The foreign Legations after this come to the conclusion that life at Yedo is attended by too many anxieties, and retire to Yokuhama till the Government should promise to make things safer and more comfortable. This they ultimately pledge themselves to do. Our author has occasion shortly after to make a long overland journey through the country, and on the night of his return to Yedo the Legation is attacked by a band of assassins, who severely wound Messrs Oliphant and Morrison, and very nearly murder everybody. Some idea of the nature of that midnight struggle may be formed from the following list of persons killed and wounded in the passages and garden of the Legation:— _Killed._ One of the Tycoon’s body-guard, and one groom, 2 Two of the assailants, 2 _Severely wounded._ Tycoon’s soldier, 1 Daimio’s soldier, 1 Porters (one died same day), 2 Assailant (captured—committed suicide), 1 Member of Legation, 1 Servants of Legation, 2 _Slightly wounded._ Tycoon’s guard, 7 Daimio’s guard, 2 Priest in temple adjoining, 1 Member of Legation, 1 —— Total killed and wounded on the spot, 23 With reference to the fate of these assailants, the following extract from a letter from Mr Alcock to Earl Russell appears in the papers just laid before Parliament:— “The Ministers have since informed me that three more of the assailants on the night of the 5th July have been arrested in Prince Mito’s territories, and will be proceeded against; also that the only survivor in the recent attack on the Foreign Minister has confessed that some of the party were men engaged in the attack on the Legation. If so—and only fourteen were actually engaged (which has always seemed to me doubtful)—they will have pretty well accounted for the whole number: Three having been killed on the spot; three taken prisoners and since executed; two committed suicide; three more lately arrested; three supposed to have been killed in the recent attack on the Foreign Minister. Total, fourteen.” The following paper found on the body of one of the assailants gives the reasons of the band for making the attempt:—