We are requested by the Chairman of the International Committee to state that he has received " letter from Sir Ernest Satow, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister to Japan. with reference 10 the memorial of the British residents forwarded to.the Foreign Office some time ago. After state ing that the memorial had "been. duly received at the Foreign Office, Sir Ernest Satow says that he has been instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to inform the Chairman of the International Commit that the questions to which the Conimittee have called attention have for some, time past been under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government. satisfactory so far as it yoes, andthe signatories of the memorial cannot of course expect to be informed at the present stage as to the actual steps Lord Salisbury is taking in the matter. We believe, however, that the action taken by British sidents will strengthen the hands of Lord' Salisbury and the British representative in this country, and -as showing "the influence which the memorial has already exercised, we would draw the: atterition'of readers to thw rematks'on_ the prison question of the Vice-Minister for Home Affairs appearing in another column, where it is announced
established ae. the present 'Treaty' ports, Uhat special prisons" will probably be where foreigners who inay be incarcerated will have treatment suited to the difference in customs between East amd West. This, as our readers know, is one of the practical suggestions put forward in the memorial.
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