The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

INDIA ANT) CHINA.

The Bombay mail of Sept. 214 has arrived at
Trieste and Marseilles, bringing !long- Kong dates to
Sept. 9. The telegraphic despatches state that our
Hurtnese acquisition% were in a state of war, being
ovet run by large bodies of armed men, said toexceed
11,0110 in number, who occupied fortified positions,
whence they attacked our posts with occasional suc-
cess. They were said to be instigated by the King
of Ava. The resumption of hostilities was considered
inevitable. a

Colonel Mackeson had been assassinated by an
Afghan, at l'eshawtar. Captain I'arke'r and Ensign
Bosworth had been killed in an affair with Arabs in
the Nizam's conntry.
The revolution in China still progressed. At Amoy
the Imperialists had had some success, but the
patriot army had invested Khailting-foo, the capital
of llonan, on the Yellow Ilirer. The whole country
was in g titian of anarchy, and trade at a stand.

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Extraordinary excitement existed in the Sandwich
Islands at the date of our last advices, in conse-
quence of the awful ravages of the smallpox, and
the utter neglect of the proper authorities to take
any steps to check the pernicious scourge. The
natives were being swept away like leaves ; in some
districts over one-third of the population had died,
and in the city of Honolulu there were tie:t inter-
ments between the !!ntit of June and the '2nd of
July.
The wheat crop of the islands had been harvested,
and found to realise the most sanguine expectations
of the husbandmen. Many mills and machine works
were being constrneted, and great efforts were making
among all classes so increase both the merhanival
and agricultural productions of the ivlitioN.
SOC Itl AFRICA.

Cape Town papery of%el4.tlie 21st me hronght
by the mail steamer Haile. The news from the
Cape is not very satisfactory. The Cape Town Mail

mays :

" Minve the sailing of the last monthly steamer the
aspect, of infairs beyond the cute border has hecn gea.
41. tally becoming neone ebiwied and mitattisfart4iry. 'l'lle
orders und..•rstood 111 114 ire been issued fur th.• withdrawal
from the colony of fo•str ',diode regiments—the 71111, the 12th,
the 13n1, and the 12th Lancers—have rt- awakened heel.
ings of insecurity among the inhabitants of the eastem
ilisuirts; while in the maihern, the arrival of Sir George
Clerks, with instructions to prepare for the entire with-
drawal of British authority from tl►e Orange 'liver sove-
reignty, has exulted general dissatisfaction and alarm.
"The tribes wreath' sidsbied have not, indeed, 11/1111i•
tested any directly hostile spirit, lint it is known that the
chiefs are discontented, and have 1A019064'11 ()Wit' indigna-
tion strongly to General ('athwart ut the limited extent of
country he lies assigned tlu•ln. At a meeting whieli his
excellency held with them, Muonno, on behalf of the other
chiefs, declared that the land given them was ten small—
'it wan all stones, they email mit till it, and there wits no
hush for firewod—they wanted the Aniatolas."ll' his
General Catheart decidedly refused. giving them to under-
stand that their Issuiession of that locality would certainly
involve another war ; w,d the liattirs, it is .tiled, lett the
meeting not at all Natisticti with the result.' I'llese
tolas—the Gibraltar of litiflirlatill—are belt in military
occupation by a ittaiiett of the troops now about to le' re-
moved."

The search for gold and for coal in South Africa
has hitherto been entirely unsuceessful. For the
former a reward of 1,00. has been offered by an
association formed for the purpose ; and parties, it
is understood, are still " prospecting " in various
quarters.
A public work of great importatwe to the western
districts of the colony has just been completed. Ite•
tween Cape Town and the rich corn. growing regions
of Worcester there interposes, at a distanee about
forty iniles, a vast range of maintains stretching
across the country, and 'wally rutting oft' the
capital from all communiention with the interior in
that direction. These mountains are only passable
at a few points, where it was foniwrly necessary to
unload a waggon at one side, carry over the packages
by hand, Or en the backs of horses, and reload them
into another at the other side—in short, they
perform as complete a burner to intereonme by
wheel carriages as the Isthmus of Ihirien to ships.
At an expense of 511,1N101., with the labour of the
colonial convicts, this mighty barrier has been Nit
through from one side to the other—upwards of IK
miles—and a magnificent road constructed, by whieh
the untold wealth of the interior mac pour flown un-
obstructed to the shows of 'Fable Bay. This road
was opened for piddle rise in the course of Septem-
ber, amidst gnat rejeieings.
The intro.luction, within the last few years of
large numbers of tine.woolled sheep. for a hieb the
natural grasses of the country art' pre-eminently
suitable, ix rapidly (billeting wealth among the
farmers of the sovereignty, and at the same time
renders them less liable to depredations at the bands
of their uneivilised neighbours. sheep !wing much less
convenient for " lifting " than cattle, and little
esteemed as property by the natives.
By this mail we have also the important intrlli
genet, of another war liming broken out. at Lagos, on
the sth of August, between King Akatoi and the I're-
tender Kosako, and that, after some NkiraliKhhig, it
was put an end to by Admiral Time, who landed a
force of marines mot > ,anieti from his squadron, and
aided in the rent of the pretender's force. The boat
operations were under the superintendence of Com-
mander Phillips, of the Potyphemus. Some slaugh-
ter of the natives took pbtee ; but the only casualties
on the part of the British consisted in a marine
bAng wounded in the shoulder, and a Kroomnan being
shot. Lieutenant Strickland, of the Polyphemus,
mill remained on shore, saverimending „„m„ Held
oi•erations. On the :Ird of September King Akatoi
dted suddenly, and his son Docemo was played on
the throne ill his stead.
A letter dated Sierra Leone, Sept. '2•2, says :—" The
Governor has paid his footing.' Ile was attacked
with country fever on the 2:lrd of August, and got
over it on the 4th of September, having had it se
verely. lie has, however, had a rapid and complete,