The Address was printed on white satin, in blue ink, and was to be embroidered with the Dragon, the Stork, and the Lotus, On Saturday night and again on Monday iilumfnated, and there appears to have been night, the Foreign Settlement was gaily
general rejoicing, Official advices received by wire, from Osaka, on the night of the 19th instant, state that cholera is raging fearfully there. On the day named, there. were seventy new cases and fifty deaths. General Grant is advised by the Government not to fist Osaka, Kioto, oe at prevent, This changes the programme drawn up by Mr. Bingkara, the US. Minister to Japan, who came to Nagasald to receive the General, and is the guest of H.E. the Japanese Minister to the United States.
somewhat prolonged cruise in the Inland Sea, relieved by calls at places of interest among the islands was therefore suggested, Even Kobe, it is thought, would be tabooed to the General, though it was not unlikely the Richmond would Took in there jus 9 e60 ow thing. mer and whether 'a landing could be permit with safety.
In a recent issue the Rising Sun saya it had to deplore the effects of the long-continued rains upon the wheat, and now it says there is no doubt, farmers will be heavy losora this year in consequence, but on the other hand the young rice is far-advanced, planting out has begun, and is being prosecuted vigorously. So much. rain: has fallen during the early months of the year that it may not improbably be followed by dry hot weather, which would of course prove as hurtful to the one cereal as the wet weather has been to the other; still the young crop has already got such a good start, that it is to be hoped it will be ina position to hold its own against the hot weather when it comes.
ELMS, Vigilant has left Nagasaki to join the flagship, and the Sylvia left the same day for survey work. H.IJ.MLS. Kongo 'Kan returned from a cruise' on the 16th. The French gun-boat Lyn has sailed for Newchwang, and the German men-of-war Wolf and Luise for Kobe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.