The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL, SATTRIUT.
The Lightning has arrived off Cork, with advice.
from Melbourne to the 28th December.
She brings 12,000 ones of gold dust.
The Gipsy Bride, hence, had arrived out on the
26th of December.

The Sehonberg is reported to have been wrecked
off Cape Otway. Passengers and crew saved.
The Red Jacket had arrived out.
The political advioes are unimportant.
The Legislative Council of New South IVales had
been prorogued.
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The demand for money was not active, and but
few transactions had taken place. In consequence of
large speculations in breadstuff's, tobacco, spirits,
wine, &c., there was considerably more animation
throughout the various markets.

The grain and flour markets quiet ; the price of
flour was 301. for firsts, 281. for seconds.

In Hobart Town the decline in breadstaffe wee
progressing. Price of gold, 31. lie. 6d.
The ship Blackwell, for London, has 86,000 ounces
of gold on freight. Ohs left on the 13:h of De-
cember.

The Red Jacket, for Liverpool, wu intended to
leave on the 18th of January.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT.
The Arno has just arrived on her way to Havre,
having left New York on the Bth inst. She has 80
passengers, and specie to the value of 404,000 dollars
for Havre.
The Arsgo passed the Africa off Bandy Hook.
It is stated by those in confidential relations with
Mr. Crampton, that he has no apprehension of being
dismissed. It is said that Great Britain sent word,
some weeks since, to Mr. Marcy, that British subjects
in Central America bad supplicated aid.
Complete instructions to Mr. Dallas were to be
sent to England by the Argo.

Anti-Nebraska 'men are organising an opposition
to Fillmore.

Two cotton and one woollen mills have been de.
strayed by fire in Philadelphia and Newbury Port.
The Pennsylvanian Democratic State Convention
had unanimously nominated Buchanan for President.

A prohibitory Liquor Law had been thrown out by
the Toronto Assembly.

The cotton market at New Yo•k was stronger,
without change of prices. At New Orleans prices
had declined.
Flour is unchanged. Freights for England are
steady. Rates to the Continent unchanged.

THE PRUSSIAN PLENIPOTENTIARIES AT

l'A Ills.

The following is a ►ketch of the political careers of
the Prussian Plen'potentiaries at the Conran :
"Baron defdanteaffrl was born at Lubbea,in the province
of Brandtbiarg, oaths 3rl February, 1805. At the age of
saves he kat his father, and was with his brother educated
by an uncle. From 1824 to 1827 he completed his studies
at the University of Halle, applying himself more particu-
larly to law and plitical economy. On leaving the Caner-
aity he went to Bi rlin, and in 1829 was attached
to the tribunal of finance, and afterwards entered
the political administration. H. acquired such a high
' reputation for ability while exercising the fano-
Hone of judge at the tribunal of Ludgate, that
he was regularly chosen every year as the reprt,enta-
ties of Brandebourg at the Provincial Diet. In Ibil ►e
was pramoted to eke functions of Judge of the Supremo
Regency of Kccnigsbeig, and in 1844 be woe attached to
the Prince of Prussia with the title of privy councillor.
The following year he entered the Council of State, hav-
ing, at the same time, the direttiou of the second division
of the Ministry of the Interior. During the troublous
period of 1888, he became Minister of the Interior, and on
the retirement from office of the Baron de Lsclenberg in
1830, Baron do Manteuffel took the &panatela of Foreign
Affain and the poet of President of the Coucc.l, which he
kaa ever since held."

The political career of Baron do Manteoffa's celleagne
may be the e lammed up :

Count de Hattieldt is descended from a family all the
members of which have (crop:id a high rank in the State.
Prince Retireldt, his father, was governor of Firlin in
1806. Count Maximallien, the subject of this notice, was
the only one of the prince's eons who followed the diplo-
matic , whic't be commenced at Paris in 1838, and
has ever since remained is the French capital. At the re-
volution of 1848 be h.ld the post of MMa•ge d'sffaires, and
throughout that difficult period he mndacted himself s 0
mach to the satisfaction of his sovereign that, in 1849, when
only thirty-six years of age, he was named his minister
p!enlpotentiazy, end has remained in that capacity can
since."