London vid Bombay, 29th January.
The Grand-Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch presided yesterday over a special Council at St. Petersburg, which was attended by Count Lamsdorff, Foreign Minister, the Ministers of War and of the Navy, and the Chief of the Staff of the army and others. The sitting lasted an hour and a-half.
Tt is officially announced that the object of the Council was to find means of peacefully settling the dispute with Japan.
It is expected that the Grand-Duke Alexis will frame the report, which will be presented to the Emperor to-day, and Russia's reply will probably be dispatched on Saturday (the 30th).—Reuter.
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