stone, &e., &c., 350 signatures in all, Foreign Office, 16th November, 187.
My Lorp,—I am directed by the Earl of Derby to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial referred to in your letter of the 9th inst., in which the memorialists state their reasons for urging the ratification by her Majesty's Government of the agreement concluded by Sir Thomas Wade with the Chinese Government at Chefoo, on the 13th of September, 1876, and I am to state that the memorial' shall' receive due con-
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