Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 128.

[Telegram.]

Mr. Motley to Mr. Fish.

Washington, D. C., October 23, 1870. (Received at 1.30 p. m.)

To Fish, Secretary of State, Washington City:

Lord Granville has just informed me that her Majesty’s government have urged France and Prussia to agree to an armistice with the view to the constituent assembly and an eventual peace.

MOTLEY, London.