The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-09 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received the Zuid Afrikaan of the 31st
May, bringing news from_ the Cape two days later
than that brought by the Bosphorus. The intelli-
gence, however, is not important. The following
are the only items of interest in the paper we have
received :
The accounts by Sunday's post state that another
murder has been pareetratAl by the rebel Hottentots
upon two herds, in Manley's Flat, ten miles south of
Graham's Town. These men (a Fingoe and a Hot-
tentot) were out in the field with the cattle, when
they were attacked and shot by the rebels, who carried
off the cattle.
An attack had been made on Waterkloof, by Col.
Buller, on the 17th instant, at a place called the
Horse-shoe, where the lamented Colonel Fordyce
was killed. The Kafirs fought bravely. The
Colonel destroyed a number of huts, and the enemy
gave way before the troops; but the instant the
retreat was sounded they re-appeared in thousands,
and commenced a desperate attack on the rear guard,
only repelled by the good working of artillery,
which Colonel Buller had brought with him. One
of the rifles was severely, and two others slightly,
wounded.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(T HIS DAY.)
EXCISE CONVICTION.—Ann Bateman, the proprietress
of a low lodging-house, in Maidenhead-court, was
placed' at the bar before 'Mr. Bingham, charged with
selling exciseable liquors without a licence.
Police constable, 35 C, deposed that about half•past
twelve on Saturdhy night, he received instructions from
Inspector Black to watch the defendant's house, No. 1,
Maidenhead-court. He went there and watched till two
o'cicbk on Sunday morning, and in that time saw thirty
or forty persons go in and out. Witne.s then went in
and called fora glass of gin, with which defendant sup-
plied him. He asked what was to pay, and was told
twopenee-halfpegny, which he paid and left the place.
Godfrey, 5 C, said in consequence of holding a war-
rant from the Commissioners of Excise, he went into
the house and apprehended the defendant. In a beck
room he found eight or nine men sitting round a table.
Defendant was very violent and tried to keep him back
from searching the premises.
Inspector Black, C division, produced his warrant,
which be had from the Board of Excise, and said he
searched the defendant's premises, and under a bed in
the yard he found a stone bottle containing about a
gallon of gin, and a glass bottle containing about a pint,
all of which he stivd.
John Raining, supervisor of Excise for the West-
minst-.r district, proved that the defendant was not
licensed to sell exciseable liquors. The defendant who
protested her innocence, was fined 251., and in default.
was committed for three months.

MELANCHOLY WRECK of an EMIGRANT
SHIP—T WILNTY LIVES LOST.
Letters havo arrived announcing the melancholy loss
of an English emigrant ship, the Trusty, of Scarborough,
having on board nearly two hundred emigrants, off the
shores of Cape Gaspe, while on a passage to Quebec.
The vessel, which was commanded by Mr. b'oster,
sighted the land near the Cape on the 22d of July, when
her course was shaped to the northward, On the fol-
lowing morning a dense fog came on, preventing the
crew observing any distance beyond a cable's length or
so of the vessel; 'and, although orders were given to
keep the ship well off the land, she eventually struck on
a reef of rocks within a short distance of the Cape,
where she speedily filled and settled down. Against
the command of the master, one of the boats was low-
ered and cut away from the vessel. It contained
in all, it is supposed, about twenty persons.
An attempt was made to gain the shore, but so
great was the surf, that the boat was capsized by it be-
fore it bad reached many yards from the wreck, and the
whole of the helpless creatures perished. Among them
were the undermentioned persons:—Thomas Blake,
Daniel Saunderson, John Dickenson, William Brown,
David Hodgson, John Atkinson, Thomas Shaw, Wm.
and Thomas Stolliegs, Thomas Winteringham, Stephen
Bullock, Martha Tayler, Wright Bankea, Robert Yates,
Frank Francis, and Thomas Burton. For eight hours
the position of those on the wreck was ono of great
peril; the sea was sweeping over her decks, and it was
expected every moment she would go to pieces. Soon
after day had broken a schooner bore down to the spot,
and, with the aid of the crews of two other vessels that
came up, the whole that were clinging to the wreck
were taken off in safety. Their luggage, however, was
lost, for in a few days the vessel broke up, and was a
total wreck. The emigrants have since been forwarded
to Quebec.

DESTRUCTION OF TWO MILLS.
Yeeerdamorning one of the most extensive fires
that has occurred near London for a considerable time
past broke out shortly before four o'clocok, in the pre-
mises of Mr. Edward Bell, known as the Tottenham-
mills, situate on an island surrounded by the river Lee,
near the Tottenham station of the Eastern Counties
Railway.
The building in which the disaster originated was
therteivrmerediaeeb
l-
and leo feet long. It stood on the 'south side of the
was fitted up The lower portion of this property
with most costly machinery for press- i
oil-crushing mill; it was between 130 feet
jug the various seeds used in the manufacture of
oils, adjoining which were the oil stores, where
several hundred tons' weight of oil were deposited,
and the upper story was used as the seed stores, in which
a vast amount of seeds were piled away. This immense
stack of buildings was separated from a still larger one,
termed the flour mill and corn stores, by .a space of
ground not more than eighteen feet wide; whilst sundry
C,ther buildings—such as the malting-house, barn:,
offices, and private dwellings—stool within a few yards
of the two mills before alluded to. From the fact of the
different structures f :ling deteched, it was at first anti-
cipated that one mill only, and that in which the fire
began, would have been destroyed; but unfortunately
such was not the case, and even as late as seven o'clock
last evening the fire was far from being extinguished, and
many thousand pounds' worth of property by that hour
had been reduced to ashes.
The premises
an consumed may be thus enumerated :
The oil mill d stores ot oil, seeds, &c., totally de-
stroyed; the flour mill burnt down, and its contents all
but consumed; the counting-houses and offices gutted;
one part of some of the private dwellings destroyed; the
old malt-house burnt-out. The stabling, engine, and
some outbuildings are fortunately saved.
Mr. Bell was Partially insured in the Norwich Union,
Imperial, and Scottish Union fire-offices. The build-
ings belonged to the New River Company, and it is un-
known whether they are insured or not.
About fifty families will be thrown out of employment
by this melancholy disaster.

PORTLAND BREA'iwATER—Tba staging is now
advanced upwards of 2,500 feet from the original shore line;
everything is progressing favourably.
High-
ness the Princess PrivtnletIE3TY S TEIRATRE.—Her Serene
ss of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, accompanied by
evening with her preeence. Tlao Royal party and
his Royal Highness the Prince and her Royal Highness the
Princess, honoured the performances at her Majesty's Theatre
on Saturday
suite occupied her Majesty's bus. Amongst the noble and
distinguished individuals also honouring the theatre with
their prtsence on this occasion were the following:—The
Countess of Baroness Brunnow and
of Harrington and Lady
,otfbLe eicnosutenrt,
..I)iudliTe.adned
BDruticiihreoews
Jane St. Maur Stanhope, the Right Hon. the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, the Countess of 1 G
—engall and Lady Margaret
Butler, Lord Ward and party, the Viscount Maidstone, the
Viscount Ciifden, Lord Ernest Bru, eiu-,., Lord Gardner,
the Viscount Canterhary, Lady Prescott and party, the Hon.
Otway Toler, Major the Hon. A. Needham, Mr. and Mrs.
Wheeler and party, General the lion. H• Cavendish, Mr.
Alexander Baillie Cochrane, M.P., Sir C)arles Sharkerley
and party, Mrs. Ogilvie and pa_r_ty, sir
George Armitage,
Bart., Captain and the Hon. Mrs. P
--yder Burton, M. G.
Mitchell, Mr. Paul, lAr• C. Heneage, Mrs. Lennard and
party, &c.
Among the manY visitors of note who have fa-
voured this town with their residence lately (says the.Ryde
Correspondent of the Portsnzouth Times and Naval Gazette,
of Saturday) we have not : .:en announced the names of Herr
and Madame Brandt, the distinguished artistes of the mu-
sical world, who have been making the tour of this beautiful
i
island as a short respite from the fatigue of a metropolitan
season which has drawn unusually largelyr upon
their highly
gifted talents and exertions. The it-om of their temporary
residence (59, Union• street, reyde), has daily and nightly
been thronged with the fashionable promenaders of this
locale, whose steps have been involuntarilyb
_ arrested, en-pas-
sant, by the sweet and melodious war hugs of these eminent
and distingue vocalists.
HER MAJESTY'S CRUISE.—The Royal intention
of putting to sea, on a trip to Antwerp, was abandoned on
Saturday, owing to very foul weather, half a gale having
been blowing the whole of the day. Yesterday (Sunday)
the weather was rather worse than better, a strong wind
being accompanied by squalls of rain. The attendant squa-
dron remained in Cowes Roads, and would move up in two
divisions (as before) off Osborne, last evening, if the
weather moderated, in order that the Queen might make
the earliest start this morning, if the elements were fa-
vourable.

FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—lnformation has been re-
ceived at Bristol of a frightful accident which occurred on
Friday afternoon at Llonyattocb, Monmouthshire, by which,
we regret to say, several lives have been sacrificed. It ap-
pears that in the vicinity of this village are several larg3
limeßtone quarries, on which a great number of men are em-
ployed. On Friday, from some hitherto unexplained cause,
the side of one of these quarries gave way, about 60,000 tons
were detached, and two unfortunate men, if not several more,
are known to be buried beneath the fallen mass. The whole
of the labourers engaged at the several quarries, as soon as
this fearful accident was made known, at once hastened to
the spot with a view of extricating the bodies of the poor
men from the superincumbent mass; but such is the im-
mense quantity of rock fallen that it is expected some days
will elapse before thav can be reached.