Japanese Finances

The Japanese Government fiuds itself fiuancially straiteaed by the continued drafte of its new civilización and the assumption of the feudal tenures, and tlie budget just issued cuts down the expenditui-es from 68,000,000 yen (99 cents) to 62,000,000. Somc of the normal anti girls' high schools suffer by this retrenehment. The. Emporor and his family have a personal reveuue of only 827,000 yen. He has lately been on a journey with the Empress to Kioto, to visit the ancestral tombs nnd open a railroad. ïliis public association -with tlu1 people, in company with the Empress, the ftrst instance of wliicli was within i few raonths, is having a great popular influonc A Bmall rèoelMon against the abulition of the feudal system has been suppreesed. The now American organ, the Tokio TiuiCK, warraly advocud s a customs révenne and n-otection to nativti industry, and is ol eburse in hot controversy with tle old liritisli periodicals.