The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

Warsaw letters from various sources describe the
recruiting as having been conducted with great bru-
tality. The garrison was previously augmented to
the number of 60,000 men, and several houses were
occupied by the soldiers. The seizures, as they
may be called, then began.

All being ready, the night of the 14th was fixed upon for I
the carrying off of those who had been selected. At 11
o'clock the police and the regiments of the Imperial Guard
recently arrived at Witraw occupied the points previously
assigned them. The infantry was ranged in order of battle in
the squares and principal streets, ready to march, and nu-
merous detachments of cavalry and Cossacks patrolled
the streeta. At midnight the operation commenced.
police sergeants, accompanied by soldiers, entered
the houses which had been allotted to them, and
and carried off all whose names had appeared on the lifts
of the contingent. This species of rani& lintel till day-
break. A certain number of those who were to have been
seised had managed to escape. Those who were taken were
led first to the police bureau at the Hotel de Ville,
and from thence, with their hands bound, in bands
of 20 or 25, were taken to the citadel. Some
in the fanbonrgs tried to make resistance, bat these
isolated attempts were easily suppressed. The number of
recruits from Hamer was 2,000; a most exorbitant num-
ber in proportion to the population. No clam was spared;
but the intelligent and educated were chiefly drawn upon.
No regard whatever was paid to the circumstances of
those who were the support of their families,
or who had wives and children. On the morning of the
15th the Hotel de Ville was besieged by crowds of old men
and weeping women—a truly lamentable spectacle. As
soon as the operation was over at Warsaw orden were
sent to the governors of the provisoes to ;roofed in the
same manner, each in his own district.
The .Nurd has a letter of as late a date as the
24th. It says :

The central committee issued a proclamation on the
16th stating that they had taken all the measures in their
power to prevent the recruiting, but that they had been
taken by surprise, and their calculations were upset by un-
foreseen circumstances, especially ty the hostility of the
French government, which bad delayed the introduction
of arms into Poland. The committee then proclaim+ the
whole country in an exceptional state, end declares the
Marquis Wielopoleki and his son, and all those who have
taken part in the recruiting, to be outlaws. The committee
also gave orders that the youth should unit the city
to hide in the woods in the neighbourhood of Warsaw.
lam pleased to state that the students repelled distinctly
the appeal thus made to them, but some hundreds of
unhappy workmen and other young people, most of them
without arms, or badly armed, allowed themselves to be
enticed into the neighbouring forests. At the moment of
closing my letter, I hear some ad news: Colonel Korlsninov,
commanding a detachment of troops on the other aide of
Mock, ha* been killed by a band of armed insurgents. The
rails were torn up yesterday on the railway, sad the train
from Czenstochow has been taken off the rail. There were
lolled and wounded on both side*.
The German papers contain,:acconnts of engage-
ments between the Russian troops and the people in
two or three other villages in the vicinity of
Warsaw.

(azurica's

PARIS, JAN. 27.
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source :

" Warsaw, Jan. 26.
"The insurrectionary movement now displays its
real character.

"‘The great landed proprietor and the peaeanta
attain from participating in it, as they understand
that it can only draw misfortune upon the country,
and arrest its development . .

" The lower middle class, working men, and a few
proprietors of small estates are in the movement."

SPAIN.
RESIGNATION OF GENERAL PRIM.