1th September.
Tue telegrams from our correspondent at Tokio that we publish this morning put a very much more favourable aspect on the rioting in Tokio. 1t is evidently not a popular movement at all, nor there is any anti-foreign feeling in it, the destruction of churches and schools and the reported attacks on missionaries having been perpetrated with the design of bringing the police into trouble. 'The police is' the natural enemy of the lawless element everywhere, In a great city alread; Inbouring under deep discontent, it was not difficult for disappointed speculators, soshé, and the "rustlers and desperadoes" of the slums, to ut the police at defiance for three or four days by making simultaneous attacks at different parts, and to do a great deal of damage be.ore order was restored. Some of the political parties in Japan are bitter enough in their language towards the Government from time to time, and it is therefore eminently satisfactory to learn that none of these parties were originally connected with the riot, though the Progressives, we are told, are now endeavouring to make use of the agitation to strengthen their influence as a party, The temptation to increase their circulation has been evidently too strong to withstand the true patriotism of some of the "yellow" journals at Tokio and Osaka, and' they have been rightly suspended. The proclamation of martial law has evoked, our correspondent tells us, a general sense of relief in the capital, and we may hope to hear in a day or two that order is completely restored, and that the people have begun to realise that what they have gained by the war is full value for the money they have spent, even though it is not gilded with an indemnity.
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