The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

CORRUPTION IN SPAIN.

A Madrid letter, in the Message► of Bayonne,
under date of the 2nd, says :
Some rather remarkable incidents have taken place in the
two last sittinp of the chamber. A member of the conser-
vative minority brought forward • complete list of the fa-
vours conferred by Marshall O'Donnell oo the majority in
the Congress who had given him their support. Those
favours amount in number to 1100—a shameful amount,
and which is • mark of ignominy, as M. Verdugo,
who was for • short time • member of that majority,
justly observed. The other important incident is that Count
de SIB Luis called on the government to remove all the
double which might still exist as to its intended policy.
Notwithstanding the extreme prudence and talent displayed
on this occasion by Count de San Luis, and in spite of the
excellent effect produced by the words of that ex-minister,
M. de Castro felt himself compelled to declare that Count
de San Luis bad spoken on his own private account and not
in the name of the moderate party. Turning to another
subject, I have to say that embezzlements of the state funds
continue to take place. Last week the outlier* of the pro-
vinoes of Guadalajara and Ciudad Real absconded, the
former with 80,000 pi•etree and the latter with 70400.
Political immorality, rewarded as a merit by the Liberal
Union, has made great inroads an public morality ; it is for
that reason that at no former period have those defalcations
been so frequent as at present.

(ssurm's Timonium/
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
CRACOW, Mar 7.
More than 60 persons have been arrested in the
city of Posen.

Numerous arrests, including many noblemen,
have also been made in the province of Posen.
The insurgent chief °lanai, after a successful
encounter, on the sth inst., with the Russian
troops, occupied Dombrowa.

The peasants of the district of Podlschia, in the
government of Lublin, are paying to the revolu-
tionary agents the ground rent for the support of
the insurrection, which their landlords have refused
to pay.

LEMBERG, MAT 3.
A number of boys, averaging between ten and
twelve years of age, left this city to-day with the
object of joining the insurgents in Poland. They
were formed into two detachments, one num-
bering thirty and the other fifty strong. It
is to be hoped that the authorities will
succeed in preventing these boys from carrying out
their intention, which they have up to the present
managed to keep secret. This incident testifies to
the patriotic spirit which prevails in the breasts
even of Polish children.

Hr. W. H. Russell, the well-known correspondent
of the TiWA arrived here a few d►ys agro. Baron
Beebach is also here, and it is said that he has been
in communication with some of the most prominent
members of the Polish aristocracy.

The baron bas but just returned from Warsaw,

firmed.

VirONV 9, MO •
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and it is - reliable authority tit* Itnit
abouttsarmlatia to Odessa.
Intelligence recently received here confirms the
news that the insurrection is rapidly extending
and that new bodies of insurgents are
being formed ,ip every part of the Polish ter-
ritory. The moat important news, however,
is that •tlte peasants in many districts are
now joining the insurgents in great numbers,
in some cases armed with scythes and
in others with implements of husbandry. They
form distinct bodies, and after having fought a
battle they disperse and return to their agricul-
tural pursuits.
The Russians appear to have abandoned their
favourite system of traversing the country in
flying columns. They now march in consider-
able force against the insurgents, evidently with the
view of annihilating the small insurrectionary
bodies. This change of tactics on the part of the
Russians has, however, caused the Poles not to allow
their detachments to operate at too great a distance
from each other. Thus, for instance, the division un.
dor the chief command of Czachowski is subdivided
into four detachments, three of which are led re-
spectively by Kononowice, Grelinaki, and Popackii
the fourth being under the immediate command of
the chief.
In the district of Sandomir other bodies are in
course of formation which will also co-operate with
the above-named detachments, under CzechovrakE
On the 20th ult. Csaehowski defeated
the Russians at Bldg, and again at Nieklanie
on the 22nd ult. Kononowicz a few days
since gained another victory over the
Russian forces within a short distance of Wachock.
It is said that another insurgent leader, by name
Liittich, has defeated the Russians at Papow, not
far from Daisloszyn, in the district of Sandomir.
The tactics observed by the forces under Czech-
owski are also followed by the insurgent divisions
in the vicinity of Kalisch and Konin, all the
smaller detachments operating within a short

distance of each other. The head quarters
of the last-named forces are at Poisern (Pp:dry),
where the insurgenta are employed day and night

in the manufacture of arms Of every deeoription.

The insurgent chiefs Moeakowski and Obeinski
are now also acting together.
Tezioranski, with about 600 men, mostly volun-
teers from Galicia, is operating in the government
of Lublin, not far from the forces under LeleweL

A third detachment is now in course of formation

in that government.

The news that the poet Mieczyslaw Romanowski
had fallen in battle on the 24th ult., is now con-

BERLIN, MAT T.

Private letters received here from reliable sources
in 8k Petersburg state that Prince Gortobakof,
after having despatched the replies to the notes of
the Great Powers on the Polish question, read a
confidential note to the ambassadors of those
Powers in SL Petersburg. This note explained the
programme of reforms intended to be carried out iu
Poland by the Emperor.
The introduction of these reforms would depend
upon circumstances, although they would not be
delayei after the pacification of Poland had been
effected.

It is said that this note has produced a good
impression upon the ambassadors of the Great
Powers.

It is expected that the insurgent forms in Poland
will shortly be augmented, but the Russian autho-
rities hope to be able to overpower them.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAT 6, Ewico.
In the Congress to-day a royal decree was read
suspending the sittings of the Cortes.
The Progressist party had the intention of con-
tinuing on Sunday next the celebration of the na-
tional fête of the 2nd May. The government, how-
ever, being opposed to this project, the Progres-
sista determined to abandon it.

The reports current of a ministerial modification
are devoid of foundation.

AMERICA..
EIOUTRAYPTON, May 7.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen,
from New York on the 25th April, has arrived
off Cowes with 150 passengers, 38 bags of mails,
51,800 dollars for France, and 38,750 dollars for
England.
She left Sandy Hook on the morning of the 26th,
passed several large icebergs on the 29th, spoke the
American ship Columbia on the 30th, the English
bark Gordon on the 3rd, steering westward, the
English ship New Great Britain off Portland on the
7th.
Her news has been anticipated.