The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENOL

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

Accounts from Warsaw state that the Secret
National Committee has politely declined an offer
from Garibaldi to aid in fighting for Polish inde-
pendence. The reason given for this decision is
that "the committee so highly appreciated the
neutral and humane attitude of a neighbouring
power (Austria), that they do not wish to show the
least hostile intention towards it, such as might ho
implied by their gaining over to the Polish cause
men whose names are connected with certain recent
European events."
The revolutionary government of Poland has
issued a decree requesting all the insurgent chiefs
to organise a general levy in their respective dis-
tricts in order to extend the insurrection, which
already has from 180,000 to 200,000 combatants
resolved to conquer or die.
A Warsaw letter has the following :

The insurrection continues se formidable aa ever. If
some detachments have been compelled to disperse in pre-
sence of the overwhelming force of the enemy, • great
many others have been formed. Among these, one under
Drewnowski, in the vicinity of Rama, is especially worthy of
notice. It consists of 800 men, well armed and drilled,
quite ready to take the field. Dobrowoiski's detachment, in
the arrondissement of Jostyn, having been reinforced by
120 horsemen commanded by Lip•iski, commenced opera-
time, and encountered the Muscovites on the lath near
Oombin. The Russian authorities at Warsaw have just
published • decree, transferring to military officers the
administrative authorities hitherto exercised by the civil
power. The prefects sad their subordinates will, therefore,
be chosen from the army in future. A rural police is also
to be organised, consisting exclusively of paean* who will
be invested with the right of searching houses and arrest-
ing suspected persona. These pesaanta are to be paid for
their services.

The Official Journal of Warsaw announces that
Sigismund Padlewski, who was taken prisoner in
one of the recent engagements, has been condemned
to death and shot at Plock. M. Padlewski was
one of the ablest and most energetic leaders of the
insurrection. He was educated at the St. Peters-
burg School of Artillery, and afterwards became
instructing officer in the Polhill School at Coni,
which was suppressed last year by the Italian go-
vernment. From Coni, K Padlewski came to
Paris, where he devoted his leisure to military
studies, until he returned to Poland in December
last.

The C:as of Cracow states that the first number
of the semi-official journal of the national govern-
ment was published at Warsaw on the 20th inst.,
under the title of Dziennik Yaodowy (National
Journal). It contains two leading articles, one of
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theta on the namiestnik (imperilNl lieutenants in

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Poland), the other on the amnesty. These are fol-
lowed by news from the theatre of war and foreign
intelligence.

RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS.
The cabinet of the Hague, which associated itself
with the sentiments expressed in the French des-
patch on the subject of Poland, has received a
letter from Prince Gortchakoff in which the Russian
minister seems to express a doubt as to the practical
utility of this step on the part of Holland, but
declares that he will give the Dutch cabinet credit
for good intentions. The cabinet of Copenhagen,
after setting forth the dangers which general impli-
cations occasion to secondary states, expresses a
desire that the Poles would lay down their
arms. Prince Gortcbakoff thanks Denmark, and
assures it that the perils it fears will not tome from
the side of Russia. The reply which Russia has
made to Portugal appears to be couched in colder
terms than those which were need in addressing
Holland and Denmark. It is to the effect that the
Emperor has no need of advice or suggestions save
those which arise in his own breast and from his
own convictions of duty. The Nord says :—" It is
not without significance that Portugal is the only
power of the second rank which has modelled its
despatch upon Earl Russell's ; all the others have
taken the same ground as France."