The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

the Governor's terms, they had now nothing to expect but
war. The conference then broke up, the Kutfirs retiring to
the Axastola mountains (from whence they had come in an
orderly manner. alacomo, it is suppoind, will yet submit,
and accept the terms offered him, in which case the confe•
deracy existing between the Oaika chiefs will be materially
weakened, if not entirely broken up, he being Yea:weed by
the rest as their principal head. Amongst the guns in the
possession of the Babes assembled on this occasion we un-
derstand several of the Cape Corps double-barrelled guns
were noticed, and several of them were mounted on Cape
Corps horses. One Keflir was wrapped in a cloak belonging
to the Cape Corps. Reports say that the Kaffirs are suffer-
ing very much from dysentery.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—We are indebted to a
correspondent for the foll?wiei eueenr;: ~etice at no
state of the cobby .:," ...", 'sae wad of August, which em-
braces sonic points overlooked in the accounts received
throegh our usual channel :—" Advice' to the 23rd August
announce that very beneficial rains had fallen, and put auend
to the long-prevailing drought. It had been as severe as
any that had ever previously occurred, and great privations
were suffered by the stock in particular districts. Owing to
it, provisions of meet kinds had advanced in price in
Sydney ; but a very short period of wet weather served to
effect considerable alterations, and beef and mutton were
only 2d. per lb. Bread!
is
quoted 4d. the two-pound loaf.
Sugar, moist, 3d. per lb. ; refined, ad. per lb. Tea, for
household use, 2s. per lb. The settlers were able to get
gond prices for fat sheep ...aid cattle, and, notwithstanding
some losses by the absence of rain, were generally
in prosperous condition, and,', being again on the verge
of the sheep/hearing season, had fair prospecta of
adding materially to their resources. The higher rates
that prevailed for the animals caused a cessation of
" boiling down," so that there would be much less
tallow to export than in past season.. The price of sheep,
with stations given in, was—from Bs. to 10s. per head, and
but for the increasing want of labour more capital would be in-
vested
in the pursuit of grazing. Labourers' wages were rising,
and experienced men were with difficulty to bo obtained.
The rates given varied from 181. to 2.31. per annum, together '
with ample rations of provisions (tub. meat, 91b. flour, 21b.
sugar, ilb. tea per week), and a cottage for re-idenee so
that or agricultural labourers the prospects are gaod. Great
hope was entertained that the imperial government would
devise some general system of emigration soss to confer abysm
both on the abundant population of ties mother country and
on the colony. S!r Charles Fitzroy had entered upon his
office, but ne public mea.sures bad yet come on the tapiis.
Mercantile matters were not over brisk, but goods would
be taken to larger extent in the wool season. The Commer-
cial Banking Company, at a meeting of shareholders, de-
clared a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year (or 10 per
cent, per annum). The lute Governor, Sir George Giprs
and family, have arrived in England.