The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-31 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—By the arrival off this port
this morning of the Prince of Wales Indiaman, Captain
Hopkins, from Calcutta, we have advices from the Cape
to the 6th ult., upwards of a week later than the last
advices. The Prince of Wales has only been 93 days
at sea.

We take the following from the South African Com.
niercial Advertiser of April 3 :

" LATEST FROM THE FRONTIER.

" Information has come in from Fort Peddie up to
Sunday last. His Excellency reached that point on the
evening of Friday, as also several of the burgher con-
tingents, and amongst them the levy from Lower Albany.
On Saturday his Excellency reviewed these new levies.
and also a body of about 300 Fingoes. The latter passed
before him in single file, after which they exhibited
their mode of attack, closing the proceedings with a war
dance. On Sunday his Excellency attended divine
service in the Wesleyan chapel at D'Urban. It is un•
derstood that the troops would make a forward move-
ment, from Fort Peddie, on Wednesday, towards king
William's Town, whence a simultaneous movement
would be made by the troops there, including the Dra-
goon Guards, towards the mouth of the Buffalo, where a
military station is about to be formed of 300 men.
Lieutenant Jervois, Royal Engineers, proceeds thither
Immediately for the purpose of laying out the ground.
Both divisions, it seems, after forming a junction on the
Buffalo, are then to move back to Fort Peddie, sweeping
the country of cattle and crops in their progress—the
former to be brought
_to Peddie, or destroyed, should
there be any difficulty in bringing them forward. The
grand aim in this movement appears to be, to convince
the Kafirs of our determination to subdue them ; that it
is not their property we covet, but that our Government
is actuated ;by a fixed resolve to put down and punish
robbery and violence, as also to place matters upon such
a footing as shall prevent the recurrence of future wars.
No sacrifice is too great for this, and we feel persuaded
that nothing will be left undone which may conduce to
its perfect attainment."

FATAL ACCIDENT OFF POPE'S VILLA, TWICEER-
HAM.—On Friday afternoon two young gentlemen, sons of
the Rev. Benjamin Bickmore, of Percy-street, Pentonville,
hired a small boat of James Godfred, a waterman, at Rich-
mond, in which they rowed to the Eel-pie House, on Twick-
enham Ait, where they ordered dinner, saying they would in
the meantime go and have a bathe. They accordingly rowed
to a secluded part of the river between Pope's-villa and
Strawberry-hill, where they carried their intentions into ex-
ecution. The eldest cf the two, who is about twenty-two
years of age, had swam across the river and was returning,
when he heard his brother calling out for help, and knowing
that he was but an indifferent swimmer, he proceeded in-
stantly to his assistance, and held him up for some time,
but having been weakened by recent indisposition he at last
became exhausted, and for self-preservation was compelled to
quit his hold of his unfortunate brother, who immediately
sank in about ten feet water, and never rose again. The
survivor was so exhausted when he got ashore that he
swooned away.
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been in the service of the Belgian Government.
INCOME TAX.—Mr. William Ray Smee estimates
the annual income of Great Britain at 489,000,0001., of which
amount only 185,000,000/., or rather more than one-third, is
charged with income-tax.