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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1854.

OPENING OF ThE FIRST PARLIAMENT
OF THE CAPE COLONY.

The opening of the first Parliament of the Cape
Colony, which we announced yesterday, may seem
a small matter to some whose imaginations are daz-
zled by the pomp and circumstance of Eastern war.
Others, whose imaginations are more under the
oontrol of their judgments, may estimate the event
differently. The contests of old Europe are the
contests of mature and full-grown powers, which,
even on the assumption that they do not verge to
their decline, touch at least upon their utmost
limits of development. The young efforts of South
Africa are the experimental trials of its strength by
an infant power with ample elbow-room about it
for growth and exertion. The interest of most
European states lies in their past history : as for
the Cape Colony—" the vast, unbolnded future
lies before it." The United States are a sample of
what English colonies may grow to, left to their
own resources, with a wide field for their exercise.
The indomitable and enterprising spirit of English-
men is as fully alive in South Africa as ever it was
in New England or Virginia ; the position of the
Cape is as favourable to the development of a great,
prosperous, and powerful community as that of any
part of the western continent.
Let us take a hasty glance at the local position
of the Cape Colony. The first settlement made at
the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch was intended
to serve as a " half-way house" for their fleets,
between Holland and its Eastern possessions.
Cape Town has continued to be the " half-way
house" of the Indian trade of Europe since that
trade has grown tomorecolossal proportions than the
most sanguine Dutchman could anticipate when the
first foundation stone of Cape Town was laid. But
henceforth the Cape Colony—the communityoccupy-
ing the southern extremity of the African conti-
nent—will be placed midway in the great highway
of trade, not between the maritime states of Europe
and a few dependencies, but of many wealthy in-
dependent nations. On the east it has the Ameri-
can states of Oregon and California, with their out-
post of the Sandwich Islands : the English settle-
ments in Australia and New Zealand panting to run
the same career of independence with their kins-
men of the North American Union ; China, with
its yet problematical destinies, and the Asiatic
Archipelago • the empire founded by the Anglican
race in Hindostan. On the west it has the Argen-
tine republic—Buenos Ayres and Monte Video be-
ing, in point of fact, European colonies ; Brazil—
the United States of the southern American con-

FOR SEPTEMBER AND FOLLOWING
MONTHS.—The newly-invented PALETOT, which owes Its
exist,nce exclusively to the Establishment of E. MOSES and SON,
is the most suitable Article of Drew for September and following
months. _ . .

THE WAR.

This Paletot has removed all previous deficiencies which may have
appeared in every description of Paletot which has hitherto been pre-
sented. By a vei y peculiar cut it unites ease in wear with the most
correct and artistic fit ; it is the most elegant and gentlemsnly article
of the season. The materials, workmanship, and finish at once show
how entirely impossible it is for any Establt-hment to imitate it at the
price for which it is offered by E. Moses and Son —viz., twenty-five
shillings.
For September and following months sportsmen require necessary
equipment for the shooting season. The Fultabillty of the Sporting
Attire manufactured by E. Moses and Son has gained it universal
c-lebrity with all classes ; their long experience, vast transactions,
and the unrivalled Latent they employ in designing and making up
every fashionable and usef .1 article of Dress, and the very economi-
cal prices they charge, insure it such patronage that the stock though
immense Is always new.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Royal Albert, 121.—Mr. Elibank Harley Murray,
serving in the Royal Abert, has been promoted to the
rank, of lieutenant. He has left this ship. Her engines
are ordered to be tried in the basin on Monday next, which
will be done in the presence of the authorities and the
manufacturers, Messrs. Penn and Co., preparatory to the
machinery department being duly delivered over to the
Admiralty authorities. •

The Andromache is now the floating powder magazine,
in lieu of the Mule,rave, which is to be broken up.

For geptember the Hosiery and Ladles' and Children's Dress De-
partments are revlenished with the most elegant articles of the
first order of fashion, and at the most economical prices
The Boot and Shoe Branch offers opportunities of selecting the
best and cheapest Goods. pecial arrangements are made for
sportsmen.
_ _

tinent ; the Antilles and the North American
Union and Europe. The Cape of Good Hope pre-
sents to the traders of these countries a convenient
midway place of rendezvous between those of the
east and those of the west ; and not to them only,
but to the whalers who sweep the southern seas.
The Care, too, has natural products—raw materials
—of its own with which to supply the markets of all
these countries. At present it has, and for along time
to come it will have, the peltries and feathers of the
wild denizens of its deserts ; but it has also wools which
already rival in quality, and may soon be made to
rival in quantity, those of Australia ; with a due ap-
plication of skill and enterprise it may be made a
fertile granary and rich wine-growing country ; and
it appears to be now placed beyond a doubt that
immense mineral treasures lie hid beneath its soil.
We may be told of the periodical droughts to which
it is liable ; but the numerous deep and narrow
ravines of which the country is full seem prepared
by nature to be dammed across in order that the
surplus moisture of rainy years may he stored up
for the needs of the dry years which alternate with
them.

THE SCREW GUN-BOATS.

The new screw gub-boat Pelter was removed yesterday
from Messrs. Penn's establishment in Deptford, to Wool-
wich, to he completed. In the short space of 10 days h'er
machinery has been fitted, and bids fair to render these
little vessels all that can be expected of them— a class, as
we have before remarked, unquestionably superior to the
paddle-wheel "Prussian gun-boats ;" for with the small
draft of about six feet water, all the machinery is under
the water-line, and, being propelled by the screw, they
have no paddle-boxes like the Prussian gun-boats for an
enemy's target.

THE VACANCIES DT THE BLACK SEA FLEET.
We are sorry to hear that the vacancies-of seamen and
marines in the Black Sea fleet are greater than antici-
pated ; but not so rainy from a large proportion of fatal
cases, as from the great numbers that-the medical officers
are compelled to invalid. Tinder these circumstances it is
imperative to make good the complements of Admiral
Dundas's ships at onoN smid with this view the best men
of the Indefatigable, 50, Captain live, are to be sent out,
and other seamen from hone ships will be drafted at once,
much to their satisfaction.

Me,chants, Captains, and Emigrants should select from the
Wholesa,e Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe Department. The
Goods are made in accordance with the latest advlces trom the
Colonies, will instantly sell at large profits, and are therefore the
best freight which can he embarked.

Full Lists of Outfits for ladies and gentlemen, with ship-sailing
information (gratis) on app ication, or post free.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, Writ': learned that the untradesman-like
falielt. 01 of " Being connected with their Establishment," or It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have
No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER. HOUSE IN ON OUT 01 LONDON,

The local position, and the natural resources of
the Cape of Good Hope, mark it out for a place
destined to be the scene of important events in
coming ages, when the mercantile enterprise and
ambitious struggles, which in the earlier ages of
our race's history were confined to the Mediter-
ranean, and which in less remote times have ex-
tended to the Atlantic, shall have the universal
ocean and its shores for their theatre. And the
race which inhabit the Cape have that sturdy,
daring, dogged character which augurs well for
their acting up to the importance of their situa-
tion. The English colonisation of the Cape dates
only from the earlier years of the present century,
and its progress was for a long time slow and
feeble. The first vigorous impulse given to it
was no further back than thirty years ago, when
the first settlers were sent out from this country to
Albany. But this English colonisation was en-
grafted upon a kindred stem—the earlier Dutch
settlements ; from which they have inherited not
only many valuable members, but also a certain
sturdy tone of independence, and not a few valu-
able hints for their local governmental insti-
tutions. Among the names of the mem-
bers of the first Colonial Parliament we find
Stockenstroms and Cloetes, of Dutch lineage,_
mingling with the Barrys and Fairburns, of British
parentage. In the noble struggle--characterised
alike by self-control and fearlessness waged
against Earl Grey on the convict question, we re-
cognise the best features of those Dutch heroes who
maintained an unequal contest against the tyranny
of the Second Philip, and of the English Puritans
who were the contemporaries of the emigrants in
the Mayflower. Nor is it in their resistance of
oppression alone that the Cape Colonists evince the
characteristics of their Dutch and English ances-
tors ; the industrial enterprise of their double
country also survives in them, and has already
made Cape Town a prosperous manufacturing and
commercial city, and stocked the pastures of Al-
bany with rich herds and flocks.
It is pleasant to pause for a moment in the midst
of the fierce and anxious struggle which now .con-
vulses Europe, and dwell upon the long vista of an
active, honourable career which is opening upon
our countrymen at the southern extremity of
Africa. The Cape long retained that dark and
mysterious character which the toil-worn comrades
of Vasco di Gallia attributed to it. It is within
the memory of men now living that it was first
discovered to be an eligible residence for mankind.
We were much interested in turning over, a few
days ago, the pages of a book on South Africa, by
S
poor Pringle, so long the zealous and disinterested
of the Anti-slavery Society, by stumbling
on an extract of a letter from a college friend, who
was about to join him at the Cape. The writer, in
a strain of youthful enthusiasm, speaks of the pos-
sibility of their becoming the Franklins of the
colony. This letter was written only thirty years
ago ; the writer is still in the prime of life, and he
Fh as i
rbbeaci
roiml eththeepFa
trraino kt nic
andof
sagaciousthe co l ony .
anti-convict struggle, the proprietor and editor of
leader It is
of Mt
the
one of our best colonial newspapers, and a member
of the first Parliament of the Cape Colony.--Daily
News.

INCENDIARY FIRE IN SUFFOLK.—On Sunday evening
a stack of wheat standing in a field in the parish of
Newbourne was discovered to be on fire. Thereobeing
no water in the neighbourhood the stack was entirely
consumed ; it was the property of Mr. Wm. Kersey, of
Waldringfield, whose loss is covered by insurance. On
Thursday last a miserably tattered-looking tramp, who
gave his name Henry Kiug, describing himself as being
from Calcutta, and a land-surveyor, was examined before
the magistrates at Woodbridge, charged with having
set fire to the stack. From the evidence it appeared
that the prisoner was seen in the vicinity of the field
where the stack stood a few minutes before the fire was
discovered, and, being suspected, search was made for
him, and he was found sitting in a dark place in a hedge
about two hundred yards from the fire. On being asked
if he knew what was the matter, he replied, "No ;"
but was immediately taken to the fire, and afterwards
handed over to the charge of Mr. Fitzgerald, who asked
bins if he had any lucifer matches, to which he replied
"No ;' but upon being searched lucifer matches were
found in his pocket. On the following morning police-
constable Lushington, on searching near the fire, found
a considerable quantity of lucifer matches wrapped in
two pieces of newspaper. The matches found by him
corresponded with those found on the prisoner's person,
and the paper in which they were wrapped also corres-
ponded with the paper found in the prisoner's hat, and
formed portions of the same newspaper. The prisoner
was committed for trial at the next assizes.
CONSUMPTION OP BREAD.—Estimating that there are
24,000,000 of bread consumers in Great Britain and Ire-
land (leaving out 4,000,000 of potato eaters), and allow-
ing each person one-and-a-half loaves per week, it is
3(3,000,000 of loaves. Admitting that each quarter of
wheat makes 136 loves of bread, it requires 168,656 qrs.
of wheat per week. To this add 10 per cent. for flour
used in other articles, and it gives 295,521 quarters as the
weekly consumption of wheat, or 15,3(37,092 quarters
annually. London and suburbs, with its 2,000,000 of
population, consume 3,000,000 loaves weekly, and, with
flour, require 24,626 quarters of wheat. A quarter of
wheat will give 501bs. of flour per bushel, of the quality
which makes best seconds bread-4001bs. altogether ;
and the quantity of flour will make 134 quartern loaves.
A quartern of wheat ground into flour, and taking out
only the rough bran, say about 51bs. to the bushel, make
141 loaves the quarter. A quarter of wheat ground
down into rough meal, without taking any bran, will
give 621bs. of meal, and that will make about 166 loaves
pf healthy brown bread.--LU;rl3O4 acut4ord.

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WOIWESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY.
Before proceeding with our narrative of the progress
of the festival of the three choirs we have to correct an
c t itt
he morning,
doors
of tWhee
erroneous impression received as to the financial results
f theo n first
a
csatathteeddryalesotnerrduaeysdthayatmthoreneionlg-
lefor the benefit of the charity for the relief of the widows
and orphans of clergyinen was about
2501., and it was
currently stated that this sum exceeded by 401. the
amount received on the first morning of the last Wor-
cester festival in 1851. The actual results h , )wever,
were as follow
on
e receipts at the door Tuesday
were 2551. 10s. 11d., and the amount received the
first day in 1851 was 3021., showing a present defic i"
of 471., instead of an increase. The
stewards, h 0
wee n cry
appear to entertain no doubt that this deficiency
"lirelo'
made up before the end of the week, and that the receipts
for the charity will exceed the general
average. -We nosy
proceed with our narrative.
On Tuesday evening the first concert was held at the
College Hall, a fine open-roofed building, formerly the
refectory of the monks, and placed on the south side of
the cloisters. Until the present meeting the only ap-
proach to the College Hall was through the cloisters,
but recently a fresh entrance has been made. out of the
College-green into the building at the west end. The
attendance at the first concert was highly satisfactory,
being nearly double the attendance at the first concert
in 1851, the numbers being 465 against 238. Conside-
rable inconvenience and unpleasantness was occasioned
by an alteration in the numbering of the seats from the
original plan. In other respects the principle of economy
appears to have been carried to the extreme, to the inoon-
venience and discomfort of some of the guests. The light-
ing was very good.
Miss Dolby was again absent, but the secretary, the
Rev. R. Sergeant, in stating the cause of her absence,
hoped she would be sufficiently recovered to take her
part in the .E/ijole next day. Viardot Garcia took her
place in to-night's boncert.
The following is the programme :--
PART I.
Overture—" Midsummer Night's Dream")
Scherzo
Duo—Mdme. Castellan et Mdme. Viardot
Notturno
Mendelssohn.
Wedding March
Finale...
Recit. and a#—Miss Dolby, " 0 mem'ry,
cease to grieve me" (Brides of Venice) Benedict.
Recit. and air—Madame Clara Novello,
" Dove sono" (Figaro) Mozart.
Concert Stuck, Flute—Mr. R. S. Pratten
(performed on his newly-perfected flute) R. S. Pratten.
Recit. and air—Herr Formes, " 0 ruddier
than the cherry" (Acis and Galatea)
Rondo and chorus—Madame Viardot,
" Ah! non giunge" (Sonnambula)
Song and chorus- Mr. Sims Reeves,
" Come if you dare" (King Arthur)
PART 11.
Grand concertante (No. 2), two violins—
M. Swinton and M. Blagrove
Aria—Madame Castellan, piacer" (La
Gazza Ladra)
Romance—Signor Gardoni, " Le Chemin
du Paradis"
Cavatina—Madame Clara Novello
se giunge"
Cagnoni.
Quartetto—Madame Weiss, Miss Dolby,
Signor Gardoni, and Mr. Weiss, "Un
di, se ben rarnmentorni" (Rigoletto) Verdi.
Scene—Mr. Sims Reeves, "To the ocean
now I fly" (Conlin)
Song—Mr. Weiss, "I'm a roamer" (Son
and Stranger)
Mendelssohn.
Terzetto—Mesdames C. Novello, Castel-
lan, and Viardot, " Le faccio sin inchino"
(II Matrimonio Segreto) Cimarosa.
Finale—" Rule Britannia"
The recitative and air from Benedict's Bride of Venice,
set down for Miss Dolby, was omitted. The music to
Midsummer Night's Dream, by Mendelssohn, proved a
great treat. The overture was deliciously played, and
seemed in truth what it was intended to portray—fairy-
like music ; the brilliancy of the " wedding march" could ,
not have been exceeded, and the " notturno" (almost
entirely by wind instruments) was a delicious treat.
The choral portions of the composition were well exe-
cuted. The other instrumental gems of the evening were
Mr. Pratten's "Concert Stuck," a wonderful perform-
ance ; and the violin concertante, by Bainton and Bla-
grove, of which much was expected, but which rather
disappointed the audience. No doubt the performance,
replete as it was with difficulties and intricacies, was
very clever, but it did not zonerally please. Herr
Formes made his first appearance in the favourite song
of Polyphemus, from A cis and Galatea, " 0 ruddier
than the cherry," in which he was as great as ever ; and
Viardot Garcia, in the air from Sonnambula, " Ah, non
giunge," displayed the brilliancy and wonderful control
which she has obtained over her voice. Purcell's noble
chorus, " Come if you dare," came .as fresh as ever at
the close of the first part of the concert. An interval of
a quarter of ai hour was allowed for refreshment, the
second part of the concert consisting of operatic odds
and ends, with two exceptions. Madame Castellan sang
Rossini's air from La Gazza Ladra with her accustomed
sweetness, and the quartette from Rigoletto (Verdi) by
Mrs. Weiss, Viardot Garcia,`Gardoni, and Mr. Weiss went
capitally. A very pretty French romance, "Le Chemin du
Paradis," by Blumenthal, came to the share of Signor
Gardoni, and in it he displayed to the greatest advantage
the delicious musical qualities of his fine voice. The ballad
is an affecting story, and it was most touchingly told by
Gardoni. The pianoforte accompaniment, by Mr.
To wnshend Smith, of Hereford, was nicely managed. The
piece was. unanimously encored. Clara Novelle gave
her old favourite cavatina by Cagnoni, "Ah, se potessi,"
and displayed in it that brilliancy and flexibility of voice
which render her performances so universally welcome.
It was encored, and so also were one or two other
things in the course of the evening. Mr. Weiss sang
Mendelssohn's " I'm a roamer" with all that spirit and
point which characterises his execution of music in the
bravura style ; but he was completely overpowered by
the instruments, which seemed to vie with each other in
the effort to make the most noise. The concert con-
cluded shortly after eleven o'clock with "Rule Britan-
nia," selected apparently in deference to the national
spirit evoked by our present position with Russia. Clara
Novello sang the opening verse, but of the rest the least
that is said the better. Formerly it was customary—
and it is at Gloucester still—to hold a ball after the first
concert, but this custom has for a long time been unob-
served at Worcester, and in another half-hour the com-
pany had departed.
This morning the dullness of yesterday had disap-
peared—clouds had given way to sunshine, and the
cathedral was filled at eight o'clock by early risers
anxious to be present at a real meeting of the three
choirs at morning service. The choir was quite filled,
and many persons had to stand during the whole of the
service. The members of the three choirs of Worcester,
Hereford, and Gloucester, took their places in the stalls,
and wore their surplices. The bishop, the dean, and the
canons in residence, were also present. The Rev. R.
Sanders, who possesses a beautiful mellow voice, and is
a good musician, chanted the prayers, and the service
was got through with a grand and imposing effect.
Tallis's preces and response were employed, Venit and
Psalms were sung to single chants, and the anthem was
Farrant's " Lord for thy tender mercies' sake," which
was given in true cathedral style. It being Litany-day
the service occupied until after half-past nine, so that
there was not much time to spare between breakfast and
the oratorio. A small collection was made after morning
service.
We should be using a trite every-day form of expres-
sion were we to say that the noble nave of the cathedral
presented this morning a brilliant appearance, filled as
it was nearly from end to end with a gaily dressed
audience. All the art of the milliner appeared to have
been employed in decorating the belles who mustered
on this occasion ; and when we say that Worcestershire
fully maintained its fame for beauty in this instance, it
will at once be understood that the scene was of no ordi-
nary character. With regard to the attendance, the
best test is a comparison of the numbers attending to-
day with that of the corresponding day of the last Wor-
cester Festival. This shows the following result :
Total attendance second morning 1854
motto ditto 1851

Rossini.

" ..Ah .... .. Blumenthal.

• Increase on last festival
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290 more in the gallery. On the assembling of the
orchestra, Miss Dolby, who was announced to sing her
favourite pieces in the Elijah, was anxiously looked for,
and her appearance was a great relief to those who
feared she would not be sufficiently recovered to take
part in the oratorio. She sang with her accustomed
perfection and clearness. Herr Formes, however,
much disappointed the audience ; his singing was
coarser then ever, and the band must have been not
a little annoyed now and then by the liberties which he
took with the score. This was much to be regretted,
seeing that the great burden of the solo music falls Upon
the representative of the Prophet. His declamation was
the best part of his performance. We need not . enter
into a critical notice of the execution of this oratorio,
seeing that it has been so frequently done of late, and
that it has become a regular standard at these festivals.
The " cast," if we may use the term, was an exceedingly
good one ; Gardoni and Sims Reeve's divided the tenor
solos, the former taking them in the first part, and the
latter in the second. Gardoni san the " with all your hearts g fine air, If
," in a very chaste al.d effective
manner. The beautiful quartet, " Cast thy burden upon
the Lord," was given to Madame Castellan, Miss Dolby,
Signor Gardoni, and Mr. Weiss, and was repeated by
desire of the stewards. Madame Viardot sang,
first song in oratorio here, " Woe unto them that for-
sake him," and she gave a somewhat different
reading to what we have been accustomed. Instead
of tone
of denouncing vengeance on erring sinners
Inlaintive
as her
of indignation, she gave to the strain a
_!)
said
expression, as if wailing over the lost.thelt rs
Birming-
that, on her first delivery of this solo at d
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ham Festival in 1852, she was
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