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; } Gleanings from late Papers. apne ta ete li ttt From the London Weekly Times, Nov. 7, 1858. THE UNKNOWN LAND—JAPAN,

A marvel has been disclosed to us, a new wonder has been | spened to us. Saddenly, as if by magic, we have revealed +> us av unknown people, with an unknown eivilization, and uknown institutions. We have rent the veil that shrouded mystery Which has puazled the world for centuries. Access | has been gained fer the West to a paradise in the Kast. The ‘hraaon wall’ of protection which surrounded Japan has eon thrown down. The gates of an extonsive, wealthy and populous kingdom have been thrown open to the traders of | the world. And ail this bas been done without force or| nenace, by reason and permission, aud we may add by the orogress of enlightencd opinion amongst the Japanese them- selves. Wh

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‘accommodated, From. this place a view was obtuined of “the great city of Jeddo, with its trees and gardens, pic- turesque temples, and densely crowded streets, extending os far as the eye can reach toward the interior, a thickly built isuburb, and trees and green fields in the distance.” ‘The capital of Japan covers a larger area than London, and con- tains a more numerous population, ‘Phe streets are well paved, and perfect cleanliness rules in-doors and ont. There are none of the dirt and bad smells of a great city, while evidences of wealth and luxury are seen on ‘every side. The country is as interesting as the town. Neat cottages stand

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ly kept and as carefully fenced as in England. At every Spot presenting great natural beauties, a temple or a tea- house is to be found. The weary traveller may 2lways find rest and refreshinent, and, reclining on soft mats, receive | from neat-handed Phyllises the most delicately flavored tee. Tort Whsid dieibed'st FUAMS 447A odes he | pte, description of all the magaificence, and the nataral and beste téad vite tikay WT blencan ihe od | artiGcial beauties that met the eyes of the visitors, reads like : ween a chapter from the “ Arabian Nights,’

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Fig > he ati ros g ~3 » s rhe ¥)} 9 > “ . from the natives a simple and hospitab! And the people are as wonderful as the country they in- } amiable and winning qualities. {n personal cleanliness they

¢ our spies have not penetrated beyond the} 4p; , t ‘1 + +e : habit. setae 7. svat s,af : r nrava sap ¥ 22 4 is re wr? j e . storior, but what thoy have seen and deseribed Gus us WB! and innocence of the golden age. They possess the most amazement and nimiration, and excites an ardent thirst for! c , Surpass all other nations; bathing is an institution, and is

iformation respecting a commanity whose exter- a

nal manifestations afford materials for limitless speculation.

Hitherts Japan has been as a seate b ok, and now the seal | of man before the fall. The Ruglish did not see a deformed ‘broken, We knew, mdeecd, that the country is about the| person in the streets, nor any drunkenness or quarrelling, 2 of itish Lstaa ls, with wearly the same population | and beggars are said to be unknown. But although thus B83, (ee ee ee b ewWeen a great primitive in their manners and habits, the Japanese are ine a great ocean. We had heard t “iy we State dustrious and inventive, and not without scientific aequire- — ? a pitt pee. oe pe en eae Spleens mouts. When the advanced ships of the British squadron ¥) SEH “OlNee" Coma ag Sae-etves End military larrived at Nagasaki, they found a Japanese man-of-war . ttistory Gad recorded that Japan was nob always 180-| steamer at anchor there. They are able to make cngines for L from the rest of the worll, or oppose to Caristianity. railways or steamships, dnd they havea short line of railway the interior.

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the lies § tad lox tho proma gation of tae:r doctrines. | wystery to them, and they are skilful at fabricating astrono-

Pk a oT aie EM Ae ee lee le 8s deation |: ae Not satisfied with thie tree on mney ar red wn 2 question) migal and philosophical instrumeuts. lisputed succession, and a the aid of to Christian | glass is nearly equal to our own. ‘The Dutch language is t. } er ae a J é ton to the aid of th» candidate they supported. Their | spoken by numbers, and some have even learned English horanti » flowed. by Siemens sinetilie Bow the ' : , : iterveniion Was ivi) Weu v5 mo t iisastrous fe-u us, tor tac | Japanese captains and engineers corpmand their war vessels,

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vandred thoasand persons were slaug'tered, smec (aati seize and adopt the discoveries made by Kuropoan science. nesind JTanen haz been hermetically closed, not in the arro- : . ; ye “3

pert du Japs } eC. We ae ce ee we : : . in the “ee | They are represe tte] by their reeen! Visitors to be not merely gant spirit which animated the Chinese, but because the} progressive, but a “ go-ahead ” people.

; t : asi " ; ai : ee | Mi > . t ae a Goverument dreaded a renewal of interference, intrigues and What we have been told inereases our curiosity. We are

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} % e 29 ~N? araisr ‘Fr i . 1 i . *, loodshed. ; owed es reial in- | not admitted to the arcava of the Government, or the institu- — . 2. | rowpat oa . + nan » fir rPOAstria. . e i ais 3 . 7 tercourse ander the narrowest ant most meee re tric- tions that have produced so much peace and pleuty, Such } tions. Tor two hundred years they were confined to 2 small | wealth and comfort for a whole neanle. Thereis a spiritual , a . ‘

ee ae Be Mian milrad ie Aa . . ; , land, four hundred yards long by three hundred broad; | Emperor or chief priest, who takes no part in governing the |

; $:? a ce a : , <a . hee rwars nt at wa aa d ° al d he and until within a few years they were not ages Vs P3Ss/eountre, and resides in sanetifie] retirement at Miaco : + : > oe a nek 6 aie ’ town or the enrrelin “. i . . « ' » boandary of their prison, to eater the town or the stur-i There is a governing E-uperor, who has bis seat in the vast

rounding e antry. [ac American expedition, under Com-} asy overtonping Jed». Tneve are ‘threo hundred and modore Pe-ry, opencd g postera of the empire. ‘The residence | sixty petty princes Or lois, euch exerzisiaz sovereizn vishts of an American consul at Simonda, and the visits of lissian | oy his own territory, and paying feudal homage to the reign- and English sh'ps daring the lute war, prepared the way for | ing Emperor. These nobles are compelle! to re-ide for half a change, the inevitability of which, it issatd, was recogn'zed | the year at Jeddo, and when they are allowed, in (ic other by the Japanese themselves. Mr. Ifarris, the resident re- | half, to visit their estates, they leave their families as hostages.

accomplishet and indefatigale pionezr. For two yoars he | way as a governing council. We are informed that tere laboured to obtain a commercial treaty, and when the news| aye parties, as amongst ourselyes—one conse: vat reached Javan of Use allied operations in the Peiho, bis efforts | tive and exclusive ; tho other progressive, eager for in sl with saceesz. He did not strive to secure any | meat, and for intercourse with European eitione Niven fr his owa countrymes, ba c :

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exclusive advat t assiste }| nolitical crises are not unknowns, and changes of m'n! ions to enter by the way that he made. t with ourselves. It ig difficult to disoover what their military The history of Lord Higin’s treaty is full of aovel adven- | system js, if they have any. The well constructed fortifica- tute and strange surprises. While the British Plenipotentiary | tions of Jeddo show some kaowlelge of the art of war, but was engaged in briuging his negociations with the Chinese to | none of the correspondents saw a battalion under arms, a conclusion, the American and Russian Min‘sters proceeded | in hot hasie to Japan. Lord Elgin soon fo'lowed, and on they can have but little occupation. We are offered a series his arrival at Nagasski he fount that the American treaty | of the most perplexing problems. We have presented to us had beea signed; that the Russians were try:mg to open ne-| an old country, with annals extending back at least two thoa- goviations, but there were symptoms of reaction on the part) sand five huntred years, thickly peopied, without a surplus { the Japaneso Government. fhe Liberal Prime Minister | population, or paupers or begyars, with a feudal aristocracy, with whont Mr. Herris bad concluled a treaty, had been! and no signs of oppression or intestinal strife, with grea turned out of office, and a Conservative or Protectiouist Ad-| wealth and no poverty, with a simple, social, frugal life.

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ministration had sueceeded to power. Lord Kigin Was not) Have we come upon a nation who have solved problems that ,* > ’ 1 ' equic at sy ? if discouraged, but determine! to push on to Jeddo, und to have baffl-d the wislom of EKarope? Lave we fouud a people

treat within the capital use, ; t Al al ¢ > enlwa ‘ ° . .° as oe Te a ; a present to the Eaperor, and he resolved, | perity derivable from civilization, and without suffering from

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yacht sent out 2 : if possible, that it shou'd not be delivered over at any piace | any of the , odie eannitalie 2th of August the) societies 2 of secondary importance. Ona the 12th of August societies 2 Ssritish scouadron arrive ad off the port ef j.anawaga, where

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hips had ever ventured, but Captain Sherard Osborn ex- pity that they should be subjected to Haropean intrusion. pressed an opinion that deep water eculd be found to Jeldo, ‘Undoubtedly we inear a heavy responsibility by bringing and Lord Elgin gave the order to approach aS near as poSsi- | them into close contact with what we must call s ble to the sacred city. Cautiously threading their way | civilization. But the die is cast, and a higher power through a tortuous channel, the British ships advanced until | greed that no community shall be permitted to isolate itself they eame to anchor under the forts of the capital. Then/from the rest of the world. In the very nature of things came visits from courteous officials, praying that they would /j; jis not possible that Japan could much longer remain return to Kanawaga, and expatiating on the advantages of | sermetically closed. Such mystery as now surroands that iorage. Lord Elgin was equally courteous, but! wonderful country, so long self-sustaine] and self-supporting, and when the Japanese found that he was not! will soon be dispeiled. ; to be moved, they wisely made the best of the situation, ithe tract of commerce, and tell us how mach of the appa- off supplies to the vessels, and prepared a residence | rent social virtues of the Japanese is lacquer, how much The landing was a striking rests on a substantial substratum of morals.

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that anc inflexibl p They sent for. the ambassador on shore.

a” ee ee ca} a . : es : : apectagle —an Euglish gun-boat steaming along wr P dozen clouded will be made clear by the light of investigation. siip’s boats, officers in full uniform, and band playing while | Meanwhile we may wait patiently, and hope that we, at |

1e thundered out salutes. As Lord Kigin made his: jeast, will play a truly Christian part towards the people progress through the etty erowds rushed to sce the procession, whom we have constrained to admit us to frec_intercourse. -aflux from the side streets had to be checked by ae : inally he was lodged in one of the temples, where 5 suite found elean and even luxarious quarters, | The arrival of the English ambassader brought about another ministerial crisis; the Liberal Premier was restored, and after a residence of eight days Lord Elgin depgrted with a treaty containing enlarged conditions, which the om od potentiar ies had not even ventured to * for. = 18PPY months he allows them to visit their estates, but keeps thei audacity of the British led to a most triumphant result. ‘families hostages in Jeddo. 7 ,

Our cantrymen had no restraint placed upon their moves | tice is intended to prevent the Princes {rom obtaining too much uickly availed themselves of their freedom. | influence over the people. It is dificult to discover whut the

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The English papers contain glaring a! Lord Elgin and his suite saw in Japan. One writer says:—

reigning Emperor, who obliges them toreside for six months of the year at Jeddo, with their famihes; during the other six

mants, sud they q ‘They fonad that they we end of Jeddo. Around them were the palaces

me loubt—they have numerous and well appointed batteries. ‘ eer al ‘initia } able of containing aou ere ° ere bles, mansions of vast extent, eaca capa wf Nagasaki, and everything Japanese, bears a striking contrast

ui heir lor i ont : e ten thousand retainers wko followed their lord to the 5, everything Chinese. You cannot be five minutes in Japan

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capital, a Jedd an ; nobles who are compelled to reside half the year at de 40, houses and people ali show this. ‘Iho streets are wide and the extent of the aristocratic quarter may be imagined. The paved in the centre, houses open throughout the ground floor, visitors caw before them a street forty yarus broad, ten miles with matting, formed in frames, fitting neatly a!l over the rooms.

long, and as closely packed with houses, aa

; Nz; nial Behind each house is a small garden, witha crofrded as from Hyde-park-corner to Mile-end. ‘Towering E

pulously clean. Cleanliness

few green shrubs, and occasionally a tine tree.

1 , = - ang ¢ ® ora - . ° ' above the vast city is the castle or palace of the tempor seems one great characteristic of the Japanese—ihey are cor- P

) ‘To our great sur-; contrast to the Chinese: no deformed objecis meet the eye tu feet wide, from which rises a grassy mound of the same prise, as we wandered tie first day through the sireets, we saw the crowded streets ; cu'anecus diseases seem almost UDAdOWA,

This is topped by a wall of cyclopean architecture, ' two or three ladies quietly sitting in tubs in front of their doors In Nagasaki towards evening a lorge portion of the male His b pp y . } ' ‘ , » SM rybhhine :@ femzle population might be seen innocently “ tabbing

sovereign. ‘This is surrounded by a moat seventy or eighty stantly washing in the most open manaer.

height. : exile mos-sing buildings in which forty thousand men can be’ washing themselves with the utmost unconcern, treflic and th VY “ es » ’ oa” i

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"business through the s!reet going on past them as ustal. We corners of the streets. In Jeddo they frequent large bathing ‘understood afterwards it was a general custow. The Japanese | establishments, the door of which is open to the passer-by, and ‘are eager forknowledge. Never was there a peopte more ready | presents & curios spectacie, more especinity if the immaies v to adapt themselves to the changes and progress of the world, both sexes ingenuously rash to itto gaze at bia aw he tides than they are. ft ig etrious that while some of their customs | biushingly past. Uutit would not be possible to condense are what we would deem rather barbarone, and while they are | within the Hints of a jeite® the eXperences aud onservations of ignorant of many coamon things—while they stillrip themselves | 4 residence in the Cipital of ag empire about whieh the infuraia - up, and shoe their barses with straw, because ignorant of any | Won at home is so very scauty, aud which presents prubabiy a

’ . - ‘pelo , { i are ear * lie ¢ i sre ‘other method—they have jumped to a knowledge of certain | grester variety of interesting and cuswus maiter tu the stranger

within beautiful gardens, and private residences are as neat: |

‘They appear to have retained much of the simplicity |

performed in pablic in a manner that recalls to mind tlic state |

The electric telegraph is no!

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J i “ gis - a ake hh imen? © ahle " f , ; i prosentative of the United States, provel himself an abte,| There is soma ground for supposing that they act in some!

There are police, but if we can believe ail that we are told, |

lic had with him a steam- | who have enjoyed all the advantages, all the material pros- |

: yicez or diseases, moral and physical, of olJ|

i the Russians were at anchor. Beyond this point no foreign | the Japanese bo what they really appear to be, it seems a| s

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Observing travellers will follow in|

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re located in the Belgravia or court | inthitary system of the empire is, but that it must have the power nificent moat, 70 or 80 yards broad, faced with a 8 ers : . f the feudal of bringing an bhomense number of men into the field is beyond escarpment us many feet in height, above which runea isBive | vered over to ine trivurai. oor eee : hts} Wilpa received from General Nasiooff the written order to

d as densely, On this they sit, sleep and eat, and everything is kept seru- |

, branches of science which it has taken nations in Kurope | ‘handreds of years to attain. At Nagasaki they can turn out of | their yard an engine for a railway ora-steamer, Japanese} captvins and engineers command their men-of-war, three of; which are steamers; they-understand the electric telegraph 5 | they make thermometers and barometere, theadulites, and, ti | believe, aneroids, Their spyglasses and microscopes are good, | aad very cheap. ‘fhey have a large glass manufactory which turn3 out glass Ite inferior to our own ‘They have a short) ‘line of railway somewhere in the interior, given by the Ameri-) cans. Many of them ‘épenk Du'ch, some Haylish, wll anxious | to learn: everything is done by themselves,and when it 1s con-| | sidered that it is not more than ten years ago since they made} | this start, the advance they have made in that shorl (ine ts per | | fectly wonderful. A yacht havirg beea sent by the Queen to be given to the Emperor of Japin, we left Nagaseki with her for that place, | our squadron cancisitis, beside her, only of the Retribution and | lagunboat. After fice doys, three of which were spent ‘in a| very heavy wale of wind, we arrived at Simoda, the port opened by the Americans, and where their Consul-General lives. It is | | to be given up, as it is utterly useless as a harbour, too sinall | jand open, wih no rade. Atflet remaining there two days, and jinvesting in Japanese lacquer ware, which is the bestin the | ; world, we came on here (Jeddo) The port of Jeddo is at) | Kanagawa, ebout 15 miles dowa the Gulf. Great objection has

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however, put it to the test, and without the least difiicully ran) right up, and afe anchored within their own men-o'-war, which | we did aot kaow wera here, and within a mile of the forts of 'Jeddo. ‘The town stretches fur miles round the bay. f suppose isthe largest in the world, for it covets more grouad than London, with between 2,000,006 and 3,000,000 of people, which, if L recollect right, is more than The Loudon population. We havefeeen begged to ya back, which when we declined doing, they made no further effurt to get rid of us, bul have offered us |& residence on shore,'aud requested us to commence a treaty. The Americans have made a yery good oar. ‘The Russians, | jhelieve, are just about concluding one, and [ suppose before many days we may be doing the same.

We land probsbly to-morrow or next ‘day. more till f een tell you something adout the inside of the city.

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i i | Sapreumes 2—feddo, withaut execption, is one of the} | fisest crites in the world ; streets broad ani wood, and the Castle. | iwhich tneludes nearly the whole ceutre of the town, built on a shioht anigende, Tin re ure three walia or inclosures round | Wiithia the inner, the Tycoon Maiperorc and beirt j apparent tive. The houses of the grinces anJ-aw' les are places, and you) , AY iMAz ae the s'ge shen emne contain 10.009 followers |"Phey ate bail: in regula: order, forming wide streets some 40) yards broad, kept ja perfect order; au im aense cour-yerd, | h trees en b gatdet@, forma the centre of esc! beclosuce, th) the midst of which is the hou-e of the awne: ; the houses —

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jtaining the followera, servan's, stables, &e., form this sarge |

j nelosure. They are bait of one uniform shape. Tue gateways |

Heading ta he ceur'-yard are exceeding'y handzone, uf ja 3si¥e |

; nod wok, ornsmornted with lsequer and uther dey ces. Prem |

‘the road that leads by the moat to the segand wall is one of the | 9

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, iaest views L ever recollect seeing —on one side, the Gut ol } ! ti } ar > gi her j , | Jedd }, with the begh hills rising’ beyond, while an the gineris 6]

portion of the great city of Jedde, with its trees and gardens, | )picburergnte temples, and densely crowded stree!s, ¢XenJiiog as

|view of the Irees and green fields in the distance, far away | beyond a thickly built suburb ; but the mest striking view of all is that close by—the well kept green bawks of the second | defence, rising some seventy feet from the broad moat below

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gamblers, and murderers as could not be brought togeiher in

‘son, the shop-lifter and hotel thiel, * * jalways been made to "Men-of-war coming farther up; indeed, | uently at the making of the ring.

ese sxid greot obstacles exisied to shipscoming trJeddo. W “s+ three times for killing Bili Poole, was also on haw,

' provisions and luxuries by the wayside.

‘life ant a whole skin. \thenisclyes until they reached Rochester,

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than any other part of the worl’, —~————— — ¢ bem +

A Very Perry Pictuag! A Detiourron Scare 0; Socizery.—Aan L[risimin named Morrisey and aa American ealled Heenan, ‘‘ made a match” the other day, as ali our readers are aware. “They met, they fought: Heenan, al- though the stronger, was too impetuons, and-was beaten ia the fight by his smaller, but sturdier antagonist. kK yerybody does not read the New-York sporting journals, aud perliaps every Ove does not know the preity state of society Jeveloped oa the occasion of the fight at Long Point. Let us enlighten the ignorant by a short series afquotations. Tirst, os to the There was such acongrezaiicn of thieves,

any other ecountey in. the world. Tnere were huudreds of three-card mopte players, “ fancy” men, rouzhs who never pay a shilling for ther liquorin their lives—ail classes of thieves, from the hotel daneer to the petty fogle hunter. Among the notables present we will only selecta few. The

‘ime-keeper of the fight, Mr. Briggs spent thirty days in the

William Muliivan, BD. Phomp- figured prowi- Mr. Canniagham, who was tried for killing Paudeen, was there. Baker, who was tried Then there were sowe minor-lights. or instance, Mr. Bill Morey, the hotel thief, &e., Xe., &e. The particulars of the fight need not be recounted. Some Canadian constables endeavour- ed to interfere, bat what could half a dozen do against as many thousand? And now for the return trip :—Severa! of the “ roughs” held an important meeting, and it-was set- tled that they should start tor the city by the Central Rai!- road, that uo man should pay anything for his fire or for his * %& * As soon as, and before the locomotive was in motien, the talk wag “fight.” Cigars were lighted, and, deapite the remonst ances of the ladies, ia front, rear, and on every side, volumes of smoke wore eniited. * * Some ofthe“ roughs” travelled rom oue-end of the cars ta the cther,and when they found « ‘fat? with a ticket stuck iu his hat, they immicdiately eased bim of it, and retarnel to their own compartment, The cotlucior thea came along. We will omit the anecdotes tuld by our wiiter, but here is the conclusion :—The hilts of several revolvers peeping cut appriaod the conductor of the folly of cither attempting to collect fare or prohibit smokiag,

Tombs for assauhing a Woman, * the expelled, * * was.ond of the umpires.

-and ho passed on through the roughs,glad to escape with his

Tee “ tancy” voutinned to smuse The towns had been warned by telegraph, but at every village thoy rushed out and uiade all that came within reach their own by right of forcible appropriation :—In some instances, (we read.) stores were uearly gutted, and, while the unfurtuuate stors keeser waa wrangling, they reachel over the counter and

2 till, «After passing Syracuse, they mado tho new conductor give them ail throagh tickeis, using as an in- ducement the customary American persuader. At Utics they resolved to yo to the hotel where they charged most fur They ato all they

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| could, drank ail they could find, and, after dinner, while one lof their ringleaders shouted—* Attention! Korm ia rauk ! | March!” about eighty of them tramped out, knocked poor

with grand old cedars over a hundred years of age growing | Baggs into the gutter for asking his pay, aud regained the

from its sides.

water lilies in the moat, the grandeur, good order, and com-

| pleteness of everything, equal, and in some ways far surpass

janything | have ever ot Europe or any part of the world. We made an expedition into the country, The coltages

| were surrounded with neatly clipped hedges ; the private res:-

| dences as well raijed and’ kept as any place im England. The

| same completeness and finish exist 1n everything. y

| ‘The Botanica! Gardens are very good, and well cared for ;

good nurseries of young pines, cedars, &e.

| i | Another writer says :—

np . Qn ~ +) aa The band struck up ‘God save the Queen’ as Lord Elgin

.| ascended the steps of the official landing place near the centre

of the cily, and was received and put into his chair by sundry the rest of the mission, together with

| (wo-sworded personages, isome officers of the sqnadron, fullowing on horseback. ‘The crowd which for upwards of a mile lined the streets leading ty ‘the building fixed on as the residence of the Mmbassy, was the procession was preceded by police- jmen in harlequin cosiume, jingiivg hage tron reds of ollie, hung with heavy clanging rings, to warn the crowd away. | Ropes were stretched across tho ernss etreete, down w hich masses of the people rushed, attracted by the novel sight ; while every few hundred yards were gates partitioning of

we ' . 7 ® » . t, | different werds whiel: were severa!!y clased ima diately on tne}

! . , | progress of the old crowd, who stramed a: xiously through the

| bars, and envied the persens composing the raipidly-forcung

©. . - ° . . - . , wt . } Dormg Lord Elgin’s stay of eight deys on store neer'y al, the officers of the squadron had an opporiunily of paying him e visit. Hrs residence was a portion of Ue tempie situned upop

the outskirts of what waa known as the Princes

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lother words, it was the Koightsbridge of Jedde. In front of u

b- { : ‘ t.eoald’ nea'eclod a street which continued for 10 miles, as closely packes Wo

houses and as densely cro fyde itark corner to Mile’ ent.

wide and soinewiist dreary aristocratic quarter, containing th

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residences of 360 hereditary Princes, exch a pei'y Fovercicn in t

The couctry is held by Princes, who owe feudal duty to the | his own nght, many of them with haif-a-dezen town houses

and some of them able to accommodate in ihese same mansions 10.000 retainers. Passing through the epacious and silen (except where a party of Eugtish were traversing them) streets,

ir This restrains them, and the prac we arrive atthe outer moat of the castle; crossing « We are

wall composed of stones Cyclopean in their dimensions. lis crowned, in its turn, by a lofty palisade. ‘Towering ubove

ce "y 1; at ie . a ly display the ne | 7. : A ‘ s all, the spreading arms of giant cedars proudly cispisy then | without sentence of consistory, without respect for canonical

As there are three hundred and sixty of these | without seeing it is a progressive nation—the country towns, selves, and denote that within the Imperial precincts ths picture |

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The castle alone is computed to be capable of containing | 40,000 soule, oe in their persona! cleanliness the Japanese present a marker

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But the crowning disgrace remains to be told. At ‘one of the depots two respectable women. entered and too'x | seats in the cars with the “roughs.” The train socn moved lon, and the *‘ roughs” got up and fastened the doors at eacs lendofthecar. ‘Ihe women were helpless, without protection, and beyond its reach. Scenes too shocking to deseribe wers enacted, ‘The women were insulted in every conceivab)e ' manner and form, * * And yet in this enlightened ago land country, where woman is supposed to be fully protected, tall this bappened—all these scenes were enacted and yet no- body dared to interfere! We need add but little to tho | description, ibe whole scene is a fitting companfon to that + in waich, not long aco, a New York wo0d atiacked an hos- pe sect fire to it while the sick-were inside, and were with (difficulty brought from the burning buildingin the cold nigh: lair. dfow low is the national character of tho Aueri¢zns falling !—Teronto Colonist. —_———__-—- + «Bee d-——— Persecution of Roman Carmontcs In Potano,—Tho | Gazelle de Posen says:—' Tae following events have takén place in Lithuania. in tho Russian Government of Grodno, ‘circle of Woikowsky, is a crown village of about 150 houses, the inhabitants of which were cenverted by force to schisua,

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| religious ministrations.’ Lndignant at these procee lings, the peasants resolved to return to the Catholic Charch, withous asking leave of the Governmen’, ard went with th’s object

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the menaves of the Gorsfnment, ree When the Russian clergy heard of this }a prosceution, which is still going ov, was instituted: but, | meanwhile, to re luce the peasants to obedience, the Governor- General Nasimoff sent a detachment of. troops, his aide-de- leamp Popow, and some police, tothe spot. All the inhabé- tants of the village, without exception, haye been beaten with rods. One hundred and odd peasants, three of whom } dis d during the torture, received each 600 strokes of the Ikpout. The Eeclesiastic already dead from natura! causes, bat the Dean and his V iear were taken to

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A dreadful tragely had occurred ia the town of Brad‘ord, in England, by which about 200 human beings were poisones, of whom 17 had died up to the time of the sailing of the Canada. lt appears that a person named Neale, a wholesale eonfeetioner in that town, has been in the habit cf mizing a large quuntity of Plaister of Paris with peppermirt lozencea, ‘as « substitute for ground suger —!2 pouwc’g of the pla‘s e- ito 40 pounds weight of sugar, This locenge-m: ker was in

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