The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-09 00:00:00

BADEN.

The Regent of Baden was to leave Carbindle on
the 4th inst. for Hungary, where he would meet the
Emperor of Austria, and attend the great military
manasuvres of the Rakosfeld. The Suabian Moreury,
which gives this statement, naturally connects the
journey with political questions, and particularly
with the Zollverein settlement. The state of siege
in Baden was removed on the Ist, but the change
was not perceptible in the Grand Duchy.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

A letter from Nice, of thebih, in the Avenir, says :
It is announced that several Freida exiles residing here
since the events et Demobs; have remind orders to gait
the town, to be osigeed sesikesse ia the Interior of Pied-
mont. This mammies has been wispeed, it is said, by the
Sardinian government, at the et the agents of the
French government and es the occasion of the
waste of the President through the department of the Var.
A Turin journal states that Count Picoolet d'Her-
billon, formerly Sardinian minister in the United
States, is to go to hfadrid as representative of the
Sardinian government.
hi. do Barrel, Sardinian chargé d'effafres in Swit-
zerland, has been nominated councillor of legation,
and chargé d'affaires ad interim at Paris. Ho is to
be succeeded at Berne by AL de Launay, eon of the
last Viceroy of Sardinia.

ROMAN STATES.
On the subject of railways in the Papal States the
Roman correspondent of the Augsburg Gazelle
writes: U Tho pitiful failure of our railway schemes
has brought two It►lian prince' well nigh to ruin.
Princes Conti and Altieri, the latter a brother of the
cardinal, confident in the construction of the line be-
tween Rome and Ancona, had gone deep into specu-
lation, and now find themselves suddenly called upon
to refund borrowed capital, which it is not in their
power to realise. Prince Altieri's estate is already
In the court for administration. An influential
cardinal lately mewed a well-known personage that
the Popo was more than ever convinced that the con-
struction of the proposed railroad would have had

Nearly all the soldiers enlisted for the Pope's
army at Portarlier have deserted at Civitta, and now
amuse themstlves by stopping the diligences and
plundering travellers.

the end of bringing to Rome so manypersons of CAPE OF GOOD 110 PE.
suspicious polities that it would be necessarype to treble
the police force. For this reason the line was aban-
doned.

TIIE KAFFIR. WAIL

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 8.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
mail packet Hellespont, Captain V. Watts, arrived
this morning at 5 o clock. Her dates are—outward,
Plymouth, Juno 20; St. Vincent, July 8; arrived
at the Cape, July 29, being a passage of 33 days, the
shortest on record ; homeward—left the Cape August
3; St. Helena, August 11; Ascension, August la ; St,
Vincent, August 2•i; Plymouth, Sept. 8.
The news from the seat of war (a telegraphic sum-
mary of which appeared in our second edition of yes-
terday) is as gloomy as ever, and many persons well
acquainted with military proceedings on the frontier
express a belief that the settlement of the war is as
far off as it was twelve months ago.
On the lit of July General Cathcart issued a pro-
clamation, calling for the assistance of every man
capable of hearing arms, and on the 20th his Excel-
lency issued an explanatory circular, in which it is
stated that all he required was a deputation of all
the fighting men who can really come to represent
the district, and fur those who cannot come to as-
sist those who can. The governor insists on this
help. The mother country bus sacrificed much life
and treasure, while its only real advantage was tho
possession of the seaport of Simon's Hay. The
protection of certain colonists who settled on the
frontier 30 years since might be considered an obli-
gation, but such obligations have their limits. This
must probably he the last Kaffir war carried on
at the cost of the British government. The object
of General Cathcart's intended expedition was two.
fold—first, to test the willingness of the colonists;
and secondly, if they came forward, to demonstrate
to the Kaffirs that, independently of the Imperial
force, there was sufficient strength in the colony to
chastise the enemy, should tie again attack the fron-
tier. If the General found the colonists unwilling,
he had ample force to cross the Kei and vindicate
the national honour, but this would convince the
world that the colonists were deficient in their
former energy, and their chief opponent Krtli would
ever after hold them in contempt. After returning
from the expedition beyond the lid, the Governor
says it will be his duty to report to the
home government if tho colonists had not ren-
dered him proper support; in that case he will pro-
bably be ordered to withdraw his army, when his
parting recommendation to them would be to keep
less sheep and oxen and inure shepherds and herds-
men, for wild men and wild beasts would Hon
recover their ancient sovereignty in the Fish River
and Zuurberg, and the colonists will not he able
to drive them out as their• fathers did in the olden
time.

The files of Cape papers give the usual accounts
of cattle lifting by combined llottentots and Kaffir.,
and of reprisals by the regular forces and burghers.
The only attack worthy of notice was one made on
the Waterldoef by Culonel Buller, of the Rifles, on
the 24th of July, when the Kaffirs were lured from
their stronghold by a feigned retreat, and were thus
exposed to the full fire of the Artillery and Rifles,
suffering a loss of more than 100, while only three
of Colonel Buller's force were wounded.

Under date of the 2d of August, lieutenant-Go-
vernor Darling has addressed a circular to the civil
commissioners of the western districts, in which, after
referring to General Catheart's letter of the 21.1 th of
July to the eastern provinces, he bay's that, by tho
last newspaper accounts from Graham's Town and
Port Elisabeth, the governor's views had been
promptly responded to, and that considerable contri-
butions had been cheerfully rendered towards equip-
ping the contingent from the eastern districts. Lieu-
tenant-Governor Darling then gives instructions to
the commissioners to make known through the field
cornets that they are ready to receive contributions
is money or kind towards the equipment of tho
eastern volunteers, to be forwarded to the Treasurer-
General in Cape Town, and sending ut the same time
to the governor's secretary accurate lists of tho
names of the contributors.

A correspondent, writing from Cape Town, on rho
3d of August, says :
The llcllespont leaves this afternoon fur England, after a
rapid passage out of 32 days. The intelligence she takes
home is in so far satisfactory, as showing the decided line
of policy General Cathcart has adopted in endeavouring to
bring this inglorious but expeiedve war to a speedy termina-
tion. The most important document that has appeared
since last mail 11 the Governor's appeal to the eutern pro-
vince burghers, to join him in tie great txpeditiun to the
Kei, and, it is most satisfactory to add, with some prospect of
success. The Lieut.-Governor has issued circulars to those
of the western provinces, urging them, by contributions,
either in the shape of money or articles, to assist in the
equipment of their eastern brethren. This is looked upon as
a wise measure, and will, there is little doubt, be generally
responded to. (Both these notices appear below.) It may
here be mentioned that the Cape Town subscription list
to the relief of the Kaffir war sufferers is upwards of
4,2001., and that for those by the loss of the Birkenhead
about 1,4001., including the Legislative Council's grant.
Tho other intelligence from the seat of war consists of the
same history of encounters between predatory banded the
enemy and the frontier farmers which has marked its pro-
gress from the commencement ; but, although elate general
order mentions a strong body of cavalry and infantry of the
enemy having " extended, cloud, fired, retired, &c., by the
sound of the bugle," they have suffered severely in one or
two cleverly executed ruses. The general feeling is that
the war is now drawing to a crisis. Macomo is the only
chief that has ant thing like a force to depend on, the gene-
rality of the Ghikas have either crossed the Kei or found
an asylum among the friendly Kaffir". General Cathcart's
expedition was to have left tort Beaufort on the 31st ult. ;
every mail from the frontier is, therefore, looked forward
to with great anxiety.
The news from the sovereignty is very satisfactory. A
constitution had been agreed upon by delegates authorised
for that purpose by the High Commissioners. Mr. Henry
Green, Assistant Commisaary-General, has been sworn in as
British resident, in the room of Major Warden, who has
been relieved. The inhabitants are giving great attention
to wool growing, fur which the country appears to be ad-
mirably adapted.
From Natal the news is also highly favourable. It has
now been satisfactorily proved that sugar, rice, and coffee
can be grown to advantage. A vessel bas arrived from
Mauritius with 15,000 cane tops to order, while a number
of spirited individuals have sent one of their number to
Madras for Coolies, in order to give the cane a fair trial.
In Caps Town public attention has been directed to the
alleged discovery of coal about 12 miles from the city. A
oosuaiesion, appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor to in-
spect the spot, has returned without establishing any other
fact than the existence of coal ; hut to what extent. or whe-
ther worth working, has yet to be determined. One or two
scientific men are, however, very sanguine as to the result.
A coal mine so near the port would prove more valuable
than geld diggings.
We subjoin the following circular:—
Fort Beaufort, July 20.
Sir,—You have received my proclamation of the let of
July, and no doubt have given it due circulation, and done
your duty in forwarding its object.
In the wording of the ordinance, the phrase " Every
man capable o f bearing arms " appear'. It is scarcely ne-
cessary to explain that I do not expect this to be taken in
the literal sense ; all 1 require is a deputation of all the
fighting men who can really come to represent their dis-
trict; but I expect that all those who are not fighting men,
and stop et home, will encourage and assist to the utmost
those who go forth in their Mlle, giving them ample
means of equipment and support in respect to their horses,
arms, and sustenance, until they meet me, fur 1 will not
issue rations to those who may profess to come and may
not firth e.

lam here to do my best to put an end to this long and
tiresome war, and to establish a lasting peace on this boo-
ties, if lean ; but the colonists themselves must help ms to
do so.

The hostile Kaffir* are nearly subdued and removed to
a distance front the border; • little more exertion and per-
severance will complete this work. Certain llottentot ma-
rauders arc still roaming about the country, but when con-
centrated for mischief do not amount to :30U men.
As to the Kaffir., precautions must still be taken calcu-
lated to prevent their return, and tardy or half measures
will not stance to do this. As to the three hundred robbers
—a thousand mounted police, who, if they are not already
enrolled, and on duty, is no fault of mine—should suffice
alone to protect these frontier districts from their ravages,
and if duly supported, see long to root them out.
Much treasure, loss of life, and bard service of her Ma-
kesty's regular troops and paid levies have, as you well
now, been expended by the British government for the
protection of this colony, from which the mother country
delives no real benefit except in the possession of the 'ex-
port of Simon's Bay ; the mother country i<, therefore, ac-
tuated, possibly in some degree by national pride, but
mainly by benevolent sympathy, in making the great sacri-
fice she has done in this cause.

Perhaps the protection of certain colonists who were en-
couraged by the British government on the eastern frontier
upwards of 30 years ago might, to a certain extent, be con-
sidered as obligation, but such obligations have their limits,
and grants of better land elsewhere, where sheep and oxen
can feed in security, or pecuniary compensation, far leas
expensive than a succession of Kaffir wars, would provide
amply and equitably for any such claims.
This must probably he the last Kaffir war carried on in
this country at the cost of the British government, for the
expenses of another, amounting to 1,000,000 f. sterling, can-
not again be expect, d to be drawn, by vote of the Imperial
Parliament, from the pockets of the British constituency,
in a cause in which, except from motives of sympathy and.
beitevoloiloo, it his no nal iolonst.

The ehject of al Wended expedition hired the Yei is
teo.fold
To test the power and willingness of the mitmists to
toward in their own came.
2 It they do so come forward, to demonstrate to the
indiseutial paramount chief of their mast &weldable sad
',wolf OW Kittle ear Mes that, independently of the in.-
semble power of her Majesty's armies, there is a fame and
ee,,,g, within the eolony suSeiest to chastise him should
heiig,al ho guilty of aiding or abetting in hostilities against
the eolony.
tavrefore, 1 should fad myself ill-supported en this
vecas.oa, which I will not believe, I ham ample WSW ••
IN ionised with her Majesty's mope and viadisaM the ass
temal honour ; but I should then arum at the Falafel OM-
viction that the colonists of the pretest day ham sot the
...roy to exert themselves in their own eaves, and, there-
fore, have not the power to keep their enienthee at thie die
lance to which we have removed them ; tad, what is worse,
the chief Kreli, convinced of the same fact, Wand of stand-
leg in tumid them, would thenceforward hold them in the
unseen...a which they wou4l deserve.
Tin re are persona whi attempt to prejudice the good
opinion I now cherish of the people of this part of the
colony which I am anointed to govern, who MU me that
mr predecessor was disaappointed on a similar oesesioa, end
th..t 1 am too sanguine in my eapectatioos that the call
whieli I have made will be duly and cordially responded to.
I 11;.I wit believe them. I have myself witoered too many
bra:i out examples of patience under misfortunes, of energy.
and ef courage among the colobists of these northern dis-
tricts witch are more anuseeliotely under my own eye, to
give the *lightest attentiun to such unworthy rumours.
1 si:l wait aid form my own judgment on the event;
but should I be disappointed I wish you to remind the in-
hohitude of your didrict of the moral of the fable, which
chit if, when the weeeen was in a hole, the waggoner
w ill not put hiaown chowder to the wheel, Jupiter will
hot help him.
In preparing to go to the Kei I hem not been unmindful
of internal security. Three whole regiments and name-
r. ms armed levies will be left within the frontier to support
an ample police force, which either is or ought t be in
aetis ity. in the protection of the eastern districts; an equal
fere: will occupy Britivll Kaffraria, beyond your frontier,
during my short alarm c.
Whin I return from my expedition beyond the Kei, I
must mike up my report to her hlsjesty's government, nut
en:y as to the result of that expedition, hut us to whether 1
base found the people of this colony grateful for the sup-
port which his been afforded them, and willing and able to
elerttlienurelves in their own cause, and therefore deserv-
ing. or tie contrary. the case may be, and whether,
therefore, 1 could, r their cause worth lighting fur or nut.
In the latter tient, I should probably be ordered to
withdraw my army ; mud my parting advice to the colonists
of the eastern halt f this colony, at least, could only be—
keep fewer *ha, p and outs, and provide yuurselves with
more shepherds and herdsnain ; for wild men and wild
beats will mos again ri cover their armlet t sovereignty in
the Fish River led Yourberg, et ultra • and you will be
unable is drive diem out as your fathers' did in the olden
time.
I have the honour to be, sir, sour obedient servant,
Geo. CAI He Alt r, Lieutenant• General,
Governor and Commander iseatioL
The C:vil Commander of
The ant intelligence from Ketfirland and the border is
as foilows ; it is dated August 3:
By yesterday's past from the frontier we learn that a
mi.: diabolical outr-ge Inn been perpetrated near Fort
Patois, ;Keffraria, by a buds of about 200 Kafiln who at-
ticked the cattle herds the afternoon of the 23;d, killed
arol masted at a tire one of them (a Hottentot), snit took
prisoner a Kaffir, sweeping Wet the some time 62 head of
cat:le belonging to the poet. The marauders were of the
tribes of 'lola' Stock, mid &yob).
An attack had also been made on the evening of the 26th
on some waggons at the fort of Woest's 11.11, near Graham's
Town, by a baud of rebel Itottentots, who captured two
spans of onus. Commandant Currie was in pursuit with
his mounted polite.
A spirited affair took place is the Waterkloof on the
morning of the 24th inst., when Colonel Buller, having re-
ceive,' information that a large number of Kiffirs were con-
gregated at Nlundell's Krauts. moved from his tamp with a
crone colunin;of iolantry, cavalry, and artillery to surprise
them. This, it is reported, was successfully effected, and
the savages repined to a severe flee of small arms, after
which, having been lured from their fiutnemes by a feigned
retreat of our troops, they were exposed for a length of time
to the full fire of the artillery and riflemen, suffering, it is
said, a loss of at least 1041ki11ed, while tho casualties m Col.
Buller's form were but three wounded.
The graham's Town Journal

that it has

been officially reported to the Governor by tho ll'tilambie
Commis,ioner, Captain Maclean, that most of the hostile
Kaffir., with the exception of those with Macomo. had dis-
persed themselves among the friendly tribes. Kendall', it
I, affirmed, has with him not more than 20 followers." The
outrage mentioned above hardly corroborates this.
M 414 strenuous centime were being male to equip a
respectable Burgher force, to meet the Governor oh the
6th instant, for the grand movement against Kreli. Nu-
merous volunteers have been enrolled, and considerable
subscriptions made at Graham's Town and other border
towns, as also at Port Elizabeth, and it was expected that
• strong muster of efficient men would take place. There
was, however, much difficulty in procuring horses, and
tbe country is &tented as being dreadfully parched with
drought.
The Moil of this morning reports that a flue, attack
was made on Fort White about the 11th inst., the assailants
being fortunately beaten off•; alas that Mr. Carlisle's valu-
ablecattle, so lately recovered (roads% gamy, had again
been swept ad, and, it was feared, leresevenbly lost.
We take the subjoined " snootily summary" from
the Cap Town Moil of the 3rd of August :
After 18 months of harasying mad destmetive warfare
between the British governsteut tad the Kau tribes,
daring which the inhabitants of this Wm, have been ez•
sed to NI untold amount ed ref rrimp aid lon, it would
In • grateful task to have to report the maim of he.
tilities, or even such an approlimetiss to • eaddertery
termination of the war as wend swain the boater
saM-
.i.te to return to their dewed beemesele, aid mans the
peaceful occupations of lusebemby and MIL With riot,
however, we still base to soloed tbe esadmanase at thk
miserable straggle. The mem me em est Is an pot am
reamed from the ruined Astride Alin base the bruit of
the first outbreak. The chiefs Sas= and ..as, with
the resultant of their tribes, althea* tellostay MI "W-
-indy attacked by the mom sad bemilem held pos-
-110•1011 of their impregnable ftelmensela Amines sad
the Waterktoof, obi% msgersideg Me of ken Lofts,"
with their Hottentot rebel AM Mill ram la deeming
parties, earryiag tense aid deasoletie• thenalmmt the
spa annu7, mad nom the hot tow dem oteuttleg
buds NWISPift Of MO Min sight of Graluatre
Town the metre se the antra dhlrisis.
the awns of tremen we lad by amoral orders
that the anon wpa the mom in the
wikwad.retied la am he, was mode ia mem
mama t
et knem
neae of timairierg Irma eselimsbredes of the
he rebd
Gain.
ems la that wee peememeat_ of
Hotenten win asseekesi with the Mine IslArsewratty
=rah ia Isms ma
id
id eg laide of Maned nen
mem a Maned the pmenble leha.
Wean MVOs edam" It will he mamboed thenhe
tan et seallm Ibis
_llanaidable babawas met
peshismi bylilinemmehestomel h
Eyre, with anguish
paha tithe bunendue hethe • mow; sal
"Mei aid seidierlike mem la whisk the smite
monwee
perkenad bee elicited the seamed espeessime d is-
tin been Osaaral Cathcart, who Mhos" lie s intneM to
=1.14•1117, @pedal Mho se the Duke et Welllerinte.
mann et Clealda the Hon P.
Oneela Omen sod_ Ike ease Mem emd mesa a
ie two
of the ad Restrenn who wore aka. elapsed
lakeindom was dila* allereseeis ended en Meat
IN Lan id nbd Haien* were semblei he the
malsbienheel d theg elllzients= threat-
annual:lrby =diem
was is more me the bib lbw=
water, dose he had bees stedemed, Willey Mk lam them
eamealms of the MN Reensout, a smadrom of Ono
Mooed Riles, a osmium et the Loyd Kat Rim lbs.
Mien, a Madmen se Mend ram" sad tom. pans.
• Wilhemerst et too esampales she IN (Qesat's
Vrwee eke seared se jds Ma Net Hare,
emerell Cathcart peened*" is to the amp. The
he.. unwed brand at 4 a.m. mad
se
at
*Omyen whoa the lager s.d beads wore at ease vim.
ma mailed. The mmery, ra as neldemo,
bat led with thdr norhoween
the Ma o the the neualein
inn the Amends asemetens, whom paresit ma fond to he
improselenble." =mead, aimed hats wen de-
stroyed. sad severalkapaieks, and ether amides
Mleady to the &ppm smutty_ at the Ream, were
Etheilweep having witnessed thigermetien,
ad ended Meek. to the safety of Alice, Mamed to
brabomensee— Lief L_l Csloael Napier fain back
wpm Ids he.., pain= at Ellakwater.
Oa the 6th, 7th, god Bth of July, Goma Cathcart,
having with him the Skit Riles, a &timberline of Royal
Happen sad Miners, a empany of enrolled Itispes, and
two guns, penetrated MA seared a Inge parties of the
mountain ridges bowed* the Waterline. His Facet-
lency entered throe&
_the noted Bush Reek at midnight
of the 6th, and at dogteeth ascended the steep pass near
Miami's farm, within meeting with the vadstane which
was anticipatei. He them preseded to smell with shells
and rockets the brides pima of the labs and
rebel Hottest,* with's WWI& Oa this the anthem
aide of the bled, between. ashlar bleb ale settle tracks
were to be omen, and the wag godly thmasolves
scares is that quaver By • well -pleased sad ably en.
cuted mommeat, a similar twee 1111111111 at the same
time at the northern side. Limners Rapier had
been directed to move from lindtwater aft * ma. with a
squadron of the Cape Cups, there esommise of the
the Kat River Hottentot- lan Captain Lamm% Dew
company of Europe..., astrinidetatthmlnt ed Threes and
twa gags. Having pied the table lead Ml* manmade
that pert of the hied, die iseepeeseweed es same eel
barn all the kraa • win da leash. Hen a deeded nehmen
was experienced, and owe lean a Captain Lalimede mo-
rn, was killed. " la this day's work," writes Austral
Cathcart, " the loss of the mom mast have beta severe,
from the well directed fire et tbe ealliser, mai the mangy
with which the attacks wen venial ea.— Oa the Oth, et
daybreak, the two columns molted on the meth din when
the Rile Brigade, with the Levies and Yiageaie proceeded
vigorously with the work of " PP Wag
thrown and shells fired into t=l below, where the
smarms kraUs went found eleMeible. Is thole
operable. ea* maw the Mk wet killed dud
Out Nye wended. At teem the had quarters edema
nturad toga !Omer modem, mai, tbe Nen without
kw, althouh AUevett:ep by peat melmeeettbe saran
who undauntedly eadmigei Ode Ida die ossala

*OM Rides. Next day the troops returned to quuters.
, Oh the 14th General Cathcart again proceeded will'. the I
limps to the Waterkloof, accompanied by Captain Moodie
Said Nardi Jessie. to select a Spas fat a permanent
Mee In *umiak a large force, and caplet et being easily
=
bye
few men. A locality wee ist within • few
_yards of the place whet, Gre Fordyce was
Med. Here it is intended to erect tweidellegrelentik, Go-
ths appears\ from the wen. nwessaicating
1 Waistritliekwater per by a Mahe pdh mbe eft drsegt the
alit This wait lets be at aft preemie' with. the Seth
Sam her end • largebedy of levies, berg IA to
bag
the
hag Sled seseived him the seat of war we lima
that this MA • imed affair with the enemy,
whom they arrow said Op I4ssl by • feigned re-
treat. The crier pas whisk Mr Mem peneary !ikon! In
positien red nnexpectears texesing mass ; the
Wilmot Mee time po a are. Ono hen.
deed of thou/Me/age said is Mks, while the troops
had only two twat/ the Hide Wilde and one Cape Ride
wound. d.
An attack by a body of rebels upon Eland's post bas
been gallantly ropdeed be a small detachment of the 91st,
stationed there usher Captain Wright (the survivor of the
Birkenhead). The enemy appeared in considerable force
and matioaered with all the skill of disciplined troops, ex-
tending, advancing, and retiring by sound of bugle. After
coder:kneeing, almost successfully, to draw the little garri-
son into an ambuscade, they sounded the " close " end the
" advance," and moved on to the post. Captain Wright,
with rink 23 men of the 91st, then marched out to meet
them, and, being joined by a party of the Kit River key,
drove them off with loss.
An enumeration of the various encounters which have
taken place during the month, within the colony, between
the predatory bands of the enemy and the scattered
farmers of the frontier districts, would present a distressing
picture of ruinous disasten, manfully but ineffectually
struggled against. At this moment lit e and property are
scarcely any where secure within a hundred miles of
Kattirland except in the immediate vicinity of military
poets. Productive industry within that wide space is every-
on, re paralysed ; and the inhabitants of the best portion
of the eastern province are reduced to the misery of seeing
their once fertile lauds thrown out of cultivation, their va-
luable decks of the finest wool-bearing sheep in the world
plundered, driven about, and destroyed ; their labourers
dispersed, and either enticed away to join the savage enemy
on one side, or be embodied in scarcely less savage bends of
irregular levies on the other ; while tneir families are kept
in continual alarm, liable at any moment to be huddled to-
gether in lagers or exposed to the demoralisation of crowded
camps.
The call which has been made by General Cathcart upon
all the men of the eastern districts capable of beating arms
to meet him at the leaven', beyond the Kei, appears likely
to be well responded to, a. • last desperate effort to put an
end to this detestable war. Considerable tutus have been
subscribed in tome of the frostier towns by those who are
prevented by circumstances Teem giving personal service,
in order to equip and assist those who are preparing to
turn out.
A report has been circulated of an alleged discovery of a
conspiracy among some of the Hottentots of the Bethel'.
dorp missionary institution to join the rebels, and several of
these men have been committed to prison by • local func-
tionary who is known to have long entertained a strong
feeling of hostility to that institution; but the charge has
not been traced to any satisfactory foundation.
The territories in the neighbourhood of the eolony—
Katirland always excepted—appear to be generally in a
peaceful state. The trade between the colony and the
Orange River sovereignty, the 'Trans Vaal Republic, and
Natal is rapidly increasing; and to this we hope soon to be
able again to add the once valuable Katie trade.
A gent impetus has been given to business by tha open-
ing teethe extended lines of screw steam communication to
India and Australia ; and efforts are being made, though
tardily, to provide secure harbour accommodation for the
crowds of shipping now directing their course towards our
port, on their way to the golden regions.
A reward of 1001. was offered list week by Liutenant-
Governor Darling for the discovery of cent in the Cape
colony, and it is believed that the object has been already
attained. Samples of so excellent description of coal have
been brought to town, said to have been found in the
neighbourhood of the celebrated Conatantia vineyards. The
fast appears credibly attested; and a commission, consisting
of the secretary to government, the Surveyor General, the
Astronomer lineal, and Meson. Ansdell and Ch:appini, were
to proceed to the spot yesterday for examination and report.
Their report has not yet appeared.
An earnest, but friendly and considerate appeal has just
been made by Lieutenant Governor Darling, to the inhabi•
tints of the western districts, calling upon them to contri-
bute, either in money or kind, towards the equipment and
maintenance of the volunteers who are now going forth
from the eastern part of the colony to join the standard of
the Commander-in-Chief. This appeal, we feel condida•te
will be met in a generous and patriotic spirit by the age
public.
The following addresses have been pretested be
Captain Watts, one by the merchants of Ow
Town, and the other by the passengers on the home
voyage per Hellespont :
Cape Town, Aug. 22.
Dear Sir,—As this is probably the lest of the Hel-
lespont to Table Bay, we, the eaisea sasedisses and
other inhabitants of Cape Timm hairs to take the upper-
tunity of espreseng ear same et in important sunless you
have rendered to seems na
The rapid propene needetreen 1n the Bonniest have
denominated the !_/infant lest the screw prepense is
fully admire to sown assessillally with the peddle, and
your len wisp rode la the AM mem el 34 days is with-
outTraJeolp tepid romps seek by the vessel under
your commend, me we emesive aliondat prone that it is
to year ad asp seasuaship, esd nen chance, the tins
of regular eummusiescisa between this colony and the
soother smeary hr beta se mesidelly abridged.
It are MI opal satristien to acknowledge the con-
tinuous mutiny eathariality with which you have
treated then whe hen beiMe pleasure of riling in your
impost
vperenri essel. mid wink has sowed yea la warn, we trust, the
friendship sod et eIL
It will be • mow of mesh patillestles to es te lesia
that, en year refers inwen, yen mores have bees idly
appreciated by de sarepre impair whom pea hem se
soarer, and addeatly sorrel, sad tbat are kag
.we may
riensaLisseerithe weressig yea ram as ,gain as the
of one ef their ost-eless musk which, we
deeM net, yea will maw es go* sad egeseeble • sat
vernal se year poem* ems&
Ws Maly deer sir, years very elemenely,
AND KING.
NMlbre the ellerehaste sad tradseasse of Cape Town.
. Watts, semmealer atm llujoutes
screw obsimeNullkogosS.
7.
Sir,—After as expalltims sea leery way perporees
repro ef 36 days, the usual geed dame, It weed sera
sow, of all persongese by the Hollerrat, we me ea the
pert of bade& Bohm we leave yea we ere YASUO to
=is thestream* Mr, both to mu, sad the ether
of dna* ear hi sperenatiou el the wanton we
hen mot wM elms we MIS, Caps. A mama erasers&
Mayesws. delay, sad pet Iraorowr.
st ea dryer of ilr sansals, while they am
trims sot a Me to de aments et a wernmsrally
a upwind ship as this bas cadent the the
affisigagliag and War Mews; =lte have used
ssemelly snot orb, and we mart ordislly thank you ell for
them.
' It Is woe dm pehablis that, in the changes about to
take glass massessel as the Imagist's et tits b
oremsesers sod pow new may net rands: hs thelC
repeat met ra g de we &W Whew
mshortly dyes
reseed a spires weir mil more adapted se the emir-
gar gegumforr labalie gadder, bat wherever yes shed
dr ems ham, 1110 TY_ re the resseagiierr
ture—dis sew preverbial renew ellths
mod deed my el es be desired lee the Isms pert as peso
esifitbggwe may have the list to sail with yew
li
you to canny medraks to the odors of year
rnied to sews the nese prenelf, we are, sir, yours
by all the pasanagen.)
pi,. If. Warr, re., Hisl=.
Aides mem res are being taken to render Table
Day a esavesiant place for coaling the numerous
stesnoure that may be expected to tall here for India
and Aukalia.
Wool ban advanced in consequence of the rise in
the Loads, market. Fine washed may be quoted
at Itid. par Ib., and in the grease at 9d.
The prepoeal to equalise the duties on all wines
imported into England has excited very little atten-
dee ; in fact, some think the doing away of &for-
estial Striae will bates rather the effect of stimulat-
ing the aporisties et good wines, which there is
dsebt as be mode at the Cape if care is only,
lobo.
**Burnaby, Royal Artillery, Captain Dishy,
liiaram, Dr. Atkinsos, staff surgeon, and Un-
Iseint Lam, Cape Mounted Rifles, have lean of
abuses to England.
Her Majesty's steamer Styx left for East London
on the Ist inst. with the English mail, and the
detachments brought by her Majesty's ship Win-
chester, SO, which arrived on the 17th ult., and left
on the 29th for India, where she relieves the
Hastings, 74, as flagship.
The Styx is expected back in Table Bay on the
I,sth inst., with General Somerset and staff, who
will embark in the next Indian steamer en route to

Her Majesty's steamer Hydra, Commander Bel-
grave, and Rhadamanthus, Commander Belam,
were in Simon's Bay on the 3rd of August.
Her Majesty's frigate Winchester, Captain G.
Loch, C. 8., arrived in Simon's Bay, from Ports-
mouth, on the 17th of July, and sailed for Ceylon
and the East Indies on the 30th.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
mail packet Queen of the South, Captain Ilyde,
which left Plymouth ultimately on the 20th of
June, notwithstanding her lees of eight days in
coaling at Ascension, arrived at Table Bay on the
29th of July—a most creditable passage. She left
the Car at 2.30 a.m. on the Ist of August for the
Mauritius and Calcutta. The Sir Robert Peel, be-
longing to the same spirited company arrived in

'Table Bay au the 30th of July, at 3 pm., where she
remained when the Hellespont left t she was to start
the following Thursday for Natal.
The Australian Mail Steam Packet Company's
steam ship, Australian, from Plymouth, arrived in
Table Hay on the 19th of July, and sailed on the
22nd for Adelaide, Port Phillip, and Sydney.
Her Majesty's steam vessel, Pluto, was at anchor
Mr tho town of Porte Grande on the 23rd of August,
and sailed therefrom on the 23th at 7 p.m. for Sierra
Leone, with the English mails brought in the same
day by the Lady Jocelyn.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
steam packet Lady Jocelyn arrived at ht. Vincent on
the 23th of August.
The Hellespont has a full cargo of oil, wool, ivory,
wine, and a small quantity of specie on merchants
account.

Aug. 13.—Lat.12.05 S., lon. 10 W., exchanged co-
lours with Dutch brigantine, showing No. 1,384.
The ship Wu, of Prince Edward Island, for Bom-
bay; Alisa, from Bombay, for London; and Mar-
chioness of Aliso, from the Mauritius, for Cork, for
orders. Aug. 14.—Lat. 09.48, Um. 12.26 W. The
bark Illanderpalm, from Manilla, for Rotterdam.
Aug. 18.—Lat. 02.09 N., lon. 18.03 W. The
ship John Carson, of Belfast, from Liverpool
for Port Philip. August 20.—Lat. 08.58 N.,
lon. 20.23 W. The Dutch bark Neverheid.
Sunday, September o.—Lat. 44 N., lon. 12
W., spoke English bark Nymph, from Odessa,
for Cork, and the brig Glide, of Waterford, same
day, let. 44 N., lon. 6.30 W., the schooner Conquest,i
54 days from Braila. Cape passengers—Mrs. Gray,
lady of the Bishop of Cape Town ; Major Bernaby,
R.A.; Mr. and Mrs. Boyle, two children, and three
servants; Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, Miss Horne, Mr.
Nesbit, Mr. Ruikir, Lieutenant Marryatt, R.N.,
Lieutenant Lucas, C.M.R., Mr. Newbury, Captain
Best, Mr. Sedgcr, Mr. R. Cross, Muter Morton,
Mr. Carney. From St. Helena—Captain Greetham,
lady, and servant; Mr. Maddock, Mr. Borer; Dr.
Furguson, in charge of a detachment of the St.
Helena Regiment, 38 men, 4 women, and 0 chil-
dren; Lieutenant Vincent, Mr. M'Leod.

rB!4IARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY
BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENOLAND.

The report by the managers of this company, pre-
sented at the meeting of shareholders held at the mat of
the society, 10, Place de la Bourse, Paris, on Monday lest,
states that—

" The revenue account, after payment of all expenses
properly chargeable under that bead, gives a net disposable
balance of 2,0311. 1 le. 9d., admitting of the declaration of a
dividend, for the six mouths ending the 30th of June last,
of a sum equal to 61. per cent. per annum on the capital of
the society, and leaving a surplus of upward/ of 2001. The
managers think that a dividend, at the rate of U. per cent.
per annum, payable out of the first six months' eerninge of a
public undertaking cannot but be considered as satisfactory;
but when due weight is given to the disadvantages which
have necessarily impeded the ietroduetion of en enterprise
of so novel a character, the expenses which have unavoida-
bly attended its opening, and tho hitherto incomplete state
of ell the traffic arrangements, the returns must be COnsi-
, dared as highly encouraging. But even this result, how-
ever, does not give a correct view of the value of the under-
taking, as the earnings of the line have been nodally taxed
by the payments for the transmission of the society's mes-
sages between Dover and London. Had such payments,
during the past six months, been made upon the scale
contained in the agreement late,' entered into, the disposa-
ble balance would have been increased by 1,1331. 16s. ; and
the dividend to the 30th June would have been,
with precisely the same amount of traffic, at the
rate of St. per cent. per annum, in lieu of 6!.
The amount paid to the South Eastern Railway Company,
was 2,3691. 12s. 3d. ; the amount that would have been paid
under the previsions of the proposed land agreement was
1,2361. 17s. 3d.: giving a balance of 1,1331. lbs. The ma-
nagers next advert to the proposed agreement between the
society and the " Submarine Telegraph Company between
Great,l3ritain and the Continent of Europe," lately estab-
lished in London under a royal charter of incorporation
granted by her Majesty, Queen Victoria, a subject which
has engaged their anxious consideration for many months
past. This charter has been granted to enable the company
to establish a telegraphic submarine communication be-
tween England and Belgium, and subject to an arrange-
ment with the society, for the purpose of more effectually cat-
tying out the exclusive privileges granted by the respective
governments of France and Belgium, and of fully dove
loping the system of international submarine telegraphs.
To snare these results, a provisional agnomen has bees
entered into by the managers with the chartered
fee an equal division of the traffic receipts. sod On=
tof the two undeetakinp; seek tamest to
tlit=nfrom the opening fee the ponds Werrairies of
of the Belgian Use, sad to continue Is breentring
the at the two caniseesions, or ordain, of then or
until a nese complete easlethatlen of the impedes can
be sine& Independently et the general pan of Mend-
lying the isterests of the two angesies, to seempre have
had their Westin paelimisely direeted to the wry farm-
able position whin the per** of the Bdgisa line es
espy, Is rapid to a mewl at the eapiratles of the tune
ofizrozessee esseeriss. the Belgian governiairtgaa
rivaling to give the pretenses to the
senesedembee. Is the *Me egressent to be
es the drosheinee, moseessesissee belated a peonies,
miler while the soden will dune is egad boson with
the chartered eimpasy In any sash sesewd. With repel
to the agreement he the tie:rabies of mango berms
London- red Deem the team whist the orrepee ban
ultimately obbieed are so finownrs to the bra* it the
society, that then ie lit* semen' he nay Inner state-
ment on the sudden beyesd a repeddes thee, bad the pm-
vision of the t bees in free denies the last eta
months, taaserey would, ups those= amonsi of trans,
have geld • divides* et tbe ntis of 3 pa ant gee ream
awe madey an now enabled to de. TM yen leek
ee the of the prepsesd segenr whit pest
Idesse. With the inns to be an
neeivei as as the of
• of
the Belgian Use, added to the pest Wenn of-t regal
intercourse bowers Lenin nil Par* whisk any renew
ably beeound to knew es the numbs of the Inbar
repel lasi ine, end the mereemese *net imeenimmene
esmeamdeedea between the two wit*, them own moo
Med, esdeigete that a belies& of Ohm ate 101. per
east. MB bin inennately realised es the espirl of the two
onspedes, ineepostin of that gradual, but iNeeelik
OMNI WWI gollfides es esiolUsed Mena lien andspesed,
end no inwessese by telegeophie egos, benne, sere
sad snore a center of meld seessafty. The smog= hose
etipsdated that the sedan should be npeesesisil es the
bend it the diertered oenprey, ae well as as this of ihe
Ind Mee. TIM mss egns ave the sandmen. to eager,
thee the aide bonen Bever sad Pleb ie is men
raten whist m the :ley 'brink it wee kid dews.
paegs*to bewe the UM shirr is reserve, as
the arrangement win ne dretend emepasy
win lestisisol bar he see. *lb no woondif of Win
dews a mend one bemuses Done red Oinks eon seder
the tome of the peeponil was sepeenret„ is to meet of
soy Million ended Ming
_legobel, dr drained err
peg le to ponds IL sidessia the sena Monne
apies of oeflimitoi thi Ilene he them Ma Wee mien
in the dritend aempery.
obi -_em
the nerspee
e=Zthe geepiessre es the limy illeemniemen
in ; sad Mar they are espgo is one erne
ant istersideg edeenwes it menet Meow, In I estb
hetely be lad that their apseprin, is a semmerehl point
of view, is mend se few.'
" The anild emesst shows a of 100,0004 es se
may nine of U. sash, end es se Minn : By
omen rid es this essearlembee sal appepsneme, un-
doe the rem ef erdsie • of the Len de Seellif, emit it en.
perinesid wire, am of Waft cable, and anent pal en
weep' of the wires in conessies with the ashmedro aide
at Dover, 70,ovseuenest233l. 7s. 3d. ; genies money is the bends et
the French g, 2A691.1_
_pen fee ella
ferniture, 21:34. 1111. 991.—tam!, 70,4101. sennurt
me beim of
27,660!. is comma of 2,860/. vane of ahem bell is the
hands of the rompeny, and 23,0004. sheen unlielled.
"Ta renew sesesat news the SAIL b. rid. br been
noshed for nreages toneented ben November SLIBSI,
to Jim IR 11112 : The apemen et the Leaden Drew,
Caleb and Pads intim% bend*
end ether binned elnese, weletraiLlibir Z;
=and wages, MU 17t. IL : rem ird lam
Path, and Berer), Is. 10d. • dieseling' allowanew(litill
a yen under article 10 of the Asi of flisisty), 3001.—total,
1,6141. SL, pyre_ set.proin of I,IIIIIL feisty)), N.
" Oise Bement ld, VINF, the seeseloy has tneinlind
9,043h0es Lambs Ss Cable, he whisk is be
received. 19s. 9d. Two tbsessol gem Umbel sod
ninety-hut of these pounds have bees pad to die Sewn
Easters Railway."

ZARTINNIAILE lit PER The weather
the bat week, although not steadily Sae, was sof-
a to Neetuu orpsi deal of the cut grain, and to
OM Wryest is may lasts. Thursday and Friday
wens loontifei days. sad es was Saturdey till afternoon.
whin the almughsa• got very class sad sultry, sad •
drilthmtar awe sa—and evening est la with a thick
bow AWN liniFpW Wee o'clock a sharp rumbling wise
was bed, thabing ASSES sad window, sad ligha aeliales
SR &ohms; Wish was Wowed is abed • at es
km hp a sieti flesh of lightning sad pee of thesder.
Thu Am asugimed foe emit fiedantes. Pollowleg ao
sues Oar the fat wise, it was at first supposed to have
boos • shad peal of imendsr ; but there appears to be no
ream to ontibt it was sailed Mock of earthquake, having
been felt sa the Name insmsat is various parte of the
country. During the dam the electric fluid struck a
chimney bar the Virstargda, end almost rout it to phew
The 010.1111 at the bone was quietly dosing over the
be wba• • walk of brick', like thunder, came down
the chimney, moomponied by a quantity of emoke, and
dust, es made him imp up and rash down stairs at head-
long speed, never WWI. till be neselassi the foot of the
South lash. We beard of se ether answity in the town
that emming.—Poti Mohr.
hlscousselnux.—fho Mends of John Williams,
Esq., have determined upon presenting him with a token of
rasped In the teem of a piece of plate, dc., and up to the
prawni boss more than 21W. be. been subscribed for the
purpose.