The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Poonah, Captain Yield, with the heavy portion of the
above mails, arrived at Southamptoe yesterday morning.
She brings 48 passengers: seven packages specie, value
2,6001,; also amoral cargo, iacluding 2,400 bales raw
silk, vales 200,0001. sterling.

DESPATCH Or THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, &c.
PACIFIC Manse.—Tbe Royal Mail Company's steamship
La Plata, Copia& Sawyer, 8.N.8., sailed from South-
ampton yesterday sr 3 pm. with the mails for the British
and Foreigu West Indies, the Pacific, Mexico, California,
Central America, he., together with 144 passengers. The Ls
Plata took out on freight English gold caul. 6,0001. ;
English jewellery, 1,4081. ; French specie, 25,8921. ; French
Jewellery, 9,9361. ; 200 bottles quicksilver value 1,4001. ;
and • full cargo of French and English mecchandies.
THE ANNIVIENAZY or JOHN Beovnes
—Lest night a public meeting, convened by the Emend-
patioe Societ , was held is the large hall of the Whittiogton
Club, to the anniversary of John Brown's death,
at Cbarlistows, Virginia. There was a large audience, and
the chair wee tam by Mr. Mallieoe, the treasurer of the
moiety. After en eloqueet address by Mr. M. D. Conwa,
of Virginia, the followings resolution was moved by Mr.
Washington Wilke, sewoded by Mr. George Thompson, and
supported by the Rev. Bella Menlo, formerly $ shim in
Kentucky our cordial thanks be promoted to
Manure D. ()covey, Esq., of Virginia sad New England,
for his eloquent commemmatioe of the man of whom heroic
death by cruel hoods this day is the fourth thoivereuy, and
in remembering of whose sublime devotion to the cause of
negro emancipation we renew our declaration of earnest
• sigatby wallahs government sod people united under
Moss if the American republic, in a sacred resolution to
mestere the freedom and equehtT of all good atlases.' The
romantics woe amid amid reiterated oboorig ; sod a rote
of %hulks, moved by Mr. F. W. Chance, the hoe. sun-
tasyr:3l the society, was also passed.
Fascvtozos IN Amrsioe.—Xvery state or
Unitary which has held an election dozily the preseet year
hes gloss se emphatic majority far the Cake. The
majority is Ohio was 80,000 ; in Pennsylvania. 13.000 ;
km% 10.000; lowa, 15,000; Winne, 10,000; Michigan,
8,000; Virmagat. 18,000; California, 20.000; Keetocky,
50.000; Ormesedeut, 8.000; Rhode Island, 3,000;
Nehaonsera sks, 2,010; New Hampshire, 4,000, U.—lifissours

POLAND.

The Russian papers are in great exaltation about
the failure of Napoleon's idea of a Congress. The
following correspondence from St. Petersburg ap-
pears in the Hamburg Bonen-Halle :

The triumph of our over the united
efforts of the three Powers is a subject of glorification in all
political cache, and their disunion, which will certainly not
be healed by a Osegress, is ascribed to him. The strongest
dearer expressed that Omani Berg may be as soecomful
in fulfilling hie ack.oa as Youravieff, and notwi
the coutinuaece of the insurrection this is expettiadiZ
hoped. The reports from Camara& date that sever has so
much activity been seen them as this year. All the ships
of war but two are already safe in the harbour, sad will re.
main there till the vaster is over. The peeparatioes for •
remuitleg en masse in the whole empire are completed.

The tearer ism in Warsaw is daily growing greater.
Neither age, sex, nor station are respected, and no
one's person or even life is safe. The rule of
Monravieff is gradually extending into the kingdom
of Poland. The circle of Stanislawow, in the go-
vernment of Warsaw, has now apparently been
plac d under him. It is oertain that the commandant
of this sack, M. Rzymski, has been suddenly die-
mimed by Monravielf, and superseded by another
official M. Raymolki complained to the Home
Department at Warsaw, which protested ener-
getically against Maurer:Ws proceedings ; bat the

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east of the Vietug sad the circle of which it is
chief city extends to the suburbs of Warsaw. •

Since the Poles protested against the oonduct of the
Galician authorities in the Reichsrath the severities
of the Austrians in Galicia have considerably in-
creased. On the night of the 23rd numbers of
people were arrested at
Lemberg. The hotel
George, one of the principal hotels in the town, was
surrounded, and after a strict search in all the
rooms three individuals were arrested. Numbers
of other hocuiee were similarly treated.

Letters from Posen state that the Poles who were
arrested while attempting to cross the frontier, and
sentenced by the local authorities to six months'
imprisonment for high treason, which sentence was
afterwards reversed by the Court of Appeal, have
been found guilty by the High Court of Berlin, to
whom the local authorities appealed. The reversal
of the first sentence by the Court of Appeal was in
full accordance with the Prussian law, which of
course does not recognise hostilities against Russia
as equivalent to high treason against Prussia. The
High Court of Berlin, however, appears to consider
these eases as exceptional, and not falling under the
cognisance of the law of the country. Thus it has
sentenced the editor of a Polish paper to two years'
imprisonment for an article which had appeared in
other Prussian papers without objection, on the
ground "that when a Pole speaks of his oountry
he always thinks of the Grand Duchy of Posen."
The High Court appears to forget that by the Treaty
of Vienna the Grand Duchy was made the country
of every Pole who inhabits it.