THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY TO THE LORD LISGAR

Downing Street, 11th May 1871.

My Lord,

Thave the honourto acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, No. 89 of the 20th of April, forwarding a Petition to the Queen received from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec, and signed by a large number of the Roman Catholic Clergy and laity of that Diocese, praying for the intervention of Her Majesty’s Government with a view to the restoration of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope.

I request that you will inform the Archbishop that this Petition has been laid before the Queen who was pleased to receive it very graciously. Several memorials of a similar character have lately been received by Her Majesty, and as the most convenient mode of answering the present Petition, I inclose a copy