The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTEMIGENOE.

POLAND.

The Need of to-day says :—" At the moment when
a new step is about to be taken in regard to Russia
by the three powers, we think it is necessary to
recapitulate the facts which have led to it, and the
special points which characterise it. On the Bth of
May the British government proposed to France
and Austria that they should, in concert, demand
once more of Russia the declaration of an
armistice. At the same time the Austrian govern-
ment offered to ask from Russia, in favour
of Poland, all that she herself has given to Galicia.
Thus there were two distinct propositions. These
are the propositions which M. Drouyn de Lhuys
has turned into one which has been adopted at
London and Vienna, and which, contained in
three notes, simultaneous though not identical, will
to-day (Saturday) leave Paris, London, and Vienna,
for St. Petersburg. In these notes Russia is asked
to give Poland a national representation to the
Diet of Lemburg, the use of the Polish language,
administrative autonomy, liberty of worship, and
a system of normal recruiting. At the same time
a suspension of hostilities during the progress of
the negotiations is asked for."

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FIRST WARNING TO THE BERLIN PRESS.
BERLIN, Jcza 6.

The publishers of the six newspapers which pro-
tested yesterday against the recent press ordinance
have received a first warning. The reasons for this
step are stated to be that the papers in question
have distorted facts, represented them in an odious
light, aroused hatred against the government, ex-
cited disobedience, and on account of their attitude
generally.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
CRACOW, Jun 6.

On the 29th ult., an engagement took place at
Grochowy, in the Palatinate of Kalisz, in which
the Russians were defeated by the insurgents with
great loss. They returned, however, to the attack
on the following day at Slawiazyn, when they were
again defeated.
Another encounter took place on the 31st ult. at
Brudzewo, in which several waggons full of Rue-
eillon soldiers were driven across the frontier into
Prussian territory, where they were received by the
authorities and cantoned at Pleszewo.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(110 K OUR OCR commerotrourr.)

PARIS, FRIDAY Evxmc.
The Daily News is seized. M. de Persigny, as
long as he remains in power, may be expected to
vent his anger upon foreign journals more than
ever, now that the King of Prussia has shown his
admiration of the French inventions for annoying
the press by adopting them as essentially necessary
to the support of the divine right principle, by
which that infatuated monarch is prepared to stand
or fall. When Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, Marseilles,
and Nantes have protested by enormous majorities
against M. de Persigny's system of government, he
may have had misgivings whether he did his master
lany service by confiscating foreign newspapers iu
the post-office. It must have struck his mind that
the causes of the dissatisfaction so audibly ex-
pressed in these great centres of civilisation and
intelligence, so widely removed from each other,
must have been altogether internal, and such as
were not susceptible of being created or
sensibly aggravated by the comments of
foreign journals written in a foreign language,
and having scarcely any circulation in France.
But the grand example of the King of Prussia,
who, in a decree signed with his own royal hand,
imports into Prussia, as a measure of public safety,
M. de Persigny's darling system of seizing foreign
j journals on the frontier, must necessarily confirm
the French minister in his old habits, blunt any
•Itendency to repentance, and fill him with more
exalted ideas than ever of his own wisdom.
Populus me sibillat at mini plaudo. The King of
Prussia is at this moment execrated by all Europe,
and even M. de Persigny's own journals blame
him. But in justice to that purblind monarch,
who is, perhaps, hastening a revolution
by this very campaign against the press,
it ought to be borne in mind that his
decree falls far short of the tyranny of the French
law actually in vigour. He propcses, it is true, to
suppress any Prussian journal after two warnings;
but a court of appeal is constituted to judge of the
propriety of these warnings. By the law of France,
warnings are superfluous torment—the playing of a
cat with a mouse—for the Emperor cia suppress
any journal he pleases without a moment's ❑otfice or
preliiiiinary formality.
It is already known that a great many petitions
against the return of government candidates, on
the ground of illegal acts committed by the admi-
nistration, will be presented as soon as the new
chamber meets. An amusing case is vouched for
by M. Alfred Pereira, a defeated independent can-
didate of high respectability, who was formerly pre-
fect of the Loiret, and must therefore have a just
reverence for authority. This ex-high functionary
states that in very many communes of his circum-
scription the mayors, garden cliampstre-s, and
I ether agents of authority," on Sunday, May 31,
while the election was going on, spread the false
report that he, the opposition candidate, hail been
arrested on the previous Friday, for having attacked
the Hotel de Ville of Orleans, at the head of 400
or 500 rioters ; that he was then in prison ; and that
Orleans was in a state of siege. An article of the
prefectoral journal, Le Journal du Loiret, accredit-
ing these falsehoods, was publicly read aloud in
the streets. M. A. Pereira proposes to prove these
facts to the Corps Legislatif, and demand that the
election of the government candidate, the Duke de
Tarente, shall be declared null and void.

The France says to-night that the Pays will be
made a co-defendant in the action for libel which
it proposes to bring against the Constitutionnel.
The cause of action, as I stated yesterday, is that
the France is accused of " treason" to the govern-
ment in the matter of the elections. Whether the

code authorises such an action for a libel upon that