. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 . artist. Pattern Designer (from a native drawing.) with some humour, hasrepresented as engaged in designing patterns. We quite regretted that all these curiosities ofdress and material should be displayed before per-sons so little able to appreciate them. There can beno doubt that the contents of a Japanese silk-mercer sshop, transported to England, and exhibited to thefemale public of our metropolis, would draw largeand fashionable crowds. While we were in despairabout what to buy, and lost in perplexed
. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 . artist. Pattern Designer (from a native drawing.) with some humour, hasrepresented as engaged in designing patterns. We quite regretted that all these curiosities ofdress and material should be displayed before per-sons so little able to appreciate them. There can beno doubt that the contents of a Japanese silk-mercer sshop, transported to England, and exhibited to thefemale public of our metropolis, would draw largeand fashionable crowds. While we were in despairabout what to buy, and lost in perplexed speculationas to what would do for dresses, I was amused inwatching the humours of the crowd collected in thestreet below, waiting for our reappearance. Theywere kept from pressing near the doorway by acord drawn in a semicircle round it. But a good dealof badinage went on; and one man was so muchlaughed at that he got excited, and was about toresort to violent measures, when he was at oncecollared by the ever-vigilant police; his hands werefastened behind him, and he was walked off in. ORGANISATION OF THE POLICE DEPAETMENT. 139 double-quick time, to the great amusement of thebystanders. I also observed, for the first time, one or two cartsof a very rude construction, and drawn by bullocks ;but they are apparently very little used in lower orders, whose rank does not entitle themeither to ride on horseback or to go in norimons, arecarried by two men in a most uncomfortable sort ofbasket, which doubles their knees up to their chins,so that it almost gives one the cramp to look atthem. The whole system of municipal government in thecities in Japan seems very perfect. There is a mayoror governor, some of whose emissaries lived in ourante-chamber ; and there are a certain number ofdeputies to assist him, and a class of ofiicials whoseem to be the intermediaries between the people andthose in authority, and whose business it is to receiveand present petitions, and to forw
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