The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Horrible Slaughter in Japan--Six Hundred Murdered in cold blood.

--We have received, via Holland, a letter from Japan three days later than the news already published. It has been already stated that, the Prince of Nagato having refused to pay the war indemnity stipulated in the treaty of peace signed by him, a judgment of the criminal tribunal of Yeddo had decided that his two palaces should be razed to the ground and his servants put to death.--We learn that this singular and sanguinary sentence was approved of by the Mikado and by the Talcoum, the spiritual and temporal sovereigns of Japan, and that the number of servants killed in execution of it was four hundred and twenty men and two hundred and fifteen women and children. The Prince, on learning the facts, was deeply concerned, and sent to the capital his First Minister on board the English corvette Barrossa, which was placed at his disposal by Vice-Admiral Kuper. The Minister, on arriving at Yeddo, waited upon the representatives of France, England, Holland, and Russia, and besought them with the Talcoum in favor Prince, his master, who had decided on executing all the provisions of the treaty, and immediately paying the sums due. Such was the situation of affairs at the last date.--Galignani's Messenger, December 7.