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costume, and the soldiers are dressed in uniform on the Western model. The environs of Tokio are very picturesque and offer a great variety of pleasant walks or tides. Foreigners cannot do better than spend their leisure hours in rambling over the country. The finest scenery is at the northern and western sides of the city, where the country is surrounded by beautiful hills, from which there is a distant view of the noble mountains of Hakone, while beyond rises in solitary grandeur the towering peak of Fusi yama. The population of Tokio was, according to the census of 1877, 1,036,771. The foreign residents numbered 434 in 1878, a large proportion of whom are in the employ of the Japanese Government.
A foreign newspaper called the Tokio Times is published weekly in Tokio. The native Press is represented by about forty newspapers, several of which are dailies. Among them the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, the Hochi Sh mbun, the Choya Shimbun, and the Akebono Shimbun take the lead. Several others are class organs, and two journals, the Yomiuri Shimbun and Kanayomy Shimbun, are the advocates of woman's rights. There are also several comic journals, and on illustrated paper called the Yeiri Shimbun. There are 850 primary schools, having an aggregate attendance, of both scxes, of from sixty to seventy thousand.
Legations.
BRITISH.
DIRECTORY.
Sir Harry S. Parkes, K.C.B., Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Consul-General (absent)
J. Gordon Kennedy, secretary and chargé
d'affaires
Hon. J. Saumarez, 2nd do. Ernest Satow, Japanese secretary
W. G. Aston, assistant Japanese secretary Marten Dohmen, vice-consul and chancelier
(absent)
J. H. Gubbins, acting vice-consul and
chancelier
L. W. Küchler, student interpreter W. Anderson, F.R.C.S. Eng, medical officer
Consulate.
M. Dohmen, vice-consul (absent)
M. de Balloy, 1st secretary and chargé
d'affaires
Conte de Diesbach, 3rd do. Bor. Benoist Miehain, attaché Capt. Du Bousquet, 1st interpreter L'Abbe Evard, interprete honnoraire Roquemartine, interprete auxiliare
ITALIAN.
Ulisse-Barbolani di Cesapiana, Conte Raf- fele, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Martin-Lanciarez, Cav. Eugenio, secretary G. Stanig, interpreter Mangaki, do.
RUSSIAN.
C. Struvé, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary
J. H. Gubbins, acting vice-consul and Baron R. Rosen, secretary
chancelier
E. Dillon, constable
Legation Mounted Escort.
P. Peacock, inspector
A. Aberdien, sergeant
William Wood, constable
E. Dillon
do.
FRENCH.
A. Malende, interpreter
B. Kostileff, student interpreter
UNITED STATES.
Hon. John A. Bingham, Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary D. W. Stevens, secretary
!D. Thompson, interpreter
NETHERLANDS.
De Geoffroy, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi- W. F. H.von Weckherlin, Minister Resident
nister Plenipotentiary (absent)
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L. von Poldez, acting chancelier
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