The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-06 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

LIVERPOOL, WIDNEIDLY.

The screw steam-ship Imperatriz, Captain Henry
T. Con, arrived in tbs Heresy this aftent:on from the Cape
of Good Hops (to whioh colony she cc nveyed troops on her
outward peasant), to tbe 3rd Oct., and St. Vincent to Oct 21.
She did not call et St. Helena.

The puss., of the Insperat►ia is the fastest on record.
haying only occupied 33 days, including detention at tit.
Vincent.

Yr. Chisholm, the superintendent of the Cape Town
Wsterwerlis, died at his residence, Cape Town, Sept. 26,
aged 79 years.

The news by the Imperatris is thus summarised in the
Cope Teton Mail of the 2nd ult. The accounts from the
frontier are not of s nature calculated to break that feeling
of security which seems everywhere to pin ground. One
good result following on the heels of the late panic is the
preparations for war in which the whole frontier line is now
placed. Clneen's Town is to be garrisoned by the 88th
Regiment, recently arrived from the Idaaritins. The 80th
Regiment are on their way to Fvrt Beasfort, whi e the
v.riow poste have beers etrengthoned sn as to check
any famed of the K.iffirs from whatever direction they
might come. _ _

Relative to the commercial and agricultotal state of the
colony the same journal says " Already the poorer elute
of tradesmen are sufferers by t.o temporary ries, in the pries
of provision,. The meal (per the Maid) in some inetanoes
received an additional value of 10.. per cwt. The dread
of approaching scarcity induced many to lay in a larger
stock than their mesas rendered eJovenitet, and the con-
sequences are that, let these maws eventuate as they
may, many a poor man has already been victimised. It
has been surmised that the ritato crop is likely ti prove
failure this year. Happily it to never been found the
chief one, even as a large article of food in this country,
and the soil and climate are by no means unfavourable to
its growth."

The Nuremberg Correrponden€ has a letter from
Switzerland, which says that enrolments for Naples on a
Inge sails aro being c weird on very actively in that
country, a high bounty and good pay being offered to
recruits.

A Paris letter in the Courrier de Illarseilles item
that a marriage is talked of se probable between Kieg Vie•
for Emmanuel and the Grand Ditchers Marts, widow of Om
Dales de Leachtenberg, now in her twenty.siath year. This
Prince's is at present at Nice with the Empress Dowager of
Russia.

A society exists in Holliad for promoting the
obstrvation of pheromone at sea, sod in Its last sitting,
which was held a few days ago at Rotterdam, it was an-
Doensed that under its auspices 413 noutic.l inatrumeste
had been ermined, makiog a total of 763 for the two years
the society had been established; alto, that in .he coarse
of the lost year it had remised forty leg book, kept on
Usstessat Meares . phut, sad had distributed 103 nib
books or shirts. Au account was betides gives ti the so-
ciety of the tailing of Verses to Australia and Jove by what
has beets lediested as the shortest route; the experiments
made Wag proved by 600 extracts from logbooks to be
satisfactory.. - . _ _ -

A letter from Breslow, is the Journal de Franeforle
states that a ennelderable se•isst on hal been caused there
by the arrest of M. Salt—n, one of the largest inaanfactoreth
of cloth and biaakets at Stockerban, and contractor for the
supply of the army. Thie street is connected with some
extensive frauds committed by the military equipment cons-
missies. Between thirty and forty other orreries are fa:toll-
toted is the effete. The military eutherities hare demanded
that all the landed property of ht. SA —n, arnoantien in
vales to 600,000 Bathe, ehnnld be placed ander sequeetra-
Sloss. The peat majotitr of the thrice employed by the
elites wtheintesit n are mired up in this fried, which, ft ep-
pears, has been going on tines 1849. Tue loss to the state
amounts to neatly two millions of florins.