CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 73, 21 December 1853, Page 4

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

A* an instance of i lie view tnken of thp ■»l)Hiulonm«iit of the Orange River SovercuntVi to which vie alluded lust week, (lie inlloninu is quo'cfl from the Port Elizabeth Mercury, which wai published in deep rnoiifniitg :—: —

" The fenrfiil result of thifl dishonorable abandonment of its subjects and allies, by the Engl'uli g»vcrnmpni, mny W brief! v Mimnied up (hus Disappointment nnd jnin to int'ii^irious emigOHiits who have riskeil their all from confidence to rultsrs ■who no* betray them. The <xi9 ( ence of s'.ivery ott our veiy borders, nnd with the virtual p'-rmivsion of the Queen's Govern wont. A wholpsale system of murder confeqnent on thn hitter hos'ility existing beUveen ihe D teh emigrants and t.ie colored racen. We call lha strife which must eniui', nudjthat before long, in the now peaceful Sovereignty, murder, for it will be unTOrih\ the name of war." ,

Tltc 74th Highlanders, the 43rd Regi'Tn?nt of F->ot, nnd the lVth Lancers were <uidi.r on/ers to sml fmmeu'iatplv for India, tht Rifle Biigade to rt-turn home.

Tlie Legislative Council met on the 10th of September fo>" its lust session previous 'to the change in the Constitution. It was csp cpd tl»..t the elections would lake pint*- in Depember, and the colonists w<re Mrt velv engaged in registration nnd other •pre ura inns fur the exercise of their new ■pr viiege*. 'I' w<n cstimci&d that there -would bi- about 10,000 or 12,0 00 actual "voter* out of a population of 150 ,000.