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Show -. krinC SEA CORRESPONDENCE. Letters Jtet ween the United Slate and the Jh I lie Hi itish Authorities. "5'! i-mxiiTON, July 23. The presi-inrttH presi-inrttH today sent to the house of repre-VV,M' repre-VV,M' alives, in answer to a resolution in- need by Representative Hilt, the iai correspondence between the SM: nf Kivfuin fmiMiW I the soul fisheries of Bohring sea. Iiiiiipauyiiig the letter of transmittal It-president, Secretary Ulaine, under I of Bar Harbor, July 19, regrets I delay in transmission which the lideiit directed on the 11th inst., and l the correspondence is still in pro-Is. pro-Is. The correspondence includes ly separate papeis, beginning with l etter from Edwards, the first see-It see-It of legation and charge d' affaires Ir Minister West's recall, dated lust 1, 1880, and closing with one In Secrets. ry Blaine to Sir Julian Iiicefote. the British minister, dated 111), 1)0. . Ilie opening letter from Edwards I-he is instructed by his government Irall attention to the fact that re-l:ed re-l:ed rumors have reached the British Imminent that British vess-.ls had In Bcraclied and seized by the United lire cruisers in Bohring sea outside lihe three mile limit aud asks the I'.ed States to send stringent instructs instruc-ts to its officers to prevent the possi-Ity possi-Ity of such occurrences taking place. I i this Blaine replied on the same I that some of the rumors were prob-ly prob-ly based on truth, but that up to dale re had been no official conimunica-li conimunica-li received on the subject. He adds: I has been and is the earnest desire of I president of 'the United States to p eucit adjustment as shail remove possible ground of niisunderstand-i niisunderstand-i with her majesty's government con-niuj con-niuj the existing troubles in Behr-hca; Behr-hca; nnd the president believes the pimsibility for delay iu the adjust- |