Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Uhl .

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, in relation to the fur-seal fishery, which I had returned to you on the 11th with a view to the correction of a passage in page 21, where it is assumed that the proposal of your Government for the renewal of the arrangement of last year respecting the voluntary sealing up of arms and implements of fishery had been assented to by Her Majesty’s Government

In a separate note of this date, in reply to yours of the 18th instant, I have explained the grounds on which I ventured to take exception to the passage above mentioned, and although it has not been modified or withdrawn, I do not think it necessary to make any further remarks on the subject.

I shall not fail to transmit to my Government by to-morrow’s mail a copy of the whole correspondence.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.