The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

TilE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 22.
The steamer .Norseman, with the Cape mails, has
arrived here. Her dates are—Table Bay, Novem-
ber 20 ; St. Helena, 28th ; and Ascension, Decem-
ber 2. She brings 66 passengers and 32 time-
expired soldiers (with women and children), four
packages of specie, and a cargo of wool, skins, oil,
copper, hides, wines, &c. The Norseman expe-
rienced strong northerly winds along the coasts
of Portugal, and north-westerly winds, with rain,
to Plymouth.

The fever at Cape Town was considered to be
decreasing in the number of patients, but the type
of the disease had increased in virulence, and a class
of people had been attacked who had previously
been comparatively free from the malady. The Go-
vernment and the municipal authorities were unre.
mitting in their exertions to meet the emergency.
The town was divided into 12 districts, to each of
which a medical man was appointed to provide the
poorer classes with medicines and food gratis. Drs.
Gray and Brown, two of the most active medical
men, had fallen victims to their exertions to arrest
the epidemic. Medical reports had been sent in,
which disclosed that a large part of the poor in the
town were living in very filthy and generally un-
sanitary homes. The municipal authorities were
endeavouring to remedy this. It is believed that
the fever was introduced into the colony from the
Mauritius.

It was rumoured that the Governor, Sir P. E.
Wodehouse, had been confirmed in his present
appointment for a few years more instead of return-
ing to England by this mail, as was expected.
The rumour that had prevailed that there was
danger from large parties of armed Kaffirs patrol-
ling Witenhage had been proved groundless by Sir
Walter Currie, who had visited the district with an
armed force.

The Orange Free State and Basuto war still
existed, but there had been no further advances on
either side. Both parties seemed satisfied to keep
beyond gunshot of each other.

Trade in' the colony was brisker, and the pro-
spects of harvest most favourable. The cereal crops
were abundant ; the vineyards freer from oidium
than for years past, and the wool clip was satisfac-
tory.

The silk culture was progressing favourably.
At the annual meeting of the Church Defence
Association in connection with the Dutch Reformed
Church resolutions were passed condemning the
adjournment policy of the Synod, alleging that the
Privy Couacil had made a mistake, and advocating
the right of private judgment, and free, fearless,
and unfettered inquiry.
At Natal the leading topic was the confirmation
of the discovery of large beds of good coal in that
colony, and the Government was being urged to
assist in utilising the discovery.
The Colenso dispute continued, and rival con-
gregations were being established by Church mem-
bers who had left the two clergymen who had recog-
nised Dr. Colenso as bishop.
The actions for the ejection of Dean Green and
the Rev. J. Walthom from the ecclesiastical build-
ings they use as belonging to the Church of Eng-
land has come off, but judgment was not expected
to be given before the end of November.
The Rev. Mr. Crompton has forwarded to the
Colonial Secretary a voluminous despatch referring
to his cancelled commission as justice of the peace
for his interference in the Colenso dispute.

. Her Majesty's ship Hydra, from Malta, the
Spiteful, from Montevideo, and the hired screw
transports Queen of the South and Mauritius had
arrived at the Cape en route for Bombay, on
the Abyssinian expedition. The Saida and Nor-
folk, hired screw coal transports, had also arrived
at the Cape.
The mail steamer Celt arrived out on the 12th of
November. Her Majesty's ship Bristol left Ascen-
sion on the Ist of December for England via Sierra
Leone. The Landrail was to leave on the same
voyage December 5.
The Norseman pasged the outward bound Brazil
mail packet Oneida, in lat. 40 N., long. 12 W., on
the 15th of December.

TILE POOR-LAW BOARD.—The Poor-Law Board
have appointed Mr. Joseph John Henley,of Shirburn-lodge,
Oxfordshire, to be a Poor Law Inspector, in the room of
Dr. Edward Smith, who relinquishes his district to take
charge of the medical department at the office of the Peer
Law Board. Mr. Henley has up to the present time been
acting as a commissioner for inquiring into the condition
of women and children employed in agriculture.
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