THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 381, 1 September 1875, Page 3

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

By the s.s. Kiugarooma we ( Argus ) have Cape papers to the 25th July. The following summary of news is from the Cape Argus : ■Sir Henry Barkly has gone to the Diamond Fields Mr Fronde is still on his tour through the western districts. The enthusiasm of the extreme sympathisers with the republic has changed the character of his journey. Instead of being private, as Mr Froude, before fore 1-aving Capo Town, said it would be, he is everywhere met with demonstrations of a public or semi-public nature. At Stellenbosch a dinner was given to him, but the speeches were not reported. At the Paarland Wellington he attended similar dinners. All show of privacy was thrown off at Worcester, and the speeches made at the dinner there have been reported in a paper opposed to Sir Henry Barkly, 'ln his speech, Mr Froude, among other things, said :—“ The Capo is a temporary station to ambitious and aggressive powers. If we were out of the way it would not be long before some other people would make a snatch at you to gain a footing on your coasts. I presume you can have nn objection to our undertaking this duty. You would not like to be taxed to maintain a fleet of iron clads for yourself. We protect you with our fleet and with our flag. We ask nothing in return but the Imperial station at Simon’s Bay, and an assurance, if we are ever again at war, the resources of this country will be at our service, and not at that of our enemies.” He subsequently explained the future policy of England towards the colonies in these terms ;—“ One word more as to the future colonial policy of English statesmen. It has not been lightly adopted, and it will not lightly change. The great dependencies which we have created or inhabited are developing into nations, with the same rights of self-government which vve assert for ourselves. So long as they are in their nonage, so to say, so long, that is, as they are occupied entirely with bringing out the resources of their soil, and are unprepared to undertake their own defence against external aggression, so long will our flag fly over them. They must continue under our protection, and auj power which meddles with them must know that it will have to reckon with Great Britain. So it is with Australia, so it is with Canada, and so it is with South Africa. For the present, to this extent, you remain, and must remain, a British dependency, but a time will coma—iu your sons’ days or your grandsons’ days, we cannot tell when, but a time will come—when you will arrive at maturity, and. must assume the duties as well as the privileges of a full and peifect nationality. It will be for you then to choose whether you will be independent and add another to the free nations of the earth, or whether you will remain with Great Britain, no longer as a dependency, but as an equal, as a partner, in the Imperial State of the Great British Dominion, to share its honors, its glories, and its dangers. On that choice, when the time comes, Great Britain will exercise no influence. If you prefer to leave us we shall regret your loss, but we shall not oppose your inclination. If you remain there is nothing which England has to offer of which you will not have an equal share with her.”

Sir Garnet Wolseley is on a tour through Natal. He proposes forming a township in Langalibalele’s location, and laying out several farms for Europeans. The reports about the condition of affairs in Zululand were believed to have been circulated for a purpose. The most authentic information states that they were grossly exaggerated. No such massacres as those rumoured have taken place. The reports are supposed to have been circulated for a political purpose. There are to be some changes in the Gape Ministry. Mr Smith leaves the Cabinet to become auditor-general ; and Mr Brownlee to become Governor’s agent in theTranskei. Mr Merriman succeeds Mr Smith as Commissioner for Public Works, and Mr Probart takes Mr Brownlee’s place as Secretary for Native Affairs. The appointment of the Hon Mr Smith, Commissioner of Public Works, to be Auditor-General, has appeared in the Gazette. Universal indignation prevails that the Ministry should have appointed one of their own number to an office in the permanent service of the Crown. Immediately on arrival of troops at the diamond fields the ringleaders in the late disturbances were arrested. Henry Tucker, Ling, and Blanch, were among those taken. They are on bail in £2OOO each. Aylward has not yet been arrested. Opinion in the Free State, as expressed in the newspapers, is not oulj against uniting with the Cape and Natal under the British flag, but aim against sending a representative to the proposed Conference if one from West Griqualand is admitted. By the R.M.S. American intelligence was brought that the British ship Stuart Hahneman, 1980 tons, from Bombay, with a cargo of cotton, capsized in a squall ou the 14th April, in lat 2.2ldeg N,, long not known. Only nine of the crew were saved, who endured the most severe privations for thirteen days, living for that time ou a monkey, a bird, and a little rain water. The boat was picked up by the Austrian barque, Blandiua P. The railway from Port Elizabeth to Commando Kraal was opened on the 24th July. There has been heavy weather ou the coast, and some disasters are reported. Strange revelations are reported to have been made by a Commission of Inquiry into the treasury department at the Cape. The alleged improper conduct is said to have taken place before responsible governm''nt was introduced. A member of the Legislative Council is reported to be seriously implicated. A large committee has been appointed to arrange what is to bo sent, from the colony to the Philadelphia Exhibition.