We reprint the foreign Secretary's written answer to the Memorial of the London merchants, in order to keep up our record of the correspondence which has been interchanged. Mr. "Matheson's response to this dooument, will be printed in our next issue.
"Her Majesty'sGovernmentarenot surprised that the memorialists have learnt the nature of the Convention in question with a certain dissatisfaction, for it cannot be denied that, compared with the recommendations and claims of the interest which they represent, urged upon Sir R. Alcock prior to the recent negotiations, inconsidé Her Majesty's Goverment, the advantages obtained may appear somewhat however, have held a very different opinion from that of the memorialists as to the limits within which it was desirable, in the general
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