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Show TIIE JArAKSJJ EMBASSY. "TiiE V, .S stcanvfrigatc Roanolcc, with. tlie Jfupanese visitors, will not rrivo- at thiiiportberore the 10th iust.',"and perhaps per-haps not until some days Inter. The Government Go-vernment having wisely reversed its original origi-nal intention of permitting the Embassy to first land at New York, the Ilonnqke, on reaching Quarantine, will at once be ordered back tr Hampton Head. The exact route by which the Japanese willjbc couductod tp Washington is still undecided, undecid-ed, but It is probable that they will disembark disem-bark ut Norfolk, Vn., and proceed thcuce directly to the capitnl in a smaller steamboat. steam-boat. This, although Jess expeditious, j will be much niore convenient and agreeable agree-able for them than tq bo taken in the . Itoano'u'o to AuimpQlte, and sent over the most dismal of .Maryland railways to Washington. Their residence ut Wash-lington Wash-lington will bo in Wiltard's Hotel, an en-I en-I tiro Hoof of which has been secured foi them. , . The New York Comnutlcc appointed to receive and eutcttnih the Kmbnssndors, lexpect that they will visit this city' about ten days nftcr their arrjvul at Washiug-Uon. Washiug-Uon. For their nccommodationuhilo here, khe first floor of the Metropolitan Hotel 1 will be given up, Kooras for one hundred hun-dred persons are to be prepared, and ar- ranged in the style supposed to be most ; satisfactory to Japanese taste a sufli-jcicntly sufli-jcicntly easy plotter, since tho Japanese 'havo no particular tastes in furniture, ' seeking ouly to satisfy necessities, and rc-'gardfng rc-'gardfng with tolerablo indill'crcnce all ' Mich dazzling decorations and ornamental, frivolities as form the principal adorn-mcnLs adorn-mcnLs ot our American hotels. 'I hey are nlso to, be allowed upio opportunity for 1 tlm exercises of their own culinary princi ples, their appetites hot being fully cuu-catcd cuu-catcd to the American standard, and demanding de-manding a good deal of attention which they alone know how to bestow, lhey look with incredulity upon many of our, most elaborate gastronomic preparations and perpetually maintain a. simplicity of 1 rcimen that would reduce a ew lorlw Afderman to certain and speedy stivrva-lUou. stivrva-lUou. Notwithstanding ur, perhaps In consideration of-this fact, the first ue-tmonstratlon ue-tmonstratlon of welcome by the New lore Committee, after the military display with which iho strangers arc to be saluted, will be a brilliant and stupendous diuner at tlw Metropolitan Hotel, in the glories I or which seven hundred persons are pected to sharp. Of course the modest in. tclinatlon or the seventy-two JapaneH mustyicld tq the more highlycnUivatcd.de Isircsofiheir'aixhuttdred and twenty-eight5 Kcw Yoyk. entertainers. Aithough iti tho matter of solid food we fcorjt will' bo ;difllcult for'. .the,Committce.to.'l)rin'g about a 'unanimity: of sciitimdnt between., themselves them-selves and' their guests, yet. When the (jnestin oplicmld luxuries arises, H. iiiorc harmouipus state prJeeling may bp cqtiut-cd cqtiut-cd upon. I?or all bibnlous refinements the Japanese have ever, mnuifested 4 thoroughly cnlfghtcncd appreciation, Jfoliojving tlip mojcitliP, diiincrji-a ball Will have its conrso in thoiiotcli- and pos-Bihly pos-Bihly also. In- Nibfps . Theater, should s much ftd.ditiorial space bb needed.. vX'br this cVeritV tircpatitUpna Will ;bo -madte tp receive tfrom seven,, to ten thousand persons, per-sons, the sight of whose united saltations' will naturally prodnce a startling" effect upon the unaccustomed foreigners;- lint as the. Japanese have not yet experienced the ' benefit of polka and the Lniictr their, participation, in, these -perspiring spdris.is BOmowVat dptilitfuh ' jThe ' em-belKsjinicnts em-belKsjinicnts nnd illumlnatioiis oFtho-liotel On these occasion's of revelry; willwe rirc' informed, bp qidtc of the. Japanese older, "and equal, to, the. most' Jbizarre, an'd '.hrih 'liatit thav Yeddp. could prescnti "Of the o.thcr pJans .for, tlie delectation of our visitors visi-tors we kfiPw very little, as the Cbmmit-jtiic Cbmmit-jtiic hcsilnttt;tji give a premature dcetafa-tfou dcetafa-tfou ofiiitfifitloiis, . Nb dbuht they will b asexpcnsivp.as the heart of "man can do-sire, do-sire, nnd RUillcicht to occupy as; much, time ris flic Cpinmissioncrs (Wi6.' will bp hero about .the.Sih of June) can afford to !pare.--iu F. 2ViHc, |