The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY MORNING.
The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet Dane, Commander Hoffman, from the Cape,
Dec. 22, St. Helena 31, and Ascension Jan. 4, ar-
rived lost night.
She has a full cargo of wine, ivory, skins, wool,
ostrich feathers, &c., and among her passengers are
Capt. Stoll, of the Madras army, and Lieutenant
and Adjutant Bond.
Great preparations were made at the Cape for the
expected landing of Sir George Grey on the 15th of
December from the Celt, which brought a letter
from his Excellency, stating his intention to come
out in the January mail steamer.
The net sum subscribed for a statue of the Go
vcrnor amounts to £650.
The Government has enlled for £20,000 on de-
bentures for public prisons.

Three hundred contractors' men are engaged on
the railroad between Cape Town and Wellington.
The station for passengers is to be on the Parade,
and for goods near the South-wharf. A contract
has been taken for extending a line of telegraphic
wire, 21 miles, from Cape Town to Simon's-bay.
Sir John Wylde, Chief Justice for 28 years, died
at. Cape Town, aged 78.

Colonel Rose, R.E., has been unfortunately
drowned ; he went out to succeed Mijor-General
Bolton, who, in consequence of this misfortune, and
of the serious illness of Colonel Dill, continues in
command.

The German Legion on the frontier is to receive
no more pay after March 31.
An agricultural exhibition took place 75 miles
from Cape Town, at Caledon, on the 29th of Dec.,
when there were 523 entries of produce ; 2,000 sheep
were exhibited besides tobacco, dried fruits, wheat
potatoes, soap, salt, honey, and beeswax. The im-
plements were chiefly American. The next exhibi-
tion—February, 1861—is to be at Worcester.
The vine disease has appeared at Paarl. The
general yield will be below the average.
The Caffres, late servants to the farme rs, move
in bands and steal sheep and cattle.
At Alice, James Negan was charged at the Cir-
cuit Court with shooting a Caffre while robbing his
crops. The jury returned a verdict of "justifiable
homicide."

One ironmonger at Graham's Town sold in two
weeks 1 cwt. of iron wire to the coloured ladies of
that district, who now patronise crinoline exten-
sively.

A mail from Port Elizabeth for Graham's Town
was lost in the Caega, which, with other rivers,
was unusually swollen in November.
Chevalier du Prat has received a letter from Mr.
Anderson, the traveller, who has failed to reach the
Canene, but has discovered another river, 250 yards
broad, flowing eastward.
At Cape Town beef and mutton had fallen to 6d.
per lb. Butter averaged 2s. 9d. ; cheese, ls. 4d. ;
white rice, 4d.; brown, 3d.; and Cavendish tobacco,
2s. 6d. At Graham's Town, meal, 465. ; Albany,
425. ; maize, 235.; Caffre corn, 305.; salt, 13s. ;
potatoes, 1 le. per 100 lb. ; fresh butter, 2s. 2d.
Since May, 1858, 2,511 emigrants have landed in
Table-bay, and 2,342 in Algoa-bay. The passages
ranged from 52 to 86 days, but the John and Lncy
had been out 108 days, when, just previous to the
departure of the Dane, at noon December 22, an
American ship hove in sight, with 180 emigrants
belonging to the John and Lucy, which was
wrecked near Cape St. Roque on the 23d Septem
ber. She had a cargo of railway iron and salt. All
her passengers were conveyed safely to Rio Grande.
The Jalawar arrived at the Cape on the 16th of
December, after a passage of 75 days.
Her Majesty's steamer Pioneer left Simon's-bay
for China on the 23d of November, and the Pearl on
the 9th of December.

Her Majesty's ship Boscawen had been surveying
along the coast, but was left with thenermes at anchor
in Simon's-bay. The Himalaya was expected
shortly with the 10th Regiment to relieve the 2d,
which is ordered to China.

The transport Scoresby, with 336 discharged men
from the East India Company, sailed from the
Cape November 29 ; the Tartar, with 208, Decem
ber 12; the Maha Ranee, 384, on the 15th; and
the Therese, 394, and the Cospatrick, 464, on the
18th:

The brig Favoritan has landed in Table-bay,
Captain Robertson, of the Senator, from Liverpool
for Bombay, abandoned in a sinking state, Nov. 4.
At St. Helena the repairs of the house formerly
occupied by Napoleon I. are progressing rapidly
under the direction of Captain Masselin, R.E. The
ship Alnwick Castle, 64 days from Calcutta, left
St. Helena for London, December 19 ; the Bombay,
62 days from Bombay, for Liverpool, December
18; the Earl of South Esk, 91 days from Shan•
ghai, for London, 22d ; the Ravensworth, 110 days
from Foo-chow-foo, for Cowes, 29th; the Multah,
64 days from Bombay, for Liverpool, 28th ;
th© Geneva, 14 days from the Cape, for Lon-
don, 29th; the Queen of the Clyde, 79
days from Calcutta, for London, 29th ; the Morris,
110 days from Manilla, for Liverpool ; the Cathe-
rine, 32 days from Z inzibar, for London ; the
Augusta, 43 days from the Mauritius, for Cork.
On Dec. 24, Mr. Lamb, of her M9jesty's ship
Pluto, brought to St. Helena a bark, name and na-
tion unknown, which had been seized on the coast
of Africa with 867 slaves on board.