CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 554, 6 August 1851, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Cape of Good Hope papers to the 20th of May had been received at Sydney. They contained some accounts of the progress of the Kafir war, the principal fact ia which was that the enemy had sustained severe repulses and considerable loss both of life and ptopcrty through the operations of strong patrols* under the command of Colonel Mackinnon and Major H. Eardley Wilmot. Sir Harry Smith, in his General Orders, highly complimented those officers, and the troops under them ; but, he adds, " Such enterprises cannot be effected against such an enemy, thus organised and composed, without loss, which fell principally on the heroic 73rd regiment." 11.M.5, Vulcan had arrived in Simon's Bay on the 12th of May, having on board 25 officers and 602 rank and file of the 7Kh Highlanders. She was at once despatched to Algoa Bay, whence the troops were to match to Foit Mate, to reinforce Major-General Somerset's division. A despatch from Earl Grey had arrived by the Vulcan, which, it was reported, recommended a removal of the scat of Government from Cape Town to Graham's Town. The people of Cape Town took alarm, and the Secietnry of the Commercial Exchange wrote to the Colonial b'ecietary, requestiug information as to the truth of the rumour. Mr. Montagu's reply was not very explicit. He admitted that Lord Ghky had stated that " it appears to him that the time is come when the seat of Government can no longer be kept in a position so far from central as Cape Town, without extreme inconvenience ;" but declined, in the absence of the Govfrnor, to communicate more fully the contents of the despatch.

Lectures on Intemperance. — The Second Lectuie of the course on this subject, undertaken by Ministers of the Evangelical Alliance, was delivered last evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel, by the Rev. John Ingi.is. The immediate topic was the injurious effect of Intemperance on health, sanity, and life, on which the Reverend Lectuter discoursed to an attentive audience with much zeal and impressiveness.