The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN HOMEWARD NAIL.

When the Austrian Lloyd's steamer left Alex.
nutria for Tried', on the 24th ult., neither the Oneida nor
Simla had arrived at Sass with the Australian mane, though
the Simla was due, and Sr Oneida considerably overdue
there on that day. Greet dimppointwent will be felt if the
next sews from Egypt Mbp so account of the arrival of
the Sisk at Samos fishiest ezpoetatione were entertained
that is well big bent the Australian mails at the
appointed If Hee sight to bring more from New South
Wales up to the 11th, mil tam Heibourne to the llthel
February. The Oneida imam rambas eleven days, bat shell
ootunder eat:rad on berimeowernivoysge, so that the Euro.
peen and As bellanCompesysee satiable to any penalty eit
seeming of her clan—tier. Her arrival, however, at Sum
is reimbel, be At embed for conveying the outwarn!
Amlodiesined *ma Moira commenced on the 11th ally
Act she is at least 13 days overdue, as far as the outlived
and to Australia is connived; and if none of that time one
la omit op from Best to Anstrolla, a penalty of 4,6501. wan
is* have hem *Way haarred, which is more then
he At prriesnagpay for the whole voyage. The Aue•
bins aim sat by the Jura from England ou the 12th
ult. &ail bast mind at Suez on the 27th ult., OP
that it to set improbable that there will be tes
mails from Mobs! be the Oneida or Simla le
take on to Australia, and which consist of at
Ilea 850 boxes of letters sad papers, each weighing
about three-quarters of a hundred weight, the largest and
that was ever carried in one ship to any part of the world.
The arrival of the Oneida out at Atuttralia from England by
way of the Cape of Good Hope has never yet boes
nounced, so that it canna be ascertained where she has Melt
delayed, whether from the Cape of Good Hope to Sydney,
or from Sydney to Suez. The Simla is a creek ship of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, and was chattered by the
European and Australian Company. She ie one of the hated
/hips in the world, and was believed to he admirably ellapted
both in size and power for the Australian mail eureka. She
left England three weeks after the Oneida, and In the yam
Sydney, and front thence to Suez, a distance of 23,000 miles,
many considered that she would overtake the Oneida, a dr•
commence which hat probably by this time happened. The
Jura, with the second outward overland Australian mail,
was due at Alexandria en the 24th ult. As soon eir
she arrived there the Etna would leave that
port for England to take out the third overland Australis*
mail from England on the 12th of this mouth. As far se re•
garde the homeward Australian mail, the European end
Australian Company's steamers are not under mail contract
until the 11th of this month, on which day one of them will
leave Sydney, and be due here on the 6th of June. It it
assumed that the Aden and Ceylon mails, sent out by the
Australian mail steamer Etna on the 24th of February ha,
have been taken on from Suez by the Indian mall et
which left the latter port about the 12th of last month.
the Etna has left Alexandria without the Oneidas malls,
which is now almost certain to be the case, the Jura will
probably bring home an enormous double mail, consisting al
onefrom the Oneida sad ono from the Simla. rp to the
latest dates from Suez the Oneida had been out from Enema
166 days, sad the Shahs 132 days.

The Paris correspondent of the Independasee
Brlge writes, in yesterday's number :—`, The political armee
—which amounted at the early part of last week to only
about thirty-dm or forty—were almost double that number
by Saturday. Upon one of the individuals wee found a sit
of instructions proceeding from a very oelobrated personge
—one whose acme is connected with the most revolutionary
phases of modern history. This document is said to be ei
so grant nature that it will authorise the French nester
meat in demanding of the British government the entradiodst
of the republican chief compromised, the games involved
entering the category of mimes which, political or non•poWl'
cal, belong to the ordinary jwiadiction of the tribunals."