The rebellion still drags its slow length along, but the position of affairs does not seem to have changed greatly since thp2oth Tune, the latest date by previous mail advices.
'The Nagasaki papers, for some time the news they gave respecting the progress of the Rebellion, have recently ied bat Jittle, and the' papers which 10 hand yesterday per the Nagoya Maru, exception,—The Cosmopolitan Press saya "the movements of Saigo and his people truly mysterious, They leave strongly They have now left the heights near Kag renched pla without Sparen caus shima and have gone no one knows where for the present, Kagoshima was observed burning on the morning of the Ist inst., and it is said the conflagration had existed, for twenty-four hours prior. The cause is unknown, as there are now no insurgents near, The Imperial troops did not give themselves the slightest trouble to extinguish the dames, The Hiogo News of the 4th inst., thanks to its translations of oficial telegrams supplied to the Osaka Nippo, is somewhat more explicit. Tt says, **In one senso the news from the seat of war in the South is to-day very im.
trant. Tt seems to be certain that General awaji (whose advance Southwards down the West coast of Satsuma we have previously called attention to) was in Kagoshima on the 26th ult,, but this fact, which was certainly expected to be an important one in the history of the struggle, if it ever did take place, seems to have been followed, so far as we have yet heard, by exceedingly small results, The thing could hardly have taken place without "a serious engagement, had nob the rebel forces at Kagoshima been weak,
or whether they have been removed by Whether they have simply melted ana their leaders for the purpose of attempting another stand somewhere else, we have nob etanllicient evidence to enable us to judge, seems to us that the prospects of the rebellion are, from a military point of view, getting steadily worse, The rebels got, driven from position after position, till it must surely be a question with them soon whether they hold any place which is worth fighting for. Politically the situation seems to have uudi gone little or no change since our last; for though Tosa evidently continues to occupy the serious attention of the Government, we have had little to hand from there during the past few days but ramers."
The following telegrams from the Osaka Nippo, are published by the News:—A telegram from General Kawaji, in Kagoshima, on the 26th, despatched from Kumamoto at 10.55 a.m, on the 28th, says:—On the 25th, the 5th battalion of this division marched eight n on the Kagoshima road, and they, turning their front, attacked Sailiara-today, in the rear of Kagoshima castle, The rebels were at once
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