The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

411011111 D AT TSB aIPA

The falle*lis an extract from a Cape To
letter, AAA 2!, find maim by the wile of an
in the *okay to relatives in Zealand :
" I moll de my beet to give you an epitome of the events
Of the meth, which have been of an unusually stirring cha-
racter, and form quite an epoch in the history of this c,iony.
You have no idea of the excitement which the presence of a
Prince has produced among us, in all classes. Among
'' torte and cooditions of men, women, and children, the
iellinst has been quite magical : grave, quiet people, wile
never_Partial:Pate al the gaieties of life, have been found re-
*wain to the loyal emotions which such a presence has
awakesid. His Royal bitglinew Prince Alfred (or as Tony
let& Ma, *rim r Alfred Victoria) node his agree illli.
Vice Teem an the 25th of .1 ule. The Duraske arrived AC
Irhea% Bay the previous seeping, and his appearance i
;Ceps Town was unwired for the day following, MT o'elocit:
ns governor, lientenant.governor, and suite, with a mai-
ltsay escort, met him about five miles from town on this
rood (Ifowbray), and be was received at every village sad'
bailie with the most hearty demonstrations of joy sail
' respect. Triumphal arches of evergreens sad flowers croup&
the road at venous pieces • flags flying, tuen, women, sad
m children of all races, and shade of colour, andlour, motley attire,
did their beet to mimeo the little hero who so well repel.
Mt* hilll rlagalielier, and has won the affections of the
coloniste re 111.416 *Mk admiration and
" reis
It was inilinistailm the paausearly isgtorning that
y ladies who whited to witnou the reception at (severs-
'aunt Roulle: Ond accommodation on the steep, air
terrace, and g
mil wiehed to be presented were to
be in timbal-room in ' eall for the arrival. Accordingly
we sa went into hew eally i the boys and Mies if---- wan
esteblisked in the upper room of the railway office, met,
r• the spot eihere the Prince was to stop sad reeds
Me • illin.asoninpakij . ' y ; - bat me-thosatill ma
MI Well am Me rempsion at hearlatiwitten. Timm
seats arranged along the terrace, an I found myself
with various friends in a good position, close is
siege which the little man was to emend after pee-
up the long avenue to the bout,. Thiewas fiankM by
~troop and kept clear until a gmnd flourish of trumpets sad
an indescribable sort of murmur and confusion is-
dilated the approach of the procanion. presently we,
taw him alight from his horse at the gate of the avenue,
and, as he drew neater, all were surprised to see so youthful
• figure walking by the side of Sir l3eoega The gentlemen
behind looked as if any use of them could have carried him
in his arms, but no sooner was he within close observation
than every one wee struck with his calm end thoughtful
conetenanos, so perfectly simple end collected, but retina
pale, as though he felt his position of publicity. The harm
all rose as he drew near, and several were quite moved when
they law the quiet, child-like face, and realised what it ii
=ant and how important an event such a visit utmost
us might hereafter prove. I could not help feeliug sur-
prised when I saw him that his mother would let hint
come. I am told that when Sir George first proposed
it to her, she hesitated, and. after giving her commit,
mid, laying her hand on the boy's shoulder, "Do you
think he will be safe? Will you take every care d
j him?" I Mould my that at the top of the steps he wee
j received by the wife of the Lieutenant-Governor, Mrs.
' Pawnee, wife of the Colonial Secretary, and the wives
M the principal judges here. Theo he entered the ball-
room, andseveral hundred gentlemen were presented by
name. • We lathed (as many as could) went round to the
outside, and looked down from the gallery of the ball-
room' upon the brilliant scene. W— took his tars
to be presented among the rest and I think the Prince
asst have been heartily tired of the ceremony. He
mem a 'Male midshipman's dons, and locked like say
other gentlemanly boy, bet bearing a strong resemblance
to his mother. The same evening there is a greed
illumination, to which we all went. The day was mg-
oikont, but almost too hot to be agreeable. no three
following evenings grand entertainments were given by the
governor, bat the gaiety was not kept up after 12 o'clock.
Every one felt it right to go who had invitations, and eves.
many who had never entered a ball-room before made thew
data on this occasion. We went on the second evening,
bat could not do so afterwards, and I was painted by pee-
ing the Prince dancing away with various ladies of my as.
quaintance. I wore a mousseline de sole and a pretty head
thms, he. Some of the dresses were most elegant, and the
tout awnobk of the ball very brilliant. All the damn at •
the Euryalus and the Forte were present, besides various
often; of the Cape Regulars and Volunteers.
" We are just new in a state of lull, as the hero of the day
is on • visit to the eastern provinces with the governor and
staff. Before be left there were all sorts of pieties every
day, and lam to my that no sooner had he retut
on beard ids slip he wee taken ill ; however, be is sew
better, and able to go on his way • His return is expected
in about • foresight, and then, Ibelieve, the people will Aeve,
est te we soda with fetes and rejoicings. ' He is to 'ham
'aimed bell atesilee hen by the Cape looloniate, for which a
kip resat is fa meows of erection to cost 45001., and soar
sober folk Illiskli too much money to spend in this way.
The isondationMene of the new breakwater will be she
laid by riot when he returns, and that, also, of a Sailors
Home • se &ere will be plenty to get through, and I sin-
cerely ~epe
.. be will not be Lid up before he gets safely
home aptm
"We have had glorious weather, and yesterday was se
hots August in Eneand ; and though this nominally is •
winter month, the sun is so powerful that the children aro
all complaining of their warm clothing, and I am fearing
the return of makes which are sure to came among ns with
such weather.

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Commercial-road Fart, and delivered at the Fire Brigade
station, Watling-etreet, last evening, in eight minutest.—
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58, Threadneedle-street, London, Oct. 11.

LORD PALMERSTON'S VrIIT TO LT:EDS.—The
members of the Imeds Town Council were called together by
the Mayor on Monday, for the purpose of considering what
steps should be taken to give Lord Palmerston a proper re
eeption on his vhdt to Lead,. The council had previously
decided to present an SEEMS to his lordship, and it was
resolved that the &Onset rhould be presented in the
Victoria Hell, and that IL should be read by the Town
Clerk. It was also resolved to invite the 7th West Tort
Volunteer Rifim to form a guard of honour on the occarkm.
The general feeling of the meeting was in favour of the
whims being presented on the morning of the 26th,
_the
day after the Mechanics' soiree, and his lordship wth ordered
to be communicated with on the subject. Should his lord-
ship's engagements allow of his meeting the corporate=
it is intended to issue about 1,600 tickets, to
tse l'irsotributed amongst the members of the council and the
MARIAM' Caen or CaiDDLITT.—On Monday
last a woman calling herself Mary Pinning, batter knows se
Old Mary Brown, was brought up at the magistrates' clerk's
oath, Galashorough, before J. R. Senders, Fee., churns!
with dn Mg two women, alined Mary Pinning and EIEMi
living at Hamby, of the sum of 301. The prom-
enters are eiders, the former being a spinster and the lather
• widow with a family of four young ckWren. Man hasher
Miley years acted as housekeeper to various farmers in lin-
cob:alloy and Notts, and during these yearsof service bedew:s-
anded in la some 20/. or MI. She lift her last pima fat
lisyton, near ord) about two months ago, and Week
to reside with her widowed sister at Kerby until such time
as she should meet with another situation. The prisoner
list made the aoquainteoce of Mary at Moran, where the
duped her out of about 15e. She then followed her to
Hamby, and lost no time in laying siege in right good
eaveset to both sisters, and the remit shows with
what extraordinary sumer her efforts were attended.
She actually made the two simple-minded women believe
that they were bewitched, and that, by the exercise of
certain powers which eke possessed, she could preserve
them from the awful cooseqtienom w otherwise would
inevitably overtake them. She would come at night end
burn something in the fire, which was intended completely
to annihilate the old witch solder whose baneful infiurnes
the sisters the said were suffering. But the priioner's
power did not end here. A brilliant future was held out
to then. She waa both able and willing, she said, to
supply the widow with another husband, who should be
both handsome and rich and to put the spinster into •
situation of a kind her highest ambition had never before
dreamt of sapling to. With such prcopects filling sheet
head., the old woolen's demands for moony wherewith to
bring about these wonderful events were readily complied
with. At length, however, the supplies began to no
short, and thee intimidation was brought into play, the
prisoner making the simpletons believe that unless they
✓une eded in finding more money they sad all belonging
to them would, to the their own words, "be sank and com-
pletely destroyed.* By the above and similar means, in-
credible as ft may appear in this vaunted enlightened 19th
century, the primmer swindled the unfortunate women at
Eves 301. to XL, • portion of which had to be borrowed or
made up by denying themselves of many of the necessaries at
life • and all this time Eli" the widow was in the receipt
of ;wish relief. The Foram was instrumental in bringing
about her own tipmehecunon, for her riotous kind of hie at
Osinaborough, wire she took up her quarters, attracted
the attention of the police, and thus led to the unravelling
of the above remarkable instance of credulity. The premier
was Dant to prison for three months, with bard labour. Nth
• farthing of the money thus fraudulently obtained war re-
covered—Stamford Mercury.
Cant/ ac or • BLUM —in enormous specula&
of the shark species was captured et St. Andrew's on thaser-
day ethang, vied is being exhibited throughout the lean
and villages el Fits.—fiareitan.