The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

DARTMOUTH, MAY 26.
The mail auxiliary steamship Robert Lowe, Cap-
tain Congalton, arrived at this port last evening.
Her dates are—Calcutta, Feb. 17 ; Madras, Feb.
24 ; Ceylon, March 2 ; Mauritius, March 18 ;
Cape of Good Hope, April 5 ; St. Helena, April
14 ; Ascension, April 19 ; and Fayal, May 17.
She has been detained by light winds on her pas-
sage from the Cape. The mail steamship Har-
binger arrived out on the 28th of March. Her
Majesty's steam troop-ship Simeom put into
Simon's Bay on the 2d of April, on her passage
from Dublin to the Mauritius, with 687 men and
officers of the 83d Regiment. We extract from
the Cape Town Mail of April the 4th the follow-
ing summar3 of Cape news :
"The last mair, steamer, the Tynemouth, which
left on the 13th of March, conveyed intelligence of
the departure of the Governor to the eastern fron-
tier, for the purpose of checking on the spot the
dangerous proceedings of some of the Caffre tribes,
who had been induced to destroy large numbers or
their cattle, their only means of subsistence, in the
expectation, as they professed to believe, that they
would rise again from the dead in yet greater num-
bers. The extent to which this delusion had
spread, and the enormous number of cattle thus
sacrificed, convinced the Colonial Government that
under the combined influences of fanatacism and
want the Caffres might be expected to make some
desperate movement, and the necessity for precau-
tionary measures was urgently expressed by the
inhabitants of the exposed districts. Thefts,
chiefly of horses, by small prowling bodies of
Catfres, wet.* almost daily reported, and several
murders had been committed, causing a general
feeling of alarm and insecurity.
" The measures adopted by Sir George Grey, 'on
his arrival on the spot, were of the most decided
character. In a Government notice issued to the
chiefs, in his capacity of High Commissioner, he at
once declared to them his determination to check
proceedings which, if allowed to continue, will lead
to such lamentable resul s, which are unpardonable,
as labour is provided for all industrious, well dis-
posed persons who may be in a state of destitution."
Four Caffres, found that morning lurking in the .
Crown Reserve (the Au.atolas) were ordered to
be transported—a punishment of which it is said
these people have a great horrpr, and the chiefs
were informed that all persons caught attempt-
ing to commit, or having committed, robbery with
arms in their hands, will, when convicted of
such offence, be punished with death.' He also
warned them that all Caffres found robbing
in the colony or elsewhere will be fired
upon if it is found impossible to capture them.
"Simultaneously with these severe announce-
ments, which were at once sternly carried into
effect, offers were made to the well-disposed of food
and employment at regular wages on public works,
and every facility was given them to enter the ser-
vice of the colonial farmers. Ina few days a return
was published giving the names of seven Caffres
who had been condemned to transportation, and a
list of 734 who were already at work on. the roads
and other public works of British Caffraria ; while
the last-received frontier papers notice the arrivals
in Albany of several hundred peacefully disposed
Caffres, who were being eagerly engaged as herds
and labourers by the colonial farmers. The cause
of alarm being thus removed, his Excellency re-
turned to Cape Town on Monday last, having cum-
pletely re-established confidence on the Claire fron-
tier • •

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" On Tuesday next the fourth session of the Cape
Parliament will meet for 'the despatch of bu-nness.'
Most of the country members have already arrived
in town, and several draughts of Jaws on subjects
of importance have been putilished. by Govet nut ent.
Among these are Bills for improving the public
roads, promoting educai ion, regulating the practice
and sale of medicine, and consolidating quarantine
and port regulaSions. A Bill will also be presented
For more effectually preventing mischiefs arising
from the practice of procuring and bringing into
this colony children of tender age belonging to na-
tive tribes resident in territoties beyond the land
boundaries.' Several other measures carrying out
Sir G. Grey's plans for the civilisation of the neigh-
bouring native tribes will probably excite mien
discussion. It is understood that a plan for the
formation of a line of railway from Cape Town to
the principal wine and corn districts, which has
been for Fo me time in preparation by the Colonial
Civil Engineer, will likewise be submitted to Par-
liament, and the magnificent project of Captain
Vetch, under the auspices of the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, for rendering Table Bay a secure harbour
of refuge for the shipping of all nations, will doubt-
less receive the attention which it so eminently I
merits.

" The Natal Legislative Council held its first
meeting under the new charnel' on the 23d of

March:

"A batch of emigrants from St. Helena have
just arrived here, 75 in number. The rate of wages
given to these people is very high indeed.
"The quantity of wine Froduced this year ex-
ceeds that of former years so much that sufficient
fustage cannot be obtained in the country to hold
it. Extraordinary wages, with Si. bonus and 151.
in advance,' have consequently boon offered to
journeymen coopers.
"The following men-of-war are in Simon's Bay :
—The Het mae, the Geyser, the Vulcan (on her w,:y
home), the Actaeon, and the gun boat Dow (on
their way to China) ; the French man-of war birque
La Meurthe and the gun-boat Avalanche (on their
way to China). Her Majesty's ship Ca,tor, Com-
modore Trotter, has recently returned to Simon's
Bay from her cruise to Mauritius and the East
Coast. Mr. Layard, the Curator of the South
African Museum, has arrived in her with a laroe
and interesting
collection. In Table Bay there are''
her Majesty's steamer Penelope, and the French
steamer Thilegethou and gun-boat Drannn-
0 the
two latter on their way to China.

MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesi7ay.-01
port of specie from Nov York, by the ro).al
mail
arrived
on Sunday, and amount-
ing ltaosrtgelae import
,m p
53w44,i57Aic
Bfrdoalfars, nearly one third, or 479,861
dollars were cu account of merchants in Ila.vie,
were transhipped on board the Cunard screw snip Bal-
bec, Captain Little, which sailed from the Mersey for
Oat port yesterday afternoon.

TILE GABE OF THE B'arbg:i St) MiIERS

AT G.REYTO 14'N.

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The following temperate statement respecting
the bombardment of Greytown, signed by all the
British subjects now resident at Greytown, suflerero
in consequence of the bomb Irdiwnt of that to.vii!
by. the Government of the United States, has Jo'
reached this country, having been . forwarded to
Lord Claren is by Cd taiu Erskine,- tue officer
there in command of the Britist: &et. It Willb,/,e
read with much interest, and, 'ice trust, also I'm'
universal sympathy :
" Grey:own, Mosquito, 16th February, 1857.
"TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF CLARENDON, 0%
MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE 10

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
May it please your Lordship,—We, the sub.criberg'°
British subjects, presently resid Tit in Greytown, to
the liberty of addressing your lordship in refer
0f
to that disastrous and well-known catastrophe -
the 13th July, 1854, when, in a time of Prc:
found peace, and without any provocation whatever eti.
our part, Captain Hollins, of the United Stat s navel
Cyane, alter making unavailingly a fictitious claim 0,14
utterly unjust demand upon the community of this et,/
to an amount in money also, which, at the tinier
r.
would have been utterly impossible for it to have
nished, proceeded to bombard our homesteads, our
houses, and shops ; and then, not satisfied with the fl'erj
chief thus wrought us, gave orders to his men to pr();ltebe
systematically fro house to house, from one end "to
town to the oi her, setting them on fire, to the tit 'of
destruction of our shelter, our elothir g, our furniture, °,
merchandise, and everythiiig moveable we posFesteat;
and this, too, in the middle of the most inclement re°°o
of this climate, when the forest that closely envir°,ya
this town has become an impassable marsh. The u„"d,
.statement of so sudden and awful a crilarnity befril",7,
under such circumstanceß, an ectire community,
knowledge that the aged, the women, the childreo
the sick, were, within a portion of an hour, dricbb,
forth shelterless, amid the tropical torrents which
racterise that. month, appears to us to render ent'reot
superfluous and misplaced any attempt to describer
only the sufferings thus occasioned to the inhabiteVe
but the atrocity also of those who caused thew.
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are aware, moreover, that this frightful act has bew,ri
known throughout Christendom; and that one,/..ip
occasion on which reference has been made to it,' 0
public prints or public addresses, in America as we or
in Europe, such reference has unanimously 'been
in terms of the severest reprobation and the strongy
disgust. We should be at a loss, tberefore, to conale
why the representations we have formerly been bite
strained, by the • eplorable straits to which most of u"; 0
been reduced, to address to your lordship have bitbeiy,
remained fruitless, were it not that we are well Alio
not only of the gigantic efforts our country and the "'my
bad to exert to bring the late war to a successful
elusion, but that since that fortunate event affairs bet" ,1
Europe and America have been so situated ; internatiloo
questions of such deep import have arisen for .discO'io
as to have called for the exercise of the mental enftled
of your lordship, and all other statesmen in distingn°oo
position, in a degree almost unprecedented. But II
that peace again prevails in Europe, and a solutieliej,
those international questions has happily been attellle
the time appears propitious for our again venturiolf
recall to your lordship's consideration the afflicting Fdyi
dicament to which we were reduced—from no fault of °ti,
—by he atrocious act of an officer of the United Sreyi
and in which, during the last two years and a-hell Bpd
more, we and our families hava remained struggiii3gbifi
almost despairing. It is in this view, your facilely
that we once more entreat you to take into eons on
tion the great and long-endured hardships of our c)
and to procure us such reliet and redress as to your i
ship may appear most suitable."
Together with the above, there has also res.
our hands a copy of the following extraordi,
letter, which, indeed, furnishes a key to the /14
of this mysterious and brutal affair. Mr.
White was the agent at New York of the Ni
gua Transit Line. The tenor of the letter sP 0
ii,i
the intimate terms on which he was place
Mr. Marcy, or with. Mr. Dobbin, the Secrenoo
War. For unless such intimacy existed, how Goy
he have known the secret instructions given t°
tarn Hollins, of the Cyane. The leiter isi,lol
dressed to Mr. Fabens, now under trial in inept'
York for beina filibuster—but then the repre',o,o
five, at Grey own, of the United Sta• es. Tile
also shows the intimacy between these two wort?
but the most shocking deduction to be drawy.o
the letter is the conclusion that the destructloo
the town was deliberately planned by the ,G°liit
went at Washingt n, and that Captain -Iceitl
being "all right," was sent, not to demandc' r
redress or apology, but to destroy the town/ 'lop
tarn political purposes, which have since del
themselves in the filibustering expedition
ker. The italics are Mr. White's own ja'
tion

" Office of the New York and California'

Steamship Line, via Nicaragua,
No. 5, Bowling-green, New York, June 16, 0011,
"Dear Sir,— Captain Rollins leaves here nest h di!
day. You will see from his instructions that MO" oi;
I oration is given to you, and it is to be hoped that 1;00
be so txercised as not to show any mercy to tbe:hd
or people. If the scoundrels are soundly pcol!„-es'
we can tak. e possession anti build it up as go bf,,iiok
place, put in our own ewers, transfer the janst;
and you know the rest. It is of the last importio!':r
the people of the tlwn should be taught to le-00'
Punishment will teach them ; after whi6h yo,_oofor
agree with them as to the organisation of a new u da 00
(Dent, and-the officers of it Everything now dePLevoi, tip;
,you and Hoilms. The latter is all right. ID 1° rci3l
derstands the outrage, and will not hesitate in "!° • V
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reparation. I hope to hear from you that all s ris,
Yours; &c. "J. L. VOD.
"J. W. Palms, Esq." niefj
It is generally believed that if our Gavel, 0,
wese. to press, in a proper spirit, for redress 0010
British sufferers by this outrage the demand virs
be supported by all the respectable dais° 43- op
America, who ai e deep!y sensible of the c"s°
thus cast upou them.—Liverpool Albion.

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