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realm, and that by giving ear to suchwild rumours and assuming a defiant attitude, they had committed afault not to be lightly condoned. ENGRAVING: STONE AND WOODEN LANTERNS ERECTED IN FRONT OF SHRINESCHAPTER XLVITHE MEIJI GOVERNMENTTHE LEADERS OF REFORMIN When a member of the latter occupied the throne, the Courtenjoyed opulence, owing to its possession of the e such was reported as having been guilty of rebellion or homicide,he was to be sent back (to his former lord); that any who manifests arefractory disposition must either be sent back or expelled; thatwhere the hostages given by sub-vassals to their mesne lords hadcommitted an offence requiring punishment by banishment or death, areport in writing of the circumstances must be made to theadministrators' office and their

Consequently, although plenty of menprofess these doctrines, the number of those that practise them isvery small. FOREIGN MILITARY SCIENCEIt was during the days of the thirteenth shogun that Japan may besaid to have commenced her practical study of foreign militaryscience. he capital, Seoul,was to be immediately commenced, one corps marching by the easterncoast-road, one by the central route, and one by the western. As for the feeling ofthe nation at large, it was abundantly manifested by many of thegreat feudatories, w