The only facts of interest which we have this week
to record re- specting Poland, are the discovery of a conspiracy in the capital, and the death of the Archduke .CONSTANTINE. The death of the Archduke took place. at Witepsk, and is attributed, as that of DIERITSCH was, to Cholera. The conspiracy is stated to have been headed by influential parties ; and the accounts give a num- ber of names ; but we are hardly, if at all, acquainted with them, —General HURTIG is apparently the chief. The discovery occa- sioned great indignation among the populace, and it was with diffi- culty that the prisoners, on being arrested, were saved from sum- mary vengeance. A plot, so opportunely exploded, will probably do good to the cause of liberty, by strengthening the desire while it points out the necessity of a strict union among its friends.
Letters from France describe the feelings of the Government, as well as of the nation, to lean decidedly towards friendly interfer- ence on behalf of Poland. In England there is enough of sym- pathy, but little of act. Our contemporary the Chronicle well remarks, that all our indignation of Russian tyranny has not yet furnished a single musket for it, repression. We hope it will not be long thus.
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