The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-19 00:00:00

Gold beds exist in the soil of some of the United
States, such as Virginia, the Allegheny, Carolinas,
Georgia, Tenessee, and Alhabama. From 1834 to
1836, all of them together have yielded a quantity va-
lued at 4,844,500 dollars. This is little compared with
the mines of Siberia and Mexico. However, the gold
countries can no longer be restricted to such a zone, or
such a climate ; for, as is seen, gold is spread about the
globe without regularity ; and if, on the other hand, the
old mines supply less, others recently discovered make
up for their deficiency, and it is but the ancient march
of commerce which is disturbed by the new discoveries.

EMIGRATION FROM THE CAPE
OF GOOD HOPE.

The curious circumstance of a large number of boors
having emigrated from the Cape of Good Hope, carry-
ing with them their herds and flocks, and wandering
into the country of the savages, has been more than once
mentioned in ourjournal. We have given the accounts
as they reached us of their pilgrimages and their hard-
ships. This singular body of men, in a memorial lately
addressed by them from Port Natal, after arrival at
their destination, to General Napier, Governor of the
Cape, they thus allude to the causes of their emigra-
tion :

" The reasons of our emigration are different ; some
of a personal nature, others arose from public causes.
Amongst the first, which are numerous, we will just
record one—namely, the illegal arrest, without cause,
of Mrs. Hys, during the absence of her husband, who
was on the command against the Caffres. Those of a
public nature principally consist in the disgusting ordi-
nance No. 19, which is so degrading for us, and the
several laws afterwards published, whereby our slaves
have been spoiled, and we ourselves ruined. The
emigration was also greatly influenced by the vaga•
hondising of the Hottentots and the free blacks, to
whom this and also other offensive acts of drunken•
ness—cursing, swearing, and profanation of the Sab-
bath—was allowed with connivance and impunity ; and
to which the hard treatment which many of us have
undergone after the last Caffre war, plundered without
any cause, robbed, and our dwellings destroyed by fire ;
yea, even our own cattle, which have been retaken,
publicly sold, numbers having died in the pounds
through neglect, and the amount appropriated to pur-
poses contrary to law and equity, without our receiving
any remuneration or indemnification for our stolen cattle.
burnt houses, massacred relations, nor for the enormous
expenses which we personally incurred for saddles,
horses, equipments, and every thing of that nature ;
and, finally, a more general dejection was occasioned
by the new regulations and Caffre treaties of the
Lieutenant-Governor, whereby all privileges and pro•
tection is secured to the one side, while we are con-
temptuously placed in the back ground, without any
prospect of being able to recover the injuries which we
have suffered, and exposed to daily ravages and cattle
thefts. For all these reasons, and seeing before us our
fast approaching ruin and total destruction, we resolve to
emigrate, with extreme anxiety, but with a heart fully
trusting in the goodness and protection of the Lord."
" Of the perils of the emigration, the lives lost and the
losses suffered, a most affecting detail is given. In pur-
suance of their constant determination to treat the na-
tives through whose countries they passed " with kind-
ness and generosity," and to " respect their property
and independence," they passed unobstructed by several
tribes.