§ MR. STEUARTsaid, he wished to put a question to the noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in consequence of a paragraph he had seen that morning in a late edition of a leading journal. He wished to know, Whether Her Majesty's Government has received any information 2050 of the existence of an Austro-Russian Treaty?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLSir, I have to state that Count Rechberg, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Vienna, has positively denied the existence of any such document.