CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVI, Issue 1243, 12 August 1859, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Via Sydney and Mauritius we hare news from South Africa to the 11th of May. The House of Assembly was in session, and actively employed in the discussion of many useful and important matters— the Table Bay Breakwater, the Extension of Railways through the Cape Colony, the establishment of a more efficient GoTernment of tht Frontier, &c. The question of the separation of the Eastern and Western Provinces had also been discussed, and pttitions had been received from the Eastern Provinces. A line of railway was projected between Graham* Town and Port Elizabeth. The French ship Victor Emilie foundered tt sea, off the Cape, 20th April, in latitude 34*24 S. and longitude 28*4 E. ; captain and crew were picked off and landed in Cape Town by Captain Jarman, of Bernicia. Certain information had been received by the Government relative to a feeling of restltssness which prevails among some of the Fingoes located on the border, and of some communications which have passed between them and the Kafir chiefs and the | leader of the rebel Hottentots beyond the Kei. The j feeling, however, was not by any means a universal ; one ; and it was only such as had been observed on \ several occasions before. The movement was being | carefully watched, and as toon as the Government thought it desirable, with a view to the public good, all papers on the subject would be submitted to Pari liament. i ' Letters from the French missions in Basutoland have been received in Cape Town, which state that their circumstances are improving, and that their missionary work is advancing. They also state that the country is quiet. The natives, after great suffering, have now plenty of food, and the prospect of . leaping fine crops.

Not Inclined.— " Why don't you wheel that barrow of coals, Ned i" said a learned miner to one of his ions. "It is not a rery hard job : there is an inclined plane to relieve' you," "Ah," replied Ned, who had more relish for wit than work, " the plane may be inclined, but hang me if I am."