The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-11 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

"To obviate this great danger, which past experience
justifies them in believing to bo real and imminent, the
inhabitants have sanctioned a plain, simple, intelligible,
and uedeeiably practicable working plan of representa-
tive governmsnt. The proposed constitution has been
approved and adopted by the inhabitants throughout the
colony almost unattimously.
" The deputation then proceeds to London with this
constitution es edupted by the colonists, in their hands,
without power er authority to alter, or to express the
assent of the people to any alteration in any one of the
sixteen fundamental articles of which it consists. In
this attitude, with respectfal firmness, the people of the
Cape of Good Hope present their just and reasonable,
and final demand for representative government, to their
beloved Sovereign, in substantial accordance with her
gracious commands convoyed by letters patent.
" The deputatii.n consists of two members, both of
whom were elected, a :ear months ago, by the collective
votes of the inhabitants of the whole colony, to seats in
the Legislative Coencil, to the proceedings of which, and
indeed to its existence, their resignation along with that
of their two similarly-elected celleagues, put an everlast-
ing end. Sir Aedries Steckeestrom and Mr. Fairbairn
have, at the request of their fellow colonists, accepted
the deep responsibility involved in this mission. The
health of Sir And:ifs. which suffered most severely from
the exposure and hatdbhips to which he was subjected in
the field during the. late Katir war, is unhappily such that,
in the opinion of five medical men whom it was nece6sary
to consult professionally in this cafe, without incurring
the most unjustifiable risks, he cannot proceed imme-
:qately from such a C'imate as this, to the cold and
foggy north, where be would thus arrive in the
depth of winter; but they are also of opinion that at a
wore advanced period of the year the voyage would be
rather beneficial than otherwise. He therefore holds
himself ready at the call of his country to proceed on
this mission—as soon as the not ungrateful inhabitants
would permit him to expose to further strain a consti-
tution shaken, but it is n,p+rd not overthrown, while
rendering those inestimable services which neither they
nor their remotest descendants will ever forget.
" The other member of the deputation will embark
to-day, and may possibly be in London a month or six
weeks before the opening of Parliament. He will from
the hour of his arrival in London communicate to his
cellea,gue and to a constitutional committee in Cape
Tr;VID, and through them to committees in the country
divisions, and through all to the public of this colony,
the tidiest information which be can obtain respecting
the progress and probable issue of the great cause so dear
to every heart."
With regard to the disturbances by the Kafirs on the
frontier, nothing of a very serious kind had occurred
since our last advices. Cattle stealing and other depre-
dationa heel, here and there, been going on, and ua-
easinegs still continued with respect to the threatened
invasion of the colony; but no great alarm was felt
upon the subject, as it was pretty well known that the
Kafir tribes bad no wiilt for war, it being their Chiefs
that were restless, and anxious to regain their lost
power, who had given occasion for the apprehended
danger,

RE-APPEARANCE OF MR. BARTLEY ON
THE STAGE AT THE PRINCESS'S.
We are rejoiced to find, from an announcement in the
bills of the P 1 i cess's Theatre, that Mr. Bartley is about
to resume, albeit but for a few nights, his place
on the stage, a place which none filled so
well as he, and which may, indeed, be said
to have remained vacant since he retired from
the stage. Where, for example, is now the
Falstaff (rho Falstaff we mean of Henry IV.)?
Why fat Jack has left the stage with Bartley, and
rejoiced crc we to add he returns with
him. The p'ay of Healy IV. is to be
v‘C'hnairglhtst Dean,at
Castle, under
ean, and lir. Bartley sus-
tains the character of Sir John Falstaff. The play,
with the same cast, will be performed at the
Princess's on Saturday night, when Bartley will make
his rentree. The old play-goer will rejoice at this re-
appearance of one :of the good, actors of the
good old time, ono of the few who know what
good acting really is, and practice what they know;
whilst to the young play-goer will be afforded art
opportunity of haviag a glimpse of what the drama really
was in its bygone palmy days, and to the young artiste an
example and a study. The play will be very strongly
cast, even the comparatively minor part of
Lady Percy will be. sustained by Mrs. Charles
Kean. In acaaptirg, this part to strengthen
the cast, Mrs. Charles Kean is setting a
worthy example, which we hope to see every-
where followed, and is inflicting a heavy blow and a
great discouragement on the bane of the drama--
the star system, the destruction of which would be bene•
ficiel alike to manager, actor, author, and audience.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct
that the Servants' Provident and Benevolent Society, whose
establishments, recently removed from Cork-street to Great
Marlborough-street, have been personally inspected by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, be in future styled the
" Servants' Royal Provident and Benevolent Society."
THE DIRECT BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD, AND READ.,
ING RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Mr. Hutton, the oflicial manager,
proposed a call of 21. 12s. Cd. per share, payable by the mem-
bers of the provi,ienal committee or committee of manage-I
ment. who had been I laced on the list as having accepted
100 shares each. The call cn 2,000 shares is calculated to
produce 4,0001. to pay off creditors. This call is proposed to
be made on the 20th instant, and be made payable on the
12th January. Mr. Roxburghe, on behalf of the official
manager, proposed, upon fresh evidence, to replace the name
ct Mi. B. Best on the list of contributories, that gentleman
having been struck off by Vice-Chancellor knight Bruce on
areal from Master Brougham's decision. Counsel for
Mr. Best objected to his Honour's jurisdiction to review in
the case. After hearing the fresh evidence, and weighing
the arguments, his Honour decided on again placing the
name of Mr. Best on the list as liable, with liberty of appeaf
to the court.

The most disagreeable two-legged animal is a little
great man, and the next, a little great man's factotum
and friend.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

THE SCREW STEAMSHIP CITY OF GLASGOW.---
The splendid screw steam-Ehip City of Glasgow, B. R.
Mathews, commander, so well known for the regularity of
her voyages between Glasgow and New York, arrived in the
Mersey on Wednesday evening, having been purchased by
Messrs. Richardson Brothers to run between this port and
Philadelphia, and will depart on her first voyage on Wed- j
nesday next. Since her arrival at this pot-Cabe has had nume-
rous visitors, who speak highly of tho beauty of her appear-
ance and the very complete arrangements made for the ac-
commodation and comfort of passengers. She is receiving I
her cargo in_the Nelson Dock.--Liverpool Albion.

immediately in Dresden. Tho invitation thereto will
proceed from Austria and Prussia in common, and in
such manner that the conferences may begin in the
middle of December.
" Olmutz, Nov. 29, 1850.
(Signed)

MANTEUFFEL.
►SCU`VARTZENBUfQ."
On the 6th the Prussian Government received a
dispatch from Vienna, in which the Austrian Cabinet
announced that the Governments of Wurtemburg
and Bavaria demand that the resolutions agreed
to at Bregentz shall be adopted as the bases of the
free conferences which are to be held at Dresden.
The New Gazette of Prussia contains the follow-
ing :

1‘ The British Minister at Hamburgh has delivered to
the Senate .1 that city a note in which his Government
states that it vial abstain from any interference in Ger-
man offsira eG long as British interests are not in ques-
tion; and that with respect to the Duchies of Schleswig-
Holstein, the duty of Great Britain will be to maintain
and enforce the treaty of peace."
A large Russian array is concentrating on the
Prussian frontiers.

From Vienna we have advices to the 6th, the ar.
maments still continued.

From Hesse we learn that a corps of 10,000 Aus-
trians was on the Pith turning the flank of the Prus•
sian army, to join the line by rail to Cassel.

DENMARK. AND THE DUCHIES.
The Free Press of Hamburgh states that, on the
sth, a sharp engagement of advanced posts took
place near Gottorp between the Danes and the Hol-
steiners, in the course of which the former had one
officer killed and several men wounded, but the latter
had no loss.

A letter from Copenhagen of the 3d, in the German
Reform of Berlin (the semi-official journal), says that
the war party in Denmark was in a state of great
agitation, and would not hear talk of an arrangement
between Prussia and Austria, from the fear that they
would adopt as the basis of peace the execution of
the resolutions of tb9 Germanic Diet, of the 17th of
September, 1846.

General IVILLBEN hai resigned the command
of the army of the Duchip.s, and is succeeded by Ge-
neral VAN DER HERBY.

Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope have been
t,ceived to the 26th f October, inclusive. The es •
te.b!ishment of a representative legislature was en-
g,gins much attention, and a deputation was to
si England with the view of carrying this desired
olj,ct into effect. To render this qustion more
intelligible, we cannot do better than copy the fol-
lowing paragraph from the South African Commercial
Advertiser of the date before mentioned, which ex-
plains with great clearness the wants of the colony,
and the means proposed for their attainment:—
" The people of tlik colony have resolved to send a
deputation to the teat of the supreme Government, at
this moment, chiefly for the purpose of itnpre.ssing on her
Maji?rty's Ministers, and all who take an interest in the
welfare of this portion of the empire, the necessity and
import.lnce of dispa'ch in establishing here, on a proper
basis, a reT.,restntative legislature. In favour of such an
institution, assent has already been universally expressed
by the Qu9cn in Council, and by aq the departments of
the imil;erial and local governmetts, from which a voice
on the subject could pr,:eecd. But the details of the
constitution, which required adaptation to real or ima-
ginary provincial peculiarities, have hitherto b.ffid.d offi-
cial ingenuity, and may still be pleaded as a ground fn.
indefinite delay, or for the adoption of tome unsuitable
system which would disgust the great body of the inha-
hitantz, and prove a source of animosity and strive be-
tween the different classes cf the community for genera-
tions to come.