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Show 2:2 LA TEST FROM JAPAN. San Franc isco, 1 13. The folluwiu is a summary of the news received by i the steamer Japan: Yokohama, Jan. 3. Iwakura is rapidly recovering from hia wounds. No positive clue to his assailant has been discovered, though several arrests have been made. The official census of 1$7 just published, pub-lished, fixes the entire population at 3o, 110, S-3, the male and ltmale being almost equal in numbers. There are twenty-nine members of the Imperial family, 4o9 of the highest nobles, and about 700,000 of the lower order ot gentry. The position of the German minister, minis-ter, You Brandt, in his dispute with the Japanese government is understood under-stood to be J;is follows. He claims that inasmuch as the existing treaties trea-ties exclude all foreigners from tha interior of the empire, the Japanese have already violate i it by introducing introduc-ing ibrfign teachers, etc., lor the in-j ttniction of tlit-ir youth, development oi mineral resources 'uid other kind-ad kind-ad Durposts. On this ground he proposes to resist the further exclti-j sion of any of hid countrymen who choese to travel beyond the prescribed limits either lbr pleasure or trade. ! The national authorities are firm in i their defiance of what they call a monstrous assumption. A memorandum of the Japanese foreign office to European representatives, represen-tatives, mentioned in a dispatch of Dec. -kl, refuting the arguments in favor of extension of exterritoriality! are reii.eralo.1. The matter of pru-j posals is no less objectionable tnan ' before, although the manner :s Jess ofVnsive. It i noU'W-rtiiy that the, luivunient i? i"t signed by the L. S. 1 : minister. A s-.vnfcd answer by the. Japant-eo is euai!y strong in its re-' jectiuii of the demands. The cor-' re? pond e nee is paibably now termi-t nated, though further verb d discus- i siem will be allowed. The first com I mu mention U.vk place "lat Fall, when: intercourse and trade were solicited subject to a scheme of internal juris-. diction laid down by foreign minis-i I ters and to be executed by consular' authority. In their List reply the: j Japanese refuse to entertain any pro-j i posals luokinj to the opening of the1 I country, t-xerp: by means of an en-i en-i f.re revision ut the treaties previous. s I rhey say tnwt such a radical st-.-p ' ! must be regulated by conventions be tvreen nations and not by agreement i ! between a foreign othee and the Ku- r-'p-rar. n,pnentativ.,s. |