TuHeERE is a very general feeling, induced by numberless indications, some more some less serious, that the relations between Russia and Japan will soon become so strained that war between the two countries will result. Russia has been hurrying out troops and munitions to" the East for the last few months with ceaseless activity, and with them have come ambulance corps, nurses, and doctors, as though preparations were being' made for an immediate campaign, the pretext being that the plague was the enemy they were sent to combat. Japan has been hurrying on the completion of her men-of-war in European dockyards, and importing nyunitions of war of all kinds with feverish activity. The preparations for supplying an army in the field have been going on energetically in her arsenals; and very extensive naval manceuvres are just about to take place in which the ships engaged, comprising the greater portion of Japan's ficet, are to be manned, armed, and provisioned as if for actual war. The naval reserves have been called out, a step that has never been taken at any previous maneuvres. All Japanese steamship owners have been ordered to send
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