The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received advices from Cape Town to
Feb. 20.

Hia Excellency the Governor was still on the frontier, but
was expected to return to Cups Town in the early part of the
following week. It was said that Sir George was organising
a regiment of Kann for service in India; and that a great
many had already volunteered. His excellency intended pay-
leg England a short visit in the course of a few months. To
an address presented to him at Graluunatown he had replied
as follows •

"Geettlemen,—l feel very ranch obliged to you for the kind
address with which you have again welcomed me to Gra-
hamstown. It is moat gratifying to me to observe the pro-
green which this city has mule sines I was last here, and to
find that those in whose welfare I take so great an interest,
have been watching with so much satisfaction and anxiety
the efforts I have been making to overcome the great diffi-
culties which beset us.

The sweets hitherto attained is, under the blessing of
Divine Providence, to be mainly attributable to the seal end
energy with which the various authorities, militiay and
civil, sad the inhabitants of the oountry generally, have per-
formed their duties. So long an her Majesty and the country
are so well served, I have no doubt it will continue in teen-
rity, and will advance in wealth and prosperity.
" I may, perhaps, be pardoned, after twenty-one years of
foreign service—much of which time has been paned amidst
the anxieties attending actual or threatened rebellions, and
only seven months of which I have passed at home, in de-
tiring to visit for a short time my native oountry. Never-
theless, unless my duty to the Queen and to this country
will permit of my going home without injury to public in-
terests, I shall not think of deserting my post, and if I do
return home for a time, you may rely that I will not lass care-
fully attend to your interest, than if I were in this country.—l
have the honour to be, gentlemen, your moat obedient hum-
ble servant, (Signed) Geo. GREY.
"The Commissioners of the Municipality for the

City of

The total number of horses purchased for the service of
the Indian government by Col. Goad and Major Apperly (the
remount agents stationed at Cape town) has been nearly 2,000
Of these, 4.50 horses had been shipped to Bombay, while
1,073 had been forwarded to Calcutta, and 290 horses ware to
be shipped to the same place by the Hydaspes and Fleetwood.
The Janus Ston would proceed to the frontier to embark
horses for Bombay. The remount agents on the frontier
had 'leo a large number of horses in stable awaiting embarka-
tion. The steamer United Kingdom and the clipper -ship
Lightning were daily expected in Table Bay also to embark
horses.

The amount received on acoount of the Indian Relief
Fond to date, amounted to 4,6681.
The colonial parliament was to be opened on the 10th of
March. The parliament having expressed its intention to
devote 200,0001. to the service of immigration from Europe,
the Cope Tows Nail of Feb. 20 devotes an article to a Mater
meat of facts relative to the Cape, which, in its opinion,
ought to encourage respectable English families to go
there. It contend.. that South Africa has at this moment
all the chersctetiatice of a new country open for settlement,
with many of the advantages of an old one. Those who now
mire enter upon a rich inheritance, natural, slid improved
by past labours, " with the certainty of rendering it ten times
sac valuable to their successors."

The Lord Bishop of C►ps Town was lam at 81. Helena ;
and the formation of that island into a separate as was on
the lapis. The idea originated with his lordship, and at •
public meeting held on the 21st December, It was resolved :
" That this meeting, looking to the great distance from,
and difficulty of intercourse with the Cap of Good Hope,
and the unceasing demands aptn the Was of the Bishop of
CAWS Town, would at the fastens of his lordship endeavour
to obtain the foundation of • see at Bt. Raises, which would
include Ascension, and perhaps Tristan trActutha within its
limits, and also embrace the pastoral snpeot•tendence of the
congregations on the eastern coast of South America.

"That
" a committee be appointed and empowered to obtain
In aid of the Saint Helena Bishopric Fund I,OOW. by loan,
the Interest upon which, with or without the principal, be
paid annually, by an amessment upon property; end that
such committee be further empowered to communicate with
his Exoillency the Governor, with the view of obtaining an
ordbminoe which would legalise the imposition of a property
tax, whereby the payment of such annual interest and in-
' stalment may be levied and secured."
A great many of the men who had deserted front the
British German Legion had been almost as quickly appre-
headed, on amount of their non-acquaintance with the coon-
' try. Much dissatisfaction was reported to exist among t!'4
body.

Tter. were 42 vessels in Table Bay, making altogether
18,889 tons, and carrying 881 men. In Siam'. Bay were
her Majesty's slips Seringapataza, Castor, and Simoom.
The Cyclops left on the 20th January for India. The United
Stake steam &igloo Powhattan, 11 guns, Captain Pearson,
from Norfolk, United States, foe China, arrived on the 19th
of February. Her Majesty's ship Firefly wan at Ascension,
and the Napoleon, msrnhant vessel, from Bombay, was dis-
charging her cargo there to repair.