of constitutional liberty and toleration. Their influence
upon the new career of their country was marked and salutary.
Through the agency of Mr. Laurence Oliphant a part of them became
misled with the delusions of Thomas Lake Harris, and with him
removed to Brocton on the shores of Lake Erie, U. S. where they
resided for a time as members of the Brotherhood of the New Life.
They had as associates in this singular community Lady Oliphant and
her distinguished son, and like them were called upon to perform the
ordinary menial employments connected with the community.

292 It should be stated here that a despatch to the British envoy from
Earl Russell arrived just after the sailing of the expedition in
which he says: "That Her Majesty's government positively enjoin you
not to undertake any military operation whatever in the interior of
Japan; and they would indeed regret the adoption of any measures of
hostility against the Japanese government or princes, even though
limited to naval operations, unless absolutely required by
self-defence." Had this order arrived in time, it is probable that
the expedition would not have sailed.--_Correspondence Respecting
Affairs in Japan_, 1875, No. 1, p. 45.

293 It will be remembered that the United States at this time had
occasion to use all her ships-of-war at home in the civil war that
was raging.

294 See _Treaties and Conventions between the Empire of Japan and Other
Powers_, p. 318.

295 The only additional circumstance that deserves mention in this
connection is that in response to a widely expressed public
sentiment the Congress of the United States in 1883 refunded to
Japan $785,000.87, her share in this indemnity.--See _Treaties and
Conventions between the Empire of Japan and Other Powers_, p. 320.

296 See translation of _Kinse Shiriaku_, Yokohama, 1876, p. 59.

297 See translation of _Kinse Shiriaku_, Yokohama, p. 50.

298 See translation of _Kinse Shiraku_, Yokohama, p. 24.

299 See citation in Adams' _History of Japan_, vol. i., p. 260.

300 Toyokichi Iyenaga, Ph.D., in his pamphlet on the _Constitutional
Development of Japan_, p. 17, traces the evolution of the present
parliamentary institutions to the conferences which were held at
this and subsequent times.

301 Among these was S