§ MR. KINNAIRDasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government are preparing to take steps to receive the eminent Japanese statesman Iwakura and the other distinguished persons composing the Japanese Embassy, who are expected shortly to arrive in England, in a manner calculated to mark our appreciation of the policy of the Emperor and the efforts of his Government to establish cordial relations with Foreign Powers?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir Harry Parkes, General Alexander, and Mr. Aston, Interpreter to the Legation in Japan, have been appointed to attend to the Japanese Embassy on their arrival and during their stay in this country, but at present we have no intimation as to the probable time of their arrival.