Treaty with Corea, which were exchanged on the 19th May at the Foreign Ellice, are by this time no doubt familiar enough to your readers. The Mission arrived at Ju-chen on the 13th, and on the 15th two gentlemen connected with the Corean Government came on board the Monocacy with @ request from the Cabinet that the exchange of ratifications should take place at Seoul, although Juchén had boon de-ated by Treaty for that purpose. The United States Minister promptly acceded, and on the 17th His Excellency and suite, accompanied by Captain Cotton and eight officers of the Monocacy pro-oded to the Capital. The party were at Yang-hua Cheo by Here von jendorff and the Governor of the Metropolitan Province, and arrived at the South Gate of the Capital about 5.30 p.m, The day after the exchange of ratifications His Majesty received General Foote at an audience, in the course of which his suite, Captain Cotton, and the officers of the Monocacy were presented severally to the King. His Majesty's mauner was extremely pleasant and his address most graceful, In his conversation with the ister, which lasted nearly half an hour, he showed a considerable amount of intelligence and tact, In the evening a banquet was given by the President of the Board of Foreign Relations in honour of the American Minister, to which the Japanese Minister and some five-and twenty American and Corean officers were invited. It was a great success, and a pretty large amount of champagne was consumed.
The United States Minister is just now very busy in fixing up his Legation, a task which keeps him pretty well occupied, Mr. Saito Shinichiro, the private Secretary of H. E. Iuouyé, who is at present attached to the Legation, is only expected to remain in that position for the next two months, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs having stipulated that he should return to Tokio three months after the exchange of ratifications between General Foote and the Cabinet of Seoul, 16th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.