The Japanese mission, which left for Peking on the night of the I7tL., has caused an immense excitement in this part of th wiry, The exalted rank of Count Ito ling thrown everybody off h the Chinese Ministers at Peking, Wa Ta-cheng, of Corean notoriety, came ing down from Peking, arriving out of breath at midnight, primed to the muzzle with the Empresy's instructions for the treatment of the Japanese Question, but waa taken aback by the discovery that the mission had alrendy started for the Capit whither this bustling busybody had to lusty back, The American Legation has put forth an unusual effort to do homage to the exalted personage from Japan, one of the Secretaries of Legation having deen sent down to Tientsin to attend Count Ito. This messenger also had a fool's errand, for he crossed the Japanese party on the road. No particular ineou-Yenience, however, will be caused to the Ambassadorial party, as they are under the able pilotage of Admiral Enomoto, the Japanese Minister to China, who accom. panies the Special Envoy, with some memders of his staff. 'I'he civility on the part of the American Minister is a fair return for the attention shown by Count Ito to General Foote when he went to Cores, Count Ito having told off his Secretary to accompany the General o Seoul and see him well introduced to the proper party there.
19th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.