The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-27 00:00:00

CA.P.). OF GOOD HOPE.

The public and private accounts received yesterday from the
Cape of Good Hope reaoh down to the 2d of August, and are,
generally speaking, of a satisfactory character.
The Caffres had made their appearance in small bodies within'
the colonial frontiers, and by surprising the British and colo-
nial forces had occasioned a further loss of life, notwithstanding
the.. proclamation of Sir B. D'Urban, extending the colonial
territory to the _Kei, and expelling the Caffres from the new
territory; still not the least doubt was entertained but that the•
British forces would ultimately clear the new district entirely 'of
them. This, however, it was feared, would not be accomplished
without further bloodshed. The British forces had completely
traversed Caffre Land, and dispersed the enemy.
Intelligence had reached the head-quarters from the frontiers
of the loss of Lieutenant C. Bailey, and two other parties of
troops, eighteen in number, who had been cut off by the Caffres.
Five or six men belonging to Major Cox's division bad been
killed in Amatoli mountains. Further captures of cattle had
taken place by the British forces. • The lower part of the dis-
trict of Albany was completely tranquil, and many of the
farmers were pursuing with activity agricultural ope-rations.
King William's Town had assumed a very lively appearance.
Fortresses had.been erected, the gardens were well stocked, the
crops of barley were more promising. and the climate was ex-
ceedingly fine. The new province of Adelaide is spoken of in
the highest terms. In the district of Swillenden the loss of
cattle since the last advices had been very trifling. According
to the last return of the number of cattle in this district pre-
viously to the eruption there was not less than 228,585 head.
Up to the latestdates from the Cape it appears that the frontier
intelligence was satisfactory. The operations of the troops
everywhere were successful in clearing the country of the enemy,
and hostilities were represented as in a train of final cessation.'
The Governor was still at Graham's Town, and had received
with great pleasure an address voted at a public meeting. ap-
proving of his conduct during the late trying crisis. Provisions
.were very high at Grahtsm's Town, in consequence of the diffi-
"culty of obtaining meansiof conveyance from Algoa Bay. It is
estimated that upwards of 6,c00 ,head of cattle had been cap-
tured from the savages since the previous advices were sent off.
In the province of Queen Adelaide there had been several con-
flicts with the Cadres, "zany of whom had been killed. A

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strung desire had begun to he manifested- among the colonisti
for the cessation of the war of extermivation which had-been
t stridden-agar-nit the natives.. The Governor was about -to lir
point commissioners to settle the dahlia of the friendly Caffrei
to the several tracts of land Upon which they would be tinallY
located in the new territory.
The prospects of trade and commerce in the colony were ex:
ceedingly thititirable,. In the exports and imports a eunsidet
able increase had taken place. The iiriPorts for the quarter
ending the sth July last amounted to I:161,862, and the export
to £102.866. The vahie erne wine exported to England-and
other parts in the quarter refered to was £:3,6;,6; of wool, £3.421
of hides; £8,557 ; and of skins, £6,352. In the exportation of wive
the increase had bean very rapid. The shipments of wine, wow).
ficoir, hides, skins, and horns all show a rapid increase. The etr"'
of the Cat re war, it was expected, would tend to give a stimulus
the colonial trade. If the new provinces were retained it ts 80:
expected that anoutlay would be occasioned in the erection ut
batteries, &c., on the line of frontier or at Teas, Elip,uoU... The
trninage which had b-e•eirelitered inwards in the ports of Simon
Bay and Elizabeth, in the qUarter ending the sth of July last
was in British iships 15&2 tons,-and of foreign 1,934 tons.
the:Salim period there had been 49 vessels_ entered outwards o'
the tonnage of 1618'2 tons; and in Foreign vessels of 2,281,
tone: The total imports for the year 183-f were £402,451, ant'
the exports £304,0tA. The following official notice has been
issued relative to.the.cominertial intercourse with St. Helena.
Notice is hereby given, that his Majesty's government ha'
determined that the system wider which the East India Cow:
pony used to supply St. Helena with-provisions and stores shalt
be discontinued frUre and after the occupation of that_ island 03
a-British conmial pons 'on. The inhabitants-intik that_
obtain theirsupplies•thro Is the ordinary channels of trade,ana-
a notification to that effect s been already made to the Me'
cantile body in -England. •
"In directing the like notifi • to be promulgated-in all!,
colouy, his Majestyis gevernmen as expressed an earnest wiPl
for the establishment and encouragement of a permanent COT"
mercial intercourse betneen St. Helena and the Cape. 'Die
colonial_ go_terninent accordingly invites the attention-of-the
Cape-merchants to the it of so favourable an opPor.
tunity or extyuditig the trade of this settlement.
" Its Majesty'sPiVil Commissioner, Sir Richard ,Plastat,
who will precede fife Governor, Major-General Middlemore,
order to take possession of the island on behalf of his ;Majesty'
may be expected to arrive there with the troops which are ta•
form the garrison about the middle of next month.
(Signed) " Joini Bst.t."
The weathee,,was extremely fine, and the prospects of the
agriculturists very.favourable.