§ EARL DE LA WARRI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, If he has received any further communication respecting the state of affairs at the Cape?
§ EARL CADOGANMy Lords, there has been received at the Colonial Office to-day a telegram from Madeira; and I cannot give the noble Earl a better answer than by reading it.
§ "From High Commissioner, Maritzburg, To Secretary of State.
§ "March 11.—'Tamar' arrived with upwards of 800 men of 57th Regiment on hoard, which, with Bradshaw's Naval Brigade from" 'Shah,' a very fine body of men, will, I hope, enable Lord Chelmsford to insure communication with Pearson. Oham has not yet joined Wood, but seems to have effectually broken with Cetewayo—a very important defection."