The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

The present mail brings intelligence from Mel.
bourne to the 20th of Octobcr. Continued
wet weather bad interfered with business, but
improved wages and lowered prices of such
necessary articles of food as flour and potatoes,
were leading to increased con.umption, sod
the tendency was to higher rates than for the last
two months. Ballarat gold is quoted 770. 3d.

During the few days that Prince Fredlnidt
William was in Berlin, at the commencement of this mink
no clerk of the works was more assiduous early mil k k
visiting the works going on at the palace of the We=
which is being converted into a suitable neklenta bei
end the Princess Victoria. Of mare, wins sr reapagga,
lions may be admitted to influence the date of their suplithy
there is none so imperative as the completion of their fames
dwelling, if not in Ito every detail, at least in lee welikes
toes and extent. The impatience of the yeeilkill
would, it Y said, be content with a prepsredm ef •Mg
moderate portion of the building, rather than oiler bil
mien to be postponed for mere considerations of beldam"
mortar ; but, unfortunately, the requirements that the Mr
eatery pats forward with regard to princes and prinemen
do not admit of any return to the pastoral simplicity Me
which Corydon and Phyllis may have given theintelvee
to seriatim and the joys of mutual affection.
Prime Friedrich Wilhelm, who arrived at Balk
the let day of the old year, with his parents, to he pm
mat at the "jubilee" of his father, the Prince of Pima%
has led again for Breslau, where he will probably math, far
the mut nine mouths, and devote himself to 11l sale*
duties, pas to male his to take general's sunk beim lb
marriage tikes place. The Nem apartments ham bus
cep for him in the Royal Schloss there se wen .s l 4
the late Ring and Queen ; that which the late Qom LIMN
occupied has been converted into a study for the yams
prince, and is already graced by a marble bust of her MI
Majesty, and by • fell-length oil painting, that has jai
' within the last few days arrived there from Berlin. It is not
&Walt to gems that this latter unnamed picture is the folly
Ituitth patina of the Princess Royal, by Winterhalters
which was in the last exhibition of the Academy of
Fine Arts in Berlin. The bureau of the 11th regiment al
Infentry, of which the young prince has received the can-
mend, hie been established on the gromd-door of the pekoe,
and him various adjutants have also received quarters under
the Mae roof.

The presence at Berlin of thrte Roman catholic
prelates, Cardinal Prince Schwartteuberg, the Archbishop
of Olmutz, Count Fursteaberg, and the Prince Bishop d
Breslau, Dr. Fonter—eacitos a great deal of attacks.
Their visit le one of owemony to the King, u scmweign of.
portion of their dioceses, which they are just now Molting.

A malevolent report was circulated a few weeks
back la s number of journals of the south of Europe, about
sa English lady of title haying refused the Dowager Em-
press of Beads permission to walk over the pounds of tbs
VW. Gmetand, which she °empire at Nice. fto for from
having been refused edrairmion to the Villa Cheesed, the
Empress remained for some thee in the garden, and then
walked through the woods. The report was probably emir
domed (aye a Berlin correspondent of the Tunes) by her
ladyship, who wee not wall, having given directions thee
some of the beck =risen, belonging to the suite dwell
leave the courtyard in consequence of the noise made by the
caveats.

WRECK OF THE BRITON STEAMER.—Telegraphio
intelligence, niceired from Southampton this morning, ••-
•ounces the amiss! at that port, from Jersey, of the crew of
the Briton steamer, belonging to the Union Steamship Corns
patsy. They being intelligence of the foundering of the
Briton, of Cape Usha•t, 60 tidies anuth-went of the Cape, on
Sunday leek at 6 a.m. The steamer left London, with •
cargo al wheat on the 6th of January, bound to Seville..
The new were picked up on Sunday night, at 11 p.m., by
the Ocean Queen, from Lisbon for Hull, with • cargo of
fruit, te., a•d she having deo, by stress of weather, sprung
• leak, wee compelled to put into Jersey on Wednesday, and
there landed the crew.

THE OrAxo FLEET.—The following British seimeiti
loaded at Chinch. 'Wends during the month a Nomnbcr.
1836:—Riense, 422 tons; Geom., 830; Highkeed Mern
602; Tartar, 673; Ilotagur, 1,6;1 ; Grand Bonnild74:l4
k Perc, 393; Giant George, 339; Jane Here, 427;
422; 0101., 922 • Libertan, 602; Conoul, 751; Earl of Hare-
wood,*alle
278; in 14 vessels and 9,184 tons.
The ship Captain Killiek, with her
reel enhal,4 cargo of y slid tea, lota arrived in the East
Indic Doan, and commenced unloading. Although thin
vessel has matte a somewhat herithaned paa.sge from
Shanghai, she has neverthelem managed to hest asvn.l 4
her competitor, whirl maled soma two or three weeks Deka*
her.

I'HE WLATIIik IN THE BALTIC.—ST. PETE'S.
urea, JAN. 12.—Revel roadstead Y now covered with lae
ea far down as Haagen. RJsre, Jan. 7.—The harbour was
completely Itasca over Yet eight, end the oell far to ria
be seen from the watch tower, is coveted with a arm sheet of
Sae. The nevigation may thetehre be cataloged es clam&
Danzig, Jan. 12.—There is spent denl of drift ice in the
roads. Neuetadt, Jen. 11.-11 m harbour, ea Sr as the rod-
stead, hes been covered with a fit coat of ioe since the 9th
Jemmy, and the navintion Mopped
MUTING OF MIDDLES= MaOISTRATES.—A

merry of the nonthasiles et KMOrr was held y=
et errawell. sired dthe csawsittee for
mod gresral
_peepers INN resecht up, sod an sniff MO
spa Ur earn, Iverwirr fin. the payment of lie.
=sal amedle, Is the mount of 13,813 L us. pm.
thrift enpadltnre of the county for the per WO
was MAK Mt M., which was Nu' errs! is AK 111
the pond yea the entire eresonent of the
The $ esperlitsre showed a reduction, es
with Ai et ISM, of 6,4671. de. Id. The Sell
.101
am*, Ihe which the rates were asortgaged, mum
with %Mee awattitire ethroliwg to 2,415, -Q17.40
expected to MI in within shed thee, es Ow le
ths
=s7w Ith book am 11111. As adithey Nes* she el MO
in the prod, mist ale et sr thribthreolesda
Lomat, hole mere Seim& Veivice
were up sea the
at eat thinerhalivllerrt aimed then
to heiainted
Ther e
rhea readthestlem ca •
true . amber ipatients Nenweil
we and at Cethey-butch 1,291. The uthal
eeperle then the aim irim• of the early was
!rented. h Oaliel►ML House of Careden thaw
was lAN prfor
rs,a esssadro number readeeed
he dr bird ethreekene shops to be wri we
ti
desMwlw et Wyk. It winmed bask to the etwenithee
to the WS that le Is bireileccd into pediment by
the , as it coward dime
wilds the athetheetlislivaltetrrield ?Woolly Isla whet
wee dame la lOU to parse bthreste 4 the estanly with
reaped Is the plea et thethrh-ilehis. The moth WWI
the etleathos et do met to the sue it two Jolene= wire
were sent them a pellserasted ihr elltheeth EL Xtheitheil
worisheme, who ewe bet he a slots et malty, the rely
adds el wmarber_they Ittektg • piece st norm
ham es. la the them OI Otheelles et Westreisster."%eP:re
VIM IN sal la the Howe of Detathies 206, striag
'a =t ABLE INSTITUTION. —L.
wows. tho gems wend of this brawl= wee
held et the thlorsassord Tavern. Fraser Beaky, who
was in the their, ear led with sorb Wier, le the loss which
the einethied eethissd by the death of flak Ye respected
=CN,. Jena limp. The twittery reed the
' ait that
azq there was fallen se
essent 4 The committee led dee heat
respilled ruse atheler of pensioners to be thief
hem 12, es It the yrethilft par, to 8 ; the awieler ea the
111,180.=et
Ode S pethefill sod 42 fenuile sit=
irlith etheeelt le 166/. 2.. 31,
re =lat hod 7,873 r. 7.. t". 7502... sal
anthredlllth the easual festival it Ms litho
~by Mr. Mohr at the WOthea
fill lealliklor ••1201.111 le SW, a,. for the ee&W‘ethellelth
sal 10SL 13. it the Inlidiog fond. The mot
heathy heatillegisdare•.,Ferthde Healey was dish=
olectoi Inth
Mr. Ithhotal sivosiected to mourn, sad
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