The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Advices have been received from Demerara, to the sth of
August, which are of a very gratifying character, inasmuch
as all apprehension respecting the general conduct of the
negroes on their emancipation on the Ist ult., may now be
considered to be removed. The private letters state that, in
most instances, the freed negroes had freely entered into ar-
rangement with their masters respecting the rates of wages,
which do not much differ, with respect to the customary es-
tate allowances, from the bargains made in the island of Ja-
maica, the wages accepted being about 10 dollars per month,
or is 3d to is 4d per diem. Most of the estates were in full
work, and, to speak in general terms, the negroes of British
Guiana had behaved with the greatest order.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Cape of Good Hope papers have been received to the 22d
of July, from which we copy the following:—
" Cape Town, July 22.
" Our letters from the eastern frontier and from Caffreland
represent the whole country as politically quiet; few depre-
dations or thefts have been committed, and the only circum-
stance of moment is the murder of a trader resident in Patas
county. The Governor has left none of the chiefs in doubt
as to what course he means to pursue in defending his own
side of the border, maintaining order, and chastising injus-
tice.
" With regard to the emigrant Boors, the account given
in our last has been contirmed. They are retreating from
Dingaan, and are, we regret to hear, suffering dreadfully in
their persons from want and the inclemency of the weather."
" In the Eastern Province Government Gazette (the first
number of which reached us by post) we find a minute from
his Excellency, addressed to those misguided people, highly
creditable to his feelings as a man, and to his judgment and
sense of propriety as the representative of her Majesty. We
transfer it with much satisfaction to our columns; and the
measure it announces has been adopted :
" And let all men know that henceforth; or as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be completed, the government
of this colony, in all its departments, will be conducted with
due regard to the dignity of the Sovereign and the sacred-
ness of the laws. Without this the local government can
never be respected; and where there is no respect, authority
dies of course."
The Eastern Province Government Gazette, dated Graham's
Town, May 21, states that it having been represented to his
Excellency the Governor that great misfortunes have be-
fallen many of her Majesty's subjects who have emigrated
beyond the boundaries of the colony into the interior of
Africa—that they are reduced to great distress—and that a
great portion of them are desirous of returning within the
limits of her Majesty's South African dominions, his Ex-
cellency says—" 1 am anxious to act upon the principles of
mercy and benevolence, and to preserve from further mis-
fortune and total destruction so many of her Majesty's sub-
jects. I hereby assure them that it shall be fully and freely
allowed to all the said emigrants, or all such portions thereof
as shall be desirous of returning to the colony, to do so, and
to resume their domiciles and avocations, as also their rights
as British subjects, without hindrance or molestation in con-
sequence of the said emigration, and 1 also promise to remit
all pains and penalties which may have been incurred by
them by the transgressions of the said laws against the cross-
ing of the said land boundaries of the colony."
His Excellency also warns those who have already emi-
grated, or may still be disposed to emigrate. as a duty he
owes to bis Sovereign, and to them as her subjects, that the
emigration into the interior cannot absolve them from their
allegiance as British subjects, and their responsibility as
such to the government in the colony.
His Excellency moreover assures them that when the pre-
servation of the peace and prosperity of the colony and of
the bordering tribes shall appear to him to require that mili-
tary possession be taken of the seaport called Natal, he shall
be prepared to do so, in her Majesty's name.