The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-26 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD ROPE.

(ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

(PROM OVA OWN CORINSPONDINT.)

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAT.

The mail steamer Phcrbe, Captain Clark, which
left the Cape on the 22nd of December, arrived this
morning with the mails, and 16 passengers from
the Cape of Good Hope.
In the Transvaal republic, war to the knife has
been declared against the London Society's mis-
sionaries. In the Free State things are generally
peaceful.
Natal has improved as a sugar colony.
British Kaffraria is quiet and uncomplaining.

Captain Bedingfieldr of the Livingstone expedi-
tion, in consequence of some misunderstanding, has
left it, and returns to England in the Sanspareil,
wbich, with the Nankin and Pique, had sailed on
their way home from. China.

A letter from Florence, of the 18th, Bays :—" I
pregame all the theatres here will shortly be chew], for they
have become converted into theatres of pllitie detnonstra-

tion. Viva Verdi! Viva Verdi! Viva Verdi:' is the
watchword of the day. Aseurodly the author of the Lora-
harts at the Fird Crusade' never anticipated that his name
would become the war-cry to animate the Lombards fora '
lest. The Pisan studeata, having smote juventlt entLuelana,
and it may be preinmed, stronger hums than the rest of their
countrymen, have been shouting 'Viva Verdi :' so loudly and
so lustily that the echoes have startled the authorities at
Florence. So his Worship the Prefect of Florence %rote in
great wrath to the tinder-Prefect of Piet to know why, when
each cries were Tabled in the theatres, the dtalarbers of 'be
public peace were not instantly noir et ; erd his Wordily
the tinder-Prefect helplessly replied, Signor Profetto
what am Ito dot' There was no separate inchridasl crying
out, bat the whole audience at owl, rod I have no gen-
darmes to arrest, and when I have arrested I have no prisons
where I can put them ell. Whereupon his Worship the
Prefect of Florenca (who is by no MP Flllll a fool) responded,
Hs razerne :'—' You're quite right.' " . _ _

. -
A French political offeeder, exiled to Cayenne,
who swap:3 elx months ago, was on Saturday errestad
in • coffeehouse at Bromide, on the charge of bearing a fatal
amp.
AFRICAN I%IAIL9.—The African Mail Company'.
royal mall screw steamer Athanim sailed from Liverpool
ymterdav sToseda)) with the made and smcntern passengers
for the N% tot Coast of Africa. T.-Joy (Wcineedsy) the
acre+ steamer Imperador sails from Liverpool for Stun with
• portion of the Red telegraphic cable, mousufac•nrad by
Mews. Newell of Birkenhead. The I utprrulor will carry a
rhip'a mail to Madeira the Caps of Good Hops, and Suez.
Letters will be .recited at the Liverpool poet-of/Ice to-day till
94.5 e m., and with late free tin 10 earn.
COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR WOLVEIIIIASITTON.—
Or,e of Mote terrible accidents which have become frequent'
of late, occasioned by the snapping of drawing chain., oc-
curred yesterday monitor at spit at Euingehall New Village,
about two miles from Wolverhampton. A'.ut six as
a eaaa, Emmanuel Len, along with soother miner named
Jarvis, wee descending the shaft to begin work, the chain
br•le, and the 'kip, with the two unfmannate men, was pre-
cipitated to the bottom, a depth of about 90 yards, themaseive
chain rushing down upon them. Lees was killed upon the
spot, his spine bolog fractured and his skull driven in.
Jarvis was less severely injured, but several of his ribs were
timed Into his left lung, sod he cannot survive. Lee is
about 20, and Jarvis 60 years of age, and both are un-
married. In an exactly similar case, which occurred about
• fortnight ago, It was found that the structure of the con-
necting links of the chain had been changed tram fibrous to
crystalline tbmugh almost the whole extent of the portion on
which the principal strain rested; and Mr. H. G. Long-
ridge, the government Inspector, expressed himself strongly
against the application of chains at all to ouch purposes.
EXPLOSION OF GAS AT THE UNITED SERVICE
CLus•uutan.—Yesterday evening about 6 o'clock con-
siderable alarm was owed at the United Service Club-
house, Pallmall, by as explosion of gee which took place
whilst some workmen were at work, owing to a leakage from
the main pipes._ The workmen and firemen stmoseded in
allaying all further fears of Langer, but comidemble damage
was dons by the form of the explosion.