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FRANCE. The correspondent of the Morning Post ivrites PARIS, March 5. 1 understand the French Government has already given oders for a s,pplernentary navai force to proceed ¡r;¡:e- diately to the Chinese waters. Before the present hostili- ties took place a series of grievances had been reported orne, and the official agents of France, as well as those of Great Britaiii, maintained that such was the grovving in- solence of the Chinese as to render the security of Eu- ropeans impossible unless they were chastised. Similar reports, I presume, reached America, for the Government of the United States agreed with England and France to tnake a combined demonstration. Of this fact I informed you some weeks since. But I should presume the affair of the Arrow occurred whilst the instructions of the three overntnents were all the high seas. At all events, the ebates in the Houses of Parliament appear to be exceed- itigly trifling and narrow-minded in the arguments used to attack Government. The old error of supposing all the rest of the world Englishmen, and applying an English code of morals, runs through the heavy, crawling speeches, ich encumber the question with wordy trifling. Never did the British Parliament present a more humiliating aspect in the eyes of foreigners. The three most powerful and enlightened peoples of the globe having tried in vain to teach the Chinese the ordinary laws of civilisation and numanised intercourse, agree after years of forbearance to apply force as the only alternative. Such a proceeding is quite as much for the benefit of the Celestials as ourselves. We are but breaching the walled crime of an empire where the voice of Heaven appears to cry out for the destruction of a state of society in which murder and crueliies of every description, shielded by the abuse of power, have caused an internal revolt to be carried on for the last three or four years. Surely the gentlemen, just now very senti- mental about our treatment of people who are rewarded by the near relative of the moon to cut the throats and poison Europeans, whose presence in China as merchants affords support to Tnill iona-s u rely they might, whilst moralising, I jeave tne Arrow for a moment and take a more broad and Christian view of the question. Or is it that political faction prevents a reasoning mind from using its more noble attributes? But, apart from this, where is the patriotism of England ? In the House of Commons it appears with a minority of 16. The ancient empires of Greece and Rome, when they began to decay, quarrelled Wth their generals abroad and refused supplies there is now as then an opposition of faction which forgets the honour of their country in personalties. It is high time for public opinion in England to disperse a Parliament "hich is humiliating the country in the eyes of foreigners and causing us to blush at home. The French papers have almost unanimously identified themselves, from the Commencement of the Chinese difficulty, with the acts of the British authorities, and have so strongly advocated the "option of the most decisive steps against the faithless and inhuman Government of Pekin that the censure im- plied by the vote carried by the coalition rather causes them regret than satisfaction. The eloquence of a Derby, a Gladstone, or a Disraeli has not sufficed to wash out in the memory of these journals the blood shed in China by hundreds of Christian martyrs. It may consequently be Understood that the philanthropic views which have screened the attack of the coalition, have inspired them only with suspicion or with aversion. PAIUS, March 8: The treaty of peace signed at Paris has left for the capital of Persia. His Excellency Ferouk Khan will re- tnain here until its ratification by the Shah he will then proceed to London in order to exchange the same at the Court of St. James's. IRussia has just entered for the first time into official re ations with a South American republic, having exchanged a treaty between her and the Republic of Venezuela. ,j.e supposed fall of Lord Palmerston, I hear, has been Ie f^ ?'th great joy at most of the Continental Courts. Some foreign ambassadors at Paris have received orders to tr 1111 f° respective Go,ernments the most minute deta']" ?- "? is going on in England. I was told by a fore;„ f 01"I gn diplomatist to-day that no event for a long time Pasth?"??? ? so much sensation, as most Continental ?'"? telegraphic despatches of the 'mnorit? ?'?"-?'sterE, concluded that vote condemned the foreiKcr" pohcy generally of Lord PalmerstoH's Cabinet.

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