Nichi Shimbun, states that on the 26th ultimo, a Daijokwan notification was issued to the Provincial Governments, announcing that as it had been decided to open an Assembly of Provincial officials, the Governor of each Fu and Ken is to report himself at the capital by the 4th of April. If the Governor of any Fu or Ken cannot himself attend, in consequence of the pressure of affairs, the Secretary will attend inhisstead. This measure, says the Yews, will remove one grievance' of some cal malcontents, and may be of great importance, On the first (and only' Occasion of this Assembly meeting it prov itself endowed with a very satisfactory amount of common sense.—The Kioto Fucho has petitioned the Department of Foreign Affairs that as a relaxation of the passports when they go outside treaty rule that foreigners are obliged to have mits, all foreigners in Kobe and Osaka shall be allowed to visit the Kioto Exhibition without passports for 30 days at the beginning and again at the end of the Exhibition season. The Department. of Foreign Affairs having granted the petition, notice has been sent to the Bliogo Kencho and Osaka Fucho (?)—It is rumoured that about 100 policemen are to be sent to guard the Japanese residents in Corea. On this subject, the News says it shews that the relations between the les of the two countries are not so as they might be. The necessity ich Japan has brought upon herself, or which circumstances have forced upon her, of playing in her turn the part which foreign powers had to play towards her a few years ago, is giving her the benefit of an experience without which her education asa nation would have been incomplete, and the results of which will no doubt be a modification of the views held by a section of the people and their fanatical admirers, as to certain passages of her own early intercourse with foreigners.—The Osaka Nippo says in Saikio the teachers of the small schools, who have hitherto dressed in either foreign or native style, have been. ordered to dress. in the former.—The same native paper says that Naoye, a daughter of Dr. Seo, living at the North end. of Seihokubashi, Yodobori, was a profession, Christian, and has just died at the age o twenty-one. On the 25th ult. her funeral was celebrated according to Christian rites, and was attended by some hundreds of Japanese, besides some foreigners.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.