The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-19 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE HARBINGER.

Yesterday the General Screw Company's steam
packet Harbinger arrived at Southampton from Aus-
tralia and the Cape of Good Hope. tier dates are :
Sydney, Friday, May 12; Melbourne, Sunday, May
22; Mauritius, Tuesday, June 21 ; Algoa Bay, Sun-
, day, July 3 ; Table Bay, Thursday, July 7 ; St. Vin-
cent, Wednesday, Aug. 3.
The Harbinger bnngs the following passengers,
viz.: from Sydney, 18; Melbourne, 39; Cape of Good
Hope, 8 ; disembarked at the Cape of Good Hope
Ifrom Melbourne, 5 ;—total, 70.
Her cargo consists of a few packages of merchan-
dise and a considerable amount of gold, viz., 130,000
ounces, on freight.
The Harbinger has brought an immense ship letter
mail, consisting of nearly 250 bags and boxes; the
largest number of letters that ever was brought into
Southampton.
The Harbinger fell in with the following ships
during the voyage :—Mac 23, leaving Melbourne,
barque Franklin, ship Anne Cropper, American
barque Templeton, and American vessel Zaccheus,
standing in. July 5, between Algoa Bay and Cape
Agulhas, exchanged numbers with barque Stttncler-
ings, bound westward. July 6, saw the screw
steamer Antelope, off the Cape, bound eastward.
July 7, in Table Bab ship Kent, from Calcutta to
England. July 9, lat. 33 S. lon. 13 E., barque
Viewforth, Singapore to London. August 4, ex-
changed colours with barque Morayshire, lat. 19.45
N., lon. 24.19 W. August 11, barque Henrietta,
from Swanage to St. Jago de Cuba, 36 N. 22 W.
The news contained in the Australian journals
brought by the Harbinger has been anticipated by
the Overland Mail.

In reference to the Cape news, the South African
Atkertnter of July 7 says : •

Since the despatch of the Mauritius and Queen of the
South little has occurred in this part of the world beyond
the usual routine of a peaceful and progressive settlement.
The Governor is still on the frontier completing his arrange-
ments for defence and the improvement of internal order
and obedience to the laws. In an excellent minute ad-
dressed to the Legislative Council, he speaks in the cautious
language of a man who knows the world, of the probable
success of his measures, and of their certain success if the
colonists perform their part of the work faithfully and
cheerfully. The constitution was legally promulgated on
the lit day of July, and several clear directions have been
issued by government to the future constituencies on the
subject of registration. The public and the government
are completely reconciled. Real discontent has disap-
peared. Grumbling is confined entirely to a few
individaals who evidently misunderstand the pro-
visions of the constitution, or who know not
what they would have. Already more than a sufficient
number of candidates for the Council of Fifteen have been
invited or publicly proposed in different parts of the colony.
Each candidate must be invited to stand, by a written re-
quisition, signed by not less than 25 qualified electors, none
of whom can sign more than one requisition. Of the gen-
tlemen thus invited three have signified their acceptance—
namely, Mr. G. Joubert, of Colesberg, and Mr. J.B. Eb-
den, and Mr. H. E. Rutherford, of Cape Town. It is
pretty well known, however, that the following names will
speedily appear in the same list—viz.: Sir A. Stockenstrom,
Bart., Mr. J. L. Smuts, Mr. Advocate De Wet, Mr. Wicht,
Mr. Jarvis' Mr. F. Reitz, Mr. Molten, Mr. Fleming, Mr.
Illaine,Mr.ldeintjes,Mr.Godlonton,Mr.Cock,and Mr. Wood,
with several others who perhaps would not wish to be named
until some local action, az they say in America, takes place
in their behalf. The registration will occupy same months.
The following is the summary of the Cape Town
Mail of the same date :

General Cathcart has announced his assumption of the
office, conferred upon him by her Majesty in April last, of
" Her High Commissioner for the settling and adjustment
of the territories in Southern Africa, adjacent to or contigu-
ous to the Eastern and North Eastern Frontier of this
Colony, save and except the Orange River Sovereignty ; "
in which capacity he is authorised to " take all such mea-
sures, and do all such matters and things as by him may be
lawfully and discreetly done, for pnventing the recurrence

of any irruption into the said col,ny of any tribes inhabit-
ing any of the territories aforessi(l, and for maintaining the
said colony in peace and sat. ty from invaders, and for pro.
muting, as far as may be pos.ib:e, the good order, eivilisa•
tins, and moral and religious instruction of the tribes afore-
said." Sir Ricorge Russell Clerk and Mr. Osten hire also
entered upon the duties assigned to them as Assistant• Cent.
mis‘ioners to his Excenency for these iutl:ortant purposes.
The complete rc•establishment of peace has enabled the
farmers en the frontir r districts to return with contiihnce to
their farms, and agricultural operations arc resumed with
spirit. Sheep-farming in particular.

On the let of July the order in council establishing the
new conAtituti.m .us du). promuJgated, Rail steps have
already been taken in all parts of the colony for carrying
the measure into operaticn. On Vie following day several
requisitions " were addressed to as many gentlemen of in.
flucnce and character in the western districts, calling upon
them to allow themselves to he nominated as candidates
for the Upper House, the elections for which are required
to take place before those of the low. r ; and in the
eastern province, notwithstandirg an at:cmpt on the part
of a few individuals to ilissuade them, the inha-
bitants have entered with alacrity upon the extrebe of
their new privileges. The gentlemen invited in the western
districts are, Messrs. Smuts, Jarvis, Wicht, llteda De Wet,
Zeederberg, ltuthurfoord, Reitz, and EMI' en and it is ex-
pected that at least double that number will be athlrtt•Fed
by the electors of the western province. The only reply
yet published is from Mr. Ebilce, who has accepted the
invitation. The numlb:r of members to be chosen is fifteen
eight for the western and seven for the eastern division of
the colony.
The tribes beyond the colony appear at present to be
peacefully disposed. Of the Katfirs, little is now heard,
but that they are gradually settliug down upon the territory
assigned to them by General Cathcart. Some nue riling-
ness was at first repotted on the part of the younger and
inferior chiefs, but Sandilli and Mecum° having surren-
dered the arms demanded of them, and given
the " word" fur Peace, hostilities have ceased, as sud-
denly as they commenced; and the Gaika tribes, lately
so formidable, are now spoken of as cite, (lent easterners to
the traders in their neighbourhood, of whore, by the last
accounts, they were busy supplying themselves with blankets
and other matters suitable to their new condition.

......
The mail steamer, Calcutta, arrived in Table Bay on the
23rd June, sailed again for India on the 26th, ad well.
By the Frontier Fo.t of this day, we have two important
government notices. One announces a regulation for pre-
venting Tuinbookies from entering the colony without
pa,aes from persons authorised to grant them, on pain of
imprisonment with light labour; and the imposition of a
tine on the ehi.fs to whose community the intruder may
belong. The other provides in detail, for the support of
armed men, on all the frontier farms lately granted, or to be
granted, on quitrent.

- The
f death of Lady Sale is reported to have taken
place at Cape Town on July 6.
VESSELS IN TAIILE Rev.—Antelope, A. It. French, for
Australia ; Earl of Shaftesbury, Pickering, tor Madras ;
Dorisana, Robertson, for Liverpool; lf,nt, Terry, for Lon-
don; Durham, Eager, fur Port Phitlip ; Chariot Kerr,
Potts, for Moulmein; Canton, TwechuiFe, for Moulmein;
Ipswich, Gillie, for Mauritius; Bonnuz•i, Burnett; Pey-
tons, Jenkins, for Port l'hillip; Jan Punter, Clarkson,
for Swan River; Marsden, Widdecome, for St. Helena;
Harmony, Little, for Melbourne:; Fortuna, Carrel, fur Port
Phillip; Robert Stephenson, Pence, for Algo► Bay;
Flora, Challis, for St. Helena ; Nile, Whannel, for Mel-
bourne ; Bromleys, Koos ; Mercury, Watt, for Natal ;
Cleopatra, Carrew, for lehaboe ; Conservative, Mauer;
Flying Fish, Granger ; Prince of Wulcs, Spence ; Antelope
Duncan.

ESSELS IX SIMON'S BAY.—H.M.S. Meander, Com-
modore Talbot ; H.M. brie Gnosis, Cum. the Hon.
Keane; H.M. brigantine Dart, Lieut. R. Deane; li.M.
briir, Contest, Com. the Hon. L. W. Spencer, for porta-
mouth-; 11. M. steamer Dee, Lieut. Smith ; Tasmania,
steamer, Cobb, fur Hobart Town. Phoenix ; Ostrich, Ste•
phenson, for Calcutta.