The official correspondence in regard to Sir Charles Euan- Smith's
mission was issued on Monday evening. As might be expected, the correspondent of the Central News "wrote up" the incidents he had to chronicle, to some extent. For example, the tearing up of the Treaty which has been so much talked of never took place. Sir Charles Euan-Smith did, however, tear up a paper, "a document which the Minister for Foreign Affairs had placed in the hands of one of my staff in an improper and irregular manner, in order that it might reach me indirectly and entail no responsibility on the Minister himself." " Sub- ject to your lordship's decision to the contrary," says Sir Charles, "I venture to hold that I could pursue no other course than to tear up the paper, since in no other way could I have fixed the responsibility for it upon the proper quarter." The incident was evidently not a very important one, and it is, we think, clear that the British Minister did nothing improper. We have dealt with the main features of the corre- spondence elsewhere.
