» According to the following paragraph, trans lated from the Neo Caledonian, of tho sth July, the French troops have been ordered to withdraw from the New Hebridos : — " Yesterday evening," cays tho Neo Caledon ian, " upon the arrival of tho Dupleix, a rum our was circulated throughout the town to the effect that the mail had conveyed to the Government a despatch definitely ordering the j withdrawal of our soldiers from the posts j which they have occupied at Sandwich and

Malicolo. Upon inquiry, we have reason to believe this news to be accurate. Strange coincidence ! The vessel -which brought this sad decision of our ruler bearß the name of Dupteii, tho hero to whom France owed the conquest of the Indies, today the possessions of the English : Dupleix, whom the Central Government put m prison, nnd who was res pited only eventually to perish m the most profound and wretched destitution." Com menting upon L'Adandon des Nouvelles Bib rides, the Neo Caledonian Bays : — " The Gov ernment of which M. de Freycinet is the Prime Minißter has the weakness, m face_ of the demands of Australia, to recall our soldiers from the New Hebrides. It is a dishonour gratuitously imposed upon New Caledonia, from which our unfortunate colony, already so greatly sacrificed, will not find it easy to relieve itself. It ia an unmerited blow on the face which has been given ua by our Govern ment, but which will recoil upon itself. It is the abasement of the tricolour m tho Pacific ; it ia the degradation of our fatherland, the disvowal of her children ; it is the triumph of incapables— the laughing stock who pretend to conduct the Government m Paris. With a Ministry timid and pusillanimous, who, nt Madagascar, delivered without defence, our faithful allies the Sakalves, to their enemies and ours— the flovas j with a Ministry which today abandons the New Hebrides because Bir Graham Berry demands it ; with such a Ministry there is everything to fear. Should it ever have a place m history, it will be named the Ministry of SaoriGce and Immolation. Well whilst you are about it do not rest here, Messieurs. Crown your work, cede aUo Now Caledonia to the Australia™, and cede our other colonies ; cede, as did Isabel of Bavaria, France to England. 