The subject of our relations with Japan appears to have been eliciting a good deal of interest in England during the past few months. The now notorious attack upon Sir Harry Parkes published by Mr, E, H, House has, at any rate, produced this good result; and the Spectator of this mail contains a valuable resumed of our dealings with the Japanese from the time of the Mikado's restoration, thirteen years ago, down tothe present day. As our readers may be aware, the Japanese are and have long been anxious for a revision of the Treaty. In 1871, says the Spectator, the Japanese for the first time expressed a wish for Treaty-revision, and sent an envoy to England with the attainment of this end in view. Strangely enough, however, it was impossible to get out of him what it was he wanted, and he actually went back to Japan without leaving Lord Derby any the wiser for his visit. In 1878 the Japanese again reverted to the subject, but no specific demands were made until the end of last year, when certain proposals were put forward which are now under consideration at the Foreign Office. It is hardly necessary to say, adds the Spectator, that there is every wish to meet the legitimate demands of Japan in a friendly spirit, As far as we are informed, however, these demands have not hitherto been made public. 'Then follows an article on 'The Gospel of Dynamite.' This appears to be a new, and, if we may judge from the following extract, formidaable creed, The Sunday Democrat—an American paper—says, The war for Irish Independence is begun. The work is easy and the victory sure. It needs no great armies or big navies, It requires only a little dynamite, heroically applied when it will do most good in England, Now is the time to strike." Are the Nihilists of Ireland talking a leaf out of the book of the Nihilists of Russia? If so, they have plenty of instigation and encouragement. Here is a brave passage Is it murder to kill men who insist on binding you to the earth with chains of slavery? Is it murder to destroy hell-born villains, who say that you must labour for them, and keep them and theirs in luxury and idleness, while you and your family go naked and hungry?" Out upon such ekly sentiment Out upon all mendacious justice in favour of bl ulferable wrongs, men want no ships, no privateers, no arma or armies of any kind. A little dynamite, which can be easily and cosily carried in the trousers-pocket, is all the arms they nee his newly-discovered science has pro self stronger than a million of Rus soldiers, all armed to the teeth and be: like the pard. It has defied them, their despot in the dust; and we pre there is not a crowned head in Europe but tus siold to this improved science, Lefore charmed with to id. It defies ies, of individuals, to slay th dare to trample on Dynamite will free Ir 'Noise in Cities' is a charming article upon a particularly uncharming subject, The account of the quarrel between Mr.
Wapshott and Mr. Penn is richly comic, We learn on the authority of Mrs. Wap-shot, who, after the dispute between their respective husbands treated Mrs. Penn
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