The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Our dates from this colony are to the 16th of
November. The Neptune had not left the Cape. In
answer to innumerable petitions to send the convicts
away without waiting for the receipt of the order to
do so from England, the Governor said that he would
not commit an act so illegal, impclitic, and of dan-
gerous example. Tee parties who, in defiance of the
Anti-Convict Association and the pledge, had fur-
nished supplies to the government officials ar.d the
military, were ruined. All their customers had I,r-
-saken them. Some of them had intimated to he
newspapers. and especially to the South African 44.
vertiser, that actions for damages were to be brought
against them. In one instance the damages were laid
at 5001.
Other offenders of a less stubborn dikpogition Lai
done penance and been received again into favour, al
' will appear by the following paragraph from the Zoo/
Afrikaan of lath Nov.:

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At the meeting of the Anti-Convict Association, on Tues-
day last, Mr. 0. Holloway attended for the purpose of ex-
plaining his conduct. Withodt his name having linen pub.
fished by the Association—without having obtsuned any in-
tim or warning Item any person or quarter, he found him.
self suddenly deserted and his custom gone. He rtri-dited
this to certain unfounded reports which had been cireakted,
but chiefly:to the fact of his having accommodated Civets
Stanford. Finding that if he continued to give Capt.in S.
accommodation he wiuld soon be a ruined min,
he had given him warning not to tome is his
place any more, and is therefor* attinded tr
meeting in order that he might be set right with toe
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The asiociation, after bonsai Mr. H.' &glared i.eeil per-
fectly satisfied with his statement, and expressed ita
that the public would also consider it in the same light. Tne
name', of three individuals were reported to the meal e,
first for having supplied the government with sheep, ins
seemed for selling oats, suet the thiri for supplying bread t)
the military ;—these parties are Dlr. Brett, of never Zir.,l,:r
End, and Mem% Gie and Whiley, of Cape Town. Ice
letters and certificates acting forth these circumstances, were
referred to the committee. _ . .

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The inhabitants of the interior districts continued
to adhere firmly to the Anti-Convict Association a:
Cape Town.

CANADA.

!From Toronto to fl lA% by Electric Telegraph.)
TORONTO, J. 9,1830.—1 t ie ascertaintd that
majority of the branches of the British AmeriLi
league have declared in favour of an elective
tive council. Throughout Canada West a great mar
annexationists have been elected into the municp
councils. There is nothing important from Lo
Canada.

In addition to the above, we are in receipt of nor,-
paper files from Montreal to the 6th lust, from Quebec
and Toronto to the Ist.
We learn from these sources that the officials w.f.:
have been dismissed for declaring their adhesion'
the a• nexationist movement, announce their intent.::
to dispute the legality of their dismissal.
officers appear to rest their case on a point of form.
the Queen's rounsef maintain that their appointmecif
were not official, but only conferred professional rani,
and that of this they cannot be deprived.

NEW YORK, JAN.
Our New Year's holiday has passed by with 11. e
usual observances. In most of the churches a mot-L-
-ing service was held, and at 12 o'clock the viclr.:
world was in motion. On this occasion Mr. and Mrs.
Banero t, for the first time, received company in tr., r
new and elegantly furnished house, perhaps the tir.,,
interior we have in this city. Every thing wa, of
English manufacture, and the air of the rooms w
quite palatial. Mrs. Bancroft appeared to grea: ad-
vantage.
With the excitements attending the holidays, '‘e
have had others in a different lorm. At Washing:c..
the democrats in Congress have the majority, aslior:
ago predicted they would have, and in consequen,
all the difficulty and responsibility of adjusting
slavery question, as well as of carrying en the gover
' them. And they now perceive it

meat, will rest on ....oct they now percei
any thing goes wrong they alone will be to bleu
for the whigs are powerless. If the Union
threatened, it is from them only the threats c.
come. And as it is very doubtful whether they ca:
steer clear of the numerous rocks in their path. t:
whigs, who are admirable for attack, wal
such use of their position as probably to secure a ma,
jority in the next congress, and possibly elec. it.,
next president. At all events, this is their chance.
if Om it lead( rs will endeavour to take advantsgi a:
it. Meantime, General Taylor folds his arms a... 1
says—" I than do my duty, and leave the res:
Providence."
It is difficult to determine how far the south are
earnest. It is impossible for them to resist the ad-
mission of Cailfornia into the Union, for its 84)Vt re ig r. 7
and its right over its domestic institutions are no:
be questioned by these sticklers for state
Even if the constitution of the new state
witted slavery now, it might be so alien:.
as to exclude it hereafter. It is so
a case that it cannot be overthrown. The discms:,7.
therefore, must finally hinge on some other Pe,':
—such as the creation.of a territorial government '•':
New Mexico, not yet sufficiently populous to form:
state, or, the abolition of slavery in the distri,:!
Columbia. I imagine from what I hear that
Gee
.laylur will not in either of these instances, if it 33,-•
come his fate, to use the veto power, use it to the 133:
noyarca of the south. Besides, as I have again 37
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ag4inassured you, the numerical strength and
power of the abolitionists in the north and nor'.
western states is but fractional. The ia.reat
mss w
whigs and democrats care nothing about three "
meetic iwititutiont." of the south. if indepen,!c3:
states choose to have slaves, it is their
nese and not ours. We are prosperous einrai.::.
Propagandism is not our principle. Tlnri::3i
I think these compromises will be made. 1 1":
lievo the south will accept any tolerable ode .
only to protect themselves from the farther tip,iu-•
of the abolitionists, but to secure thernsi Ives from
outbreak of a bloody servile war, which must mg
soon as the union is dissolved.
The reports of the various heads of depart
are not very brilliant. There does not Kew 3('
on the part of any whose papers have yet ayist"7.
any great forecast. Perhaps ais best that 3-•:.
should be plain matter of fact documents. for Orr.
commendation of a popular president is almost
at any time to wet m up the whole PcoPl',
exam 1e if General Taylor had recommetilot
declaration of war against Portugal, a thing 33,,,t0.-:
likely to happen even yet, the whole county.
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support him, and swarms ot privateers would
our hive, to bus on a foreign coast.
The recommendations ot Mr. Meredith are r
to be singularly out of place at this time.nions be they ill or well, are combated
one-half by et
i of the people of the United States. ararl
no influence whatever with the democratic n
ties in Gumtrees. No possible agitation"
fore, arias h.= General Taylor's iecomme`met: