Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 9th of November
last, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to
you, for the information of Secretary Sir E.B. Lytton, copies
of a Despatch and it's enclosure from Her Majesty's Minister
at Washington respecting his attempts to obtain the relaxation
of the Laws affecting the United States Coasting Trade.