The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMO UTH, SUNDAY.
The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet Athens, Commander Strutt, arrived this
afternoon. Her dates are—Cape of Good Hope,
Jan. 21 ; St. Helena, Jan. 30 ; and Ascension,

Feb. 3. Her cargo consists of £970 specie, 103

pipes 146 hogsheads four quarter-casks 151 tuns
and one case of wine, 12 tusks and 24 packages
elephants' teeth, 1,181 buffalo horns, eight cases
ostrich feathers, one bale skins, two casks arrow-
root, 157 bales sheeps' wool, 210 bales sheep and
goat skins, seven tons bones, 12 cases gum arable,
1,068 bags copper ore, one bag Natal sugar, three
cases books, two cases apparel, one case curiosities,
and ten tons piassana.
The trade of the colony continues prosperous.
The election for the House of Assembly at Cape
Town terminated in favour of J. D. Thompson,
S. Solomon, M. J. Louir, and P. J. Kotze.
Arrangements are nearly completed for commene-

ing the railroad from Cape Town to Wellington.
The Government selection of Fort Knokke as a
terminus being objected to, another survey was to
be made.

Great dissatisfaction is expressed at the inactivity
the Cape immigration commissioners in England.
The free State is peaceful.

British Caffraria is being gradually settled down
by farmers from the eastern districts and German
immigrants. A bitter quarrel of two years' dura-
tion between the Council and the Governor of
Natal has come to a crisis. The Council refused to
\ass the estimates, and was dissolved.
The Governor is accused of being too lenient to

e llalives, and the colonists of being tyrannical.
The 59th Regiment, from China, in the Lord

Raglan, arrived in Table Bay on the 17th January,
its numerical strength on landing 618 ; effective
strength, 450, more than 150 being in hospital ;
20 died on board from dysentery and intermittent
fever ; the whole regiment is sickly ; but medical
men think that a short residence at the Cape will
restore them to health.

Her Majesty's ships Boscawen, Hermes, Lyra,
Surprise, and Persian were in Simon's Bay.
Three transports were chartered to convey horses
to India. The Royal mail steamer Dane, about 40
days from Plymouth, arrived at the Cape on the
16th Jan.

Cape ox hides, wet, 40. to sd. per lb. ; wool, six
months' clip, 4d. ; 12 months', Is. 9d. per lb. ;
Pontac wine, £l7 to £2O; freights to England, 305.;
copper ore, 7s. 6d.

Her Majesty's ships Tortoise, Buffalo, and Hydra
were at Ascension. The Athens was delayed 10
days on the passage home, the air-pump bucket of
one of her engines having been smashed. Spoke,
Feb. 24, lat. 43 30, long. 15. W., the ship Agincourt,
the barque Union, and the schoimer Nina, all stand-
ing to the southward.

In the neighbouring colony of Natal, there has
been a political crisis. The Council refused to pass
the estimates, and was dissolved by the Governor.
The reason was, that the Council demanded to have
some share in the application of £5,000 for native
purposes, reserved by the charter to be solely ad-
ministered by the Governor and executive. This
quarrel has been going on for two years. An ap
peal home by the Council had no effect; the Sec-
retary of the Colonies siding with the local govern-
ment. The dispute has been a very bitter one ; the
Government accusing the colonists of wishing ty-
rannically to coerce the natives, and the Council
indignantly repudiating such a desire, and retort-
ing upon the Government its desire to convert
Natal into a black settlement. The upshot will
probably be, that Natal will be left to manage its
own affairs, which it does not seem very capable of
doing satisfactorily.

The small-pox still continues to prevail in Port
Elizabeth. It has, however, been chiefly confined
to the Malays and coloured people. Several fresh
cases have been reported during the past week,
some of which have proved fatal. The number of
patients at present in the hospital is twelve. Par-
ties are still slowly coming in to be vaccinated.
In Cape Town this disease seems to have run its
course.

DRESDEN, FEB. 26,

Lord and Lady Cowley arrived here last night
and took up their residence at the Victoria Hote:
They will start to-day at noon for Vienna.

VIENNA, FEB. 27.
Lord Cowley, with his family and two attaches,
arrived here this morning at nine o'clock.

It is asserted that Baron Hess will shortly be
raised to the dignity of marshal, and in case it
should be found necessary, he will be placed at the
head of the Italian army.

PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Moniteur of this morning contains the fo:

lowing :

" On the 22d inst., Cardinal Antonelli announced
to the ambassadors of France and Austria that the
Pope, believing his authority strong enough to
maintain peace in his dominions, considers his own
power sufficient to warrant the security of his
throne, and that consequently his Holiness was
ready to enter into engagements with the two
Powers for the simultaneous evacuation of his ter-
ritory by the French and Austrian army with the
least possible delay."

VIENNA, FEB. 24

Prince Frederick William of Prussia is expected
at our Court. It is said that his Royal Highness

comes on a special mission.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY,

A battalion of the 56th Regiment of the Line,
1,100 strong, landed at Marseilles on Friday last
from on board the steampacket Indus, for Algiers.
The mail steamea Euphrutes was expected at Mar-
seilles on the following day, likewise from Algiers,
with an equal number of troops. The de detach-
ments of troop s which had previously arrived at
Marseilles from Algiers had been despatched to
Lyons by railway.
Sixteen batteries of artillery have arrived at
Marseilles.

Each regiment of artillery in the French service
is to be increased by two batteries.
BOURSE, Feb. 26.—The answer of Mr. Disraeli
to Lord Palmerston's interpellations, and a rise of
one-half per cent, in the English Consols, has had
a favourable influence on the French Funds.
Threes were done at 68f. 30c. and 68f. 35c., but
receded afterwards in consequence of sales to 68f.
15c. Mobilier varied from 785 f. to 780 f. ; Orleans,
1,322 f. 50c. to 1,320 f. ; Lyons, 832 f. 50c. to 830 f. ;
Southern, 517 f. 50c. to 515 f.; Austrian, 535 f. to
532 f. 50c. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 520 f. to 517 f. 50c.
The following were the last quotations :

4/ per Cents. 97 65 Credit Foncier....
Do. end month 97 50 Belgian 4/ . 99 25
3 per Cents 6B Piedmontese (5) .. 81 75
Do. end month 6B Roman BB 75
Bank Shares 2BBO Austrian —
Credit Mobilier .. 770 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 771 25 Home Debt 39 75