CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 17, 27 September 1842, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We regret to state, that intelligence received sterday from the Cape • of Good Hope, shows at the Natal settlers had proceeded to further its of hostility towards Her Majesty’s troops, aving captured a large quantity of ammunition 7 . stores, including two field-pieces, intended ir the use of the soldiers, the settlers had esieged Captain Smith in his intrenched camp, id as he was short of provisions, the settlers iving obtained possession of his supplies, it as feared that he would be obliged to surren;r before the reinforcements would’ arrive, further detaphment of troops, three hundred number, and H. M. S. Isis, 44 guns, Captain

Sir J. Marshal, and Lily, 16 guns, Commander Baker, had been dispatched to Port Natal. , <:

The Caffres were committing very extensive depredations on the frontier. ■ ( The Cape Colonists werp in great consternation, in consequence of its having been determined by Lord John Russell,.and afterwards by . Lord Stanley, that a number of juvenile, convicts, should be sent to Robben’s Island, Table Bay, ■ and that after having served a certain portion of their sentences, they should be indented as apprentices to the inhabitants. , A public meeting was held, at which it was resolved to petition the Queen not to sanction the measure, because it was “ fraught with the greatest dan-, ger and detriment to the moral and religious state of the community, and to be highly injurious to its best interests, being in * effect making the Cape a penal colony.”'— Sydney . Morning Herald.

ADELAIDE

The Mushroom of the Southern Australian Outdone.—Last week, the inhabitants of a large Manning’s house in Gfeenfell-street,. were thrown into the utmost consternation and affright, during the night of Thursday last, and fears were entertained that the Earthquake prophesied to take place in England, was about to vent its spleen in South Australia. So sudden was the shock that it was some time before the party could extricate themselves from the ruins. After an examination, it was found that the house had been recently placed on a garden, and great was the surprise when they discovered that a Gigantic Giant of the vegetable tribe Brasseca, alias a cabbage, had actually sprang lip under the foundation of the house, and caused the sad catastrophe.— Adelaide Examiner., A geographical description appeared a few days since, relating to a newly-discovered tract of country, the writer of which -certainly evinces a most superior knowledge of the coast; and for the geographical information it conveys, has proved himself worthy of the appointment of Land Commissioner at Port Grey. After expressing his joy at the discovery, he. states that the boundary of this land of promise, is as follows : —That it commences on the western bank of the Glenelg river, extending eastwards as far as Rivola Bay. We beg to inform him, there is no Bay to the eastward, nor any water of consequence, until you strike upon the Murrumbidgee river. Had the writer been a Scotchman, we should have given him credit for second sight. If the new discovered tract of land extends from the river Glenelg, to Rivola Bay, its sea line runs N.W. by North of the Glenelg; or 80 miles in the same direction from Mount Schanks. It is, we are informed by a gentleman of known veracity, well worthy of notice.— lbid.

By the Geelong Advertiser of the 15th ultimo, we observe that Sir , George Gipps did not consider that township sufficiently advanced to justify his granting it the privileges of Municipal self-government. The inhabitants complain, that whilst they are pot allowed to enjoy the management of their own local improvements, His Excellency appears to take no steps to forward their interests, or to enable them to obtain the requisite municipal qualifications.

TOLERATION

Her Majesty, by calling in the King of Prussia to fill the place he did at the Royal Baptism, has given a signal rebuke to the sectarian, uncharitable, and anti-Christian error, which casts out of the pale of Christ’s covenanted mercies all who do not belong to. an Episcopalian Church. The Queen, as temporal head, presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury, as ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, a sponsor who belongs to the Reformed Church of Prussia, a staunch Protestant, a sincere Christian; but one who belongs, as the Puseyites would vainly tell us, to a community or conventicle, and not to a Church. Her Majesty shews she, has not so learned to think of any “ congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached and the sacraments duly administeredand the Archbishop of Canterbury, on this, avouches before Europe and the Church, that he, too, considers the King of Prussia a member of a true Church, and so ■ discards the vain figment which cuts from the communion of saints the great majority of the reformed churches.— Geelong Advertiser. The following notice in the French papers, gives reason to hope that another grand advance will shortly be made in international communication; — English agents are arriving in Paris, to arrange with the government the means of establishing a good telegraphic line from London to Calcutta, across France, and which should extend through Italy, Greece, Syria, and the Red Sea to India. It appears an English engineer has demonstrated the possibility of executing the work, and of placing London and Paris in immediate connection with the Indian Continent.— lbid.

We have had our Attention repeatedly directed to the dangerous procedure of landing cattle on the beach, and almost in the centre of the township. The risk to which persons are exposed by this foolish and inconsiderate course was fully shewn on Saturday afternoon.—A bullock just landed at Capt. Rhodes’, on Te aro

Flat, became perfectly enfuriatcd, and rushed ,ot, the top of his speed jip the beach, tpssjng several i fortunately, however, without doing them apy material ,inj,ury.'- •• On .cpimjag. opposjte\ to Bjorn's CqmjnerGial Hotel, he , made- q,rush, at Mr: Quyton’s which standing ; with his rider in the .centre of the.. road, ■ .and [before |the man .could evens turmthe . horse, v one of the ihprns pf - the, enraged beast was . buried; in the ;flank } pf. the, unfortunate • animal, . whose bowels protruded in a shocking manner.. Every.means were tried to save him, but > without,, effect,.- and .Mr. Guyton humanely, ordered him to foe. shot. ;The same bullock afterwards made his .yray into Mr. Swainson’s garden,, where lit. .committed considerable damage, and was I( shot on Sunday afternoon by.order of the Police Magistrate; Mr. Hogg, the/collector ,of customs, also had a most providential .escape. A bullock \yhich had been just landed, leaped his. fence, bolted through the verandah, and gave phase to Mr., Hogg a short distance .forom the house. . Mr. Hogg, with great presence of mind, waited until the animal was very . close, and then threw himself flat upon the ground, the brute however, attempted to gore him, and one of the; horns passed through the collar of hi§ coat, and raised the skin of his neck just under the ear, had it entered another inch farther bach he would undoubtedly have .lost his life. Surely the interference of .the Police Magistrate is required to prevent a recurrence of this nuisance. A spot equally convenient in every point. of view might be found for landing cattle in or near Evans’ Bay,, where, the lives of, . Her Majesty’s liege subjects would not be exposed to such-danger, and where the cattle themselves would be out of the way of being irritated. ,

Families of Literary Men.— The Quarterly Review, in discussing an objection to the Copy*right Bill of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, which was taken by Sir Edward, Sugden,. gives some very curious particulars about the progeny of literary men. “ We are not,” says the writer, “ going to speculate about the causes of the fact —but a fact it is-—that men, distinguished for extraordinary intellectual power of, any sort, very rarely leave more than a very brief line of progeny behind them. Men of genius have scarcely ever done so. Men of imaginative genius, we might say, almost never. With the one exception, pf the noble , Surrey, we cannot at this moment point out a representative of the male line even so far down as the third generation of. any English poet, and we believe the case is the same in France. The blood of beings of that order can seldom be traced far down even in the female line. With the exceptions of Surrey and Spencer, we are not aware of any English author of at all remote date from whose body any living person claims to be descended.. There is no .other real English poet, prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, and we believe no great author of any sort—except Clarendon and Sliaftsbury—of whose blood we have, any inheritance amongst us. Chancer’s only son died childless. Shakspeare’s line expired in his daughter’s only daughter. None of the. other dramatists of that age left any progeny ; nor Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Cowley, nor Butler. The granddaughter of Milton was the last of his. blood. Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift,’ Arbutlmot, Hume, Gibbon, Cowper, Gray, Walpole, Cavendish —and we might greatly extend the list —never married. Neither Bolingbroke, nor Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor Burke, transmitted their blood. When the human race has. produced its ‘ bright consummate flower’ in this kind, it seems commonly to be near its end.” Poor Goldsmith might have been mentioned in the above list. The theory is illustrated in our own day. The two greatest names in science and in literature, of our time, were Davy and Walter Scott. The first died childless. Sir Walter left four children, of whom three are dead, only one of them (Mrs. Lockhart) leaving issue, and the fourth (his eldest son), though living, and long married, has no issue. These are curious facts. Singular Man.—One day lately, a clergyman put the question to a married woman in this place : —“ Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression ?” To which the woman replied, “As for other folks. Sir, how they stand, I cannot tell; but one thing I ken, that my man never ate fruit qf any kind all the days of his life; so that ye see, Sir, he has naething to do with Adam at all.”— Stirling Observer. Questions for a Wife. —Do you recollect what your feelings were immediately after you had spoken the first unkind word to your husband ? Did you not feel both ashamed and grieved, and yet too proud to admit it ? That pride, madam, was, is, and ever will be, your evil genius. It is the tempter which labours iucessantly to destroy vour peace, which cheats you with a vile delusion that your husband deserved your anger when he really most required your love. It is the cancer which feeds up those glad and unspeakable/emotions you felt on the first pressure .of his Hand and lip, and will not leave them till their ashes, corrode your affections, blight your moral, vision, and blunt your sense of right and wrong.. Never forget that yours is a lofty calling—never forget the manner in which the duties of that calling can alone be properly fulfilled. If your husband is hasty, your example of patience will chide as well as teach him; your recriminations will drive him

from, you; your violence may alienate his heari', and your, neglect compel, him ( to , desperation/ Your soothing will redeem him ; your softness, "subdue him ; and the merry twinkle of these ;eyes, now filling beautifully with priceless tears, Will,make him all your own! — Ckdmbers'.LQndon. Journal. > , ,

’An American’s Family Jewels.“G. lA Cooke, the .celebrated player, while ( in the United States, ,w,as at .the dinner, .table of a gentleman by whom-he had been fiivited, when it appeared from the conversation,, that a robbery had recently, taken place in the house of a gentleman present: —a very uncommon event in an American city,, and he was questioned as to the particulars, which he detailed at some length, and with a minuteness which Cooke deemed quite unworthy the occasion, especially as no part of the account was addressed to him. In fact, his very presence seemed to he forgotten. This mortified him to the quick, and excited his indignation, which was in, proportion to his consciousness, notwithstanding the whip he.had taken, that the neglect he experienced had been drawn upon by himself. The relater of the, robbery coming to the close of his account, Cooke vainly hoped for a cue which might enable him to exhibit the. contempt he now felt for his American associates; but he was in despair of a fitting opportunity of venting his disgust. At this crisis the gentleman observed, in conclusion of his story, that the only serious part of his regret, in relation to the described event, arose from the irreparable loss of the ..family jewels. Here Cooke’s malice found an opening; and, uttering an exclamation that startled almost every man upon his legs by his violence, in his most grinding and sarcastic tones, with his face puckered up to an expression of the. direst scorn, he bellowed forth, “ Your what, sir ? Your family jewels f” adding, in an actor’s aside, with a gritty laugh, by way of parenthesis, “ A Yankee Doodle’s family jewels ? What arc they, sir ? Ah American’s family jewels ? I can tell you — the handcuffs and fetters.” — Fraser’s Magazine.

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