ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the letters of Lord Granville to Gladstone and vice-versa. The letter was send from Mallet, who has had a long interview with Ozenne. He has made a table by which he shows that the small proportion only of the Anglo Franco trade is affected by the proposed reductions. There is to be a meeting of the Chambers of Commerce at Plymouth and the resolution is to be proposed to make no concession with respect to the French Treaty, but the Chairman told Mallet that there was much more division between them than he had anticipated. Gavard complained of the hostile tone of the Press on the subject, and that it was much to be regretted that the real state of the case could not be explained. Lord Granville have authorised Mallet to communicate confidentially with some of the leading manufacturers again.
