Corea is growing more and more settled—very slowly it is ttae—since the people in the country districts become assured. that the order for cutting off the top-knot, etc, is no longer in force. There are still some districts in the south where it is not safe for a foreigner, and still less safe for a Japanese, to appear. There is one subject on which all Coreans are united and that is intense hatred of Japan. It is ten times stronger now than it was five years ago. The influence of the Japanese at mart is at an end practically, but like the bull in the corner they are making a last effort before their dying breath comes. They are still at their old game of plotting, but this time it is only to recover some of the ground they have lost. I fear that all heir efforts will be futile: They are, how. ever, as busy as ever in circulating false reports through the correspondents of the native papers. Tu this they are more successful.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.