The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND POLAND.

In the second chamber of the Austrian Raicharath,
Counts Potocki and Kiusky have given notice of
certain questions respecting recent events at Cracow.
The former demands, first, whether the govern-
ment will confine itself to ordering the local autho-
rities to make an inquiry as to the events which
took place on the 14th of July at Cracow, or will
take other measures to ascertain the truth with
regard to the conflict ; secondly, whether the
government is disposed to order the Galician
authorities, and especially those of Cracow,
not to cause the people to be fired upon
without previous warning; and, thirdly, by
what right the Galician telegraphic officers refuse
to forward telegrams relative to the events in Ga-
licia. Count Kiusky desires to know for what
reasons enforced residences have taken place in Gali-
cia, and upon what treaties or international ar-
rangements these measures are founded. The Ost-
Deutsche Post says that the replies to these ques-
tions are awaited with great impatience, because
the questions themselves are connected with the
attitude of the government towards Austrian
Poland.

(1110111e8 TILXGRAMS.)
THE RUSSIAN REPLY TO FRANCE.
PARIS, JULY 22.
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Prince Gortchakoff's reply to the French note
relative to the Polish question has been published
to-day. It agrees in substance with that addressed
to England. It moreover insists on the moral so-
lidarity of the great powers in presence of the
evident action of the revolutionary element of all
countries, concentrated at present in Poland, stat-
ing that this gives the question a European cha-
racter.

Prince Gortchakoff says :—" We are so much the
more compelled to call the attention of the French go-
vernment to this fact, since one of the principal focuses
of the agitation which exists; is Paris itself. The Polish
emigrants, profiting by their social relations, have
organised a vast conspiracy, destined to mislead
public opinion in France by a system of misrepre-
sentation and calumny, and to keep alive disorder
in the kingdom of Poland by assisting it with
material, by the terror of a secret committee, and,
above all, by propagating the conviction that active
foreign intervention will take place in favour of the
most senseless aspirations of the insurrection."
" This influence," adds Prince (lortchakoff, " is
at present the principal source of the agita-
tion which without it would be overtaken
by the action of the law in presence of
the indifference or opposition of the masses.
Herein lies the moral cause which tends to prolong
the present painful state of things, for the prompt
cessation of which the French government, like
ourselves, appeals in the name of peace and huma-
nity. We have pleasure in believing that the
French government will not permit its name to be
abused for the advantage of the revolution in Poland
and in Europe."

AUSTRIA'S REPLY TO PRINCE GORT-
CHAKOFF.
VIENNA, Jim 22.
Austria has despatched a preliminary note to
Russia, in reply to the despatch of Prince Gort-
chakoff on the Polish question. This note an-
nounces that Austria cannot abandon the line of
cmiduct she has pursued up to the present. She
rejects the proposal of a conference of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria, maintains the six points, and
declares that in any further steps she may take she
will protect ber own interests only. Notes have
been simultaneously despatched by the Austrian
government to the Western Powers, declaring
that Austria will continue to act in concert with
them, and will firmly maintain the six points.

RUSSIA.
BERLIN, JULY 22.
According to letters received from St. Peters-