The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-30 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received files of papers from the Cape of
Good Hope to the 21st of August.
Reports of disturbance on the frontier were again
current, and the following Government notice was
issued on the 16th of August :

"GOVERNMENT NOTICE. —No. 283, 1856.
" Colonial-office, Cape of Good Hope, Aug. 16.
" His Excellency the Governor and High Commissioner
finding that considerable alarm has been created by reports
which are in circulation, that a great meeting was held
by the Caffre chiefs upon the sth instant, on the borders
of a river on this side of the Kei, at which were present
the Chiefs Kreli, Macomo, Siwani, Dilima, and
others, who had all unanimously resolved on war, has di-
rected the publication of letters, which show that, on the
day named, Sandilli and Dilima were with Government
a uthorities in their own districts, discussing the state
e thee iuntry. His Excellency has further ascertained
that, on the same day, the Chief Siwani was also pre-
sent with Government authorities in his district.
" Very alarming reports having also been put into cir-
cdation regarding a great meeting of Kama's tribe, which
teok place on the 4th Aug., and doubts having been ex-
pr ssed regarding the conduct of Kama and his own son
Samuel, the great chiefs of that tribe, his Excellency
has also directed the publication of the minutes of the
meeting which was on that occaQion held ; and as,
in the present time of excitement, it is of great
Lo,lsequence that nothing should be done to create a
feeling of distrust and suspicion in the minds of
the Caffre Chiefs, his Excellency earnestly impresses
upon all persons the propriety of refraining from cir-
culating alarming reports, the truth of which they have
not ascertained.
" By command of his Excellency the Governor and
High Commissioner.
"RAWSON W. RAWSON, Colonial Secretary.

At Bow-street, yesterday, Mr. Jardine fined a woman
10/. or three months imprisonment, for giving a servant
girl a false character. The girl turned out to be a thief.
The magistrate at the end of the day, in consaquence of
strong representations, remitted the fine.
COLCHESTER AND GRAVESEND RAILWAY.—The surveys
of this line, which is intended to be made from the Lon-
don, Tilbury, and Southend at Pitsea to Maldon and
Colchester, with a branch to Burnham, are completed,
and plans and books of reference will be deposited before
the required time.
THE POLICE COURTS.—Nothing of the slightest im-
portance oecurred at the principal pollee-courts this
morning, np to the time oof our despatches leaving.
At the New Court, yesterday, Mary Eaves was sen-
tenced to four years' penal servitude for uttering forged
Bank of England notes.
In consequence of the excitement caused by
be 12th_eeedwa
amination of Cope, in the presence of Marley,
disturbed night. Mr. B. Holt, who was absent troenif
London at the time, has expressed his disapprovalrseal.
the patient being subjected to so trying n
A correspondent complains
of the ttieffords -
the trees in Rotten-row, which, he says,
a protec
cutting down of
tion from showers, and, what is more mportant, shade
i
in hot summer afternoons.
the Duke of Wel.
A letter dated Malta, Oct. 25, ybut ex
lington, Conqueror,sha s
e p
&c-,
t are re, ect orders
still
by the mail of to-morrow to
man in prison for the
It is stated that Marley, t
murderous outrage in Parliament-street, is the sari of a
deceased Colonel of MaririeS
esterday James Burton was
At the Mansion.hou
fully committal for triallsef, in the Minories.
oyr stealing a roll of cloth from
A
the shop of Mr. r
The Royal decisionend relative to the right of Prince
Christian of Denmark to be a member of the Privy
Council of State has been published.
BYf
articlein the Augsburg Gazette we learn
theolalll
important facts That the Rus-
sianowing
Government still has troops in the whole of
that territory which it will have to cede to Mel-
davia ; and
2. That the statements of some
re-
spectable Austrian papers that " the evacuation of
the Danubian Principalities will not take place
until the internal affairs of those provinces are re-
emiated" are incorrect.
The Russiaft squadron took its departure from
Kiel on the 26th for the points of destination of
the several ships composing it under Rear- Admi-
ral Berens. The screw frigate Polkan is said to
be destined to proceed to Athens ; the brig Phi-
loktel to Constantinople, while the screw liner
Wiborg and the frigate Cast,r will have to wait at
Cherbourg for further orders.
Accounts from St. Petersburg to the 20th inst.
mention that the night frosts are felt to be very
severe for this early period of the year. Along the
shores of the Gulf of Finland ice has even already
made its appearance, but has disappeared again
as quickly before the rays of the sun. The ship-
ments of corn from St. Petersburg continue very
lively, and supplies of this article begin to be very
scarce.

Copenhagen accounts mention that the military
stores of the Government have been embezzled to a
considerable extent, and the committee appointed
to investigate the subject have already discovered
no less than 58 persons engaged in these frauds, all
of whom have been brought before the civil tribu-
nal to be tried.