The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING,

was transferred to the infirmary of the forties' of
Alexandria, where he is now. The Italiaq
Minister for Foreign Affairs has informed Sir
! Jsmss iItDBON that on the first fitting occasion
he shall propose that • pardon be granted
to him. After these facts the public will
have no difficulty in judging who is the real friend
of this foolish and unfortunate young man. Lord
NoemAsev, who has so ostentatiously undertaken
his patronage, appears to have been more anxious
to use his name against the Italian Government
than to get him back to his friends. We sincerely
join in the opinion expressed by the more mode-
' rate speakers last night, that the Italian Govern-
ment would do itself honour by setting this young
man free. When, however, a nobleman of great
parliamentary ability and high diplomatic repu-
tation, having connexions in every part of Europe,
and delighting to constitute himself the
defender of the deposed Governments, demands
the liberation of a convicted conspirator with
words of recrimination and obloquy, the path of
the Italian Government in the direction of mercy
is made difficult.

There is one party—ltaly—that always comes
well out of these debates, and the vituperation of
the Marquis of NOILIGINEY is more than compen-
sated by the well-considered eulogium which Earl
Gay/ has mado upon the People, the Parliament,
and the Government of the new kingdom•

INTZLIGINCEL

RUSSIAN BRUTALITIES IN POLAND.

We (Morning Post) are in possession of trust-
worthy accounts from persons just arrived from
Lithuania and Livonia which fully confirm the atro-
cities committed upon the Countess Mole and other
distinguished ladies reported in our yesterday's im-
pression. This young lady, who was only eighteen,
and was enceinte at the time, was subjected to the
most brutal treatment in the presence of her husband
by Russian soldiery disguised as peasants. She ulti-
mately managed to escape from them, and, with no
clothing but a great coat, succeeded in reaching a
neighbouring forest, where she was taken prema-
turely ill. She was conveyed to Wilna, where she
was lately seen inadying state—though not then, as
the telegraph has since reported, become a lunatic.
Her husband has been thrown into prison at Duna-
berg. Up to the present time there has been no
proof brought of his complicity in the insur-
gent movement. The same may, indeed, be
said of several other noblemen of Lithuania,
who have been arrested on the estate of Count
Lyberg Plater, whose wife, it is reported, was
similarly ill-treated. Arms were, indeed, found
concealed, but he alleges that they were placed
there without his knowledge by the insurgents.
Unfortunately, the agents employed by the go-
vernment did not confine their violence to the sus-
pected husband. These are some of the atrocities
of which we lately read as having been perpetrated
by the Raaskolnicks, who, though by no means im-
maculate characters, are too ill disposed towards
the government to espouse its SAUNA, even when
a massacre of the proprietors is in question ; they
are malcontents on religious grounds, and have
more than once broken out in open revolt. The
idea of disguising the soldiers quartered at Thins-
berg as Rasakolnicks, and imputing the atrocities
they have committed to this class of the popula-
tion, is one which can only acquire for the
governor who devised it the execration of Europe.
Some of the details of the outrages which these
fiends is human shape perpetrated upon high-
born ladies are unfit for our columns, and can
only be paralleled by those which reached this
country at the time of the Indian mutiny.
On a deputation of the Lithuanian nobility apply-
ing to Nazimoff for protection against these ter-
rible marauders, he only replied, "I have neither
the wish nor the power to guarantee the lives or
fortunes of the unhappy Nachtchoenebb." In
Russia the term unhappy is applied to anyone
who is under sentence, pronounced either accord-
ing to law or by the Czar, for offences, poli-
tical or otherwise. The result of such an answer
must inevitably be to drive the proprietors
who might have been disposed to stand neutral
to side with the insurgents, it being a leaser evil to
be slain in fair fight than to be massacred in bed.

Dames TICIAGILMI.)
POLAND.
CONSPIRACY AT WARSAW.
WARSAW, NEAT 6.

Some days ago an order was issnod by the
Revolutionary Committee that the inhabitants
of the Praga suburb, numbering some 12,000
souls, were to remove to another portion of
the town. Suspicion being hereby aroused,
search was made, leading to the discovery
in the evening of workmen occupied in forming a
mine beneath the fort upon the right batik of the
Vistula, opposite the Citadel. The miners were
arrested. They stated, upon interrogation, that
upon the 13th of the month it was in-
tended to blow up the fort, containing a
garrison of eight hundred men and large
stores of powder. The bridge carrying the
railway ►cross the river is to be built up to this
fort, and will be commenced in the course of the
year. Many reports are in circulation as to what
is intended to happen upon the 13th, the day when
the amnesty expires ; but no one knows for certain
whence the dreaded blow will be delivered.

The national government has drawn the atten-
tion of the English company for the water supply
and draining of the town to the illegality of the
contract it has concluded with Count Sigiemuod
Wielopolaki, pointing out that Wielopolaki was not
authorised to conclude any agreement without the
consent of the town council.

The insurgent chiefs Lewsndowski and Leoa
Frankowski are still alive, and under medical treat-

ment in prison.
The Department of Justice has declined to co-
operate with the government in carrying out the
confiscation decree in Poland, as no law authorising
such a measure is in existence.

Lagos, 10th ; Mara, lath ; Cape Coast Cast3s(lsth ;1
Cape Palmas, 17th ; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst ;1
25 ; Teneriffe, May 1 ; and Madeira, May 2. She
brings 50 passengers, among whom is Governor
Freeman, of•,Lagoe, and a full cargo.
The King of Aehantee had invaded the pro-
tected Fantee countries of Wassail Alain and Akin.
Much excitement prevailed on the Gold Coast, and
all available British forces had been concentrated
in the vicinity of Cape Coast. Trade was dull at
nearly all the porta. A plentiful oil season was ex-
pected.