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TOKYO.

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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 couflagration. But as the city is in a transition state, it necessarily presents many strange anomalies. Side by side with lofty stone buildings stand rows of rule wooden houses. As with 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.

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 Hakone, while beyond rises in solitary grandeur the towering peak of Fusi-yama, covered with snow the greater part of the year. The population of Tokyo and its suburbs vas, according to the official census of 1885, 1,207. 7, of whom 631,005, were

* and 576,842 females. The foreign residents number about 300, many of wi are in Government or Japanese employ. The number of houses in 1885 was 361,479.

The native Pres is represented by more than a hundred newspapers, several of which are da lies. Ag them the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, the Hoch Sihimbun, the Choya Shimbun, the Jiji Stimpo, and the Mainichi Shimbun, take the lead. There are 1,225 schools of different classes, including one university.

Legations.

BRITISH.

DIRECTORY.

1, Gobantcho, Koji-machi. Hugh Fraser, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Consul- General (absent)

Hon. P. H. Le Poer Trench, Chargé

d'Affaires

Geo. Sheffield, secretary of Legation, abst, T. B. Clarke-Thornhill, second secretary J. H. Gubbins, acting Japanese sec: etary Archdeacon A. C. Shaw, M.A., honorary

chaplain

A. H. Lay, J. " utiers, student inter-

preters

H. C. Litchfield, legal adviser Dr. E. Baelz, medical officer

Ogita Masaichi, linguist

Med Escort.

P. Peacock, inspector

Angus Macdonald, constable

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Vice-Consulate.

(Koji-machi.)

acting vice-consul

UNITED STATES. 1, Tsukiji.

Richard B. Hubbard, Envoy Extraordinary

and Minister Plenipotentiary

Fred'k S. Mansfield, secretary of Legation

Edwin Duu, 2nd secretary of Legation Dr. W. N. Whitney, inte. preter

RUSSIAN.

1, Ura Kasumigaseki. Dimitri Schévitch, Envoy Extraordinary

and Minister Plenipotentiary

A. de Speyer, secretary (absent) W. Boukhovetsky, acting interpreter Tn. Vassilieff, student interpreter G. de Wenndriet tudent interpreter Rev. Aim

plain

ITALIAN.

4, Sannencho, Tora-no-mon. Commandeur Renato de Martine, Envo Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary

Luigi Casati, interpreter

FRENCH.

1, Kojimachi Ku, Jidamachi, Ni-cho-me J. A. Sienkiewicz, Envoy Extraordinary

and Minister Plenipotentiary

E. Bourgarel, first secretary J. B. Bedout, second sectary Captain A. E. Bougiin, military attache J. A. Dautremer, second interpreter L'Abbé Evrard, honorary interpreter Dr. A. Mécre, physician

Kurosawa Shuji, writer