The news from Poland which has been received this week,
is of a very painful kind. Some hope has been held out of its being misstated or exaggerated, but the hope seems to rest on hypotheti- cal grounds only. There has been an insurrection, of a most san- guinary and brutal character, in the City of Warsaw. On the 15th, it is said, the Patriotic Club, whose members had been dissatis- fied at the delays of justice in the case of the state prisoners, pro- ceeded to the castle which was only protected by two hundred soldiers, and dragging forth JANKOWSKI, BUKOWSKI, HURTIG SOLARI, and BENTKOWSKI, murdered them in cold blood. The same night, thirty other individuals are said to have fallen victims to this organized mob ; among whom was a Russian lady. On the 16th, a Russian officer—a prisoner and wounded—entering the city, was torn from the car that conveyed him, and murdered. The outrages terminated by the reappointment of KRUKOWIECKI to the Government of the city ; a result which is hardly less to be lamented than the barbarities that preceded it, as KRUKOWIECKI'S power could only have been established on the downfal of CzAR- TORINSKI and his party, which is by much the most worthy and respectable in Poland. The Hamburg papers which brought this news, also state, that the Poles have been defeated at the village of Bronicz, with a loss of several hundred killed and 1,300 prisoners. The vanguard of the Russians was only seven miles from Warsaw when the last accounts were dated.
To balance, in some measure, this intelligence, it appears from an article in the Augsburg Gazette, an unsuspected source, that not only the French, but the English Ministry, have warmly and earnestly interested themselves in behalf of Poland ; and that Lord PALMERSTON, in particular, insists that the treaty of 1815 conveys to Poland the rights of an independent state, and that it cannot in consequence be considered as a conquered country, nor taken from under the general protection of the European Powers, because of a revolt which has been brought about by the gross misgovern- ment of Russia itself. The note of Lord PALMERSTON is said to have made a deep impression on the Russian Court, and on the corps diplomatique generally. We hope it has.
NICHOLAS has been again reported dead, but the news seems still premature. The Empress has given birth to a child; which has been the occasion of great rejoicing in St. Petersburg.
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