The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-16 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH,
June 15.
The Union Company's steamship Rom
an arrived
here this afternoon from the Cape of Good Hope on
the 14th, St. Helena 22d, and Ascension on the
26th ult. She brings 105 passengers, 1,000 bales
of wool, 1,400 wet hides, 10 cases of ostrich fea-
thers, 16 cases of aloes and gum, 60 tons of sesame
seed, 61 tusks, 5 cases of ivory, 1,077 bags of cop-
per ore, 60 casks 14 cases of wine, 25 cases of sun-
dries from the Cape, and two boxes of specie from
St. Helena.
Among the passengers are Justice Bcll, on six
months' leave of absence, and the Rev. A. Murray,
of the Dutch Reformed Church, deputed by the
Synodical Commission to visit England to watch
the appeal which has been made to the Privy Coun-
cil in the Berger case.
The weather continued remarkably fine at the
Cape, and a quiet reaction towards the return of
better times progressed. Farming operations were
being carried on very favourably in every direction,
but heavy losses still occurred in
isolated districts
from diseases among cattle and sheep.
The commander of the forces had returned from
his official visit to St. Helena. Mr. C. J. Becker,
sub-sheriff at Malmesbury, had absconded, after
forging bills and promissory notes to the amount of
£1,500.

The settlement of a treaty of peace between the
Basutos and the Free State was progressing satis-
factorily. _ _

--The Cape colonists had presented an adiress to
President Brand, congratulating. ,hitu upon -the
honourable conclusion of the ;var.

The gold discoveries in Transvaal were confirmed.
Several expeditions had left Natal on their way to
the diggings.
The South African Mail says:—" The Colenso
question still raged violently. The court had granted
an order requiring the dean to give thebishop access
to, and the use of, the baptismal registry. In reply,
the dean had positively stated to the court, in writ-
ing, that he declined to obey the order, as he deemed
the matter beside the functions of any civil court.
For this contumacy the Court had, without award-
ing any personal punishment by imprisonment or
fine, decreed the Dean to be in general contempt
and under sentence of t legal excommunication.'
He is unable to go before the court to seek any
redress so long as in contempt. The bench de-
clined to make a martyr of the Dean by more
extreme measures than by placing him in the po-
sition of ' deprivation of law.' Mr. Justice Phillips
remarked, in reference to the judgment, that if it
did not affect the Dein more than ecclesiastical
excommunication did the other side he did not think
it would affect him much."

The Panama and New Zealand Company's
steamer Rhuahine arrived on the 11th of May. The
mail steamer Briton had not arrived ; she left St.
Helena on the 9th of May. Her Majesty's ship
Rapid left Port Elizabeth on the 12th of May for
Simon's Bay. The Valorous was at Angra. The
Pequima and the Salamis left Algoa Bay on the
14th of May for the Mauritius, and the troopship
Lady Melville arrived on that day in Simon's Bay
from Madras.

The Roman landed her mails I ere, and pro-
ceeded this evening for Southampton.

The following is from the Cape Town Advertiser
and Mail:—

" The most gratifying intelligence we have to
send home this month is the announcement that the
war between the Orange Free State and the elasutos
has been ended. Though British subjects as such
were neutrals in the strife, yet the interest the colony
felt alike during the continuance and at the result
of the struggle was almost as great as that of the
belligerents themselves. While the war lasted it
had a tendency to excite restlessness among our
own Caffre neighbours on the eastern border ; it
closed the civil courts of the Free State, checked
the export of produce, and thereby stop-
ped the flow of remittances, heavily due, to mer-
chants and traders in the colony. Thanks, how-
ever, to the perseverance of the burghers
generally, and to the stedfastness, zeal, and
energy of the,President in particular, it is now hap-
pily all over ; and peace has been obtained and de-
clared on terms more advantageous to the State
than could have been anticipated by the most san-
guine only a few months ago. The Basutos have
been thoroughly humiliated, without being hope-
lessly broken. All their leading chiefs, from
Moshesh downward, have paid up with unwonted
punctuality heavy fines of sheep, cattle, and horses.
Two of them—Molappo and Nehemiah, both sons
of Moshesh, have, with their tribes, and at their
own request, been admitted as subjects of the Free
State ; while a tract of valuable land, some
5,000 square miles in extent, has been ' annexed,'
and is now being divided into farms, which will
. shortly be given out' on a tenure of military ser-
vice for the defence of the frontier. The effect of
all this on the trade and general prosperity of the
Cape colony will be very marked. Already the
wool produce of the Free State is being transported
to the coast iu large quantities, and the usual busi-
ness relations between the merchants and the
growers are being rapidly resumed. It is very gra-
tifying to be able to report this month an exceed-
ingly favourable change in the condition and prospects
of the country. The drought which prevailed so long
and so disastrously everywhere has now:everywhere
broken up, and from all quarters we hear of abundant
rai ns,with genial sunshine intervening, so that the veld
is clad with luxuriant vegetation, and ploughing and
all other agricultural operations are progressing
apace. It seems as if we had passed through one
of our long and recurrent cycles of drought, and
entered upon what we trust may prove our seven
years of plehty. If, indeed, we should have only
two or three, instead of seven such favourable years
as the ono which has now set in, it is the confident
opinion of even the most cautious and experienced
that the colony will quite recover 'itself again, and
be more abundantly productive and prosperous than
it ever was before."

CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITEHALL.—The Hon. and
Very Rev. the Dean of York will preach the anniversary
sermon in aid of the Clergy Orphan Schools to-morrow
morning, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall.

TIIE LAST NEWLY-COINED SCIENTIFIC TERM is
Pidacology (from 7rtB4, a fountain). It is used to
denote the science of subterranean springs. We think it
almost as bad as the hideous compound Balneology, which
is now so extensively used to express the science of mineral
waters.

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—At a Court of Examiners
held on the 14th inst., the following gentlemen having
passed the necessary examinations, were admitted licenti-
ates of the Apothecaries, viz. : —Messrs. J. Forbes Sargent,
Bentick-terrace, Regent's Park; Thomas Harvey, Water-
loo-road; F. Julius Schott, of Frankfort-on-the-Maine;
J. A. Harrison, of Wirksworth ; G. J. B. Stevens of Strood ;
George Spearman, of Plymouth ; W. F. Thurston, of South
Bank, Notting-hill ; and J. H. Wathen, of Fishguard. At
the same court, Messrs. W. J. Stothard, of Guy's Hospital ;
J. F. Codrington, of Guy's Hospital ; and A.
fi Paull Fid-
dian, of King's College Hospital, passed the exami-

nation. The Prussian troops quitted ,
TARING
Frankfort silently,
and
LEAVE.
for the most part at night The
Austrians, marched
withoutan
with bands playing and colours
eyin oak leaf in his shako and each
standard crowned with laurels and roses. The citizens
cheeredcordially.
the Austrians very
soldier
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