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TOKYO.

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passengers. The main streets and those adjacent to them are lighted by gas, and the remainder by oil lamps. A race course has been formed close to Uyeno. Lines of telegraph, amounting in all to 200 miles, connect the various parts of the city with one another, and with the country lines. The main streets are broad and well kept, and improvements attend the work of reconstruction after each conflagration. But as the city is in a transition state, it necessarily presents many strange anomalies. Side by side with loty stone buildings stand rows of rude wooden houses. the buildings so with the people; while the mass still wear the native dress, numbers appear in European costume. The soldiers and police are dressed in uniform on the Western model.

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The environs of Tokyo are very picturesque and offer a great variety of pleasant walks or rides. Foreigners will find much to interest them in the country round. 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 Hikone, while beyond rises in solitary grandeur the towering peak of Fusi-yama, I with show the greater part of the year. The population of Tokyo and its suburbs was, according to the official census of 1885, 1,207,847, of whom 631,005, were males and 576,812 females. The foreign residents number between 500 and 600, most of whom are in Government or Japanese employ. The number of houses in 1885 was 361,479. The Japanese hope that, when new quays have been constructed and the Treaties been revised, Tokyo will eventually become the great centre of the fore; trade with Japan.

The native is is represented by more than a hundred newspapers, several of which are dailies. Among them the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, the Hochi Shimbun, the Chog : Shimbun, the Jiji Shimpo, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Akebono Shimbun takʊ 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 illustrated papers. There are 1,225 schools of different classes,

ncluding one university.

Legations.

BRITISH.

1, Gobantcho, Koji-marhi.

DIRECTORY,

Hon. Sir F. R. Plunkett, K.C.M.G., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary, and Consul-General

Hon. P. H. Le Poer Trench, secretary of

Legation

R. de B. M. Layard, second assistant and

private secretary

E. A. Griffiths, R. G. E. Forster, student H. C. Litchfield, legal adviser

interpreters

Dr. E. Baelz, medical officer

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

Mounted Escort.

Arthur Larcom, acting third secretary W. G. Aston, Japanese secretary (absent) | P. Peacock, inspector J. C. Hall, assistant Japanese secretary E. Dillon, constable

(acting consul at Yokohama)

J. H. Gubbins, acting Japanese secretary J. H. Longford, chancelier

Vice-Consulate. (Koji-machi.)

J. H. Longford, vice-consul