The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
TheSa7c/c says :—" The National Polish Govern-
ment continues to display great energy in the organ-
isation of its forces. The detachments are numer-
ous and well-armed. Many corps are in course of
formation, and it will not be long before they are
in the field. It is not merely with the object of
making the insurrection last till the spring that
the people fight ; the possibility of an interven-
tion is now only regarded as a happy chance of
sparing Poland thousands of victims. But, inter-
vention or no intervention, fighting will be carried
on to the last extremity. It is not one class of so-
ciety alone, but the entire nation which wills it.
The volunteer corps recently organised are com-
posed almost entirely of peasants. The martyr-
dom of so many eminent victims, massacred by the
Russians, has borne its fruits. Formerly it
was sometimes asked with anxiety who
would continue the struggle when the nobility
and the middle class had succumbed. That fear is
no longer felt ; those who die will have thousands
of successors. Of 180,000 inhabitants, Warsaw
contains only 150,000 at this moment. Twenty-
nine thousand inhabitants lost in eight months !
Twenty-nine thousand men, women, and children,
for the most part tortured in the dungeons, trans-
ported into Siberia, or executed on the glacis of the
citadel ! The Russians hoped in this vast haul to
take the members of the National Government.
Doubtless, amongst so many victims more than one
belongs to that admirable secret organisation ; but
these losses have not enfeebled it. The most pe-
rilous employments are those most sought for.
Unknown men, often workmen, reveal every day an
unlooked-for energy and capacity. All the living
strength of the nation is concentrated on one ob-
ject—independence. Russia will not suppress the
insurrection save by exterminating Poland."

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THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
DRESDEN, D. 7, El/misc.

The Dresdner Journal of to-day publishes a tele-
gram from Frankfort, stating that in to-day's sitting
of the Federal Diet the representatives of Weimar
and Saxe-Meiningen introduced a proposition that
neither the King of Denmark nor the Duke of
Augastenburg should be recognised as the sovereign
of Lsuenburg, but that the Federal Diet should
rather take that duchy under its own administra-
tion.

This proposition was referred to the committee,
who will make their report and proposal thereon.

VIENNA. Die. 8.

Vice-Admiral Irminger, the Danish extraor-
dinaiy ambassador charged with the notification
of the accession of King Christian IX., has left
this city without being received by the Emperor.

This circumsh.nce in regarded as a confirmation
of the view that, in spite of the withdrawal of the
March patent, Austria still insists upon Federal
execution in Holstein.

A deputation from the Municipal Council of
Vienna presented a petition to the Emperor yester-
day, relative to the Duchies of Schleswig and Hol-
stein.

The Emperor, in reply, said he did not deem it
necessary to assure them that in this question he
should fulfil his duties as a Prince of the German
Confederation, and strive with all his power for the
preservation of the constitutional rights of the
duchies. His Majesty stated, however, that the
Municipal Council would do much better if, instead
of discussing high political questions, they would
direct their activity more to commercial affairs.

EXECI7TION IN HOLSTEIN ORDERED BY
THE FEDERAL DIET.
FILLNKFORTALTEIFAIAINK, Die. 7.
The Federal Diet has passed, by • small majo-
rity, the resolution br Federal execution in Hol-
stein, reserving to itself the settlement of the
question of the suocession.
The order for the advance of troops into the
Duchy was immediately despatched.

REPLY OF THE CZAR TO THE CONGRESS
PROPOSITION.
PARIS, Doc. 8.

The replies of the Emperor of Russia and the
Kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg to the Emperor's
invitation to the congress have been published this
morning.
The Emperor of Russia states that he has always
recognised the utility of an understanding among
the sovereigns. All the acts of his reign attest
his desire to substitute relations of confidence
and concord for the state of armed peace,
weighing so heavily upon the peoples. His Majesty
then says that he had taken the initiative in this
direction by the reduction of his army, and
continues :—" Eventualities of a nature to menace
the security and even the integrity of my states
alone caused me to abandon this path. I have
an earnest desire to be able to re-enter it and
spare my people the sacrifices which their
patriotism accepts, but for which their property
suffers.

"Nothing could better haiku this movement
than a general pacification of the questions which
agitate Europe. I should be happy ii your Ma-
jesty's proposition led to a loyal understanding
between the sovereigns; but for this to be prac-
tically realised can only proceed from the consent
of the other great powers. It is indispensable
for your Majesty to define the questions upon
which an understanding would have to be arrived
at, and the basis upon which it would be esta-
blished. The object of the pacification of Europe
will always have my most earnest sympathies."
The first conference took place yesterday at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the conclusion of a
treaty of commerce and navigation between France
and Sweden.