The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-28 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Amiens and Boulogne . ..............
Arbroath and Forfar ......... ••• • • •
Chester and Birkenhead • • • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda• . • • • • . • • • • • • • .
Dublin and Kingstown .••••• • • • • ••
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen .. • . • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow . .• • ••• • • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancashire • • • • ... • • • • . • • • • • • • •
Eastern Uni0n...............•••••••
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock• • • • • • • • • •
Great Southern and Western • • • • • • • •
Great Western, 24c • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • •
Ipswich and 8ury...................
Lancaster and Carlisle .. • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and .Nerth Western, &c. .....
London and Blackwall.• • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and Brighton . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and South Western . • • • • • • • •
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle ..
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish) .. • • • •
Newcastle and Carlisle • . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Newcastle, Berwick, and Yorth Shields
Norfolk .• • • • ..... ...........•
North British .. • • • • • • • •
Paris and Rouen . • • • . • • • • .• • • • • • • • •
Preston and Wyre •.• • • . ••••• • . • . .
Rouen and Havre .. • • • • .. • • ••• • • • • •
Shrewsbury and Chester • . • • • • • • • • • •
South Eastern and Branches • • • • • • • •
Taff Vale • ..... • • ..... • • ..
Whitehaven Junction ... • . • • . • ..
York and Newcastle . •• . • •• • • •• • • ..
York and North Midland ...........

1,643
49,073
1,302
10,738
10,180
10,296
2,8;8

-620
23,263

't,25
2,670

2,591
3,067
9,118

3,623

594
11,54/
1,554
1,464

479
2,879
1,704

19,873

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Files of papers, up to the 14th June inclusively,
have come to hand. The most important feature
brought by this mail is the statement contained in
letters from King William's Town, that the chief
Pato had sent a message to Captain M'Lean, British
commissioner, purporting that he was about to repair
to the place to surrender himself to the clemency of
the British government. Pato is the most influential
chief of the Rafts, and his submission might be
attended with happy results ; but this is not the first
time we have had to record a similar announcement,
and it requires confirmation by the act ; the more so
as various other rumours were afloat in a contrary
sense, and letters from Buffalo Mouth state that the
colonists were fully expecting an attack from the said
chieftain. Meantime the predatory aggressions of
the Kafirs have commenced on different quarters-
At Waterloo Bay ten oxen, belonging to Mr. T. H.
Webb, were carried off, as also twelve oxen belonging
to Mr. T. Seanlen, near Keeskamma. At Fort
Dacres a body of well-mounted Kafirs carried
off twenty-four head of cattle belonging to
Mr. George Clayton. Some slight skirmishes had
taken place between patrols under Captain O'Reilly
and Lieutenant Armstrong, in which several Kafirs
were shot. One of the new levy brought round by
Captain Hogg was also killed. The Frontier Times
states that head-quarters are established in Graham's
Town, where the Governor and General have both
taken up their quarters ; that there will be no more
campaigning at present, and that nothing will be at-
tempted against the enemy until new levies are orgaa-
ized and fresh troops have arrived from the mother
country.
The Honourable the Commander of the Forces,
Lieutenant-General Sir George Berkeley, arrived in
Graham's Town on the Ist of June, in good health..
04 the 2d Sir George- inspected the 91st regiment,
owredreer,giitvsenapfpoeraritantcoe pre-
sent though hinonfulya:t
such as to give great satisfaction to all present. Some
minTrchhoiu marching s
coremotion was caused.in the town by the disband-
ment of the Fingo and Hottentot levies, detachments
~f which arrived. daily from the frontier. Captain.
Hogg was very 'busy recruiting, and the tempting
offer of 465. bounty money, and at the expiration of
the e acres
of a grant in the ceded territory of twelve cres
enlist.
of garden ground, had tempted many to The
policy, however, of granting land, unless on condi-
tion of '
good conduct, may be questioned, as it is not
the best-disposed men who enter the service; and
this fact ought to be duly considered by those who•
are charged with the future safety and welfare of the'
colony.
A memorial hag been'
presented to his Excellency
the Governor in Council, deManding modifications in
the draft of ordinance containing the new pound re-
-1 gulatiolis, as not being compatible with the interests of
the settlers. The memorial is signed by 70 of the
most respectable inhabitants of Uitenhage, where the
meeting was held in order to take the above draft or
ordinance into consideration.
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
The ship Pestonjee Bomanjee, with male
The pri-
soners were originally intended for Norfolk Island,
but their destination was altered by express before
they left the English coast. Through the remon-
strances of G. C. Maclean and other influentialie gen-
tlemen, all prisoners are to be sent to Van Drnees
Land, for the future, direct. The men by the Pes-
tonjee Bomanjee were to be sent to Maria Island,
without being permitted to come into contact with
other prisoners. All the prisoners now at Norfolk
Island, and senteadnidately f
thoirt,ahearrddeirdectt fromv England, are to
and no prisoners were to be asentantoDera
Norfolkieais Island,Laiid,
except those who may be doubly or trebly con-
victed, and that penal settlement is to be abandoned
as such as speedily as possible.—South Australian
Register.

FALMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING, NINE,
Majesty's steamer Rattler has this morning arrived from
Rio de Janeiro (23d ult.), and brings news that the
blockade of the River Plate has been taken off by the
English.
MONTROSE.—GALE AND SIIIPWRECK.f—OD Sattl.l4.
between ten and eleven 'clock,we greatly fear
day evening a tremendous,
_gale came on from the west.
o which
has done much damage to our shipping and crops.
Whole fields of corn, in stook, we observe, are thrown
down and scattered about in absolute confusion, The
growing crops must have sustained very considerable
lova by shaking. Two miles to the south of this a sloop,
name unknown, went d, awn with all on board, about one.
o'clock yesterday morning. The mast is still seen above.
wat:lr. The Vivid, too, on her way from Leith to airs
port, sustained loss of sails, and another vessel lying at
the mouth of our river seems to have had her masts
srried away. We hope, however, that the gale may not
cave been general.—Scotsman.
Ma. COBDEN.—(FRONTIER OF RUSSIA.)—Mr..
Cobden is now travelling in Russia, On the 13th of:
August he aligh.ed from his carriage at a distance fromi
a Customs' barrier. He was probably thinkirg of fee
trade when he passed the barrier, and a centinel cried
out to him, " Stop!" levelling his musket at him. Much
time was required for the explanation of the Bair, and
in the meanwhile Mr. Cobden's carriage ctue49, up.-"'
Voss Gazette of the 23d of August.