The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

POLAND.

BERLIN, Bat. 10.

A private letter received here from Warsaw,
dated the 9th inst., states that on the following
day all communication with the city would be cut
off, and the strictest state of siege established for
10 days.

THE POLISH DISURRECTION.
CRACOW, Rm. 10.

An encounter resulting in favour of the insur-
gents took place at Rokiciny, on the Warsaw and
Cracow line of railway, on the 4th inst. Fifty
Russians fell.

Lelewel, aftes his victory on the 3rd, pushed
forward in the direction of Turobin.

THE KING OF GREECE.
COPENHAGEN, seer. 9.

King George I. will return to-morrow. He will
proceed on the 11th to the Palace of Glucksburg,
in Schleswig, to take leave of his Danish Majesty,
and will continue his journey on the following day
vlB Rumpenheim, Brussels, and London.

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THE BOMBAY MAIL.

(ET ELECTRIC RNLI INTERNATIONAL

(fox OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.
The Ellora has arrived, with the Bombay mail.
The Moors of the Riff are again giving trouble.
They have attacked the Spanish garrison at Me-
lilla, and a great loss of life was the result.
The people of Malta are about to petition the
imperial government for a change in the scheme of
local administration.

The Council-General of the Nord, in its recent
amnion, adopted a resolution praying the government to en-
force the law of the 21st of May, 18313, for the abolition of
lotteries. The member who proposed the resolution dwelt
on the immoral effect of the pre ent lotteries for charitable
purposes, as by offering prizes of 100,000 fr. and 200,000 fr.
with ticketa of 2Zie., they encouraged a spirit of gambling
among the working classes, sod were far more mischievous
than the old state lottery, which was abolished in 1840.
A kilter from Biarritz has the following :—" We
have now here a good number of visitors, both foreign and
French, attracted by the presence of the court and the
pleasure of being admitted to the charming ermine parties
of the Villa Eugenie, so different from the official recep-
tions at Compiegne and the Tuileries. On Monday last
the Empress gave her first weekly soiree. DanaGg was
kept up till 2 o'clock, when supper was served, and the
party then separated to meet again nett day on the beach.
Her Majesty Mites a bath in the ma every morning at 10
o'clock, with the Priam Imperial, Princess Anna Murat,
and one of her ladies of horour. The both is followed by a
loin walk. After diaper the court remains at the villa."
M. Meyrrbeer has arrived in Paris en route for
Dieppe for the benefit of his health, which ell lovers of
await will rejoice to learn is so much improved as to pro-
mise a speedy and complete restoration.
The Milan journals mention a disgraceful out-
rage on the liberty of worship in that city. During the
sermon at the meeting-house of the Emagelical Society in
the Borgo della Stella, three evenings back, the officer on
service at the guard-house of the Saata-Prassede barracks
oddeely entered the building, and after apostrophising the
preacher, ordered him to be arrested. He then had the
names of the persons present taken down, and there being
several soldiers among the congregation, he ordered them to
be placed under arrest. The minister, on being taken before
the police, was immediately released, and the officer is, it is
said, to be severely punished.
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The pleasure- huntiug population of Paris is
about to be deprived of cue of its much loved places of
amasereent. The Joann fdebille has been sold for the pur-
pose of erecting a street upon its valuable ground. Gra-
dually the public has been driven from place to place for
its enjoyments out of doors, and now the Bois de Boulogne
has become the source of attrectioo. Ranelagh, Tivoli, sad
the Jardin d' Hirer bare one after the other been seized upon
by the builder, and large streets now stand where something
like ea imitation of rural felicity was supposed to be ea-
joyed.
The Muniteur publishes a letter from Naples of
the 2nd inst., io which brigandage is declared to be by so
means on the decline, and a horrible case is cited of 30
families belonging to the little town of &Mei, is the Bulli-
ed., and numberiog altogether 100 men and women, who
were attacked by brigands. The unfortunate people had
formed a caravan (doubtless for safety's sake) to go down to
the neighbouring seashore and bathe. Forty of them were
armed, and offered resides*, when suddenly attacked by a
band of 60 ruffians who issued from a wood, and who, seeing
that they did not give way to musketubots, charged them
with the bayonet. Nine were killed • the remainder were
carried off to the mountains, the richest kept as hostages
for the payment of ransoms ; the others dismissed.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE FLORIDA SEIZED AT BREST.

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PARIS, WEDIIZIIDLY EVIRINO.

The Sisals publishes a despatch from Brest,
stating that the Confederate steamer the Florida
has been provisionally seized at that port, at the
suit of a shipowner named Monier, of Brest, who
claims an indemnity of 100,000 fr. for one of his
vessels, seized by that cruiser. The Pays, con-
firming this statement, adds that the outrage of
which M. M4nier complains is that his ship was
forced by the Florida to go out of its course to
carry prisoners of war to Acapulco. At the same
time we learn by the Slinaphore of Marseilles that
an application has just been made to the Tribunal
of Commerce of Marseilles, by MM. Gounelle,
Roulet, Gu4rin, and others, owners of the cargo of
the W. B. Nash, a merchant vessel recently cap-
tured and burnt by the Florida, for an authorisa-
tion to seize her whenever she may be found in any
French port or roadstead. The tribunal granted
the authorisation, at the applicants' own risk.
Mr. Slidell has gone to Brest to see what he can
do for the Florida.

Apropos of the seizure by the English govern-
men of Mr. Laird's two Confederate war vessels,
the Pays thinks it expedient to repudiate the
argument of the Morning Herald, that in conse-
quence of a French house having an interest in
the ships the seizure cannot be valid without the
consent of the French government. The Pays
cannot see how, if the English law has been regu-
larly applied, the French government can have
any call to interfere in the matter.
I am very sorry to hear that the French govern-
ment, after a protracted investigation, has come to
the conclusion that it cannot legally give up to
the Italian government the five brigands who
were on board the Aunts. It is a most unfortunate
thing, and one that will make much bad blood in
Italy, and possibly lead to the overthrow of the
ministry. But inasmuch as I am afraid that the
French authorities have rightly interpreted the
international law of the question, I cannot blame
them. Fiat justitia neat cceltim. It is a first prin-
ciple that the government which makes a mistake
in violating the flag of another nation must not be
allowed to derive any advantage from its own
wrong. If that horrible assassin, Cipriano LS
Gala and his companion ruffians, who were illegally
taken out of the Annie, at Genoa, were now to be
remitted to Italian custody, under the extradition
treaties, a clear benefit from the admitted
illegal act would be obtained, because the
prisoners were on their way to Spain, and
although theshipwas bound to touch at Marseilles it
is too much to presume that the French authorities
there would have been asked to arrest them. I be-
lieve, therefore, that they will be sent to Marseilles
and shipped to Spain, their original destination.
They being, though murderers and robbers, fervent
catholics and loyal friends of Francis 11., it is un-
likely that the Queen of Spain will allow them to be
molested.

Count de Chasseloup Laubat, the Minister of
Marine, is going to Cherbourg to-morrow, to in-
spect the five iron-clad vessels which have been for
some time in the port. It is still doubtful whether
Prince Napoleon will go to Cherbourg. His yacht,
the Jerome Napohion, after its excursion to the
Isle of Wight, was found to require repairs to
her screw which will detain her for some weeks at
Havre. There will, however, yet be plenty of time
for a halt at Cherbourg on the Prince's way to
Lisbon, since the accoucbement of the Queen of
Portugal, which is the occasion of the projected
visit of the Prince and the Princess Clothilde, is
not looked for till the latter end of October.
The Bourse has suffered a further fall of 25c. and
loc. in the Rente, and 25fr. in Mobilier. The
government journals attribute this reaction to
realisations of profits, and treat it as but the pre-
paration for a further and more decisive rise. On
the other hand the Bieck says in its money article,
"All the news upon which the late upward move-
ment was founded turning out to be false and being
repudiated by the very authority which set it
going, the entire reason for the rise disappears."
The abundance of money and the good harvest
throughout Europe are reasons tending greatly to
a rise, in the absence of any serious political dis-
turbance.