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

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2*,

LATEST ' INTILLIGENCE.

THE RUSSIAN REPLt-L-THE WAR
FEELING,

The Paris journals refer °Pally to war as
the probable result of the Russian reply to France.
The Sieeie is persuaded that every Frenchman who
reads the incredible response of Russia will feel
himself deeply wounded. "It is not a diplo-
matic reply, it is &defiance." In the Dibats M. St.
Marc Girardin says that he would not recoil from
war if that solution becomes necessary. " be-
cause," be says, " we believe that this war, like
those we made in the Crimea and in Italy, would
be short and promptly decisive, and that it would
have, moreover, a distinctive character—it would
be essentially disinterested. The war of the Crimea
was altogether a political war ; it gave us nothing,
but this did not prevent it from restoring to
France the ascendant part in Europe which she ought
I to have, to maintain the European equilibrium.
We will even say that without the war in the
Crimea, and the moral authority which it gave us,
the Italian war—a war useful in its principle—
would have been impossible. In the same way the
war of Poland cannot take place and cannot succeed
unless Europe is well convinced of our disinteres-
tedness—that we expect nothing, that we wish for
nothing, but the glory of having made an expe-
dition which may perhaps%) the laughing-stock of
the shrewd, but which, having been undertaken, will
not the less be the grandest and moat decisive act of
the 19th century."
The Temps says :—" Not only does any agree-
ment appear impossible, but the continuance of
a diplomatic controversy would seem; after such
manifestations, scarcely worthy of the powers in
general, and of France in particular. But here we
cannot help observing, on the one band, that &simple
rupture of diplomatic relations would signify
nothing ; and on the other, that there would be some-
thing illogical in a recourse by the powers to extreme
measures to impose on Russia, (in the interest of
Poland, conditions which the Polish national sen-
timent declares to be insufficient. Thus, as we
have already said many times, the question has
been badly put ; if we wish it to advance, we must
present it in another shape."
In Austria, the Prase and the ast-Deutsche Post
appear less disturbed by Prince Gortchakoff's
despatches than by the armaments which are
going on in Russia. The extraordinary levy in that
country is viewed as a provocation. The Pressel
of Vienna thinks that Austria cannot do better
than reply to this menacing demonstration by a
sinffiar one. With regard to the objections of
those who maintain that the financial system of
Austria prevents it from acting with energy,
it says :—" Of what use is an army which coats 123
millions a year if we recoil from the necessity of
using it when it is required to make our position
as a great power respected 1 Let us send home half
this army, and free the people from a grievous
burden, or act with energy and put an end to this
uncertainty, which keeps on foot a ruinous effective
of 400,000 useless men."
At Berlin official circles refuse to believe in the
gravity of the present situation ; and it is repre-
sented that the ominous language of the Russian
government is adopted only to give an apparent
satisfaction to the excited feeling of the Russian
people, and that under these refusals ulterior con-
cessions are concealed.

Italy seems disturbed by the prospect of an
allianoe between France and Austria, and cannot
distinctly see what she would gain in any war of
which an Austro-French alliance might be the
pivot. The Belgian journals also view the proepect
of a war with great distrust, not feeling sure as to
the proportions it might assume.
An aide-de-camp of the King of Sweden, who
has lately been sent on a private mission to the
Emperor Napoleon at Vichy, has just left for Stock.
holm, the bearer, it is said, of an autograph letter
from his Majesty.

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THE RUSSIAN REPLY TO AUSTRIA.

VIENNA. JIILT 22.

The reply of Prince Gortchakoff to Count Rech-
berg has been published to-day in the official
Vienna Gazette, which acoompauies its publication
with the following remarks :
" Immediately after the receipt of this reply
the Cabinet of the Emperor placed itself in com-
munication with the Cabinet& of London and Paris,
and also addressed a note to the Austrian Ambas-
sadors at those Courts, declaringin conclusion, that
the good nnd•rstanding between the three Courts
formed a tie between them from which Austria will
not separate herself, and that it will not negotiate
separately with Russia, as demanded by the latter."

VIENNA, JOLT 22, EYE=No.

The reply of Russia, dated the 13th inst., for-
mally invites Austria to an exchange of ideas upon
their common interests.

The reply suggests that the matter in question
only affects details of internal administration, and
that the three powers concerned in the partition
should consequently, as in 1815, deliberate at pre-
sent together.

The reply makes no allusion to the proposal of
an armistice.

THE REPLIES TO THE WESTERN
POWERS.

ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 22.
The Journal de'St. Petersbonrg of to-day publishes
the replies of Russia to the notes of the three
plwers upon the Polish question, despatched upon
the 13th inst.

PROPOSED STATE OF SIEGE IN POSEN.
POSEN, JULY 23.
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The Posener Zeitung of the 22nd states that it
considers the establishment of a state of siege
necessary in the seven frontier districts of the
Duchy of Poeen, and in the districts of Kuim,
Thorn, Grandma, and Stramburg, in Prussia
Proper.