MR. JAMESasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can give the House any information with respect to the present state of the difficulties on the Kuldja question between the Russian and the Chinese Governments?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, according to the latest information we have received from Pekin, the Chinese Government intended to send an Envoy to St. Petersburg to propose that the Treaty concluded by the Chinese Ambassador, Chung How, should be cancelled, and that things should remain in statu quo. We have no information that would cause us to know whether the Russian 522 Government will agree to this proposal, and we have no authentic information as to the reported movements of troops on the part of China or Russia.