APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. PS, 
No. 123. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.* 
FOREIGN OFFICE, April 20, 1888. 
Str: Iam directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit to you 
acopy of adespatch which his Lordship has addressed to Her Majesty’s 
Ambassador at St. Petersburgh and Her Majesty’s Minister at Wash- 
ington,t recording a conversation he has had with the Russian Ambas- 
sador and the United States Chargé d’Affaires at this Court, on the 
subject of the measures which might be adopted to check the indiscrimi- 
nate slaughter of seals in Behring’s Sea. 
I am to request that, in laying the inclosed despatch before Her 
~Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, you will move him to 
favour Lord Salisbury with any observations he may have to offer upon 
the proposals discussed therein. 
lam, &c. (Signed) == JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
No. iIpLE 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received April 21.) 
DOWNING STREET, April 20, 1888. 
Str: With reference to your letter of the 14th instant, [ am directed 
by Lord Knutsford to trausmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 
Salisbury, for any observations which he may have to offer, a copy of a 
telegram from the Governor-General of Canada respecting the cases of 
the British sealers captured last year. 
Iam, &e. (Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
[Inclosure in No. 124.—Telegraphie.] 
The Marquis of Lansdowne to Lord Knutsford. 
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APrriL 18, 1888. 
It seems very desirable time for appeal be extended as long as possible. United 
States Government should, in the interim, release vessels and skins on security abide 
by conditions of negotiations. Owners would desire to appeal as last resort should 
negotiations fail. 
198 No. 125. 
Sir L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received April 23.) 
WASHINGTON, April 11, 1888. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 6th instant, I have 
the honour to inclose to your Lordship herewith copy of a private note 
which I have received from Mr. Bayard, repeating what he had told 
ine on the 6th instant, that no orders had been issued this year for the 
seizure of British sealing-vessels in Behring’s Sea. 
I have forwarded copy of Mr. Bayard’s note to the Marquis of Lans- 
downe. 
I have, &c. (Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
*Also to Board of Trade and Admiralty. tNo.1 
