£2,280,000. sterling, about the seventh part of which was assigned to
the civil list. Its military force during the despotic government of
the Grand Duke Constantine, was 30,000 infantry, and 20,000 cavalry;
at present it is estimated at 70,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, and
50,000 men armed with scythes. Warsaw, with 126,433 inhabitants, is
its capital, and next stand in succession Landomir, 50,000
inhabitants; Lublin, 12,000; and Kalies, 8,500. The Catholic religion
predominates, but the number of Jews and Socinians is great. There are
more than 2,000,000 Jews dispersed through Poland, independent of
those resident as merchants in the principal towns. Socinius resided
many years at Cracow, and married the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
According to a distinguished Polish historian, M. Chodzko, the
population of the different provinces of Ancient Poland amounted, in
1824, to about 19,000,000 of inhabitants.

W.G.C.

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FINE ARTS.

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MR. HAYDON'S PICTURE OF NAPOLEON MUSING AT ST. HELENA.


This picture has, we understand, been painted for Sir Robert Peel,