NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE publish to-day a full account of the present position of the Polish insurrection by an English traveller, whose name,—if we could give it without endangering the safety of his friends in Poland,—would be a sure guarantee for the Med rigid accuracy, and for the highest class of cultivated judgment. His narrative is one that ought to stir profoundly the hearts of Englishmen, for a grander picture than it calls up of a nation molten into unity by the force of a single purpose, it is not easy to conceive. A great aristocracy is not always a great blessing, and in past times it has not been so even for Poland. But England at least should feel some compunction in calmly permitting the only nation to be trampled out which can surpass, and probably far surpass us, in our greatest political advantage over other nations,—an aristocracy that is a genuine and organic part of the people, and so thoroughly penetrated by the popular spirit as to be willing to suffer, and, if necessary, perish in the cause of the millions below.
