The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

THE CAFFRE WAR.—The state of affairs on the fron-
tier are far from satisfactory. Sir Harry Smith appears
to have made no movement of consequence ; while the
Cafl'res and Hottentots are spreading themselves through
the eastern provinces, and penetrating settlements pre-
viously considered secure from danger. Just previous to

the der

irture of last steamer' news reached the Cape of
k upon some English, between Fort Beaufort and
's Town, when five mete killed by the rebel Hot-
_ trols were sent out immediately, but
t success is not known. It appears that, while

Strong pa

frontier, the Caffi

and pillaging t

•es and Hottentots-have been invading
interior. A letter from the Cape, dated
" From what I can learn, Maki'.

the Ist Auust, says—

are within five miles of Uitenhage ; and the war, con-
sequently, in the heart of the colony." About the 20th
of July, on the return of the patrol under Colonel Mit-
chell from Kieskamma, they were unsuccessfully attacked
by Seyolo, who stated that as he had lost his country and
cattle he did not desire peace. The news from Kreli is
pacific, and he professes to have discovered his error.
Sandilli is said to be dejected, and to be contemplating
removal beyond the Kye. Pato continues attached to
British interests. No further supply of troops had reached
the Cape ; but the government despatches were sent to
the frontier by her Majesty's steamer Hermes, which was
provided with sufficient fuel to go on to the Mauritius,
where there are spare troops.

SINGULAR INCIIPINT.—M. Thiers is recruiting himself
after the fatigues of the session at the watering places of
the Pyrenees. On
.a recent occasion he was very nearly
falling a victim to the ardour of his scientific pursuits. It
appears that M. Thiers' favourite dress in his character of
mountaineer, consists of an entire suit of nankeen—blouse,
trousers, jacket, and even cap are all yellow. He was
making a reconnoissance on the edge of one of the preci-
pices of the Pyrenees, when he heard suddenly the report
of a rifle, accompanied try a certain uncomfortable hissing
sound just above his head, which speedily brought the
historian of a hundred battles into a very humiliating
positing—a plat centre on the ground. He concluded
that he was about to be made a prisoner by the contra-
bandistas, and in mortal agony crouched amongst the bush-
wood. Turning out of his hiding-place, however, he saw
presently approach a band of sportsmen, who had not very
unnaturally, when one considers the figure of the man and
the nankeen, mistaken the ex-minister fora chamois.

CURIOUS REVELATION.—A work has been circulating
in the French circles at Vienna for some time past which
has caused no little sensation. It is a new edition of a
work published in Paris in 1829, from the pen of the
Baroness Newborough, mother of Lord Newborough.
The Baroness declares herself to be a Princess of the house
of Orleans ; and Louis Philippe, the son of an Italian at-
tendant in the prison, to have been substituted imme-
diately after her birth, to obtain the desired object of a
male heir to the Orleans branch. The revelations in
question are contained in every circumstantial letters of
this same attendant of the prisons, Lorenzo Chiappini,
and in deathbed confessions of other individuals taken
upon oath. The raising of Lady Newborough to the
peerage. and the fact of the previously needy Chiappini
having left considerable property at his death, give weight
to the statements; but most of all, the extraordinarily
striking resemblance of Lady Newborough and her sons
to the very marked features that charactised the Boutin n
family. Louis Philippe was unlike them in build, in
features, and in the decided energy of his character (till
within the last few years of his life). In France there
have long been many persons who believed and repeated
this story ; and when asked what Louis Philippa himself
said to it, they always asserted it to be the rock on which
he built his strength. " Should there be another revolu-
tion on Republican principles, he will fall back upon his
real origin, enfant die peuple, and tell the Republic he is
their man ; no aristocrat, but Louis Philippe, the child of
the people."