Show the british in jeddo A yacht having been bent sent by the queen to be given to the emperor of japan we left nagasaki with her for that place our squadron ion oon consisting slating beside her only of the retribution and a gunboat gun boat after five days three of which were spent in a very heavy beavy gale lale of wind we arrived at simoda the opened by the americans and where their consul general lives it is to be given up as it is utterly useless as a harbor too small and open with no trade after remaining there two days and investing in japanese lacquer ware which is thebert in the world we vve came on here jeddo the port poet of jeddo is at kanagawa about fifteen miles down the gulf great objection has always been made to in men en of war coming further up indeed kanagawa itself has baa only been open a few months the japanese said great obstacles existed to ships coming to jeddo we however put it to the test and without the least difficulty ra ran n right up and are anchored within their own men of war which we did not know were here and within a mile of the forts of jeddo the town stretches for miles round the bay I 1 suppose it is the largest in the world for it covers more ground than london with between and of people which if I 1 recollect right is more than the london batio i 1 jeddo without exception is one of the finest cities in the world streets broad and good and the castle which includes nearly the whole centre of 0 the town built on a slight eminence there are three walls orin or in closures round this quarter within the inner the tycoon emperor and heir apparent live the houses bouses of the princes and nobles are palaces and you may imagine the size when some contain followers they are built in in regular order forming wide streets some forty yards broad kept in perfect order all an courtyard court yard willi wih trees and gardens forms the centre of each enclosure in in the midst of which is the house of the owner the houses c containing onta ining the followers servants stables ac form this large enclosure they are built of one uniform shape the gateways wa s leading to the courtyard court yard vard are exceedingly handsome of massive massive wood wooed work ornamented with lacquer and other devices from the road that leads by the moat to the second wall is one of the finest views I 1 ever recollect seeing on one side is is the gulf of jeddo with the high hills rising beyond while on the other is is a portion of the great city of jeddo with its trees and gardens picturesque temples and densely crowded streets extending as far as the eye can reach lowass towards the ine lne interior t then there is a view of the trees and g green r ee elds fields in in the distance far away beyond a th thickly bickl built suburb but the most striking a view of all is that close by athe tife well kept green banks of the second detell defence ce rising sope some seventy feet from the broad moat below with grand old cedars over a hundred years of age growing browin from its sides aides the fine timber the lay of tiie the ground the water lilies in in the moat the grandeur good order and comple compie completeness completed ten si of everything equal and in in some ways far surpass anything I 1 have ever seen in in europe or any part of the world kiwe we m made ade an expedition into the country the cottages were surrounded with neatly clipped hash hazl hedges es the private residences as well railed and kept as anyplace in england the same completeness and finish exist in in everything the botanical gardens are very good and well cared for 2 good nurseries of young pines cedars c 2 ca cor orn orA london ondon times sep 2 THE GREAT COBETA COBET COIET A very intelligent document has been issued from the precincts of harvard university relating to the recent magnificent comet which so powerfully powerful ily liy lly attracted the united vision of the whole human race we gather from its ita pages that this celestial which slipped BO so gracefully along its invisible line in space was some aou miles from us at the time of its ita discovery in june and anait it was then traveling at the rate of miles achour an hour this velocity constantly increased as the grand phenomenon approached pro ached the eun eur and like the swelling 0 dimensions dimension ii of or the illusive phantasmagoria it seemed daily to expand iri in huik hulk as we surveyed its filmy outlines ita its maximum velocity was nearly miles an hour excelling the speed of the planet mercury mercurs aier Aler curf curi this was at its arih perihelion elio eilo n point int mi miles ies les tea seems to have bee been n tto tio the e in measure a sure of its distance from us october 11 or some nearer to the earth than it approached the sun the difference between its aphelion and its perihelion velocity seems to be the difference between miles and miles in an hour the difference between its remotest and its nearest bolar solar distance is or nearly eight times the distance of the planet uranus this immense reach however would hardly carry it to another system when the nearest fixed star is billions of leagues from us Its period af pf p orbital revolution is about twenty or centuries the alze aize as as speed that ranged from two thousand miles diameter when about miles from us and only less than one third that distance the intensity of its light was deeper at it its smaller phase that nucleus evolved a number of luminous envelopes which in ag aggregate formed a beautiful alphi theatre to the spectator at the cambridge gambridge refractor to smaller glasses these concentric arches were conglomerate and formed a hood bood halo or brilliant bow over the nucleus indeed the halo appeared larger than a semicircle even nearer the sweep of an entire carrle it certainly closed in iff until the dark axis prevented its further penetration or progress towards the formation of a whole periphery 0 on the loth of october its train extended over miles in length and exhibited a spread of in width both these dimensions varied the length shrank to and the breadth narrowed to faint streamers also darted from or gashed flashed forth occasionally at an inconceivable rate of velocity sometimes to the remoteness of miles rr Y herald jan 4 |