Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-25
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. FOO CHOW BOMBARDED. Terrible Work by the
 French Fleet. u PONG PAO LEAVES PARIS. The Chinese Troops March !. Into TOnquin. AN INCREASE OF THE CHOLERA. The Plague Shows EtseIfEn
 Italy.
AN INCREASE OF THE CHOLERA.
The Plague Shows Itself Tm
 Italy.
FRANCE AND CHINA.

HostIIitfes Opened at Foo ChOw~A
 Sharp Fight i'm the Roadsteads in
 Which Several Chinese Vessels are
 Sunk-The Chinese Minister Leaves
 Paris.
 LONDON, August 24-Hostilities at Foo Chow began at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Admiral Courbet announced at 9 o'clock Fri day night that he had received orders from Paris to make reprisals. On hearing this the British vice consul and doctor left their an- chorage and reached the English gunboats at midnight At Shanghai the French consul lowered his flag as soon as he learned that the admiral was to lombard the arsenal at Foo Chow. It was at once given out that tel egrams to Foo Chow would be accepted only at the sender's risk and that such telegrams would have to go from Shanghai to Foo Chow over the wires of the Chinese government. The earliest reports from the scene of conflict announced that the French had captured the Chinese fleet stationed at Foo Chow, losing two of their vessels, which were sunk. The French vessels were forbidden to enter the Taku Roadsteads Seventeen thousand rifles and a quantity of dynamite and gun cotton were landed by the Chinese, and masked batteries were hastily erected From Hong Kong the French residents were departing in haste. Two thousand French soldiers were momentarily expected to arrive there from Tonquin. Russia is sending three more ironclads to reinforce her fleet in Chi nese waters, and diversion is expected in the South, the Governors of Yunnan and Quangsi having received imperial orders to march with their forces into Tonquip.
 The stories pending the negotiations are very conflicting. During the day tbe Ii Fong Pao was said to have received dis patch of 200 words from his government, in consequence of which he informed M. Ferry that he would postpone his departure from Paris The Journal Le Paris stated it's be- lief that the object of the dispatch was to sound Ii Fong Pao concerning the chances of submitting the quarrel to arbitration. Before the regular opening of the Bourse three per cent. rentes were buoyant at 77f. 95c for the account on the report that Ii Fong Pao would continue negotiations with the French government. Moreover, it was reported from Pekin that Ii Hung Chang had been instructed to make pacific ad vances. But at eight o'clock in the evening Ii Fong Pao put an end to these rumors by leaving Paris.
 The merchants and underwriters of Lon don held meeting to-day to consider the bearing of the Franco-C Chinese difficulty on neutrals, as Prime Minister Ferry had an- nounced that the bombardment of Keeling would not create state of war but was sim ply means of furthering the French nego- tiations with China. The inquiry was raised in the meeting whether Admiral Courbet would admit English or German yes sells loaded with arms into Foo Chow. One neutral vessel, it was stated, was now en route for that port with cargo of dyna- mite ordered by the viceroy. The meeting resolved to urge Earl Granville, secretary of State for foreign affairs, to press France to define her intention regarding neutrals. At the same time it is semi-oficially stated at Paris that inasmuch as France has not de- clared war, neutral vessels going to China are not subject to the restriction which would be imposed in a state of actual war.