the Editor of the Norru-Cnrva Dany News, Sm,—M. Patendtre ing rend in your issue of this day Ghat it woul \ppreind wet, by both Chinese and foreigners in Shanghai, if ho would give some public assitranée that, whatever the Frouch may feel themselves compelled to do elsewhere, the porce and good order of these Settlements will be respected, and Aint a reassuring word frou him would do a great deal of good and would restore confidence where confidencois wanting, ete.
Tam in tre to assure you and the public that the Government of the French Republic is, and has been from the first, perfectly willing to respect the peace and order of those Settlenients, aid, locally, riot to do anything that might cause alarm to either Chinese or foreigners.
If the Chinese authorities are prepared, it part, to' make a like statement of us, I do not see that' any subsist for further apprehension, discomfort or uneasiness, Tremain, ete, G. Lemarre, Consul-General for France, Shanghai, 14th August, We are given to understand that the above letter may be accepted as tantimoint to an assurance covering all the points in the editorial paragraph' to which it refers, and that the French Minister has no intentions affecting either this port or Woosung other than pacific.—Ep.
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