3 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

The French have, it is said, conquered three more of

the provinces of Cochin China,—three in the West. They intend apparently to take the whole Peninsula, and if they do will want Siam also, for the sake of revenue. The valley of the Meinam would pay its expenses, which the valley of the Maykiang will scarcely do. There is no ono but ourselves to protect the Siamese, and it is not our interest. We shall PAM be separated by a mountain range from French dominions.