256 MURDER OF MR. RICHARDSON. Chap. XV. 
war and all its horrors may, at no distant day, be 
the penalty which this happy and peaceful land 
will have to pay for a reintroduction to the great 
family of nations. 
While these pages have been going through the 
press the overland mail has brought us an account 
of another brutal murder, which was perpetrated on 
the Imperial highway, within a few miles of Yedo, 
on the 14th of September last. The murderers in 
this case were the retainers of the father of the 
Prince of Satsuma, and he is stated personally to 
have given the atrocious order. The following 
narrative of this sad transaction is taken from the 
4 Japan Herald — 
“ Yesterday afternoon, about two o’clock, a party 
left Yokuhama for a country ride, intending to 
cross to Kanagawa in a boat, and proceed thence 
on horseback to Kawasaki, where there is a fine 
temple. The party was composed of Mrs. Borra- 
daile, the wife of a merchant at Hongkong ; Mr. 
Marshall, her brother-in-law, a merchant of Yoku- 
hama; Mr. W. Clarke, of the house of Messrs. 
A. Heard and Co. ; and Mr. Richardson, who had 
just retired from business in China, and was on a 
visit to Japan, prior to his return to England. The 
community, at about half-past three o’clock in the 
afternoon, were startled by the return of Mrs. 
Borradaile on horseback at Mr. Gower’s house, in 
a fearful state of agitation and disorder, her hands, 
face, and clothes bespattered with blood, her hat 
gone, and in a fainting state. She informed Mr. 
