One of the Canton dailies has published a somewhat remarkable piece of information here, though whence the news was derived does not appear. It concerns matters of considerable importance as far as the East is concerned, and touches tha countries of China, Japan, Annam, and Siam. The recommendations and changes referred. to are said to have had their origin in France, avd as the relations between France and England have been more and more friendly. during the last year or so, there is nothing impossible in the foot that some French au-
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