The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-31 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

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SOUTHAMPTON, TIMRSDAY.
The Teviot ham arrived with the heavy portion of
the Australian mail.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNEBDAT.
The Jeddo has arrived with the Peninsular mail.
She left Lisbon on the 27th inst.

The Cortes is likely to close on the 2nd of April.
It is believed that the railway will be put up to
public competition.
Senor Fontes, it is said, will be Minister of Public
Works, and Pimental will be Minister of the In-
terior.

Prince George of Saxony is shortly :expected at
Lisbon, to marry the Infanta.
The postal convention between England and
Portugal is in course of anal adjustment.
An ingenious plan of smuggling brandy into Lis-
bon has been detected.

Viscount Bandiera's health is better.
Exchange, 90 days, 63k.

A letter from the Prussian capital says :—e The
dleappointment which was felt by the Princess Frederick
William when it was Lima that Queen Victoria and the
Prince Consort could not at this time pay their promised
rich to Berlin, is to be compensated for by that which the
prime and princess, with the infant prince, are shortly to
make to their royal relations in England. The arrangements
for this purpose are already said to be la preparation but it
is not supposed that the journey will take place before the
beginning of May, when the weather is likely to be more
favourable them it would be at an earlier plead."

The New York papers report a Meeting of demo•
wale repatikea electors In Tammany Hall, at which Senator
A. G. Brown, of Mississippi, In pronouncing far the soquird-
tire of Cute, reme•kd, I want Cuba for the extension cf
slavery, and let all the dirty abolition crew understand
It. If Cuba were to ecano to us as a free territory, and
• free territory alone, then my ceurage would very much
owe oat at the points of my angers." The same speaker
delivered himself of even a b sidle avowal. He said, I are
•pa slavery man. I believe that slavery Is of divine origin
—(appistre)—thst God decreed It from the foundation of
the world—(renowed applause)—that the African race from

their creation were doomed to be slaves to Um wbite 1131112
(continued applanae)—and my impression le that every one
of you would be better off If bolted a negro to wait upon
him." And bare, says the mput, " Arm there fa Brown
were given with great energy."
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Mr. Powers' bronze -Statue of Daniel Webster,
made for Kane persons in Boston, United Mat.., in said to
give general illaratiairetiool One writer says, "It is rem

gerdel is the most successful failure ever made by a man of
genius, and is the butt of Innumerable paragraphs, as
malicious, but not quite so clever, as those which Punch
need to abcot at the Wellington statue. It is a terrible
looking thing, baying the appearance of a coloured gentle-
man who has inn away from hie disconsolate muter, and It
stolen clothes."

A letter from Nagasaki, in the China Telegraph,
eays:—" The commanders end dicers of the Dutch navy
residing at Desims, have lately been Invited by the Prince of
Plzen to visit bit batteries end anneal. They went,
accompanied by the aecratery of the priers, *Di
were theatre a great number of bran end iron gum
end reortalv, principally nine and eleven inch shell, with
scene 33.ponnders, all made by Japaneee workmen. 'The
=guises sod atort•hoasu are bomb proof, and there were
piles el shot and shell fee 300 round►. A splendid dhow
was prepared le Berne= style in oes of the buildings,
where they were eiterwarda ettertsieed by the secretary,
wbo thanked Uses for their visit, sad eipreresd his regret et
their retiring en early, as be meld not justify Lumen to the
prince for having allowed them to def art withont making
them all intoxicated."

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