THE FRANCO-CHINESE TROUBLE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Paris, April 4.

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THE FRANCO-CHINESE TROUBLE. [BY TELEG R A PH. —CO P YRIG HT.] [REUT ERS TELEGRAMS.] Paris, April 4.

It is considered doubtful if China will accept the terms of peace proposed by M. Ferry, sis the lecent negotiations for a peaceful .settlement, commenced by M. Patrenotre, tlio Frendi Miiiister in China, were of an entirely informal character. It is announced that General Bolanjjcr, at present French commandant in Tunis, lias been appointed to the supreme command of the forces in Tonquin, and %vill lea\e shortly for that country.

THh f-ympathy of one weaker th.in ourselves, the Byinj)athy even of a little child, will aid the most resolute. To be truly great it is necessary to be tt uly good and benevolent, for all other distinctions the clods of the valley will covei and the greedy worm destroy. "Whit is tho breed of your calf?" said u would -bo buyer to a farmer. " Well," said the farmer, " all I know about it is that his father gored a juaticc of tho peace to death and tossed a book agent into the fence corner, and his mother chased a female lecturer two miles, and if that ain't breed euougli you needn't take him." Shaft Sinkimj is Quicksands.— A paper liai been read by M. Haton de la Goupillidre before the Sociute d' Encouragement upon the system of sinking •hafte in watery toils and quicksands invented by Herr Poetsch, by means of hollow iron tubes with cutting sabots, sunk in a circle round the well. Within these are placed other smaller tubes, piciced with holes, and through them a refrigerating liquid is forcerl in a continuous current until the soil all round is completely frozen, and thus tho intrusion of the sand and water is prevented so as to allow the sinking of the main shaft. The plan has been adopted with gieat mcccss by Messrs. Siemens at their colliery, Schenkendorf, in Prussia, where the vein of blown coal in overlaid by a quicksand, making it veiy difficult to get at, for the shaft could not resist the enoinioiis pressure of the water. By applying Horr Poetieh'a system, however, a great wall of ice was gradually formed round the shaft, causing such a low temperature that tho masses of saud before they arrived at the suiface had to be thawed again. The (juickiand wai comrlotely subdued, and a very promising colliery developed in consequence. Mr John Knoj will scl! at the Hamilton Auction Mart on Saturday, potatoes, fruit, furniture, horse-power chaff-cutter, choice fowl", peacock and hen, fee. He has for private sale a choic* farm of 40 acres, adjnininjf Lake-road railw iy station, with dwelling houso*, outbuild, ings, &t. Terms easy.