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many strange anomalies. Side by side with lofty stone buildings stand rows of rude wooden houses. As with the buildings so with the people; while the mass still wear the native dress, numbers appear in European costume, and the soldiers are dressed in uniform on tse Western model. The environs of Tokio are very picturesque and offer a great variety of pleasant walks or ides. Foreigners cannot do better than spend their leisure hours in rambling over the country. The fluest 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. covered with snow throughout the year. The population of Tokio was, according to the census of 1879, 1,101,496. The foreign residents numbered 565 in 1879, 449 of whom are in the public employ.
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 830 schools of different classes, including one university, having an aggr gate attendance, of both sexes, 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
G. W. Buchanan, 2nd secretary Ernest Satow, Japanese secretary W. G. Aston (acting consul at Kobe) Martin Dohmen, vice-consul and chancelier
(acting consul at Yokohama)
J. H. Gubbins, acting vice-consul and
chancelier
H. A. C. Bonar, F. W. Playfair, W. J.
Kenny, student interpreters
W. Willis, medical officer
Consulate.
M. Dohmen, vice-consul (Yokohama) Ernest M. Satow, acting vice-consul E. Dillon, constable
Legation Mounted Escort.
P. Peacock, inspector
A. Aberdien, sergeant
William Wood, constable E. Dillon
do.
FRENCH.
Gillaume de Roquette, Envoy Extraordin-
ary and Minister Plenipotentiary Conte Lony, 1st secretary Conte de Diesbach, 3rd
do.
Bon. Benoit Miehain, attaché Capt. Du Bousquet, 1st interpreter De Bielke, 2nd 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 Toyeda, interpreter L. Casati, do.
RUSSIAN.
C. Struvé, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary Baron R. Rosen, secretary
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
GERMAN.
K. von Eisendecher, Minister Resident Baron von Gutschmid, sec. of Legation L. von Osten, student interpreter J. Hagenah, messenger
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