The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

(By telegraph !rasa Lithos. Pee French 'tamer
Beinunedsre.)
WO JANEIRO, AMOS? M.
_ _ _

Exchange on London is quoted 27 to
Coffee 7.100 to 7.200 reis. Shipments, 44,500
bagrvof which 31,000 were for the Channel. Stock,
30,000 imp. Freight, 40a

BAHIA, Aoocar 29.
Exchange on London, 26j to 26k ; on Paris, 365.
PERNAMBUCO, Sat. 1.

Exchange on London, 27i. Sugar, 3.000 to
2.800 reis. ; browns, L7OO to LBOO eels. Cotton,
21.000 to 2L400 reia.

The Parama left Pernambuco on the 29th August.
The Estramadure takes out 804,725 fr. value in
precious stones.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

t/1011 001 SPECIAL

WARSAW, Sarr. 8.
It was a strange impression that the first view
of Warsaw made upon me, as our carriage rolled

painfully over its ill-paved streets on one of the
sultry nights with which we were visited bet week.
A storm was brewing behind us, while in front the
moon rose blood-red over the city. The approach.
ing thunder and a few big drops of rain made us
hasten to reach the shelter of our hotel before the

storm should burst. There was a great deal more
to be felt than seen of the tow.,. The inhabitants
with their lanterns, without which no man, woman
or child dare stir out after dark, had quite the ap-
pearance of fire-flies, flitting about in the shade of
the great blocks of buildings which loomed in the
darkness. We were lucky enough to gain our
hotel undreinched, but it was not long before the-
rein came down, which continued during the night,
without cooling the air in the least. In the morn-
ing the town wore a very prosaic aspect, compared
with the impression of the preceding night, but the
general effect of its public buildings, churches,
squares, and gardens, quite realised the anticip►-
tions I had formed of Warsaw from the descrip_
tions of my enthusiastic Polish friends. As I bad
expected, the streets were thronged with soldiers
and policemen, the latter posted by twos about
every hundred yards. Mixed with there was a
much greater crowd of busy citizens than I was
at all prepared to find Mauch a time. But I have no
no time fora further description of the city. I must
hasten, in the abort time which remains to me
before the mail leaves, to give you a few extracts
from my journal.
On Friday, at 9 a.m., four men were executed
for murder on • gallows erected ou the glacis in

front of the citadel. The first to mount the scaffold of fortifications. Scarcely have they disappeared
was a journeyman tailor named Kaminski. The when a couple of brown-coated soldiers issue from
rope was adjusted as usual, and the drop fell, but the citadel carrying on a pole between them, sup-
before the poor fellow had been banging many ported on their shoulders, like the spies returning
seconds the rope, broke and he fell heavily to thi with the grapes from the promised laud, • huge
ground. A thrill of horror passed through the caldron of yellow soup, emitting a not remarkably
crowd, which was not considerable, but norescue was savoury odour. Then • " pope," with long flowing
attempted. The executioner, not in the slightest locks and black robes, approaches, and, elbowing his
degree disconcerted, directed his men to raise the way through the crowd, passes between the sentries
writhing body, and himself adjusted • second rope. over the drawbridge into the citadel. They do not
This time the operation was successfully performed. stop him, for, after the bayonet, be is the most
Let us see what the victim had done to deserve effectual means of getting rid of the obnoxious
this sort of death. On the day of the murder-- Polish element. Returning townwards from the
which was a political assassination—of which he citadel I met a line of mourning women all on the
was accused, be was sitting quietly at work at the same errand, some on foot and some in carriagee,
house of his brother-in-law, who resides near a cafes all with the same look of blank despair. Week
in the street calledTodwal. In this add a well-known after week they turn their steps in faith to the
spy was stabbed in broad daylight, after receiving citadel, but ally those who have money to pay for
the usual warning from the National Government. the information, know the fate of those who are
Al is usual in such cases, every one ran away, and dearer to them than life itself. For all that poor
the spy was left bleeding on the ground. At that girl, who has saved something from her week's wages
instant Kaminski having occasion to leave his to buy a loaf of bread for her lover, knows to the
work for a moment, issued from his brother-in- contrary, he may be dead, and has found • name-
law's house, not knowing that anything had hap- kies burial in the common ditch, which has already
pened. He was at owe seised by the police, and received so many victims who have died in the
confronted with the dying man, who was unable to citadel, or, perhaps, his solitary confinement has
speak, but made some sort of motion with his finger, I drivea him mad, or he may be half way to Siberia.
which was considered conclusive evidence of his I The latest accounts from Wilna represent Hours-
guilt, and without any sort of trial Kaminski was vieff as steadily persisting in the course which has
hung on Friday last His employer, with whom I already made his name world-infamons. Among
am acquainted, gives him a most excellent thane- other contrivances for throwing dust in the eyes
ter, and deeanles him as having been excessively of Europe, the following is worth mentioning :—la