The following telegram has been received by the Shanghai Taotai from the Viceroy Lia of Nanking:—'* Great Britain and the United States have requested for un extension of the Anglo-American Settlements of Shavghai and the Central Government at Peking has acceded to the said request, with instructions that I should appoint the Paotai of Shanghai to act in conjunction with the Consuls-General of Great Britain and-the United States for the settlement of the said extension. As Iam, however, now engaged in settling the Ningpo Cemetery Riot affair with the French Consul-General, you are hereby instructed to make an arrangement with the first-named Consuls-General as to a postponement of the extension question until I shall huve settled matters with the French Consul-General, when the other subject will be at once taken in hand, tofore according to the rights existing by the Treaty of Tientsin and the Edict of 1891.
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_—That a British Consular agent be permanently stationed in Kirin as formerly la Chungking.
VILL—We deprecate most strongly the annexation of this port and of any of the three provinees by any foreign Power: and we rely on the British Government 10 maintain the open door.
TX—We object to the right duimed and exercised by the Russians, of landing railway material without examination or payment of duty: especially as this diminishes the security on which money has been loaned by British subjects to the Chinese Government.
X.—We view with apprehension the establishment of Russian military posts throughout the provinces as at Kirin.
XL—That the Russian Government should be requested to appoint a Consul at this port in view of the large and increasing Russian interests, and the possibility of complications arising which would demand immediate conference between Consul and Officials on the spot.
XIL.—That a copy of these resolutions be sent by the Chairman to Lord Charles Beresford, also another copy with the request that he will communicate the same to Lord Salisbury, and that another copy be sent to Her Majesty's Minister at Poking.
Sa.) J. J, Frepx. Basprvet, Chairman of the Meeting.
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