THE MARQUIS TSENG.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3871, 13 December 1883, Page 4

THE MARQUIS TSENG.

The London Figaro says of the Marquis Tseng:—" He is earning golden opinions on all sides by the way in which lie is carrying on tho negotiations with Franco. He has always been socially popular since he first gave those ' At Homes ' in Portland Place,'but the existence of the present crisis has further developed his very admirable qualities as a diplomatist, one of the chief of them being his exceptionally calm and equable temper. Nor is his diplomatic repose associated with that deceitful cunning , which is too often a characteristic of the Mongol diplomatist. He has much tact, but of Oriental slyness there seems to bo no trace."

The Paris correspondent of the Sydney Herald says of the Chinese Ambassador : — "Marquis Tseng is a cool, courtly, and astute politician, more than a match as regards those qualities for the Ministers with whom he has to deal. How far this diplomatic superiority may assist him in inducing the French Government to retreat from the dangerous position it has so wantonly taken remains to be seen. The French farmers and industrialists want peace ; but tho people of the towns, with their heads full of the rodomontades of their half-penny newspapers, and incited to warlike aspirations by the drilling of all the schoolboys and the conscription of all the male youth of the country, are getting too generally to regard war as not only inevitable but desirable, as certain to occur sooner or later, and as a sure road to glory and profit for ' resuscitated ' France."