POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Cape of Good Hope papers have been received, from Cape Town to the 30th of July, from Graham's Town to the 21st. The South Afri- can Commercial Advertiser of the 27th has the following note, for the accuracy of which it vouches-
" Port Natal, 15th July 1842. "Peace and submission are the order of the day. Colonel Cloete ia now in Pietermanritzberg. "Eighteen men and a sergeant of the 27th, who have been some time pri- goners, have been sent back, and say they have experienced very good treat- ment, The Boers threw themselves almost entirely on the mercy of the Govern- ment."
No further authentic information had been received. The Pilot store-ship had arrived at Port Elizabeth, and brought reports that five of the leading emigrants had been given up, including Pretorius ; and that the Zoola aborigines had "commenced the work of immolation," killing the Boers and their wives, with frightful cruelties. The Graham's Town Journal of July 14th mentions a native rumour, that a number of wagons had been seen moving towards the Draaksberg, the great mountain-chain which separates Natal from the extensive plains to the North ; as if some of the Anglo-Dutch had begun to reemigrate.
We learn through a private channel, that the detachment of the Twenty-fifth Regiment that was sent to the assistance of Captain Smith, returned to Simon's Bay on the 31st July, in the Queen's ship Isis; and it was to embark immediately for India,—a presumptive proof that its service Was no longer required in South Africa.
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