The latest news of the prog rebellion is contained in the Nagas Sun of the Bist March, which aa past week has been one of severe 6; At daylight on Friday the 23rd, G Kuroda, in command of five battalions of troops, attacked and defeate! the ire, which place he ma quarters. 'On the same day a took place at Uyeki, neither party gaining a victory. 'The fight was renewed next awn, and the Government troops vanquished the rebels after seven hours' lard struggle, The former occupied Korumel, a town about four miles from Kumamoto, "Th the Imperial victory was thus a miles nearer the desired goal, in the 25th, reinforcements poured in to the Imperialis and the rebels were attacked in four plac viz: at Miyanohara, Taneyama, Kitakaw mura, and Kagami Throughout the day the rebels fought bravely, and in the two former places temporarily succeeded in forei back the Government troops, but sustained: defeat in the two latter, where fighting was renewed at four p.u., and ere dusk the I penalists recovered their lost. ground and ied the four before mentioned 26th, the rebels having been re need the attack in th The strug perate character, neither side h: foot of ground when dark i the 27th, the fight was renewed with a result, and on the 28th, the combatant id. The battling around Uyeki is charac-by great bravery on the part of both sides, neither combatants yielding an inch The struggle was said to have been renewed on the 29th, but with what result is not known, On the 28th, tive hundred Kumamoto rebels attacked three hundred of the Government police at Ooyasumi, half a mile from Fuluoka, The latter held their ground, and being reinforced on the following morning they in tarn attacked the former, and com: pelled the rebels to retreat after three hours combat. The head-quarters of tue Imperial commander.in-chief are uow at Konoha. 'There is not a particle of foundation for the current rumour that Saigo has taken Kumamore, 'The probability of the rebels doing so is now more Femote than ever, as the garrison heroically hold out, and almost daily la bodies of Imperial' troops arrive from the th. The power of the Government is being so concentrated as to be irresistible by the rebels, and those best informed look forward to an carly collapse of the present rising.
"The Hiogo News publishes several Foreign Office telegrams, which however, only come down to the 17th March, and are not worth extracting; while the Yokohama papers literally contain nothing from the seat of war Aeductions of their own therefro Leyoud extracts from the native papers and
'The Gazette, indeed, says there is still no definite news from the seat of the civil war. The opinion that a compromise with Saigo will, after all, be effected, gains ground in many quarters, 'The Herald' states that it is said in Tokio, where many letters are received from the army, that the Government troops are getting disheartened on account of their constant defeats, and the bold front shown by the rebels, who seem to think of nothing but victory or death.
The Mail the principal matter of interest that has transpired lias been the arrest and imprisonment of Oyama Tsunayoshi, Vice-Governor of Kagoshima Ira. He appears to have been lured to return to Kioto Yanagiwara, the Envoy sent by the Mikado to Shimadzu, and on his arrival in Kobe he was arrested, degraded, and sent to Tokio. prisoner, being treated, while on the voyage to this port, dignity, Inileed it was only owing to strong representations on the part of the European portion the passengers, that he was permitted to be removed from rage where he had been placed in ty of the cattle, and allowed to receive the commonest elements of comfort. His only crime appears to have been the arrest and examination of the men who were undoubtedly sent by some one or other to create a disturbance in Satsuma, and ther to assassinate those leaders whose principles are too pat 1¢ present, jovernment, oF to involve them in certain schemes 80 a fair excuse for their judicial mud
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