Foreign Affairs

At Steglitz near Berlín, wlille a number of pcople who had excureionized thither for Sunday were pressing forward to enter the train for their return, gatheredon the track outeide, anothcr train from Berlin, which did not stop at that point, came thundering along and ran over or knoeked to one Bidé alargo number of the crowd before they could getoutof way, killing 39 persons, and seriously iiounding many others. FBANCE AND CHINA. China has gone to war with France aboutthe oceupation of Tont[uin. Hostilities were begun suaaemy. AOSIVE'cniSi. Hong Kong dispatches of the 4th inst., state tUat there is a general movement of troops throughout the Chinese empire, their objective point being Cantón, which will undoubtedly be the base from which operations agaiust Anam will be direetcd, Four thousand soldiers have left Shanghai for Cantón. Preparations are in progrees at all the northern military depots for the dispatch of a large forcé to the seuth, and reports from Nankicg and Hangehow indícate ttjat arrangements to iorward large bodies of men to the south have been comdeted. Severa] thousand men are working night and day on Hwangchoo forts. These forts command the river approach to Cacton, and will be relied on by the Chinese to prevent attack on Cantón by the French fleet. Dispatchee state that the missionaries in Anam are flying bef ore the advance of the Chinese troops, who show them but little respecte when they fall into their hands. Two inissionaries and two Auamite converts were captuied by Chinese tooops th other day, when the missionaries were badly maltreated and the converts put to deatb. AliUSINO ITALY'S KINCÍ. An artiele printed in the Paris Intransigant by Henri Kochefort, abusing K.ing Humbert, roused great indienation throughout Italy. 'he artiele accused the King of baving pocket:d money subscrlbed by the French for the schia sufferers, while he was at the same time rging Germany to annihilate France. An tallan offleer waited upon Rochefort and denanded satisfaction for the insult to his King, ut Rochefort refused to graat him a meeting. A meeling of the Ichia survivors was held in Naples, and resolutions were adopted declaring that they woult1 refuse all proffers of aid on t'uo ground that when chariety is offered them in order to serve as a pretext for insultine; their King they feel that it is their duty to rejectisuch charity, not only from France but from the whole world.