Phe Yokohama papers translate the following items from the Choya Shimbun, which, if true, show that Japan is_uot inclined to relax her hold upon the chao Group. The Herald translates general public have lately directed their attention to the question of what steps will be taken by the Government with regard ty the management of the Loochovs, According to popular rumour the question ities, and " decided step will be at taken, by which the han is to be aboli and a ken substituted in its pla orders wi: l shortly be issued, and in consequence thereof " battalion of infantry and a number of police are to be despatched there as a precautionary measure against any disturbance. The Home Department also going to fix rules and regulation and oticers will be chosen to admin ster the ken, If the islaudera should above-mentioned steps or rise in rebell: on, final consultations will be held to fix upon the necessary: e youres to be taken. Though the han will, however, be abolished, the King will be leniently treated, and the system on which the ken will be governed will be somewhat different from that of the others,—The above is, however, but street rumour and th of the editor, we cannot hold ea in the least ponsible for The same native paper adds that it loams from a correspondent that an English versal arrived on the 17th February at the Lovchoos, and that the officers presented letter to the King, with whom they desired an audience, They rode over the country on horseback, and left again on the 22nd, but the correspondent was ignorant as to whether they lind wished-for audience. Two there three board holding interviews with' the Loochvoan official people are the King has consequently to the gentey, ordering them to practise economy and encourage literature and the ry art.
translation giv to the sume effect, but distinct) Governor avd other ollicers will from the Home Department, on aboliti of the han, to control the whole island Nichi Nichi Shinbun says that Mr. Matsuda, Chief Secretary of the Home Department, was to again leave for the Lovehoo islands on or about the 12th inst,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.