CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 284, 17 February 1849, Page 6

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We hare Cape Town papers to the middle of Novembe m The inhabitants appear to have been entirely taken (■ iurpriie by an announ ement made by S r H, Smitl^fl that it was the intention of the Government to sen ■ all the Irish pi lit cal con\icli to the Cape and that ill J necesiary order of the Queen in Council m.king th»| Cape ap t nal sett'em nt would arc i ve by the next mail. I E*rl Trey hal «lso des.red the Governor to ascertain whether the colonists would be willing to receive a num- ' ber of exiles. A puMic mcc inff had bean held at which resolutions opposing thd proposal of Lord " Grey, and j rotesting agai-ist the colony being made a penal settl ment. wei eun .nmously agreed to. A very stringent Militia Bill was before the Council. All was quiet on the frontiers.— Sydney Herald, Dec. 20.

Liberty and Equality.— The French writers oblerve with pride that, while in England, there is liberty hut not equality in France thrre if equality hut noc liberty. We cannot help thinking that England it pght. God would hive libeity for all; but equality which would bring all men to the same level, is hut an idle dream No doubt the French writeri do not claim f quality in every respect, but we regret ihatthej set much b( unds to ihe principles of liberty. It U nevertheless, in those very marked dutinctions, whic'> pi event tquility, that one of E .gland's dangers lief If there is too much e quility on the sou h of the chan nel there may be too little on the north The distine lions of rank and fortune aie, | e.hapg, exaggerated i' Briainj and were it not for that vital Christianity' which is a powerful remedy for this evil, the whoh people would be srriou \j aff.cted by it.~ Recollections of a Swiss Minister. Moiasse- from Watt.r Melons.— Uriah Johnson, a cit zen of Carolina, has extracted fiom water m 'ons a syrup equ»l to aiohnses, which would produce sugar of good quality. The syrup is obtained by baling ths ju cc three hours in a common iron pol, ri^ht gfll'ons makin? one gallon of exiellent syrup. He th.nks one acre of the common sand-hil! land would procure water melons enoug' to make 203 gallom of syrup equal 'o the best niolas ej. Musciuitoes.— To gi t rid of iheie tormentors, tak a few hot cuals on a shovel or chafingdiah, and burn upon them some br >wn sugar in you bed-rooms tsnd parlours, nnd you itTectually banish or destroy every musqulto for the night. — American Paper.