Ilialaia.—The accounts from the interior of Russia are said to
be daily becoming; worse. The landed proprietors are enraged to the last degree, and are communicating with Moscow, where a club of nobles has sworn that emancipation shall not take place. O the other hand the peasants everywhere threaten their landlords, and in many places massacres have occurred. The serfs out in the cities on obrok also are commencing suits against their masters, who retain as their own the properties they held in trust for the merchant serfs. Two thousand such suits have been already commenced. This statement corresponds with those continually received through Germany of village risings followed by military executions. The outrages will probably precipitate unconditional emancipation. A story has been told that on the appearance of the Czar in the theatre at Moscow, all the nobles left it, but it is improbable.
There has been a demonstration at Warsaw in honour of the late Prince Czartoryski. A funeral service was celebrated for him in all the churches of 'Warsaw, and the archbishop officiated in the cathe- dral. His horses were taken out by the crowd, and the carriage dragged to his residence.
The Polish Council of State has been created, and the nominations are considered fair. Three of the members, A. Ostrowski, Count T. Potocki, and General Lewinski, are men who fought against Russia in 1830-31, and a third is Count Walewski, Marshal of the Warsaw nobility, a man of much independence. The remainder are chiefly officials and prelates, and only two are Russians. The municipal and departmental elections are beginning, and as votes are confined to those who can read and write, the Jews will have an immense in- fluence, perhaps return a majority of Jews. In Warsaw they will be supreme, there being 60,000 Jews in a population of 180,000. It is said that the intercourse between the Austrian and Russian sections of Poland has increased since the establishment of the Warsaw and Cracow Railway, and that the Poles in the Austrian dominions are allowed almost unlimited freedom of the Press. In Russian Poland no newspaper is ever allowed to allude either to Russia or Poland.
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