The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

TEE /IXPRESS,

place. To have evaded and defied the British
Government so long was bfacirasie alibi title to
admiration. His capture' we may hope, will brisk
his prestige, and with it that at Footiodtou If it
deters imitators, and weakens the popular favour
which has hitherto provided them with shelter
and concealment, both the Irish people, and the
English Government, and the misguided Fenian
themselves may rejoice in it.

DISTRESIN P 1
• • 1

It is significant that
prevails in portions __
which fought against each other at Sadowa. The
Prussian administration, which was able to feed
between two and three hundred thousand fighting
men far away from their own territory, has, ac-
cording to the following report of Dr. Max Kirsch,
which appears in the People's Garette of Berlin,
been unable or incompetent to save the families of
these soldiers from perishing by starvation. The
organisation of taking away life would seem to be'
more efficient than the organisation of saving it.
Dr. Max Kirsch terminates his report as follows :
I am no friend to the present government, but I should
have joyfully paid it my tribute of praise and admiration
if it had found • remedy for the unspeakable misery of
this population. But that has not been done. The province
which has abandoned to the state its own glorious name,
which saved Prussia, at a cost of unprecedented wares,
from foreign domination, has been consigned, in its dis-
tress, to the bounty of private charity, just like a
common beggar. The men who shed their blood at Trau-
teneau and Sadowa, the widows who gave their last sons
for their King and country, have either died of hanger or,
been obliged to beg their flour by spoonfuls from door to
door. Had not the German people, iucluding the van-,
quisbed and despoiled of 1866, intervened with • grand
self-devotedness for their brethren in the far East, hunger
and sickness would have reaped a terrible harvest. The
distress of Eastern Prussia is more than a calamity ; it is
a grave and solemn accusation against the system which
rules our State and the %Resent administration in par-
ticular. The future will pronounce judgment in the
matter.

The Austrian Poles seem to be no better off than
the East Prussiana, and the Vienna government as
incapable as that of Berlin.
The Gaeta Narociorea of Lemburg gives the fol-
lowing melancholy picture of distress in Galicia :
The immense quantity of snow which fell two months
back, and which does not seem likely to melt for some
time to come, has aggravated the misery of the
people in the rend districts, already suffering from a
series of bed crops, and this year rendered completely
,destitute by inundations such as bad not been
seen for a long time. A swarm of squalid pale-faced men-
dicants have again appeared, as was seen in 1846 and 18.15,
when in the district of Juelski one-fifth of the population
died from hunger. Private aid is being solicited and dis-
tributed, but that mode of relief is of little avail, as the
great landowners were the first to suffer, and many are
now on the brink of ruin. There is, besbles, no hope of
any present relief, as there are still two months of winter
before us.

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Russia, who is said to be prompting the Greeks,
Servians, and Bulgarians, against the Turks, does not
appear to be much better off than her neighbours.
The St. Petersburg Exchan9e Gazette says :
In Viborg, Finland, misery is every day extending,
whole families are coming from the north of Finland to
ask for employment, and there is no employment for them.
Typhus hu become epidemic in Relsingfors, and there
are several cases of dropsy—produced, no doubt, by the
indigestible food which people are obliged to can as a sub-
stitute for bread.
The Goias says :
In Rinsaw, at some distance from Moscow, the peasantry
are selling their horses for little or nothing, because they
have no food for them—the stores being empty and pro-
visions at a fabulous price.
" In the district of Ephremow." says the Mus-
covite, " the peasants are buying large quantities of
a plant called arrochi, to mix with their flour, so
great is the distress in this usually fertile district."

SERVIA.

The Servian journal Zustawa says:

Mithad Naha, Governor of Bulgaria, has just received
hem the insurgents of that province a letter bidding him
welcome and notifying in due form a declaration of war
and the speedy opening of hostilities. During the last
fortnight the male inhabitants of the villages at the foot of
the Balkan had been leaving their homes to swell the rebel
bands in the mountains.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ANTWERP.
QUEENSTOWN, Fan. 10.

The Inman steamer City of Antwerp, from New
York, arrived here at midnight, with 9 passengers,
but no specie. She landed the mails and pas-
sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool immediately.
All well.

NEW YOEIC, Fes 1.
The House of Representatives has pawed a reso-
lution instructing the Judiciary Committee to
inquire into the truth of a report that a judge of
the Supreme Court had, in private conversation,
denounced the Reconstruction Act as unconstitu-
tional, and declared that the Supreme Court would
so decide. The committee is instructed to report
whether the offence demands impeachment.
The committee upon the freedmen's affairs have
reported a bill to continue the Freedmen's Bureau
until July, 1869.
A resolution of the Ohio Legislature, rescinding
the constitutional amendment which had been
ratified by the previous Legislature, has been
referred to the Judiciary Committee for decision
as to its legality.
A motion has been made before the Supreme
Court by the military authorities for the dismissal
of the McArdle Test Case, on grounds of want of
jurisdiction.

Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, has notified the
military acting-governor and treasurer that he has
filed a bill in the Supreme Court to inhibit them
from using the State funds.
The Georgia Convention has passed a resolution
asking congress to vote a loan to the destitute
planters in the South of thirty million dollars on
mortgage bonds.
At a democratic man meeting that took place at
New York on Thursday evening, resolutions were
adopted denouncing the course of congress as re-
volutionary and partisan, and endorsing the acts
of President Johnson. The prominent speakers
were in favour of Mr. Johnson as a candidate for
the presidency.
Mr. Thornton, the new British minister, arrived
at Washington on Thursday, and would be pre-
sented to the President on Tuesday.
The New York Herald publishes intelligence
from Canada, stating that a strong movement had
been inaugurated in Nova Scotia for the repeal of
the Confederation Act.

The Emperor Napoleon has sent Queen Augusta!
of Prosaic a pair of Sevres vases, for which her Majesty
had expressed great admiration at tie Exhibition.
M. Benedetti, the French Ambassador to Berlin,
gave a mavddeent hill last week, at which the King sad
Queen were present. On entering the bell-room his ex-
eelleasy presented the Queen with an immense bouquet of
Parma violets, sent from Punta to her from the Empress
Eugenie.

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The Inralide Rama states that in the town of
Doubrawa, government of Minsk, 2,000 Boman cabala,
with their earn, named Lake, have beagle eonverted to
the areetausnan Tellies. In the town of Jaslew, same
district, the former catholic church bobcat to be wawa*
biassed sad converted to the purposes of the Greek rile.
The committee of the First Swedish Chamber
has just dvoide i, by el At votes to seven, In favour of the
abolition of capitol punishment. That Taoistic. was
adopted contrary to the opinion of the Minister GI Justits,
Buis de Ow, wito Is opposed 19 Any awe.