The daily gazette., 1883-09-08
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
THE EASTERN WAR CLOUD
PASSING AWAY.
VICTIMS OF THE JAVA DISASTER.
China and France Both DESTROYS of Peace
fully Settling the TOnquin Question
Italians Indignant.

PARIS, Sept. 7.-Both the governments of
France and China are equally desirous of
securing peaceful solution of the Tonquln
question, if it can be effected with honor.
The general sentiment favors the hope that
all the issues involved may be submitted to
the arbitration of England.
The statement of China's proposals with
reference to Tonquin, which the Marquis
Tseng recently presented to NJ. Challemel-
Lacour, French Minister of Foreign Affairs,
contains the following bases of settlement,
which appeared to the Minister to be worthy
of consideration. Firstly, settlement OF
the question of China's suzerainty in AMMAN,
in form to be discussed hereafter; secondly,
the delimitation of the frontier, providing q
neutral zone between certain points
The Nationdle of to-day announces that
| France has consented to negotiate with
China for treaty in settlement of the
ToDquin question, which shall be based
upon that concluded by M. Nicolas Prosper
Bouree with the Porte in 1868.
THAT treaty provided that the Govern
ment of France should have the right to ac-
quire property in the Ottoman Empire, in
return for which France should aid the
Porte against inroads from strangers
Orders have been sent TO TouloD and other
naval stations to have transports ready for
the embarkation by the latter part of Sep
TEMPER Oh lUyUUU men In China.
BERLIN, Sept. Tin view of the recent
events in Tonquin the German Envoy at
Pekin, who is now on furlough, has been
ordered to return to his post.
LONDON, Sept. IA despatch from Hong
Kong states that Chinese merchants are
leaving Hacphong (not Canton, as previously
stately on account of the opening of their
letters by the French authorities, who accuse
them of writing to the Chinese mandarins.
The Ne,os prints an account of an inter-
view had by its Paris correspondent with
| the Marquis Tseng. The Marquis declared
| that the movements of the Chinese troops
| had been misrepresented, and that only
| necessary precautions had been taken to
secure the frontier. Many Chinese he said.
| had Joined the Black Flags, but China had
no solidarity with the latter. China was
unable to renounce her suzerainty over
AMMAN, but did not wish to make it more
1 pronounced than hitherto. She would be
| satisfied with the status quo ante, The
Marquis was unable TO say whether China
would recognize the Hue treaty, as he was
| ignorant of the terms thereof and of the
person who signed it.
RooHEFoRT INSULTS KING HUMBERT.
| ROME, Sept. IAN article printed in the
Paris Lntrdnsigedn, by Henri Rochefort,
| abusing King Humbert, has aroused great
| indignation throughout Italy. The article
accused the King of having pocketed the
money subscribed by the French people for
/ the Ischis sufferers, while he was at the
same time urging Germany to annihilate
France. An Italian officer waited upon M.
Rochefort and demanded satisfaction for
the insult of his king, but M. Rochefort re-
fused to grant him hostile meeting.
At a meeting OF Committee of the Ischia
survivors held In Naples yesterday a resolu-
tiun was adopted declaring that they would
refuse all proffers of aid, on the ground that
when charity is offered them in order to
serve as pretext for insulting their king
they feel it is their duty to reject such
charity, not only from France but from the
whole world.
REPLACING HUNGARY's EscUTcHEoN.
AGRAM, Sept, 7.-The Hungarian eseutch-
con, with bi-lingual Inscriptions thereon,
/ was replaced at noon to-day on two govern
ment offices. The ceremony was made more
imposing and effective by the posting of
/ guards, a military salute and grand flour
ish of trumpets. There was no disturbance,
the proclamation of Baron Won Ramberg
evidently having had a good effect and the
whole city remains quiet.
VICTIMS OF THE JAVA DISASTER,
| BATAVIA, Java, Sept. 7.-An official re-
| port of the recent disaster has not yet been
published. The number of natives killed at
Bantam, Batavia and Lampong is es mated
at $4,000. The number of Europeans lost
is unknown The garrison and the Dutch
| Resident at Zelokbetong were saved. Ter
rible distress prevails at Tolokbetong. As
it is Hnapproachab,e by the sea, owing to
the bay being filed with banks of pumice
stone. The telegraph line from Batavia to
Zelokbetong was destroyed.
THE HAGUE, Sept. TIT is now certainly
known that the Lloyd steamer Batavia
passed through the Sunda Straits, thus
showing that they are navigable.
BERLIN, Sept. IA letter from Batavia
says that famine is compile ting the havoc
1 there.
COLUMBIA PROFESSOR HoNoRED,
MUNICH, Sept. 7-At the session of the
International Law Institute held In this city
yesterday John F. Dillon, Professor of the