The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

POLYGRAPHIC HALL

During the neat six months we shall probably be
(idled upon to record every moceivable variety of " Shake-
speariaa entertainment' for the benefit of the Nadas%
Shakespeare Fund, gives under the imposing motion of that
sonunittea, which sow numbers amongst ite vice-presidents
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Doke of Manchester,
the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Stanhope, Mr. Alfred Tennyson,
sad Mr. Charles Dickens. The first of them authorised
witettshseleuts wee nomad lest night at the Polygraphie
Hall, whim " the bard " wee " illustrated' by the readings
of Miss Homed sod Harr Krueger, sad some descriptive
music by Mr. Beuthin executed by six solo singers sal a
band sad chorus. The readings are substantially the Name
as thorns we noticed about a month age, when Mies Hamad
sod Herr Kremer first tried their eutertainumet at the
Marylehosse Literary Institution. Miss Horsed is a careful
and pleader, reader, with considerable dramatic power ; sad
Herr Krueger is a sensible elocutionist, who has not yet
quite metiend the dinkulties of our laagnage. The attsa•
dams at the hall last sight was somewhat meagre.

PILINCESTEL

Mr. Montgomery has met with sufficient adman
to encamp hies to keep this theatre 011011 during the m-
ime week with the Lady of Licoso is the staple piles.
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liermeem, Me new " preetideriietear," wr esejorer. We
believe Wr. NerMarweery is determined to snake a more set.
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FRANCE AND THE POLISH QUESTION.
PARIS, Elam 2L
The Constinstionse/ of this evening publishes an
article signed by M. de Limayrac. The writer
states that France does not stand alone in her
opinion regarding the &ail?, of the western pro-
vinces of Russia, or upon the other points raised
in the Russian reply. He calla to mind that Lord
Castlereagh, in 1815, and Lord Palmerston, in
1831, treated the subject in the same sense as M.
Drouyn de Lhuya. "The Polish question has now
evidently entered a new phase, and will require the
most careful examination."

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BERLIN, Barr. 21.

According to news received from St. Petersburg
the invalids Runs publishes a report confirming
the statement that the Russians began on the 9th
inst. to destroy the forests bordering on the War-
saw and Vienna Railroad.

Prince Tbadens Luborairsti sad Count SUM/los
Zamoyski hive been arrested. •
Thi Russians yesterday plundered several houses
in Warsaw.

CRACOW, Bar. 21, Emnio.

A rumour was current that the Zamoyeki mansion
had been bombarded by the soldiers, but it has
transpired that the adjacent house has been plun-
dered and occupied by the troops, and its inhabit-
ants expelled.

THE REVIEW AT MILAN.
•
TURIN, 13irr. IL
The review held by the King to-day at (hi-
larity, near Milan, was a splendid affair.
Much enthusiasm was displayed, and his Majesty
was cheered by the people.
Count Launay, Italian minister to Prussia, and
the Marquis d'Azegiiu, Italian minister to England,
have arrived at Turin on leave of absence.

A WARNING TO THZ "LEVANT HERALD."

CONFTTANTIbIOPLF., Barr. 21.

The Levant Herold has received a warning for
publishing • letter animadverting upon the Im-
perial expenditure in palace building and the
arrears due to the army, the discuasion of which
topics the government " conaiders inconvenient at
present."

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Bar. 2L

As the first step towards placing the army on a
war footing, the Minister of War issued an order
to-day, that the regimental lista should be filled up
to war strength by the lst October.

RUSSIA.
ST. PITIIIISBURG, Mary. 21.
The Emperor returned to this capital yesterday.
The King of the Greeks arrived here this
morning.

ITAJY.

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TURIN: airr. 16.

Yesterday, at noon, the armour-plated frigate,
the Principe di Carignan°, was at length launched
from the stocks at Genoa. The weather was de.
lightfully fine, and the number of spectators was
very great, many English visitors, including ladies,
being present. The operation went off admirably,
and when the vessel majestically descending from
the stocks, struck the water and violently agitated
it, shoots burst from every part of the shore, from
hundreds of boats, and from numberless vessels
anchored in the bay, on board of which Italian and
foreign sailors had stationed themselves like an
audience at the theatre. This frigate is of 4,000
tons burthen, 247 English feet in length, and will
carry 38 rifled 80-pounders.

Photographs of two other frigates, of 111)00 iae
same size, now constructing foi Italian govern-
ment in the dockyard of Nantes, are to be seen in
the shop windows. They are the Castel Fidardo
and the Re d'ltalia. Another, the Etna, was
launched a fortnight ago, at Castellamare, and two
is America, at New York. You see, therefore,
that the Italian government does not let the grass
grow under its feet. If to these works you add the
twelve hundred odd miles of railway it has taken
in hand, and its many other undertakings, to say
nothing of the armaments, you will feel no surprise
at the large increase of the public debt.
But it is a necessity : it is • productive
power which, at the cost of many sacrifices, is
creating the nation. The army and the railways
will make Italy. While lam alluding to railways
let me mention that the works of the Canna() are
proceeding satisfactorily. A fourth of the gigantio
tunnel is already excavated. Meanwhile many
other tunnels have to be made on other railways,
for in Italy you come upon hills and mountains at
every step. For instance, the Ligurian line, from
Nice into Tuscany, will have upwards of forty miles
of twine* many of them very short, but some from
two to two and a half miles long. The only districts
of Italy where stagnation and misery prevail, are
the States of the Church and Venetia. Visitors are
astonished by the contrast.

News of the voluntary surrender of the brigand
leaders is beginning to come in. The first who
kept his promise upon the expiration of the safe
conduct given to him by Major Paoli was Tina.
This fellow is not one of the most celebrated of the
chiefs, or one of the most compromised ; but he
has an account to render to justice of not a few
offences. The others, such as Ninoo Nanoo, Crocco,
Donatello, and Caruso, are better known, both on
account of their daring and of the number of their
crimes and their followers. They offered to give
up the latter, but wanted a passport to go abroad
with ;of course it was not given to them. They
heeitate, therefore, to surrender, especially as the
reactionary party, directly it basal of their inten-
tion, sent promisee to them of large to Wards he long
as they continued to murder, pillage, and harass
the soldiers, and drive the people to despair.
To give faros to their instigations they declare that
all the ills of the country spring from the new
government, and are punishments from God. It is
not likely, however, that these Bourbon and Papal
exhortations will produce much effect after the
arrest of the promoters of brigandage by which the
bands are Isolated, their supplies almost entirely
stopped, and their escape from the soldiers, who are
now becoming familiar with the country, rendered
all but impossible.
The statement made by the Paris Union, the
Paris Prima, and the republican papers, that the
five brigands have beast surrendered by Fiume on
condition that they are not to be put to death, is
completely false. No stipulation was made, and