The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT.

VIENNA, Fn. 11.
The official Austrian Correspondence refutes the
sensations of Count Cantu, and says :
" Austria is nfficiently armed to ward off attacks
against the imperial sovereignty, but respects, ne-
vertheless, the right of other states to settle their
affairs as they may please."

MALTA.

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MALTA, Fie. 6.
On the Ist instant, Vice• Admiral Fauskawe and
the °Sours of the Meditteranean equedron pve • ball to the
park.° and gentry of Mats. On the 4th, her Maje.ty*a
ship &apelike lett this for Alexandria, conveylog fifty boys
fowler Majesty's ship Ch. eaposte. They sill b., seat by
rail from A1..1.11;11.6 to Sues, at wEich poet her Majeety's
skip Roebuck is awaking heir snivel, to take them on to
Jeddah to bee Majesty's ship Chesapeake, which will then at
omit lemma to Gybe with Cememdore Henry EdgelL
Ow the Bad • court-martial assembled on board her
Majesty's ship Ribald., for the trial of Comreand.r Edwd.
Kneecalinll 11 mg hem Hallett, who had been ordered from
I Kaarlaod expreedy en charges &riding out of the Wel of
Po ma.ts r 'Tacker, who had been dismissed the Berrie, for a
d,6M.eney of above 7001. public nv.ney. The charges spinet
Commander Hallett were two, for negleM of duty, an both
of which he was found guilty. The dentine* wee that he
I abouti be reprimanded end admonished.
The electric cable Wilma thin and Cagliari wee repired
and put le perfect waking order in the evening of the 6th.
The tropmed plan for the division of the harbours and
media of Malta is that the upper part of Grand Harbour,
commonly known as the Mazes, should to teserred far mer-
e cheat shipping. The Mersa is to be &mimed end made
available for merchant /hipping, end two breekweb re awed
eta cod to the Treasury at Great Britain of from 70,0001. to
100,0001.
The Para, with mails from India, treed at 12 a.m., the
telegram via Coifs having attired at 6 p.m. yesterday.
The Rusin., with overland petiole of well Ikons India,
arrived at 1 a m. of Feb. 7.

The AurrieuAN MAIL.—The Thames arrived at
Southampton yeeterday with the lwavy portlfin of the Aus-
tralian math. Her date wars :—Alexandtia, Jan. 27 ;
Malta, Feb. I. Amongst the cup wee gold duet and *pock
to the value of 76.2111. IS.. 4d , nearly the whole of which
wee from Melbourne. The U. S. ship Macedonian we.
M Alethedria. The British ewew steamer lank WU Off
Cars. The Thanes exchanged goals with a large aionwr
ea the Srd., summed to be the Bombay snail p tad, which
MR Southampton to the 47th ult. The Thames art with
very but nsather aU the way kat Gibredt.r. It nixed az-
tenlvely, and the mkt wee seererpealed by irlo'eat raw of
thunder and lightning. There was • heavy swell from the
sanh•wmt aloof lb. amid Partspl, sal saves the By of
Biscay.

THE UNITED STATER.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.
The screw steam-ship City of Washington, Capt.
Petrie, belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia Steam-ship Company, arrived here
' to-day, having sailed from New York on the 29th
ult. She brought the United States mails, 64 cabin
and 137 steerage passengers, and 177,698 dollars in
ie
spec.
On the 29th she pared the packet ship William
Tell, bound in to New York.
The steats-ship Arabia, hence, arrived out at Halifax
on the 28th; and the Arago, from Southampton,
reached New York on the 29th.
The steam-ship Circassian, which sailed from
Galway on the 11th ult. for St. John's, Newfound-
land, had not been heard of when the City of
Washington sailed, and was then over eighteen days
out. She had been advertised to leave New York
on her return trip on the 27th, and the passengers
booked for her were, in her absence, transferred to
the City of Washington.
Lord Napier had accepted the compliment of a )
ball in Washington, but considered it injudicious to
accept a similar testimonial in New York, or else-
where.

The steamship Illinois, with the California mails
of January 6th, and 1,210,713 dole. in gold, had
arrived at New York. Her advice. have been
generally anticipated rig New Orleans.
The whole gold shipments of 1868 from San
Francisco amount to 47,724,990 dole. against
49,266,162 dole. in 1837.
The steam-ship Washington, which left New York
on the 26th of December for Oreytown, finding it
impossible to send Ater passengers across the 11th-
mug, proceeded to Aspinwall, and after a brief delay
at that place :left on the 19th of January on her
voyage to San Francisco rid Cape Horn.
A letter from Victoria, British Columbia, of De-
cember 26th, gives the following news :
The principal events that have occurred here, sines my
loot, are the beening of Fraser's River and the reception of
sews from the Upper Fraser sod Bridge Rivets which plows
the richness and extant of the British Columbia places bo-
yced a question. The miners on the Lower Fraser had, by
the felling of the river, just been enabled to get bats the dlr.
gimp on which the reports of lout swing were hosed, whim
operatioes were interrupted by the of tie water, sag
little will probably be done now till F . Probably,
ore this, washing bee also been stopped on the pper
consequeatly maw whim are arriving from above, whose
faith in the r;clutets of the mines may be ultimata front the
feet that they comprise the first rush from above width has
Viotor instead of returning to Califonde. A
=feel of dust Is now being received here, and probably
more haskeen seat below in the past six week, than in all
the preview period since the irruption of the Fraser lever.
Dr. H. A. De Groot, formerly editor of the Sox Premise
new, has taken as ellen:rive trip thruagh the tippet
country, and furnishes several interesting icier. to the
Omits.