The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-24 00:00:00

POLAND.

The following proclamation of the National
Government has been posted up in Lemberg by the
side of the Emperor's manifesto declaring Galicia
in a state of siege :

The committee of the National Government for Gallas
stated, in its proclamation of the 14th February, that, in
presence of the midis( straggle with Ruda, that genre-
meet lad resolved not to depart from the programme
developed is it. first manifesto, and that it only required
Galicia to be the indirect auxiliary of Poland. The Polish
nation, in obedience to it, government, hes remained per.
fectly tranquil in Gs&is, and hu endured with patience
all the persecutions of the Austrian authorities.
0. every occasion the Polish National Government and
the Polish nation in Galicia have moved that it was their
wish to assist their brothers fighting against the usurpation
of Rama, bus that they repelled every idea of a revolution
in Galici► The Austrian government has, nevertheless,
placed Galicia in a state of siege ; and it threatens with the
most terrible permeations the faithful children of their
country who help their brothers in the war against the
R•••ian• This measure has, it is alleged, been adopted
because it is feared that the tisticaral Government and the
Poles intend to organise a riming in that province.

Bat the true motive of the deolaratios of the state of
siege is not the her of a revolution in Galicia, but the
dente to come to the assistance of the bussians, who ate
unable to crush a breve nation which fights for its existence.
They are serious to pet as rod co the I:ethical movement ;
they wish to deprive it eves of the slight assiotasee it re-
ceives from the Poles of Galicia, and theyerteed their beads
to the mortal ninnies of Poland, in order the more speedily
to complete the extermination of the Polish nation.
The somber of the declared 'semi** of our country is
thus increased ; but the iasurrection is nob conquered ; it
will *online* to exist. We, too, will persevere in our
efforts, and we will motions to assist the Polls who fight
for Poland. The greater the tyranny under which we
live, the more odious the persecutions to which we are ex-
posed, the more will our activity increase. Let us collect
money, boy arms sod ammunition, and supply all that is
required for those who go to battle. The veinal youth of
Poland, and is geueral all those who are fit to bier arms.
have their place marked out for them oa the hattisdield ;
let them be only the more numerena and ready the more
the danger inmeases.
There is one point, fellow coantrymes, to which we
would cell your atteotios. The Austrian =thanks. is
Lemberg aid ia Galicia, use all their efforts to provoke a
muffle& which they would represent am the eocamesionsiot

of an insurrection in order to justify their barbarous per.
mocatioes. With this object they have given orders to their
troops for the conduct they are to panne in order to ozcite
revolt and prepare the massacre of pews:able 'Wawa.
Attention nod prudence, therefore —vigilantes and pets.
versus ! Let as preserve CM attitude we bare hitherto
held. God will Wens our efforts sad crown then with Sr
tory. Our watchword is : " Activity, punnets," and
dirretkeretir object, a tree Poland."

[Stamped, Id. Additional.]

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADIKUULLIT, Mica 23.—APromm EN TS. —Com-
mander W. Dawson, to the Formidable, for service in the
Achilles. . . .

Li;;;;saats W. F. N. Ifolysettz, to the Research ;H.
A. Monteith, to the Defence.
Paymasters E. Jago, to the Cowlick ; J. E. G. Sim.
monde, to the Blenheim ; W. G. Permitter (additional), to
to. Majestic.
Esgioser T. Brindley, to the Fisgard. for the Tortoise.
Assistant-Engineer J. Bales, to the Rematch.
Ptomonos.—To be hetieg Fast clan Assistant Engi-
neer H. H. Small, of the Phieton.

PORTSMOUTH, Maim Z 3.

The sailing of the Adventure, 2. iron screw
troop ship, Captain Charles L Waddilove, baa been delayed
*iris( to the outbreak of smallpox as board. When this
was discovered the ship was immediately sent out of bar-
hour, and it wee expected that abs was to be delayed on
the quarantine ground for sometime. But we are glad to say
that the oases were not of a very serious character, and that
there were not many of them, and such presentionary
and remedial immures have bees taken that the ship will
not be much longer delayed. She is bound for China with
detachments of troops and with supernumeraries for the
squadron on that station. She will embark the supernume-
raries to-morrow aftersooo, sad will all at Plymouth and
Ireland on her voyage out.
Tea SPITIMD }own.— We understand that, owing to
the difficulty of asdieg s good foundation for the construe-
, tion of a heavy fort on the Sturbridge shoal, an order has
been Mud for the auspinaim of all operations there. At
mama, however, we believe we are justified in saying that
I no deelsioo has yet been arrived at with regard to any other
mite for a fort in additive to those ordered to be constructed
on the Sanaa sad Hans Mask. At any rata no orders
hale been Ism& to the stall at Portamouth which has
chugs of the operations.

THE ALLAGED FEAUDO UPON GOVIRNNENT AT
Wootwicki. —To the Editor of the Expram—eir,—
A paragraph appearing in your paper relative to my
esmplieity in forging attestation, I beg that you will
give lasiertiou to this my unqualified denial of any
knowledge cc • thou in the act, and I trust my friends
will reserve thair judgment until I am enabled to establish
my innocence.—tram, &a., Jkxsa A. Kumla-, Sergeant-
Major, R.A.—Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich,
*arch Zi

nu FORTHCOMING VOLUNTEER REVIEW.
The following following official details have been forwarded
teem the War-Ofies.

The detail of corps proceeding from Waterloo Station is
as follows:

At 6.15 Lm.-19th Xiddlases Rifle Volunteer Corp,
466 ; 9th West. ditto, 210 ; 11th ditto (Fit. George's), and
32nd ditto, 443 ; total, 1,129.
At 6.35 a.m.-29th Ificidleeez Hifi' Volunteer Corp,
352; 46th ditto, 3.10 ; let ditto (Engineers), 300; total,

At 6.55 a.m.—lit Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps,
193 ; let (Victoria), 16th, sod 47th Middlesex Rifle Volun-
teer Corps, 333 ; Ist and 10th Surrey Ride Volunteer Corps,
396 ; 7th, 19th, and 23rd ditto, 440 ; tote!, 1,354.
At 7.15 a.m.-4th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corp,
214 ; 15th ditto (London Scottish), 308 ; 21st ditto (Civil
Service), and 38th ditto (Artist.), 261 ; 2nd Surrey Artillery,
146 ; total, 947.
At 7.35 a.m.-2nd Middlesex (South) Rifle Volunteer
Corps 437 ; :2nd ditto (Queen's), 744; 36th ditto, 119;
7th ditto (Admin. Battalion), 255; total 1,613. Grand total,
6,027.
Detail of corps proceeding from London-bridge Station
on the 28th March, 1964 :
At 6.15 a.m. —3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, 267
hid London Rifle Volunteer Corp*, 136 ; 3rd ditto, 405 ;
Honourable Artillery Company, 375 ; total, 1,183.
At 6.35 a.m.-2od Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps,
92 ; Ist London ditto, 138 ; let ditto (Engineer), 160; 26th
Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps, 114 ; 37th ditto, 256;
59th ditto, :t35 ; total 1,095.
At 6.55 tun.-20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corp, 300;
48th ditto (Harelock), 208 ; Ist Administrative Battalion
Tower Hamlets Royal Volunteer, 737 ; total, 1,245.
At 7.15a.m.-4MiTower Hamlets Royal Volunteer Corps,
and 6th ditto, 328 ; let City of Landon Rifle Brigade, 594 ;
Wel, NIL

At 7.35 a.m.-2nd Administrative Battalion Middlesex
Rifle Volunteers, 476 ; '2Bth Middlesex (London Irint).
454 ; 2nd Admfaistrolive Battalion Fin Rile Volunteers,
450 ; total, 1,380.
At 7.56 a.m.-40th Middlesex Ride Volunteers Corps,
400 ; 2od and Bth Terror Hamlets HIS. Volunteers, 405 ;
total, 805. Grand total, 6,630.
The foliates partirolars relate to country corps.
14 Administrative Brigade Banta Artillery Volunteers,

540; let Some: ArtMori Volunteer Corp, 372; Ist Admi:
Eistretive Brigade Cinque Parts Artillery Volunteers. 179 ;
let Hants Engfeeer Volunteer Corp, 81 ; 2nd Admiair
tin Battalion Surrey Rile Volunteers, and 12th Surrey
Rifle Volunteer Corp, 344 ; 3.1 Administrative Battalion
Surrey Rifle Volunteers, 422 ; Ist ditto Sussex, 323 ; 2nd
ditto, 442 ; lot Semen Babe Volunteer Corps, 254 ; let Ad-
ministrative Battalion Kest Rifle Volunteers 6th Kent Ride
Volunteer Corps, sad 2nd Unique Ports ditto, 401 ; 2nd
Adminiatratin Battalion Haste Ride Voltuitems, Ist Hanle
Ride Volunteer Corps, sad 2ed ditto, 561 ; 3rd Adel:Mis-
t/naive Rattail= Haste Rif.* Volunteers, 13th Heats Rifle
Volunteer Corps, 15th ditto,l6th ditto, and 18th ditto, 523 ;
total, 4,442.
Lieutenant-oeseral Sir J. L. Peusefether, K.C.8., will
oecomaud in chief, sad under his orders will be Major-
General Russell, C. 8., sad Major.Oeeeral Husain, each
haring charge of • division. Thus are to be eight brigades
is all under the follow* brigadiers:—Lord Colville, Lord
Banelagh, Lord Mae, Earl Grosvenor, Lord Radetock,
Lord Bury, Lieutenant-Colon! Biggs, sad Lieutenant•

Colonel Loyd Liodasy. The artillery force will be handled
at one aide by Colonel Gambier, C. 8., and at the other by
Colonel Buchanan. Of the 24 pieces of artillery to be brought
into the field six 18-paella= will be contributed Bois
Brighton ; the rest, consisting of six 6-pounden, eight
18-pounders, and four 24-pounders, will be furnished by the
Hon. Artillery Oorarany sad by the regimeets of Middlesex
Artillery. The public are to have • means of approach
distinct from that alloted to the volunteers. The latter will
take possession of • row known as Phillip's-lane, leading
from Studford.comenon, where the brigades are to be formed
on the arrival of the different corps. Sample Oak-lane,
ninnies dizect from the Chilworth station to the heath,
will be reserved for the public, and the position of the
spedators will enable them, on arriving upon the ground, not
only to command a f►vourable view of the mummer's,
but to approach very close to Phillip'whine, the route
along which the volunteers roust move from and to the
stations either of the South-Eastern or tiouth-Western
Railway. The grand stand occupies a prominent position I
epos an eminence keown as "Roast Meat-bill," and (icing
this it is proposed to erect capacious refreshment booths.
This is the department in which at present there appears to
be greatest need for organieatiou, and for the credit and
comfort of all concerned the interval remaining before
Easter Monday might to be turned to good account.

?Rs SOCIAL EV/I. IN GARRISON TOWNS.—The
following letter was read last night at the Woolwich Local
Board of Health :—" War-office, March IS, 1864. Sir,—
With refeicnoe to your letter of the 25th of September last,
applying, on behalf of the Woolwich Local Board of Health,
for a grant of moony to aid of the medical easistance anl
maintenance of dismal WOUND thrown on the perish of
Woolwich in coosequeuce of their being followers of soldiers
and marines, lem directed to ioform yon that Lord de
Grey, haviog been in communketion with the Lords of the
Admiralty on the subject, is prepared to defray the expense
of 11,41 beds in the Loodon Lock Hospital for the aocomroo-
dollop of worsen who may be seat from Woolwich by the
Loral Board. I am to add that a sum of 501. annually
will be granted as a rioatributioe I. aid of expenses iticurred
is eg these women to London, ea well as for trashier
and the supply of lines in destitute eases as required by the
hospital authorities. The above arraugenamit will take pima
from the Ist of April oext, after which date the 501 created
for the above Joarposes will be payable on your application
by letter for the meant. —I am, he., DOCG LAR C ALTON. To
Mr. A. C. Reed.' The letter having bees reed, Mr. Jolly
moved that its reosipt should be saktiowledged, sod the
satisfactioe of the board expressed theta subject of so moth
importance to the British army bad received, and was n-
earing, the especial atteotioo of the Secretaries of State for
War. With reference to the recent order of the Woolwich
commodes% to place sentries at each cod of certain streets
to prevent rooMime frequentlog houses of ill-fame is such
localities, be bad no doubt it was well meant, bet be coo-
lidera it tujodioious. Ring, soother member, dis-
approved of the sentry system, remarking that it was 'qui-
-Ist to placing the town is a state of s,ege, by the military
authorities fairing cosirol of the public streets, sad he was
glad to lad the settee bad been removed from the places
referred to.

[TWOPEN CE

IRELAND.
(nom on owl' COIKEBPONDIOrt
DUBLIN, NAics

The Irish constabulary is a notable example of
peculiarity which belongs to many of our institu-
tions here—viz., that of serving two distinct, and
not unfrequently inconsistent purposes. Originally
intended fur the prevention and detection of crime,
it has become a model standing army, and a grand
military "demonstration." Certainly it would be
difficult to find a finer, more costly, or more in-
efficient force. The men are unrivalled iu physique
and intelligence. The Inspector-General, Sir
Henry Brownrigg, C.B. would, I am sure,
desire nothing better than to place himself at
their bead and lead them against a toreiga
foe. His military pride not unnaturally revolts
against the idea that his gallant men should
squander their energies and soil their uniforms is
pursuing over ditches and across bogs mere un-
armed peasants who may have happened to " pop"
at a landlord, set fire to a oornstack, or take part .
one of those faction lights which " the leading
journal" grandiloquently ascribes to our " apti-
tude for collective combat." Indeed, were an Irish
policeman ever so eager to pursue a runaway
offender, his equipment would place him at a fatal
disadvantage iu the race ; the authorities having
weighted him with the ponderous 'afield rifle and &
sword-bayonet of the most approved pattern. The re-
sult of Ruch a system of accoutrement and training in
just what might be anticipated. Inter noun tepee
silent. The soldier-policeman gets above his proper
business, and lees than two-thirds of the offences
committed in Ireland against person or property
are brought home to their perpetrators.
The Times asks the question, ' Does the conditioa
of Ireland require the presence of a military force
in the country or not ?" I think • much more per-
tinent question is, " Does the condition of Ireland
require the presence of a thoroughly efficieut police
force in the country or not 1" I believe the latter
force to be a pressing necessity, and the former to be
amply represented by the "genuine" troops usually
quarterid in Ireland. None but those who view
us from a distance attach any real importance
either to the vague feeling of disaffection which
prevails amongst a certain small portion of the
people, or to those public attempts at organic
sedition which are got up from tame to time by
aspiring patriots, and disappear in rapid mono-
tonous succession. What we do most highly ap-
preciate and desire is the enforcement of the law
and the repression of those outrages which fur-
nish absenteeism with an excuse and frighten
capital away from our shores. The ablest judges
on the Irish bench have testified to the striking
inefficiency of the constabulary, as at present orga-
nised, for these purposes, and in the words of the
" tbe results are so natural that we can
hardly help believing in the substantial truth of
the account."

GARIBALDI'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.
•- -
The Hants Independent of yesterday says that
General Garibaldi is expected to arrive as Southampton is
the Indite mail packet Itipna, which al due at Southamp-
ton neat Sunday week. The maw journal also states Mid
" Garibaldi is to be the guest, for a season, of Mr. Charles
Seely, of Brooke-house, Isle of Wight. and M.P. for tie
city */ Wools. We believe he (Garibaldi) ia corning mainly
for the improvement of his shattered hielth, and we hope
that in the hospitable mansion where be Is to take up hie
residence, aced under the refrelling alakdDOOS of the air for
whish the Isle of Wight is celebrated. he will soon be re-
stored to complete oonvideacenoe." Brooks-house is situated -
in the soethweet of the Isle of Wight, sot far from Frei-
water, the truisms of Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Las-
test&

The Trreoerra Daily Press of yesterday says :—" wader-
stand them is a probability that daring the stay of Gs/t-
-hatch la Eneland he will pay a visit to this city with a view
to have the benefit of the salubrious air of Clifton. If
the illairtrious patriot is in worth of health we know of
no place where he would be likely to obtain greater
T• 642.000 thee in Clare
u* should be comae into this
i neighbourhood. we need say that Bristol will be pee.
paned to give him a worthy rearplatm."