The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

the mouth of the Kowie river. The Grattan Town JOINII4i
thus daddhes the loesliq is which it is found :
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crust deed aped& In seam 'Mate de Isla angel the
forms of pima's/the tern Mod, addled same Ikawicas,
also band ea the spot, may hedkottardriad held dads emleand.
The Fairy Queen had arrived in Alva Bay, will 10,0001.
specie for the Eastern Provinces Bank.
At NATAL • second cotton company had been an-
nounced. The projectors of the first placed their main re-
liance for an adequate supply of labour upon German
emigrants; the second propose' to employ the Zulus. The
('ape and Natal Shipping Gazette very sensibly remarks,
that the trial of both plans will show which answers best.
The Zulus certainly are an industrious race. The maize
exported from Natal is exclusively raised be them. Two
vessels which arrived at the Cape from Natal on the
13th and 16th of May brought between them 2,483 bags
of maize, and left se much as would amply supply the place
and afford two more cargoes for export. A hope was enter-
tained that a more direct intercourse might be opened
through these Zulus with the Basu es, who inhabit • fertile
country, and have made considerable progress in the cultiva-
tion of wheat. At present the intercourse with this people
is kept up from Algea Bay across the Orange River, a dis-
tance of 700 miles a pass through the Ilaloui Mountains
from Natal would bring them within 100 miles of the coast.
MAURITIUS.—By the Hindostan we have papers
from this island to the Bth of May. The merchants had
received by the Ilindoetan, from Calcutta, the welcome im-
portation of 230,000 Company's rupees and some doubloons.
This, it was hoped, would keep down the rates of ex-
change as the crop approached. During the month
of April prices of sugar had net ranged so low as ship-
pers and purchasers had expected. The calculations ss to
the coming crop were still vague ; the dryness in the pro-
ductive districts (North and South Pamplemousses and Ri-
viirre du Rempart) bad somewhat checked vegetation ; and
the heat of summer being past, rains that might still fall
would not do so much good. The reports from the other dis-
tricts promised well. Sir William Gomm estimated it at
140 to 130 millions; less sanguine calculators, at 130—about
equal to the last. The grain-market had been iuflueni.ed
by the unusual demand for rice and shipping it, India ; and
a considerable quantity of the former had been exported in
the course of April. From the polemics of the Watchman,
the Cernien, and Mauricien, we regret to see that the go-
vcruor and planters were still at loggerheads.

THE HINDO4TAN " STEAM-SHIP.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's st 4 emu. lfindo•tea, Capt. S. Lewis,
arrived yesterday at Southampton. The Hiudostan sailed
from Mauritius on the Bth, and Cape Town on the 29th of
May, and brings the latest dates both from that colony and
M uritiva, for the contents of which se- "Colonial." The
Hindostan has been employ( d in the mail service between
Calcutta and Suez upwards of three years.