Rhodes, IV, 337-348, gives a resume of talk and correspondence on mediation, etc., and places October 23 as the date when "the policy of non-intervention was informally agreed upon" (p.

343), Russell's "change of opinion" being also "complete" (p.

342).

Curiously the dictum of Rhodes and others depends in some degree on a mistake in copying a date.

Slidell had an important interview with Napoleon on October 28 bearing on an armistice, but this was copied as October 22 in Bigelow's _France and the Confederate Navy_, p.