arl of Shaftesbury, the Most Noble the Marquis of
Cholmondeley, the Right Hon. the Earl of Cavan, the
Right Hon. Lord Lyttleton, the Right Hon. Earl
Strangford, Lord Henry Cholmondeley, the Hon. A.
Kinnaird, M. P., Sir J. F. Davis, Bart., Sir Henry
Havelock, Bart., Sir J. Coleridge, Bart., Sir Roderick
I. Murchison, the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Lord
Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Lord Bishop of
Oxford, the Bishop of Victoria, the Hon. and Rev. B. W.
Noel, the Rev. Canon McNeille, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon,
General Alexander, General Lawrence, Hon. Capt. Maude,
R. N., and other public men.

'In Scotland, the Right Hon. the Earl of Kintore, Rev.
Dr. Guthrie, Professor Sampson, Dr. Bell, and the
Provosts of the principal towns.

'In Ireland, His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord
Gough, Lord Roden, Lord Talbot de Malahide, the Right
Hon. Judge Crampton, Sir W. Hamilton, Astronomer Royal,
and the Right Hon. J. Whiteside, M. P. Under the
auspices of the Lord Lieutenant, Earl of Carlisle.'

In China, while occupied as Medical Missionary and United States
Consul, he published a newspaper in the Chinese language; in
London, also, he rendered valuable service in vindicating our
Government from the attacks of Lord Brougham and Sir John Bowring.

In all his various efforts, Dr. MACGOWAN received the
highest commendation from the press, as well as from his learned
audiences. We therefore call the attention of our readers to the
present essay, on the important subject of 'Japanese Foreign
Relations,' as from the pen of one familiar with the history and
bearing of the questions of which he treats.--ED. CONTINENTAL.]

Strolling recently from Nagasaki toward the volcanic mountain Simabara,
the writer was compelled to retrace his steps by the yaconins, or guards
of the prince of Fizen, and thus he failed to accomplish the object he
had in view--that of searching for the monument erected, it is said, to
commemorate the expulsion of foreigners from Japan, and the suppression
of Christianity, bearing an impious inscription, forbidding Christians
and the God of the Christians from ever appearing in that 'Eden Minor.'
Whether the monument still exists or not, it is certain tha