The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-29 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAIL

PLYMOUTH, TEUIBDAY.
The Dane, Captain Hoffman, with the above mail
arrived at midnight. Her data are Table Bay, Oct. 22 ;
St. Helena, Oet. 30 ; and Ascension, Nov. 3.
She brings 13 passengers, 2,0001. in specie, and an average
general cargo.
Sir George Grey would leave Cape Town shortly for Kat-
fraria, whence he would proceed to Natal.
Admiral Koppel was still at the Mauritius.
Her Mapety's ship Forte left the Cape on the 22nd Sep-
tember with naval detchee for the Mauritius.
Debentures for 130,0001. to be called for in London are to
be issued on the Ist of January neat.
Cape Colony and Natal were pepxring for the representa-
tion of the South African colonies in the forthcoming inter
national exhibition in London in 1862. . .

The }Bishop of Cape Town had convoked the Synod for
January next.
The Mon:market at the Cape was much weave. I nunivaata
were in want of employment and wages were low. Meat
and bread were dear. Trade was reviving.
The Dane, brings a petition from the wine farmers to the
Queen, complaining of the new commercial tariff, was sent
by this mail.
The vine disease was making its appearance, and fresh
lean for the vintage were excited.
Dutch weights and measures were to be illegal after the
14 of January next.
The Eastern Province was laud in its demands for separation.
Demonstration meeting' had been held on the subject.
Paymaster Seveke, late of the Ikscawen, was drowned
while crossing the bar of Zanzibar with despatches for Dr.
Livingstone.
The Wasp bad gone to the Mauritius for repairs.
The Lyra was cruising along the oust.
The Sidon was in Sinion's Bay.
The Lord Clyde took fire, and was abandoned 50 miles off
Cape Recife.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nON QUA OWN

PARIS, WEDAD3DAY Evora.

Some time must necessarily elapse ere a just ap.
predation of the legislative changes announced in
the decree of the 24th of November will be arrived
at. Nevertheless it is not difficult to perceive that
the more the subject is examined the more the re-
forms find favour as a substantial benefit conferred
upon the country. This benefit consists, perhaps,
less in the actual changes themselves than in the
moral effects which they cannot fail to produce. To
call them shadowy, and to imagine that they are
mere bubbles held out to amuse the country with a
show of liberty, is to attribute to Napoleon HI. a
reckless handling of edged tools, upon which so
acute and far-sighted a man would assuredly not
venture. He knows the full consequencis of what
he is doing, and he knows that he is placing in the
hands of the country a moral force which time and
the course of events cannot but develops more and
more. It is impossible that he should not
know all this, and, knowing it, he signed the decree
of the 24th of November. Profound, therefore,
must have been the conviction on his mind
as to the necessity of the sacrifice eo doubtful
in its results. It is evident, too, that this moral
influence must, in spite of legislation, make itself
felt as regards the press. You cannot suffer your
ministers to listen to speeches in the Chamber of
Deputies, and to answer those speeches, then print
those speeches word for word in your official
journals, and • yet refuse to other journals the
right of printing and commenting upon them.
Common sense will be against you ; public opinion,
of which you are now confessing the omnipotent
force, will condemn you. Of course there will be
some sort of a struggle, but common sense and
public opinion will gain the upper hand—in the
long run ; and though an absolutely free press is
out of the question, we may see that institution
holding its own even under the successor of the first '
Napoleon.
The Bourse was calm to-day, little doing, and
trifling fluctuations in prices. The Rente left off
with a rise of sc. for money, and a like fall for the
account, the closing prices being 70fr. 15c. and
70fr. 20c. Credit Mobilier rose to 772 fr. 50c. for
money, and Mfr. 75c. for the account.