The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-09 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

BrWelt authority ham been finally eetahllaherl eta•
prem. in Caffreylc The chiefs have loot the !tower
whioh they ao 'mealy 'dotted, and tho people in starving
thnuaande have heen moire% into the Iwtoont of the
oniony. The ?mintier the admitted, MA lonotted, not in
ntagns, hot cliffmte,i, in.llviduallv or in families, among
tho Indnatriona aobonieta, exeee,le 30,000..

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Three CAfrree, Agreed. with the minter of the RP,.
Mr. Wlloon, itngll4 Church Mlnleter In lirltich
Ca&aria, have been found guilty, and condemned to
death...

--1111.pos larply prevailed at the Cape at the date of
last advictes. _ .

The oontraot for the first railway, fifty mile. In length,
from Cape Town to Wallington, he. been ootnpleted ;
and preparation' are In pmgreas for oommenoing the
great breakwater or harbaur In Table Bsy.
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Tits CLIMATR.—The natural feature,' of the Cape
eolony ire such as to insure for It • healthy climate.
Stretching northwards from the extenalre port of the
Cape, the country is formed Into • nuocession of moon.
talus terraoes, lying acmes the oountry from cut to wed.
each terrau rising above the other to • considerable
height, till the highest mountain ranges attain a height
of about 10,0(X) feet above the level of the sea. The
Cape oolony is thus moot happily provided with sea
breezes over a large portion of the country ; for upon
the west, south, and north its shore. are washed by the
Atlantic' and Indian Oteans, while In the interior the
heat is mitigated by the cooling winds which pass from
the mountain ranges over the plains and valleys. The
consequenes is • moderate and equable temperature, the
ookinst which he. been noted being about 57 and the
hottest about 79 degrue, the mean temperature deduced
from observations made over several years at Cape Town
giving a result of about 67 degroes Fahrenheit, or about
the same so Malta or Sydney, the capital of New South
Wales, and three degrees above the mean of Madeira,
Gibraltar, and Algiers. Additional evidence of the re-
markably healthy charnoter of the Cape Is afforded by
the feet that it Is a plus of recoil, a sanatorinin, In fact,
for the officers of the Indian army, who, when affected
by disease incident to the tropical climate of India, llnd
that the salubrious and Invigorating brume of the Cape
have an ezeellent restorative effect. This peculiar
healthiness of the Cape requires only to he more gene-
rally known In this country to make it preferred to the
Island of Madeira, Algiers, or other parts to which Inva-
lid. from this winery generally retort for the benellt of
a change of climate. any persona would, we are oon•
&lent, select this foe British colony In preference to
stountriee which are under foreign government. At the
Cape of Good Nape the sufferer will dad himself among
his own sountrionen, and would resolve adgr.e of sem.
pithy and 'gelatinise whieh he oonbl not szpoet among
foreigners, and weeld noi be spend to the annoyance
of in a "tato of deetokf 'Wok he be. IWO been

acenstomed, and to an Irritating syelem of government
AA strange u it is nnuosptable to the invalid from
oonntry where no lush syslesu in known. The opinion
of Mr. liaolear, after many years observation, I. that
upon the whole the climate approsobesoloaely to that of
&della, the only dillenume hung that the winds are
stronger and more regular at the Cape thou' at the latter
plane.