The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-30 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

(MN ova owe temszaosesn.)
PORT ELIZABETH, ALGOL BAY, Oor. 20.
By the Diamond Commny's screw steamer
Eastern Province, Captain Edington, I send you •
I brief summary of colonial news.
Trade is improving, and the new clip of wool is
beginning to appear in our markets. The merchants
of the province, with the view of inducing the
farmers to take more pains in the get-up of the
fleeces, have offered several prizes of 1001. each for
superior clips, to be exhibited at the wool show
early in 1866. The various agricultural societies
likewise offer prises, and in fact public attention is
earnestly directed to the improvement of the
quality of our wool. A oompany has been formed in
Cape Town in order to introduce the alpaca, and
an agent has been despatched to South America to
purchase the first batch of animals.
The trade of this province is increasing with ex-
traordinary rapidity, doubling that of the west.
The importe at Port Elizabeth for the nine months
of 1964, ending 30th Sept., are 1,036,1691. against
d 151,6021. of 1863. The exports for the same pe-
riod from this town are 1,411,5641. against
1,083,7481. of 1863. The quantity of wool sent
from here to England and America since the Ist
hilme—lna, amounts to 911,009,000 lbs. stralsat
90,000,000 Me. of last year. or is this difference
the result of a " spurt " in business progress, it is
the natural consequence of a steady thermos.
Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse is wow the
Orange River, settling or endeavouring to settle a
question is bleb has been a source of beartburning,
of forays, raids, and bloodshed for the last dozen
years—the question of the boundary line between
the Orange Free State and Basuto-land, the territory
of Mothesh and his tributary chieftains. When Sir
George Clerk ceded the sovereignty of the Orange
River State from the government of England to the
Boers, this boundary was not clearly defined.
Hence so many reprisals, and hence the Basuto war
of 1839. Last year Mr. Brand, of the colonial bar,
was elected President of the State, and with the
view of starting fair, he induced his council to re-
quest Governor Wodehouse to arbitrate in the
boundary matter. Moshesh was willing—not only
willing, but anxious—for the Governor's mediation,
and to the Orange River the Governor went in
February last. When the day of adjudication
came Moshesh expressed his intention of abiding
by Sir Philip's fiat, be it favourable or adverse to
has interests. Not so the Dutch Volkaraad, who,
through President Brand, gave his excellency to
understand that they would only adhere to his
mediation on condition that his arbitration suited
their book. The Governor was very properly die-
' gusted, refused to parley or hold further communi-
cation with the Boers, and started for home on the
same day. Public opinion supported his 41-
uellency, and President Brand and his read
were scouted by all classes. Finding that the
disputes with the Basuto. increased, and that the
colonists were inclined to support the cause of the
latter, Mr. Brand summoned his council, and •
very humble and penitently worded address was
drawn up, signed officially, and despatched to the
Governor, imploring his return, and promising the
most entire submission on the art of the Boers to
any deeiaion his excellency might see fit to pro-
mulgate. Sir Philip was satisfied, and is now
engaged in mediating—which mediation will be
final and decisive, and the definite position of both
parties for the first time accurately laid down.
The Free State mission promises to be a failure.
I enclose authentic documents supporting this pre-
diction. Owing to the tractarian views and prac-
tices of Bishop 'Twang and certain of his clergy,
the inhabitants of one of the three parishes have
met together, and refused any grant for the support
of any mission not " evangelical ' in its principles
and poi-actin. Thus one source—the most liberal
of all—Sas been cut off. More than this, the in-
habitants have memorialised the Volksraad to

withdraw the government grant—a request
the Bead will only be too happy to accede
to. So far, then, as the most important
parish is concerned, the mission will be unaided. In
a fsw words, th• grievance may be thus expressed ;
the inhabitants when soliciting the Bishop of Cape
Town to get up the mission, guaranteed their most
liberal support solely on the condition that no high
church practices or doctrines should be introduced.
The Rev. R. Shapcote has introduced the obnoxious
practices to the very height of absurdity. Bishop
l'wells has been appealed to, and sides with- his
priest, ergo, the conditions having been violated,
the agreement to furnish stipendiary aid is ipso facto
null. Great blame is attached to Bishop Twells by
some of the most consistent churchmen and im-
partial observers in the colony ; for the mission
will never recover the confidence it has lost.

The frontier is tranquil and likely to remain so.
The whole of the excitement which was crested
here and in England, relative to the prospect of
another Kaffir war, arose from a false alarm having
been given by an officer of the mounted police who
was unfit for his duty. As a colonist of eighteen
years' experience and as one who has served as an
officer of irregular hone in the wars of 1847 and
1861, I am of opinion that we shall have no more
Kaffir ware. The tribes which were wont to give
trouble are broken up and humiliated. Kreili is
still powerful, but craven. Numbers of the best and
bravest of the colonists are in hopes that Mr. Card-
well may be induced to reconsider his recent decision
not to occupy the Trans-Keian territory. They were
ready and willing to occupy it, but the rumours of
war created by a foolish mistake influenced the
government at home in a direction contrary to
what had been anticipated.
Mr. John Fairbairn, formerly editor of the
Commetcial Advertiser., died rather suddenly, on
the 3rd October, aged 70 years. Mr. Fairbairn
was for many years the leader of the nonconformist
party at the Cape, and will be remembered by many
people in England as the man who fought for and
won the liberty of the press in 1824, and who like-
wise in 1849 was the chief instrument in preventing
this colony from becoming a penal settlement.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 26th
day of November, 1864, bey Mapsty levies bees pleased to
appoint the Bight Hon. Betlby Richard, Lord Wasiak, to
be her Majesty's Lieutenant of the East Midas of the
county of York, his lordship this day took sad subeeribed
the oath a.gpppoiistsd to be akin therapies, Instead of the
oaths of allsgiaaee, sepreemey, and &Maratha. —Osage.
TUB REY. E. A. EILLYAILD AND BROTH= laria-
rtra—The Rev. E. A. Hillyard hes remised from the Poor-
law Board their deeision ea to the hanky into him conduct
recently had at Norwish by Sir J. Welshes', oar of the in-
spectors of tbe beard. It is to the ilea that the bard
will not interfere as regards Mr. Hillyard's practices in the
pariah chetah of et. Larresce, Norwich, me they consider
his proceedings there not to come within their jurisdiction ;
but they consider the allegation as to neglect of duty to be
proved, inasmuch es he neglected to eatables the chide
in the boys' sad girls' • Homes" no the occasion of his
visits to those establishments, as isiscribed by the guava
orders of the board. The board, therefore, Piquet Mr.
Hillyard to resign his appellant's& es chaplain of the Nor-
wich Workhouse. By the same post a copy of the letter
was east to the chairman of the Norwich Board of Guar-
diem _ _

A YUMMY AND SCHOOL 01 ART TOR NORTH-
KART LORDOR —A movement has ootnmesced is North.
llbst Loodos, for the purpose of estsblishiog a museum
sad eduestional chums invented therewith. The gnat
distance of South Kowriegtou from the 1111116 of iedastry
is the oppmit• quarters of the metropolis, mid the cons.-
quest inocuiveuiesee sod loss of time lammed by workmen
who desire to prat by its advantages, have gives ries to a
very widoegoved feeling es their part for so art inwientn in
their own lowility. The dist pubis, meeting will be held on
Friday seat in the Holy Trinity school-moth Hostee, and
it is proposed to hold niestine throughout the whole of the
district to yestilide the question.
His Holiness Pio Nono suffered a martyrdom
from a malady which belled hie physicians. TN Duke de Roche-
tom:salt Oak( in Rome M the time recommended the use of
Herrin° magentas truth& Ilthr use immediately removed
the agony (neersigie) his Heather was marring. to the slightest
symptom of return the use of thosevethable instruments ensures
instant relit Thal: wake the skis of the heed restores
grey hair to Rs amoral wrier. perkelth removes wreath
thatlathe.-0111ma, laudow.—{dvertfee-
meat]

REPRESENTATION OF FINSBURY.

Last evening Mr. Ai 'Cullagh Torrent met a large
body of the iadaestial electors of Finsbury at the Free-
maeme-liall, Oast Quessetreet, to explain his views so a
madidate for the representatios of the borough. Colossi
Kenaely mended the chair. sad introduced the hos. ma-
dela*
ide
oragwboon he passed a warm eulosium. Mr. Tor-
rent, oa was very warmly received. He canursesieed
by armoring opinion as to the sort of men who might
to be met to the House of Commons for the large oosetite-
teem of tin* kingdom. They should be men with dear
heads sad honed hearti, who would faith( ally carry out
the when of the people apes the tares great qaestices of
nicest, retronalineen aad modal progress, questions which
had hem most y betrayed and played with by the
parent parliament. Hs then adveled at length to the
tonnes pollee of the present goverment, which hin thought
was aaything bat Midwifery. They were pushing the
policy of nosi•interveatios to as unearmatablo extent. sad
atiompting to iodate this milistry from other ~lion
This pelem of isolation yea a sorry policy, sad would Mad to
plunge the country into a sea of future trouble. (Hear.) Our
colonial polity, Hien:copied that punned towards lade. was
mash more eatidsotory • but they owed ladia a great debt
for the way in which that country had bete mistesampal,
He strongly disapproved of the Chimes policy of thegovera.
meat, and wee mash afraid it would end in an attempt as
their part to atom* a imp portion of that money is the
same of what was called the interned trade. (Hom) With
to
.horine matters, he considered it would be wt F7xismbiLisibro ti.for tho middle le clasee
merge z; who n
hich wootrzbonmesed the
seers the
rights of eitimarte that large main of iatelligent workbag
men bon whom it was-now meet adnoily, to Ws
apes, withhold. (Hear.) Any ones -neemewe would
resolve Ids esnwei support. He would alio tappet all
measures of amid sad name espooiaDy any ma.
mere having far its object improvement of the dwelling*
el the labouring damn —Ned—white now wire a diternoe
to inclination. He sesnladed • lon and able speech
amidst much obseriag. A resolution was thee adopted
unanimously, dedaring Yr. Torrent a AM* candi-
date for the representation of the borough, and pledg-
Agtho desks% priesnli to support him at sant sledges.
vote ad Haab to the shairman °Dwindlelino d the precesdinp.

TEE METROPOLITAN EXTENSION LINE OP
TEE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOYEN RAIL-
WAY.

A letter in the Tweet from Mr. J. 8. Forbes, the
gamma warier of the Leaden, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way, sustains some istesseting
_whalers respecting the
Metropolitan Extensios line. Tie• total capital authorised
Sc, the Metropolitan Extrusion is 5,733,0001. This ems,
however, Includes the son of additional limes of two miles
now is mune of oosetractios, together with
of nearly the man length, authorised lest
for bringing traffic from the Brighton end South Weenies
written over the Metropolitan Extenstro. Wham them
hoes ere completed the length of the whole Metropo-
litan Fatima= will be upwards of 14 miles, and their
eon will be about 410,0001. per mile. The eoth
pay bare bashed, et great cost, land for two oda-
timal lines between Hesse-kill said Btrekhiers ; they
have constructed on the level of the river at inaktriase-
brAm for inerthandise end goods traffic. premises which
for locality and 00OVIIMIN0111 are, Mr. Forbes says, an-
equal sd in London ; the bridge over the Thames is finished
and reedy to cat, and the heavy works north of the aide
and tereaumeng at Earlstreet are also nearly completed.
The capital can is the manner represents many hundreds
of thousands of pounds, which must remain quit* supra-
dative until, by the construction of the additional lies;
and the opening through to Ludgate-hill and the Metro-
politen Esalway, the company are enabled, by multiplying
W
number of trains, to furnish such tartar facilities to the
public as prosiest experitros has proved to be required, sad
which will result in an enormously greater nos of the lines
than is at present possible. The total capital authorised
for the City lines uudiertakieg between Earinavel
send Westetreet (Farriordountreet), including a large
slake at Ledge, and a branch from Skinner.
street to Smithfield (forming so part of ths lige to
Westoireth), is 1,333,0001. Ths cod of the line from Bari.
street le Watotreet, ia tenth about half • mile, will,
without giving credit for surplus land, be 1,000,0001.. or at
the rate of 2,000,0001. per mile. This expenditure, Mr.
Fates says, has already enabled the caraway, for adequate
ociendeestice, to maks strengementr for the pump of
the City sod through traffic of the SoutieWeetern
Company over the Metropolitan Extension line, and te
aced it a terminus at Ludgate-hill. In this srmagemes•
the Best of any farther accommodation required es the
CtZstunction lane by the admission of the South-Winters
will provided by that compenfr""Mesit
at an outlaysl 1,000,000/ the line is maihissMy
wetly, and such se expenditure of money mu only be jive
tiled by the peat importance of the object to be sthieved
by this last loth in the through communication between the
railways north sod south of the Thames. In so wisely
availing thernseltre of this cotamunintios, the Great
Northern and South Western Companies; have mewed to
themselves the advantage of a through route and City
tannin without the vast cost to either company el separate
extiesions. Within • few maths of the present time the
whole of the districts south of the Tames will be brought
into immediate connexion with the Metropolitan (Under-
ground)Railway system, and besides the great OUCT•16111011 to
the public afforded by trains running direct between the str-
aw north and south of the river, there will be no reason
why trains counesealiqj their journey at Farringdoentreth
should not make the carman of Londe' ma KiDehrlollll,
reddiagtos, Kensington, Brixton, Blackfriers, and so re-
turn to Farringdethetrat again. Further, the whole id
the districts of country nerved by the Greet Northern and
Midland Railways will be brought into unbroken ormiruni-
cation with the southern counties and with the chief coati-
Dental ports. The Great Northern Company have acquired
the right to run over these lines, and to make use of the
Metals Station as a west-end terminus for passenger
traffic. Excellent 'abodes' upon the subject have bees
consulted, and has eat mated that the quantity of coal to be
brought by the Great Northern direct from the mimes, sad
passed Illeckfrisn-beidge into the districts south of the
far local sales, will be from 600,000 to 800,000
toes par swim. This cal will be sold out of the waggery
sad therefor* without breakage or depreciation from trans-
shipment, at considerably lees than the present mime
charged ia the South Loudon district."

ALLUGNI) DIDOZDIRLY Conover OF OMMeall AT
Dinsus.-04arge .1. P. Taylor. Cherie*
oats Mahe,. Dr=
Graham, aad J Damages, allows of the 78th
land) t, spewed before Mr. Allen at the Heed
P ' Dahlia, yesterday morning, to tamer •
reap of diaordetiy conduct at the Industrial Exhi-
bition of the Royal Debits Society on Mooday sight.
The gentlemen baying aswered to their names, Mr.
Alla asked Mr. Armstrong, the Bupsrinteedent of
the Exhibiliss, what ante he hod to prefer. Mr.
Armstrong—l do sot wish to the charge, your
worship. We hod sa a this moroiag howl
the gesitlmage, whisk is astidagary to the mar
mitts.. Mr. Alien—l am very glad to beer of it. I was
gurprised to best that (mama should have been gaZ
of dmordirly omega at the Fattibition ; but sow I am
that Lie =Per ham been arranged. Mr. J. A. W
secretary to the Echibitios Committee, said be estia7cesti
that bygones would aow be allowed to be bygoaes, that
the teatimes who had jives bail would be rebored from
farther rospotalhillty. Mr. Allen—Oh, of eaves es they
have done the decent thing, the matter will drop Ose ag
the gentlemen who bad hese charged said that the matter
arose is this way :—He bad goes towards the plains be
the purpose of speaking to the handwrites of the regiment
when be was pushed bale. Yr. Allen—Well, they with-
draw the charge and the ere is at an end. Another of the
gentlemen mid be was very cony the Whir had ooeurred at
all, but it bad arise. out of a miscooception. The parties
Qua witheirow.—Dittaislreaing Mail.
Mae Lilian= Bootirs—" Ab ! it's pleasant to
drop into my own may.chair my dear though a little
bating what with netting upstairs and what with
down, sad why hitobssetain should all be corner
for the bailers to justify though I do not think they fully
understaad their trade ad miner did. else why the seaman
sod why met men ineirgaienoes and fewer draughts sad
likewise making • practice of laying the planer
en too this* I am well convinced which holds the
damp sad as to chimney pots putting them on by guess-
work like bats at a party mad so mon knowing what their
afoot will be upon the mote bles you than I do if so
much, except that it will mostly be either to send
it down your throat ism straight form or give it a
twist Ware it goes them. And what I says speak.
lag as I dad of those new metal chimneys all
manes al shapes (there's a row of 'ern at Mis
Wooseham's 104 as-bows lower down en the other side a
the way) is that ahoy only work your smoke into artilkdal
Fattens for you befogs you swallow it and that I'd quite as
soon swallow mine plain, the flavour being the same, sot to
menage the cionoeit of panto( up signs on the top of your
bones to show the forms is which you take your erodes
into your Wads. Being here before your eyes my dime
in my owe wirehair in my own quiet rooms ia my
own Lodging` House Number Eghty.ogie Norfolk.strga,
Strata, Losiglea, situated midway bigwigs the City sad Bt.
James's—if aaything is whirs it used to he with those basis
tall* themselves Bailed, bat gelled Unlimited by Major
Jackman, dam up everywhere, sad rising op into ilagetaffs
where they met go an 7 higher, but my mind of those moo.
✓ims is gin use • or landiady's wholesome face
whoa I newt of • jersey, sad not a brass plate with as
electrified number diabig out of it which it's tot la altars
can be glad to see me and to which I don't west to be heisted
like molasses at the Desks end left there telegraph's, far
help with the most tostrumento but quite in anis
—being bare my dmr have ao call to mention that lam
▪ I. the • es • beige hoping to die ia the same
mid if to the clergy partly read over at Baal
Clement's DUMB ad coudsded in Hatheld churchyard wham
lying saes spas by my poor Lirriper ashes to ashes sad dust
to dask.—itre. lorripeer Legacy.

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