The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

We have descriptions from various parts of Poland
of obstinate encounters between the Russian troops
and the insurgents, with varying results. It is re-
ported that at the village of Surage a battalion
of nearly 2,000 Russian troops was put to flight by
an armed band of Poles. At Bodzenlyn the soldiers
were also defeated, men and women attacking them
with poignards, revolvers, and carbines. The gar-
risons at several other places have been disarmed.
One letter says :

The whole country is in motion ; people are exasperated
beyond measure ; all classes of society are in the movement ;
the Jews figure among the insurgents who hold the country.
In the government offices and among the nobility there is
• party formed whose object is to proclaim the Grand Duke
Constantine King of Poland. This party is urging the popu-
lation of Warsaw to an imposing manifestation with this
view. Many persons have heard cries of " Long live Con-
stantine King of Poland !" A great number of conscripts,
now shut up in the citadel, have taken part in that demon-
stration. The Russians have already lost five colonels.
among whom are MM. Kozlianinow. Wrzeamowski, and
Prince Tcherkassow. They have also lost many lieutenant-
colonels and chiefs of battalion, as well as a councillor of
state, M. Schewetroff, one of the organisers of the conscrip-
tion. Moreover, many colonels and superior officers have
been made prisoners. One of them has been set at liberty
by the insurgents.
The Cologne Gazette has the subjoined :

The Prussian government is baking measures which seem
to prove that the Polish insurrection inspires more unseal-
nem than is manifested by the official despatches. di squad-
ron of the Bth Ilnlans, and two companies of infantry, are
on their way from Graodens to the border town of Strauss-
burg. The sth Regiment of infantry is leaving for Thorn,
the garrison of which town is employed in keeping the from
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tier. The reserves of all those corps are called under arms.
Troops are being sent by express train from Silesia to
Posen, and those of the latter province are, it is said, to be
sent to Silesia. The morns of the 4th, 6th, and 59th
Regiments of Posen are called out, and the Black Homes
are watching the Polish frontier.

The Wa;alerer of Vienna, 28th ult., says :

In order to give our readers the means of knowing 'the
geographical position of the segue of the present Polish
insurrection, we can state that, according to the account'
received, it extends on the right bank of the Vistula to a
distance of front I'2 to 16 geographical miles above and
below Warsaw. On the north-west, Nssielsk, the forests of
which appear to form the principal place of meeting of the
refugees, below Warsaw, is about 54 miles on the north of
that city and about 34 miles south-wed of Pultuak. Plonsk is
34 miles front Nardelsk ; Plock, on the Vistula (the chief
town of the government, and having 13,003 inhabitants), is
74 miles more to the west, and 12 miles from Warsaw on
the railway which leads to the Prussian fortress of Thorn.
!Medico, the ancient capital of Podlsquia, and Razyn. are the
chief towns of districts, the former being 11 miles east of
Warsaw, and the latter 16 miles southeast of that city.
Illonie is 34 miles to the west of Warsaw ; Sierock, about
half-way between Warsaw and Pultusk ; Surark is on the
other side of the limit of the kingdom, three miles south-
west of Bialystok, and Zabludow is 3 miles to the east of
Sums

(REUTIVB TILZGRAM.)
POSEN, FIB. 3.
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A proclamation of the military governor and of
the President of the Provincial Government cau-
tions the inhabitants of this province against
direct or indirect participation in the insurrec-
tion in Russian Poland, as every such offence
would be regarded and punished as an act of high
treason.