The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-20
From the Cape of Good Hope.--Arrival of
Australian Vessels--Expulsion of Mis-
sionaries.

Australian Vessels--Expulsion of Mis-
sionaries.
BY the arrival at this port Of the fine
barque Gayhead, after remarkably
short run, we have dates from Cape Town
to February i, week later than by the
way of England.
The steamer West Wind, which sailed
from New York Sept. 10, for Australia,
with about 100 passengers, and after
wards put into Ascension for coal in De.
cember, arrived at Table Bay, Feb. 7,
with trouble among the passengers, the
exact nature of which the Captain did
not learn but he was informed that she
had two captains ON board. She was to
sail again for Australia about Feb 20
The ship Medora from New York for
Australia, with passengers. Capt Holm
es, U. S. Consul, writes that he was en-
gagged for the most part of the time in
settling troubles among the passengers
of the West Wind and the Medora.
Ship Sacsusa, from New York for Aus.
tralia, with passengers. sailed from Cape
Town Feb 10. Ship Fancuil Hail. from
New York, with coal for the Japan Ex-
ploring Expedition, was in port, waiting
orders
The Cape papers state that the T. S.
steam frigatc Mississippi, of the Japan
Exploring Expedition, left without wait
ing for her consorts, in consequence of
the numerous desertlons from her Af
ter she sailed the body of sailor was
found on the sea shore, with his bundle
of clothes tied on the back of his neck.
He had been drowned while attempting
to swim on shore.
The news as to the prospects of peace
is not very definite. The English Gov
ernor had gone to the frontier to con-
clude peace, but the Colonists insist
that no peace shall be made which does
not provide for the expulsion of all ma.
tives who may hereafter be dangerous
to the future peace of the Colony. Mo.
sech, the native chief with whom the
English lately fought a severe battle.
had given evidence of his future friend.
ly intentions by Staying seven of his sub.
jccts who had made incursions on the
property Of the Colonists.
As specimen of the miserable con.
dition of the natives of the Cape, it is
stated that in the suburbs of Graham
Town, there were living in one hundred
and thirty huts, no less than 767 Hotten.
tots, of whom 1876 were men PIT women.
l62 boys and 1873 girls. In 800 other
huts were l76l Fingoes, of whom 4s3
were men, 575 women, Sal boys and S62
girls, all in the most miserable condition.
The chief subject OF comment in the
papers is the expulsion of Messrs. r.
Edwards and w. Inglis, Wesleyan Mis-.
sionaries in the Trans Vael or Boer Re
public is situated beyond the English
Colony and towards the central part of
Africa. 1t claims to be Independent of
England, but is under the protection of
that Government Itappears according
to the account of the hearing, given by
the Beers to the Missionaries, that they
had written letter to the Commando,
in which they speak in terms of repro
bation of the capture of so many children
in war, of which there are no other ex-
amples except on the Western Coast of
Africa, where children are caught for
slaves and though in the present case
the children captured are not sent out of
the country, yet they believe that their
capture and sale would be regarded
throughout the world as nothing else but
slavery. In their opinion many of these 7
children will be sold to parties in distant
places, where their parents will never
see them more.
At the hearing, the Missionaries offer,
ed evidence that Kaflir Chief, whose
young daughter had been captured, went
to the Beers, pretending that he wanted
to purchase one of the female captives
for wife. The Beers agreed to sell him
one, and he selected his daughter, for
whom he was charged seven oxen, but he
finally got her for three,
1t was also alleged that while the Kaf.
FIR men and women we're shot down by
the Beers, such of the children as were
saleable were taken captive. The Boer
Council, without much hearing, and re-
fusing to allow a report of the case to be
made, sentenced the missionaries to ex.
pulsion, on the ground that their pres.
ence was inimcal to the peace of the Re
public.