The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 27.

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General Concha is expected here, in order to be
present at the sittings of the Senate, which com-
mence on de Pit proximo.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.

The Union Company's steamer Athens, with the
above mail, arrived here this morning. She left
Table Bay on the 21st ult., St. Helens on the SOth
ult., and Ascension on the 3rd inst. She brings 46

passengers.
At the Cape the governor was about to take a
tour through the western provinces. The colonial
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secretary was about to visit the eastern provinces.
In reply to a memorial signed by nineteen members
representing the eastern provinces, his excellency
stated that he was not prepared to say where it
might be desirable to hold the next session of
parliament.

Very severe weather had continued to prevail ;
several very violent storms had occurred on the
coast, doing fresh damage to the railway and roads
and bridges of the colony. The vines bad been
seriously injured by frost and hail. In some dis-
tricts droughts still prevail.
At Hope Town actual famine exlstad. The
people of Middelburg and Coelesberg were also en-
during great privations.
The Natal mail steamer Waldensian was totally
wrecked in Struy's Bay on the night of the 13th
October. The passengers, 121 in number, and the
crew, were landed safely, but all their effects and
the ship's cargo lost.
The British ship America. of Belfast, from Bom-
bay for Liverpool, and the ship Mauritius, of
Greenock for Kurrachee, have been abandoned at
sea, and their crews and passengers landed at the
Cape.
The iron ship David Begg, from Calcutta for
Liverpool, with valuable cargo, was abandoned at
sea, and her crew lauded at the Cape. They charge
the captain with having her scuttled before he left
her, and say she wa not so much disabled as he
repot Ls.
Business operations have been greatly inter-
rupted by bad weather. The crops were abundant.
All was quiet on the frontier, bus in the Trans-
vaal Republic there was civil war, the ex-Presi-
dent having refused to relinquish the reins of
government to the President elect. The latter had
resorted to force to compel him to do so. A
collision had taken place between the rival factions
and blood had been shed. Pretorius, President
of the Free State, was gone to the Vaal to attempt
to restore order.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 28.

The Royal Mail steamer Tasmanian, with the
above plaits, arrived off tho Needles at 11.15 a.m.
to-day.

QIJEBEC, Nov. 15.

The entire block of buildings comprising the
Rosin Hotel, Toronto, was burnt yesterday. It is
reported that several lives were lost. The insur-
ances on the property destroyed are very heavy,
including 50,000 dole. in the Scottish, 12,000d015.
in the Liverpool and London, 11,000 dole. in the
Queen, and 15,000 dole. in the United Insurance
ICompanies.

Mdlle. Patti appeared on Wednesday night at
the Italian Opera, Paris, in Luria, and her success was even
more decisive than on her dibut in Soansmida. There is
is fact a perfect Patti furore, and the theatre, which up to
her appearance presented a beggarly account of empty
hones, is now densely crowded every night. She receives
801. a night.
At the Od*Son Theatre, Paris, two clever authors,
Messrs. Mho* and De Wailly, have oonceived the singu-
lar idea of putting Dean Swift on the stage in a drama
they entitle Le Doyen de St. Patria 1 The plot is afforded
by the love et the dean for Stella and Vanessa, and the
authors actually make him marry one of sham. The piece
was an utter failure.
A serious accident occurred at Malta, on the
18th, to Mr. Nelson Syng, a midshipman in the Marlbo-
rough. While out riding, he was thrown from his bass,
causing concussion of the brain. He was taken in as in.
sensible state to the Naval Hospital. Serious Nan were
at first entertained for his recovery, but he Is now im-
proving.
Baron de Hubner, formerly Austrian Ambassador
is Perk, has arrived at Part (Bases-Pyriu.Ses), where he
tato* to psis the winter.
Mdme. Stolz, long the reigning prima donna at
the Paris Grand Opera, is at present in Paris, OH her way to
Italy.