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Admiral Meyer and the other French Officers now here profess to hope that peace with China will still be preserved; but they say the ultimate result will be decided not so much at Peking, as at Paris, where the Chinese Ambassador to England (Marquis Tseng) has been in direct communication with the French Government.
The recent death of Captain de Rivière, in a sortie from Hanoi (in Tonquin), appears to have caused a deep sensation throughout the French Navy, where he was universally esteemed not only as a gallant Officer, but as the author of several popular novels; in short as the Captain Marryat of France.
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As I have remarked in a previous despatch, the English public will have full and authentic information as to the progress of events in Tonquin, as Mr. Cameron, recently the correspondent of the London Standard in Egypt, has proceeded thither from Hongkong.
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