11 JULY 1863, Page 1
No answer to the despatch on the Six Points has
yet heca
received from Russia, and a demi-official announcement warns the public that the rumours of a conciliatory reply rest as yet upon no foundation. The Russian Government announces, indeed, that its despatch will be ready by the middle of the month, but it is fortifying every assailable point, and even, according to a widely-circulated rumour' rebuilding the demolished works at Bomarsund—an act prohibited by the treaty of Paris. On the other hand, our French correspondent states, on authority not likely to be deceived, that France is in such a state of preparation that, the signal once given, 150,000 men, completely armed and equipped, would in ten days be on the Saar.
