29th Aprit. Tax Draft Law submitted to the French Chamber of Deputies for the approval of the Treaties between France and China signed at Peking on the 20th of Tune last, has been published by the Foreign Office ina White Book, and we have also before us Lord Salisbury's despatch of the 15th of January to the Marquis of Dufferin, H.M/s Ambaseador at Paris, enclosing a copy of the Declaration between Great Britain and France, of the game date, for the settlement of the Siamese question. These treaties and declaration are factors in the accomplishment of one object, the extension of French Indo-China, so as to secure for France the chief access to Yunnan from the south, with the consequent or concurrent partition of Siam. 'I'his matter, to which we have referred already several times, is very clearly treated in an article by "W" in the March issue of the Fortnightly Review, He begins by recalling the despatch of the Secret Committee of the East India Company to' Lord
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