ikitis.—The Bishop of Warsaw, roused by the arrests made in
the churches, has ordered all the churches to be closed, and announced this decree to the Governor in the following bold letter : " The insult, which was offered yesterday to the Cathedral of St. John, and to the Bernhard and missionary churches, by divisions of the Imperial Russian troops, which caused such horror and amaze- ment in the minds of the inhabitants of all confessions, both in the city and in the entire country, will not allow me to remain silent. Called to the head of the clergy of the archdiocese, it is my duty to represent to your excellency that the privilege which was wrested from the churches named, of singing an approved religions song with the holy mass, also the surrounding of the churches with soldiers, and the retention in them of almost two thousand people for a day and a night, without nourishment, and without an opportunity to appease the demands of nature, also the irruption of armed soldiers with covered heads by the breaking of windows and doors, the hewing down of the people with the butt-ends of their weapons, and the infliction of blows with their fists, whilst the people feared to leave the churches for fear of being arrested undeservedly—that these are all actions which no orderly soldiery, and least of all in a State which has promised the Catholic religion its particular protection, and whilst in the most complete peace, are deeds which belong rather to the times of Attila than to ours. I am therefore compelled, since the unarmed people are not secure from bayonets in their churches and at their prayers, to apply the means in the spirit of the laws of the Church which the people, already inflamed into passion, could not be exposed to by the horrible temptation of despair, and which yet awoke in them a horror of the barbarous deeds accomplished. These means are the closing of all churches in Warsaw, and the prohibition of religions services. What feeling and what consequences the want of the support and help of religimi mg call forth in the deeply-moved minds of the people I cannot think. only know that nothing can again unite the bond of confidence be- tween the governed and the government, so often and so rudely broken. In the mean time I BUll await the speedy orders of the authorities which will give the undoubted and secure certainty that the faithful people can be secure in the churches from the armed
hand of military power. "R. BIATOBEZE81“." The University gmeute in St. Petersburg is at an end. The 'Uni- versity is to be reopened to all who agree to comply with the new regulations, and the students have given up the hope even of peti- tioning the Emperor. The Government is therefore triumphant, and now states that the real reason of its severity was the favour shown
by the students to Polish ideas. There are 500 Polish students in the University. It is said that the educated Russians are now by no means hostile to Poland, and would even restore its constitution, though with limited frontiers.
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