The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-12 00:00:00

DELAY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
The European and Australian Royal Mail Cow
pany's screw steam ship Columbian anaved in deck sit
morning, and is now b.in 1. got in rendhlow to convey
next mails to South and West Aud rah., 'Victoria, Now
South Wales, Taman* and New 74.13nd, advertised•
Monday, the 12th instant. The next moil for AmetilhalM
loses Southampton on the 24th of }Venally next, and vU
be the Ant mail conveyed rid Erma, the supplementer,
mail rid Marseilles being appointed to knee London on tie
2nd of March next. By this arrangement the steamer *ll
be expected to arrive at Alesanirin im the Nth of
leant Sewn on the 11th, reach Melbourne on the 11tri4
Aped, and Sydney on the 22nd. Sul...ineptly the Min
will be despatched from Soutluntipton on the isik
at each month. The end mail from Andidhl
will knee Sydney, rid Emit, on the 11th : d
All next, arid will be &win London rill Marvels' in*,
36th of May, and at Southampton en the :oh of June. The
mail packets me to touch et l'onit de Golfe on the outward
voyage, and at King Georges Sound owl Point de Gully an
the homelier:lcm.. _ - .

The Foialiira Is asst-Class t•tento ship, and T=
fitted up for Irst-elasspeasengcro ouly. She is
by Captain Ponder. During her 'skeeter from the Clyde US
Southamptart she made at times twelve and thirteen knob
per hour, although at times she wet compelled to go at bag
awed, owing to the thicket:as of the weather. The MINI
performed moot satisfactorily.
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The endowing important nntim Will. posted
General rod-oboe, St. Martin'iolo-Grand, by ccanuandeift•
Postassater-Oeseral, at half-past two o'clock as
afternoon. "The contractors hnving informed bis
that the mail packed Columbian o ill not be ready 8M
Southampton until Tuesday next Jannory 13th, for Auer
lie, letters!. and nerwqmpens will be in hum if pods&
Loudon on Tuesday mg.(
.nent."

BLACKBALLING AN IX-MINISTER.—The Gazette
Easiest' of Viesma pablishes the following, dated Camel,
Jan. 6 :—"l4. Reisinger's, formerly minieter, who has for
some weeks been reading at Marliourfx, demanded admiestoS
into the Society of the Casino of flint city, which includes
amongst ite.rocenbess the oldest end most conservative fends
Bee of high society, principally profe.vore and meresent
functionaries ; the result of the ballot, however, wee unfits
vourable to the candidate. The Pollee Director of Mir.
bow hes accordingly dissolved the society, mad
the following maim hen been echoed to the door:—
' The refusal to admit Y. Privy Councillor Hasseipesi
into the Society of the Casino being it hostile demonstration
egalut the system of government, and on association which
commit' such a political act admitting of no further to/erotica,
the Society d the Casino to cloyed and the meeting of its
members forbidden under a pain of a tine of five tholes each
member In every case of diaobedicnee. The committee sail
authorised to take the necessary etepa for the conclusion of its
pecuniary affairs. Direction of Pollee, slarbourg, Jan. 3...

La firma of Paris is now publishingi
n Armada
• Belgian edition of ha paper. The tint number appeared
on Wednesday lad, and was distributed ratio to the haw.
holder'. In its address to the Belgian public, it states thee
the poNiestion for Frame amount', to 4.5.000 daily. It pro•
poses to eerantenee with • pablinition of 10,000 daily for Bel.
gium, to the (notelet intends of which country it will And.
the min pasta tioamar edition.

Onion; hew been given by which the Nunes of Wit
Meets to ell the brew of Spain, which were changed in cot.
secottece at the events of 1864, nro to be teetered.
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A correspondent of the Xor4 at Naples states thnt
just before the explosion on board thin steanxv Charles Illy
a load voice was beard, crying, "To the bow and the sr,
all who wish to rve tlsserelvec"

A great granddaughter of Corneille, Mme. Veer,
Girard, life Corneille, died laot wady at Carpentras, at the
age dad years,

M. Paul Faucher has just completed a melodrama
for the Cirque Imperial, Paris, the hero of whkh Y lan
unfortunate Admiral Byng. We /Gs/iris/0 could will
he had churn another, for, with all this writer's merits, BM
treatment of English subjeri.s. from his ignorance of du
country, pri•-ea a dash of burlesque to the most Mama*
I situations in hia Oats.