The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-10 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, FOUR o'Ctoctc.
By the Fleeha, arrived at Liverpool, we have ae-
onnts from Monte Video to May 8, from which we
earn that the Rattler, with Lord Howden, had
stered the River Plate, and proceeded at once to
wet Ayres. The French commissioner, Count
raiewsk i, had also arrived. He landed for a few
'Ey only, at Monte Video, and having had a con-
wan with the Baron Deffandis, who is superseded,
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401 the ith, for Buenos Ayres. Very sanguine
elisetations were entertained that the endeavours of
heirs commission would be successful, and that affairs
veld be settled in a manner satisfactory to the
Feat body of the people, even though the arrange-
s's& should be in some respects unpalateable to the
tolent-heuse shareholders and some other interested
Mies at Monte Video. The Baron Deffandis
pi 'Admiral Laine were to leave immediately
• Ill* Janeiro. At the date of the last *c-
ounts from Buenos Ayres, the commissioners had
pt arrived. but were hourly expected, and,. in
Vssequencc, there was an entire suspension of
Iciness, and an impression that an arrange-
tent would be made immediately on the appearance
Lord Howden and Cennt Walewski. The dif-
ireves between the government of Rosas and that
fletßrazils, and the bearing of the latter in cense-
peeve, were apprehended to result in • complete
Kole, and, perhaps, re-establishment of the block-
sle- et Buenos Ayres, which was expected shortly to
it raised on the parts of England and France.

Our intelligence this morning from the Cape of
food Hope is to the 12th of May, with files of the
loodtl4 African Advertiser to the same date. The news
eon the frontier is not important. The governor,
be lieutenant-governor of the eastern provinces, and
he commander of the forces, were at Fort Peddie.
',icedenent Forsyth had succeeded in unshipping
applies at the mouth of the Buffalo, river with
omparative ease and safety, and had re-
acted favourably of the place where the
Nang was effected. Lieut. Forsyth's success
ear considered most important ; for if supplies
salmi drawn from the Buffalo, the regular troops
iadilorgher forces will be able to operate with effect
a. the Kaffir chiefs beyond the Kei. Some unfor-
note confusion respecting the issue of rations and
thee supplies to the provisional levies, had induced
rather unpleasant feeling among the irregular
reaps, ard increased the unwillingness which the
Burgher settlers had for some time exhibited to
agar again in active service, the excitement
rising from the presence of immediate danger having,
Or the present, pawed away. This latter reason
s assigned by the Commercial Advertiser, in explasa-
ion of the slowness with which the Burghers rally
vend the standard of Sir A. Stockenstrom, to whom
hey are so much attached, and in whom they
dace unbounded confidence. "They say" adds
he same journal. "they do not see their way
learly, nor what is to be done. They cannot, like
%War troops, remain content in quarters. A
largher force must act from the moment of concen-
ration to its breaking up : every day of inaction is
lilt as a dead loss. Stockeastrom himself takes the
ield from a pure sense of honour and patriotism.
lie -health would have rendered exposure to the
arrass'ng duties of a campaign among the hills and
bresta inexcusable under any lower motives. A
porsarpondent says, I saw Sir Andric. lait night.
Ie is very poorly, suffering from rheumatism and
pain in the chest, but willing to divne life and
iealth for the sake of his country. But very few
wrsons, either English or Dutch, are rallying round
iime. Neither they nor the Hottentots understand the
sedentary principle. If the governor wishes to begin
Isel again, he must have martial law. The
Butters, Dutch, English, and Hottentots are tired
- war, and many think the government ought
o (Cry it on, and they should be exempt.' Such
meats to be the present feeling, perfectly natural
man the circumstances ; bat should the enemy make
de Appearance again in force, this sense of weariness
will be succeeded by more energetic sentiments. At
hissed of the colony recruiting has taken a fresh
tarp, and considerable numbers of fine serviceable men
lave already been enrolled at the missionary institu-
ions of Genadenthal and Zuurbraak, and are now
in glair way to the scene of action. The terms on
shish they have tendered their services are under-
aced to be liberal, and it is probable that their ex-
=pie will be followed by a great number of their coon-
rynten in other parts of the colony. These, when
°tried with the frontier Burghers and the volunteers
)f Kat River, will compose a force sufficient to carry
itockenstrom, as before, into the heart of the enemy's
nuntry, where, if supported by the military, instead
)f being thwarted, crippled, and in a certain sense be-
rayed, he will enable the governor to impose and
.xetute his own terms on all that may oppose him."

From the report of the committee of the Cape Town
ommercial Exchange it appears that the imports of
he year ending Jan. 5, 1847, exceeded those of the
preceding year by. 53,4911., to which is to be added
ipecie, as food an import as any, 159,369!. The total
unease, istherefore 212,8601. The value of the
?xport• is less than that of the preceding year, by
29,8821. 132. Gd. Part of the large export in 1835,
however, arose from an incidental source of revenue,
he discovery of a large mass of guano within the
imits of the colony, of which the government sold
15,362 tons, at It. per ton. The usual increase in
wool for 1816 has been checked partly by the Kaffir
war, but chiefly by the great drought of 1845.6. The
lefleiency, caused chiefly by the war, will appear in
the returns of 1848 for 1847, the clip of one year
wing chiefly shipped in the succeeding year.