The Foreign Office published, on Saturday, a note, in which
',Ord Napier, British Ambassador to St. Petersburg, describes his interview with Prince Gortschakoff on receipt of the Russian replies. The substance of the conversation was this :— The British Ambassador asked whether the result of any con- ference on the Six Points would be embodied in a convention, but the Russian, if he "did not perhaps absolutely commit himself against such a conclusion, refused to admit it, and repeatedly asserted that he would accede to nothing which would give the Western Powers any right whatever of inter- fering in the internal concerns of the Russian Empire in which he seemed to include the kingdom of Poland, though I did not cease to contend that we had a limited right of inter- ference there under the treaty of Vienna." In other words, the Prince refuses to recognize the Treaty of Vienna, and this after he had been informed of the dissatisfaction his answer would cause. This note has created a lively sensation in Paris, where it is held to indicate war.
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