The record-union., 1894-12-01
LATE MAIL ADYICEs.
Affairs in Southern Corea in a Very
Bad state.

Affairs in Southern Corea in a Very
Bad state.
VICTORIA (B. c., Nov. 3O.-The North
ern Pacific liner Victoria, thirteen days
from Yokohama, arrived this morning.
,ss-.l AssucIated Press correspondent, writ
ing November 18th, says: No trouble is
expected to result from the affair of the
Sydney. The United States Government
Is understood 10 regard the action of
Japan as justifiable, on the grounds of
self-defense, and Great Britain comedies,
although some form of explanation or
apology may be deemed desirable.
France has taken a less easy view of the
situation, but Is not disposed to make
any serious difficulties. Her opinion ap-
pears TO be that the eXigency was not
sufficiently alarming to call for so grave
measure as the removal of passengers
from a French mail steamship. Later
developments undoubtedly indicate thar
the self-decIared explosive experts were
irresponsible spectators, If not impos-
ters, but the earliest information con-
corning them pointed to very different
conclusion. reports were received con
Meeting Colonel Fred Grant with the un-
dertaking. and his name carried with it
weight which would not have been ac-
corded to unknown adyenturers.
1t is we'll known that Ii Hung Chang
nClQS the memory OF General Grant
reverence, and he would presumably
have been disposed to place unusual re-
sources at the disposal of q party repre-
Senting his son. The sums alleged Ia
have been promised to Colonel Grant and
to have been actually advanced 10 his
agents correspond exactly with those set
forth by the travellers of the Gaelic and
the Sydney. Taking these and other
correlative facts into consideration, the
Japanese Government believed itself un-
der the necessity of guarding against
threatened danger. The French diplo-
matte and Consular officers were power
less to intervene even had they been in
clined TO do so, ana, relying upon tho
authorized rulings OF international law,
Japan aVailed herself of what she claims
as a belligerenJ right. The American
passengers were released on November
18th, after taking oaths not to aid China
in any manner and expressing in writing
their gratitude for the leniency of their
treatment by the Japanese Government.
The Chinese attache of the legation at
Washington was sent to hiroshima for
further examination.
A telegram from Paris announces that
the French Government has referred
several points Of the Sydney affair TO it's
legal advisers, who pronounce Judgment
that Japan acted within her rights and is
not liable to censure under the rules OF
International law.
The United States Government has
asked Japan if proposition to mediate
would be welcome. The OTTER is not made.
the inquiry being put in the direct man
ner stated. Japan withholds her reply.
The feeling of the populace is strongly
against intervention by any Western
country, and the Japanese Government
considers that nothing but an application
from China herself will be acceptable. A
formal reply will be given in few days,
after further ref action.
The seventh session of the Diet has
been convened to meet III Toxic December
I'd. 1t is not anticipated that the pro-
ceedings will be so harmonious as those
of the extraordinary session lately held
at hiroshima. The sole purpose of that
gathering was to authorize war expendI-
lures, and all domestic dissensions were
allowed to rest by common consent. Tbs
loyal and patriotic purposes OF the MEM
bers having been definitely avowed, the
opposition considers itself free TO resume
Its customary violent attitude toward the
Government. Only under an extreme
influence like that produced by the war
could parliamentary quarrels be tempo
rarily laid aside. 1t is hoped that the at
tacks on the Administration Will not be
carried to such an unlimited excess as has
been displayed in former years, Tor the
necessity of proclaiming another disso-
luton would be deeply regretted during
the progress of the hostilities by China.
AS previously reported, the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs recently sent a comm uni
cation to the Governor OF the port OF
Kanagawa, in which 1t was stated that
Japanese subjects serving on board
United States ships in Japanese ports
must be regarded by the Government as
coming under the Jurisdiction OF the inn
perial courts whenever charged with Of
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