He spoke of it as his favourite project and even took Kteps toward q realising it by Treating with the recruits of the Polish provinces not included in the kingdom a distinct carpi d'armie, called "the Lithuanian Corp«." The Lithuanian colours were very like those of the regular Polish army, and both armies were commanded in chief by the Grand Duke Constantino, uncle of the present Grand Duke of the same name. I The Emperor Nicholas himself advanced this com- j b,inatioj] a step further. He transferred to Warsaw the supreme direction of the AdnuniHtoation of those provinces, and confided it to his elde«t brother, who had just ceded to him his right to the throne. This measure did not reunite the provinces to the king dom of Poland, but it detached them from, the Ad ministration of St. Petersburg, and little more was necessary to melt into one the two Administrations whose seat was in the «ime oapital. It would have sufficed to give to the brother of the Emperor, already residing in Warsaw,-already commander-in ohief of the two armies, the viceroyalty of those two portiob* of the country. But at that time the very existence of thwe two armies distinct from that of Russia might have caused a fear least the adminis trative separation might become the prelu le to an inevitable rupture. ' - ' '*" , This danger no' longer exists. Tho Poles have no distinct army. ■■ There is now only one for the whole Russian empire, and the most devoted- patriots of Poland in'roaking their .demand* w full'do not think it necewary to ask the Czar to grant them one im- - tinnal regiment, 'All'they de^re >« iblat the in habitants of that parfc J of 'P/'land-wlriofr-ptoduced KoKciutko,, Mic,kiejricz, and tho Czartoryski family, may bo governed as Polm. They have no wish to | injure Bu*»ia on t<> ken}) hef .i(> th^fc constant (.taterof irritation £pn^jfhu?hiifc>i« «wapft Vntil •»• rwo|n«Hth»l«gitiwit«flUira>'cf, nil few

Polish subjects. At the present moment £his curious,. * anomaly is presented in the Russiau empire. In one* portion Alexander 11. is endeavouring to introduce trial 'by jury, and a law. equivalent; to our habeas corpus Act; in another hois ruling by the sword, and striving to maintain a system based entirely on the barbarous right of conquest. 