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the information of Lord Knutsford that His Lordship has been for -Some time past in communication with the Manager of the London Agency of the Corporation upon the subject of the refusal of the Spanish Colonial Authorities to permit the Company to be registered

Commercial

at Manila as a

and Financial Association, without imposing practically impossible conditions; and that Her Majstio Ambassador

at

Madrid has already made urgent representations to the Spanish Government with respect to this

case

case as involving serious injury to important British;

interests and as

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being in the opinion of Her Majesty's fovernment a violation of the rights secured to British subjecto by the Declaration signed at Madrid on January 29, 1883, relative to the mutical recognition of Joint Stock Companies &c. Laving

Proceedings

been since taken

-by Mesors Jurado V6 ? against the Manila Agency for an Embargo of $825,000 within 8 days, the application granted by the Lower Count

was

without allowing appeal until

after