Extract of a Letter from J. Stephen, Esq., to John Backhouse, Esq.
With reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter of the 11th instant, I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you, for the information of Viscount Palmerston, the enclosed Memorandum, containing all the information which it appears to Lord John Russell necessary or practicable to afford in answer to the statements contained in the communication from Mr. Somes to Lord Palmerston, a copy of which accompanied your letter of the 15th November last.