Star.
London, England, 1831-06-06 00:00:00

POLAND.

Tho Polish Generalissimo, Skrzynecki, has just
executed a new conception a ith great skill, of
which the result has been to cut off the right wing
of the Russian army, and to throw the Imperial
Guards which composed it beyond the Bug and the
Narew. Having left a corps of the army upon the
road from Siedlec to Praga, to observe Marshal
Diebitsch, who has remained stationary for twenty
says, Skrzynecki commenced operations upon the
corps of General Sacken, Commander-in-chief of
the Russian right wing, which occupied the line
front Narew, having for points of support Ostro-
lenka and Lomza. Ostrolenka was fortified with
care, having besides the bead of the bridge armed
with batteries. This city, vigorously attacked
by the banks at once, and which was not less
vigorously defended, was ultimately carried, and
the Imperial Guard of Russia retreated upon Lom-
za. The plan of the Polish General was that of
occupying this point before the enemy, and of thus
cuffing off the retreat. But obstacles and delays
in the march of the troops prevented the perfect
accomplishment of a manoeuvre very wisely con-
certed. Notwithstanding, the Russians lost 3,000
prisoners in their retreat. The consequences of
this event are as follows : the Russian right wing
being spread upon the route of Grodno and Au-
zustowo, and the Poles occupying Tykozin
and Bialystok, Marshal Diebitsch has his flank
uncovered on the side of Soholow and Wer,
tilience the Poles could now come to attack
him at Seidlec, by the weak side of his posi-
tion. He has no longer a right wing, or at least
that wing is now too far removed from him and too
embarrassed for Marshal Diebitsch to reckon upon
it in case he should be attacked in his turn. The
event of Ostrolenka has besides brought the Polish
army nearer to the Lithuanian insurrection. It is
even possible that Skrzynecki may proceed into
Cretin°, upon the route of Wilna, with thirty or
forty thousand men, a force sufficiently imposing
for him not to fear the fate experienced by Dwer-
Licki in Volliynia. If the Generalissimo executes
this great flank movement, Diebitsch will be
obliged to evacuate Seidlec, without even the
Power of fighting. We expect with confidence ex-
traordinary things on the part of the Polish General,
"hose conduct is according to the school of Napo- '
leon in his admirable campaign of 1814, in France,
dividing his small army, in order to bear first upon
One point, then upon another, to beat in detail an
Enemy so superior to him in numbers. Like Napo-
leon, Skrzynecki may then bear upon the rear of
the grand army of the enemy, leaving the capital
exposed, and a movement of Diebitsch upon Warsaw
would not have the same result as that of the allies
upon Paris in 1814, for in Poland there is an unani-
mity of national opinion. Moreover, Diebitsch is not
in a state to march upon Warsaw even without
defenders: the insurrection of Volhynia, of Podo-
lia, of Lithuania and the Ukraine, keep him en-
chained to the same place. For a month past he
las experienced the greatest difficulties in order to
50,6i,..t his troops and renew his stores ; every one
' Ilds convoys has need of an escort of eight or
'•a thousand men. He would already have re-en-
,7,d into the ancient frontiers of the empire, but
:-r the imperative orders of the Court of Peters-
-b, whose pride still clings to the non-evacua-
iai of Poland, and which exposes itself by this
l'itle to lose all.— Messager des Chambres.
kV idist the Poles execute movements which may
laing about immense results, Malaita Diebitsch
i, mains immoveable in his intrenched camp of
• oi dec. It may be owing to the morale of the con-
'ilicror of the Balkan having received such furious
(I,reks, which he has never ceased to experience
'lme the opening of the campaign, or that
Lis army, wasted by typhus or the cholera-
timbus, are absolutely out of a state of action.
the centre and the right of the Poles have not
mired. General Unainski is in front of the tete

du pont of Praga with 12,000 men, easy to
act by his right with the corps of 15,000 men,
placed at Kosienice, under the orders of Pac.—
General Sierawaky reorganizes his division at Pu-
lawy ; and Chrzanowsky defends the line from
Wieprz with five or six thousand men, supported
by the garrison of Zamosk. The Polish army
reckons at present 80,000 men under arms, and
will be augmented by eight new regiments, of which
the Diet has decreed the organization.—Journal
du Commerce.