The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-23 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The East India and London Steam Shipping
Company's screw steamer Mauritius 2,200 tons, Captain J.
Smith, passed up channel off Plymouth on Saturday. She
is from Calcutta Nov. 22 ; Madras, 29 ; and the Cape,
Jan. 12. She brings a mail (from the Cape) and a full
general cargo.
At the Cape collections were still being made in aid of
the distressed Lancashire operatives.
The railway goods traffic had increased so much lately
that the system of running goods trains had been
adopted. The railway company's engineers were
preparing to erect an iron lattice girder bridge
over the Berg river. Some parts of the colony were still
in a wretched state from the long-continued drought ; sad
the tannery, as well as the residents in the district towm,
were offering to give every support in their power to any
measure which would prevent a recurrence of the evils from
which they were suffering. Various schemes for future
irrigation were under consideration.
Several postal robberies of money lettere had mem*
occurred. On the frontier, in many parts of the Tranakeian
territory, sufficient rain had fallen to restore the fertility of
that district, and the latelyatarving docks of the Tambao-
kiss were beginning to thrive agsis. Kaffir news was un-
important, matters being quiet among their tribes. There
had, however, been some sharp police work on the Um(-
' wall, and local disturbance, occasioned through the rising
of some wise man (prophet) near Windocgelberg. General
Wynyard and staff, with head-quarters, had gone to the
frontier, but only for inspection purposes.
Business was improving in tbs colony. The barque
Kestrel, from London for Shanghai, put into Simon's Bay
January 7, with damaged rudder. The South African
Loan Company, with a capital of 2,000,0001., had at Let
been started. A man had been brutally murdered in a
quarrel, in one of the rough districts of Cape Town; andgreat
complaints are being made by the local preen of the increase
of crime in the colony. Robberies and crimes of violence
frequeetly occurring where a few years before they bad bean
unknown.

FRANCE.

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PARIS. &markt: EVENDIG.

The Moniteur announces that the Opinion Na-
tionale is to be prosecuted for an article of Feb.
20, on the cotton trade, which article is incul-
pated as containing false news, and exciting citizens
to hatred and contempt of each other.
A new work by Proudhon, which has been for
some time talked of, has just' appeared at Dentu's.
It is entitled, "Of the Federative Principle, and
the Necessity of Reconstructing the Party of the
Revolution." The reputation of the author ensures
a certain amount of success to everything he writes,
but it is a recces de curioeite. There are too many
practical questions of capital interest now stirring
in the world for anybody to give a serious thought
to a plan for making France a federation. Although
M. Proudhon passes for an advanced liberal and
republican, his sophisms and paradoxes, and his
personal attacks on all the leading democratic
writers, make him in reality an auxiliary of ultra-
montaniam and the temporal power.
The Theatre Francais has been waging unequal
war with Count Walewaki, Minister of State, and
as a matter of course finds itself disarmed and
vanquished. This clasaieal theatre is in theory a
republic and in practice the actors in it are a
self-elected body. Lately M. Lafontaine, an
actor of considerable ability, well known on the
boards of the Vaudeville and other theatres, but
whose claims to belong to the Francais are, to say
the least of them, very contestable, married Mdlle.
Victoria. Count Walewaki took it into his head,
by way of a wedding present, to make the couple
members of the Theatre Francais. The actors and
actresses of that theatre, duly assembled in solemn
conclave, voted that M. Lafontaine was not admis-
sible at all and they only consented to receive
his wit. as a pupil (pensionaire), and not as a
fellow (societaire), which they were expected to do.
Count Walewski has now by a stretch of the Im-
perial prerogative, made M. Lafontaine and his wife
both fellows (societaires) of the Theatre Francais.
Several of the old actors swore lustily that they
would resign, but the probability is they will think
better of it.

A Berlin letter in the Cologne oa✓ tie say:—"The
Polish emigrants us said to have tho intention of choosing
diplomatic representatives in the capitals of the great
powers ; those would be, at Paris, Prinoe Czartoryski ; at
London, Count Zsmoyski ; at Vienna, Prince Sapioha ; ►nd
at Berlin, Count Csinikowoki."

The Prussian government has restored to vigour
an ordinance of 1853, according to which refuge and pro-
tection are refused to disturbers of public order in Austria
or in Russia. Extradition may take place, if demanded, by
the government aggrieved. No Pole coming from abroad
can enter Prussia unless provided with a passport boorisir
the via of a Prussian Legation.

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