The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCIE.

POLAND.

If we may believe the Pram of Vienna, a semi-
official journal, the relations between Austria and
the Western Powers are growing 000 L The de-
spatches forwarded to St. Petersburg by England
and France declaring the amnesty insufficient were
sent without the knowledge of Austria. "This step
of the Western Powers," says the Prase, " was
not learned at Vienna for four days, and then
only in an indirect way. This proceeding can
only be explained by the desire of those powers
to prevent Austria from assuming a mediating
position between them and Russia"
The official journal of St. Petersburg publishes a
lengthened manifesto, which oocupies a page of the
Nord of to-day, setting forth for the information
of Europe a summary of the measures which have
been carried out in Poland since the accession of
I the Emperor Alexander. These measures are given
under 12 heads, viz. Amnesties, sots of
clemency, and imperial pardon. 2. Religious
worship. 3. Pensions, financial and benevolent
measures. 4. Roads and communications, national
industry. 5. Reorganisation of the political and
administrative institutions. 6. Public instruction.
7. Reforms introduced into the relations between
proprietors and tenants. & Extension of the
common 11. w to the Jews of the kingdom.
9. Reorganisation of various other parts
of the administration of the kingdom.
10. Judicial reforms. 11. Preparation of
various other legislative and administrative
projects. 12. Executive and administrative power.
It is stated that between 1856 and 1861 a full and
entire amnesty has been granted to 8,693 persons ;
that the greatest deference has been paid to the
Roman catholic church, which has enjoyed full
self-government ; that the remnants of the old
Polish army and of the former civil administration
have received an increase of pensions ; that the
' roads, railways, and river navigation have been
greatly improved and extended ; that elective pro-
' vinoial councils to regulate all local affairs have
been established, the voting being open to every
Pole of 25 years of age who can read and write the
I Polish language ; that schools, universities, and
various educational establishments have been en-
couraged and fostered ; that tenants have been
released from a state almost of serfdom ; that Jews
have received all the privileges which other subjects
enjoy ; that the penal code is being revised with a
special view of giving solid guarantees of justice to
the accused, without having recourse to excep-
tional tribunals and the application of mar-
tial law; that a principle of decentralisation
is being carried out. Lastly, "It is his
own brother that the Emperor has condescended to
appoint his lieutenant in the kingdom. It is a Pole
of eminent merit and of ardent and enlightened
patriotism that his Majesty has placed at the head
of the civil administration. The Council of State
and the Administrative Council are almost exclu-
sively composed of Poles. All the higher civil
functions—all the posts of provincial governors, have
also been exclusively confided to Poles. Through-
out the kingdom there were not on the Ist of
January, 1863, more than eight superior Russian
functionaries."

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THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
THORN, Aram 30.
The anniversary of the Emperor's birthday passed
yesterday without particular observance.
The Marquis Wielopolski was not among the
company attending at the castle to offer their con-
gratulations.
It is said that Baron Seebach, now at Warsaw,
having perused the draft of a constitution to be
granted to Poland, considers its publication un-
advisable as inadequate for the object intended.

RUSSIA.
CELEBRATION OF THE EMPEROR'S
BIRTHDAY.
ST. PETERSBURG, MAY I.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day announces
that the birthday of the Emperor has been cele-
brated in all the chief cities of the empire, and that
loyal manifestations have taken place through-
out the provinces.
The same paper publishes the answer given
by the Emperor in reply to an address pre-
sented to him by tho nobility, the
municipality of St. Petersburg, the corporations,
and the peasantry. His Majesty said : "The only
object of my life is the welfare of our dear father
land, and the gradual development of our civil
institutions."

An imperial ukase has also been published to-day
directing that corporal punishments shall in future
only be employed in exceptional cues.

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
PARIS, KAT 1.

The Moniteur of to-day says :
"Several journals announce that the representa-
tives of the sub-electoral committees will shortly
assemble in order to elect a central committee.

"The government reminds the public that the
law fordids association of more than twenty per-
sons meeting without the consent of the public
authorities, even should those associations be sub-
divided into sections comprising a less number,
and, further, that the journals would expose them-
selves to legal penalties if they published the reso-
lutions or manifestoes of such associations."

WEATHER EMPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

M•r 1, a A.M.