S. G. C.

_Sententious Despatches_ (Vol. viii., p. 490.; Vol. ix., p. 20.).--In

addition to the sententious dispatches referred to above, please note the

following. It was sent to the Emperor Nicholas by one of his generals, and

is a very good specimen of Russian _double entendres_:

"_Voli[=a] V[=a]sch[=a]_, [=a] Varsch[=a]voo vsiat nemogoo."

"_Volia is your's_, but Warsaw I cannot take."

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