The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-26 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, Joss 25.
The Royal Mail steamer Cambrian, with the above
mail, arrived here this afternoon.
She left Table Bay on the 22nd ult. ; St. Helena,
31st ; and Ascension; 4th inst. She brings 92 pas-
sengers, 5001. in specie, 996 bags of coffee, 614 bales
of wool, 124 bags of copper ore, and several packages
of sundries.

Trade generally had not been brisk in the eastern
districts. The averages were pretty well main-
tained in the west. A temporary decline had taken
place in exports, and imports were very consider-
able. The exports of wine had fallen fr0m35,0001.
to 16,0001.
Horse sickness and lung disease were prevalent
among the stock. Both had proved very destruc-
tive in the country districts. Labour was scarcer,
and servants were in demand. Wool, unwashed,
9d. to ls. ; washed, ls. 43d. to 2s. Wine and
spirits, no sales for England. The Cape parlia-
ment was opened on the 26th April. The Gover-
nor, in his speech on the occasion, expressed confi-
dence in the maintenance of peace and progress on
the frontier and in the general prosperity of the
country. The estimates of the revenue submitted
to parliament were far below the expenditure. A
bill for separating the provinces had been in-
troduced, but it was considered likely to be
thrown out.

The Rome War-office had asked for 30,000& to-
wards the expenditure on account of the military
force in the colony. It was not likely to be granted
this session.

The Narcissus arrived at the Cape on the 23rd
April.
The Forte, with Admiral Koppel on board, left
on the 3rd of May for Ascension, where she had
arrived and gone on to Rio Janeiro. The Emerald
arrived afterwards, and followed the Forte. The
Archer was at Ascension on the 4th ink..

No intelligence had been received from the Zam-
besi river.

The capture of an English vessel by the Portu-
guese authorities, reported by last mail, had been
satisfactorily explained. The vessel had been
liberated.

The steamer Norman arrived out on the 14th
May.

The Jounwl du Sam says :—" The news of a
treaty of commerce between France and Brazil is certain.
The draft of the treaty accepted at Paris on the Bth ult.
has been sent back from Rio Janeiro with the approbation
affixed to it of the Ministers of Pedro 11. A general sad
entirely remodelled tariff of the Customs' duties in Brasil
will be annexed to the treaty."
_ _ _

Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde
lunched on the 20th with Marshal the Duke de Malakoff,

Governor-General of Algeria, at Mustapha, and afterwards
proceeded to visit the library sad the museum of Algiers.
Thu necessity for distrusting all amounts of
injury to crops in their early stages has again been exem-
plified by the present prospects of the French vintage. In
March and April last it was sasounced that in all the prin-
cipal districts injury from frost had been sustained which
left no possibility of recovery, and we are sow assured that
is all parte of Francs the vineyards, with some very few
exceptions, present the most favourable appearance. In-
deed, it is said that " for the last ten years they have sot
looked finer."

The grain harvest in many parts of Europe this
year seems likely to be a fortnight or a month earlier than
the average. In the south of Frames the cutting of wheat
has already commenced. The waists from America are
also good, and the western fermers sr* hurrying forward
their last year's stocks to England at a rate which is limited
only by the capacities of the railways and the freight market.

A Munich letter of the 21et says :—" Yeeterday,
Count von Leiningsa, a captaia of cavalry in the Bavarian
service, vraa married to the daughter of sbrewer at Munich,
named Flossman, by which marriage the daughter of a
elitism of Munich becomes allied to the royal family of
England."

It is stated that M. Calra& has engaged Mdlle.
Patti, whose success in London has been so great, for a part
of the ensuing whiter at the Italiens, Paris.

Madame Lind•Goldachmidt will slog at a conoert
on Thursday, the 4th Jaly, for the benefit of the Society of
Female Artists, the Earl of Dudley having kindly giros the
use of his splendid gallery for the amnion.

It is stated that the iron-plated ship Defence, of
3.700 tons, now in coarse of construction by Mews.
l'aliner Brothers and Co., of Newcastle, will lam the
Tyne for Sheerness on the 12th of July,when it will he pas-
sible in the course of a month to At her for service.