JAPAN-635 PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Evening Post, Issue 14, 23 February 1865, Page 3

JAPAN-635 PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH.

We have received, via Holland, a letter from Japan three days later than the news already published. Tt has been already stated that the Prince of Nngatu, having refused to pay the war indemnity stipulated in the treaty of peace signed by him, a judgment of the criminal tribunal of Yedilo had decidtd that his two palaces should be razed to the ground and his servants put to death. We now learn that this singular nnd sanguinary sentence was approved of by the Kikado and by the Taicoun— the spiritual and temporal sovereigns of Japan— and that the number of servants killed inexecution of it was 420 men and 215 women and children. The Prince, on learning those facts, was deeply concerned, and sent to the capital his first minister on board the English corvette Birossa. The minister on arriving at Yeddo waited on the representatives of France, England, Holltino, America, and Russia, and besought them to intercede with the Taicoun in favour oE the Prince his master, who had decided on executing all the provisions of the treaty, and immediately paying the sums due. — Galignani. ______________ The following letter has been received by the Garibaldi yacht committee :— " Caprera, Nov. 18. — Ladies and gentleman, — The yacht which you have presented me is indeed a precious gift, and immensely more precious is the generous benevolence with which you have honored me. I shall all my life be justly proud of having — not merited, because it was merited by others rather than myself, but, by good fortune, gained your sympathy. Benefactors to me, a humble individual, this is a gift on behalf of the sacred cause of my country — the cause of every oppressed people. With every grateful feeling of my heart, 1 am yours, Giuseppe Garibaldi.— To the generous subscribers for the yacht." An extraordinary scene was witnessed in a chapel in Staffordshire on a recent Sunday. The preacher, the Rev. W. Yeomans, of Leek, addressed the audience in language which every moment became more and more impassioned and excited. These feelings soon spread to the congregation,and presently a stentorian voice cried out from the gallery, " Let us sing ;" some one else gave out a hymn ; a third called out frantically, " Start itl start it I" and it was sung with the greatest vehemence to the tune generally known as " All the way from Manchester, and got no work to do." While this was proceeding Mr. Yeomans continued tqjpray in a frenzied manner. After the singing fifs prayer became more and more fervent ; groan* and sighs alternating wit li the intena at utterances of entreaty. The sympathy of the congregation, especially in the gallery, now reached almost as high a pitch as the excitement of the preacher. Some persons of the congregition leaving the chapel during his prayer, Mr. Yeomans prayed that they might be constrained to stay, and eried — " I believe you will be saved if you stop, but I fear you wil> not if you go." At length he seemed in a state of ecstacy— his head thrown back, his eyes gnzing upwards, his arms outstretched, atid his hand« clenched, he stood motionless, and no words escaped his lips. When this had passed off, he pressed his side and head, as if in pain, and, slowly recovering, gave out a hymn. The service was then continued as a prayer meeting for something like a couple of hours, the excitement being more easily imagined than described.