The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY NIGHT.
The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet Celt, Commander Brown, arrived this even-
ing. Her dates are—Table Bay, Oct. 22 ; St.
Helena, Nov. 2 ; and Ascension, Nov. 8.
The Celt conveyed, from the Cape of Good Hope
to Ascension, Captain Sir H. Huntley and Dr.
Smyth, R.N. Her cargo consists of 138 pipes, 15
hogsheads, 20 half aumes and 29 cases of wine, 35
elephants' teeth, 1,800 horns, four cases ostrich
feathers, 70 cases of arrowroot, 124 hides, 8 tons of
bones, 139 bundles of skins, 202 bags of linseed, 89
bales of wool, 7 bags of nuts, 601 tons (1,220) bags,
11 cases, and one bundle of copper ore.
Sir George Grey arrived at Cape Town from the
frontier on the 22d Oct. Mutual concession s
have been made between Moshesh and the Free
State. The boundary now established is nearly
identical with that formerly laid down by Major
Harden.

The Cape Monitor is not sanguine of permanent
peace. Affairs are rather unsettled on the colonial
frontier. Thefts have considerably increased, especi-
ally of cattle.
The Cafir Chief Umhala, and two of his coun-
cillors have been found guilty, by a special criminal
court, of attempting to levy war in South Africa
against her Majesty; sentence deferred.

The general elections were still in progress: The
Council elections have terminated, but the scrutiny
was not reported. The Assembly elections will
take place in January.

The smallpox continues very virulent, especially
among the coloured population. No correct re-
gister is kept.
The following additional reinforcements have left

the Cape for India :—Per Prince Arthur, Captain
Cleveland's company of Artillery and 330 Germans;
per Megoera, the left wing of 'both Rifles and re-
cruited invalids ; per Simoom, the 31st Regiment;
and per barques Ariel, Estafette, and Simon
Edward Oliver, detachments of the German
Legion.

The emigrant passengers from the burnt ship
Eastern City have been forwarded to Melbourne by
the Caroline Elizabeth.

Five million pounds of wool, valued at £280,000,
have been shipped from Algoa Bay this season. The
export of fine wool is steadily increasing.
There is no intelligence from Dr. Livingstone.
The Cape Town Mail recommends its readers not
to be too sanguine of the success of the expedition.
Her Majesty's steamer Hermes, from Simon's
Bay, with his Excellency the Governor, arrived in
Table Bay on the 22d October.
The steamship Norman, with the English mails,
arrived out on the 17th October.

In Table Bay—The Witch of the Seas, the Cath-
cart, the Anna Julia, the Augustus, and the Noon-
day.
In Algoa Bay—The Bon Accord and the Eastern
Provixce.

In Simon's Bay—The Erasmus and the Mary
Montague.

At St. Helena, Nov. 2—The Swedish brig Zeghin,
the English barque Emerdale, the English schooner
Witch of the Seas, from the Mauritius for London ;
the Prussian barque Elaine Fredericke and the
Norwegian brig Mark Een, from Simon's Bay for
London.

At Ascension, Nov. 8, were the guardship Tor-
toise, the brig Anna Porter ; the barque Palestine,
75 days from London, with Marines and stores ; and
the ship Eliza, for water.
The Celt spoke Nov. 1, the barque Ada Zeigler,
for St. IVlelena, in lat. 17 14 S., long. 4 21 W. ;
and Nova 15, the barque Barbant, of Bristol, for
the West Coast of Africa, in lat. 7 43 N., long.
16 66 W,