The crisis of Poland is, by universal consent, near at
hand. The Russians on the right and on the left are slowly and surely ap- proaching the capital. A general action cannot be long delayed ; and indeed the intelligence of the shock has been daily expected throughout the week. It is said that the forces of the Poles and of the invaders are nearly alike in number ; in which case, with moderate good management and moderate good fortune, we should say their victory was certain. For the Russian forces, it must be \recollected, are not only divided, but a conjunction seems almost impossible; Warsaw lies directly in the way of it. The Emperor of Russia (who is not dead, as had been reported) has addressed a proclamation to the Poles, in which he again calls on them to submit to his sovereign pleasure. NICHOLAS has also addressed a note to Austria and Prussia, in which he invokes their aid in behalf of the war of legitimacy which he is waging. This seems something like an approach to an arrangement.
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