The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(asursa's rzusassus.)
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
CRACow, )(AWN 23.
Further divisions of the Polish insurgents have
arrived here to-day.

LEMRF.RO. IfAlen 23.

The Warsaw Revolutionary Central Committee
has again assumed the direction of the insurrection.

This step has beet rendered necessary by General
Langiewicz having resigned the dictatorship, in a
proclamation warning the insurgents against the
indulgence of party spirit.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Hawn 23.
The Oesterreiettische Zeitung of this evening says :
"The statement of the Vienna papers of this
morning that a ministerial oriais was pending on
account of differences between the Anil° Chancellor
for Hungary and the Cabinet, greatly needs con-
firmation."

PRUSSIA.

BEELLIIT, MARCt 23.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
K Grsbow made a report on the audience granted
yesterday by the King to a deputation from the
Chamber, commissioned to present an address
congratulating his Majesty upon the anniversary
of his birthosy.
Grabow said that the deputation was most
graciously received by the King, who repeatedly
expressed his thanks for the sentiments conveyed
by the deputation, and said he hoped to succeed in
removing existing differences.
His Majesty also said that pending questions
might meet with a solution within the current year,
as he knew that the country and its representatives
had always been faithful to the King.

ITALY.

RUMOITRED RETIREMENT OF SIGNOR
FARINL
TIIILIN, Maw( 23.

It is stated that Signor Fermi is about to retire
from public business, on account of indisposition.
Signor Minghetti will undertake the presidency of
the Councii in Signor Farini's stead.
The reports current of further modifications of
the cabinet are devoid of foundation.

FRANCE.
PARIS, IdApra 23, Emma.
Prince Metternich arrived here from Vienna to-
day.
His Excellency had an interview, lasting two
hours, with M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
The Pays of this evening thinks that France has
reason to congratulate herself upon the favourable
sentiments of Austria in the negotiations for the
settlement of the Polish question.

EGYPT.

(nom °um cm 00111118PONDMIT.)
ALEXANDRIA, 11Awe 9.

It the outward manifestations of respect shown
towards the Viceroy during the past two days bear
any comparison whatever to the real sentiments
entertained towards his highness by the European
residents of this city, Ismael Pacba has every
reason to be gratified with the position he at present
occupies. Every section of the inhabitants com-
posing the foreign community of Alexandria have
vied with each other in doing honour to his high-
ness, and testifying their pleasure at his return
amongst them after his short official visit to Con-
stantinople. For several days previous to his
arrival thousands of workmen were busily engaged
in decorating the principal streets with banners
and triumphal arches, while from every house
floated the national flag of the crescent and the star,
mingled here and there in close alliance with the
flags of England, France, Italy, and Belgium.
Innumerable coloured lamps, arranged in pictur-
esque and graceful devices, were suspended before
the mansions occupied by the different consuls and
bankers ; the windows of every house were filled
with candles, varied at intervals by the lees bril-
liant but more fanciful-looking Chinese lamp ; and
when the whole was lit up last night, a spectacle
was presented to the eye which for magnificence
has never been equalled here, and seldom exceeded
even in the great capitals of Europe. His highness
arrived here from Constantinople on Satur-
day night, but as no salutes are fired
after sunset his arrival was little known
until Sunday morning. When, however, be
rode round the grand square yesterday evening, the
brilliant lights and the blare of fireworks which
greeted his approach must have convinced him that
this outward manifestation of respect represented
truly the feelings of the community, and that inas-
much as those feelings were prompted by the liberal
promises lately made, his Highness will only find it
necessary to fulfil those promises in order to dis-
seminate the same feelings abroad, when the favour-
able opinions of the foreign community here will be
ratified by the public opinion of Europe.
His Highness has returned from Constantinople
decorated with the Osmaniti in brilliants, conferred
upon him by the Sultan ; but his visit has been an
expensive one, as, in addition to the other substan-
tial tokens of homage usual on similar occasions,
the Viceroy presented to his Majesty the magni-
ficent paddle•yacht Feizi.gehad, recently brought
from England by the late Said Pacha, and built, it
is said, at a cost of 150,0001.
The Soci6t4 Financiers d'Egypte, which com-
menced business here on the 23rd ult., have issued
a circular notifying the completion of the iouncil of
administration, by the nomination on the London
board of Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone,
Bart, M.P. At the same time they announce the
arrival in Alexandria of Mr. J. Lewis Farley ; thus
completing the board of management iu Egypt

Despatches were reoeived yesterday at the Colonial.
ogee from the Governors of the Australian colonies, Ceylon,
Hong Bong, Malta, Gibraltar, and from the Lord High
Commissioner of the looks' Islands. Despatches were sent
to the Governors of the settknosote on the West Coed of
Africa.

Swattra.—The Prince of Wales's wedding was
oalebisted by a large dinner at the English Club, a full
dress party at the B. D. and S. T., the decoration of the
'Wilma and entices of the Ottoman, Smyrna, and Aidin
Railway, by lighting up her Majesty's ship Wanderer with
lanterns and bine lights, and by the English, lonian, and
Greek shipping displaying their gags. The agitation about
the poll tax continues, and those who hare paid remain at
the same number, about 40. Strong hopes are entertained
of its abolition. Yesterday Edhem Pao* minister of corn-
mere., telegraphed that a large supply, of cotton seed in
comes how Ept. Our hotels are full of visitors and
commeroial trave. The Mavrogordato is landing supplier
far the railway company at their pier.
Loss or • SCHOONER WITH ALL BANDA —Tbe
Flora, Dyer, master, from London for Port Talbot, which
pat into If ount's Bay on the 'loth indent, reports the fol-
lowing melancholy occurrence. About 1 o'clock, on the
18th last., during a gale from the north, and a heavy sea.
she saw a loaded 'chemise to windward with colours half
mast. The strange schooner bore down on the Flare, bat
when in the act of rounding to she ship rod a tremendous
are. and immediately went down with all bands. The
gi.td.d meg appeared to be shoat 140 loos, and was
painted black. 81. Ives we. bearing south sod east, about
nine miles. The Piers could of warm render no amid.
' con.—Weetsre Morning Pow.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

01011 OUR OW/I coaßsapondwr.)

BERLIN, MAICR 20.

While the Prussians are gaily celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of their liberation from a foreign
yoke, and for the moment forgetting their differ-
ences with their king and government, their un-
happy neighbours nobly persist in their gallant
efforts to recover that independence which they lost
almost at the same time as Prussia regained hers.
There can be no doubt that the insurrection is
making gigantic strides, and that Russia's grasp of
Poland is already considerably relaxed. The Polish
conflicts of the last week consist of an unbroken suc-
cession of victories on the part of the insurgents,
who still wisely adhere to their rule of avoiding
pitched battles or large concentrations of troops.
The only exception to this rule is the corps of
Lengiewics, which consists, it is said, of
nearly 12,000 men, fully armed and equip.
ped. As Dictator and Commander-in-Chief,
perhaps it was necessary that this gallant
and popular leader should have under him the
only Polish corps that can properly be called an
army, as such a corps, besides investing the person
et the Dictator of Poland with the necessary
dignity and authority, has in itself an importance
and prestige which must give great encouragement
to the insurgents in all parts of the country. On
the other hand, a proportionate discouragement
would be the result of any disaster that might
happen to this fine corps, which, considering that
the great body of the Russian troops in Poland is
now surrounding it on all sides, and that, having
no base of operations, it is forced to carry its
provisions, ammunition, and other impedimenta
with it, is not at all an improbable contingency.
The last news, however, from Langiewicz's head-
quarters, dated yesterday, is decidedly favourable.
It appears that on the 18th he made a successful
attempt to penetrate the net of troops which the
Russian commanders are gradually draw-
ing around him, and that
_yesterday he was
in full pursuit of the Russians in the
direction of Kielce. The battle took place at Za-
=on the left bank of the Nide, which river
wire had crossed with his army nearChrobrze.
The Poles, on arriving at Zagoszcz, occupied an ad-
vantageous position, with their left wing on the
river, their right on some hills, and a vast plain,
extending to Krzyzanowice, on their front. Their
waggous, in charge of the cavalry and a small de-
tachment of infantry, were posted in the rear.
About 4,000 men, with four guns, constituted the
' force of the Russians, who were commanded by
Colonels Zwirow and Czengery. The battle began
by an ineffective fire from the Russian artillery,
which, however, fully occupied the attention of the
Polish van. Meanwhile some Cossacks turned the
right flank of the Poles, and assaulted the waggons
in their rear. This caused some confusion, and
the cavalry hastily retired with the waggons towards
Opatowiec ; but the Polish rifles, coming up
at this moment, soon beat off the Cossacks. The
Poles now advanced against the Russians, and after
•se•zing two of their guns forced them to retreat
towards Busk, where they pressed them so closely
that the retreat soon became a flight. Upwards of
500 rifles and some ammunition fell into the hands
of the Poles in this encounter. So far the Polish
army appears to have been successful ; but it has
grown too large, and is too much encumbered with
supplies to continue the guerilla warfare which
has hitherto been its salvation, while it is neither
strong nordisciptined enough to engage the formida-
ble army opposed to it in a succession of pitched
battles. As the Polish army depends for existence
on its supplies, and these would probably belost in
case of a defeat, the first serious check inflicted on
it will doubtless result in its dispersion, which,
however injurious it might be to the prestige of the
insurrection, will really be a very material support
to it, by making Langiewice troops revert to those
guerilla tactics in which they are strongest.
It would be a great mistake to suppose that the
heart of the insurrection is the army of Lingle-
wicz. In Lithuania the nobles have shown them-
selves so favourable to it that 500 of them have
been imprisoned, as a precautionary measure, by
the government. Large bodies of insurgents have
appeared in the neighbourhood of Wilna, and on
the 10th one of them attacked a detachment of the
Imperial Guard at Rudiuka, defeating them with
a loss of 250 men. A desperate battle was fought
on the 16th and 17th between !Ennui and the Posen
frontier, in which the whole of the Russian troops
quartered in that town numbering upwards of
3,000 men, were engaged with 1,000 Poles under
Mieleucki. On the first day the Poles were forced
to retire to Londek ; but next morning, hav-
ing received reinforcements, they attacked and
routed the Russians with great slaughter.
There is also a numerous and well-armed
insurgent band, under Colonel Czechowski, at
Taruogrod, where it has established a national
government. The eastern district of Lublin is
occupied by another strong detachment under
Lelevel and Lewauduwski, who twice defeated the
Russian troops—the first time taking their guns,
and the second using them against their former
possessors.

In Warsaw the government is in an absolute
state of isolation. One by one its warmest ad-
herents are dropping off. Even Archbishop
Feliuski has at length decided to follow the example
of his fellow-members in the Council of State, by
seeding in his resignation. The answer from St.
Petersburg to the request of the Grand Duke for
instructions with regard to all these resignation,'
was characteristic. " Prognat' ich "—Turn them
out—were the instructions of the government, whose
avowed object is to change Poland into a desert.

THE AMERICAN Quairricue.—A public meeting,
convened by the committee of the Sheffield Emancipation
Society, was held in the Temperance-hell, Towubradatreet,
on Wednesday sight, the Muter Cutler (Henry Harrison,
Esq.). in the chair. The meeting was addressed by the
Rev. W. E. Haley. late of General Burnstle's army; Mr. John
Crete, and the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel. In the course
of a masterly address Mr. Noel considered the suggestion
that the South would of themselves abolish slavery if they
succeeded in establishing their independence. After
showing what the South had already done
and suffered from love of slavery, Mr. Noel said
W h did the privilegedclasses give up of their own
free will the tives upon which their wealth, enjoy.
meat, and outdoor depended: Human nature was too
aelfiah for that. The Suut:iern slaveholders depended upon
their slaves for their revenue. Slavery made them princes
greater than our nobles. They were kings of men, not of
scree merely. Slavery gave them land, loaded their tables with
deintiee, supplied them with the choicest wines of Europe,
educated their children, enabled them to travel, and ren-
dered them in their estimation the most superior race upon
earth. Would they surefire all that to mere sentiment of
humanity! To abolish slavery would not only be to macri-
fie' wealth, Task, and political power, but, what was worse
than all this in their own estimation, it would be
to make their 3,000,000 niggers their fellow-citi-
sees Shall we—thus they tattooed—the aristocrats,
the imperial race of American slaveholders, ever
come down to the level of the nigger—shall we have to ask
him to labour, and see the wretch sorer in our face' if be
pleases! No ; let us rather die to the last man than sub-
mit to each a degradation. Away, then, with all each de-
lusive expectations. If Englishmen wished to see the
greatest outrage that now exists upon the earth brought to
an owl, let them net themselves, at far as Englishmen could,
against the omens of the oligarchy which was fightiog to
rivet more firmly the chains of the slave.
The Mayor of Liverpool presented on Saturday
last, at the Town-ball, three silver medals and lit., which
had been voted by the Royal National Lifeboat institutios
to Thomas Evana, Thomas Evans, jun., William Evans. sad
formal other men, in acknowledgment of their gallut
exertions in putting off in a boat, during a heavy gale of
wind oo the night of the 20th and the morning of the 214
Jaeumry, and afterwards masisting to moue a large number
of persons from the passeoger ship John H. Elliott, of New
York, which had stranded on the Great Berbo Bank, Dear
Liverpool.
ROYAL FREI Hoervret, GILAY'S-INN-ROAD.—The
weather of patients relieved at this hospital dories the week
gad* Mame 21 was 3,211, of which 923 were sew ores.

MUSIC.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

The seoond concert of the season took place last
evade& The followieg wu the programme :

PART I.
Biafora in E 114 No. 10
" Glare elfin" t Mir Gorr Pyles (In
Aria, 1"1eb vier f Acre di lisero),. Nowt.
Concerto, Violin, in 0 ware. No. 11, lb. R
Droore spohr.
Itrit. I en ire 1. Mr 1 Pyr
Ak I what night ",1 (Douro Noir) . Arbor.
Orertare (Predoes) Weber.

rare

Binfonia hi C dace, We. i, Beethoven.
Tiro larder • I The wwpialir
" L Pyre
May Boss* (secompanied
CO the hy Mr. W. 0
Curios) Beethoven.
Wedding Werth
Coadeeter—Probseor Stiriadale Bennett, Mus. 1).
The Philharmonic) Society have never given a finer or a
more suocartul concert. Every musical reader will see that
every pima in the shove programme is a rise d'aurre of
its clam. The gametal, melodious symphony of
Haydn, and the gigantic work of Beethoven, both
showed to the utmost advantage the varied powers
of the superb orchestra The beauty of the wind Matsu-
mints UM even more striking than usual ; the topes of 11,
Brindsen's Bute, in particular, attracted especial notice, and
we found, op inquiry, that he was plying cm a sew instru-
ment, Clinton's Sate, with graduated holes, which obtained
the prise medal Isetyear at the International Exhibition, Oar
excellent Blagrove, who, as a violinist, may well be called
"the Champioo of England," covered himself withglry by his
perforeanatof Spohr's concerto. In listening to bleary:Lucite
filmy tress, his pure and finished style, and his brilliant
execution, we almost fancy we are hearing the illustrious
master bimetal, from whose instruction. Slavers derived
many of his floe qualities. Miss Louisa Pyne was the only
vocalist, and wee a host in herself. The two Linder of
Beethoven. which she sang with Mr. Cush's. admirable
pianoforte accompaniment, formed a most delightful novelty,
rendered the more pleasing by her having sung them with
Mr. William Bills' elegant and truly poetical English Tor-
sion of the words. Altogether this coooert was a musical
treat of the highest order, and was so appreciated by the
audience, as was evident from the applause bestowed
every part of it.

DRAMA.

ST. JAIEWI;MALL.I

Mr. Arthur Sketchley (whom we noticed favour-
ably on his Ant appearance at the Hanover-square Room;
about eighteen months ego) has at last Inman a member
of the family of regular entertainers. Mr. Owen Jones has
fitted up a very elegant home for him in the small
room of St. James's-hall, and here be made his bow
last night before a crowded and distinguished audience.
Mr. fiketehley's entertainment is divided into two parte
—one called " A Quiet Morning"—and the other, " Mrs.
Brown at the Play," and both are worked out without any
aid from scenery and dresses. He sings, dances, and per-
sonatas many characters of an amusing and familiar type—
the bed and most elaborate being undoubtedly Mrs Brown
—s, lady of the Sarah (lamp order—who gives a description
of her visit to the Victoria Theatre. She dwells upon the
fatigues of her journey—the people she spoke to—the
opening of the doors—the pit—the orchestra—and the
drama, in a narrative which lasts about half an hour.
This sketch is full of amusing details, which are all drawn
from life, and Mr. Sketehley's delivery of it is ex.
tamely humorous and free from effort It fame the
solid dish of the evening, and it brings the entertainment—
which is never tedious—to a very joyous conclusion. Mr.
fiketchley was very well received, and hie sketches of cha-
racter can hardly fail to become popular.