The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-03 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company

. .
MALTA, Fn. 2.
The Valetta and Syria will leave Malta to-
morrow evening with the Bombay mail
The former may be expected at Marseilles about
the sth, and the latter at Southampton about the
12th instant.

The SaLett° brought the mail to Suez, arriving
there on the 28th ult.

(iirilled EXPRESS.)

THE SLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
VIENNA, Jix. 31.

The debates upon the Sleswig question in the
Lower House are not yet ended. The oppo-
sition has spared no pains to open the eyes of
ministers to the danger of their policy, but
without effect. The Presse of this morning
gives the key of the position when it
states that no longer men, but events,
are now charged with the regulation of the great
Sleswig-Holstein question. It is a mistake to
imagine that a vote of the majority in the Lower
House would bring about an immediate change of
policy, or a resignation of 'he ministry. Constitu-
tionalism in Austria has in. advanced far enough
for such results. Neither t. , Lower House,
nor public opinion have ye,. es much in-
fluence as they will some day unt,- estionahly
attain. The notabilities of the op, "sition
know full well that the Emperor will never 10.-u
a new cabinet from these ranks. The supposition
of the Presse is, thsrefore, probably correct, that
should his Majesty do so, a ministry thus put
together would not last three days, opposed upon
the one aide by purely German liberalism, and on
' the other by the anti-centralist liberalism of the
Poles, Bohemians, Transylvanians, &c.

The list-Deutsche Post does not credit the news
of a Dano-Swedish alliance. Private letters from
Stockholm, coming from a reliable source, how-
ever, confirm the existence of considerable agita-
tion in that capital for active steps favouring the
integrity of the Danish monarchy. Rumours are
even current of preparations being already set on
foot to place Swedish troops at the disposition of
the Danes.

Nearly all the German papers are unanimous in
thinking that neither Count Rechberg nor Herr
von Bismark have arranged their future plans in
the case of a general conflagration, and that they
have not foreseen the consequences of their present
policy and the grave eventualities to which it may
give rise. "It is a game at hazard," cried one
of the speakers recently in the Lower House of the
Reichsrath, and the applause which greeted the
remark showed the direction of the general opinion.
It is believed that Count Rechberg or Herr von
Schmerling will speak to-morrow, with the view of
obliterating as much as possible the great impression
produced upon the public mind by the arguments of
the opposition, but it is very doubtful whether they
will succeed in dissipating the growing uneasiness.

Attention should be drawn to a statement of
one of the best informed opposition speakers,
warning the house that the government would de-
mand another supplementary credit, alleging the
recessity of increasing the force in Venetia and
upon the Gallician frontier.

" Ws are informed," says the Echo du Luxem-
bourg, "that Major de Loqueyssie, of the Freoch Regi-
men, is examining this country on a mission from the
Emperor Napoleon. to determine the situation of the
fanner Romeo camps, and the trams which still exist of the
occupation by the Romani. These researchea are mostected
with the publication of the map of Gaul, and the 'Life of
Julius Caesar.'"

The Marseilles journals announce that a large
theatre has been bnilt in that city by M. Pereira, in the
purge beerier his name, and is to be celled the Bouffes
Marseillaia. The pit will accommodate 2,000 spectators,
and the boxes and galleries as maul more. The manage-
ment of this new theatre has been confided to M. Helen-
Kier, director of the theatres of Mantillas.

1., fresh
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TEMBJIDAY. 01 NORTIMUI FRIDAY.
W. to N. and back, Coign. W. to N. and
strong, unsettled, to moderat
some fall in places. rain or snow
N.W. to S.W., strong IVE,TERN. W.Y.W. to
to moderate, rata in fresh to ma
laces.
W. to N. and back, SOUTHIIILN. W. to N. and NE,
fresh. unsettled, rain fresh to moderate,
In pudic generally One.
W.S.W. to N.N.W., Loring. W.S.W. to N.N.W. and
strong to moderate, and N.N.L, fresh to
with some rain moderate.

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Neetberu=Scothurt. Weetern.lrelaatr:Wilia aad ad-
jacencies. gnsthen.=English Channel sad Biscay By. Eitstero
=Eastward Essitand and Heligoland.
South Cone on Monday.

" Tbe operations of Messrs. Teliatnokoff and
Dolgoleoko to clear the mouth of the port of Sebastopol,"
eats the Inralide Recur, "are going oe. At the first bar-
rier have been removed the corvette Pylades, the frigate
Flora, and the ships Gewrid and Silistria, as well as in part
the ships Warm and Ouriel. At the wood harrier have
been removed the ships Twelve Apostles, Tollgate*, Swiatoe-
law, Empress Marie, the Ysgoudil, sod the frigate Es' gout
but all of them more or less damaged. The works are ere.
uted by meam of eight large boats and a stammer of 55
horse-power, and of several engines purchased at Paris.
Our Russian workmen pursue and achieve the work with
wonderful intelligence and succors."

A Philadelphia paper says the receipts of petro-
leum duriag this year will reach warty 500,000 barrels.