The Polonais, a monthly publication, edited in Paris by Count
Plater, gives an account of all the Ukases and other measures of the Emperor Nicholas against the Catholic religion in Poland. Among them are the following. Prince Sanguszko, a Pole of high character, who had been condemned to work in chains in the mines for life, bay- ing requested that be might be allowed to confess before he set out upon his.march to Siberia, was told that he could have only a Greek priest, for that he was no longer any thing but a serf, and a serf could profess no other religion than that of his master. Five hundred of the Poles who are now working in chains at Cronstadt, after having been promised an amnesty on condition of their returning to Poland from Prussia, where they had been prisoners of war, refused to work on Sunday, as they wished to attend divine service : they were divided into deta !hments and barbarously flogged daily for nearly a fortnight.
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