... F TnE recent news from the Cape of Good b nope can scarcely be said to be flattering to our s amlour propre as a great nation, and it is by no t means comfortable intelligence to us as a tax- a paying nation. The description given by Sir t Harry Smith and his officers of inroads amongst Caffres, and of the capture of their horses, cattle, and goats, and of the destructi on of their wretched ...

... THE EARL OF FIFE'S BIRTH-DAY. BA&NFF, 6th Ootober.-The anniversary of the birth-day of the Right Hon. the Earl of Fife, always held in this town and neigh- bourhood as a general holiday, was on this occasion attended with more than ordinairy demonstrations of rejoicing. The bells rung a merry peal. From an early hour in the morning, there were the usual tokens of active preparation in the ...

... .Wedsesday, October 14. m 5 The Synod met this forenoon at eleven o'clock, and was oc- t of the Synod's deep sense of the loss the Church had sustained in cc 3 the removal by death of the Rev. Mr muses of Deskford, was an- I anirously adopted, and ordered to be engrossed in the minutes, bal 3and a copy of it sent to Mr muses's relatives. If ~SAsnA-T11 OBSERVANCE. w Mr Sincrsow, the Convener of ...

... I~~~~~~~ I . , - ~~~Flrom,;the 7Times.) 'ia- Te Settlers in SQudi Arica1h~av,4 Mike our ancient cooists o yal America, awidan fierc nativ,;te peope ito disposes's anod keep ~~~~~~~~~~~~~,. L~ 1 rue n sbjetion Wih tis i ult, wevr, tley are not par- es mnitted tohgrapp thee Colonia Seret ary believing that be alone eer is capab le of m'aln~agi'neg thIfs delic~ateeaffair.~ Theconequence of Iu asu ...

... G AR D E N I N G. FLoWER GARDEN A'ND SERUDBERIES.-NOW that the suns- mer flowering half hardly plants are removed, make the best amends in your power by drawing upon the reserve garden. All the important beds should be filled with dwarf evergreen shrubs, or spring flowering plants, as Hepaticas, Primroses, Polyanthus, Alpine Auriculas, Wallflowers, &c. These will supply the beds with foliage, ...

... I RETURN Or TIri ROYAL FAMILY FROM SCOTLAND. After a sojourn of about the usual period at Baimoral, Aber- I deenshire, her Majesty, Prince Albert, and those of their ohil- dren who liad visited the north with them, set outon their return to England on Tuesday last, amidst a drenching rain. They reached the Stonehaven branch of the Aberdeen railway at half-past one, the weather having by that ...

... Few matters have been inculcated with such pertinacity | and reiteration, as the numberless and almost immeasurabh benefits ahich all clashes of the community were derive from the full development of the principles of free-trade. By giving free scope to the practical operations of these wonderful doctrines, foreign commerce was to be increased in an incalculable degree—the home-markets were to ...

... TUESDAY, SEPTEMBERS 30- WAR.OFFICE.-3d Regiment of Foot, Surgeon Henry Cooper Read, from the p7th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice, Stephenson, de- ceased. 17th Foot, Sergeant Michael Bradford tohe Enasigo,by purchase; vice Crowe, appointed to the gad Foot. 18th Foot, Lieutenant Thomas William Moatyn, from the 75th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Abbott, who exchanges. 28th Foot, Quarter- master Samuel ...

... gbe Antg, &C. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR OrFiCE, OCT. 17, 1851. Ist Regiment of Life Guards-John Alexander Earl of Hopetoun to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, vice Waldo, who retires. 1st Dragoon Guards-W. C. Scholefield to be Cornet, vice Anderson, promoted. 2nd ditto-O. F. C. Bridgeman to be Cornet; vice Hall, promoted; II. St. J. Dick to be Cornet, vice Hutchinson, promoted. 6th ditto-T. ...

... The following description of Coleridge occurs in the Life of John Sterling, by Thomas Carlyle, and is a most cbarac- it teristic specimen of that writer's style of thought and expres- tsi on e Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Ill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting to- wards him the thoughts of ...

... n'be United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain tock, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, bringing, go pissengcrs, 4,0001. in specie, and three days' later, ~dviees from New York, which port she 'left on the ?? Asia, Judkins commander, with mails of the 26th ultimo, arrived at New York on the morning Df the l0th inst; and the Humboldt, Lines corm- liander, from Cowes, arrived on the evening'of ...

... NAPLES. The following note, dated the23rd ut., has been .addressed by the Marquis Fortuinato, Minister of 'oreien Affairs at Naples, to the English Minister in that city: The undersigned has read the answer given by Lord Pal- inerston to the King's minister in;ondon, and he has the honour to 6bseryo to the Minister of the Queen of England to the Court of the Two Sicilies, that the formal ...