The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-30 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD ROPE.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.
The Union Steam Navigation Company's Mail
packet Athens, Commander Henry Clark, from the
Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 21; St. Helena, March
2 ; and Ascension, March G, arrived in the Sound
this morning.

Her cargo consists of 180 casks of wine, 3,313
horns, 8 cases ostrich feathers, 8 casks copper, 176
bales wool, 150 bales and 626 bundles skins, 120
bags argol, 1,163 bags copper ore, 165 bags coffee,
and 17 casks seal skins.

Among her passengers are Colonel and Mrs.
Travers, Dr. and Mrs. Bickersteth, Captains
Thursby, Raymond, and Leighton, and Lieutenant
Wyatt.

The intelligence by this mail is not very impor•
tant.

The Governor, Sir George Grey, returned from
British Caffraria to Cape Town on Feb. 15.

Lieutenant-Colonel Maclean is appointed Lieu-
tenant• Governor of British Caffraria. The judge-
ship has been offered to Mr. Denny son ; salary,
£BOO per annum.

The Cape Parliament assembles April 26. The
separation project will be discussed, responsible
government, railways, &c.
The Miles Barton, with the Ist battalion of 3d
Buffs, went ashore in Struys Bay February Bth.
All saved except one private.

The following transports and ships of war, with
troops from China, had arrived in Table Bay and
Simon's Bay—viz.:—Feb. 3, the Athlete, from
Hong Kong, with 326 men of the 3d Buffs, under
Li.eutenant•Colonel Sargent ; Feb. 3, the Tasmania,
from Hong Kong, with 429 men of the 3d Buffs,
under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Ambrose ;
Feb. 8, the Sir William Peel, from the Peiho, with
94 military invalids, and 13 officers, detachments
of her Majesty's 31st, 44th, 67th, and 99th Regi-
ments ; Lieutenant Gilmore commanding. The
following is a list of the officers' names :—Rev. F.
Abbott, Chaplain ; Mr. F. Taylor, master, R.N. ;
Lieutenant G. C. F. Sinclair, RN. ; Captain
Croome, 2d Queen's; Major Jackson, R.M. ; Staff-
Surgeon Rennie, Assistant-Surgeons Snell, Turner,
Goodwin, Gray, Lim, and Watson ; R. C. Barker
purveyor.

By the frontier mail, which arrived in Cape Town
on the 20th of February, important intelligence had
been received from the interior respecting the
Zambesi Mission, connected with the London Mis-
sionary Society. It will be remembered that some
mouths ago information reached London of the
sudden decease of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Helmore,
the Rev. Mr. Price's child, and several natives
forming the mission party at Linyanti, the station
of the Makalolo tribe under the chief Sekuletu. The
Rev. Mr. Price, with his wife, and Mr. Helmore's
surviving children, after losing their friends, at
once took leave of Sekuletu's place; but, as they
had little knowledge of the country into which they
passed, fears were entertained for their safety, as
well as that of the Rev. Mr. J. Mackenzie, who it
was known had left the station at Bamangwate to
proceed to join the mission at Linyanti. An explor-
ing party, headed by the venerable Robert Moffat,
and aided by funds from friends in the colony, was
sent out from Kuruman in search of them. On the
twelfth day after leaving Kurman they met with
a messenger bearing letters for the Rev. Mr. Moffat,
and informing him that the Rev. Messrs. Price and
Mackenzie were safe at Lechuiatebe's Town, at Lake
Ngami. The Rev. Mr. Price had a perilous jour-
ney from Linyanti, but his chief misfortune through-
out it was the loss of Mrs. Price, who died on the
way.

Her Majesty's steamship Cyclops, Capt. Pullen,
which left Table Bay on the 17th of February,
arrived the next day in Simon's Bay, where she
was at anchor when the Athens left.

ne steam transport Indomitable, with the 24th
Regiment on board, was spoken on Feb. 14 by the
Laughing Water, Capt. Newman, which arrived in
Algoa Bay the same day.
At Table Bay were the transport steamers Mau-
ritius and 'Melbourne, and the ships Alfred and
Mars.

At St. Helena were her Majesty's ship Prome-
theus, the troopships Renown, Newcastle, Cold-
stream, Windsor Castle, and Holmsdale ; the Alma,
and the bark Agricola..
At Ascension were her Majesty's ship Meander
and the Diligentia, with rudder damaged.
The Athens spoke, March 17, lat 22 50 N., long
22 50 W, the Hamburg barque Mauritius, bound
southward; 18th, lat 25 30 N, long 23 30 W.,
passed the ships Silistria, St. Magnus, and Geolo-
gist, bound to the southward ; 19th, lat 28 28 N,
long 24 00 W, passed the American ship Flying
Cloud, bound to the southward ; 24th, lat 40 36 N,
long 15 55 W, passed the barque Whitley Park,
standing to the eastward; 28th, lat 48 00, long
7 00 W, passed the ship Crest of the Wave and
the American ship Saratoga, standing to S.W.
The Athens started from Cape Town with a dense
fog, which continued for two days; experienced
strong S.E trades for two days, and afterwards
very light ; lost the S.E trades on the Equator, then
had four days' calm. Got N.E trades in 11 N lat,
had N.E trades very strong, lost them in. lat 29 N,
since which had calms for two days, afterwards
heavy gales from the northward to north-east,
accompanied with a very high sea.