22 SEPTEMBER 1832, Page 2

The Pope has signed a brief, calling on all Polish

Catholics to obey the ukases which may be issued by the Emperor NICHOLAS for their guidance. The Poles at Rome represented to the old man the folly as well as injustice of this rescript, which went to compel them to adopt the faith of the Russians in calling on them to obey decrees by which their religious instructors are persecuted, and thousands of their children had been carried into exile, where they must necessarily embrace the creed of their masters : but the old man was deaf to their entreaties. He is cutting between him- self and the tree, like many others in the political world of the present day.