LETTRE DE M. WADE, 9 OCTOBRE

Pe-Ring, 9*** october 1875.

M Y DEAR CoM.EAGUE,

1 acquainted you some days since with my détermination to send Mr. Grosvenor lo England. 1 bave now rcceived from the Chinese Government guarantees in my opinion sudicient to induce me to change my earlicr décision, and 1 bope to Icave this for Shanghaï on the iith instant for the purpose of despalching Mr. Gros>enor lo Yùn-Nan.

I bave as yet spoken on this subject only to yourself and such other of mv colleagues as l was associatcd with in conférence on the question of Emigration to Cuba, last Mardi when the intelligence of the Vun-\an outrage obligcd me to inform you that I must for the time ^ithdraw from the work of médiation, and I