The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

HORRORS OF RUSSIAN RULE IN
POLAND.

A letter from Gumbinnen (Eastern Prussia) con-
tains the following :

The situation of Lithuania at the end of November may
be thus briefly summed up. Several hundred capital °zeta-
iiolll4 accompanied by circumstances of cruelty, bad taken

place without any regular trial. More then forty thousand
persona, chiefly nobles, ecclesiastics, and landowners, had
been carried off into the interior of Russia, no one
knew where, without any opportunity of proving
their innocence, and, for the most part, on groundless
accusation,. The above number certainly dam not exceed the
truth, as may be seen from the official lista published by the
Russian authorities, from which it appears that the num-
bers transported from Lithuania within the last nine months
are :-15,000 from the government of Witte', 12,000 from
Sown°, 10,000 from Orodno, 3,800 from Auguetowo (re-
cently ad to Lithuania), 3,500 from Vitebsk, 3,000
from Mobilew—in all, 47,300. The prisons of Wane,
Dusabnrg, Boom, Orodno, Mobilew, Vitebsk. and
Bialystok were crowded with persons 'awaiting death
or traesportetion to make room for other victims. It is
scarcely necessary to mention the butcheries en muse
committed on armed bands of insurgents who fell into
the power of the Russian troops. A system of brutality
had been organised and continued to be carried out with in-
messing vigour against women, especially three of the upper
classes. Overwhelming taxes, decreed by the Emperor
Alexander's lieutenants, as much from political motives as
from the necessity of meeting the expels,e of such a
mode of government, oppressed all owners of property,'
especially the nobles, to ouch an extent that many of them,
being usable to pay their enormous contributions within
the time allowed, were stripped of all they possessed acid
reduced to indigenes. As a counterpart to the loyal ad-
dresses extorted by the Russian authorities, the most ardent
declarations of devotedness to the national government had
been been drawn up, in spite of the reign of terror, it every
part of Lithuania, and had received about 250,000 signatures
in the course of a few days.

(uaymes Tigizoiams.)
AMERICA.
(Pa the Etna).
NEW YORK, Die. 19.
(vu Crookhaveo).

The Fedorals are falling back in East Tennessee
before Longstreet, who has turned against his
pursuers.
_ _ .

The New Orleans papers repeat an improbable
report that the Mexicans had recaptured Puebla.
The Heels, Hibernian, Australasian, and City of
Washington have arrived out.
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THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
FRANKFORT-ON-TIMIAINE, Die. 29,
EVENING.

The following is the text of the Austro-Prussian
motion introduced in yesterday's sitting of the
Federal Diet :—" That the Confederation should
require Denmark definitely to suspend the No-
vember Constitution with regard to Schleswig, and
should at the same time notify that in case of re-
fusal the Confederation will be compelled to obtain
a pledge for the fulfilment of its just demands by
the military occupation of Schleswig.
" That the Federal Diet shall also request the
military committee to submit propositions for rais-
ing the forces possibly required for the occupation
of Schleswig to the necessary strength."

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BRESLAU, Dsc. 30.

Arrests continue to be made in Warsaw, particu-
larly at the hotels. The National Government Las
made a fresh appeal to the insurgents in arms. In
telligence received from Radom states that Chimie-
linski has been shot at that place.