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peace has caused general satisfaction at Houghong, the centre of that vast trade which has suffered severely from the protracted Franco- Chinese hostilities. At the same
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time, there is a general feeling that the fact of France having consented to an armistice and to negotiations for peace immediately after the
serious reverse which her arms
have
recently suffered in Tonquin, is calculated to inflate the national pride of the Chinese, and to render them difficult of management by
all
all European States. Assuredly, the last phase of the historical drama which has been played in the Far East during the last two not the least grotesque. The brotocol
years, is
A
of pease is signed at Paris by person employed in the Chinese. Customs Department, and by a Clock in the French Foreign Office, and is approved by Mr Freycinet, who was not at that time the Minister for Foreign Affairs. This transaction is
communicated to the British
Legation at Peking, and thence
telegraphed