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LONDON, October, Both, 18S2.-LErrER No. "a.

LONDON, October, Both, 18S2.-LErTER No. "a.
THE MIKADo's UNCLE,
Prince Tarosito Arisuagawa No-Miya, is now in
Europe on a visit to the royal courts. This
Prince, who is q General in the Japanese army,
will be remembered as having taken a prominent
partin the reception accorded to King Kalakaua at
the court of Toxic last year. He also came by
way of India and Egypt, and having already
visited Rome, Vienna and Paris, Ii now at Ber-
lin, where he has been received by the Emperor
with all the honors due to his imperial rank.
Next week he goes to Brussels and then comes
here, to pay his respects to the Queen.
THE ORIGIN or PoLYNEsIANs,
That ever debatable question forms the subject
of n paper by Mr.. c. 5. Wake, published in the
proceedings of the Anthropological Society.
From a consideration of the physical peculiari-
ties of the Oceanic races, the author arrives at
the following conclusions: 1st. The Eastern
Archipelago was. al a very early period, in
habited by a straight haired race, belonging to the
so-caIled Caucasian stock, the present modern
representatives of which are the Australians I'D.
I'd. To this race belonged also ancestors of all
the Oceanic races, including the Papuans, Me-
lanesians, MicroneSianS, Tasmanians and
Polynesians, as shown by their common posses
sion of certain physical characters. 3D.. The
special peeuliarities of the several dark races are
due To the introduction of various foreign ele-
ments, the .Negritos having influenced all of
them in varying degrees. 4th. The lighter
Oceanic races show traces of the Negrito in-
fuence, but they have been affected at various
periods by intermi1ture with people from the
Asiatic race, giving rise on the one hand to the
socalled ''savage Malays," and on the other hand
to the Polynesias, who have been specially af-
fected by the Malays.
PARAGRAPHS.
Sir Arthur Gordon will not return to New Zea-
lund, but he will be appointed to the Governor
hips of one of the West Indian Colonies. Rear
Admiral Maclean, who accompanied Priucc
Henry of Prussia on his cruise round the world,
has been appointed Imperial Commissioner to
the Naval Court at Hamburg. Advices from
Cuba state that the planters generally predict
a late sugar crop on account of the drought. A
company has been established by an English
syndicate, representing 81, 900, 900, for the pur-
pose of opening direct steamship communion
ton between Liverpool and San Francisco, and
Pacific Railroad Companies. One iron steamer
of $500 tons for this service has already been
launched, and another will soon follow. Re-
cent dispatches from the South Pacific state
that the French are still in occupation of Riatea,
one of the islands leeward of Tahiti, from which
they are excluded by the provisions of the treaty
of l847. No settlement of the question has yet
been arrived at between the English and French
and the matter will soon be
brought up again in Parliament.
NAVAL NOTES.
NJ. 5. Triumph, the late flagship i'll the Pa
cihc, has been paid off at Portsmouth. During
her long commission of over four years on the
Pacific station, she has flown the flags of three
viz: Rear-Admirals De Horsey, Stir
ling and Lyons, and been commanded by as
many captains, viz: Captain Bradshaw, Bed
ford and Markham. During her commission the