The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

THE CAPE MAIL.

WRECK OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER
OSPREY.

The Union Steam Shipping Company's steamer
Anglian, Captain Kerr, arrived at Southampton
yesterday. She brings mails from the Cape of
Good Hope, St. Helena, &c., 25 passengers, and a
general cargo.
The Anglian brings a telegram from Commodore
Caldwell, Simon's Bay, addressed to the Secretary
of the Admiralty, London, announcing that her
Majesty's steamer Osprey was totally wrecked on
the 30th May, when ten miles off Cape St. Frances,
near Algoa Bay. The crew were all saved except
one man. The Osprey was on her way from China
Ito England. She was a screw gun vessel of 682
tons, 200 horse power, and four guns.

CAPE TOWN. MAT 31.

Since the departure of the regular mail on the 19th
instant parliamentary business has been rapidly proceeding,
the two principal subjects discussed being the voluntary
principle and responsible government. A bill to abolish
state grants in aid of religion, after an animated de-
bate, pissed its second reading by a majority of five; and
after another animated discussion, a resolution, declaring
that the time had arrived when it was both expedient and
desirable to adopt the principle of responsible government,
was negatived by a majority of 29 votes to a minority of
22. The government scheme for abolishing the two houses
existing, and substituting a single house consisting of 18
elective members, to be chosen by six electoral
circles and three executive officers, is to be proposed by
way of resolution next week.
The natives convicted at the recent state trials and
sentenced to long terms of imprisonment have just been
liberated by command of his excellency the governor.
No intelligence of importance with regiod to the hostili-
ties between the Orange flee state and the %autos has
been received rinse the departure of the last mail.
Captain Henderson, of the &Bane, which put in here
on her voyage from Batavia to London has been charged
with culpable homicide, and committed for trial.
An official inquiry has taken place at Port Elisabeth
into the lass of the barque Balak!ava, by striking on the
Roman Rock when entering Algoa Bay, after a voyagefrom
London. The court found the loss was owing to an error of
the compasses, caused by local attraction, and not to any
fault of the master. The French barque Ephrein, from
Macao to Havana, with 28K coolies, put into Simon's Bay
yesterday for supplies. She experienced heavy weather
off the coast. 27th, saw a large ship with foremast gone.
All vessels arriving from the Mauritius are placed in
quarantine. Her Majesty's steamer Himalaya sailed from
Algos Bay on the 26th for Mauritius and China. The ship
Sorabjee Jarasetjee Jeejeebhoy, from Calcutta for London,
put into Table Bay, for repairs, on the 28th. The Dutch
ship Friesland, from Batavia to Rotterdam, put into
Bay on the 26th inst., with loss of rudder, bulwarks arc.
The Psrmenio, from London, and the Cydonia from Sun-
derland, have arrived; the latter was 116 days on the pas-
sage. The Island Queen, from Cardiff for Shazighae, put
into Simon's Bay for repairs, having been dismasted in a
gale. Her Majesty's frigate Princess
.Royal put into Si-
mon's Bay on the 27th for coal. She is from China via
Bonvis bond for 'teemed. The 'hip Thomas Ititaboll.