The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CON TINUED.)
B Eli.
"i. Glance at S!trli,' widi which the Aliscellany
fur October opens, is au admirably written narrative
of an excursion to one of the most interesting and ex-
traordinary portions of the British dominions, the
only part of the world, pe: haps, in which the reud.il
laws are still subsisting iu their full vigour, and which
form the antiquity of its laws and customs, the pri-
mitive simplicity of its inhabitants, the sublimity of
its scenery, and the rarity of its natural productions,
is interesting alike to tht, antiquarith, the ‘ourist, and
the student. This is followed by an excellent cri-
tique of the principal paintings in the Dulwich Gal-
lery, written in a fine and genial spirit. " Anecdotes
of Duelling" are continued, as is the paper on
Usury and Usurers." Mr. Alfred Cole gives four
additional chapters of his most interesting and, at the
present time more especially, valuable work, entitled
s
" The Cape and the Kafirs ; or Notes of Five Years'
Re2idenee in South Africa." In these chap-
ter he points out the great source
Of Wealth which the fisheries offer to the colony, and
entirely neglected : the bank of Agulhas,
'which are
extends along the whole southern coast of
Africa, is more plentifully supplied with fish than any
pnotiehteely r spot on the globe, and vet the fisheries are coin-
neglected by the colonists and left entirely
i the hands of the Malays, who are the
only fishermen. "You may take a boat," says
Mr. Cole, "and let down your net at any
d
Lie Point off the coast, raw and you are certain to
no up full of excellent fish. There are no dues,
restrictions as to locality or season. Tne country
P_reduces enormous quantities of salt, and everything
ll'enas to
fisherie Combine to force the importance of their
nigh u
e s
`ec pon the colonists. And yet they are well
-gted" It would be well that some enter-
-11'-ng persons from the mother country should at
once undertake the task of developing the riches of
the South African ocean. Mr. Cole gives us
statistics of sheep-farming, which
a most profitable pursuit, but
at t" same time one of the laziest to which a man
Pula devote himself ; this, perhaps, renders it so po-
t) "long' the Cape colonists, who are, according
It Ir. Cole's account of them, the laziest of mankind.
the be well that our humanitarians, who take
"" Plundering Kafirs under their immediate protection,
should read the opening of Mr. Coles's fifth chapter,
in Whic he says :—" An idea seems prevalent among
the leachinformed that the English have encroached
monthuetreure. territories of the Kafirs. Nothing can be
ore ntT
belonged is
tiolotthaen Kinlhrso,f"' tahefaCc tapweh?coh-
lly that ever c3n not be too often repeated, and which affords a
"MPlete answer to all the cant that has been or may
Co drivilled on the subject. Mr. Cole describes the
emancipation of the slaves as having been most direful
;
its results in the Cape colony. fle says :
a " I am not going to defend (even were it possible to
v,"° 8°) the rinciplo of slavery in the abstract; but I
Deave dealpwith simple facts. It is notorious that the
utela were most kind and indulgent masters to their
54/V". It is equally notorious that no class of people
were bettor fed, clothed, or cared for; less overworked,
pill any way ill used, than the slave population in
utle Africa. The Government at home thought
Proper, from the noblest and purest motives, and at a
great sacrifice, to set these people free. What was the
I:eault? These people (amounting to thirty-six thou-
I-and), who had hitherto had their every want supplied
Vor their masters, found the responsibility of providing
themselves thrust upon them without any previous
-alning or preparation. Sell-reliance they could nut
Possibly have. But they were dazzled by the name of
tto his new boon, 'freedom.' They thought it a fine thing
he St the beck and call of no man; they pictured to
theomselves the savage's seventh heaven of delight, the
4iendnal to do nothing except get drunk. They actually
Boned their old masters iu a body; those who had
riot One
trettt word of complaint to utter against their past
theuirlaent' equally with those who might consider
bumesselves aggrieved. They abandoned their ancient
' and commenced the celebration of those fearful. :1%410411a which have already immolated two-thirds of
town' and which to this day fill the streets of every
bauchand villag
ey ain the colony with drunkenness and de-
Sadey
oath congregated in the towns in small confinedrefuse ,
thesc'rae apartments, living or half-starving on any
generona Y could procure in idleness, in lieu of the
Masters. (",,!"lcl Plentiful meals supplied by their late
huts env ahey planted themselves in wretched filthy
bags, ered with old hides, decayed rags, rotten sugar-
Wine 4"
chillydirt thatch, through which came rain and
to
th Places they i 5 e miserable occupants. From these
steey and. 54,'i but seldom, and then to earn only a
stilly it fresh tbr SOUIU trivial° service, and to purchase
shall dribk to continue their debauch. Who
these ii-n't`s °cif the horrible scenes of fiendish depravity
1.,„,til MI dens exhib't d'
there in ,ence fon
ribs owed. Measles and smallpox assailed
Seized
on thee!elrful progress of these diseases as they
ehed 4naPcverished, and weakened, and de-
destructive 7,°,4,nd Rottentot. The plague was not ao
ithhe,NoUred ci,24glatiti as were these maladies among
tceir buts -88,es at the Cape. They died not alone
Fide as
lk_
wins and villages, but on the road-
!Veil fields 7" wandered they knew nut whither; in the
be boat miserable cabins (which were obliged to
eit w tti. the decaying remains of the dead).
stroyeci by
ld be
this dreadful
rianaber de
to
Sa inapuesible to estimate corre,ctly. the
visitation. Suffice it
isiNyydleile'" the Coloured races in South Africa were
liv ellgendeee-er,ea!ed by it; and that it it were nut actually
it—w".„ by th e state iu which those races w. ere,.then
trolls resultsB B't least frightfully augmented in its onsae-
treci„; by the exposed condition in which the
frost i,Panon Act had placed them—by their removal
Well_;e guardianship of those whom self-interest, as
proin at
„every better and gentler feeling, would have
er! C,CI to protect and aid them.
~,,_eoso_far for the evils wrought upon the slaves them-
ue7,et evils which have nut passed away, but whose dire
mast are but too visible to this hour. As fur their
tiers—ungathered vintages, fallow fields, crops rotten
labour-lacking
grouud, untended flocks, uueerved tables, and
1:-Iacking warehouses—these were a few of the evils
uxperiened by the colonists. The Dutch, who had pur-
suedsue agriculture, were literally ruined. They could nut
a, labourer to aid them. The progress of the colony
was fearfully retarded by it, and it has not to this day
recovered from the shock."
Professor Creasy begins a series, entitled "Unsuc-
cessful Great Men," with an admirable analysis of
the character and motives of Demosthenes. Essays
such as this of Professor Creasy, on philosophical
history, are of the very highest order.

COLONIAL.
In " Hints how to end the Kafir War" the writer,
who signs himself "EAT Springer," strikes at the
very rout, and although his measures may appear
somewhat too severe, there is no doubt but that his
views on the subject are correct in the main. Of the
other articles the most interesting is an account of
Aden, our valuable Gibraltar of the Red Sea—
Valuable both as protecting our steam communication
with the East and as offering great advantages for
trade both with Arabia and the opposite coast of
Africa.
b These advantages are thus clearly put for-
ward y the writer :
"e"r4,ll.o4t3litraiding port, Aden possesses greatb advantages
its harbour may be entered yaws.htip
the
boat at any period of the year, and quitted l n_.1.1.9..
8a1:110
of whereas the port of Mocha isi very cllmay.
cult of access in the months of March, Apri ~and M
Mocha
coffee di tric's are actually nearer to it than to
""cha, and thes 'road equally safe and convenient.
Other large towns in Yemen are within an easy journey,.
and the rich and populous places in the province of
tillaYednraocurtulat oatre4oupeean for its trade. The mountains tod
produce gums, frankincense, an
coffee; its trade in honey and wax might become very
bo&ortat,
the
uthe
aijacent countries yielding abundanceo of
shore:" aa Erie a quality as that produced
ro. cured in("Fltpr:Atlediterranean. ae aso to e p
Barbourand a -- quantiiies, as well asperfumes and spices,
The
el'haiderable proportion of gum arable.
vessei,!)e,illg inmedi•tely to the north of Berbera,
with the prod
- during the north-eastern monsoon can reach it,
urninc, • lie° of Africa, iu twenty-four hours, re-
Short %with
eGhraena2t
eti
tr. ita i a British and Indian produce in an equally
4.
a"' of
ufactures of India and
cx-
nalymtjhus loceinuatraonduced into Africtin
guld-Ci or cuiree, gums, myrrh, hides, elephants teeth,
the 1.:18t, ostrich-feathers &c., of which the exports ot
they large
t"418 on th© 'opposite coast consist. It is,
cia
well
ae:
tholearly to the interest of the manufacturers
so Jaw 0 Politician to maintain a place weich affords
goods
1?.
advantages.a Hardware and coloured cotton
eettohs 4(1 readiest sale amongst the Arabs; but the
will
soon
13, "
cease."of fast colours, or thu demand f then] the

itt7l3 SYMPOSIUM.—This
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enchanting fairyland,
'.°4141 tit "lalltifilllY variegated and charming seen
j,ri...ye
er
they ,0,-., &c., still continues to attractcrowdscenery, crowds..
may
himself on the successfusl
ortuhee
troupe
fouYhpise
of Datit'l.nlidertaking; likewise on the.
not to beTteol the 6outh, whose variosuuseepeearform. performances are
Plantatio ci(!4lireid. and must be seen to be appreciated. Their
rite aira frnonreati-s'valr in which they introduce sevweraffavou-
sing ver _
_,...e most celebrated operas, and. hich they
laughter? excellently, is nightly received with shouts of
th '11:11/-1.TOT Snitazoris —We understand, from au-
:4l.4Y, that the order that. military surgeons should be the
"Peratora in it g brands deserters, &c., has been sus-
Aanstlud..--; Cork Coninstitutic. on
Th "
, 1111 bEATII AT A DANCING PARTY.-00.
bled evening a company of young persons had assem
in the long room of the Albion Hotel, Buxton-road, to
torm themselves into a dancing party. Amongst the number
pt.tsent was Air.
_Alfred !Janson, a fine tall young man, about
nete years old, son of Mr. C. Hanson, watchmaker, of
Chetaheh. A little aft, t o'clock the party had con-
il4tilied the " Schottishe'dr dance, in which Mr. Ranson had
a rd fell Part' and before hea had time to take a seat he reeled
into
all irk warda on the floor. The young man. was taken
Wu qui4ej°i4ing room, proper restoratives applied, but life
isiozeri
,t extinct on the arrival of Mr. ilellawell and Air.
A 444tRe)43*—*Zeds in •
A. atilt 0. telhgencer.
I,:teaces, centredi
aeoident, attended with fatal conse-
‘_tloucester. A.. 00 Alonday last at Lanthuny- idge,
brd
20,
Was passing ovei.tettling man, named Charles Smith, age
by some raw, , e bridge, when his attention was attracted
ueis of sloops that were being carried along by
t(:Va._tperson at the time the bridge was being swung open
urli a vessel. The deceased kept walking on, at the
same dole lookig* bac hat the models, and not Perceiving the
mine Pea, toll into r
sad )94 *AIM'