JAPAN.

Press, Volume XIII, Issue 1716, 22 August 1868, Page 3

JAPAN.

By way of America we have news from this country to June sth. The war and political news, says the " Panama Star and Herald," is not satisfactory or clear, but the Japan papers claim that a.reaction in favor of the Tycoon has taken place, and that the temporal authority of the Mikado is still disputed by the friends and retainers of the Tycoon, whose adherents are continually meeting those of the Mikado in hostilities. Stotsbasbi, the Tycoon, was truly and entirely submissive, however, to the Mikado, and the contest is carried on by the friends of each, and fighting was still going on near Yedo. The foreign Ministers were still at Yokohama, Yedo being considered unsafe. The imperial castle at Yedo is in possession of the Mikado's Envoy and a military guard, but the public business is still in the hands of the lato Tycoon's officials. JBer contra, the city of Yokohama is held by the Mikado's officers, and diplomatic intercourse is held with tliem only. A number of French sailors have been murdered at Saki. The following ultimatum baa been presented by the French Minister: — He demands that the Princes Bizar and Tasa, invidious to foreigners, and who are the princes of the murderous clans, present themselves on board the Venus, and there totally disavow this Briurean butchery, and afterwards depart from the sea coast to their own dominions. They are also obliged to produce all their troops, some forty in number, with th& officers in command, who committed this massacre, to be dealt with in their presence, and in addition, to pay the sum of one hundred thousand francs for the "benefit of the families of the murdered men—failing in which hostilities shall be commenced against them on the 17th inst.