The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-28 00:00:00

" God save the Queen !

" Given under my hand and seal, at my Camp, Plat-
berg, this 23d day of December, 1852.
GEORGE CATHCART,
"Governor and High Commissioner.
" By command of his Exoellency the Governor and
High Commissioner, "JOHN AYLIFF.
"Acting Secretary to the High Commissioner."

'RICE

long and trying day. His Excellency's personal obser-
vation could not embrace every part of so extended a
field, or notice the separate parts taken by corps in the
operations of 'the day ' • but he marked with admiration
the steady conduct of the three companies of the 43d
Regiment, under Major Phillips ; the gallant bearing of
the detachment 12th Royal Lancers and Cape Mounted
Riflemen, under Lieutenant Gough, 12th Lancers ; and
the admirable practice of the demiattery of howitzers
under Captain Robinson, R.A., which formed the force
innupdiately- about his Excellency's person.
"Of the noble conduct of the division under Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Eyre composed of a 'detachment 12th
Lancers ; Royal Artillery, under Captain the Hon. G.
Devereux ; 73d Regiment, under Captain Beeves ; one
company Rifle Brigade, under Lieutenant the Hon. L.
Curzon ; and a detachment of Cape Mounted Riflemen,
under Lieutenant Goodrich, his Excellency has only to
regret that he could not be a witness to all the acts by
which this division distinguished itself throughout the
day.

The Cavalry Brigade, commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Napier, and composed of two squadrons 12th
Lancers, under Major Tottenham, and two squadrons
Cape mounted Rifles, under Major Somerset, merits
equally the Commander of the Forces' commendation ;
this brigade having, with a spirit worthy of them,
ascended the Berea mountain, so little suited to cavalry
movements, there captured and secured 4,500 head of
cattle, inflicting severe loss on the enemy, and brought
the cattle into camp, in spite of all endeavours of the
enemy to recapture them.
" His Excellency having thus expressed his sense of
the services performed by the corps under their imme-
diate commanding officers, he derives much satisfaction
in noticing more especially the officers in command ; and
he- rotaumuk. his marked thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel

t Eyre, 73d Regiment ; Lieutenant-Colonel Napier, Cape
Mounted Riflemen—officers who on this day nobly sus-
tained the well-known reputation they have long since
established ; also to Major Pinckney, 73d Regiment,
and Captain Faddy, commanding Royal Artillery, as
well as the staff officers by whom they were assisted ;
Lieutenant Reeve, 73d Regiment, Acting Brigade
Major ; Lieutenant Arthur Ponsonby, 43d Regiment,
Acting Aide-de-Camp ; Lieutenant Whitmore. Cape
Mounted Riflemen, Acting Brigade Major.
"To Colonel Cloete, Quartermaster-General and chief
of the staff, his Excellency is deeply indebted for his
able and gallant services on this as on every occasion ;
to Captain Wellesley, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-Ge-
neral, who was wounded at the end of the day, and had
his horse shot under him ; and to Captain Lord Alexan-
der Russell, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General,
who was with head quarters all day,and in the evening
was attached to Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, who reports in
the highest terms of the services rendered by him on
that occasion ; to Captain Tylden, Lieutenants Stanton
and Siborne, Royal Engineers, attached to the Quarter-
master-General's Department, the latter of whom had
charge of the pontoon, by which the troops crossed
the Caledon River, the Commander of the Forces
feels greatly indebted for their exertions and aid, as he
does to the officers of the personal staff, Captain the
Hon. R. Curzon, Lieutenant Greville, and Captain the
Hon. G. Elliott. And his Excellency takes this oppor-
tunity of expressing his regret that he was deprived of
the services of his military secretary, Lieutenant-
-Colonel Seymour, by a broken collar-bone, who, on
learning that the army was engaged in active operations
immediately proceeded to join his Excellency in the
field, and arrived the following morning, though at the
expense of again disuniting the fracture.
"To the medical officers—Dr. Booth, surgeon 73d
Regiment ; Dr. George, assistant-surgeon 12th Lancers ;
and Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Dr. Campbell—his Excel-
lency's thanks are due for the care of the wounded.
"He cannot omit to offer his thanks to Assistant-
Commissioner Owen and the Resident, Mr. Henry
Green, who accompanied himi throughout the day.
"By the death of Captain Faunce, 73d Regiment,
Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General, the service
has sustained the loss of a valuable officer.

"A. J. CLOETE, Quarterma,ster.General."
Although the Governor has received the submis-
sion of Moshesh, he has recommended the sove-

reignty farmers to organise themselves on the
commando system, to pursue the cattle lifters, and,
if necessary, to kill them. The result of this pro-
clamation is not yet known • it is expected to be
successful. But a meeting of resident householders

was held at Bloem Fontein, on the 4th of January,
when the unsatisfactory condition of the sove-
reignty was considered, and a petition to the Queen
in Council,/or Parliament, resolved on. A general
meeting was to assemble on the 14th of January.
While his Excellency was engaged with the
forces in the northern provinces, the Caffres on the
eastern frontier again took up arms., The Shipping
Gazette of the 20th of Janualy

tween a band of rebels in are ( Fisl<,Riire; Bush and
parties of the Cape Mounted Rift rn s, ou. ted police, and
ffi a portion of the 12th Rement, under Captain Espi-
nasse. On this occas:on 'Field-Cornet P. Ferreira,
three civilians named Brown, Barry, and Howarth,
and a soldier of the 12th unfortunately lost their
lives, and Lieutenant Lucas was severely wounded.
The bodies of sixteen of the • enemy were after-
wards found, and from the quantity of blood, it is
supposed that many more mortal wounds had been
inflicted.

" Two Hottentot women have recently surrendered
at Graham's Town, being in a half-starved state.
They have been residing in the Amatola, and they
state that Uithaalder with his stock and family, and a
large number of Hottentots, had crossed the Kei some
time ago.

" His Excellency the Governor arrived in Graham's
Town on the 10th inst., after an absence of two months.
He appered in excellent health and spirits.
" Nothing more has been heard of Macomo or
Sandilli.

`.` Yesterday's post bring intelligence that some
Caffres had recently stolen thirteen oxen and two horses
from near Fart Murray, and afterwards coming upon
some waggons belonging to Simpson and others, which
were at that time fast in the mud on the road to King
William's Town, they detached 20 fine oxen, and got
clear off with the whole.

" Mr. Drury, who was recently attacked and robbed
in the Zuurberg, has offered a reward of 1001. for
the recovery of his money. His loss was 5001. in sove-
reigns.

From information that had been received, it was
believed that the recent onslaught on the rebels in the
Zuurberg had entirely broken up Hans Brander's gang.
Some clue had been ascertained as to the whereabouts
of the few fugitives, and pursuit was being made."
The Graham's Town Journal of January 15th
states that—

" Commandant Currie left Graham's Town on Tues-
day for Somerset, called there we regret to say, by the
dangerous state of his brother arising from the wounds
he received while in pursuit of the Hottentot rebels in
the Zuurberg, under the miscreant Brander. A letter
received this morning from Fort Beaufort states that
this gallant officer is dead, but the report requires con-
firmation. We are sorry to add that the brother of
Commandant Bouwer, who was wounded under the same
circumstance, died last week."

The following spirited resolutions in reference to
the mitii-statements of Sir John Pakington 'in Par-
liament on the subject of the promised constitu-
tion for this colony were passed unanimously by
the commissioners of the municipality of Cape
Town :
" Resolved—That while this board continues to con-
demn and to repudiate generally the measures adopted
by her Majesty's present Government for withholding
from this colony the constitution granted under her
Majesty's latter patent of 1850, it has just observed,
with renewed disappointment and deep regret, that after
the many but fruitless attempts on the part of Mr. Se-
cretary Montagu to stir up mutual jealousies and to ex-
cite national antipathies among the colonists of South
Africa, the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, in his place in the British Parliament, on the
19th of November last, should have made a statement
unsupported by,pn official or other document whatever,
contrary to fact, calculated to wound the feelings of her
Majesty's loyal subjects in this colony, and solely for
the purpose of delaying the constitution so graciously
granted by her Majesty.
" That this board wholly repudiates any distinction
for political purposes, as between the British, Dutch,
and coloured portions of her Majesty's loyal subjects,
and emphatically denies the numerical proportion alleged
by Sir John Pakington to exist between the same.
" That this board finds, from the returns published by
authority of the local Government, that in the Colony
Proper, excluding British Caffraria, Victoria, and the
Tambookie country, there were in 1850 about 77,000
coloured inhabitants, of whom at least 49,000 were re-
sidents in the western districts, a large comparative pro-
portion of whom have fought and bled for their Sove-
reign during the present war, and whose localty remains
means
the
unimpeachl, in defiance of the disreputable
which were resorted to for shaking the same.
"That this board is also satisfied, notwithstanding the
assertions of a small but malicious faction opposed t
coloured classes generally and to tho improvement of the
colony at large, that at no time during this wicked re-
bellion on the frontier did the rebels, out of a coloured
population of 28,000 persons, scattered along a wide
border and in daily contact with the Caffres, much
exceed 1,000 in number (which has been reduced accord-
ing to General Cathcart's circular of the 28th July,
great portion belonged to the
corps
, toot, 3tohoe),
co
af
pwoh°Mounted Rifles, whose reasons for
adopting that course, as well as those of the other rebels,
still remain a mystery, which only the future will pro-
bably solve.
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respecting the abovementioned facts and statements,
this board respectfully apply to his honour the Lieute-
nant-Governor, requesting that .he may be pleased to
order
an inquiry into the same, for the information of
her Majesty's Government and the Parliament of Great
Britain."

In the following general order, issued on the
22d, General Cathcart, conveying his thanks to
the troops for their gallant conduct, warmly ex-
pressed his admiration of their steadiness and dis-
cipline :
" GENERAL ORDER, No. 103.
" Head-quarters, Camp, Platberg, Dec. 22. 1852.
"The Commander of the Forces conveys his thanks
to the army engaged against the Basutas at the Berea on
the 20th inst. for their gallant conduct, and his admira-
tion of their steadiness and discipline, by which an
overwhelming host of 'Basutas and Bataungs were
defeated during a contest which lasted from early in the
morning until 8 p.m., when the enemy, with a force of
not less than 6,000 well-armed horsemen, under con-
siderable organisation, after repeatedly assailing the
troops at every point, was driven from the field with
such severe loss as to compel him to sue for peace.
"Nothing could surpass the valour displayed by every
officer, non-commissioned officer, and soldier on this

MONTHLY TRADE REPORT.
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wit, consent of the A,dmi.
Ad her usual 'time, made a long days„
arriving on the 19t, It is feared that somVaelay-will-
take place also with '.9le December mail, as tlVy Queen of
the South is advertisod for that service ; and looking at-
the date of her depart.urn from this it is very improbable
that she could be ready for sea again on the 15th ,of. ,
cember. These delays are;4perhaps, unavoidable with
new vessels, and wi'l be,. doubtless, obviated. As far,
however, as the Ca
4e'imlividuNlY concerned, its cor-
F
'responden with England was c ried on far more regu-
larly'
and satisfactorily when the smaller vessels were
running, than at present.
During the past month several inst.ltutions have " re-
ported progress" to their shareholders. 1852 has been a
very satisfactory year for all the Joint Stock Companies.
Of those which have already submitted th eir statements,
the Union Bank has declared a dividend of 12 per cent.
on the paid-up capital, and carried 1351. to the " rest."
The Cape Bank declared a dividend of 124 per cent.,
and carried 2,000/. to their reserve fund. The Equitable
Fire Assurance dnd Trust Company declared a dividend
of 15s. for the half-year, equal to 30 per cent. per an-
num on the paid-up capital, and carried 6601. to the re-
serve fund. The Equitable Marine'declared 12 per cent.
dividend on the paid-up capital, ac tording to the trust
deed, and the whole of the balance, 2',..004/., is added to
the reserve fund., The Cape ofGoo() Hope Marine
Company has declared a dividend of 2.24 per cent, on
the paid-up capital, and also carried
at. considerable
amount to their "rest." The remainder of the public in-
stitutions will hold their meetings during- the present
month.

With such figures as the above it is almost unneces-
sary to state that shares have fully maintained their
value, and, from present appearances of the market, are
likely to continue a favourite mode of investment.
Money is "free," and both discounts of good paper and
advances on firstimortgage are easily procurable. There
were indications a few weeks ago of a slight decline►, in
the high rates which landed property has lately obtained,
and, in consequence, some properties which were about
to be offered for sale .were withdrawn from the market.
Exchange at 1 per cent. premium.

THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS.

( From the Cape Town Mail of Jan. 18.)

Two arrivals from Melbourne have put us in
possession of a fortnight's later intelligence from
the gold fields. One, the Frances Henty, sailed ou
the Ist of December, and has consequently made
the passage to the Cape in 47 days. She takes
home 70,000 ounces of gold and 58 passengers.
The other, the Lochnagar, has only 4,000 ounces of
gold and 16 passengers ; both vessels being laden
with valuable cargoes of wool for the English
market.

The accounts brought by these vessels from the
diggings show a continuance of the astonishing- yield
of gold from the mines lately opened, and mention
the discovery of fresh deposits on the Koorong
River which bid fair to eclipse all previous disco-
veries, the metal being of exceeding purity, and
found more commonly in the form of small nug-
gets than in the scattered state which renders the
laborious operation of " washing" indispensable in
other places. From the Echunga diggings, near
Adelaide, the intelligence is equally favourable.
" Pounds' weight of gold," -writes the Government
Commissioner, " are spoken of now as commonly
as ounces were formerly." Still, great numbers of
persons are disappointed, and the general rate of
wages shows a downward tendency in the price of
labour. Provisions had fallen considerably in the
market, and supplies are pouring in from all quar-
ters, so that the apprehensions of famine at one
time entertained had entirely disappeared.
The local Legislature at Melbourne had proposed
to establish an export duty on gold, which had
caused much excitement, and a popular demonstra-
tion on the subject had been threatened. The
proposition, however, was abandoned.
Numerous vessels were loading for London, but
most of them would probably proceed by way of
Cape Horn, the passage by .that route being most
favourable about this season. The Sydney mail
steamer was advertised to start on her return
voyage to the Cape on the Ist of December, and
may therefore be hourly expected. The Great
Britain was to follow on the Ist of January.
We subjoin some interesting particulars from the
latest Melbourne papers
THE ADELAIDE GOLD DIGGINGS.
"The following extract from the Gold Commissioner's
report, dated Echunga, Nov. 13, furnishes the latest
particulars of the diggings :
" Windlass Hill and Feltusse's Gully have turned out
to be most valuable diggings. To particularise instances
of success related to me would be difficult, not only from
their number, but because .the amount of gold stated to
haver been raised is so considerable that it would be in-
discreet to include in an official report statements which
have nothing but bare assertion to substantiate their
truth. Pounds weight of gold are spoken of now as
commonly as ounces were formerly. I have seen that
which is evidence of the truth, of some accounts of large
gains, and the great activity and energy with which the
work is prosecuted is some guarantee for the truth of
est of the reports. The break or vein in the bed of •
pi la mentioned report, terns out to be

In 4/ze lower bed, and into which- the heavier parts
of the upper stratum have settled. These courses
run cast by north, till they reach the lower ground,
at which point it will probably merge into one channel
in the direction of the fall of the gully. If a straight
line were run in a direction with these diggings to the
south, it would cut the upper and higher part of Chap-
man's Gully upon the west. Chapman's Gully is almost
deserted ; that it is not entirely so proves that gold even
now is to be procured there in large and repaying quan-
tities. Mr. Scrown, the finder of the large nugget men-
tioned last week, has, I understand, since found others
of considerable size."

(From the Melbourne Gold Oircular of Nov. 27.)
During the early part of the week the doubt that ex-
isted as to the fate of the Gold, Export Duty Bill had a
slightly depressing effect upon the market, and the price
fell to 695. 3d., although very little business was done
at that rate. When the fate of the measure became
known, the price rose again, and may now be quoted at
695. 9d. firm.
The new Kooring diggings appear to be turning out
well. That geld existed in this neighbourhood has been
known for some months, and a somewhat unsuccessful
attempt to develope the resources of this field was made
long ago. The recent discovery of several very conside-
rable nuggets near Mount Kooring has now sent a good
many parties thither from Bendigo, and as far as we can
learn they have no reason to complain. Judging from
the parcels we have seen, the gold of this district is
found in larger nuggets than in any other place, ag
scarcely any pieces of less than a quarter of an ounce
weight have yet come to town.
The quantity of gold received by escort from Mount
Alexander and Ballarat in the week ending the 20th of
November was 65,879 ounces, and the week previous
125,000 ounces.

The exports during the week have been as follows :
Ounces.
3,224
44,704
65,166

Nov. 20—Lochnagar for London .
25—Meteor, ditto
26—Frances Henty, ditto

113,794

The arrivals this week are—
Nov. 24—Ballarat .(Gov.) 8,537
23—Mount Alexander, ditto.
27—Ditto (P.E )
27—Ovens (Gov.) 3,300

111/

59,558

MELBOURNE LABOUR MARKET.
Good servants are in great demand, and wages on tho
advance. Female servants for town are also much
wanted, and scarce.

Wages range as under :
Mowers, 10s. to 12s. per acre, with rations ;
haymakers, 30s. per week, with rations ;
married couples, without family, per an.
num, with rations ........................
Ditto, with family
Shepherds, with rations, per annum...,
Hutkeepers, per annum, with rations....
G eannenr al useful
.. 5777.
er
..ants, rations, p
.................
50
to
60
Cooks, 1/. Iwitos. to i
2/. per week; per annum 70 to 80
Ganers, h ratons, per annum.,, 50 to 60
with rations.
Bush carpenters, per
week, 1/. 10s. to 21.,
Stockkeepers', with ration; per annum 5O to 60
Grooms, with rations, per annum
Carpenters, 11. per day. 50 to 60
Blacksmiths, per annum
Bullock drivers, ...
with rations 3/, per week ditto for the road, 41., with rations, per
week ; per annum
General farm servants, 11. to 11. 10s. per
week ; per annum
Shearers, 1/. 5; to 1/. 10s. per 100 sheep,
with rations.
Washers, 1/. to 1/. 10s. per week, with ra-
tions.
Seamen, for London, 401. for the run, or 101.
per month.
Coasting, 81. for the run, or from 81. to 10/.
per month.

•••• £7O to 80
• ••• 50 to 60
.•••• 35
..... 32

70 to 80

60 to 70

50 to 60