The British Chamber of Commerce on Monday circulated to members the contents of a telegram! received from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. The telegram, which is dated June 2%, is as follows "The following resolution was unanimously passed to-day; please inform your members, that the executive of the China section of the Manchester Chamber having carefully considered the position of affairs in the China market) brought about by the fall in change and other causes, are unanimously of opinion' that merchants here should decline to! cancel orders on books and that any other course of action would he! detrimental to the best interests of the trade as a whole."
It is worth noting that this resolution wa¢ passed before news of the local Chamber's action could have been received.
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