Tue future of Tongking is a question seriously influencing public opinion in France. The latest plnso is a Protec. torate without military support; and the oredit for longking supplies was only carried by a majority of four in the Chamber ut Deputies, 274 voting fur and 270 against the vote, After the changes and revolutions which have taken place in Tongking during the lust three years, and the dismal of France to furnish further money, we may expect to see this question raised with intensified concern at every vote called fur fromthe Chamber, That country which a few years ago was considered capable of subjugation by a few gauboats and a couple of hundred marines shawld now require some 25,000 Frenchmen and some four millions sterling a year to maintain little more than foothold on the delta of the Red River, argues @ posi tion of the utmost gravity, And that euch ie the view held in Frange can be seen by the recent resignation of the French Premier, That France will welcome any practical scheme for rescuing her in an honourable manner from her embarrassing po in king we feel assured, and it is in is belief that we venture to draw alt tiou one way out of the difficulty that lias been suggested, and which may on faller ex: tion be consid factory both by France and Chins. It generally known that the Japanese established an influential Colony in Tongking over 200 yeara ago; farther, that both in the coautry and in the habits
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