The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-26 00:00:00

THE Si iN, LON DO

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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THE CAPE MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 26,

The Union Company's mail steamer Athens, from
the Cape of Good on the 20th ultimo, arrived here
this morning with 26 passengers. She left Helena
en the 28th ult,, and Ascension on the 4th inst.
At the Cape drought had entirely disappeared.
Rain had fallen in all parts of the colony. It came
too late, however, to save the harvest in some parts
of the colony, although sufficiently early to insure
good winter crops. There had been several fatal
accidents by lightning in some districts. Conside-
rable damage had been done by floods.
Parliament was to meet in Cape Town on the
16th April.
Some Eastern province members, because Parlia-
ment was not convened at Graham's Town, recom•
mended their colleagues not to attend the session.
It was not, however, expected that more than two
or three would absent themselves, as many im-
portant questions affecting Eastern interests had to
he discussed.

The principal business expected this session was
that relative to Ka ffrarian annexation. It was be-
lieved that this measure would be passed. The
terms on which the annexation is to be effected will,
however, have to be di-cussed.

The judicial reform to provide greater facilities
for the administration of justice in both provinces
and the three acts upon railways will have to be
discussed anew.

The latter had been allowed to lapse through the
dispute about surveying expenses.
Pablic opinion was in favour of any further ex-
tension of railway in the colony being constructed
for the Government to become its property, and be
tither worked by an Executive Railway committee
or farmed out.

Great dissatisfaction prevailed at Graham's Town
through the removal of headquarters to Cape Town.
All was quiet on the frontier, but cattle-stealing
by the natives had become so frequent that the
settlers threatened to take the law into their own
hands.

News had been received from Dr. Livingstone
and the Zambezi to the 20th November.

Dr. Livingstone had just returned in th© Pioneer
to Quillimaine, after a trip to Johanna for supplies.

Drought had reached the Zamhzzi highlands and
caused want of supplies.
The weather in the colony was fine. Trade was
dull. Extensive failures had occurred in Eastern
province through depression in the prices of land.

The harvest was not so abundant as had been
expected. The vines were generally healthy, bat
the crop was light.
The Athens was thirty-two and a half days out,and
has been thirty-three and a half days home. The
Golden Fleece had nct arrived when the Athens left
the Cape,

ITALY.
TUItIN, MARCH 25 (Evening).
The Stampa of this evening publishes the follow-

ing :

" The Government, having received intelligence
that bands of brigands were being organised upon
Roman territory, despatched a body of troops suffi-
ciently numerous to repel them.
"A band, which had advanced as far as Mig-
nano, was dispersed. It is thought that another
band was commanded by Lionne, who fled with his
detachment on to Roman territory, after having
been beaten near Naples.

POLAND.

The 3Tonzteur of this morning says :

" The Prussian and Russian Ambassadors have
communicated to the Government precise informa-
tion, from wkich it results that the news lately
published by all tho journals of the passage of a
Russian column on Prussian territory is devoid of
foundation."

La France of this evening publishes an article
under the heading of "A Congress for Poland,"
and signed by the secretary of the paper.

The writer believes himself able to state that
Prince Metternich is the bearer of assurances au-
thorising earnest hopes of an equitable solution of
the Polish question. The Cabinet of Vienna ap-
pears disposed to participate in diplomatic action
calculated to put an end to a position of affairs
which is the permanent cause of trouble to Europe.
La France considers it probable that a Congress,
comprising all the Powers that signed the treaty
of Vienna, will meet at no distant date to regulate
matters upon an equitable basis.

La France publishes the following article :
" The return of Prince Metternich is, under actual
circumstances, the point round which conjectures
aro formed upon the great question which now ex-
cites so much the attention of the political world.
If we are rightly informed, the Ambassador of
H.M. the Emperor of Austria has brought from
Vienna assurances of a nature to warrant the serious
hopes which are connected with an equitable solu-
tion of the Polish qucsticu.

",The Cabinet of Vienna appears inclined to enter
into diplomatic action, which will give the most
efficacious support to theinitiative taken by France.
" The enlightened statesmen who sit in the Coun-
cil of the Emperor Francis•Juseph have perfectly
understood that the best guarantee for the main-
tenance of peace is the serious consideration of a
state of things which is a permanent cause of
trouble in Europe. They have understood that
diplomatic intervention must necessarily follow at
the present conjuncture to prevent complications,
in which, from the very nature of things, the policy
of their own country would be engaged.
" This attitude of the Vienna Cabinet, conform-
able to what we expected, facilitates in a singular
manner the combinations which must lead to a
general understanding of Europe. We must,
therefore, not be astonished to see already in per-
spective a Congress which will be attended by all
the Powers that signed the Treaty of Vienna ; that
is to say•—Austria, England, France, Portugal,
Prussia, Russia, and Sweden.

" This perspective is what responds best to the
interests at stake in this great question ; it raises
the jurisdiction of Europe above dissensions which
might lead to conflicts, and thus ensures the solution
which equity, justice, and the balance of power in
the world equally demand.
" The reason for a Congress is the more plausible
in this instance as there is a diplomatic starting
point. The treaties cf 1815, in constituting the
Kingdom of Poland, gave to its relations with the
Russian Empire a certain international character
which fully justifies the intervention of the Euro-
pean Powers. The whole diplomatic movement
produced on the subject of Poland is connected with
that guarantee.

"It would be imprudent, as yet, to say that the
solution of the Polish question is necessarily 'written
in the Constitution of 1815 ; and the Hon. M. Bil-
lault, in his eloquent speech in the Senate, has
pointed out with great force and wisdom the lin-
' possibilities of a system which divides the sove-