The New York herald., 1869-06-28

mine upon those that merit approval.
After the reading OF the message the House pro
| ceeded to business.
The Idea OF this Parliament has evidently beer
started by some of those Princes who have visited
Europe and America and who have evidently pro
hted by what they there saw. 1t will be seen, how
ever by the following rules and regulations for thu
government OF this body that the House, so far ha
no real power but that 1t is simply an advisory
board, as everyth ing must go to the Emperor the
Government Councils for approval. Neverthess it 1,
undoubtedly great advance movement, and, how
ever detective this their first "HOuse OF Commons
may prove to be, II Will insure ultimately to Japan
a mud and wise government. And should per
| 1ect constitutional government supersede the pre-
sent despotic one III Japan as | think it will in
| lew years. this country will have shown example
OF the most rapid reform In government that can be
met with In ancient or modern history
SViEME FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE
PARLIAMENT:
The settlement the laws Of the Assembly is the most i'm
@ to hs Of Ss lsssep n the these sS
not charge itself with (provding agans
The period for which the members Of Parliamen, will
elected every years Retiring members may be imn e.
sn sS o wiz a the
Tor me st re election half the members win retire by lot
sa NsmSsIs Of Parliament not hold other Office
tire substitute win immediately be elected.
the wn s1Sas to ne reSsn to will hand
wish IN IL. be- s
IN SsIug wrng 10 the President or to any member.
mus, rs have Foundation and substance.
Der them, and having copied to
be printed The order in which motions win before the
and will in no way depend upon the numbers which they
Six days in every MONTH The 3d. 7h i2h, Ish, sed and
S 10 s5e e nea Ss .sS Says s1. OF assembly, a.
Ii. Ihe places the House win be numbered beforehand
@sr places, n Wish they VIM ascordnsy
IL aSsry month SIX ocers named KANT ahs functions Of
destined m a. a medium Of oOmmancaton between members
OF Gs House and & the pesden and to assist the latter
essea FROM the - members % of
be handed to each member. p''N '-''A "''
an pnsfa 1 o. % H.
S ne Sa w % sn with them
OF as to the reasons for this opinion they will be
l5 members will read out their opinions
or address questions viii be according to the liked number Of
49, on the second occasion when subject comes up for
oh bs are NO, restricted 70 speaking once On
s the members in
%
merits may put big opinion in writing and hand it to the
is Paper: thus % handed q the rresiden. wi when the
M
proved they viii bear the character Ia no red ink the
g
Biihs of the members favor of notion de-
ment.
motion the President win declare IT lost will be aban
r. WSsn iS4ss vote. are wanting to make II,
hhs the President has the of deciding the question
a. the ayes and the noes together no. amount
three Gfths of the members Of will
* should Of the whoo Mon.e decas that the
motion should be heard again in the same year, the motion
"a AZ each assembly there win be three matters be
been received at the previous
hs Ss al Sa s
meeng Thirdly the receipt Of new motion These con-
competent Introduce variations orders Of the day.
2 should % d. any % % before the Am have
postponed until the mex, meeting when the officers of the
ga When the officers of the government attended the
House. a kSn or 0Ges Uf s aCs will viii confer with
taking deeply into consideration the arguments par
2 The various motions the results Of the scrunies and
and % The PpsSsn WI be
The board by his side the House will be silent
~ should any member be prevented from attending he
81 pfciy may sve his for the member who has del
q. 10 member may hold more than one proxy;
less than two-afths OF the whole House are present
% any ssa % he ns a 10 s e
called upon to exercise his authority by any member.
| substantiate statements.
While we record, with pleasure, the advance the
Japanese are making In Their ideas OF government,
these reforms will be opposed by large number OF
the Daimios. When the great convention OF the
princes Is to take place has not yet ransplred all of
| them not vet having arrived at Jeddo. am more
inclined to the opinion above gwen from the fac
dislike to foreigners occasionally crops out During
| tine last two weeds tine tokaido has been
o eT ~ns to the
and every now and again some insult to foreigners
Be inc asi ne
Of Of these trains, have been forced to de-
scend from their carriages or horses One OF these
days ago some gentlemen, among whom was Captain
Stanhope OF the royal navy while returning 10 Yoko
rage during the passage OF some noblemans train.
| A complaint was made to Sir Harry Parkes, who
70 Captan ,S mop 10, on
man who was responsible for the insult. This was a
first refused. Sir Harry threatened that II his
| should cease between the Japanese and foreign
Powers ut is no dcult matter for Sir Harry to in
ntence the other Ministersl. The yaps had to come
down. The apology was made and the fags will ny
from the dag stafYs OF the various legations. But
besides this there has been one or two occurrences
ut Yokohama equally serious, although the same
| fuss has not been made about them. About nine
O'Clock on the night of the soth ut Lieutenant Dr
tion, was passing through Curio street, when some
one hit him blow with club from behind tina
ton to the Legation. A little while aflerward,
Mons. vivet, also connected with the French Lega
| ton, was attacked In the same manner. On tht
| night Of the 5th an attempt was made to fire the
| French Legation, and the next nght an attack wat
made upon another interpreter In the same service
| why all this spite shown towards the Frenchmen
some have tried to interpret expression Of
dislike the Japanese entertain towards the Frencf
on account Of there being several OF the latter
aiding Ennomotto. This may be the case, II the as
sauts have oil been made by some aamourais be
| longing to some Daimlo recently arrived at Jedd0
| Although the government have apologizcd the cul
prits have been found. Isuppose the result will
be another bill for indemnlication But seriously
speaking II these affairs not treated with prope
| determination we shall have O repetition Of tht
| series of murders that made foreigners afraid Il
| leave the settlement three years ago. In conse
quence Of these occurrences the settlement Ia agair
| guarded by foreign troops, and no Yacomin Is al.
| lowed TO enter Yokohama without q pass.
The news from the North has been quite interest
| ing since my last In the first pace the Stonewal
IL not lost, reported then, although she reache,
Maco bay about twenty i've mixes s0atn Of AVA