ENCLOSURES. ADDRESS to His Excellency the Hon. Sir GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape of Good Hope. Queen's Town, April 11, 1854. SIR,-The inhabitants of Queen's Town learn with extreme regret that you are about to depart from this colony. This town and district owe their existence to your Excellency, and although you cannot witness the fulfilment of your intentions, hereafter you may hear of their progression; and we feel assured, from past experience, that you will ever feel a lively interest in the success and prosperity of the inhabitants. As a frontier defence the selection of this district exhibited judgment and forethought surpassing any other Governor who has preceded your Excellency, and the way in which you have located the inhabitants forms of itself a defence to the colony and a protection to the settlers; and if possession of their properties be maintained, according to your original instructions, we have little doubt that the district will become one of the most productive and valuable in the eastern province. The lively interest you have taken in the welfare of our community demands from us the warmest expression of our thanks. You return to England to discharge duties of a higher character than the government of a colony. We sincerely hope that you may be given strength and health to fulfil all your country requires of you; and we pray that you will express our unabated attachment to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen. Wishing you a prosperous voyage with great regret, We have the honour to remain Your Excellency's most obedient, humble Servants, (Signed) and 29 others. ADDRESS to His Excellency Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., Governor and High Commissioner of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. SIR,-We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Kat River district of Stockenstrom, having just heard that your Excellency is on the eve of your departure to Cape Town, and from thence to England, cannot allow your Excellency to leave the shores of Africa without expressing to you the deep regret we feel at your departure. We beg, Sir, humble though we are, to add our feeble voice to the general expression of gratitude which we know exists in, and which your Excellency will, no doubt, receive from, every portion of the frontier, for the sound policy your Excellency has adopted, and the practical measures you have taken for the future defence and security of the frontier; and, whilst we cannot but view your Excellency's departure as a great public calamity to this colony, we nevertheless rejoice that you go home to fill so honourable and exalted a position—conferred upon your Excellency, too, in such a gratifying manner. In bidding your Excellency farewell, and in wishing you a speedy and prosperous voyage to your native land, and that you may meet your illustrious lady and family in health, we beg to assure you that the name of Sir George Cathcart will long continue to be with us a "household word." May heaven bless and prosper your Excellency is the sincere prayer of your Excellency's devoted and humble Servants, (Signed) JOHN SELBY, and 40 others. (The above Address would have been most numerously signed by all classes had time permitted.) To L. H. MEURANT, Esq., Resident Magistrate, &c., &c., Eland's Post. Graham's Town, April 20, 1854. MY DEAR SIR,-May I request you to take the first opportunity of communicating to the numerous members of the community in the district of which you are Resident Magistrate, whose loyal and grateful Address you have communicated to me, the sincere pleasure with which I have received it. Tell them, that on retiring from this government it is very satisfactory to me to think that loyalty, harmony, and good understanding has been retained among all classes and races of Her Majesty's subjects, and especially by the arrangements which have been made for the occupation of the district of Stockenstrom under your auspices, and with the benefit of your parental solicitude for the welfare of the community over which you are appointed to preside, the resources of their beautiful and fertile country cannot fail to be fully developed; and that they may long enjoy the fruits of their industry in peace, health, and security, is the earnest prayer of their sincere wellwisher, To His Excellency Sir GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., Governor and High Commissioner, &c., &c., of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and its Dependencies. SIR,-At the time your Excellency arrived in the colony, and took over from your predecessor the reins of government and the military command, we were involved in war and rebellion, and none of the colonists had a better opportunity of seeing and appreciating the judicious manner in which your Excellency victoriously terminated the war than the inhabitants of British Kaffraria, being on the border of the country of our then crafty enemy, knowing that the policy adopted by your Excellency since the termination of the war is the one most likely to secure the colony a permanent peace. Satisfied as we are that a marked improvement has taken place in the political affairs of the colony under your Excellency's government, and hearing that your Excellency will very shortly hand over the government of the colony, we cannot allow your Excellency to leave this, our adopted town, without expressing in sincerity and truth our sorrow at your departure. We yet remain, as your Excellency pronounced us, in reply to our last address, self-sown; but from rumours we hope soon to be planted by. your Excellency's own hand, and to prove, by our acts and conduct as British subjects, that we are worthy of the generosity and noble boon we hope to receive under your Excellency's government. We now bid your Excellency farewell, and God grant you a speedy and prosperous voyage, and a happy meeting with your illustrious lady and family. Assuring you again that you leave this town with the good and kind wishes of its inhabitants, and perfect confidence in the policy you have adopted, believing it to be the one most likely to secure permanent peace to this colony, We have the honour to be Your Excellency's most humble, obedient Servants, Signed) JAMES PARKER, and 71 inhabitants. King William's Town, March 31, 1854. To His Excellency Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Her Majesty's High Commissioner, &c., &c. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, -The undersigned inhabitants of the city of Graham's Town cannot permit your Excellency to leave the colony without conveying to you their sense of the eminent services you have rendered to the inhabitants of this frontier. They are deeply impressed by the fact, that, when your Excellency arrived in this province, their prospects were most disheartening; the Kafir tribes beyond the border were unsubdued; sedition still lurked within the colony; and life and property were held on as precarious a tenure as at any period of the war. Amid these elements of confusion, your Excellency assumed the administration of affairs, and by a rare union of temper, discretion, and ability, the chaos was speedily reduced to order, the frontier districts were protected, the enemy punished and driven back, public confidence was restored, and measures were adopted to secure tranquillity, and promote the substantial prosperity and advancement of the country. The inhabitants of this city would not do justice to themselves, nor to your Excellency, were they not to advert, in terms of unqualified approval to the measure adopted by your Excellency, of filling up the country on the immediate Kafir border with hardy experienced frontier inhabitants, men habituated to danger, practised in the use of fire-arms, and acquainted with the habits of the natives. With a frontier so occupied and defended, supported by an adequate military force, as recommended by your Excellency, in your despatch of the 11th February, 1853, they cannot hesitate to believe that the very best chance of future safety is afforded, provided your Excellency's system is so fostered and supported by Her Majesty's Government, as to give firmness and stability to the whole structure. The inhabitants of this city desire to express their conviction of the great advantage derived from your Excellency's constant presence on this frontier from the period when your Excellency assumed the Government of the colony, two years since. The continued presence of, and the judicious measures adopted by, your Excellency, have effectually tested the perti |