Memorial of the Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church in Scotland.—(Received November 14)

Unto the Right Honourable Earl Granville, K.G., Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

The Memorial of the Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church in Scotland,
Respectfully sheweth:
THAT the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church have at present in their service a staff of upwards of seventy fully qualified missionaries, besides a large number of native agents, labouring in several mission fields, whom they support at an expenditure of 37,000l. per annum.
That of these missionaries, three ordained missionaries, one medical missionary, and a lady missionary are located in Manchuria, who make occasional journeys to the Corean border, while some of the native agents are labouring in Corea itself.
That the Board are desirous that their missionaries entering Corea should have the same protection and privileges which were secured to all missionaries in China by Articles VIII and IX of the Treaty signed at Tien-tsin in 1858 and ratified at Peking in 1860.
The Board, in these circumstances, beg most respectfully that in any Treaty arrangements between Her Majesty’s Government and the Government of Corea your Lordship’s good offices may be used in favour of securing protection to all persons in Corea, native or foreign, who may teach or profess the Christian religion, and of securing liberty to British subjects to travel with passports to any part of the interior.
In name, and by authority of the Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church.

(Signed)　　WM. NAIRN, Chairman
JAS. BUCHANAN, Foreign Mission Secretary.
United Presbyterian Church Foreign Mission Office,
Edinburgh, November 13, 1883