§ MR. LAYARDsaid, he might also take that opportunity of making an explanation 718 with regard to a statement of his the other evening. He regretted to say that he had done an injustice to a meritorious newspaper, the Illustrated London News, in assuming that their Art correspondent was not in Japan on the occasion of the attack upon the batteries at Kagosima. The editor of the paper had informed him that their correspondent really was in Japan at the time.