The distribution of photographs of the Prince Imperial is prohibited in France.
A Government Administrator has been appointed to the Diocese of Posen, the Cable has been opened between Lisbon and South America, Concha has been killed, yesterday, attacking the Carlist entrenchments at Maro, near Estrella.
The Republican Army retired without disorder.
Zabala succeeds Concha.
Details since to hand show that the fighting at Estella resulted in a serious Republican defeat, the loss being estimated at 4,000, Many officers are killed. The war materials are safe and the army has retired to Scrim.
MacMalion's order of the day, praising the troops after a review, says that with the army he will throughout the seven years maintain order and authority.
This absolute allusion to the Septenn: has caused some irritation among the Legitimists.
We have received a copy' of a report made by Baron Richthofen to the Geographical Society at Berlin, on the most natural way for a line of Railway between China and Europe," which we hope to reproduce in our next.
We have to acknowledge part 1 of the Returns of Trade at the Treaty Ports in China for 1873, giving an abstract of Trade and Customs Revenui statistics from 1864 to that year.
From various sources we cull notes of the Japanese Expedition to Formosa, which apparently give all that is known of the course of events up to the present time, Locally we have nothing at present to offer with regard to the attempts at nego ciation, or rather to preserve good under standing, between Japan and China, By some it is believed that these efforts will result in Japan not being interfered with in carrying out the immediate and ostensible object of the expedition, and that she will than withdraw and a collision be avoided, China is credited with assuming a peremptory tone, however, and the situation apparently does not get less critical war parties are said to be forming both in Japan and China, while our latest nows from Formosa is not reassuring. The Japan Mail, in recommending the withdrawal of the Japanese force now that the savages have been punished, remarks, truly enough, as to this object of the expedition, that "the China press is, almost to a paper, against the Chinese, a fact which shows how entirely they contrive to alienate all foreign sympathy from themselves by their stolid and uncomplying attitude."
In publishing the translation of the Tsung-li Yamen's despatch to the Japanese Foreign Office, which will be found clsewhere, the Japan Gazette of 25th ult, says "We are by no means authorised to state, but we have a very full assurance that no difficulty between the two Governments is at all likely." The general feeling in Japan seems now to be that it would be a mistake to provoke China to war, a con tingeney which the state of warlike activity reported from the South, and no less existing in the North of China, proves that she is preparing to accept, should Japan persist in occupying Formosa. The Tsung-li Yamen's instructions to the Ohinese Commissioner, Shen Pao Chen, which have been brought to light in the Hongkong Chinese Mail, and a translation of which we reproduce from the China Mail, will be read with interest.
We learn that the Tsungli Yamen have notified to the Foreign Ministers the appointment of Shen Pao-chen, as Imperial Commissioner to Formosa, instructed to look to the integrity of China's empire there, and to deal with international questions which may affect it.
On Monday the high Japanese officers who lately arrived by the Nisshinkan, ro-turned the Taotai's visit at the Yamen in the City. From Chinese sources we learn that the visit was one of ceremony merely, and that the Formosan affair was oh officially brought up. From the same sources, good in themselves, though not easy to confirm, we are told, in proof of the desire of the Japanese to maintain pacific relations with China, that since the two nations have been endeavouring to come to a peaceable understanding the former had
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