CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have Cape Town papers to the middle of November. The inhabitants appear to have been entirely taken by surprise by an announcement made by Sir H. Smith, that it was the intention of the Government to send all the Irish political convicts lo the Cape, and that the necessary order of the Queen in Council making the Cape a penal settlement would arrive by the next mail. Earl Grey had also desired the Governor to ascertain whether the colonists would be willing to receive a number of exiles. A public meeting had been held at which resolutions opposing the proposal of Lord Grey, and protesting against the colony being made a penal settlemeut, were unanimously agreed to. A very stringent Militia Bill was before the Council. All was quiet on the frontiers. — Sydney Morning Herald.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 371, 21 February 1849, Page 3
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