Adviees from the Cape of Good Hope to the 21st
of July arrived yesterday. They have been telegraphed from Plymouth. "Her Majesty's ship Forte, Admiral Koppel, with Sir George Grey, had arrived out at the Cape on the 4th of July. Lady George Grey went no further than Rio Janeiro, but returned to 'England in the Boscawen. "Prince Alfred had not arrived. It was supposed that the Euryalus had broken down. the preparations for his reception had been coMpleted, but it was feared that if he arrived so late he would not be able to go through the colonial-visiting programme, the stay of the Prince being limited to October 23. The Forte experienced heavy gales off the Cape. " Parliament was prorogued on the 17th. In the seamen, which lasted eighty days, thirty-one bills had been passed, and nearly a million sterling voted. "The excavations for a breakwater in Table Bay had been commenced. A telegraph line from Cape Town to the frontier would be laid down next year. The Natal Railway had been opened. "The Free State and Transvaal were tranquil and prosperous. One hundred Mapal Kaffir hunters had been massacred in Zululand. The fron- tier Kaffirs were unsettled, and horse stealing had increased to an alarming extent. "No news of Dr. Livingstone's expedition. The missionaries in llosili- katses had been badly treated. Mr. Moffatt was daily expected from that country. Admiral Keppel had gone on a cruise in the Brisk above the East coast, taking Nejanza and the sources of the Nile expedition, which arrived in the Forte, and a party from the Cape which had volunteered to assist. The expedition would land at Zanzibar."
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