17 OCTOBER 1863, Page 1

NEWS OF TIIE WEEK.

ATELEGRAM reached London on Thursday, which rests as yet only on the authority of the Breslau Gazette, but which, should it be confirmed, is the most important received this year. The Czar, it is stated, has issued a decree detaching the province of Augustowo and the district of Lomza from the Kingdom of Poland, and incorporated them in the Russian Empire. In other words, the Russian Government has publicly defied the Western Powers, set at nought its own interpretation of the Treaty of Vienna, and annexed a territory of nearly 10,000 square miles, inhabited by 800,000 people, to its own dominions. It has done this, too, -without pretext, pleading no right save one which would have equally justified the annexation of Hungary. It is possible that Napoleon may bear this ; but if he does, the speech which M. Berryer has prepared against the meeting of the Chambers on the Polish correspondence will have another, and a dangerous, paragraph.