NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT is by no means certain that M. Ferry is to win, after all. The result of the division on the Vote of Credit, taken on Friday, has not yet reached us ; but it was believed on Thurs- day night that it would be accompanied with a severe censure. In spite of the weight of the Yellow Book, six hundred pages of close print, the Deputies have picked out the plums, and have discovered that they have been egregiously deceived. Not only has China all along threatened war if Tonquin were occupied ; but M. Bouree, the French Ambassador at Pekin, constantly and pointedly informed his Government that the menace was a reality. M. Bour6e even described the steps which the Chinese Government would take, explained that no rush could now be made on Pekin in face of the formidable earthworks thrown up, and finally, risked recall by telling his superiors that they were ignorant of the most essential facts. Read- ing these statements, the Deputies acknowledge that they have been tricked into risking a war with China. Of course, they do not acknowledge that most of the facts were public before, and that in trusting M. Ferry, they were, partly at least, blinded by their own desire to get a tropical estate for nothing.
