We hear that the inhabitants of Shimonoseki are busily engaged in making pre-Fexeollene Hanabusa on the successful arations to receive and congratulate Ibs
termination of the Corean difficulty. On his arrival, music will be discoursed and fire-works displayed in honour of the ocean sion; whilst all the geishas in the town will be dressed alike, and will soranade him small boats tastefully decorated, The hills around the village of Higashi-bette, in the county of Yettchu (Ishikawa kon), commenced trembling terribly on the 20th'ult; and the natives, taking it warning of a volcanic eruption, carried off their goods and chatta's, and fied away to the adjoining villages. Fortunately for them they did so, for as predicted, on the night of the 26th, one of the hills burst out, causing all the houses on the hillside to be precipitated into the village below, which was completely buried; wh the place where the eruption occurred, a Jake has appeared, measuring 80 ken long, 100 ken wide, and 30 fathoms deep. Rising Sun Translation, Our correspondent at Jinsen mentions that Tai In Kun is not alone ambition: and artful, but cruel also, He was xious to rog power as Regent, and therefore allied himself to the Conserva-destroying' his opponents, and Inboured to tive party. Lo lost no opportunity of
form an alliance with China against Japan. The result of all his ambitious schemes is his deportation to China in custody. In the opinion of our correspondent the attitude taken up by China in Core ill doubtless be the cause of dificult questions springing up. Ho says the majority of the Coreans do not seem to mind being subject to China. They consider Corea and Japan equal in importance, but both subordinate to China, A Corean officer was greatly surprised to learn that Japan did not pay tribute to Peking, and probably disbelieved the contradiction. When Mr. Hanabusa left Seoul the Chinese troops entered, and this led the natives to think we ran away from them. The Coreans have apparently no spirit to preserve their independent: and will ere long fall under the dominion of China.—Hiogo News Translation.
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