15 AUGUST 1863, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

No THING further has been recorded this week of the pro- gress of diplomacy in the affairs of Poland. The three notes have, it is said, been despatched; but their contents are un- known and the answers will scarcely arrive at earliest before the 25;,11 inst. The usual rumours of Russian conciliation are being spread as before, and a writer in the Debats affirms that the Viennese Court has Suddenly invented a compromise. Russia is to accept the Six Points, and adhere to them on condition that the Three Powers pledge themselves to make no further demands—a plan to which the only objection is that neither Russia, nor France, nor Poland will consent to it. The en- gagements of the week have all terminated, it is said, in favour of the insurgents ; but then their accounts are almost as un- trustworthy as those of the Russian Government. The only certain facts are that the Russians still hold Warsaw, that the insurgents are still obeyed in the rest of the kingdom, and that Mouravieff is still shooting, exiling, and pauperizing the educated classes of Lithuania. The French Government makes, no sign ; but so strong is the feeling in Paris, that a review of-Ahe National Guard on Napoleon's fete-day, the 15th inst., has been postponed lest the men should shout too unanimously for Poland.