OF late, a large number of letters have been sent to many of the high Govenment officials under false names. Some of these epistles are said to be of a threatening, character. H.E, Inouye is the princi recipient of these letters, and the authori-use every endeavour to discover the offenders.
'A trial has boon recently made in Tokio to manufacture paper from Makomo(a kind of rood), The trial having proved successful, the manufacture will be comm alarge scale, Thesaid plant gro dautly in the Sumida river and Sanyo, We have learned from Corea that the four ringleaders in the recent conspiracy against the King wore sentenced to the el (an instrument of torture in which ing round tears off h separately). Six othe tenced to the same punishment, wi exception of one, escaped with their through the intercession of a Minister. F One, named Ritaisen, avo -himeolf up to the authorities ringleader, but was pardoned on the plea of insanity, which the King invented for him, as he was his cousin, the son of Taiin-Kan, The jower of the minority is at prosont held y Ken-Ko, the father of Bin, who was recalled by the King when about to leave for Japan last summer, The other minis-tore complain of his isolating policy and are said to have remonstrated with Bin to get him removed, Under such circumstances the progressist party drags a mill along with it. Many Corean officials ted Japan at the suggestion of Bin, who intended to give them high Govern-mont positions after their return, but as he has resigned they have been disappointed in their expectation:
From the Mainichi Shimbun:—As woollen cloth is now manufactured so skilfully that it is equal to the imported material, the uniforms for the army will be made of it in future instead of the former cotton cloths.—Japan Herald Translation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.