The Sun. — 1860-01-30 (London, England)

LEFT SITTING.]  TILE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.  PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY MORNING.  The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Dane, Commander Hoffman, from the Cape, Dec. 22, St. Helena 31, and Ascension Jan. 4, ar• rived lost night.  She has a full cargo of wino, ivory, skins, wool, ostrich feathers, &0., and among her passengers are Capt. Stoll, of the Madras army, and Lieutenant and Adjutant Bond.  Grist preparations were made at the Cape for the expected landing of Sir George Grey on the 15th of December from the Celt, which brought a letter from his Excellency, stating his intention to come out in the January mail steamer.  ' The net sum subscribed fora statue of the Go. vernor amounts to £650.  The Government has called for £20,000 on debentures for public prisons. Three hundred contractors' men are engaged on the railroad between Cape Town and Wellington. The station for passengers is to be on the Parade, and for goods near the South-wharf. A contract has been taken for extending a line of telegraphic wire, 21 miles, from Cape Town to Simon's-bay. Sir John Wylde, Chief Justice for 28 years, died at Cape Town, aged 78.  Colonel Rose, R.E., has been unfortunately drowned ; he went out to succeed Major-General Bolton, who, in consequence of this misfortune, and of the serious illness of Colonel Dill, continues in command.  The German Legion on the frontier is to receive no more pay after March 31. An agricultural exhibition took place 73 miles from Cape Town, at Caledon, on the 29th of Dec., when there were 523 entries of produce ; 2,000 sheep were exhibited besides tobacco, dried fruits, wheat potatoes, soap, salt, honey, and beeswax. The implements were chiefly American. The next exhibition—February, 1861—is to be at Worcester. Thevine disease has appeared at Paarl. The general yield will be below the average. The Caffres, late servants to the farme rs, move in bands and steal sheep and cattle. At Alice, James Negan was charged at the Circuit Court with shooting a Caffre while robbing mops. The jury returned a verdict of justiame homicide." _  One ironmonger at Graham's Town sold in two weeks 1 cwt. of iron wire to the coloured ladies of that district, who now patronise crinoline extensively. The brig Favoritan has landed in Table-bay, Captain Robertson, of the Senator, from Liverpool for Bombay, abandoned in a sinking state, Nov. 4. At St. Helena the repairs of the house formerly occupied by Napoleon I. are progressing rapidly under the direction of Captain llasselin, R.E. The ship Alnwick Castle, 64 days from Calcutta, left St. Helena for London, December 19 ; the Bombay, 62 days from Bombay, for Liverpool, December 18; the Earl of South Esk, 91 days from Shanghai, for London, 22d; the Ravensworth, 110 days from Foo-chow-foo, for Cowes, 29th ; the Multah, 64 days from Bombay, for Liverpool, 28th ; the Geneva, 14 days from the Cape, for London, 29th ; the Queen of the Clyde, .79 days from Calcutta, for London, 29th ; the Morris, 110 days from Manilla, for Liverpool ; the Catherine, 32 days from Zanzibar, for London ; the Julio Augusta, 43 days from the Mauritius, for Cork. Her Majesty's ship Boscawen had been survey ins along the coast, but was left with the Hermes at anchc r in Simon's-bay. The Himalaya was expected shortly with the 10th Regiment to relieve the 2d, Which is ordered to China.