M. Merimle
To avoid being entangled with this Hydra-headed "Foreign Affairs Committee, I should hope that Sir Edward Lytton might direct us to some guarded accord.
Very curtly, I should think it wrong to bute... But his Lordship always declines to answer the question, which has always been much discussed in Parliament?
Sir E. Lytton... This is a matter for great decision - But...
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Dom Moh 28
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In Hongkong Kong 27th Feb
W. Sumner Exp. Sri...
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"during the last few...
Jaji
in reference to recent transactions at Hong Kong, 21 March 1859
letter
Just repeating the trial of Mr. Tarrant at Hong Kong, as directed by Secretary Sir E. Lytton, I state that the extract which you quote from his Speech in the House is wholly incorrect, and that he might decline to answer the question.
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