The barque Peter Godeffroy, from Hamburg, via the Cape of Good Hope, hove in sight shortly after meridian, on Sunday the 8th instant, but having a light breeze did not reach the anchorage until late in the evening. She reports a long passage from Hamburg to Cape Town, but has made her voyage from thence in 39 days, bringing us one month's later
news than that we were in possession of, and many English as also upwards of 80 German passengers. Some of the former are portion of the shipwrecked from the emigrant ship John and Lucy, of 1,200 tons, O'Donnell, master, which vessel sailed from Plymouth, bound to Table Bay, with 402 emigrants under the medical care of Dr. R. T. Wyld, (one of our old colonists, and formerly of Walkerville, who has just returned by the Peter Godeffroy).

All appears to have gone on well until reaching the South American coast, when the noble ship struck on a sunken reef not laid down in the Admiralty chart, situated 12 miles from Cape St. Rogue,and 185 miles north of Pernambuco. Shortly after the disaster the natives put off in their barcasas and jungadas, and by these frail crafts landed all (no loss) in safety.
The boats belonging to the ship being useless amongst the rocks, were not used. After Dr. Wyld had landed he wrote to the English Consul, but the distance being great, it occupied two months ere they were all again put on board steamers. During this lapse of time the emigrants lived under tarpaulins at a place called Garcas, but all finally reached Simon's Bay — some by the barque Ceres, and others by the steamer Stanley, under the care of Dr. Wyld. who, with his lady, reached Cape Town at the end of January, after witnessing the miraculous escape of nearly 500 souls from drowning.

During the period the Peter Godeffroy was lying at Simon's Bay, we are informed by Captain Johasen [sic] that the well-known ship Orient had arrived. She put in on the 12th, and sailed after being in harbour five days. All the passengers were well, and the names of Mr. Bickford and Mr. Fox are mentioned as amongst those recollected by the captain. Captain Johason [sic] informs us that the French fleet, consisting of ten war steamers, and having ten thousand troops on board, en route for China, had called at Cape Town, and again taken their departure, the last being on February 25.