The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

• We have advice, from Cape Town to the 6th of August.
Letters of that date say that nothing has occurred sines the
departure of the last steamer to check the activity which pre-
vails in all commercial, affairs, owing to • the large continued
shipments to Australia ; the amount of business transactions
during thelast month or two, being unprecedented. There is,
at this moment, in the Table Bay, a large 1,000• ton ship
(Blackheath), chartered in Australia to convey a cargo from
this to Melbourne. The effect, however, of all this has been
an enormous rise in the price of articles of consumption, not-
withstanding an unusually large harvest.
The list of candidates for the Upper House has swelled to
more than twice the required number, and the greatest exer-
tions are being made by the various committees over the colony,
to secure the return of their particular candidates. Sir A.
Stockenstrom, Bart., has, on the score of ill health, declined
several requsitions to become one.
On the frontier, the peaceable aspect of affairs continues un-
interrupted, although some who believe themselves competent
to give an opinion on, the subject, think this happy state of
things will only last until Saudilla receives the Queen's decis-
ion about the forfeited lands ; but there appears nothing either
in the acts or bearing of the Kaffirs, to justify such an opinion

at present. •
The death of Kreli's favourite son has caused great con-
sternation amongst the whole tribe, and induced that chief
to put his principal witch-doctor to death.
The result of the commission of inquiry-into the Hotten-
tot rebellion has appeared in a government notice issued by
Sir George Cathcart, which, after reciting that many of the
Erf-holders did " listen to evil reports and mischievous
counsels, and join the liaffirs in rebellion, and did continue
to commit the most wanton and cruel depredations and
murders against the inhabitants of the frontier districts for
a period of some twenty months, and until they were for the
most part killed or brought to subjection, the remainder
being fugitives and outlaws," concludes by declaring for-
feited the lands of 160 of those who had been proved to have
taken part in the rebellion.
Sir George Clerke had reached the Sovereignty. No in-
telligence from Natal has been received since last mail.
The want of another steamer on the coast is greatly felt.

THE

II OUR OV

BRAZILS

The Royal Mail Steci:
Revitt, arrived this mornin

hip 1

g the usual Brazilian and Riv(

charge of Lieut. O'Reilly, R.I

SATURDAY

Capt. R

O'clock,Tbring7
Plate Mails in

The Tay brought 68 passengers,
£6500 in specie and jewellery, beside
of Cochineal, Ipe6icuanha, Grapes,

ates,

and • about

litantities

Poin egTan-

The Tay's latest dates are : Buenos Ayres, Sep.
1 ; Monte Video, 4;. Rio de Janeiro, 14 ; Bahia, 19 ;
Pernambuco, 22 ; Madeia ; Lisbon, 10. •

The Brasileira, the first of the new line of Liver-
pool steamers, reaohed Bahia on the Nth ult., in
21 days, 14 hours from Liverpool, including stop-
pages at Penambuco, St. Vincent's, and Lisbon.
The accounts from the River Plate, by this packet,
are of a favourable "character. ' Business had

ecome active. But little was known of the move-
ments of General Urquiza, who had retired to the
interior. Sir Charles Hotham, Mr. Ouseley, and
the Chevalier St. George, with their several suites,
have returned by the Tait;

A reduction of the import tariff from 20. to 5 per
cent. ad valorem., was talked of as probable.
At Buenos Ayres, the treaty of Urquiza, with the
Ministers of France, England, and America, vir-
tually depriving the-province of Buenos Ayres of
its legitimate and recognised
.posSeSsion of the
island of Martin Garcia, as a guarantee for the free
navigationof the rivers Parana and .Urnquay, had
been published. All three of the treities were of
the same tenor, and reserve a-right to the Emperor
of Brazil, and the
Bolivia, and the Oriental. s

Gov.ominti

of PAraguay

f Uruguay, to
Government of

become parties to tl

3uenos Ayres not only prot

igly against

ed the right of

Urquiza to enter into suci

From Rio, we learn

ed, and was succeeded-by another Ministry, undei
the presidency of Viscount Parana. No change
to the policy of the government

lad been caused nr-ftio- 113, the
gland, France, and the United

secret treaty of En

States with -Urquisa, r

Garcia