect.
magnitude of the demonstration shows clearly 016
magnitude of the evil it is intended to rereedY:
When a whole community thus rises en malt, seeks
ana
takes arms in its hands, the danger which
to avert cannot be entirely imaginary. We at 3
distance may ridicule the demonstration, and que ll
a'
tion its necessity ; but nevertheless there must be
deep-seated cause of danger to so stir them I.!
There is every reason to believe that this is the
feeling in the South. With it we may anticipate,:
stormy time when Cclgress assembles next wee.l
The Southern members will come there fresh
theirvor_
the impressions caused by this outrage upon
rights and their property—the/North will go three
confident in the hope of triumph next year. it'
bitter'
contest which has already broken out with the
ness in the press must then be transferred to 110
floors of Congress. The first struggle will be
on the
election of Speaker. Before the Brown invasion re•
election of a Republican was thought to be lqiis
That party only want six of an actual majoritYA 0,.
anti-Lecompton Democrats and the southern ull,O
sition sympathise with them in their hostility 0_11;
Administration ; there was, therefore, almost aZie
tainty of an alliance. Indeed, the terms of it, bed
in substance arranged. The impression Pr°Lelbso
by the Brown invasion throughout the Soutneea..
outlived these calculations, and now it is e3Eesed,
ingly doubtful whether the House can be orgalli
4 „ggls
and whether there will not be again such a eif:Pwas
as we saw in 1855, when Governor Ball's(' by
elected, embittered now by the temper oceite. _ be
" old Brown." The Republicans still claiatiroes•
able to count an Opposition candidate in• übe a
they can do it on the first ballot there 31181 ,
long contest.—Times.
~ )(DT 01

• ---
LETTER FROM THE CONDEMNED u*'
—Dry
me RI
iaenvmd.
uvHee
r.
tyiLmg.
er Vai 1 I . BROWN. 5 1859'.
most kind and most welcome letter of the Bth inst• rea
and also for the kind counsels you give, together virti',o
.ateful for all the good feeling yen ~,,,,our
wren:
prayers on my behalf. Allow me here to say, netwit-9' 004
steadfast frier NOVfrieldi,----S°11:1
mg, " my soul is amongst lions," still I believe that ' fool
in every deed is with me." You. will not, therefertabt.
surprised when I tell you that lam " joyful in meriiiidg: ;
feel degraded by nay
tions," that I do not feel condemned of Him whule "do %
ment is just, nor of my own conscience. Nor .00.
spect of the gallows. I have not only been t., ~iat
imprisonment, my chain, °,filo`tigh .
utterly unworthy) permitted to " suffer affiiettooper"
charge I am)
God's people," but have also had a great he
rinZre•
tunitios for " preaching,- righteousness in the great s-whe.
gatioa." I trust it will not all be lost. The jailor (i 11„ been
most kind ; and notwithstanding he was one ef the gall'
and his family, and assistants, have %its' vest
of all who fought me, he is now abused for his ratbligi- sir*
by their ferocity." It may be
So far as my observation goes, none but bravo 1 heir
likely to be humane to a fallen foe. " Cowards pr?Zat we ,
courage done in Brost we
with tut little risk.
in.!tvirmit ITcobuelrds wo:iptc,eryi.,no.u,,,a.bo‘.iittha fdeiwic,,orneluy 1 thoe:ttairi:•,::,
clergymen among others. Christ, the grt ealrii:is'ai°l4-1
liberty as;ivell as of salvation, and who began. blilke froul
as foretold of him, by proclaiming it, saw fit to 111_ toe;
butme aheswhaorsdpuoft satueeetlhearfthier
my
yhandaucdai(r,i,etdh!t for
(11 of tint
awl saldifl.'
Spirit "), and I pray God to miss a
a faithfulabut too
wherever he may send me, not less on the sell'
when surrounded by my warmest sympathisers.t for.,,ttell
My dear old friend, I do assure you 1 have no tbrrelite
our last meeting, nor our retrospective look over 0 twit 0.
by which God had then led us ; and I bless his OM ~.„d 0005
has again enabled me to hear your words of cheerine,..o
fort at a time when I, at least, am on the " brink of
_..././aOlll
(see Bunyan's Pilgrim). God in infinite raer.,97,1,:.0 oftl
soon another meetina• on the opposite shore. I_7r ; e:
passed under the rod'of Him whom I call nay Fsl f UP;
certainly no son ever needed it oftener, and yet I
enjoyed much of life, as I was enbled to boo 0
the secret of this somewhat early. It at' oivii
making the prosperity and happiness of others rail 00 hay,
that really 1 have had a great deal of prosperititrine vtlo/11'
prosperous still, and looking forward to aa, orf or_
__,hered•
" peace on earth and good will to men" sll94l.ens feelib,;
prevail. I have no murmuring thoughts or envo breat/A
to fret my mind. " I'll praise my Maker with rello ilov
I am an unworthy
.nephew of Deacon Jelin, sad by
him much; and in view of the many choice frrstbertao
had here, lam led the more earnestly to praY/ g
my soul with the unrighteous."
Your assurances of the earnest feelings'sympbl°- tie,,,d,ill
f the '"- olloif
my native land is very fir atefal to my
me to say a word of comfort to them : t lor
r earol° ...et
As I believe most firmly that God reigns/ - may J.-
lieve that anything I have done, suffered, or 1, All 4
suffer, will be lost to the cause of God or of linneiltiourvr,
before I began my work at Harp
certainly
Ferry I re' 1 fte.'
that, in the worst event, it would certainly Pasible 00;;
expressed that belief, and I can now see no ro at slitl
to alter my mind. lam not as yet in the 11aVIted a cog
V," ttonikti to
appointed. I have been a good deal disaPP,°ll:is .10110
garde myself in not keeping up to my own P,!,a13:, plea ;0.
feel entirely reconciled to that event ; for
infinitely better, no doubt, or I should have ...-ePiii g
Had Samson kept to his determination of not tells hat
wherein his great strength lay, he would .x,;:,0, 101_,
never overturned the house. I did not tell
..Ifelog7ol
was induced to act very contrary to my be:II...jo:00,11
and I have lost my two noble boys, and otb. r
my two eyes. , r feel a•cc'ulf°l44l'o;
But " God's will, not mine, be done.' . ~,,, 1 luiveA.tit
ble hope that, like that erring servant of svb°l_';o.. itt C!;;Ot
been writing even I may (through infinite I.oe_ ;11(10;4i
Jesus) yet "Clie in faith." As to both the titre that o'7
of my death, I have but very little trouble.
_itilesr.,/ oia
and am able to be (as you exhort). of " gelec,..W--,nA at
I send through you my best wishes to play
tho lino
her son George, and to all dear friends. 3Tur, of you
the poor and oppressed be the yourand S?? 1,. truth, I,
so • ,
Farewell, till we meet again. Mena
1.4 13001( •
of
------,-------i, —.,..ey nieetil)goor
THE BALLOT SOCIETY.
~ --lc - at the 41,,it.
the executive committee was held on Tuesday ju the c.gr.
in Guildhall-chambers, Mr. M. E. Marsd9l.. navieshleo
Mr. Whitehurst, Mr, Elt, Mr. Be
XL 4baerir,ato
Nodes, Mr. Lo Maitre, SLe., were present._,. outoticeo
St aL .a
reported. The Rev. Robert Spears,
of £lO 10s. from Mr. Grote and several
osr,:gileleia,
..., raianc- of t/te
Robert Webb, Esq., Malvern ; vy •'' ern co
eroia
Esq., and B. Lucraft, Esq.,. were elected in
,_.• &row ~eft
!jog 0., it, rOY:mp
council. Directions were given respee tartlet. jot:.
elections for Reading, Durham, and I'o,llted to ocsodbf ts,
was read from the sub-cominieo appocin , a offers _pets
essays sent in by the candidates for th P,r,_e, ta norwoah
committee for the best essays on the 131.1.1,!r„„sove,.oth'
by working men greatf r,_Wbefore t;0000.
maty of them of g ability, bad been lair jo Vl'', oeir
CO.-- A to ..-10
Commiof the recommendations of the report, . _
_wade..
the
ttee, whose report was now presengea• „goat) Air,
resolved that the first prize of V ss. ill: iithoptialf
Malcolm Ross, of Bradford, Yerk_ssr' C. 3.,; t• SI;
Printer ; the second prize, of a 35 / ti',,,i of V 41100io
(the Norwich Operative) ; and the tirre'estert ra its
Thomas Smith, of Enderby, near first publisa'roo§
knitter. These essays will be rairainar/ 0. of 0
Ballot, and afterwards as a 'tra wait
.0 joeell3!,,ting
meats were also made for thee:
_oo taee
council on Wednesday, Jan. 25, ho,. Ket (Dip
...„.011
the Whittington Club, in the evening 1 ';:,.0,504. f to
A Smr's BACK BROICBN IN 05 l':tg 010 oo the
Was leavi cic 0 d/
Tuesday, as the ship Gladiator she *ill toot a
Liverpool docks to sail for Bombay_,.., of !..,000,iisit
Pluckington Bank, owing to thobrefoLt7r.day afto;!, Aibeiro
hawser. She was got afloat again the cart ill 'love t.D.,
arrangements were made to plae° t
Dock warehouses, as the shier it is Op 011206 '
acted, Will. A °W-
O
broken up. The Gladiator's carge Wl's 10° 0
£70,000, and the vessel at £15,000. bolt coo ,
__A largo , „ ,fte 301
A WHALE IN TIIE TAY' _t
avoi_ii,
in the Tay near Invergowrie BO' ti c river iu 1$ ore Of
whale was seen by a correspondent on dsot inrPgs p.ortii
the herrings, which have been up . 1
____wlta reeeo
It swain about fearlessly, aud it is seinue rasa
till
a crio
k an
that it was not made a prize by,_filial.:
returned from the northern vvbail' definp, - uir in ;
Crinoline, which has been a by „ Mili.P 00 1100
0011' car
r prose ... tile 000,
bility, a principal source for
dlugeithe steel fai4ugs Okillt
rapidly receding fashion proYl
vir notary 10/40,00. 01 foe to the anc'les of men, hasrbehcorn. 0/ ,
yet simple fastening for the 0
of Stepney. Thus, inn hese daysl,tuN:uieh was_nu 0! iitlools
worthless turned to so, and qi.l,
sought for 7 And it
ridicule but yesterday, to•-day.istits
edcstrian
factured by the Government clionetr.a_c,tioarsty,,tihsettallsfiti
the soldier, the sportsman, awl c . A.. 0. ODs
now seem by the latter whether ‘,- -