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Sad condition of Poland.
--The following letter, dated at Warsaw on the 28th of October, gives a sad description of the position of the inhabitants of the capital of Poland.
"I have repeatedly mentioned the increasing severity and violence of the Russian authorities.
Any corporal is master of the lives and properties of the inhabitants.
Never during the most melancholy period of the reign of the Emperor Nicholas, and even after Warsaw was taken by assault in 1861, were similar excesses seen.
The city presents the gloomy aspect of a necropolis.
The churches, the theatres, the public gardens, and schools are closed.
The courts of justice are reduced to silence.
Arrests are made without distinction of age, sex, or quality.
The most revered prelates and ecclesiastic, selected to make a report on the violence and profanations committed in the churches, have been carried away from their houses during the night and incarcerated.
Several bankers and some of the most wealth