The Diet reassembled on Monday Inst and thus far attention has been confined, mainly, to the Bill to umend the Press Regulations and the Budge:. The Press Regalations have occupied the time of the Peers, the Budget that of the Representa tives. This Bill to amend the Regulations which govern the Press has attracted considerable attention and one or two important meetings of Japanese jour have been held to emphasise the view taken of the question by the men directly interested, These meetings, notwithstanding the views and interests of the journalists, have been for the most, part ignored by the gentlemen of the Upper House, The Bill as it originally stood was framed by a member of the House of Representatives. Differing very cousiderably in two hose relating to suspension and money deposits—it does not, so faras I have been able to gather, materially depart from the terriis and soups of the existing regulations in the bulk of the articles, At prevent, as is perhaps known, parties ambitious of figuring in the newspaper world have to testify as to the soundness of their intentions, so to speak, by depositing sums varying from 350 to a thousand yen with the authorities. The amount to be deposited differs according to the locality. At present, tov, as every one who knows anything about or takes the slightest interest in Japan must be aware,
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