NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FRANCE is at last apparently at war with China, though war had not been formally declared on either side when we went to press. The Chinese Envoys, however, had returned from Shanghai to Pekin. The French Charge d'Affaires at Pekin had been recalled by M. PatenOtre at Shanghai, and the Chinese Minister here had received his passports and left Paris for Berlin. France had absolutely insisted on the recognition by China that an indemnity of 80,000,000 francs (23,200,000) was to be paid to France, either in money or in equiva- lents for money, and China had point-blank refused that demand. So we may now hear any day of an attack on the arsenal of Foochow—Foochow itself is probably beyond the reach of the French Navy, being some miles up the Min river, and not even close to its banks—of a development of the operations in Formosa, of a seizure of Hainan, and of active -operations in Anam against the frontier of Quang-si, where it is said that a considerable Chinese force is already assembled.
