The Sun. — 1863-02-23 (London, England)

THY CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.  PLYMOUTH, Saturday. The East India and London Steam Shipping Company's screw steamer Mauritius, 2,200 tons, Capt. J. Smyth, passed up Channel off this port today. She is from Calcutta, Nov. 22, Madras, 29, and the Cape, Jan. 12. She brings a mail from the Cape, a full general cargo, and the following passengers :  From India—Brigadier Christie, C. 8., 80th Regiment; Lieut. Warren, 81st; Lieut. Hartwick, 7th; Lieut. Brooks, 82d, lady, and three children ; Mr. Newberry, civil service ; Capt. Brooking, 12th Madras Native Infantry ; Lieut. Strettell, Madras Native Infantry; Capt. Brown, lady, and two children, sth Madras Native Infantry ; Mrs. W. 11. Brown ; Mrs. Kimber; a sergeant of the Royal Artillery and his wife, and two privates of the 43d Regiment. From the Cape, Capt. Fox, 13th Regiment, and Mr. White.  At the Cape collections were still being made in aid of the distressed Lancashire operatives. The railway goods traffic had increased so much lately that the system of running goods trains had been adopted. The railway company's engineers were preparing to erect an iron lattice girder bridge over the Berg River. Some parts of the colony were still in a wr( tched state from the long continued drought, and the farmers and residents in the district towns were offering to give every support in their power to any measure which would prevent a recurrence of the evils from which they were suffering. Various schemes for future irrigation were under consideration.  Several postal robberies of money letters had recently occurred. On the frontier, in many parts of the Transkeian territory, sufficient rain had fallen to restore the fertility of that district, and the lately starving flocks of the Tambookies were beginning to thrive again. Kaffir news was unimportant, matters being quiet • among their tribes. There had, however, been some sharp police work on the Umgwali, and a local disturbanceoccasioned through the rising of some wise man (phophet) near Windvogelberg. General Wynyard and staff, with head-quarters, had gone to the frontier, but only for inspection purposes. H.M.S. Imperieuse, 51, screw frigate, Captain R. Gibson, had arrived in Simon's Bay from China, and was to proceed on her voyage for England about Jan. 20 ; Orestes, 21, screw corvette, Captain A. H. Gardner, arrived in Simon's Bay, Jan. 7, from Algoa Bay, Dec. 31 ; Barossa, 21, screw corvette, Captain W. M. Dowell, was in Simon's Bay, en route for China. Business was improving in the colony. The barque Kestrel, from London for Shanghai, put into Simon's Bay Jan. '7, with damaged rudder. The South African Loan Company, with a capital of £2.000,000, had at last been started. A man had been brutally murdered in a quarrel in one of the Rough districts of Cape Town, and great complaints were being made by the local Piess of the increase of crime in the colony, robberies and crimes of violence frequently occurriug where a few years before they had been unknown. The Mauritius landed her mail here by a pilot-boat, and it was sorted and forwarded to-night. Brigadier Christie, Captain Brooking, and Mr. Newberry also landed here.