Meanwhile, the Russian Government has Issued orders to increase the
strength of its battalions, to complete the fortifi- cations of Cronstadt, to fortify Helsingfors, to concentrate an army on the North-Eastern frontier of Poland, and, it is reported, to rebuild Bomarsund. Marquis Wielopolski has been dismissed, and General Berg, notorious for his severity, placed at the head of the Council of Administration, while General Mouravieff, in Lithuania, is permitted to confiscate the estates of all nobles who do not give information, to arrest all women suspected of popular sentiments, and to deport hundreds of respectable persons to Siberia and the mines. The design openly spoken of is to banish all Polish land- holders, confiscate all Polish estates, and leave nothing within the "old provinces" except an absolute Government and a powerless peasantry. That system succeeded in Galicia.
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