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Tras. Whatter it is well calculated for that with aefence of the development now given by Rukia

& her Establishments to the north of China may be mattre of doubt; but such as it is it must for the percrut at least be considered as a position of essential importance & Bitesh interests in that quartre.

Lord Malmesbury has desurd & place these various points under the considriation of Sie Edward Buchere Lytton witte refrence to the question which now presser for solution at least in so far as mistinctions to be srut to the Earl of Elgin are concerned, that question bring whatthere It is Excellancy should be authorized, failing & obtain the assent of

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ther Chinese fovernment to the recedure of a British Minister at Pahin, to insist upon the conduct of the foreign relations of the Chinese Empire bring confided both now and permanently to the Governor of the Chickrang Provmer, involving as that arrangement would do the separation of the offices of Chief Superintendent and of Gourmor of Hougtrong, and the " aesidence of the formere at Shanghai . On this question the Earl of Malmesburg would be glad to recrive Lû Edward Bularn

Lytton's opinion at his earliest

Convenience.

Jaw, Lin, Jour most obederal,

Hunch Lawant.

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