27 NOVEMBER 1875, Page 3

We observe with pleasure that the Foreign office has at

once issued the instructions for which Mr. Plimsoll asked, that an expenditure of £2 should be authorised by every English Consul or Vice-Consul in foreign ports, for the purpose of inspecting any English ship loaded with grain leaving that port—an expen- diture which Mr. Plimsoll says is enough to secure the carrying- out of the Act of this year in the only way which will make grain cargoes safe. The promptness of the Foreign Office in acting on Mr. Plimsoll's advice is very commendable.