The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-23 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN REPLY TO FRANCE.

The Monitear of yesterday contains the Russian
answer to the French despatch on the affairs of
Poland. The following is a trans/ation :

St. Petersburg, let (14th) July, 1863.
Monsieur le Farm,—l have reoeived eornmaniention from
the Duke de Montebello of the despatch from the Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Frame, a copy of which is sneered.
We bad appreciated the sentiments which impelled the
government of his Majesty the Emperor of the French to ex-
press to mite wishes in favour of & speedy pacification of the
troubles witch agitate the kingdom of Poland. We Sr.
happy to see that the csbinet of the Mamie. similarly ren-
ders justice to the sentiments by which we were inspired in
replying** its AM advance.
Them aseitinnaka, Monsieur le Baron, did not merely
arise from the desire at satirtying s wish which was expressed
to us in the nut friendly form. They were also dictated
by the sentiment of moral solidarity which exists between
the meat powers in preesnoe of the sotion, more aed more
evident, of the revolutionary elements of every country
which are now ooncentrated in the kingdom of Poland, and
which constitute the European character of the ques-
tion.
It was all the more incumbent upon us to fix the atten-
tion of the government of the Emperor Napoleon upon this
object, because one of the principal centres of this mite-
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that is Paris itself. The Polish emigration, profiting by its
social relations, has organised there a vase conspiracy, for
the purpose, on the one hand, of misleading pablio opinion
in France by a system of unexampled defamation and
calumny, and on the other of encouraging disorders in the
kingdom both by material aid and by the terror of an occult
committee, bat especially by imp/edit"' the conviction of
en active foreign intervention in favour of the wildest sspi-
' rations of the bwarrection.
This inflame is the principal source of an agitation
which otherwise would have been extinguished by the
action of the laws amid the indifference or repulsion of the
rearm In that accordingly must we seek the morel cause

which tends to prolong s psioful state of thing, the aee•

nation of which the French government, like t:slisalves, is
anxious for in the name of peace sod humanity. We are
persuaded that it will not permit its name to be abused for
the profit of the revolution in Poland sod Europe.
These cocaidsratioss, Monsieur le Iliroo, determine the
character of the invitation that we addressed to the cabinet

of the Tttilsrisa They equally define the object and the
character of the exchange of views to which we invited it.
When order ia serioualy disturbed in a country the adjoin-
iog States cannot be indifferent, and the other powers may
undoubtedly interest themselves in the matter in oosoexion
with the general safety. But a positive right under such
circumstances can only be based upon the stipulations of
existing treaties. It is for this reason that we must ex-
elude, eves from an exchange of friendly views that we are
disposed to pursue, all allusion to parts of the Rumen
empire to which no particular stipulation of any inter-
national act whatever applies
As regards the kingdom of Poland, the Mioister of Foreign
Affairs has entered into our views in communicating to us

his ideas upon the means which in his opinion would lead to sure of being established sooner or later. There
the pacifioation of the country. We acknowledge with
WOOLWICH, Juty 22. will probably be a change in the mood of the South
satisfaction that those ideas follow the same direction ea the
intentions of bin Msiesq the Emperor, as I have explained To-morrow will be observed as a general holiday concerning the war, but what complexion it will
them is my despatch of the 14th (25th) April, addressed to
" the
R°7lDolAreiail sad Viet Deekra...4 mg also at in tboerdßaerTtit take or what action it will prompt cannot be con-
Rues &unarm, a copy of which your ElOreffratT was re. easbl bin nn-e Na vol.. Di --;,,,51ed70 sit.. jectured. The Times thinks that the late events
quested to deliver to 11. Drools de Lima. I hlishinents to attend the county review of volunteers in coo. will check any new offer of intervention unless it
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of France himself junction with the regular forces, which will take place on has already been made.
acknowledges that several of thee. measures form part rid Chatham lines, in the presence of Viscount Sydney, the mew
the plea drawn up by our august coaster. I will add that lieutenant of Kent, Major-General Eyre, and other officers. The World contains the following account of the
the greater pert are already decreed by order of the Belmar, , -- - surrender of Vicksburg :
or prepared by the ulterior development that his Majesty SUPPOSED WHICH OF • PILGRIM SHIP AND Lees
" At eight in the morning of the 3rd the Confe-
holds in reserve, and the nature of which has been clearly lor 400 Is. a.—lt ii hared that a most calamitous ship- derate General Bowen and Colonel ,
indicated. wreck has happeaed in the vicinity of Aden, by the loss of
I ought nevertheless to remark that experience has clearly the ship Boren with 400 pilgrims on board. The advice. bearers of a communication from General Penciller-
ro
I receiv at Lloyds, state he Boyce left Bomy, ton, were led oin the Federal lines.
pved bow illusory it would be to reckon upon the of 1
of these combinations for morally pacifying the kingdom of about aed swath sines (prior tot June Zi), with aboutba 430 General Pemberton'sblindflded letterto said—' Although I
Poland before material order and respect for authority have pilgrims, bound to Laddah, and when near Hoodidah the feel confident of my ability to resist your arms
been re-established, ship is repotted to have struck on a rock, and remained indefinitely, in order to stop the further effusion of
While the present disorders lest, above all, while the feat The
ards were land
vessel ...edg got off, littkiligt island,ly and blood I propose that you appoint three commis-
hone of foreign intervention lasts, which is the most power- ! the piinannon, in now of the warning ei the plaiodn,
' im- stoners to meet three whom 1 shall nominate, to
ful import of the insurrection, this situation will inimitably ! mediately re-embarked, and the ship was got under weigh, arrange such terms as may best accomplish the
have the effect on the one hand of seriously impeding ' but the water gained so rapidly on them that they were i .
the application of the measures taken by Grant replied :--' The appoint.
the Imperial , conlielled to abandon the VIIIIIIOI, and in the rush to escape result. General
government, and on the other of cawing them to be rejected . art 400 400k.0f the pilgrims are said to have been drowned in went of commissioners is unneceeaary. While I
by the Polish insurgent, even if they were amplified to the I Anew American
should be glad to stop the needless effusion of blood,
extant indicated by the foreign minister of Franco. The yacht called the Gypsy left
New York on the 3rd instant to cram the Atlantic to cow. the only terms I can entertain are those of
differences more or less marked that the air points mentioned pet* with the most celebrated English yachtin She is unconditional surrender. At the same time I and
in the despatch of M. Drava de Lhuys introduce into the owned by a gentleman named Morse. The famous yacht I
are willing to testify to the distinguished
amnesty, the administrative autonomy, and the national America, which won the Cowes Royal Yacht Squadron cup's Imy army
1851, is now oe the blockade stake at Charleston. She was gallantry with which the defence has been
represeotation, already partly introduced into the kingdom, •
captured from the Confederates ft Florida.
will certainly not induce the ineurgeote to lay down their i The annual assemblage of the students at Epsom I conducted. '
, arms. The insurgents will rather see in them one step the whip for the distribution of prima previous to the sum. I "In the afternoon Generals Grant and Pom-
mies towards the mutant object of their hopes and efforts, mar vacation, took place in the school-room of the college . berton met between the lines, and, after an
via., to lima the sympathy shown to them abroad to an naterday. I. the unavoidable absence of the Bishop of
the hour's consultation, settled the terms of our-
setive intervention in favour of their most exaggerated aspi- 7 libiebeerert:drhAiie was occupied by the president of --
tors being render, General Pemberton urged that his soldiers
rations. They will cosemnently see in them ao eucourage- also
ustai Lady beelmdoran, Ss ' grA, Her. Cubitt,l M.P., might .be paroled at Vicksburg, and furnished
merit to persevere in their present attitude. The conclusion and a ousiderable number of the friends of the pupils.
they would arrive at would be diametrically contrary ! HOSPITAL FOR THE CURE OF STONE. —The second with rations to carry them to their lines. In view
to the result proposed. It would tend to pro. anniversary festival in aid of the funds of this institution of the bravery they had displayed, and the admit-
long and embitter the painful situation to which the solid. was held at the Freemasons' Tavern yesterday evening. The
h. tages of the plan, General Grant consented.
traded the French government, like that ol the Imperial
HeisinalLight 11°D.Piir Jill. tztrrkilllpreer. presided.
Armstrong liasToZPltlitide Bev. " The number of prisoners and wounded is said
eabisse, desires to put • speedy ed.
Me' Tighe, Dr. "'mime Dr. limed", he. enema were to be 18,000, of whom 12,000 are in fighting condi-
We and moreover its the despatch of M. Demme de Limy' laid for fiftkolple Chairman,i in proposing the toast of the
two other ideas : a temporary pecificatioa based upon the ev".ir " *ty to the Hospital for the Cure of fume," tion. The immediate cause of the surrender of the
maintenance of the military states quo, and a conference dilated en the necessity for having especial hospital to treat garrison was the exhaustion of supplies and ammn-
of the eight rowers who signed the general "it/ of Vienna reqtheitiredi.erea alenembwhiehaii°Gkdifferwgenotizawe.from that erdialwfthich a
gebenlaideral nition, and the failure of General Johnston to
of the 71 th May (9th of June), 1815. hospital affordel. The hospital bad been very suoceenful in come to their aid."
with regard to the first, however earnest may be oar deeireto effecting the objects for which it had bees established, and Another
wean sad put to bloodshed, we he some difficulty in under- no one could say that it held out a premium to improper
sissdlag the precise value of this suggertion. We believe , account says that all that has been
Redo]g enos. fie emended by proposing the tout, which written about the sufferings of the Confederates in
was drunk with great eethusisani. Dr. °Timmer proposed Vicksburg has been but half the truth. There
that the French government would dad it as difficult as we , the health of the chairman, who remolded in appropriate
onmelves I. define the character, the burin, sad the mods ' terms. The subscriptions amounted to nearly 50W. were about 22,000 people in Vicksburg, 10,000 of