The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,

The London and East India Shipping Company's
steamship Golden Fleece, Captain E. G. Bird, has
arrived at!Penzance from Calcutta May 17, Madras
May 28, Cape of Good Hope July 2. She brings a
large mail from the Cape, including the Frontier
mail that reached Capetown too late for the last
mail steamer, the Roman. Her passengers from
India are about 90, and from the Cape about 20.
At the Cape the prospects of business were little
altered, and prices ruling about the same, with the
exception of wool, which was declining. In the
eastern province carriers were again complain-
ing of the dry state of the up country districts ;
very little ploughing was going on there, and
farmers were getting anxious about the prospects
for food and forage. A warm dispute had taken
place in the Cape Legislature on the report of a
Government official, which charged the farm-
ing squatters and settlers at Namaqnaland,
Clanwilliam, and adjoining districts, with cruelly
exterminating the Bushman people by hunting
them down and shooting them. The report gave
details and authorities, but several members of the
House of Assembly denied the statements. A motion
to suspend the sale of crown lands in those districts
until the Bushman bad been provided for and
placed under the protection of the law was re-
jected.

The synod of the English church at Graham's
town had been opened by the Lard Bishop of that
diocese. The Bishop, in his address, had discussed
at some length the power and constitution of the
synods.

An indignation meeting has been held at Port
Elizabeth on account of the delay of the Frontier
mail, but the circumstances arose, not from the
negligence of the postal authOrities at Cape Town,
but from the conveyance breaking down on some
of the rough roads of the Eastern Province.

The long disputed boundrry line between the
Queen's Town district and British Kaffraria had
at length been settled. Kaffir robberies on the
frontiers were still being continued. At the village
of Whittelsea two Germans had been beaten ty
Kaffirs, robbed, and left for dead.

In the Free State, at a special meeting of the
Volksraad, at Bloemfontem, Mr. Pretorus's resig-
❑ation of the Presidency had been accepted, also
the resignation of Mr. Allison as Secretary and
Treasurer,General.

News arrived at the Cape, from Madagascar,
confirm the report that the revolution arose
through the King's liberal measures and grants to
Europeans. The principal cause of the dissatisfac-
tion of the people being brought to a climax is said
to be Mr. Ellis having sent persons to preach at a
village in which are deposited the remains of the
late Queen, who was an anti-Christian, and the
preaching was considered an insult and desecration
to her memory.

In Simon's Bay were the Narcissus, screw, 51,
flagship of Sir Baldwin Walker ; Seringapatam,
4; Pioneer, 6. The latter arrived, June 27, from
Sydney, en route for Plymouth. The Gorgon, 6,
left, June 30, for Madagascar. The Chinese gun-
boas Tien-tsin arrived out June 25; the French
gunboat Fulton, 4, from Brest for New Caledonia,
arrived out June 21. The French gunboat Sybille,
4, also for New Caledonia, was still in Simon's Bay.