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Show spicuously worthy of record and comment. In his own country the Baron's illness has evoked no sympathy, his labors at Portsmouth have won no applause. On the contrary, he is made the target for criticism and abuse that are virulent enough to suggest the possibility possi-bility of personal vio!encewhen he lands in his native country. The great majority of the Japanese people are sufficiently intelligent intelli-gent to understand that Komura yielded at Portsmouth only under orders which he dared not disobey. They know, tto. that those orders or-ders came direct from the throne. But they entertain the ancient fiction that the ruler of the State can do no wrong, and that the unpopular acts of his administration must be charged against his Ministers, and not against himself. That theory is easily' tenable in England, in Italy or in Spain, where th,e authority of the executive execu-tive is nominal only; but in Japan, where the Emperor is a real power in the State, adherence to it, brings loyalty to the verge of the grotesque. The spectacle of the patient Komura converted to the uses of a scapegoat would excite the laughter-of the whole world were the physical condition of the man himself not such as to make him an object of sympathy. BARON KOMURA RETURNING TO JAPAN. Baron Komura returns to his home a convalescent. The fact that his health has improved after an attack that at first seemed likely to develop into a long and perhaps dangerous illness has been noted in all newspapers of consequence here, which i an event con- |