LATER FROM JAPAN.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1871, 16 July 1863, Page 4

LATER FROM JAPAN.

We (the Polynesian) are under obligations to a friend for the following translation of a " proclamation of his Majesty the Tycoon of Jap^n," dated Ivanagawn, 12th November, 1862! — " Our country ha« enteied into tieaties with foreign nations, and I therefore recommend that all my subjects should combine to carry out meaiuras for the good of the country. "At present it grieves me to see that there aie In my dominions so many dissatisfied people, because I have consented to the admission of foreigneis, and I regret veiy much that so Uige n body of them should feel displeased at my action. •' To all far-seeing men it is clear that the time has now oome when we can no longer resist the influx of foreigners into the country, »,nd therefore if is my wish that the Daimioys should withdraw J;o their respective terntoiies and strengthen themselves for the defence of the Emphe. " Should there be within your provinces any men of inventive genius, whose discoveries in matters concerning either peace or war are likely to benefit the country notify my Government thereof, and be assiued they shall be suitably rewarded. " During your slay }n fcbfi capital, you will consult about the plan to be adopted for fcho defence of the country on the seaboard, and you have full liberty £o enter my castle whenever you desire to speak of anything which concerns the national good. " Jlereafter there shall be no restrictions of my subjects— high and low- all are at liberty to fieely express their opinions about the Government and the country provided they do not tend to the subversion thereof."

Savage, THE Poet. — A short ode on the Queen's birthday procured for him £50 from her Majesty, with permission to write every year on tha same subject, and x, promise of a like yeavly rewaid, "until something better could be done for him." Nothing better was done, but the ode continued to be written and the pension to be received for some years. On obtaining the money, however, Savage was accustomed to disappear from the sight of .ill his acquaintance until every penny had been spent, and then he experienced distress from which his pen could not relieve him. He lived by chance, most commonly at the expense of new friends formed at taverns, and lodged as much by aoofdont as ho lived, insomuch that in a cellar, or the meanest haunt of the oasual traveller, was to be found (as Johnson has said) the man whose knowledge of life might have aided the statesman, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose conversation might have polished courts. — BenHey 1 ! MUcettmy,