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TOKIO.

Lany strange anomalies. Side by side with lo.ty 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 Europeau 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 pleasaut walks or riles. Foreigners cannot do better than opend their leisure hours iu rambling over the country. The finest scenery is at the northern and western sides of the city, where the country is surrounded by beautiful kills, 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 and its suburbs was, according to the official census of 1881, 1,164,181, of whom 597,637, were males and 566,544 females. The foreign residents were estimated in 1881 at 634, of whom 519 were ia Government or Japanese employ. The Japanese Lope that at no distant date Tokio will, when new quays have been constructed and the Treaties been revised, become the great centre of the foreign trade with Japan.

The native Press is represented by 107 newspapers, several of which are dailies. Among them the Nichi Michi Shimbun, the Hochi Shimbun, the Choya Shimbun, the Jiji Shimpo, and the Akebono Shimbun take the lead. Several others are class organs, and two journals, the Yomiuri Shimbun and Kanayamy Shimbun, are the advocates of woman's rights. There are also several mie journals and illustrated papers.

There are 1,225 schools of different classes, including one wiversity, having an aggregate attendance of both sexes of 138,332, of whom *0,518 are boys and 87,819 girls, according to the official census of 1881.

Legations

BRITISH. Koji-marhi.

DIRECTORY.

Hon. F. R. Plunk tt, Envoy Extraordinary

and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Con

al-General

on. P. H. Le Poer Trench, secretary of Legation

Arthur Larcour, third secretary J. C. Hall, acting Japanese secretary J. H. Gubbius, acting assistant Japanese

secretary

J. H. Longford, acting vice-consul aud

shancelier

R. de B. M. Layard, A. M. Chalmers, C.

8. Hampson, E. A. Griffiths, student in terpreters

Montague Kirkwood, legal adviser Dr. E. Baelz, medical officer (absent) Dr. Var deu Heyden, acting

do.

Rev, A. C. Shaw, M.A., honorary chaplain Ogita Masaichi, linguist

Consulate. (Koji-machi.)

J H. Longford, acting vice-consul Legation Mounted Escort.

V. Pc.cock, inspector Alex. Ai erdein, surgeant F. Dillon, constable

UNITED STATES.

Hon. John A. Bingham, Envoy Extraor

dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

G. Goward, secretary

Dr. W. N. Whitney, interpreter

FRENCH.

Nagat-cho, Ni-cho-me.

A. Sienkiewicz, Envoy Extraordinary and

Minister Plenipotentiary

Comte R. de Viel Car'el, 2nd secretary

(absent)

Prinet, 3rd secretary

Captain Bougouin, military attaché Dautremer, 2nd interpreter

De Lucy Fossarieu, tiird interpreter L'Abbé Evrar, assistant interpreter Dr. Mére, ha'cian

Sakai Tasabou1o, writer

RUSSIAN.

A. Davydow, Envoy Extraordinary and

Minister Plenipotentiary

A. de Speyer, secretary A. Malenda, dragoman

C. Woensky, attaché

W. Boukhovetsky, student interpreter