Star. — 1831-07-28 (London, England)

MURDERS.—The news from Poland revels ed by the ordinary way is less grievous than as expected ; the Russian army which has passed tb Vistula is not so numerous as was at first said, the chances for the battle which is preparing o-c then less unfavourable to the Poles. A sad ,rent has taken place. General Gielgud, who bad Jenianded an asylum upon the Prussian territory, has been killed by a pistol shot from the hand of vile of his officers, at the moment when his corps of the army had been disarmed near Tilsit. He was accused, in his corps, of having betrayed the nationll cause, or at least of haring failed in capacity to support it. We are far from wishing to Tread this accusation ; but it is certain that he had formed, for a long time, a party to place the Grand Duke Constantine upon the Throne, tad place the baton of Constable of the Kingdom into the hands of Field Marshal Die.,itsch. We are assured that this plot had been concocted at Saint Petersburgh in the manner of that of Suwaroff, and that the sanguinary orders of the Emperor Nicholas had been modified several times by Diebitach—thanks to the hope which he had conceived of succeeding by other ways. It was on the discovery of this project, revealed a short time since to the Russian Cabinet, that was owing the sudden death of Diebitsch, whose days were terminated by poison ; and those of the Grand Duke are generally said to have been ended by a pistol shot when in his bath. They spoke, a few days since, of the death of his Wife, the Princess Locwitz, who would not survive him, like the Empress Alexiewna, who soon joined the tomb of the Emperor Alexander. The cause of Poland will not suffer by all these changes.— Le Temps. The passage of the Vistula at Plosk by the •:r and Russian army, announced yesterday in a ,e,sit;ve manner by the German Journals, is not confirmed by the news arrived to-day. It appearr, On the contrary, that the Russians had not achieved t!.e bridge which they began to construct at Plosk, and that they had removed from that city, either to escape the ravages of the cholera morbus, or from a new plan of operation. They have tit). preached the Prussian frontier, and count upon passing the Vistula at Nisiewa. This position will be more advantageous to the army, since the Prussian magazines and arsenals will be open to it, and even the boats arrive from Thorn to facilitate its passage. It is believed that the Generalissimo 'kizynecki, by establishing his head-quarters at Nlodlin, proposed, in case the Russians should effect their passage at Plink, to allow a part of that army to pass and attack in force that which would remain upon the right bank. The late movement of the Russian army will bring about other combinations. It results, however, from the orders of the Generalissimo, that his project is not to cover Warsaw, which he believed to have left in a sufficient state of defence ; but that he proposes to act in full liberty upon the :inks or the rears of the Russian army, having upon the Vistula a passage assured, which will per:nit him to carry at will his forces upon the two banks of that river. The news arrived to-day announces that Count Pahlen has already passed the Vistula at the head of 20,000 Russians. The German Journals contain no detail upon the defeat of General Gielgud ; one alone appears to confirm it, by announcing that General Chlapowski is with the Polish corps, which has demanded to rake refuge upon the Prussian territory.— Courrier runcais.