CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. [From the Sydney Empire, March 22.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 805, 20 April 1853, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. [From the Sydney Empire, March 22.]

We have received Cape Town journals by the Resolute to the 4th of February. The following extract is from the South African of the 29th of January :— Although banditti still infest the rugged border country, there seems to be a general expection that peace will be proclaimed shortly, but nothing is known as to any terms or conditions being accepted by the hostile chiefs. A hint is given in the Graham's Town Journal respecting the future distribution of the troops, which, if correct, looks something like a peace establishment, as one regiment is assigned to Cape Town, and another to Simon's Town and Port Elizabeth, and Waterkloof, Fort Beaufort, King William's Town, and East London, are also to be garrisoned. By notices in yesterday's Gazette it appears that 17 men deserred from two regiments in service on the frontier between the Ist and 17 th of January, of whom 12 are from the 74th Highlanders — 1 on the Ist, 3on the 10th, and 8 on the Bth of this month. From the 43rd, five. Job David, deserter from the Cape Mounted Rifles, was executed at King William's Town on the morning of the 17th. We subjoin another extract from the same journal, February 4th : — By yesterday's post from Grahams' Town, Janwwy 29th, we learn that General Cathcart left that place on the morning of the 27th, accompanied by General Yorke, Colonels Cloete and geymour, and the rest of his Staff, for King William's Town. The expectation is general that he has resolved to make peace, but what that means no one pretends to know. It has been reported from Uitenhage, that a considerable party of Caffres, estimated at 100, have again established themselves in the Zuurberg, and the farmers, unless immediately supported, will be obliged to leave their homes. Captain Robertson, Commandant of Port Elizabeth, has proceeded to Pullen's Camp, with his men, to co-operate with the rural police against these dangerous marauders. In a highly complimentary General Order, dated Graham's Town, January 26th, His Excellency conveys his own thanks and those of the army, to Captain Hall, of the Styx, for important services "during this arduous contest so happily brought to an end." His Excellency could scarcely use these words without having come to some understanding with the hostile chiefs, no intimation of which, however, has yet been made public.