The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-08 00:00:00

NAY 8, 1852.

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN
MAILS.

(BT ILICTRIC TURORAPII.)
(PROW OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT
SOUTRAbIPTON SATURDAY, 8.30 P.M.
The Medway has just arrived, with the West
India and Mexican mails. Her data. are; Vera
Cruz, April 7; Jamaica and Demerara, 14 ; Trinidad,
15. She has brought 168 passengers, amongst
whom are Messrs. Thompson and Elrod, delegates
from Jamaica; also a largo number of persons
from the interior of Mexico.

Amongst the cargo is specie and gold dust, of the
value of 1,484,235 dollars, on merchants' account,
and 40,7.12 dollars on account of Mexican dividends.
From Mexico we learn that the government of
Arista was unpopular, and that another revolution
was imminent. fhe government was without money,
and the Congress would supply none. The amount
required fur the January dividend had been scraped
together with difficulty. A rupture also would pro-
bably take place between Mexico and the United
States, in consequence of the refusal of Mexico to
' carry out the Tehuhantepec railway treaty.
From Jamaica we learn that trade was dull. The
sugar crop would fall short of that of last year.
The small-pox was making rapid through-
out the island. The Windward ds were
healthy. The fever was abating in Demerara.
From Carr:teas we learn that the coffee mop was
closed, and that it was a short one. The cocoa crop
was also expected to be a short one.
From Chili and Peru we learn that tho
Ex-Presideut, General llellivian, was on his way to
Buenos Ayres.
From Ilydacoro we learn that General Flores was
cruising off Guayaquil on the 28th of March. An
attack was daily expected, and much anxiety pre-
vailed in tho Equador.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From LM(urdercee Mercantile late Mower.)
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, Airan. 13.
The business transacted in this market aims our issue of
the 27th ult. has been of the ordinary character. With little
inducements offering for speculative purchases, either as
regards reduction of prices, or anticipations of a permanent
revival of trade, dealers have simply confined their opera-
tions to the supply of their immediate wants. Stocks gene-
rally have been sufficiently ample to meet the ordinary de-
mond, mid prices have scarcely fluctuated from our last
quotations.
We notice an increased dulness in the articles of sugar
and rum, supplies of which are increasing in Kingston,'
whilst the inducements to speculate become daily less appa-
rent. Of pimento there is very little at market. Coffeeis
being brought in ra.her freely by the small 'mien.
M e found it necessary some numbers back to allude to
the circumstances of large deficiencies having been dis-
covered in the weights of several parcels of pork imported
into this market. More recently those deficiencies were
found to extend to other articles, and the consignees of
several parcels of herrings anal mackerel were obliged to
make allowances off the prices at which the articles were
originally sold, proportionate to the extent of deficiency.
It has again been brought under our notice that a recent
receipt of mackerel has been round to contain some 201 b.
len in each barrel than the correct weight. We believe we
may state with confidence that an effort is about being
made by the deans of Kingston to arrest the nefarious
and deliberately dishonest system disclosed in the foregoing
remarks, by obtaining some legislative enactment which
will authorise the seizure and confiscationof all descriptions
of goods which shall have been put up, like the articles
above alluded to, with the view to defraud the honest
trader.

The duties on tobecco were (reduced on the 31st ult. as
follows, in accordance with the provisions of the first Im•
port Duty Dill of the last session. The tariff with this ex-
ception remains uualtered.
Tobacco, manufactured, per 1001. value £32 0 0
and further per lb. weight 0 0 3
Tobacco, Cavendish, and unmanufactured, per
100 lb. value
and further per lb. weight 0 0 3
Cigars, per 1001. valuo
and further per lb. weight 0 0 6
Tonacco is in very limited frequiry. The sleek of
Cavendish is exceedingly heavy, and beyond the ordinary
demand.

Fuzintire.—Tennage is abuidant, but employment offers
very slowly.
EXCHANOI6.—On Landon: Colonial Bank-90 days,
per cent. prem.; CO days, 1 per cent. ; 30days, per cent.
Jamaica Bank-90 dam par ;60 dsys, i per cent. prem. ;
30 days, 1 per cant.

TIIE UNITED STATES.
ARRIVAL OF THE HBRMANN.
Yesterday, at 1 o'clock, the United States mail-
packet Hermann, Capt. E. Higgins, U.S.N., arrived
at Cowes, from New York, which place she left on
Saturday, April 24, and brings throe days' later in-
telligence. The Hermann brought 79 passengers, of
whom 32 were for Southampton. Amongst her
cargo were 3,000 dollars for Bremen, in gold and sil-
ver (German coins), 300 bales of tobacco, and 100
cases of hides for Bremen.
The news is unimportant, being comprised in the
following items from the New York weekly papers,
published on the day of the Hermann's departure:
Accounts of the serious effects of the storm are beginning
to pour in Trent all quarters. The overflow of the Alleg-
heny and Monongahela riven, was truly disastrous. In
addition to the less of many valuable lives, it is estimated
that 400,000 dol. worth of property was destroyed in the
vicinity of Pittsburg. The water was within three feet of
the high flood mark of 1832. Upwards of five hundred
families were driven from their homes in the little city of
Allegheny. Many of the bridges on the Potomac have
been swept, and a large amount of valuable property along
the river and canal, has been either carried off or wholly
ruined. Several villages were entirely destroyed in Vir-
ginia. In the New England states a great deal of damage
has also been done.
A despatch from Barton furnishes melancholy evidence
of the nonons effect, of the storm. The British brig
Joseph, was wrecked on Truro beach last Toledo, night,
and all but two of those on board were doubtless drowned.
A large number of vessels are ashore in the vicinity of sad
be7ond Barton.
fen persons lost their lives by the burning of the steamer
Pocahontas, on the Missiulppl, a few days ago. The cargo
consisted of nearly 2,400 bales of cotton, which, with the
boat, was entirely consumed.
The United States senate, on Thursday, decided to make
the whole number of Congres ional representatives two
hundred and thirty-four—thereby allowing California to
send two members, as at present, and giving South Carolina
an extra member for her fraction.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that on Wednesday, of
last week, Mr. Wm. C. Marshall (recently a candidate for
Congress) had a dispute in Brockville, Bracken county,
i with a Mr. Wilson, a keeper of a hotel in that town.
During the trouble, Marshall drew a pistol and fired at
Wilson, the ball passing through his left arm. In an instant
Wilson returned the fire, shooting Marshall In the forehead ;
who fell, and in four or five minutes expired. The same
afternoon, Mr. James Marshall (a cousin of William) bad •
difficulty at Maysville with a Mr. Ball, who keeps the
Franklin House in that town, the result of which was,
Marshall shot Ball, and he fell dead.
Kossuth had been well seoeived in Newark.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Naw You, Aram 23.
There has been a fair demand for stooks throughout the
week, and prices have been well sustained. Goverment
stooks and other leading securities are in &naiad for for
vestment for hors r well as European scommt, sad as
the supply is limited capitalism are misapellad to have re-
runs to our Railroad and County ponds, which her the
nature piths securities give sea dent guarantee of their
value.

Foreign exchange is firm, although the demand is
moderate. We quote London 1014 to 1091 ; Paris, 6.211
to 6.20 ; Amsterdam, 404 to 401 ; Ilembargh, 36 to 361;
Bremen, 771. The general tone of the market is un-
changed, and money remains as plenty, and cheaper, if
anything, than but week.
COTTON.—Trannetions for the past two dap have been
large, and es the quantity offering upon the market has
been moderate, we note en advance, on the better grades,
of Id. to ad. The sales for last tine days were 11,300
balm.
Water
Atlantis. Mart&
Pik tie
to to
ordinary, low to good 7 to 71 7 to iddling, teer to pod
1W 4
'Oddities, tut ir
rally ddittar to good Mt
Good asd
FLOus.—For a day or two pest there has been some
activity lap home use and the market clown with more
firinness,the demand being meetly for the better grades of
State and Ohio

on.tTr;.Zilte transactions in wheat are unimportant and
prices are almost nominal. The stock in store has beea
quite diminished of late by shipments from first hands.
The eupplies are now from the south ; sales of 6,000 bushels
rod white Southern, 100 c.; red is held at 92e. to 9.5 c. Rye
for immediate delivery is nut plentiful—the last sales being
at 26e. Of burley, sales to a small extent, at 70c. to 720.
Oats are more plentiful. at 38c. to 40c. for Jersey, and 40c.
to 42c. for State. For corn the home demand is good, and
the market bat poorly supplied ; yellow is wanted and
brings 661 e. tank. • sales of white Southern at 661 c. to
66 c., end mined Western, Sac. ; round yellow, Northern,
c.
'am ars.—To Liverpool . flattest is takes at 3-16 d. to
7.32 d.; flour, is. IN. to Is. 3d.; naval stone; Is &IA
eel
grain, :3}.1.; heavy goods, 12s. 6d. to 16s. To London: 160
tons saltpetre were taken at 20e.; tobacco, 25e.; naval
I stores, 2e. ; oilcake, Is. 9,1.

MARIA ANTONIA RAILVIAT. Tralo for the
week ending April 22, 11362, 1601. 1664 1161.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

THE KAFFIR WAR.

ARRIVAL OF THE HARBINGER.
Yesterday the General Screw Steam-shipping
Company's vessel, Harbinger, Captain J. W. Lane,
arrived at Plymouth, at 1 t o'clock in the forenoon,
from the Cape of Good Hope, with mails and a cargo
of sundries and some specie.
The Harbinger left Plymouth, on her outward
voyage, February 15, and made the voyage out in
37 days, calling at St. Vincent's, February 26; Sierra
Leone, March 2. She left Table Bay, Cape of Good
Hope, April 1, arrived at Sierra Leone, April 16,
and left the same day; arrived at St. Vincent's,
April 21, and left April 23. On nearing the en-
trance of the English Channel she experience(' the
prevailing easterly winds ; this rendered her progress
slower than it otherwise would have been, and in-
duced Captain Lane to call at Scilly on the 6th, and
replenish his stock of coals.
The following passengers arrived in the Harbin-
ger from the Cope: Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, three
children, and servant; Mr. and Mrs. M'Donald, two
children, and one servant • Mr. and Mrs. Stem, and
child; Monsieur and Madame Peon I Mr. and Mrs.
Grof, and child ; Mrs. Metford, Madame Chattin,
Captain Hope, Mr. Oswald and servant, Mr. Cellam,
Mons. Semler, Dr. Vonderbys, Mr. Ross, Monsieur
Elias, Madame Elias. Front brig Jessica, burnt at
sea: Captain Mourant, Frederick Vincent (appren-
tice), A. Monquad, John Babel Dolbet, Charles
Atticr, Mr. Gibant (passenger).
The mails, brought by the Harbinger, in charge of
Commandcrltobertson, R.N.,werelanded immediately
the vessel came alongside the pier in the Plymouth
Great Western Dock, received by Mr. Maria; the
postmaster of Plymouth, and forwarded to London
by the train leaving Plymouth at 12 at noon,
arriving in London at 10.30 p.m. the same day.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Hydra, arrived in
Table Bay, tape-town, on March 30, having on
board his Excellency Lieut• General the lion. George
Cathcart, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of

the Cape 'Colony, accompaniod by Lieut.-Colonel14:-
mour, his military secretary, and the lion. Captain
Curzon, his aide-de-camp. His Excellency landed at
ten o'clock, and was received with duo honours.

The Merano, Master-Commander Barlow,arrived
at the Cape of Good Hope, March 24, with troops
(Rifle Brigade), under the command of Lieut.-Col.
Buller, C.B. She left Plymouth the 7th, Madeira
the 27th, of January. On the 27th March she left
for East London.

On the 27th March there were in Simon's Bay the
following vessels of the royal navy:-The Castor,
36, Commodore Wyvill : Gladiator, 6, Captain
Adams, bound for England ; the Megtera, Com-
mander Barlow, bound for Algoa Bay ; the
Pickle, Lieut. Campbell, tender to the Castor;
and the Seringapatam, the coal depot. In Table Bay :
—the Styx, 6 guns,Commander Hall; Hydra steam-
vessel, Capt. T. Belgmve; and the Ithadamanthus.
The Penelope and the Archer were at Sierra
Leone, on the Harbinger calling there on her way
home.

The news from the frontier by this arrival is
pretty much the same in character as that received
by previous mails. As there have been some arrivals
of vessels leaving the Cape subeequent to the last pre-
vious mail, the general news does not extend over the
whole month.

The news brought by the merchant ship, Maid-
stone, from the Cape of Good Hope was to the 17th
of March ;by the Harbinger, therefore, we have
intelligence fifteen days later—viz., to the Ist of
April. By the former arrival the news from the
frontier was to the sth of March. B)• this it extends
to the 26th of March, or 21 days later. By that
arrival it was stated that a portion of the troops of
Mujor General Somerset's division were detached by
order of that officer, and thrown into a position of
much peril in the Waterkloof, where, after destroy-
ing some huts and killing a number of Kaffirs, they
were attacked at a disadvantage on their re-
turn, and during a conflict of several hours before
the arrival of support, they sustained considerable
loss. By this arrival we learn the troops engaged
on this occasion were 300 of the 91st regiment,
under CoL Yarborough, 150 of the 74th Regiment,
and 70 of the Cape Corps. Col. Yarborough himself,
we now learn, was severely wounded, and of his
gallant corps one sergeant and three men were
killed; and ensign Hibbert, three sergeants, and
eleven men wounded—that the 74th liighlanders

W am billed and four wounded; and Captain
Bawsley, et the Cape Mounted Rifles, was alio
wounded. Mach blame has been attached to MO.-
°mutual Somerset, for exposing so small a body .t
men in a locality known to be so dangerous. Os
their return to the camp the Kaffirs, of course, ro•
owuried the ground from which it had been ion&
hobially tried to remove them.
The following is the summary of the Cape Town
Mail, of April Ist, of the events which have taken
place in the colony since the sth March. The abo-
minable cruelties practised by the Kaffir on those
who unhappily fall into their hands alive constitute
a most melancholy feature in the news by this
arrival.

On the following day, the bth instant, Sir Harry Smith
advanced from King 'William's Town with about 2,500
men, in three columns, under Col. Pole, Col. Michel, and
Col. Byre, and entered the Waterkloof. Here a number
of desultory operations appear to have taken place, the re-
sult, of which have not been made public In any connected
form. It would appear that the enemy generally avoided
meeting the troops; and although oonaiderable numbers
must have fallen by the shells throws amoaget them wher-
ever they were men in numbers, it is believed that the
main body have succeeded in leaving that locality and joie-
iog Sandilli and his followers in the Amatolas, a stronghold
which they have held throughout the war, and whither Sir
Harry, by the latest accounts, was engaged in following
them up.
Os* of Macoato's principal retreats, in the Waterkloof,
previously deemed impracticable for European troops, was
successfully penetrated by the column under Eyre, bat the
enemy disappeared, leaving in our hands • large quan-
tity of agorae and about 130 women, one of them the prin-
cipal wife of /Immo, with three of his children.
In a later lON+, in the Waterkloof, the Hon. H. Wrot-
Plat
tealey,were Ord Itegent, lost his life, end ten privates of the
woundedim.

The operations of the column under Colonel Michel
are spoken of as highly successful; but at no pont!, it
appears, did the Kaffir' make any decided stand. With
incredible labour the two guns attached to his column
were dragged through the dense bush, and placed on the
most commanding heights, but the space within range
wu speedily found to be deserted. Thu part of the force
does not seem to have met with any opposition ; and al-
though it was known that the ravines and kloofs were
swarming with KaBlrs, ready to cut off stragglers or take
advantage of any unguarded movement, the whole of the
Waterkfoof was traversed for days, the troops destroying
the enemy's huts and crops, without a single casualty.
At the date of the last report, from the front, these
were still being carried on. Great numbers of
=lare constantly reported to have been killed, chiefly
by the shells and other projectiles with which their haunts
are assailed ; and many of their women and children have
ale* been unfortunately destroyed by those means. Still,
a* indication is given of a wish on their pert to submit, and
the prospect of a satiafactory peace seems ea remote sever.
Noe as their mode of carrying on the war in any degree
relieved of its inhuman character. To give or accept quar-
ter Is unknown in Kaffir tactic". Our men, whether colonists
Of soldiers, who fell alive into their hands, arc put to a death
of torture, mere or leas protracted according to their oppor-
tunity of wreaking their horrid vengeance undisturbed. It
has been ascertained that Sergeant Laing, of the 91st, who
was taken by them in the affair of the 4th, was roasted
alive, and the bandmaster of the 74th, who also fell into
their ruthless hands, was for three days subjected to every
conceivable method of torture before death put an end to
his sufferings.
Almost tho only satisfactory feature in the aspect of fron-
tier affairs, is the almost entire absence, during the month,
of depe.dationo within the border; the marauding bands,
who formerly infested the eastern districts, having been
apparently, recalled, to assist their chiefs.
The survivors from the wreck of the ill-fitted Birken-
head have been forwarded to join their respective corps in
Kaff eland; and the 80th Rifles, which arrived here in the
Megan on the 24th ult., have elm proceeded to the front.
The number of burghers who responded to the Gover-
nor's call on the Bth amounted in all to about 800 men,
most of them belonging to the else* of " boers," and but
few, we regret to state, from the comparatively English die-
tricts of Albany, Fort Beaufort, and l'itenharge.
The legislative council, after repeated delays and post-
ponements, has at last proceeded with the "Constitutional
Ordinance'," for tarrying into effect her Majesty's Letters
Patent of 18.50, creating a parliament in this colony.
During the early part of the month various demonstra-
tions of gratitude to the crown tor the draft ordinanoe,
and of condemnation of those who impeded their immediate
enactment, hare been made in various parts of the colony.
Mr. IJsrling the newly•uppointed lieut.-governor, ar-
rived on the '.4th inst., and gave great satisfaction to the
public by declaring, in reply to an address presented by the
Municipal Commissioners, has determination to devote him-
self to the promotion of the interests of the people of all
awes in this colony, without any distinction.
Lieut-Oen. Cathcart, who arrived yesterday in the
Hydra, will proceed immediately to the frontier, to relieve
Bir Harry Smith. Upon Lieut.-Oovernor Darling will then

devolve the administration of the civil government of the
colony; and it will be for him to decide whether he will
give his fiat to the "Bill" as passed, and thereby constitute
it an " ordinance"—in which form only it will be received
from the colony by the Secretary of State—or whether he
will quash all previous proceedings, and introduce the bill
de novo, making the 261. franchise a government measure.
' Nothing, we believe, would give more general contentment
throughout the colony than his adopting the letter course
The following memorandum, which contains in-
structions for carrying out dispositions of the troops
on a most comprehensive scale, and with the view of
harassing the enemy throughout: the entire seat of
war, appears in the Graham's Tou n journal of
March 27 :

Mead quarters, Seven Kluuf Point, Arnett:Ass,
Comp, March 24, 18.52.
The columns under Colonels Michel, Eyre, mid Pereeval,
will have this day completed the movements previously
ordered in the Inner Amatolas for the expulsion of the
Rebel °adios, and will thus continue to prosecute this
service :

I. Colonel Michel will establish the b.ise of his operations
at Fort Co:.

2. Colonel Eyre will march via Fort White, for the pur-
pose of taking with him 16 &ye provisions ; acid establish
himself near his old camp in the Keiskwnwai Hoek, as ths
base of his operations.
3. Colonel Pcmval will march vie Fort White, taking
with him 15 days' provisions; awl, as the Game of his oper-
ations, establish himself so the Quilli Quilli ltauge, taking
his gun with him.
4 Colonel Pole will march via Fort White end King
William's Town ; and with a coy* of cavalry, levies. and
lingoes, which will be given to him, establishing himself
un the Ksbutisie Neck, with 16 days kroviiiiutts and
forage.
5. These corps will daily despatch strong patroles in
every direction friiii their respective base, so oa to render
the Amatula too hut fur the rebels to remain in them.
6. The garrison of Fort Peildie will frequently penile
the Fish River bush; the garrison of Fort Brown the Brea
bush ; and the garrisons of Fort Hare, Blinkwater Post,
Post Rena, Eland's l'ust, and Whittleseo, will patrolo
their respective neighliourhoods with v igcur and activity.
7. Meanwhile Major-General Somerset, with lb% field force
of regular soldiers, levies, and burghers, will act aeon tho
north side of the Amanda', penetrating these mountains
daily, and communicating with the Cradock burghers under
Commandant Gillian', and with the cavalry under Colonel
Pole on the Kabousie Neck.

Head-quarters %ill beZ.Fort Cot on the 25th inst., at
King William's Town on the 26:11, where all reports win
be forwarded.

(Signed) H. G. 8111TH, Commander-in-Chia.
(True copy) H. L. MAYDWELL, Military Secretory.
The following extracts contrin the latest news
from the scat of war :

KINU WILLIAM'S TOWN, MARCH 21.—1 t is reported
there has been a clear sweep made in the Kromme range,
and that Sir Harry intended to move on the Gliumie Hoek
on the 18th. 1 perceive you have heard of the rebels
making away with all the Fort White eutt:e. It app. irs
the cattle guard were out on the fiats around the poet with
117 head of cattle, 16 troop horses, and 8 horses belonging
to the officers on the post, when the enemy came down,
principally Hottentots, and swept them all off; killed one
man of the 2nd, wounded another, and stole • Hottentot
corporal of the Cape Mount: d Rifles ; or, what is
more likely, he deserted, and aided in the capture. Cap-
tain James, of the 2nd, is in command, and had • force of
about 200 men; his case is nut a very promising one.
An express arrived here this teeming from head-quarters
with letters, hut they contained nothing of importance.
Eyre, in one engagement (not stated where), had four men
killed, and eleven wounded. Colonel rerecral and his
force have gone to join the other divisions in the Amanda.
The principal force is working down towards Fort Cox,
hut it appears they are meeting with very little resistance.
Tola, Stock, and that clan have moved all thcir stock of
cattle from the Fish River bush into the Aniatula, and are
principally congregated near the junction of the lanais and
Thomas Rivers behind the Kahousie range, where they
are waiting to get a passage across the Kei, which us
loaded. _

Case. El LAND'S Rives., Maatit 23.—From information
and appearance, it is almost certain that the enemy will
continue hostilitica during the whole of the winter till
September, when their ploughing season commences. They
continuo moving into the Waterkloof, and are always on
the alert for mischief. It has just been reported that
they got off with 140 head of cattle and twelve
horse* from Fort White, in the open day on the flat,
killing one and wounding two of the Queen's. I fear they
will again overrun the colony before they finally move
acmes the Kei. We are proceeding towards the Kea. Wo
move up by Gaika's Kop, the back of the Aniatola, on
to the Windvogelberg. Yesterday the burghers wore out
nn patrol, and shot two fine fat Kaffir; in Van Buclen's
Hoek. These fellows had not felt the miseries of war to
any great extent. Llowker's party met with a number in
the bush, but only wounded a few. The roads are so bad,
that the waggon train is suffering daily. Yesterday one of
Windell's broke down ; to-day, G. Gilbert's shared a simi-
lar five. The weather is dreadfully cold, quite cold enough
for snow; the oxen arc Rllltatilig greatly. Teeday, Dr.
Allison, assistant-surgeon, R.A., met with a dreadful acci-
dent, while walking under the walk of the unfinished
building (intended for a chapel) at Philipten. The wiud
at the time was blowing almost a gale, and blew down on
the doctor's head one of the scaffold planks that had
been suspended for that purpose for the last two year..
It was at first thought the injury would have proved
fatal, as he was struck severely behind the head, on the
back, and also fractured his leg. The internal injuries,
however, are net found to be so had as was at first feared
the were.
UItAH•M'S Tows, MARCH 20, las2.—SinCe our last CORI-
1211itliCalti0O, we have received more definite intelligence
than before from at least one of the scenes of the late con-
flict with the enemy. The Mounted Rangers have returned
to town from the Fish River Bush, bringing an account of
the operations of that portion of the forces with which
they were associated. The burghers, it appears, with ono
or two exceptions, have gone on with Col. Percival to Fort
Hare, whither he has proceeded tor supplies, and from
whence he will march to join in the general attack upon
the Antatolas, where the Kaffirs have for the present taken
refuge. The Roams report that the enemy's stronghold
in the Fish River Bush has been completely cleared
out; they had more or less fighting every day
they were out; but, after the first day, the Kars made
but little resistance. Many of the enemy have been killed,
and a goodly number of cattle, horses, &c., and some arms
and ammunition, captured. The Kaffirs, it seems, are be-
ginning to feel themselves beaten. To show the estimation
in which they hold the kind of force now brought to bear
upon them, we have been told that when they saw any of
the burghers approaching, they called out to one another to
run:— ' Run, run, these are not the redcoats ; these men
will trample us down." The Rangers have returned without
• casualty ; and up to the period of their leaving nothing
had befallen the Burghers.

It appears from the instructions for the new
Governor of the Cape, as conveyed in a despatch from
Earl Grey to Governor Cathcart, that the lieutenant-
governor will reside at Cape Town, with authority
Ito carry on the civil government under the general
directions of the governor, while the governor him-
self is on the frontier, or otherwise engaged in the
adjacent territories. Should the governor, after the
termination of the war, take up his own residence
at Cape Town, the services of the lieutenant-governor
will then be required in the eastern division. The
office is intended to be permanent. The lieutenant-
governor will also be a member of the present legis-
lative council, until the present legislature shall be
superseded bT the new parliament, " which will, I
trust," says Lori Grey, "shortly be called together."
Till then " it will be one of the most important parts
of Mr. Darling's duty to attend to the legislative
business of the colony.

Wasen or vent lIIIMEMNIIIAD. Under date King
William's Town, March 21, .e find the following:—Lieut.
Girard, 13rd, arrived at King William's Town to-day with
the remainder of the ill-fated Birkenhead's troops. There
are several incidents of a most heart-rending character.
Several of the poor fellows were torn off the yards and
planks by the 'harks, which selected all the men without
clothe.. It is said that Major Seaton had a life preserver
en, and foolishly 'nand 300 sovereigns round his neck,
and, strange to say, his pistols. It is thought the weight of
them kept his head under water. The °Meer of the Lancers
who was saved from the wreck, had the good fortune of
maim 160 sovereigns, and mi reachin/ the shore found both
his hones. A subscription had been commenced at Cape
Town for the relief of the ,•ufl'erers by the week of her
Majesty's steam-vessel Birkenh, ad, and by the advertise-
ment of receipts dated March 27. we perceive that tho total
amount sulacribed was 7201. 16.. Old., of which 6001. was
granted by a resolution of the lesi.lative council.
Aaatvats IN SIMON'S Bar, MARCH 27.—March 23.
John William Dare (barque), 327 ton., J. Walters, trona
Kingstown, 211th December, to Hobart Town. I'assengers:
one matron and family, eight free settler', and 170 ftmale
convict' and 20 children. l'ut in for refreshment.
VERSBLS tsl ALOOA BAY.—Ariadne, 0. Salter, Thom-
son, W. and Co., London; Alice Maud, J. Winn, J. 11.
Clark, London; Rival, J. Conliner, J. 0. Smith; Victory,
3. Fowler, H. J. Dunell, Table Bay; Ada, W. Christie,
Maynard., K and Co.' London ; Robert Clive, W. Wee-
thenll, H. J. Dunell ; Unity, N. Groton, J. C 11400.1. Boa.
too, United States ; Plumstead, J. S. Furber, Thompson.
B. and Co., Table Bay ; Charles Molloy, C. Lidtlle, 11. J.
Dunell ; Regina, M. Cowart, Deere end Delta, London ;
Empress, It. Newman Merrds, K. and Co. ; Thomas
Worthington, J. Wallace,ni
Tat,.. Bay; Killermont, R.
Shaw, If. J. Dunell, London; Light of the harem, W.
Tydeman, Maynard', Kuhr, end Co., London; Mercury,
D. Reid; Elisabeth Jane, 3. J. Muni!, Table
Bay.

TIIE MURDER AT OlLEORD.—Yesterday, the exa-
mination of Elijah Noon, charged with the wilful murder
of his wife by stabbing her in the site with a ►word, took
place before the city magistrate., in a room at the City
Gaol. All the witnetwes who were examined at the coro-
ner's inquest repeated their evidence, hut no additional
facts of any importance was slicitesl. The prisoner, who
appeared to suffer great distress cf mind, declined to say
anything, rind was fully cam itted to take his trial fur the
wilful murder of his wife at the next aaaeses. Thu unfor-
tunate deceased was buried on Thursday evening at tie
Jericho Cemetery. and the funeral wee attended by alarm,
concourse of persons.