The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

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CRACOW, Accofrr 26,

The conduct of the Austzian government in Galicia
is exciting universal indignation. Not content with
ordering its patrols on the frontier to use the utmost
vigilance in preventing arms or ammunition from
reaching the insurgents, and to fire at bands of
Galician volunteers attempting to enter the king.
dom, it has extended its inquisitorial measures to
the towns, where they are practised on the meet
inoffensive persons. Both here and at Lemberg
quiet inhabitants are constantly being dm.
turbed by the forcible entrance into their
houses, at all hours of the day and night,
of a brutal soldiery pretending to search for
alms, who, knowing no respect for age or sex,
commit outrages and insults with perfect impunity.
On the 18th • youth was crossing a bridge atOlsza,
when he was perceived by a soldier, who killed him
on the spot. It was afterwards stated by the official
paper that he was an insurgent ; but no proof of this
is given, and even if he were one, to shoot at an un-
armed man in a peaceful country is unjustifiable and
disgraceful to a government which pretends to be
civilised. Two days after, another brutal act stirred
the indignation of the town. In Krupincza-street
a policeman, while arresting a young man, without
the slightest provocation stabbed him with his
bayonet, and dragged him, bleeding as he was, to
Sxewska-street. Here the prisoner fainted from
loin of blood, and the policeman was obliged to call
a cab to take him to the station-house. It is easy
to conceive how such events as these must provoke
the people, already excited to fever point by the
terrible episodes of the struggle in Russian Poland.
Columns of troops are constantly scouring the
country in search of insurgents, who, however, are
so well hidden that they are seldom found. At
Lemberg an event lately occurred which might have
led to most serious (=sequences. An Austrian
officer named Winkler had, it appears, while on
duty in the public prison of the town, insulted one
of the prisoners. The latter, immediately after
his liberation, happening to meet Winkler in the
street, knocked him down. A crowd immediately
collected, the authorities became alarmed, sad a
troop of cavalry was sent into the street to dispeme
the people. The Austrian soldiers performed this
duty in so brutal a manner that many persons were
severely injured by the horses knocking them down
and treading upon them. The author of the smelt
was seized and wounded so severely by the soldiery
that it was found necessary to take him to the
hospital.
It appears that even the person of • represent&
tive of the people is not safe against gross outrage,
On the 20th, as Count Dzieduszycki, • deputy of
the Reichsrath, was riding iu his own Carnage
through the town of Lemberg, be was stopped in
the Ferdinaud square by • soldier of the police,
who, after getting on the box, ordered the coachman
to drive to the police-office. On arriving at the
office several soldiers surrounded the carriage, and
informed the count that they were ordered to search
it. M. Dzieduszycki sent up his papers, and
protested against this treatment. The police the.
arrested him, against which he also protested, as an
infringement of his rights as a deputy. Nothing
having been found in the carriage, he was set
free, and given the following curious document :
"It is hereby certified that Count Casimir Dzie-
duszycki, while riding in a carriage with two
horses, was stopped by the police. The carriage,
together with the things in it, were searched without
difficulty. Lemberg, 20th August, 1863. Sorge&
frei, chief police commissioner.', Count Dzio-
duszycki has informed the President of the Cham-
ber of Deputies at Vienna of this affair, and has
lodged a complaint against the police authorities
with the criminal tribunal.

THE THAMES CONSERVANCY.

The report of the select committee of the House
of Commons on the Thames Conservancy, lea., oonteiss

the following recommendations :—That • bill be intro-
duced into parliament in the course of mixt session for the
purpose of creatiog a new Board of Conservancy for the
river Thames. That this board consist of 18 members, of
whom one-half be nominated by the Admiralty, the Board
of Trade, the Trinity House, and the Corporation of
London, and that the other half be elected by the ship.
owners, bergeownera, and steamboat owoen within the
jurisdiction of the conservancy. That the representative
members of the board be elected for • period not exceeding
three years, but be eligible for re-election. That the
amounts of the board be anotudly audited by • duly qua
lined officer, and annually presented to parliament. That
the monopoly of the baUestage of the river Thames be
abolished, and that the Trinity House be released from all
ears of the buoys andabeamma within the jurisdiction of the
conservancy. That the right exercised by the Wittermen's
Company to control the navigation of the Thames be.
twee. Teddiagtoe and Gnawed be terminated. That
all ships, steamboats, and barges, within the limits of
the conservancy, be made coetributory to its revenue. That
the validity of the hoods issued by the corporation of
London on the security of tolls on barges navigating the
upper waters of the Thema, be clearly recognised by
law.

THZ CITY RAILWAY TRRIIINVIS IN CANNON-
exeeffe—The whole of the property on the site of what
was once the Steel-yard in Upper Thames-street is DOW
being demolished to make way for the City be-anch of the
Charm:germs Railway and its proposed terminus in Caanon-
street. This y, which was extremely old and dilapi-
dated. some it mug been spared is the firs of London,
had of late years been occupied by the Victoria Dock
Company) for wharfage purposes. It bad a river frontage of
about :20 feet, end extended backwards to Thames-street
about 100 yards. The intervening block of buildings between
Tharnemetreet and Cannon-street, and which is also doomed
to destruction, isof great value. It lies between Dowg►te-
bill and Allhallows lane, sad consists mostly of merchants'
warehouses and offices, including the headquarters of
the Unity Bank, • modern structure with a handsome front
abutting on Ceationatreet. The viaduct for carrying the
line across the Themes is now in course of construction, and
the works are being pushed rapidly forward. It will in all re-
spects resemble the railway bridge of the same company at
Cbaring.croes, Mr. Hawkshaw being the engineer of
both. It will rest on circular iron caissons, and have cer-
tainly four, if not five, spans or openings for purposes of
navigation. It crosses the river about midway between
London and Southwark bridges. The abutments on the
Surrey side will be of iron, and those ou the opposite 'bore
of brick. The contractor is Mr. Wythea. The bridge will
pass over the western end of the handsome pontoon gleam-
boat pier recently erected by the Thames Conservancy Com-
missioners, off Allhallows-wharf. and will, it is thought,
render necessary the removal of the pier, or some part of it.
That, probably, would not give ocomiou for much public
concern if the result were the establishment of a landing-
place for steamboat passengers nearer London-bridge then
the present one. The Cuoserraney Commissioners, it is
said, bad noti:o before constructing their pier of the course
which the railway would take across the river, but went on,
nevertheless, with the work, and hence the likelihood of a
collision of interest,. The railway will form • junction with
the South Eastern system at a point in the Borough,
and prulmbly at some f stare time with the South
Western line, and having a terminus Minost in the
very metre of the city, will afford very greet public
accommodation. Tire Cannon-West station, it is under-
stood, will even be more spacious and imposing than that at
Charing-eroes„ the intention being to make it A/ feet wider,
and with a glass roof of oorrespoodiug span. The terminus
will be at a point within live mutates' walk of the Rink of
England and the Stook Exchange, and readily aucesaible by
St. Seriatim's-lane, Walbrook, and Abehurchlane, and by the
main thoroughfares of Kiog William and Cennonstreetk
tbe delay and danger occasioned by the crowded state of
Loudon-bridge being thus avoided. The contractor of the
railwsy bridge is understood to be under coveatht to com-
plete it by the read of next year.
FATAL SCAYPOLD Ai vIDENT.—A fatal accident
occurred at Manchester on Saturday through the (anise of
some scaffolding. The corporation are enacting a new bah
market hell us the site of the old hall, and there is the
usual lofty scaffolding, with crapes for hoistieg atom. At
noon the masons left their work fur the d.iy, Saturday being
a half-holiday. About half-past two o'clock in the after-
noon, whilst the streets amend the scaffoldieg were Crowded
with market people, a faulty timber suddenly snapped be-
moth the strain upon it, and a portion of the other supporta
and materiels gave way with a loud crash, causing terror
aid dismay amongst the market people. The mutt of the
unfortuute occurrence win am men halal and several more
hr less injured. A woman was carried to the infirmary, but
there was sumo bops that she was not seriously ihpited..
Some of the buildings neer the site were injured, and espe-
cially Whildeker's well-known oyster shop.