The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-31 00:00:00

SHE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, Om 31.
The Union Company's Royal Mail steamer Celt,
with the above mail, arrived here this morning. She left
the Cape on the 21st ult., St. Helena on the lot inst., and
Ascension on the 6th inst. She brings 55 passengers, among
whom are Generals Durban and Gordon, and a collection sent
by Sir George Grey as a present to the Zoological Society.
The Celt was detained a day at the Caps by the government.
All alarm as to the intentions of Cetywayo and the Zulus
had passed away.
Cetywayo bad professed loyalty to the British govern-
ment, and declared himself ready to fight on the side of the
English, if necessary.
Furious internecine wars were still going on between the
native tribes. There hod been a terrible massacre iu No-
Man's-Land. Tebu, a chief of the Ainabacaa, surprised a
number of Hottentots under the chief Fodo. The Hot.
tentots fought bravely, but Tebu's people fired their huts,
and upwards of 160 persons, including many women sad
children, perished.
A rumour wee current at the Cap that Kreli with all
his forces was going to re-enter the Transkeian territory,
from which be was expelled by the frontier police in 1858.
It was feared that the Cape would not be represented at
the forthcoming International Exhibition, as the government
commissioners had resigned, and the Cape parliament had
declined to grant aid.
A reformed municipality had been elected in Capetown.

The arguments io the cam of " Ling v. the Bishop of
Capetown" had concluded. The Supreme Court reserved
its judgment.
A movement was on foot for augmenting the incomes of
the clergy in the diocese of Capetown.
Intelligence had been received from Die. Livingstone and
Mackenzie to the lath May. All were in good spirits.
They bad failed in ascending the Ruvuma, on account of its
being too late in the season.
The slave trade was being carried on briskly on the east
mut.

The troop ships Coodict and Boanerges bad arrived.
Business at the Cape had considerably improved sad
trade was increuing.
The clip of wool promises to be one of the beat ever
known.

THE ARREST OP MR. W. PORWOOD.

The following is an extract from Mr. W.
Forwood's letter, describing his wrest at New York :
"About 9 cot. on Wednesday morning, on having passed
my luggage, I took a cab, ordering the man to drive to the
hotel. When on the point of starting a respectable semi-
officiorui-looking personage asked the privilege of riding
with me. We drove on, and I was not • little surprised at
the cabman stopping before the door at the Police-office,
when my companion, whom I obliged with a ride, desired
me to walk inside. Two Mikan came, emptied my pockets,
and afterwards commenced a most indecent search of my
Wonbefore an open window in a leading thoroughfare.
ilsdone, they took me below to the oelb, where I found
my luggage, which they rigorously examined, seizing every
bit of paper with writing on it, and reading the contents,
against my protest, as they were only infenor officers, and
could not decide what was treasonable. I was kept locked
up in a cell until 8 p.m., the officials continually coming in
to pry into my things, and making impartment remarks ;
and when I inquired when [ should regain my liberty, the
answer was that I would be sent to Fort Lafayette on the
following morning. At 8 o'clock p.m. I was taken be-
fore the superintendent, who mid that I was to be
discharged, but that he had ordered my arrest to
examine my papers, as he bad heard that on board the
Great Eastern my father and myself hail spoken of the
Northern Government in no complimentary terms; that
on the occasion of Priuce Alfred's visit to Liverpool my
' friends bad displayed • Secession (Confederate) dag, and
that they were agents to a large southern house, and that
he now gave me my discharge. I have made a report of
the circumstances to the British consul here, and he has
promised to send it on to Lord Lyons. The mogul advised
me to leave the town for • week or so, but. not having
spoken • wool for or against the North, I think I ought sot
to have occasion to fair."
With reference to the remark of the official about Mr. For-
wood's expression of sentiment when on board the Great
Eastern, we ( Times) are informed that he and the other
passengers by the Great Eastern were careful in their allusion
to politic, laving been warned before the Great Eastern
left the Mersey that • Milted &ate* officer, who was
pointed out to them, was cm board for the purpose of
watzhing the passessers sad taking notes of their obserra-
noes and movemeeta. Mr. W. Forward travelled with a
British passport. We hive just heard that another gentle-
man, Mr. Cornelius Walford, connected with a large public
company, who was also on board the Great Eastern. and
continued his voyage per Niagara, was arrested on landing
at Boston.

English residents in Paris are beginning seriously
to complain of the constant seizure of their newspapers,
and of the delays which take placo in their delivery when
they are not seized. The cause of this is, that no paper can
be distributed until the minister has signed • permission,
and they frequently remain lying at the post-office for
upwards of twelve hours.
A Florence letter says :—" Borghi-Mamo is now
singing Deedernona. The .17Wia del Itegginsento is pining
away, I fear. at the Pergola. There are four ' prove'
theatre* crowded to the very door, and in the Borge Ogni
Semi there is a little place where for threepence you con
bear a good opera and see a very fair ballet—this is, of
course. in the pit. Io a box (and you get a large private
boa on the grand tier for three shillings and fourpenos)
you may pus a very pleasant evening, and have the
beautiful music of Literezia Borgia sung to yon by a young
Roman, • Enrica Beare,' in a way that will astonish you,
and make you reflect on the relative taints and prices of
Loudon and Paris. There is also a very good ballet included
in the threepenny pit ticket. There is also a French play,
and Sired is giving concerts to large audiences*

Father Fasaag lia, who is now in Turin, is de •
scribed by a correspondent of that city as " a tall man, con-
siderably above six feet high, with pest breadth of
shoulders and flat chest ; a ewe, erect, imposing erne,
with an easy, dignified, refined bearing ; the moat gentle-
manly priest I ever beheld. Hie forehead is high, not
massive, and rather slanting backwards ; the brow is sharp
and prominent. He baa a rich, glossy head of hair, slightly
silvered all over; be may be fifty yens old, certainly not
more, and he complains that deep study and care have
°ldeated him before his time. He has regular, deeply-
chiselled fe►tures, with a remarkably wide, round,' firm,
but by no means heavy tinder jaw. The *yes are deeply
set, light brown, vivid, wakeful. The countenance is
gifted with gnat mobility and sudden powers of expression.
He is thin and pale, with deep farrow' on the forehead and
mead the mouth. The habitual look is grave and thought-
ful ; but the face lightens up with oecasioeal glimpses of
peat shrewdness and humour."