§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that at the British Settlement and Treaty Port of Tien Tsin, China, the English inhabitants have no postal arrangements provided for them; whether he is aware that the Germans, the French, and the Russians have post offices there; whether 90 per cent, of the whole mail matter of the Settlement is British, and the trade with Great Britain and her Dependencies amounts to several millions 292 sterling annually; whether he is aware that the British mails which now arrive at that important Treaty Port of Tien Tsin are now handed over to the German post office there for distribution; and whether he will at once communicate with Hong Kong regarding this grievance?
§ SIR E. GREYHer Majesty's Government have no special information on the various points raised in this question, but Her Majesty's Minister at Pekin will be instructed to report on the subject.