in order to obtain entrance to the asylum where the late Viscount was for some time confined to note how the latter was treated there. As the remarked a week or two ago had he been alive he would have been one of the best witnesses. Unfortunately he died some years ago. At the order of the Court, experts have been analysing the blood of the dead Viscount, with what result is not known as the operations have been carried on in the strictest secrecy. It is supposed that the conclusions arrived at have not been wholly satisfactory as the grave has now been opened (on the sth inst.), the coffin exhumed and opened, and a portion of the corpse removed for dissection and microscopic examination. Two representatives of the family were the only persons allowed within the tent which was erected over the tomb while the work of exhuming the remains was in progress. A strong darmes and police was stationed all round the tent; and apparent-not without reason as Some of the old retainers of the clan who recently went up to Tokio from Fukushima Prefecture are reported to have made one or two violent attempts to interfere with the proceedings and to prevent what they regarded as a violation of the sanctity of the tomb of their late lord. Tt is stated that the excavation of the tomb has disproved one of the assertions advanced by Nishigori—the depth of the grave being, it is said, only 14 instead of 30 feet.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.