The Acting Secretary of State to the Japanese Chargé .

No. 260.]

Sir: In further answer to your note No. 10, of the 3d instant, I have the honor to inform you that the department is in receipt of a telegram, dated the 9th instant, from the American ambassador to Russia, in which he says that the Russian Government will not fail to recognize Mr. Motono as Japanese minister upon his arrival at St. Petersburg, and that the Russian Government is entirely disposed to facilitate Mr. Motono in the exercise of his functions before the receipt of his official letters of credence.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.