Tae telegram sent by M, Tricou, estal that Li Hung-chang had disavowed the Chinese ambassador in Paris, bids fair to become famous in the annals of diplomacy. It appears to have boon worded thus "The Viceroy Li Hung-chang has appealed to me not to leave Shanghai, Ho is very anxious and sorry for the turn things have taken, and otates that he utterly.disavows the Marquis Taéng. 1 replied that my health made my departure imperative, and Latart to-night." Of course the effect of apparently not occurring the Deputies. The Spectator has the following remarks upon the incident It now appears that the telegram, sout, had scarcely any, if any, found fact. Lhe Chinese Foreign Office absolutely any inatyuotions of the kind, Li -chaug device that ho ever disavowed Aimbaseador, while both emphatically approval of the conduct of the Marquis ig, 9 well they may, That single man line done more in a few mont to the Muropean appreciation of Chin ability and weoraft than his Government has dono in two centuries, Indeed, it clour, from the communications made by the Marquis to interviewers, that he doos not ber lieve that M. Tricou, who was at Shanghai, Li Hang-chang, who hates the who was at Ti thr journey off. The French explanation, except that the word was not hit dit la difficult not that some hing of th kind occurred telegraphed to Hung-chang complaining of th Marquis Teeug for publishing despatches in extense without the consent of the French Govern ment, which is, no doubt, an unusual, though not unprecedented proceeding. Li Hung-chang telegraphed back that ho was not rev sponsible for the Ambassador, civilly aiding hia regret at Mf. Tricou'a approaching depar-disavowal" and up by M. ato was coming on,
ceted or known the SIN, Forty, thou truth, could not revist the te tation: throw such a shell among the D-put who, a2 he understood thoroughly, were caring only about the possibility of war. If they only suspected divided counsels in China, that would be a victory for him.
All this, thinks the Spectator, goes to prove that while the Chamber claims and exercises sovereignty in France, yet it is deceived, almost befooled, by its own agente, and when it learns that it has been misled does not seriously care. The Saturday also comments very trenchantly uponthematter. The reputation of the French Government for diplomatic skill has suffered severely. "It has been entrapped into negotiations with subordinates, and has committed the fault of forgetting' that the Marquis Tseng was not the Envoy of the Queen of Mada-
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