journal L'Avenir clu Tonkin i contains the fall the commissioners appointed by the Chinese Government to arrange with the Chinese and Black Ting generals in Tonquin for the withdrawal of their forces from that country.
Phe delegation, anyo L'Aven com: posed of Messrs. Woodruff, Louis Rocher and Volpicelli, of the Imperial Customs, Kong-ki-chin, ping, Sun-yel ing and Vi-chu, Chinese mandarin The commissioners left Haiphong on the 23¢d April, arriving at Hanoi on the morning of the 25th, where suitable quarters had been provided for their accommodation by the civil administration. The sume day, at5 pin, the Chinese mandarins and the Europeans who accompanied them wer by the Genern! commanding th i was accom:
la staff. They tials, and their powers being they expressed the great desire which China entertained to trent with France, and assured the General that they should 0 every endeavour to successfully acouplish their mission. ing day, the 26th, the companied by Cxp-Staff interpreter, embarked on board the Eclair and started for Tuyen-quan, Tudging by the quantity of good things of all kinds taken on board the Eclair, the Chinese did not appear to be badly treated, Since their departure we have heard negotiations had been commenced with the generals of the army of ¥ i the chief of the Black Flags, Liu-They were stopped at Phu-dean, at the junction of the rivers Claire and the Son; koi, and to hasten the conclusion of their undertaking they left there in sampans to proceed up the Song koi to meet the nese Generals. As soon as the business cluded at Tuyen-quan, the descended the Claire, afterwards the Red River to reach Than-quan, in order there to make known the orders of the Court of Peking.
On the Long-son side the evacuation is going on regularly. The Breuch re-ocoupied ug-son two ur thr ys since an day last (4th), MI Bourrel, sub-octo of Pusis and Telegraplia, left for the purpose of re-establishing the tel: graph line to Lang-
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