Mr. Runyon to Mr. Gresham.

No. 169.]

Sir: Referring to Mr. Coleman’s dispatch No. 125, of July 27 last, I have the honor to state that I have to-day been informed by the imperial foreign office that the prohibition placed upon the sale of American canned beef by the local authorities at Heilbronn, in Würtemberg, has been removed.

I have, etc.,

Theodore Runyon.