The Stornoway has arrived from Cape Town, with news from
the seat of the Caffre war to the 12th of August. Everything was quiet in Bri- tish Caffiaria ; but above Graham's Town to the Orange River, a distance of 300 miles, the whole line had been devastated—sheep, cattle, horses, swept away or destroyed. There had been a further defection among the Cape Corps, at Gatlands, the residence of General Somerset. In the Orange Sovereignty, "Major Warden had denounced the people of Moth- esh and Molitsane as enemies, and had called out the whole force of the Sovereignty against them."
Colombo papers, to the 16th September, state that Sir George Anderson had opened the Legislative Council of Ceylon on the 2d, with a speech announcing that the revenue of the preceding year had exceeded the es- timate, and the expenses had fallen short of the estimate ; so as to leave a surplus of 14,9714—about 7 per cent of the revenue.
There is news from Sydney to the 7th July, a fortnight later. At Bathurst, Mr. Hardy was issuing licences at 301. each, "without the slightest opposition." Each person obtained a water-course fronting of fifteen yards. Some 4000 persons were now on the diggings; and 25,0001. worth of gold is said to have been collected " in the preceding week." Gold had been discovered at a third place, thirty miles South of Bathurst--the other places being West and North. A commotion had also arisen in the adjoining colony of Victoria by the discovery of gold in the Pyrenees, a hundred miles from Melbourne.
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