The Journal of St. Petersburg for the 18th December contains
an at- tempt to justify the annexation of Cracow, cf course sanctioned by author- ity. The writer observes that England and France have also violated treaties in Belgium and Spain. It is asked whether India, or Alsace and Lorraine, have been more legitimately acquired, by England or France, than Poland has been by Russia.
The Times correspondent at St. Petersburg mentions that the protests of M. Guizot and Lord Palmerston had both been received by the Russian Government, and that the former was much more energetic than that of the British Minister.
According to letters from Prussia up to the 22d December, a very gloomy impression rested on the public mind in Berlin, in consequence of the thoughtless acquiescence of the Prussian Government in the confisca- tion of Cracow, which had been obtained of it by surprise.
Letters from Vienna of the same date, published in the Frankfort Jour- nal of the 29th December, state that the most complete anarchy prevails in Gallicia. It is feared that the political fanaticism of the peasants may be transformed into religious fanaticism. All the peasants of one village quitted their pariah-church in a body, because the clergyman had spoken to them of the Ten Commandments: they exclaimed, " We have no occasion for so many laws."
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