Since we wrote on the 4th inst, upon the circumstances attending the mission of Count Ito to Peking we have row ceived advices from an which bear out and supplement the theories we then advanced, It seems that, for a time, the Tokio Cabinet felt itself in something of a quandary with respect to the best policy to pursue, Popular feeling ran strong and high; from.all sides there came clamour for war; and while the Government had no intention of committing itself to a warlike policy, seeing that no, justification for euch an attitude existed, it nevertheless saw the inconvenience that might arise from flying in the face of the people's wishes, On the other hand the state of public fooling was such that some decision necessary, for, unless the affair was settled in a satisfactory reasonable time, there was a possibility that the Government itself might be the object of a throat toning demonstration. It was, therefore, eventually decided to despatch Count Ito upon a formal mission of complaint to Peking; to sond with him, as Associate Envoy, General Count Saigo, whose warlike reputation would render the appointment acceptable to and to permit General nother statesman of military proclivities, to pay an une official visit to China and Hongkong. It seemed advisable to the Government that men in whose judgment the Jao panese people place great reliance should have an opportunity of seeing for themselves the preseitt situation of theChiiiese coasts from a etrategio standpoint: for the report of such men would carry
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