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TOKIO.

Rows of fine houses it brick and stone, and new bridges, in many cases of iron or stone, have been built, and the city nas in many portious been thoroughly modernised. The streets are generally broad and well kept. The environs 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 finest scenery is at the northern and western sides cf the city where the country is surrounded by be utiful 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 number some 300, a large proportion of whom are in the employ of the Japanese Government.

A foren newspaper called the Tokio Times is published weekly in Tokio. The native Press is represented by about twen'y 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. The Da-jo-Kan is the Government Gazette of Tokio. Several others are class organs, and one journal, the Musumé Shimbun, is the advocate of woman's rights.

DIRECTORY.

Legations.

BRITISH.

Sir Harry S. Parkes, K.C.B., Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Consul-General

J. Gordon Kennedy, secretary Hon. J. Saumarez, 2nd do. Ernest Satow, Japanese secretary

W. G. Aston, assistant Japanese secretary

(absent)

T. H. R. McClatchie, 1st assistant and in-

terpreter

Marten Dohmen, vice-consul and chancelier J. W. McCarthy, L. W. Küchler, student

interpreters

W. Anderson, F.R.C.S. Eng., medical officer Consulate.

M. Dohmen, vice-consul

Legation Mounted Escort.

E. Dillon, constable

P. Peacock, inspector

A. Aberdien, sergeant

Thomas Davies, constable

William Wood

do.

E. Dillon

do.

FRENCH.

De Montherot, attaché Evrard, interpreter

Roquemartine, assistant interpreter

ITALIAN.

Ulisse-Barbolani di Cesapiana Contre Raf- faele, Euvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

P. Castelli, consul G. Stanig, interpreter

do. Mangaki,

RUSSIAN.

C. Struvé, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-

nister Plenipotentiary (absent) Baron R. Rosen, secretary A. Malende, interpreter

B. Kostileff, student interpreter

UNITED STATES.

Hon. John A. Bingham, Envoy Extraor- dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (ab- sent)

D. W. Stevens, secretary and chargé

d'affaires

De Geoffroy, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi- D. Thompson, interpreter

nister Plenipotentiary

M. de Balloy, 1st secretary

R. de Monbel, 2nd do. (absent)

Diesbach, 3rd

do.

NETHERLANDS.

W. F. H.von Weckherlin, minister Resident

(absent)