The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-03 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received files of papers from Cape Town
to the 16th of January. The colony is perfectly
tranquil. We take the following items of news from
the Cape Town papers :
" The engineers of the Cape Town Railway and
Dock Company, it is understood, have finished their
survey of the line from Wellington, as far as Stellen-
bosch, where the principal engineering difficulties
are encountered. The continuation from Stellen-
bosch to the Cape will be proceeded with without
further delay. The Hermes has commenced her
surveying operations in Table Bay. It is under-
stood the survey will be carried along the coast
from New Salt River to Blueberg and Roben
Island. Mr. Mundy, the engineer employed by
the Graham's Town Railway Committee to survey
a line of rail from Graham's Town to Port Eliza-
beth, writes to the Mercury, giving the following
information respecting the results of his survey :
" ' The rough draught of the report is in the
hands of the Committee, and will, in due course,
with the estimates, be laid before not only the
Graham's Town public, but also the Port Elizabeth
public, and with ample opportunity, as regards
time, of afterwards submitting them to the ap-
proaching Session of Parliament. As regards the
gradients, &c., I am in a position to state that the
line will be under 90 miles in length, and preserve
a satisfactory direct course ; that 60 miles may be
considered as first-class gradients, 12 miles only of
heavy gradients, and the remainder of the second-
class, ranging between 60 and 100. Thus—

15 miles Level
14 „ over 200 to 1
25 „ over 100 to 1
21 „ over GO to 1
12 „ o►er 40 to 1

" About three miles of gradient not yet defined.
" In the summit levels of Bushman's River
Hill and Howison's Port the works will be heavy ;
in other portions the contrary will be the case.'
" The total exports from Cape Town for the
quarter ended the 31st of December last amount to
about 321,0001. This is exclusive of the exports
from Mossel Bay, Port Beaufcrt, and Simon's Bay,
and of course does not include the produce of the
Western Province exported coastwise or conveyed
overland into the interior. The exports from
Port Beaufort exceed 40,0001., raising the whole
returned exports of the Western Province to
361,000/. The exports from the Western Pro-
vince for the whole year are given at about
815,856/. According to these returns, as compared
with the Eastern Province exports (1,064,8691.), the
Western Province is surpassed over the whole year
to the extent of nearly 250,0001. From this diffe-
rence must be deducted the produce raised in the
Western Districts, and exported for convenience of
transit via Algoa Bay. From Beaufort (West) alone,
6,000 bales of wool have been thus disposed of
during the last year, equal to a value of 100,0001.
Without referring to further exports of a similar
class, it will be sufficient to reckon the large
amounts sent coastwise, which will raise the whole
produce of the Western Districts to a considerably
larger amount than even the flourishing produce of
the East. So far, thus, are the older divisions of
the colony from lapsing into the decay which some
of our Eastern contemporaries have expressed their
kind anxiety about.
" The Customs' duties at the ports of the western
division of the colony for the past year amount to
about 132,0001., and wharfage 10,500/.
"The Customs' duties received at Algoa Bay,

for the year 1857, amounted to the large aura of
122,000/. sterling, being an increase of about
12,0001. over last year.
" The quantity of wool exported from Port Eliza-
beth for the last quarter of 1.857 was 2,775,6031 b.,
valued at l or a trifle over 16d. per lb.
washed ant unwashed. The amount exported from
that port during the year was 14,064,261 lb.,
980,7907. This is a total increase of 2,171,866 lb.,
339,311/.
"The total value of exports from Algoa Bay for
the quarter is 243,4521., or an increase of 79,5921.
on the corresponding quarter of 1856 ; and the
total value of goods exported for the yoar from
Algoa Bay has fully realized the amount predicted
at the commencement of the year, being 1,064,8491.,
or an increase over the year 1856 of 339,311/.

The Cape Town Advertiser has the following :
"By the northern post of Wednesday was received
a very interesting publication from Kurdman—
the well-known station of the Rev. Messrs. Muffat
and Ashton. It consists of the first three numbers
of the first newspaper published in the Bechuana
language. It is issued monthly, is got up and
printed by Mr. Ashton at the mission press on the
station in the first style of typographic art, and, if
not very intelligible to the English reader, pro-
mises in its large type to be loth legible enough
and intelligible enough to its Bechuana subscribers.
The motto under which it appears is Kico
Kinonoco,' and the title of the publication is
' Mokaeri oa Bechuana, Le Muleri oa Mahuka,'
the weaning of which is, of course, obvious to the
educated reader, and, therefore needs no transla-
tion here."

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

The steam-ship City of Manchester, Capt. Ken-
nedy, from Calcutta, Dec. 10, and Gana, Dec. 18,
arrived to-day ; she touched at Port Louis on 31st
Dec. A large number of ships were in port, and
freights low, at 255. per ton.
The City of Manchester arrived at Table Bay
on the 13th Jan., and sailed on the 19th, when
Governor Sir George Grey left in a steamer for
the frontier.

Two more regiments were to be sent to India ;
the Gth, and the 60th, or 85th, not the 45th.
The Himalaya was the last ship which had sailed
with horses.

Two vessels were loading. A depot has been
formed, and part of the 7th Hussars detained to
take charge at sea.
The Ca,ffres' continued docile. Macomo is still
confined at Cape Town.
Admiral Sir F. Grey, in the flag-ship Boscawen,
70, is gone to the West Coast of Africa.
The transport Indomitable, with artillery for
India, sailed on the 7th Jan.
The mail packet Norman would leave for Ply-
mouth on the Ist Feb.

21. 10s. per ton is paid for coal delivered along-
side.

The City of Manchester spoke many vessels off
St. Helena on the 28th of January. She steamed
through St. Jago straits on the 9th February,
and anchored on the 10th at St. Vincent's, where
she left the barque Rosetta, of London, with Go-
vernment stores for Kurrachee, leaky ; the Glen-
lyon, with coal ; and the Edgar P. Stringer, with
fuel. Spoke, on the 2d of January, the barque
Alice Maude, 55 days from London, for Akyab ;
13th, off the Cape, the Edwin Fox and the brig
Matilda, from Hung Kong ; 26th, the Windsor
Castle, 105 days from Bombay ; and the 2Sth, near
St. Helena, tho ship Erasmus aad the barque Coro-
nella, both homeward bound.

Passengers—From Calcutta, Lieutenant Mead,
Hon. East India Company's Service, Mr. Milne and
family, and Mr. Beauquillet ; from the Mauritius,
Mr. Aiken and family; and from the Cape, Captain
Keer, R. E. Captain Home, 6th Fusiliers, died on
the th of January.