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Show More Notes from Japau. San Francisco, 2. The following is additional Japanese news by the Vuxcode Gama : Henry W, Dennieon, ' at present United States marshal to the consulate at Yokohama, has been .selected by General Van Buren for the post of Vice Consul General, the privilege of filling that office having been given to the new Consul General. Gene-ral. The nomination goes to Washington Wash-ington by this mail. The departure of Geo. N. Mitchell, now acting .Vice Consul, ia much regretted by Ameri can citizens. B. P. Avery,Miuister to China, had reached Yedo, and would stay there a few days.' It appears by information just re-ctived re-ctived from Shanghai, that the arrest ar-rest of General Le Gender, was in compliance with a telegraphic dispatch dis-patch from Consul General Seward i at Shanghai. This waa supposed to be the transmission of a direct order from the charge at Peking, but the latest intelligence points to the pro- " bability that it was issued on his own responsibility by Mr. Seward, who ! was afterward obliged to retract hii hasty action. It is announced that the new postal arrangements between Japan and the ; United States will go into effect on the 1st of January. The proposed change is regarded with extreme dis- - satisfaction by American residents. |