Ambassador Choate to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Choate reports that the British minister for foreign affairs is at Bowood. He has sent him this afternoon by special messenger a letter setting forth full tenor of Department’s telegram received this morning and asked for concurrence, and states that he has just received from him the following telegram: “Your confidential letter of to-day. You may rely upon our full concurrence. Lansdowne.”)