The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-20 00:00:00

THE CAPE MAILS.

PLYICOUTH, Our. 19. Drama.
The Union Company's mail steamship
. Baxc
with the above mails, arrived hese this evemag,
after an unprecedented passage of twentrnine days
and six hours.

She leit the Cape of Good Hope on the 20tb, St.
Helena on the 27th, and Ascension on the 90th ult.
The Saxon brp 42
At the Cape of Good tare,gtehr:Governor having
declined acceding to the prayer of the Cape Town
memorial, that be would reconsider his decision to
convene the next parliament at Grshamtown, and
postpone any action upon it until that and some
other branches of general polio have the
mature consideration of the • ant, a second
meeting had been held at ape Town, at which
it was resolved to petition her Majesty to direct
that the next session of parliament be held to Cape
Town. This petition, largely signed, has been
brought home by the Saxon, for presentation.
Oa the other band, iu the Eastern province,
addresses expressive of confidence in the Governor,
and approving of his policy, were adopted.
The Cape Town people allege that his Excellency
has been frightened into this measureby the Eastern
threatening to obstruct his government, while the
Eastern declare such a measure absolutely neces-
sary from the vast increase of the colony eastward.
Both parties exhibit strong feeling on ea goes-
, tion.

The elections for the HOUSBof Assembly will take
place in November.
Parliament has been further prorogued to De-
cember 21.
The Alabama, Georgia, and Tuacalooza continue
cruising on the coast. The Federal -war-steamer
Vanderbilt has arrived at the Cape in pursuit of
thorn. Captain Semmes ham; sold his prize, the Bea
Bride and the wool takes in the Tuscalooza alias
Conrad, but had not made any further captures.
The Alabama was in Simon's Bay repairing when
the Baton left.

The Calcutta arrived out upon the 28th August.
The Penguin and Valorous were in Simcm's Bayf
The Himalaya arrived out on August 28th, and
left for Ceylon.
The Rat arrived from Rio on Sept. 4, and left
for Australia.

The Narcissus was about to leave for &Hach&
Ba'ile weather continued fine and cool.

The harvest prospects were moat promising,
provisions plentiful and cheap.
Trade continued dull, but was improving, and
insolvencies had been few and iwocesiderable.

All was quiet oft the frostier, but cattle Unita
cantiuusd.

ROYAL MASONIC IJINTITUTION YOR ROM—The
"aira "fore mut Somilatt til iwititattee
was m ums,. tar the 11100i1011 d eight imitates sad the
traaraellee of (pleura 'beldam!, at the Freetesewee 'Avon.
Brother MAI V.P., fe the deb. The mimeos
el 4be het pascal gad menial marts liatimees. read sad
eaetreeselo reedetbree were pawed. ea, the • treader
14.0064 Meek to tba meant al Um inetitu this twin
aeceeeery acwasquatoe of the death at arse el the tree.
tars. Alto r sone tarsal blearier bad ben trammeled, the
, skates et aim hers flees ea leeprowed et Sweaty-ale
maul! Um reworded with. .

CIRCULAR OF THE POLISH NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT.

The following circulareddressed by the Polish
National Government to its diplomatic agents
abroad, is published in the last number of the
official national Polish organ, the Niepudleglaz
Warsaw. Sept. 8, 1863.
In the reports of the national government, and in par-
ticular in the order' of the ch!ef of the town of Warsaw,
the public is informed of nastiness of death hosing beet
executed on persona found guilty of acting as Tussles spies.
, The Russian journals, in their descriptions of them ere-
maims, strive to misinterpret foots, alter the intik es add
to it details of their own invention, and endeavour to
seat them as a proof of the alleged abuses committed by
the national authorities with a view to excite an inner-
mammy spirit in the people, who, they my, would be
quiet without such provocation.
It will not be d 1 cult for you to appreciate the veins
and the tendency of assertions of this kind, which are
whips ill-cdoulated to mislead thoughtful men, bat which
nevertheless might not entirely miss their aim, by again
git=bijecta for suspicion, or even malicious ill•wifi. We
think it right to entrust to your zeal tie sista-
diatioa, is the mast decided =near, at ths callosaiss of
oar remiss.
Nothing on. be farther from the thought of the national
government than that the executions should manse mess'
to a cause whose whole strength rests on the great prime*,
which it Teammate sad defends—on the prindplss which
stamp as as true Pains —as principles truly eivilliag, all
of whisk have beep dimepr sod trodden under feet by
Bassin. Them principles ars oar only guide, sad at the
siserliess aiseilata• tar ear fpinfarg, • 0 the pike 0 as
mazy saerilima iadopsedosee which slaw is =trill
for the preservation of all the great
coarticeder.

It le aieadatly evident, and no one can be more as-
viscid of this than the national government, that eseentions
could not fors single moment units the nation, were ft pow
silde for the feeling of eelfacrifios for the !meaty et edy
time to be amt. In our eyerthey are nothing ha an evil,
wrawnry for the prevention of another evil which is greeter
still--e means at defence rendered lawful by the feet that
ft is fez al effected defence against the awes of • hoe-
' the power, which only support in the
of the few wretches it has bought.
The exce Motel snare at the judicial Iproceedisgs el the
national entboeisisl, who at the same tame are guided by
the greatest cation, will find in the eyes of imputed
Mice its juirtifiation in our unprecedented position, for it
is in Week impomilde to dad in history anything that one
be compered with the !gateau of injuitiee, pilbge, sioder_.
end enosesing violation of ell the rights of hunieni ,ty which
lime for so ina
in
gasare been delay net in car
coudcountyby the government, and is now applied
• snore marl manner than ever. This new. seg.
✓essialles of espionage end Russian terrorism, whose
mese earegsons Ms are daily confirmed by wmairens Ben
pale flea ear amok* for the public safety, is the Cody
W.swhisk asials the national government to
eseepillemil amuses that in our Darnel social Asks,
ease lee sienalt be free from the occident dupes whisk
ennead ,y esistenoe, would never occur.
, eider that the paboal mentions whisk
Me ad Aeneas have ruched reel ontamis of eeehery,
wore
hireeetillw=iella airing the spirit
dth.rul=niesnek
a _theme lawless asentioes en ether side,
whims Maiming spectacle the Rumba isthmian diepley
beim ow eyes, do not have the lust effect is crushing that
spkiL
A eimandeig of arer odbeW degrees with these of the
Rumba entheetkies mist Alike every one with the widest
between the ishebeed at the Russian news sad
arafactreawe have Proved. Thaa, for iostace. en 111DINIDID.
tics whose private nod intriguing character has been =-
pined by the statical authorities, liss hemeormetrusd into
e pal tios! murder, and the orwertaaity wee et the mime
time tags to guider the massy— qf the incased by •
ortitogratuitousiscussiion of his being eitabed to the cause
nation.
moves )oat indignation is that penises Who had
usithbbßerthfistibstweee bow btoyodohrittho the e=tizbeyirealissie of
the
sfiri;twilaks.l"asainiabolo,-ax'an
.wifisratstibtritilairsirwirals
preesevhig the Soudan anibesttise from the ' of
powerlessness.
Bat the bitter hatred of Rusin does not rest hen. Sire
strives to hide her own atrocities sad slanders her visa=
by name el a system of apriecipled esluery, carried
out from the beginning of oar insurectiou by the Bala
Stories which ft is imponale to believe are palbhed
Is these papsie to prove the alleged cruelty of the Mee.
In our last circular (No. 106) we called attention to the
fabehood of the Rana telegrams, which, on the 'nod
January tut. invented Sicilian veers at Warsaw. Beasetly
falsehoods mach more otrocio us, tabs from the same memos,
have been published is serious pipers in Europe. Maass
we to say 01 the scene of the mangling of the dead litdyji:
priest, mentioned in the English lennials, with lie
details of cruelties known only ha Seam writs's? Osa
M asemeavy to esurediet this ~rag el • savage beer
&dim which it hes bees earusphA to hue into • calumny
whit the Poles—this discripticm of • deed which no one
add have committed. einsepi, perhaps, the Radon whir
invented it ?
It is painful to speak of allembe which we should not
even has thought of noticing had we not bees ten& by
the cepa of the press of an millghteeed nation that we
most not pus without mark even the most iteuebehle
emsamtione *pipet us.