The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, S inday,
The Union Steam Shipping Company's mail ship Briton,
Commander John Boxer, from Cape Town April 20, St.
Helena April 29, and Ascension May 3, arrived in the
Sound this morning.

The cargo includes 90 tons of copper ore, 558 bales o
wool, 46 bales of skins, 716 bundles of hides, and 25 cases
of ostrich feathers; and among her 91 passengers are his
Excellency H. E. Savaren de Almeida, Governor of Mo-
zambique ; Deputy Assistant Commissary General Sanders;
Lieut. Hare, 11th Regiment; Lieuts. Houghton and Morse,
of the 96th; and the Revs. Woodrufte and Urquhart.
Sir P. Wodehouse was to open Parliament in Graham's
Town on the 27th April. The revenue for last year fell
short of the expenditure by £170,000.
The bill before Parliament in relation to the public roads
will, if carried, relieve the Colonial Government of a charge
amounting to £36,000 per annum. The stamps may add
£25,000 and bank notes and succession duty £14,000. These
gains, if obtained, will scarcely meet the requirements of
the Government.
The continued intention of Sir P. Wolehouse to transfer
a portion of the law courts, &c., to Graham's Town gives
great annoyance to Cane Town.
Opinion varies so much in regard to the different routes
of proposed railroads that very little progress is expected to
be made with the new projects in the present session. The
Queen's consent has been given to the Wynberg to amalga-
mate with the Wellington Railway Company.
Large stocks of grain are held in Cape Town—wheat, 163
to 19s, oats 6s, and barley 7s 9d. There is a great demand
in the Eastern provinces for greased wool for North Ame-
rica, and as much as f I and 9id have been given to fill up
cargoes. To England id per lb ie given for freight, hides
30s, and copper ore 555.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Salamander, 6, Commander
Hon. John Carnegie, from Plymouth, arrived at the Cape
on the 28th March en route for Australia, and sailed again
on the 13th April. The screw steam corvette Pearl, Capt.
John Borlase, C. 8., from China, called at Simon's Bay, and
sailed on the 2d of April for England. The screw steam
sloop Lyra, 9, Commander Robert A. Parr, from England,
arrived on the 6th of April. The paddlewheel steam frizate
Valorous, 16, Capt. C C. Forsyth, towing Li ringstone's
steamer Pioneer, had arrived at Simon'a Bay from the
Mczambique.
The Portuguese ship of war Anna Maria, from Mozam-
bique, was refitting in Simon's Bay. The Confederate
steamer Alabama arrived in Table Bay on the 20th of
March, and left March 25 for a cruise.
The Royal mail steamer Cambrian, from England, ar-
rived out on the 12th of April. The bark Countess of Yar-
borough, from Cardiff :for Shanghai, after calling at the
Cape for supplies, had put back leaky.
The transport Middlesex, Capt, J. Commel'., 74 days
from Calcutta, for Portsmouth, arrived at St. Helena April
23. She has on board 173 men, women, and children be-
longing to various regiments, under the command of Capt.
Martin 38th, and in medical charge of Dr. Boyle..
Her Majesty's ships Rattlesnake and Meander were at
Ascension. The gunboat Sparrow arrived there on the 3d
of April to refit, ad left on the 23d for the West Coast
of Africa. The Archer arrived also on the 3d, and. left
on the Bth. The Industry, from England, arrived on the
20th, and, having disembarked stores, sailed on the 30th for
Rio; ar.d the Pearl, from China for England, touched at
the island cn the 21st.

The Briton has experienced a constant succession of head
winds since crossing the Line.

Dr. Murphy, R.N., one of the passengers from Cape
Town, died at sea on the 28th of May.
The Briton spoke, May 1, in let. 12 4 S, long. 9 51 E, a
bark, showing new code P.R.M.W.; and on the 16th, in
jat 25 13 N, long. 18 23 W., passed a screw steamship,
suotsowd to be the Athens, which left Piytoeuth for the
G .-d flope on the 6th of May.