Tue action attributed to the Marq: Desdug in having addressed a letter to a German newspaper on diplomatic questions, is in every sense of the word a most extraordinary one, The Marquis has been much blamed, and as we think unjustly, for taking advantage of the new fashion of interviewing which now provaile in Earope, and of availing himself in certain measure of the influence of the Press. As a fact, we believe that the Chinese Ambassador has been groutly pestered by newspaper correspondents, and has simply done his best to put them off with as few words as possible, which have been made the very most of in the publio'papers. Wo know that he has complained of the annoyance to which he has been subjected; but having to submit to it, he did the only thing which Iny in his power, and took care that the little he was forced to say should be of such a nature as to favour his own policy, Bat now weare told that he Las actually written a letter to the Breslau Gazette or the Deutsche Revue,—both papers are named—commenting on the threat of France to exact a war-indemnity. This threat, he says, is premature, for, despite the fall of Sontai, China is far from thinking that she is on the road to o Sedan. The Marq "then represented as repronching England and Germany, in not very' dignified terms, with not having interfered with France, and then as winding up with a still more undignified menace on his own account to the effect that the two countries referred to will find out their mistake when the inland tax on foreign commerce, instead of being abolished, as intended, comes to be doubled, All this may be very magni.
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