NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week has been marked by what may prove a grave misfortune for France. The Chamber, by a vote of more than two to one, in a very full house, has affirmed the policy of .conquest in Tonquin as essential to the honour and the interests of France. The attack was feeble, though supported in able speeches by M. Granet, editor of La France, and by M. Clemen- -man ; but no other known man intervened on that side, and M. Clemenceau was fettered by incessant admissions that simple -withdrawal was impossible. M. Granet charged the Govern- ment with breach of its engagements, with concealing the true situation, especially as to China, and with sending out insuffi- cient forces. It had promised all fine things, but as a result its troops were barely able to defend themselves in the Delta of the Songkoi. M. Clemencean pointed out the analogy of the war with the invasion of Mexico, and insisted that the Government had deceived the Chambers and violated the Constitution, by entering on a war "which, if not a war with Anam and China, was at least a war with Anamites and Chinese.' He animadverted fiercely on the policy of waiting for events -recommended by M. Challemel-Lacour, which he defined as the policy of the Empire that had led to the invasion of France.
