The Sun. — 1863-08-07 (London, England)

CHINA AND JAPAN.  HONG KONG, June 13.  Public interest in the events now occurring in Japan is unabated, but the uncertainty of how present difficulties are to be solved still causes much anxiety. The latest dates from Yokohama are of the 27th ultimo, and then the prospects of peace were looktd on as more cheering from the fact that on the preceding day a Japanese Envoy, TakiMoto. Kai-No-Kami, had had an interview with the Admirals and the English and French Ministers, respecting which no details had been divulged; but, through her Majesty's Consul, the information had been given by Colonel Neale, that although nothing had been definitely settled, so as to enable him to withdraw his recommendation to British residents to take every precautionary measure for the protection of their interests, yet that the late conference led him to hope for a satisfactory termination to the present question. Rumours were, notwithstanding, afloat, that the pecuniary part of the demands had been satisfactorily arranged, but that the difficulty still lay, as it has all along been expected that it would do, in the enforcement of the punishment of Mr. Richardson's murderer. It would, however, be most impolitic to abandon such a demand when once made.  While hope animates the residents of Yokohama, the feeling of alarm was undiminished at Nagasaki on the 30th ult., and war was looked on as inevitable. There then was every appearance of hostile intentions on the part of the Japanese; for numerous bodies of men were at work day and night in constructing new batteries and mounting guns; 60,000 troops, moreover, being reported to be in the near vicinity of the town. It is stated that great excitement existed at Miaco among the hostile Daimios when the British demands become known; but that the Tycoon's counsels would:probably have great weight, as he is supposed to have convinced the Mikado that for many years to come Japan would not be in a position to struggle successfully against foreign powers. There seems, however, to with foreigners may end. On the 23d ult. the be groat danger of a civil war, in whatever way disputes American Legation at Jeddo was destroyed by fire, accidentally, it is alleged, but designedly, it is generally believed. All the foreign Legations there have now been destroyed.  THE FALSE PROPHET DENOUNCED 1  In the last number of the Church and State -Re view, edited, if we are correctly informed, by Archdeacon Denison, Dr. John Cumming, the fashionable preacher, eo long pretending to the gift of prophecy, down in Crown-court, Drury-lane, and thence in honeyed accents " dealing damnation round the land," alternately from his pulpit and from his writing desk, is thus boldly denounced at last as a False Prophet :•-"Dr. Cumming could discover the Crimean and the Italian wars in the Book of Revelation, but he could not see the termination in either case; so that his calculations relative to the disruption of the Turkish empire and the fall of the Papacy were wretchedly at fault. As far as we remember, his prediction was that the Turkish empire would be divided by means of an arrangement between England, France, and Russia. Palestine was to fall to the share of England, and puzzledthe aboutw were eN to oa lbt a e , asan restored,He Was somewhat objection to our occupation of that island might be raised on the part of France. The Jews are, he says, to be collected from all parts of the earth under the protection of England, and thus a great prophecy will be fulfilled through our instrumentality. Our Lord's coming, the foil of Antichrist, and the first resurrection of the saints preparatory to a reign of a thousand years, are to follow the restoration of Israel. However, the Turkish empire still exists, nor is the Papacy destroyed. On the contrary, the Pope appears as vigorous as ever, though shorn of some of his temporal power."