The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNIESDAT EV1311:110.

It appears that the French government means to
make a considerable matter of the arrest of the
five Italian brigands on board the French ship
Aunis, in the port of Genoa. They were not
French subjects, but they were furnished with
French as well as Roman passports to enable them
to make their escape. It is very likely that the
imperial government may have the law on its aide,
and that the French flag was violated by the
arrest of these men on board the boat of the.
Measagerim hnperiales. The temps says, however,
that on the refusal of the captain of the ship
to give up the men, M. Gualterio, the prefect of
Genoa, obtained an order in support of his warrant
1 from M. Huet, the French consul, and that there-
fore the brigands were surrendered without die-
culty. According to this version, the main objec-
tion insisted upon by the Constirationne/ this morn-
Mg was removed, for the consul, the proper
, authority in snob oww, was a aossentimpparty to
the arrest. The France, nevertheless, says to-night
that the French government demands reparation,
and insists apOn the liberation of the five brigands
i as a preliminary step. .

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The France gives it very clearly to be understood
that although Ruled& may not consent to the
armistice, such a decision, "however regrettable,"
will not be coma beUi.
The Bourse was much firmer and more active
during great part of the day, and although weaker
towards the close, a rise of 10c. and be. iu the
Rants was maintained.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

(FROM ♦ CORILMOPOIMMIT.)
BERLIN, JOLT 6.

The barbarities of the Russian government have
borne their natural fruits in a people so high-
spirited as the Poles. Never were the insurgents
so numerous or so desperate as now. By the last
news, twenty battles at least were fought in various
parts of Poland within the space of two days, in
which the Poles several times gained the advan-
tage; and numerous expeditions on a large scale
are preparing, which by all accounts will severely
tax the endurance of the Russian troops. The
gradual waning of their hopes of foreign interven-
tiou, far from slackening the energies of the Pules,
seems on the contrary to spur them on to increased
exertion. They feel that they have Foue too far to
retreat; that the contest on both sides is one for
existence ; and, abandoned by the world, they pre-
fer extinction to slavery, resolved that Poland shall
in future be all Polish or all Russian. Nor is
Russia blind to the seriousness of the crisis. The
Bergs and Muuravieffs have received orders to spare
no means of crushing the Poles,and every day we
hear of Home new atrocity committed by these un-
compronrisrug disciples of the regime of Nicholas.
In Lithuania nearly all who have shown any dispo-
sition to recover the independence they enjoyed
under Poland are either iu Siberia, the priming or
the insurrection. Even the peasants—the class
which in all countries cares but little for political
privileges so lung as it is materially prosperous—
form a respectable proportion of Poland's heroes
and martyrs. All have refused to form a militia to
fight against the insurgents ; many have been sent
to Siberia for resisting the attempts of the govern-
' meat to enlist them, and whole villages have sent
large contingents for the formation of bands, con.
slating exclusively of peasants, and which have
already gained several important victories against the
Russian troops. The prisons are crowded, and terrible
rumours are current of the sufferings which the
savage Muuravietf iuflicta on his victims. Forty
nobles have been literally starved to death by his
orders. One woman has been strangled in her
cell ' • three men have become insane under the
brutal treatment of their tormentors. In Warsaw
• similar scenes take place. Of late a new means of
making room in the citadel for fresh victims has
been discovered by throwing a certain number of
prisoners, with millstones ruuud their necks, every
night into the Vistula. Others are sent from time
to time to St. Petersburg, to be thence drafted off
to the fortresses and mines of Asiatic Russia.
The National Government is extremely active,
and is universally obeyed. The Russian government
is a mere name, and its place is supplied by an irre-
sponsible body of military dictators, who know no
law, and only obtain obedience to their commands by
using main force. The taxes are paid to the National
Goverunieut ; the railways carry insurgents for it ;
and the majority of the employes in the postal and
railway administrations, and in the public offices,
are devoted to it. It has also a regular po-
lice, which has been very useful in protect-
ing property iu Poland against the pillage of
• Russian troops. and in coming to the assistance of
travellers attacked on the highway by Cossacks. Its
operations extend over the whole of the Poland of
1772, or, iu other words, over the ground occupied
by the tusurrection ; and it would regard as treason-
able the acceptance, by any portion of that territory,
of any compromise not accepted by the remainder.
Any proposition, such Rs the six points lately sub-
mitted to Russia, which would only relate to the
kingdom of Poland, will certainly be rejected by
the Pules, however advantageous it may be.

Batcor SOCIETY.—At the meeting of the com-
mittee held no Tuesday its attention was called to a letter
from Mr. George William Cole, of North Adelaide, South
Auatnilts, upon which the following resolution was passed.
Itersolved,—The attention of the committee being called to •
letter from Mr. George William Cole, of North Adelaide,
South Amoreha, addressed to the editor or the United
Kingdom etniunce and published in that paper, in which
the writer aays :—•• Nothing has tended to give purity to
our elections more than the ballot. Drunkenuess is weeder.
fully suppressed by its operation at elections. It would be
• h►ppy result to secure the MMe boon for
English elections "—the committee gladly avails itself of
the opportunity afforded it by Mr. Cola's statement (and
which is in ix.ruplcie accoidance with the evideice received
by the committee from every other piece in which vote by
ballot is est ablialind) to appeal to the friends of temperance
throughout the United Itiogiliim to join this society. and
aid iu the great work of preventing the discharge of the
highest act of citizenship teiug degraded into an occasion of
demoralizing the people by the druukennewi which is found
to be en almost itiscp.irable incident of every election under
open voting.
SHOAL or WH•LDL—On Saturday last, the
intiabituda of Caraluith and ueighbourbocil were somewhat
astonished to observe seven whales disporting themselves in
Wigtown Bay. Knowing the value of the mires. the
Messrs. Irving. fisLermeo, accompanied hr • number of their
men, went off in pursuit. end succeeded iu running half •
dozen of them into a little bay on the Stowartry coast. The
length of the larcect whale—they were all of the "bottle.
nosed" species - was 18 feet, awl the average wu from 12 to
14 feet. Use of them, more voracious than the rent, had I
actually swallowed a young whale. shout seven feet long.
The estimated value of the capture is about 49/., which, we
suppose, falls to the captors. The seventh whale, which
escaped at the tone of the first raid, was afterwards thrown
up on one of the Ides of Fleet, and was easily fiuished.
Three or four hove since been seen in the bay. —Kir4ced-
Graph! Advertiser.
The Liverpool Police Court held a very remark-
able prisoner yestenlay. Duncan Wallace, a seaman, 94
years of age, who had bee., /4 years in the navy, and was
at the Nile with Nelson iu 1798, was brought up for drunken
and disorderly conduct. It raceme that lie was in Liverpool
by accident, and bed obtained from some sailor. more grog
than he could carry. The magistrate directed that the
veteran should be put on board a Whitehimen steamboat,
and kindly gave him • donation to eat him on his way.
Niue hundred converts to Mormohisin pawed
through Detroit on the 3rd alt., on their way to the Salt
Lake. They were fI.WII Germany, and appeared to be hotel-
ligent and well-to-do people. About 150 of the emigrants
were owe; all thereat were woman end children.