tux sky is clouding over again. and there are indications, some of them rejected in our special telegrams from Tokio, that the audience fof Japan is becoming exhausted. The news we gave the other day, on the authority of our Kobe correspondent, that a modus vi udi had been reached between General Kuropatkin and the Japinese Government may have been an entire fabrication, or a ballan Crssaé on the part of the small pro-Russian faction. ts grea' flaw was that it lacked finality. With the boundary of Russia's Asiatic possessions once brought to the Yalu th the consent of Japan, the Russian agents on the spot, however yood the intentions of the government ab St, Petersburg, would begin to work for a farther Advance southward, realising that a better permanent terminus for the trans-Siberian railway is to be found in Corea than even Dalny is; and Japan would have to keep up the crushing expenditure on her ary and navy, and the harassing conditions which now impede her trade would be renewed. The Corean govrmnent is as little to be depended on to protect the independence and integrity of its own country as the Chinese government: both sew to be equally readily influenced by the solid arguments which Russia knows go well how to employ. For these purposes Russia's funds are practically inexhaustible, and there is po parliament at St. Petersburg to pry into these payments.
"There are one or two points in our latest special telegrams from Tokio that may be noted. The memorial of seven Professors of the Imperial University is evidently the express sion of the views of a large major of the thoughtful people of Japa In their dealing with the past they are recalling the axiom that history is philosophy teaching by example, Japan's lost opportunity R e Zach
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