CRACOW, by some accounted the capital city of Poland, is situated in the province of little Poland, and palatinate of Cracow, in a fine plane near the banks of the Vistula. It has an university, and is the see of a bishop, and the seat of the supreme courts of justice: it stands about 140 miles south-west of Warsaw, in 19^{\circ} 30' of E. long. and 50^{\circ} N. lat.