London, 17th October.
The British Mediterranean Squadron has arrived at 'l'aranto in the heel of Italy and was received with salutes and national anthems, and was heartily cheered by the multitude; the British government, however, deprecate construing the visit as a counterblast to the Russian visit to Toulon.
President Carnot telegraphing to the Czar referred to the friendship and sympathy uniting France and Russia, The Czar's reply was confined to an expression of pleasure at a Russian squadron returning the French visit to Cronstadt.
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