The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-11 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Cape of Good Hope papers, to the 12th of Decem-
ber, have arrived, which inform us that Colonel
Somerset had been successful in his operations to the
east of the Kye, by which the hostile Kafirs lost two
thousand head of cattle, and upwards of twenty mer,
who fell in the several skirmishes. Great doubts
seemed to exist as to the sincerity of the chief Um-
hala, in his professed submission to British authority.
It was confidently affirmed that numbers of Pato s
people were living under the protection of Urnhala,
whose conduct of late was said to have been of that
dubious character as to call for the most rigid in-
quiry. Reports were in circulation thit the Kafirs
had again occupied the Amatola.
The following general order has been issued dated
Cape Town, Dec. 1, 1847 :--
"Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.8.,
to the command of the Forces at the Cape of Good
Hope, and his Excellency having arrived, he was
pleased to make the following appointments on his
staff:—
"'Captain H. L. Ma,ydwell, 41st Regiment,
Military Secretary.
"'Major J. Garvock, 31st Regiment, Private
Secretary and Extra Aide-de-Camp.
" ' Lieutenant G. A. Haldich, 80th Regiment,
Aide-de-Camp.
Ensign J. Wise, 57th Regiment, Extra Aide-
do-Camp.
"'Ensign Henry Smith, 14th Regiment, 8.N.1.,
on leave of absence, to act as Aide-de-Camp.
(Signed) " A. J. CLEOTE, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Deputy Quartermaster- G eneral.' "

PORTSMOUTH', TuunSDAY. - The Isabella, Captain
M'Neillage, arrived thi.& afternoon off the NV ight from
the Cape, which she left on the 10th of December
with mails, and Captain llorsburgh, Dr. and Airs.
Mitchell and family, passengers, who landed at the
Quebec Hotel.

- General Sir Harry Smith, the newly arrived Go-
vernor and Commander in-Chief of the Cape, was to
leave Simon's Bay on the 15th of December in the
Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander Foote, for Algoa
Bay, whence the gallant chief would push on with all
speed for the frontier.
Prior to the sailing of the Isabella the Arab, 12,
Commander MorriA, had not arrived from England.
The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, had
arrived in Simon's Bay a few days prior from England
and St. Helena ; and the Admiral in the President,
50, was daily looked fir from Bourbon.
The Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres, was the only
man of war in Simon's Bay when the Isabella left,
except the store and depot ship Seringapatam. She
did not call at Ascension.

PERNAMBUCO.—LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—By the
bong Kong we have advices from Pernambuco to the
29th of December. Commercial affairs are dull. Er_
change, 27. Freights—Sugar, 30s. per ton to Liverpool;
cotton, ;43-.
On 'Thursday, the 10th inst., a general assembly of
the academicians of the Royal Acadk-my (.f Arts was
held at their apartments in Trafalgar-square, when
Charles West Cope and William Dyce, Esqrs., were duly
elected Royal Academicians in the room of William
Collins and Henry Howard, Esqrs„ deceased.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Naida, a new three-act version of the favourite
Gymnast) drama of La Deesse, was produced here
last evening with complete success. Rose Cheri was
the heroine at the Gymnase ; at the Princess's
Madame Anna Thillon is the Deesse, and sings
exquisitely some beautiful music, composed for her
by Mr. E. Loden. In the first act Naida, to serve
the designs of a false priest of 13ramah, is replaced as
a new incarnation of the god of the temple, a green
monkey, the previous deity having suddenly died.
But Naida, although performing the part of a god.
dess, is the daughter of a European, the sacrificator
of the temple, who had been shipwrecked with his
daughter and the infant son of his master, the
Count de Mongeron, during a voyage to the
French settlement of Pondicherry, on the is-
land of Eldorado. The two children have grown
up in the temple, and a mutual passion is the result.
A French vessel arrives off the island, the captain of
which carries back to their native country Naida, her
father, and the young Count de Mongeron. The
latter is restored to his family, where Naida is also
harboured for a time, hut the proud Countess de
Mongeron is highly incensed at the love of her son
for the lowly Lndian yraiden, and while, through her
influence, she is borne away and imprisoned in a
convent, her lover is induced to believe that she has
eloped with the naval officer. The young noble,
crushed in his affections, throws himself headlong
into the vortex of dissipation and extravagance,
whilst the father of Nails, who has amassed
an immense fortune, obtains his daughter's liberty
through his wealth, and purchases for her a villa
at Versailles, whence the favourite dancer of
the Grand Opera has just eloped with a Prince.
Here the spendthrift Count, her former lover, who
had been pursued for debts and duels, arrives to seek
the popular danseuse, whom, however, he knows but
by reputation. At first Naida denies her real name,
and treats him with disdain; but restores him all her
affection, and marries him, when she learns that his
errors have arisen from his belief in the fabrication of
her faithlessness and treachery. There are other
characters besides those to which we have adverted.
Amongst others, that of an Indian (Mr. Compton)
brought to France, who, in the days when Naida was
a goddess, was porter of the Temple, and was habitu-
ally engaged in emptying the butts of Bordeaux
which were shipwrecked with her, and in filling them
with stones, which, turning out to be diamonds, have
made her father's fortune.

The arch manner of Madame Thillon's acting, and
the spirit with which she sung, kept the audience in
perfect good humour, while Compton excited much
merriment. The music, composed and introduced by
'Mr. Edward Loder, was highly pleasing, particularly
a ballad, " I hart. not a notion," which was e►►cored,
as well as severnl other morecaux sung► by the favour-
ite vocalists of this theatre. The piece was com-
pletely successful, and Madame Thillon was honoured
with the usual ovation.