Our Colonies send us news of progress. At the Cape
of Good Hope, if no great advance has been made in the Caffre war, the Burgher guards have made some progress in the good opinion of Ge- neral Cathcart. The worthy General has evidently revised his first impressions. The want of patriotism or courage, which he insinuated against the Burghers, might have been refuted by their whole past history if he had read it, as it is by his own knowledge now that he has had some experience. And, after expecting to conquer on the " veni-vidi" principle he has descended to boasting of a great success because he has, with impunity, imitated one of the barbaric dashes across the border, done some damage, and carried off some stray cattle ! The Australian news is of gold, wool, and mutton,—gold in Vic- toria accumulating at the rate of half a million a week; and sheep destroyed to feed the gold-diggers' without mercy for woollen ma- nufacturers in Yorkshire. More than recovering from her tem- porary panic, South Australia has made considerable way in re- ne,vred prosperity : business of all kinds was substantially extend- ing, property was rising again in value, and the confidence of the settlers had never been so hopeful. New South Wales shares, only in a less degree, the prosperity and the rough-and-ready sa- crifices of 'Victoria. Activity everywhere, more and more gold, cry for labour, and protests against sending convicts to tamper
with the gold-working, continue to be the characteristics of the Australian world.
