CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 265, 12 February 1848, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

By the latest advices received we learn that the war is still in progress. Five officers, viz., Capta'n W. L. Baker, Lieut. Faunt, and Ensign Burnop, of the 73rd Regiment, Dr. N. S. Campbell, Surgeon of that corps, and Assistant-Surgeon Loch, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, have been massacred, making nine instances since 1846, of officers destroyed through their own imprudence in venturing for purposes of amusement or curiosity into the country of the savage Kafir. Sir Hurry Smith had arrived, and superseded Sir George Berkeley in the command of the troops, the latter is sent to Madras, and by Sir Henry Pottinger's appointment there also, the military and civil powers are united in the person of the hero of Alivval. His appointment appears to have given unqualified satisfaction, and his tried and able experience in frontier affairs, have inspired the colonists, both Dutch and English, with the greatest confidence. Captain Charles Colville Young, of the Royal Artillery (Brother of Sir H. Young), accompanies Sir H. Pottinger to Madras as bis Military Secretary. A valedictory address bad been presented by the inhabitants of Graham's Town to Sir H. E. F. Young, on his departure from the government of that province, expressing their regret that a connexion so auspiciously begun should be so unexpeciedly and suddenly dissolved, their anticipations of the advantages to be derived iiom his government from his> great experience of official business, bis invariable courtesy and accessibility, and their hope that he would still be continued in the Government of that province. The following is from the Graham 's Town Journal, Nov. 6: — It is now understood that His Honor does not go direct to South Australia, but from Table Bay to England, where it is not improbable that his own representations may materially alter pending arrangements. However this may be, His Honor's administration, brief as it has been, of the affairs of this province, will prove of inestimable value. Already it has so disturbed the rickety system, under which this province has been hitherto governed, as to expose to full view the disabilities under which the people labour, and the, mischief which has arisen therefrom to the Parent State. And if it be true that a knowledge of a disease is half its cure, then has not Sir Henry Young's visit to this country been in vain ; nor will his labours here, and the seed he bas sown, fail to produce in due season their appropriate fruits. No public officer, in the discharge of official duties ever pursued a more steady and direct course, or displayed more tact, zeal, and ability, than this officer. He now takes his departure from this province with the best wishes and high respect of the inhabitants at at large.