The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-18 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(asona's Tatomuts.)
THE HERZEGOVINA.
MOSTAR, Ann 15.

The Montenegrin tribe of Uskoqs and the insur-
gents of Piva have profited by the passage of the
river Tara, near Ogradjanitse, to make sanguinary
incursions into the district of Taachlitre. To pre-
vent their invasions the Ottoman troops have con-
structed a large guardhouse near this passage, de-
fended by 400 irregulars under the command of
Dervich Bey. The insurgents having occupied the
village of Naratin to prevent the construction of
this building, Derrick Bey passed the river and
attacked them. During the combat the Egumen
(chief of the convent) of Five hastened with 50 men
to the assistance of the insurgent!. The fight
ended with the flight of the insurgents, who left the
priest and eleven men dead on the field. The Otto-
man loss was two dead and six wounded. _ _ _

A eufficient Ottoman garrison having been left
in the newly-erected fortifications of Zubci, 10 bat-
talions of the Turkish army, with some irregular
troops, mulled towards the district of Banyati.
Five of these battalions were then detached to pro-
vision Niksick.

Upon their return from this place they were
attacked in the defile of Douga by a large number
of Montenegrins and insurgents. The assailants
were routed, leaving a hundred of their number on
the field, with about twice as many wounded. The
Ottoman troops had 2 officers and 29 privates killed,
1 officer and 28 men wounded.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Aran. 17.
The official Staata-Anzeiger of to-day publishes
the following Royal decree addressed to the
ministry, and countersigned by all the ministers :
The King says :
" In consequence of the report made to me on
the present state of the budget, I sanction that the
bill relative to the continuation from July next of
the collection of an additional tax of 25 percent. on
the income, class, mill, and slaughter-house taxes
respectively, shall not be submitted to the next
Diet, as it is possible to cover the deficit partly by
an increase in the pu'ilic revenue, and partly by a
diminution in the expenses of several branches of
the public administration.
"In so far as concerns reductions in she military
budget, I willingly consent, in conformity with
my previous declarations, to sanction at the pre-
sent moment any savings which may be provision-
ally effected. I must, however, most positively
repeat my former declarations, that in the depart-
ment of the military administration such reduc-
tions must be avoided as would endanger those
principles whose maintenance is necessary for the
strength and effectiveness of the army, and conse-
quently for the safety and independence of the
state."

POLAND.

BRESLAU, Ann 17.

The Seklesisehe Zeitung of to-day says : " We
bear that General Ltiders intends retiring from the
Governorship of Warsaw. It is considered likely
that the Duke of Oldenburg will be his successor.
Apprehensions are entertained of demonstrations
taking place at Warsaw at Raster."

THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION.
MADRID, Aran. 16.

It is asserted that should the French troops enter
the city of Mexico, the Spanish forces will do the
same. It is also stated that the Spanish government
has not been officially informed of the departure of
General Lorencez with reinforcements for Mexico.

THE GREAT ExErsax.—Mr. C. E. Dixon, agent
at Liverpool for As Great Ship Company, yesterday made
an application to the Money Dock and Harbour Board for
permission to again lay down cuoonngs in the Mersey for
the Great Eastern steamship, her late moorings having bees
remould in consequence of their calming an obstruction to
navigation. Mr. Dixon stated that the vessel would re-
commence ruxoing to New York on the 6th of next month,
sad that on her return Liverpool would be made her port
of arrivaL The application au referred to the Marine
committee.

CAPTAIN SEMMES, LATE OF TUE SUMTER.—
Amos, the passengers by the Mooltan, which arrived at
Southampton yesterday with the Australian mail, was
Captain Semmes, the commander of the Confederate man
of war Sumter, whose daring achievements in the Carib-
bean ma have attracted such attention. After capturing
sad destroying almost • fleet of merchant shipping among
the West India islands and in the South Atlantic, the
Sumter escaped to Europe, and there immediately com-
menced destroying Federal shipping in the British Channel
and in the Bay of Biscay. Captain Semmes is a small,
thin, but wiry mu, with a weather-beaten cows-
teuance, of • most determined looking charm-
tar. Although not by any means an old maw, hie
moustache and Nerd are quite white. He wee wore
anxious to know whether the Confederate army had fought
any greet battle after retiring from Manama, and what
progress the Federals bad made at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi. Amongst his baggage was an immense trunk,lfilled,
it was rumoured, with booty selected from captured shape.
Captain Semmes is related to Mr. Jefferson Davis, the
Confederate President. The other officen of the Sumter
ware also on board the Mooltan. They appeared very young.
The Sumter has Mee sold at Gibraltar. . .

V1N717111 Dundee Courier
says :—" The following telegram from St. John' New-
feweepand, dated the 3rd instant, per America, via Halifax
end Queenstown, Ins been received by the manager of the
Partin Polyeia in Bull's Bay, clean. No account of the
Citaperdowa.' Them vessels left this in January for the
mast of Labrador, their of siact6beeing to fish there, and then
Sella. John's, Newt to discharge. Thereafter ,
were to prosecute the w fishing la Davis' Straits,
it wee expected that is this way two cargoes might
bays base gat I. the mem. The seal Gain hes hew keg
the Labrador mast by the Amerhans; sad it
r oa
encerraeaste that the first attempt to fhb them, by vowels
belosi to this country, should have proved unsoooseduL
It is *mop, horn the extreme severity of the frost this
sprbsig, that se vend bad been able to penetrate the Ws,
and conesquantly the usual young seal fishing will be shank
a complete failure. The two screws from Dundee will moat
likely by this time be prosecuting the whale fishing' on the
south-west and east sides of Davis' Straits, where, it is to
be N
owto=ll make op for the time lost on the mast
of