The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-09-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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 depredations or thefts have been committed, and the only circumstance 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 injustice. " 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 sacredness 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 befallen 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 Excellency says—" 1 am anxious to act upon the principles of mercy and benevolence, and to preserve from further misfortune and total destruction so many of her Majesty's subjects. 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 consequence 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 crossing of the said land boundaries of the colony." His Excellency also warns those who have already emigrated, 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 preservation of the peace and prosperity of the colony and of the bordering tribes shall appear to him to require that military possession be taken of the seaport called Natal, he shall be prepared to do so, in her Majesty's name.