in re FORMOSA.
H.B.M.'s Mi ter at Poking has addressed the following despatch and inclosures to W.H. Medhurst, taq., H. B. M. Consul at Shanghai, for publication.
Pexino, 7th Nov., 1874.
Sm,—The Prince of Kung and the Taung-li-yamen communicated officially to the Foreign Legations, In: ing, the text of the Ayroement between the Governments of China and Japan, which in my Despatch, No. 77, of the Ist inst., Line formed you had been signed on the 3ist Oct, The matter, if not the form, of its conditions, has been public property for some days, and 1 therefore think it desirable that you should possess them duly auth ticated.
The Agreement, it is tensonable to hope, will close a controversy that has been continued for several mouths, and from farther prolongation of which it wes scarcely possible to anticipate anything but injury to the best interests of both the nations directly engaged in it, Our relations with both considered, I think that the -British community is to be congratulated on the termination of the discussion, and I have much pleasure in authorising you to publish this Despatch and ita Inclosures, Your obedient servant, Taoaas Francis Wave.
W. H, Mevisvast, ¥sq., €e., de, 2, Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.