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JAPE 0F,,-GOOD HOPE..)
ye received gstile Town journals to the 20th of
containing/intelligence from tho frontier to

.test intelligence from head-quarters, some-
_ ~ear the Kei River, represents the Governor and
Colonel Somerset as active and successful in following
up Cabus Congo's people, and his obstinate brother Pato.
His Excellency had crossed the Rei with a strong and
well-appointed force, and with a firm determination to
obtain some compensation for the losses of the colonists
and the expenses of Government.

His Excellency had demanded of Kreli 15,000 head
of cattle as a penalty for his treatment of the British
resident agent, and for permitting the cattle carried off
from the colony to be driven into his territory, of which
it is affirmed the Governor has the most ample proof.
With regard to the military movements the accounts
state that Colonel Somerset has made a further capture
in Kreli's country of 2,000 head of cattle, and that Pato
very narrowly escaped capture. This notorious chief,
with a number of his followers, got surrounded during a
thick mist, Colonel Somerset himself being so near as to
discharge a pistol at him, but unfortunately without
effoct. One or two other' shots were fired at him,
but still he seems to have escaped unhurt. The
result of this affair is stated to be about forty of the
enemy killed, and the capture of the number of cattle
stated.
- Accounts from the districts of Somerset and Graaff
Reinet state that that part of the country had been
visited by some of the most frightful thunder-storms
ever experienced in that quarter. Much damage has
been done to the standing crops, whole corn fields being
washed away in some instances. Much loss has also
been done to stock. One farmer, Mr. J. Malan, in
Zwager's Hoek, had 1,600 sheep washed away and
drowned. Mr. Hartzenburg, it is said, has lost nearly
all the stock he possessed, and many other farmers have
lost stock. The hail which accompanied the rain is
described as being tremendous—whole tracts of country
over which the storm passed were stripped of vegetation
—the Karoo bushes being literally pounded, and the
bark stripped off the Mimosa trees. The Sunday river
has not been known to he so full for ten years—the
Vogel, Little, and Great Fish, and nearly all the smaller
rivers are flooded over the banks. There is a general
order, we are informed, congratulating the troops on the
probable speedy termination of their labours—the tribes
west of the Ket having been subdued, and the only re-
sisting chief having been driven with loss over that river.
It is said that the 90th, 91st, and 27th regiments will go
home immediately.
The dispatches to his Excellency the Governor, an-
nouncing his supersession, and the appointment of Sir
Henry Pottinger, reached him at Butterworth ; and a
communication has been forwarded to Port Elizabeth for
her Majesty's ship Nimrod to be in Waterloo Bay on the
14th, to receive his Excellency, who thus purposes to
avoid the fatigue consequent on the overland route.

ATTACK UPON MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—On Tues-
day an Irishwoman died in this hospital, whose body the
surgeons deemed it necessary to open, her death having oc-
curred under suspicious circumstances. Thursday night her
husband, accompanied by a large body of Irishmen and Irish-
women, went to the hospital with a coffin, and insisted upon
getting the body, and when the officers of the hospital re-
fused, the mob threatened to take it force, and were about
executing their threat when the police arrived, and they were
partly terrified and partly dissuaded from so doing. This is
the second attack that has been made within two months on
the hospital, with the same intent.
SUDDEN DEATH FROM EXCITEMENT.—An inquest
was held yesterday before Mr. William Carter, the Coroner,
at the John Bull tavern, Tyer's-street, Lambeth, on the body
of Margaret Molton, aged seventy years, the wife of a cow-
keeper, lately residing at N 0.19, Tyer's-street, who died under
very sudden circumstances. From the evidence it appeared
that the deceased was blind, but generally enjoyed good
health. On Monday afternoon last she was engaged at the
wash-tub, when she suddenly fell to the ground, as if from a
fit. The landlady's son, who happened to be in the room,
ran to her aid, and raised her up, but she was quite insen-
sible. Mr. Smyth, of Lambeth-walk, surgeon, was called in,
but she never rallied, and died shortly afterwards, from an
attack of apoplexy, most probably resulting from over ex-
citement in her domestic duties. The jury returned a verdict
of " Death from natural causes."
BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday last, the
18th instant, at Great Oakley, the wife of Inspector Raison,
of a daughter, being her fourth child within two years and
four raonths.—Essex Standard.
ACCIDENT AT THE YEW TREE COLLIERY, KING.
SWlNFORD.—Yesterday (Tuesday) seven boys were sent down
the shaft early in the morning to brush out the sulphur,
when in a short time after their descent, owing to a candle
being in the back ground, an explosion of gas took place,
which so dreadfully burnt them, that little or no hopes are
entertained of their recovery.-- Worcester Journal.
EXPLOSION OF A COAL MINE.—Wednesday morn-
ing, an explosion took place in some coal mines belonging to
B. Gibbons, Esq., Shut-end, which, we are informed, burnt
seven individuals, some of whom are so seriously injured that
their recovery is despaired of.—Worcester Chronicle.
PARISH OF ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE.-- The
Vicarage of St. Giles', Cripplegate, which has just become
vacant by the death of the Rev. F. W. Blomberg, D.D.
will be conferred by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's
on the Venerable William Hale Hale, M.A., Archdeacon
of London, and Master of the Charterhouse. The benefice
is worth 2,0001. per annum, its actual value at the time of
Dr. Blomberg's appointment being nearly 2,500/. per an-
num. Part of this amount, however, was given tip by
the Rev. Gentleman, as a permanent endowment for the
poor of the parish. Divine service was performed at
the parish church yesterday afternoon, and a sermon
was preached by the Rev. Mr. Turner, the Lecturer
on the Haberdashers' Company's gift, but not the slightest
allusion was made to the painful
IHE -KOTA L TAI:ILES AT Is INnson.--Smee the
discovery of the dry-rot throughout the extensive boarding
around the riding school at the royal mews, at Windsor (the
whole of which has recently been entirely removed, and the
kamptalicon substituted), it has been found that the wooden
divisions of the stalls and other portions of the wood-work in
the royal stables are similarly affected. In several of the
stables- the stalls have been newly constructed, and it is
feared, in consequence of the inroais made by the rot, that the
whole will have to be removed and undergo a similar process.
ALARMING Fißn A T PIMLICO.—Last night, be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, a fire, that caused considerable
alarm, broke out upon the premises in the occupancy of Mr.
Gumbleton, boot and shoemaker, Grosvenor-row, Pimlico.
The flames originated from some unknown cause in the front
shop, and were first perceived by a police- constable. An
immediate alarm was raised, and messengers were sent tu
give intelligence of the outbreak to the engine-stations;
meanwhile the fire continued to spread, so that in a very
brief space of time the whole of the stock in the shop be-
came wrapped in one broad sheet of flame. With all possible
expedition, one of the escapes of the Royal Society for the
Protection of Life from Fire arrived, as well as several engines
of the London Brigade, parish, and West of England office.
Plenty of water was obtained, from which the firemen set to
work most vigorously, but before they could get the mastery
over the flames, the whole of the stock in trade was reduced
to ashes. Fortunately, Mr. Gumbleton was insured in the
Sun Fire-office.

FROM THE GALLICIAN FRONTIERS, MARCH ) 1.--
The latest accounts from Vienna state, in regard to the future
destiny of Cracow, that the important resolution has been
taken to divide Gallicia into two distinct governments, viz.,
that of East and %Vest Gallicia, by which Cracow will be
made the capital of the latter. The famine in the western
circles of Gallicia, according to report, which we trust is
exaggerated, has reached to such a fearful extent, that in
some cases the starving people have seized upon the bodies
of the dead and devoured them, in order to escape from the
agonising death of perishing from hunger.
WASTE OF SILVER.—To put the silver edging to
muslin, which is always torn off and thrown away before
converting the material to use, costs the country 20,000/. a
year.—The Builder.
Captain Henry Eden, R.N., Private Secretary to
the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty, left town
this morning, for Edinburgh, where
,the gallant officer re-
mains during the Easter holidays.

Mr. Cailey, M.P., is suffering under a severe at-
tack of influenza and fever, which disables him at present
from attending to his parliamentary duties.
THE LATE FATAL STEAM-BOAT Cor.Lisrox.---An
inquest was held at Gravesend, pursuant to adjournment, on
Friday, to inquire into the cause of death of two men, late
of the schooner Rose, which was run down by the Royal
Victoria Leith steam-ship, in the Thames, off Hole Haven,
on the morning of the 28th ult. It was fully proved that the
place in which the unfortunate schooner was at anchor is one
in which shipping ordinarily resort, as being sheltered from
the wind, and out of the ordinary track of the navigation,
and the circumstances of the accident were detailed in almost
the same terms as when first noticed in our columns. It was
endeavoured/to be proved that the collision was produced
only by the steam-ship not answering her helm as readily as
might have been expected, but this evidence did not seem
to satisfy the jury, who returned a verdict of Manslaughter
against David Micklereid, the commander, and appended a
recommendation that vessels should be navigated at less
speed during the night.
SUPPOSED MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN.---YeS-
terday afternoon, whilst Mr. Baker, the coroner, was hold-
ing' an inquest in Bath-street, City-road, information was
communicated to him of such a character as to justify the
supposition that a young woman had been most savagely
murdered. It appears that between twelve and one o'clock
that morning (Friday) a couple of men were engaged
a cesspool in a narrow court running from
Golden-lane to Whitecross-street, and known by the name
oGe fno'Broad-yard. Shortly after they had commenced opera-
tions they came in contact with what they at first imagined
to be the body of a newly-born child, but which upon fur-
ther search turned out to be a full-grown woman. The men
immediately gave information of the discovery, and after
considerable trouble the body was got out. Life was totally
extinct. The deceased, who had the whole of her clothing
on, even her bonnet, was removed to the workhouse of St.
Luke, in the ;City-road, where the master of the house
ordered the body to be stripped and washed. The deceased
was at once identified by the master as being a poor creature
who bad occasionally obtained relief of the parish. She had
been living a dissipated life, and had been for some time
cohabiting with a man whose name at present it would not
be prudent to give. The unfortunate deceased was 29 years
of age, and her name Elizabeth Robinson. She is the
daughter of a respectable family living at Hoxton. As soon
as `the ;body was washed, marks about the head, and f
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that side of the forehead and else a portion of the h c eek was
extensively bruised, as if the poor creature had been violently struck whilst alive with some h
eavybludgeon.- Upon re-
moving the hair on the head-a little, a severe wound was dis-
covered upon the crown, but it is quite possible that this in-
jury might have beetioccasioned by striking her head against
the wall in her descent, but from the fact of the bruises on
the forehead bleeding after the body was washed, it is quite '
certain that they must have been inflicted during life. The
Coroner gave orders to have the body opened, and a jury to
be summoned.

WAHEFIELD CORN MARkET.-- FRIDAY.—The sup-
ply of wheat this week is small, and of other articles mode-
rate. There is a fair inquiry for wheat, and a disposition to
do business at' some reduction, but holders are firm, and re-
quire last week's prices. Barley is in moderate request at a
decline of Is. per quarter. Beans are plentiful, and offered
at ls. per quarter lower. Oats and Shelling are sold on
easier terms.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, MARCH 23.
The hop market on Saturday was, upon the whole, flat, and
in one or two instances a trifling reduction in price was sub-
mitted to, 86s. to 88s. being considered top prices.— Worces•
ter Journal.