The Express. — London, England, 1851-09-17 00:00:00

THE KAFFIR WAR. (Prom last night's Oseotte.) 110ernInG-eTnEET, SEPT. hi.—The following des atehes addressed to the Right lien. Earl Grey, have been - rece ived from LieutenanGGeneral Sir Henry G. W. Smith, Dirt, Lai% Goveruor of the Cape of Good Hope. King William's Town, July 3, Isa. nfy Lord—The general and combined movement into the As k Ltut wbieh I hove long had in contemplation b a s !wen etlected with the enceese I anticipated, nail which y b e ve non the honour to lay bef ire your lordship, I directed the Ist Division, under Major• General Sewer set :he 2nd Divisiou, under Colonel Mackinnon, and a forte of 300 men from Whittelsca, under Captain Tylden, s e to post themselves, that mese mountain ranges might b, 'emigrated by four distinct columns converging to • tinter, and which was carried out much to my l ast tenon: the operations commencing on the 20th and cominesher until the :10th ultimo. The combinations were effected;yufuily each column was at its post as directed ; m utual support wax thus insert, and signal success was in s „ ea squence the result. I in Inc the report. of Major tie Lend Simerset, and of Colonel Mackinnon, who was un atunately indisposed after the filet day's operations, and lus saluabh; screwier thus lint. This able officer, however, , communicated hie instructions to Lieutenant-Colonel Michel, open whoin the command devolved, and whose judgment and energy became conspicuous. His report, with those of lecutenant-Colonels Eyre and Cooper, are annexed, together with the general order and government notice which I issued on the achievement of this important macaw. They so fully demonstrate the peculiar difficulties and arduous character of this mountain service, that 1 beg to grew your lordship's attention to their perusal ; and I, at tin sauce time, desire to attract your notice to the marked culoziurn passed upon Ensign Itoberteun, of the Cape Euented Rine., captain in colniceind of a detachment of Armstrong's Hone:. The .1.10VC.4 of every patrol iIIV iriably bore:ses the gallant conduct of this young and most intre pid officer, in whose rising judgment I place every confi dence. .pr-fiencral Somerset speaks in the highest terms of Limb uant-Colonel Fordyce and the 71th Regiment, re meetly arrived from Enelaed, upon whom the brunt of these epeiniene fell in the Ist Division; and I also desire to draw your lonlship's attention to the ability displayed in com mie' by Lieutenant-Colonel Michael, of the 6th Royal lit; to the usual mnspieuous gallantry of Licute nnet-eelonel Eyre and the ;:led ; awl to the conduct of the Bey.' Marines of her Majesty's ship Castor, under their editor, Lieutenant Itarrie, and attached to the 73ril, which netally merits my commendation. Lieutenant-Colonel Leoper, 4 nth Regiment, eiinimanded with much ability the Column of troop, from Fort C.a. Fifteen hundred heal of tattle, 42 horses, and nearly Le )4 goats were septettd by the 2nd division ; 3'lo heel of cattle by the Ist, and 300 by the force under Capt. 'f ylilen ; while larce stores of corn were destroyed, as well ay uumes reel , recently eonstructed line, To be compelled thus bar barously to persecute war, ever cruel in even its most miti gatd form, is revolting to the Christian mind. But no ether cosine is open. The feeling with which the Euro peen n garde his country and his home is, in the else of the Eanir, centered in his herds and flecks, fur which he will fie ht to the bast; and the only means of opening a prospect of bringing to a close this harassing and destressiug war is to we. ,t his muele prized cattle from him in the heart of his Leone.. I and almost impenetrable forests, into which hi drives them for conemiment and security. In the midst of these scenes of deeuletion I am consoled by the fact th et the motile arc aware that the war was commenced by the er ; that every prisoner is set at liberty awl had that peace and the fanner harmony which pre ened are our only objects, after the due punishment of the war party and their mix thins chiefs ; and, more than all, by the gratifying reflection that our troop. can be charged with no art of wanton cruelty. Not one instance has been broueht to my notice of any outrage having been perpe trated by the es ce-huinane British soldier, or even by the existed Hottentot or exasperated lingoes; and this is the more commendable when it is bonne in mind that the atr gni , * eimintitted by the Kaffir. at the commencement of the war arc fresh in the re red hastiest of our soldii ry. Avoiding, es Italy own part, all .14'.•11,1cre--, they at the Name time eaunot forget the cold-Wooled murder of our military va in es, perpetrated under the guise of frieuelehip, or the seems uie on the Del Ilets of the eeventeen soldiers of the 4.5 th Iteeinieut. who had eiven no preirecation, and with whims their murderers had for three years been uu terms of the meet friendly intercourse. 'lii, success in the &manilas which I have now reported law. hoses, r, had no pose ptible etfct as regards the ter suinetioo of '1 ne people indeed declare, as I ham from information which nettles inn from various some", that they are tired of the struggle and that oar paroles keep them in a state of constant diem ; while the chief Saudilli amens unit gives out " that an agent he. gone on his accouut to England. who will pro cure the restoration of Cie laud which he forfeited in the revious war ;" such forfeiture hiving been the e•undition on which he obtained his own liberty and that of his "Great Men," who were in confinement with him when I aunineil the Administration of this go vernment, and un which p, ace and tranquillity were given to his 'ensile. In proof that an asserti 111 l of this kind has been mettle b y Seadili, I unto c the copy of a deposition formally ca ds by the Chit I . Tobie before the 'redamleie ominiiseioner, the purport ut which is corruburated by various •pit in my einpley. My nest patted will he directed against the chief, Stock and liea, and the renegade rebel Hottentots. alio have he atilt themeelves in the Hell River Bush, to intercept my conimunicat . with Graham's Town, and to spoil the cattle of the Eingese around lint have, &c. The Right HMI. Earl Grey. H. G. SMITH. VS.—Situ. , this deli:oil: was closed, I have receised a mein from Major-lion. rat Soniersig, that 'Jae had con tinent fir maw days his operations on the north aide of the s tmatides—anothi r proot of the activity runt energy of this experienced °thee:. 1 Mamie his report iu tile shape in which 1 hose given it publicity in a general order. 11. G. SMITH. Schedule of Enclosures in Governor Sir 11. Smith's Despatch to Earl Grey, Nu. 11.1, dated 3rd July, ISA. :- 1 Major-General fieutersit's revert, dated 2Sth Juue 18.51. °t 2 une' aleekinnon's reaurt, I,t July, 1831. 3. Lieut.- ,!erie I Mithel's reputt, Ist July, ISA. 4. Lieut.-Colonel Esre'e,report, 3ath June, 1851. 3. Lieut.-ColonelCoriper's reeert, Ist July, 1851. O. General Order, 3rd July, and Item, tomcat, Ist Ju1y,1431. 7. Letter from Captain Mac h with enclosure. S. General Order, and report of E.en-lieuer.d Somerset, elated 3rd July, 1851. Camp on the Cluirane, June 98, 18,51. r.-1 have the bunion to ac q ueint you fur the interns*, b of to excellency the cotinnander-unchief, that agree a'.a to the instructions centeinel in the commander-ins tie is usetworandutu of the 1 Ith inst., I moved troin this ewe:. with the troupe uuder ray orders before daylight on te eh lust. A• dawn, I wended the western range of the Amatola heidits in two minims, and hating established the troops se, the ridge, I halted preparatory to attacking the position of the enemy in the forest un the northern range of the Ate eela, previous to which I muceseled with a detachment of :he Cape atuunted Billet. 1.. reconnoitre the position of the reilay along the elope of the Victoria heights; on reaching tle eeithent point of the range, the enemy opened a brisk fir, ea my party, which was returned by the Cape Illuanted Itifies, and was sustained on both sick' wed the column of the Levies, consisting of the be este, Grialf-Reinet, and Fort Beaufort lingoes, whom I had detached to the right under Captain licathcote, had been lerought up; these I immediately moved forward, .reported by two companies 91. t regiment under Major Fights, the whole commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Sutton, mel the enemy was driven from his position into the valley Blew. While these operations were going forward, I returned to my left, and moved the 71th regiment, Cape Mounted Late.. EUrOpeilli Levy, Kit River Levy, and Alice and knit Tiliabeth lingo; corps, down the valley into the Aina tel.i basin. Perceiving the enemy's force of Kalfirs and real Iluttentots strongly posted along the lower ridges Under the northern range of the Amatola, and collected in a racing body on the extreme point of the ridge, partly con eedi.d; and covered by the high rocks and stones, I dinned Eieutensuat-Calonel Fordyce to move his regiment On to the attack—this movement being flanked by the Alice and Pun Elisabeth Fiugoee under Captains Cumbers and The enemy commenced a brisk fire on the advancing top and lingoes, both from the forest and the ridge— *. Ith Highlanders steadily moving forward and deploy , into line under fire, extended and opened its fire on tL enemy, who still kept up a galling fire on the troops, awl continued it until the position was most gallantly car ried, and the regiment placed in position on the ridge—not, however, 1 regret to say, without some loss on our side, e men of the 74th Highlanders being killed, and one ether and nine men wounded. The force under Lieutenant-Colonel Sutton had in the meantime: driven the enemy from his p osition on the lower Lf.: 4 -i t e it tc , lt ut th w e i z i t i all t i? e , l and up the the ridg es of the Victoria men killed of the George Lee;, and five lingoes severely wounded, two of them sixes d e w, The Fort Beaufort lingoes having again rejoined me, I timed the fiat River Levy, European Levy, and Fort Beaufort lingoes up the ridges of the northern range of the &omega, proceeding also to that point myself with the Cape Mounted Rifles and Mounted George Levy, at which point 1 met the 74th Regiment, where Lieutenant- Culonel Fordyce had again been strongly attacked by the enemy from a strip of forest bush which intersected the 4 dees at that point, and where two of his gallant wittier, were killed. Reviug assembled the troops at this point, it being then one G.6 ° 4 , 1 halted the troops to refresh, and proceeded myself to reconnoitre the ground and country at the bead of Vic Zabooka or Woolf River: on the ridge at the wft Lank of the Zanooka, I observed a reconnoitring lolly of the Cape Mounted Rifles, from, 1 imigine, ohs o f f the detached columns from head-quarters. On 1 , returning to where I had left the troops, some of the rebels, I understood, had called out t hat the y *shed to surrender. Lieutenant-Colonel Sutton rode out to hear what they had to say, when they stated that many at them wished to come away but were afraid, that they vi*bed time to collect their people, that they might consult *a all cornea together, and they requested a week. I *used them to be informed that they must surrender im *Whitely, and that I would only . give them half an hour. At the expiration of the time, the troops being re nesheil, I morsel the 71th Regiment again upon their posi tion, flanked by the Fort Beaufort lingoes; Lieutenant '2elentl Fordyce took the opportunity to inter two men of the ash, who bah fallen, and then moped on ; some ft took place, but the enemy retired into the forestrig OP Oie mountame, and abandoned the position; one soldier pi the 74th Regiment was, I am sorry to soy, &irately THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1851. ascend to the left, so that each party should arrive at the top about daylight. Colonel Napier unfortunately was not taken by his guide to the exact point I had contemplated, and in consequence he was deprived of the satisfaction of capturing semral Invie droves of cattle which were driven out of the mountain. lie, however, despatched an advanced guard under Captain Campbell, who succeeded in capturing a few head. _ . Of Captain Robertson's (report enclosed) conduct in this affair I can in doubt which part mood to admire—whether his decision iu leaving a party to secure the drove of cattle in the kraut:a, feeling cure that they could hold them until succour arrived, or his indefatigable energy in carrying out the orders I had given him, and even eseeediu.l them by covering eventually the third pa.., which was nut originally within his share of the combination. Having marched until dayligh; with the infantry, I de tached Colonel Eyre, with about 7.10 men, up the right ridge of the Gulu. His report, which 1 herewith enclose, will detail his portion of the day's proceedings. Colonel Eyre's promptitude is supporting Captain Darnell's patty deserves the highest commendation. I do not descant on the conduct of Captain Darnell, as Colonel Eyre's report, who witnessed the whole affair, shows how admirably he must have behaved. In such commendation I heartily concur. . . _ \With the remainder of the force I marched up the gorge of the Oulu, into a (Imp nest of Motifs, a fastness which a few resolute men might hold against a ho.t.Atthe entrance of the innermost Ulla my advance guard was received with a volley from a few men on the front and right, at a few paces distance with, lam happy to say, no result. 'rho men dashed into the bush, and held it for an hour or two, whilst the lingoes drove out several huge herds of cattle and goats. We then moved over tremendous steeps to a distant spur of the (lulu, whirr we cnemuped for the night. During the capture of the cattle, the Kaffirs amused themselves with taking a few long hots at the men. The conduct of the men, who hail marched with little intermis,lon from twelve at night until five to the evening, without food, was admirable. . . . ..... IU this affair, the Kaffir' wee; entir:ly taken by sur• prise; the result has been the capture of 1,530 cattle, stXl goats, and 22 horses. On the 20th, we marched hack to your camp. On ap proaching the Quilly Quilly Mountain, we perceived a body of about 300 Kaffir, on our left, and a smaller body on the right. I sent Colonel Eyre, with the 73rd, to the left of the road, who, by his admirable mode of handling hi, troops, did not permit the Kollin. to came fairly into action. They skirmished, however, with thu 73rd tor about an hour in the dense bush. I despatched the. remainder of tit= troops to the right, with the exception of the 6th, who covered the rear, and having wised on every point, the cattle and baggage moved on to the camp without a shot deed at them. Thu Kallirs were not in numbers suttieieut to attack the right, and being held in cheek by the marines, who were planted on a commanding abutting rock, skirmished but feehly with the 6th and Rifle Company, who behaved very steedily and well under their respective commanders. `The Kaftirs fol lowed the troops till they reached Cie open country. Sonic few Kathy; were killed in the two days' patrol, and on our side one man (7ltrel) wounded, and three horses ; time and four horse* also wen, boa by rolling thou the mountain, and either breaking their necks or being cap tmed by the Karlin. Nothing could exceed the excellent spirits with which both Engtish and natives did their duty. I trust you will bring to the notice el his Excellency the Commander in Chief thew to ii;eona my especial thanks are due. To Colonel Eyrc, commaniing 73rd Regiment ; Colonel Napier, commanding Cape Corps; Captain Blanc:Jey, com manding nth Regiment; Captain Robertson, commanding Annatrung's Hone ; Lieutenant Harris, commanding 'loyal Marines; Captain Catty, 6;11, commanding Rifle Corps; Captain Fauna:, brigade-m ijur ; Lieutenant Stoke', Royal Engineers, deputy 'assistant quartermaster-general; Lieu tenant Pastry, Royal Artillery, end Quarternunter Croker, title regiment, both of whom were acting as my Miles-de camp, and were of especial aervice ; Captain Daniell, com manding Armstrong's liorae; Captain Fielding, command ing Denadendal Levy; Captain Shaw, commanding Clanwilliam Levy; Captain Tainton, commanding Fingoes; De. Gibb, medical staff; also Captain Ayliff, comnanding the levies, and Captain Cumming, of the Swelenelant Levy, who were each of particular service to me. I beg also to concur in the particular recommendations made by Lieut.- Colonel Eyre ma his report.-1 h.ve, J. Mir:limn, Lieut. Colonel, Commanding Patrol. To Colonel Mackinnon, C. 8., Commanding in Kailraria. Camp, Quiliy Quill", June 29, Mil. Sir,—l have the honour to report that, agreeable to your instructions, 1 moved from camp at 12 o'clock on the night of the 27th ultimo, with 84) men of Arnistrong'e nose, and in company with the Cape Mounted Rifles proceeded through the Keiskamma Doak to the (lulu River. liting here detached from the Cap:, Mounted Rifle+, I moral up the Quin valley, and ascended the Ainatola ridge by time footpath leading to the Wintiveigleberg. Shortly after daylight, oboerving large quantities of rattle near the tip of the (loin Mountain, 1 detached Captain Daniell with 24 men to the left, to prevent their escape in that direr; ion, and proceeding with the rem tinder of the men to the top of the Ulan Mountain, captured, without much opposition, upwards of .:400 head of cattle. Captain Darnell and his party, lower down the mountain, succeeded in capturing nearly IA head of cattle end 10 or 12 horses, and in killing and wounding several Kaffir.. Be after wurdsjoimal the diviaionof infantry under LienL- Col. Eyre. After halting for some short time on the top of the Gulls Mountain, 1 drove the cattle on to the top of cite more open ridge, and leaving a guard with titian 1 gallumnd over to the back of the Wolf Mountain, and here raptured 1:0 head of cattle and several hora•a, the remainder of tile cattle being driven down the mountain in the direttian of the infantry. After off-saddling for half an hour, finding myself in pu,seasion of nearly 744 hemd of cattle an In hour., 1 drove than down tha side of the Welt Mountain, and joined the division of infantry under your command.— I have, &c., I'. Routaerses, Captain Armstrong's Morse. Lieut.-Col. Michell Commanding Division. 4To be continued.) head up from behind a large stone, anti then rise up on one knee and take a steady aim at one of our men, who was standing behind a tree, und whose side was eipmed to him. Before ho had time to pull the trigger I fired nt him, and sent a rifle bullet through his bead. Ile tossed his arms up in the air, and fell dead immediately. I went up with some of our fellows after the fight to see him ; the bullet had struck him it.t over the ear and gone through, so he must have died uhuest instantaneously." THE REGISTR.kTIONS. BOROUGH OF THE TOWER HAMLETS. When Mr. J. F. Maegueen, the revising barrister, took his place in the Court-house, Weßelow-square, yester day morning, he had the satisfaction to learn that not a single objection had been taken in any one of the twenty two parishes, townships, hainli is, or places" which com pose the borough of the Tower Hamlets. There was a good number of claims--221; and the discussion of these raised some points of interest. Of the 221, 113 had been made in one parish, that of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green ; 36 originated front St. Anne, Limehouse ; 34 from Hack ney; and 211 front Shoreditch. tlvesTiox Al/ISINO UNDEI: Tne Acr OP LAST SLSSION. —ill the hamlet of Mile-end, Alfred Duffield claimed to have his name inserted oa the list. lle was a compound householder, and had been for several years upon the rate book, but had been in the habit, each succeeding year, of ettiming to be registered, the parish officers not thinking that they were compelled to register him without a claim. The voter now urged that the act of last se:-ion (the Com pound Householders Ac:) exempted him front the necessity of claiming to be registered. The Barrister referred to the act, 11 & 13 Vic., cap. 14. It is intituled, " An Act to amend the Law for the Regis tration of certain Person:, commonly known as Compound Householders, and to facilitate the Exercise by ouch l'er sons of their right to vote in the Election of Borough Mem bers to serve in Parliament." It contains three clauses. The first, the one relied on in this caw, provides , that per sons having once claimed to be rated in respect of premees, and paying or tendering, on or before ;Ma Athol July, the rates due the sth of January precedin, are not required to renew such claim. The second c lause continues the liability of the claimant to rates, so long as he oc cupies the premises and remains on the register; and the third enacts that the composition with the landlord shall determine the amount of rate to whic't the truant is liable. The learned gentliman said, though the title of the act was very comprehensive, its pros isions only extruded to preventing the necessity for continuous claims to be rated. It did not dispense with the claim to be registered; and Mr. Distlield not having claimed to be registered, had no locus standi before the court. _ _ Mr. Bulimia said it appeared he was disfranchised through the negligence of the °dicer, whose duty it was to make out a correct list of voters from the rate-hook. Wu there no remedy for that ? The Barrister said the remedy was in his own hands ; he should have duly claimed to be registered. he had not dune so, the court could not interfere. wounded upon this occasion, I then retired the troops int* the Amatula valley, and at 5 p.m. bivouacked for the ni e t. n the morning of the 27th instant, I made arrange ments for conveying the wounded to my camp on the I Quisana, which occupied some time. At 12 o'clock I moved the force in three columns up the eastern range of the Amutola mountain, the enemy show ing in small bodies on several points. The ascent of the mountain is precipitous and very (MR , cult ; crossing the ridge I moved the troops down the valley to the source. of the Zanooka, and ordered them to encamp, taking the Cape ?[ousted Riftei, and Kat River Levy and Alice Fin4oes with me-1 proceeded along the ridges towards the head of the Ligney stream, I ob.erved a re connoitering party of the enemy, posted in the forest bush which intenects the ridge mar Mount Macdonald; when moving up with the Cape Mounted Rifles we were briskly at tacked, but the enemy was driven Irick by a sharp fire from the Cape Mounted Rifles, and the levies and Fiugoes coming up, the enemy was driven off, and descended into the valley of the lit iskanams ; it being then dusk, I re turned and bivouacked t.r the night in the Zauooka valley, during the,e operations I saw nothing of any force from Fort Coo. - On the morning of the 2Sth iust., moving shortly after sunrise, I proceeded with the force towards Mount Mac donald, where I reached at 10 a.m., detaching the corps of levies into the valley of the Zanook,a to intercept the ene my's cattle. olsserv.ll small detached parties of the enemy at some distance, who descended into the valley of the lieukainma, ' but I ob served no troops or any force below in the rallies; the enemy made no show of resistance. I proceeded with the Cape Mounted Rifles, and occupied the high point of the mountain at the head of the Ligny, Iwhile the levies paved down the Zanooka, and brought out about 340 head of cattle, chiefly cows and calves, all very , poor. I returned with the troops along the ridges, leaving the two companies of the 91st Regiment to cover the return of the levies to the bivonark, which was done leisurely, leaving no part unwound. While halted on the Atuatula range, a shut was fired from a high point of the fon st, by which, I regret to say, Captain Melville, of the George Levy, was severely wounded through the urm. The troops all assembled from their several points of operatives shortly after dusk. _ . I am of opinion, from the appearance of the cattle kraals, that the great body of the Kalil: cattle hare been seat away some time ago. There is no grass or herbage of any kind in the Amatola or ZmierAta valleys, and not suffi cient gram even for hones. The cattle captured yesterday ' arc miserably poor and starred. Late la.t evening a llotteatot from the rebel camp came in and surrendered ; he brought me a nrssage to say that a large body of tha rebels would surrender in two days. Having expended all my provisions, and there being no gross whot.or.a fur the horws, I returned to my comp this morning. I have much pleasure in bringing to the Commander-in- Chief's notice, the active, zealous, mil gallant conduct of the troops end levies during the three days' operations in the mountains and rugged patoes of the Amatola and Za make ranges : a large tract of most difficult and intersected country wa, trarere'l by the troop.. The gallant attack mole by the 74th Regiment under Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce, ;.pon the enemy's position, which it carried, surmuuetiug every obstacle under a brisk and galling fire from the enemy, was say admiration ; and the manner in whith the lingoes,' under their „rural com manders, advanced iu the !late.s was snot spirited. The attack made by the denies nu& r Captains llcathcate and Melville and Captain Verity, who followed the enemy and drove hint off his position on the Victoria heights, was most gallantly executed; and I have greatly to regret the less of Captain Melville's 'terrier*, I fear for some time. To the cancers commanding corps and det aehm •nty—Liens tenant-Colonel Fordyce, commanding 74th Highlanders, and c-immanding my lint brigade ; Lieut.-Colonel Sutton, C.M.It., cominandieg my second brigade ; Major Forbes, commanding the detachment 41st Regiment ; and Major Sumerset, numanding the cavalry—l am greatly indebted for their exertions and assistance. . Tu the officers commanding levies—Captain Stevenson, commanding first European levy ; Captains ileatheote, Melville, and Hob's, ail commanding their iover.:l corps of I. s; us well as to Cap: .ie.s Cumbers 'Verity, and Aylilf, commanding the nap.: levies-1 have to express my thanks and appruSation. Every core and attvnti,on was paid to Oil wountl,-1 by the medical officer. in the field. Dr. Fraser. Dr. Booth, Dr. llaclay, and Dr. Black; ai..l beg in asp manner to bring the gallantry mud excellent conduct of all the officer% troops, and levies, under the Connuatieler-in-Chiers static, . . .. it is not possible, when a series of operations are taken covering a large extent of mountainous and difficult country, to notice in any particular inauner theconduct of individual corps where all have merited approbation, but I must on this occasion bring more partieulariy the 74th Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colouel Fordyce, under the Commander-in-Chit:re notice; this regiment being so re cently landed from a long -..a voyag:, bAng at one,, brought into the field in the winter season, and having been early 'managed against the enemy, auil now a see rod time sharply engaged, ascending a high mountain under a galling tire, and carrying his patition at cv, ry point. I sin nut aware of what the cueiny'e loos was, the con- Remit): of the forest having given them ••very advantage of carrying off their killed and wounded : they were observed conveying them iuto the bush. 1 I have to return my best thanks to Lieut. .I.aiie, my Deputy Quarter-Nlaster-Gentral ; Li: ut. Bell, C.M.R., my Field A:lin:ant; and Vent. Green, my Aide-de-Camp, who rendered me every aa,ietance. —I have, eke., 11. Somitist. r, Major-General. Limit:Colonel Cloete, C. 11., K.H., Deputy Quarter-Mater-General. I annex a return of the killed and wounded :-74th Re giment: 3 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, Lieut. W. W.. 1. Bruce, and 9 rank and file wounded.—J. A. Invent, M.D., burgeon, 74th Regiment. Levies: 1 sergeant sad 2 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, Captain Melville, and 4 rank and tile wounded-2 mortally. —Liu. BOOTH, Surgeon, Levies and Burghers, Ist Division. No. 2. King William's Town, July 1, 1851. Sir,—ln pursuance in your Excellency's instructions I moved from this 'dation on the 14th ultimo, with the fol lowing foree:—fith Regiment, 337 ; 73rd Itegimmt, 420; Royal marines, 47 ; Catty'., riflemen, 51 ; Cape mounted riflemen, 120; Armstrong's huge, 10; Swelleuelani levy, 2io; Clanwilliam levy, 330; fiascoes, 170; in all, 2,005 men. 1 entered the mountain range by Bailey's grave, and in the attention of that day 1 reached the Quilly Quilly River, where I bivouacked. On the 25th ult. I moved a few miles higher up the Quilly Quilly. Ou the 25th ult., leaving about 300 men for the protec tion of my supply waggone, I formed the remainder of the division into two columns of about equal strength, and marched at daybreak iuto the mountains. 1 proceeded with one column along a wooded ridge an the left batik of the Keiskantina, to the continence of that river with the Tsimuka, or Wulf river ; at this point we surprked a drove of about fifty cattle. I hail expected to find Lieutenant-Colonel Cooper with a patrol front Fort Cox at this point, but not finding him there I proceeded down the hmakamma in search of him. I communicated with him near the foot of the western branch of Mount Macdonald, and iristrueted him to patrol before daybreak on the 29th and 29t'a towards the confluence of the Keitkamma and Wolf, to serve as a diversion to Majeure General Somerset, and to prevent the escape of cattle dome the valley. I then proceeded to the junction of the Keiakamma and Quilly Quilly, and up the hitter valley to my camp. A few Kafiri followed us out of the bush when near the camp, but their fire was soon silenced, and they were driven off by the 73rd Regiment. The other column, under Lieutenant-Colonel Michell, 6th Regiment, proceeded into the Keiskamma 11 the cavalry being detached to the right, along tho Oeln V , mill ejf on to the ridge which separates the Gulu from the W Valley. 'they saw no cattle within reach, and met with me serious opposition. The cavalry of this column reported having seen Cattle out of the Ouln Valley. Lieut.-Coles& Michell returned to the camp in the evening. On the 27th ult. no operations took place, sail the sr were allowed to rest, On the 28th ult., being unable from illness to quit the camp myself, I directed Lieut.-Col. Michell to take all the available men of the division and to make a night march, for the purpose of intercepting the cattle which his cavalry had seen on the 20th ult. I enclose his report of this service, and the reports of Lieut.-Col. Eyre and Captain Robertson, whom he de tached. It was most ably and efficiently performed, and resulted in the capture of upwards of 1,500 cattle and 40 horses. ' On the 30th ult. I returned to King William's Town, bringing the captured cattle safely in. During the operations above detailed, the troops ander the command of Meier-General Somerset were seen scouring the ridges between the Amatula and Wolf Valley. By these combined movements the enemy was harassed at all points, and the little resistance we experienced showed how completely he was paralysed. Our casualties during these operations amount to one private 73rd regiment wounded, and four horses missing. I beg leave to bring to your excellency's favourable notice the efficient conduct of the officers commanding the different corps, viz. :—Lieut.-Col. Michell, commanding 6th Regiment; Vent.-Col. Eyre, commanding 73rd Regiment; Lieut.-Col. Napier, commanding Cape Mounted Riflemen; Lieutenant !Jerrie, commanding the Royal Marines ; Captain Catty, commanding the provisional Ride Com pany; Captain Robertson, commanding the Mounted Levy; Captain Ayliff, commanding the 2nd Corps of Native Levies ; and Captains Toght, Fielding, Shaw, and Taipton, commanding respectively the Swelleadam, Genadendal, Clanwilliam, and Fingoc Levies. I beg also to mention the services of Captain Fannee, Brigade, and Lieutenant Stokes, Deputy-Ainistant Quarter- Master General.—l have, &c., Ova . MACKINNON, Colonel. His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir H. 0. Smith, Bart., G.C.B. No. 3. Camp at the Umbigeni, July 1, 1851. Sir,—Having received instructions from you to proceed on a patrol on the 28th June towards the Oulu Mountains, and as with the utmost liberality you had given me autho rity to arrange and carry out any plan that 1 might choose toadopt, I marched at 12 o'clock at night with the foUowing forte :-118 Cape Corps, 81 Armstrong's Horse, 41 It. Ma ritima, 41 Riflemen, 287 6th Regiment, 33073rd Regiment, 212 Swellentlam Levy, 19.1 Oettadendal Levy, 247 Clan- IfilliAlll Levy, 171 Fingoes; total, 1,777. From the Oulu there are only four mountain outlets. I therefore arranged that Captain Robertson with his hone' should a'cend the craggy and difficult ascent of the Amt tale to the right of the Oulu, mud that Colonel Napier should A BRUSH WITH TILE KAFFIRS. The following graphic description of a Kaffir skir mish is from the pen of Lieutenant Corrigan, of the 74th Regiment, now engaged in his first campaign at the Cape. It is extracted from a letter to hi. father, Dr. Corrigan, the eminent Dublin physician, and appears in the Dublin Leen iny l'ast "Koonape River, July 10, 1841. " We had a versevere action the morning we marched into the Amatola Mountains on our patrol with some rebel Hottentots and K otitis combined. We lo ,t some men killed and wounded, but we gave the enemy a most satis factory thrashing. We had 8 men killed and 17 wounded on our side, besides one of our officers, who was wounded in the arm (young Bruce), but he is getting on famously, and will soon be ail right again. I will try and describe the tight to you, as I think it may interest you.—We marched into the Amatolas just as day was breakinor, and halted on the top of one of the hills, called 'the Little Ama tola from thence we could sec right down into an immense valley underneath, which is celled the 'Amatola and where great numbers of Kafiirs—iu fact almost all San dilli's Kaffirs—live. The sun rose just after we got to the top of the mountain, and such a magnificent sight I never saw. There was the ' Great Amatola Mountain' in front of us, and wo saw the rays of the sun gilding the tops of the whole range one after another, until he mounted over the top of the mountain before us, and threw a flood of light over everything in the valley. However, we were nut gives much time to admire the sunrise, fur as the morning • lightened up' we could see the Kaffir* underneath us driv ing away their cattle, and we were ordered to descend into the Basin and attack them. We had at this time a pretty strong force with us, consisting of ourselves, the 91st Regi ment, the Cape Mounted Rifles, and a umber of Burghers. When we got into the Basin we were obliged to separate, in order to surround the cattle. We went away to the .eft of the Basin, and as soon as we got to the extreme left of it, we found ourselves under a very steep craggy hill, on the top of which about seven hundred Kaffirs and Hottentots had taken up a position. They immediately opened a good smart fire on us, and wounded one or two of our men. We had nothing for it but to go ut the hill, which we did; and my company was thrown out in skir mishing order, to cover the advance of the regiment ; for the first four or five minutes, going up the hill, I expected every moment to get a bullet into me, for they were whistling about our cars, and knocking up the dust about our feet in a manner that was anything but pleasant. However, we drove the enemy back from the top of the hill, and we got to the top of it. On the top of the bill, end stretching away for about three miles behind it, was an immense wood, or rather bush, faits which these Hottentots (who, you must know, are all splendid shots) and Kaffir* had retired, and from the edge of which they kept up a fire onus. We then extended two snore companies (which, with mine, made three) in skirmishing order, just under the crest of the hill, where we lay down. Orders were then given to us to lie still until we got the word from the colonel, when wa were to jump up, rush over the crest of the hill, sad down to the wood (a distance of about 69 yards), and then to fire away at the enemy as soon as we were under cover. We lay there for about five or six minutes, and, certainly, they appeared to us to be the longest five minutes we tour spent. There were about 240 ed us extended along the ridge, lying down in some long grass and rushes ; yen could not sec a single man. The firing on both sides bad ceased, and we lay there waiting for the order to rush over the crest of the bill, and into the bush. I could almost filmy that I heard my heart beating, and you could certainly ' have heard a pia drop,' so great was the silence. At' last the colonel gave the word, ' forward !' We all jumped up, rushed over the top of the hill, and away we went, ' helter-skelter' down the other side, as hard as we could go. As soon as we got over the hill, and were shout half way down the other side, the enemy gave no a volley, which wounded three men and killed two more. However, we never stopped to fire, but gave one cheer and dashed iato the bush. From this time tho fight was exactly similar to one of those that Cooper describes in his novels as taking place between ' white hunters' on the prairies and the' In dians.' When we Fot down to the edge of the bush we caught 7 Hottentots in a sort of snwpit—which they had not time to get out of—thanks to our basing ran down the hill so last. We killed them all in the pit. The fight was then kept up for about two hours in the bush, wo all covering our selves in long grass, behind trees, rocks, and everything that afforded any shelter. Our men skirmished eplendully, and we kept on advancing and driving the enemy Lack, theno: duringc ots in every shot lerY naowll and otte Hotte ntot behind a log of wood, when I s aw a fellow put ha t u ldi s one part of ori. th eir r e A d s/ ea t:it. bodies. w FLNSBURY FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. A general meeting of the initabitants of Kingsland and the neighbour:loos& was held last evening at the Star and Garter, kingsland-gate, in support of the abovenamed society. It being aunoanced that that distinguished advo cate of the freehold land movement, Mr. Taylor, of Bir mingham, would address the m , •etior, there was a crowded attendance. Tkis society, which has only been established 10 iwniths, takes for its model the society established at Birmingham in 1811, whose starers, is unprecedented. It numbers about 4OU members, and tiith:. Lau been sub.eribeil. Its object, in common with that of the other freehold land societies, is to confer on its members the privilege of a county vote, by enabling them to purchase, by small weekly subscriptions, a piece of freehold laud, on which a residence may he erected, or a garden cultivated, either to lit or oc cupy. It proposes to purchnse land in large quantities by the acre, to be divided into plots of as annual value of not less than los., and sold to the shareholders at the wholesale or cost price, thereby effecting a saving of from to 601. on each plot. The investment is stated to be far safer than that of savings bank•, while the returns are considerahly greater, in the proportion of 50s. to 12s. per annum on an investment of 201. The chair was taken by JAMES DEAL, E-q. Ile stated that the origin of the Freehold land movement was due to Mr. Jinxes Taylor, of Birmingham, who was present. (Cheers) The movement had begun in a very humble and unostentatious manner, in a temperance hall at Birming ham ; it was takeu up by the local pre's, and powerfully supported by the Daily News and other metropolitan papers. Societies hod since been established in every county, and in every district of the metropolis. The Fins bury satiety had nut yet made a purchase, but expemed soon to be abl•.• to do so. . _ . Mr. 1 ..k1 LOB, of Birmingham, moved a resolution, declaring that the society uttered a sale and profitable in vestment to the working-classes for their savings, and that it was entitled to the support of the meeting. It hail the advantage of being enrolled, whereby legal protection was secured to their feuds, and they were exempted from the mortgage duty. In Birmingham the society kid existed just four years ; they had made 1,100 allotments ; they had 3,004 shares, and hail taken in one day lust week nearly 1,0001. They had now neat 20,0'.01. worth of laud ready to divide, which wood mime 700 or 800 allotments more. Mr. Ii.I>SON, of lientish-town, seconded the resolution, and advoc steel the movement chitty on the ground of its social advantages. 'l•he r,olution was unanimme4 agreed to. Other speakers followed, and the meeting then proceeded to the enrolment of members. PROPOSED BATHS AND WASIIIIOVSEs, PARISH OF ST. 6110110 E TILE MAttrYlt, SOUCllWtux.—Laat evening a general vestry meeting, in compliance with a requisition presented to the churchwardens and overseers, took place su the National School Room, 13oningleroad, for the put pose of considering the expediency of adopting the act of 0 and 10 Viet., cap. 71, to encourage the establishment of public baths and washhouses. Mr. Wilson, the rector's warden, in the chair. It appears that this question has ex cited a great deal of interest in the parish, and the meeting was therefore very fully attended. The proceedings were throughout of the most noisy description, and cries of "shame," "turn him out," &e., w ere so often indulged in that it was evident there was a serious division of opinion amongst the parishioners. Notwithstand ing the uproar which existed we were enabled to collect the following facts—that some time ago it was agreed by several of the inhabitants that it was advisable to establish baths and washkouses in the parish, and the ordi nary steps were accordingly taken for that purpose. The proposal, however, met with considerable opposition, and atter much discussion a committee was appointed to cou bider the subject. This committee reported that the scheme was a go. one, and might be Carried out at a cost of some UAW., whilst the average annual outlay, it was calcu lated, would amount to about 2,9001. The receipts they estimated at 3,000/. per annum. The vestry ultimately agreed to adopt the act, and an application was made to the Secretary of State fur his sanction, but Sir George Grey re fused on the ground that there was a I gal defect iu the mode of proceeding, and the matter was accordingly re ferred back to the parish for further consideration. Hence the present meeting, and the abase preliminaries having been explained, a resolution was moved to the effect that the act to encourage the establishment of baths and washhouses ought to be adopted in this parish. A long and violent discussion ensued, and an amendment was moved, that the considera tion of the question should he postponed for two years, it being contended that during that period there would, be suf deient opportuuity of ascertaining whether the baths and washhouses already in existence were, or were likely to be, self-supporting." The amendment was received with tumultuous applause, and was ultimately carried by a large majority. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the business terminated. AFFILIATION CASE.—CIIARGE AGAINST A CLER GYMAN AT DVAIAWILY.—This was a rehearing of the charge against the Rev. Stephen Matthews, the incumbent of hanging Heaton, near Dewsbury, the alleged father of au illegitimate child born in May last, by Mary Hellewell, the latter being a young girl only 16 years of age, who was engaged as a paid teacher in the school connected with the church at Hanging Beaton. The rev. defendant is a man verging upon 60 years of age, and has for many years held the incumbency of Hanging Heaton. The case was first heard at the Dewsbury Court House on the 25th of August, when the justices declined to make an order of maintenance upon the defendant, on the ground that the evidence of the mother of the child was not corroborated in the way required by the act of parlia ment. The decision gave great dissatisfaction in the neigh bourhood, where the case has excited considerable attention; and feeling that justice had not been done in the case, the friends of the girl determined to have a re-hearing, which was fixed to take place on Monday last. The court-house was crowded to suffocation during the whole day, the hear ing occupying till nearly ten o'clock at night. Mr. Scholes, solicitor, appeared in support of the application, and Mr. Watts, solicitor, for defendant, who was not present. The magistrates who heard the case were John Hague, Esq., and Frank Wormald, Esq., both of whom were present at the former hearing. Mr. Scholes having addresse.l the bench at great length in support of his application, and stated the character of the evidence, new and old, which he should adduce, proceeded to call his witnesses. The evidence went Ito show that the rev. defendant had seduced the girl ; that a criminal intercourse had continued for two years. At 1 the conclusion of this evidence, the magistrates retired for I nearly half an hour; and on their return into court Mr 1 Hague said to Mr. Scholcs that the new evidence adduced had not much strengthened his case, and therefore the magistrates still declined to make an order upon Mr. Matthews. This decision was received by n crowded court I with hisses, and loud murmurs of dissatisfaction. Mr. Sc' oles stated that he should not again trouble the maBis -1 testes with the case, but should, if he had the opportunity, , take it before another tribunal. An action for seduction i l be w i l l ir l u , n w . e a . 6 e d l i w e v al e , m b be likelym m en eed be t , i !if e d it at h th as e no n t ex al t re y. a . d r y k aa b ene m 1 assizes. NATAL APPOINTMENTS.—ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 16. Commander, A. M. Skinner, to the Holyhead Packet Station. , Inspector of Machinery, C. Atherton, to the Woolwich ' yard. Clerk, J. Burke, to the Arrogant. Acting As tsAcrctingitt ARTIFICIAL LEATHER.—A steam-engine of six or !' to se Alaiial"an u t e h r taat o op -S ii t-u l o ' Srge :c a u to . rgc" : 14 ' N . W a P v .h al iliP i * att : Cadet, M. I . P.ln thi Preg edi "b y C eo : t ke t z ,. eight horse power is erected at Abington, lam., for grind ing up the chips and shavings of leather which are cut off by the shoe and boot makers, and which have heretofore been burnt or thrown away. These are g round to a powder resembling coa rse snuff, and this powder is then mixed with certain gums and other substances so thoroughly that the , whole mass becomes a kind of melted leather. In a shoit time this dries a little, and is rolled out to the desired' thickness—perhaps one twenty-fourth of an inch. It is now quito solid, and is said to be entirely waterprnof.—The Builder. Vbe Court. Earl Grey left town yesterday morning for the north. The noble earl proceeds tir4t to vidt Earl &Amt. Daspatehes were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the \Vest India Islands. (Bonn lan affray. Gazelle.) FOTLEIGN-OPPIe Aro. 20.—The Queen has been graeiowly phased to appoint Jantes Hudson, Esq., Cit., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ple nipotentiary at the court of Rio Janeiro, to 1w her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Queen has also been gra ciously pleased to appoint Henry Southern, Esq., C.D., now her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Confederation, to ho her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Cap tain the lionoura:ile Robert Gore,lt.N., now her Majesty's Chargi, d'Affair•A and Consul General to the Oriental Re public of the l'rivtlany, to be her Majesty'• Charge WM faires and Cni.-ul General to the Argentine Confederation. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Honourable Frederick Bruce, now her .Majesty's Charge d'Affaires Dud Consul General to the Republic of Bolivia, to be her Majesty's Charg6 d'Affaires and Consul General to the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay. _ _ For-Eiux-officc, SEI'T. 16.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senhor Manoel Pereira to be Consul Gencrol at Hong Kong for her Majesty the Queen of Por tugal and the Algarvca. - - Dowmiso-spsF.nr, SEPT. 16.—The Queen has been plcaßcal to appoint Dominick Daly, Eiuji , to be Licutc nant-Governor of the Wand of Yolmito. C011311:4•410N SIGNED BY VIE LORD DM:TENANT OF LAMP,: [Elwin Earle Welby, gi lit., to be cornet in Prince Albert's Own Leicesturvhira Yeomanry Cavalry. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. The attendance nt the Crystal Palace yesterday, between sixty and seventy thousand, showed that the public interest in its contents has in no wise abated, and that the wager about lfhl.ooo is r..ry likely to be decided in the affirmative before the Iltii October next. The company was considerably better dressed than on the previous day, and were so various in appearance and costume, that it would be difficult to pronounce whether thaw general character was more civic or rural. There were a great many foreigners, principally French and Germans, and several schools, but the labourers' parties seem generally to confine themselves to Mondays. With respect to the Palace, the commissioners will its a few days issue their notice to Fox and Henderson to commence, at a date mentioned, the demolition of the building. The latter will be compelled to obey, and very shortly after, if the public do not step in, ltays.xds will be germinating where now stands the most singular and beautifa! edifice that was ever devoted to the recreation of a people. The sacrifice by which it might be retained is by no means so large as some persons might be led to imagine. The terms of the ori ginal contract are generally known-70,5001. if the build ing were pulled down at the close of the season, 150,0001. if it remained for the benefit of the public. The money actually paid to the contractors has been 130,090/., the excess being caused by an extra gallery and the staircases, which were not in the original estimate. 70,000/. more would probably be required bar the purchase of the build ing, and as the probable surplus is estimated at 200,000/., there would still be 130,0001. left for any great national education scheme or other public benefit that might be decided on by the commissioners. It still thus be seen that no new call on the public. purse would be necessary to preserve the Crystal Palace, to create the winter garden, and to pr.vent the perpetration of an act which, if committed, will cover all parties concerned with an immense amount of unpopularity. A very splendid addition was made yeste•day to the collection of M. Marcel, in the French jewellery department, in the shape of a large dressing-case, intended for Mustafa Bey, brother to the present Pacha of Egypt. The police numbers were 02,622. Cash account, Sept. 16. Season tickets At the doors Total receipts The following shows ;the temperature yesterday, as re corded by Mr. Bennett's thermometers, being the mean result of 100 readings :-10 o'clock, 57 ; 12 o'clock, 6i ; 2 o'clock, 66; 4 o'clock, GG ; 6 o'clock, 61. Mean tempera ture, 63.2. MAKING MONEY OF NlAnsrv.—An official notification, in the form of an advertisement, appears in the Manchester papers, ;, " I, John POitcr, Mayor of Manchester," and goes on to announce that " all persons who may be desirous of being present in the Exchange, on the occasion of her Most Gracious Majesty's visit to Man chester, will forthwith make aprlication to me fur adusis,ion. Every application must be for two places, specifying the names and addresses of both parties ; as no scats can other wise be alloted. Admission for each person, one pound - Should the applications exce.2.l the number that can be ac commodated, a ballot fur adosission will tune place." Our Manchester neighbours arc determined to make money by the royal visit.—Liverpool Standard. TILE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPLI BETWEEN FOLKE STONE AND CALAIS.—The Blazer, steam vessel, having been granted by the Admiralty to assist in laying down the line of electric telegraph across the Straits of Dover, sailed for that place yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon from Ports mouth, in tow of the Sprightly, steam-vessel, Master Com mander 0. Allen. TELF,murtt Ire BRITISH Nolan AMERICA.—The wire between Quebec and Halifax, including its submersion in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in nearly completed. A new feature, alike feasible fur adoption, but apparently not thought of in this country, has been introduced in America —that of marking the distance by railway on the tele graphic poles, at given ranges. RAILWAY EXCURSION TRAIN FRAUDS.—At the Fareham bench of magistrates, on Monday last, Captain Sir 11. Lecke in the chair, John Bendy, a boiler-maker, be longing to Portsmouth Dockyard, was charged with taking his seat in a South Western Railway train without having provided himself with a ticket. It appeared that on Sun day evening, when the excursion train returning to Lon don was on the point of leaving Portsmouth terminus, the defendant wan seen to take his place in it, but having been observed on the platform in the morning previous to the train's arrival from London, it was obvious that he could not be the owner of an excursion ticket. Accordingly Mr. 11. G. Sutton, the superintendent of the Portsmouth ter minus, got into the same carriage, and went as far as Fare ham, when he asked the defendant to produce his railway ticket. The defendant did produce an excursion ticket from London to Portsmouth and back, on which Mr. Sutton charged him with having purchased it at the terminus on the arrival of the train from London. This the defendant admitted, ea which Mr. Sutton gave him into custody. The bench convicted him, and sentenced him to pay a fine of 403., with the costs, and in default of payment he was committed to two months' imprisonment. The defendant had no money at all about him when given into custody. AMERICAN TRADE WITH THE BRITISH PROVINCES. —The Notiond 1 nteli igerwr, the organ of the government at Washington, publishes the following:—By a Treasury Circular, of 12th June, 1851, the collectors of the customs were instructed, under the provisions of the act of Congress of 2Gth September, 1850, to admit British vessels coming from the ports of Canada, New Brunswiek,and Nova Scotia on the same footing, both as to vessels and cargoes, as Ame rican vessels, in consequence of the latter having been ad mitted on like terms with British in the ports of those colo nies. These privileges have sia.ce been extended to British vessels coming from the ports of Prince Edward's Island, in consequence of the following proclamation of the gover nor of that colony, which has been officially communicated to the department of state by the British Minister:— " Whereas, it has been intimated to me, through the British Minister at Washington, by communications ad ' dressed to his Excellency, from the United States IDepartment of State and Treasury Department, that, when assurance is given that American vessels are ad mitted in all the ports of Prince Edward's Island, on the same footing as British vesicle, the Treasury Department of the United States will cheerfully and promptly issue the needful instruction to grant similar privileges to vessels from thattheoe sot on h on ell ly grt granted rt y o c f Unitedt o h n e grm i.t a States, agreeably ber 26, - have therefore, with the ad vice and con sentto of the Executive Council , thought into declare, and I of Septem , do hereby declare, that American vessels were, are, and shall continuo to be, admitted iu ell the ports of Prince ° Edward's Island on the same footing asbelntoistu-rsereto-s. When the act of Congress of da te June, 1851, are received, they w, formation of all concerned. Given under my band, and the f O o f r th t h e e lth . gather with the United _States Trielasbetyptrec published ular IGreat Seal of the said island , at Charlotte 's Town, this twenty-ninth day of July.—Jawna WAsnt atoN, Colonial I Secretary." MR. HUME, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. On Saturday last Mr. Hume, M.P., met a large slumber of his constituents in the Town Mall, Montrose The l'uovosr occupied the chair. Mr. MUME, on coming forward, was received with loud Cheers. In the course of his observations be said that though the cause of reform had advanced greatly much remained to be done. 'Thos., who now occu pied a prominent place in political affairs will pass away and be forgotten, but the country will remain. We must therefore look to the future, and apply all our energies in endeavouring to place the country in a tit condition to compete with the United States. That is the only rountry who will press us hard. Thero is nothing to fear from any other. Hut the Americana are an economical people, they have 114 1.1 , 111.,6 offices, and they pay only in proportion to the services received. If England is to remain at the head of the commercial world, or even be able to compete with that rising power, she must reduce her expenditure. Anil in order that this may he done, the randy must have the direction of the taxing machine—the 'louse of Commons. This shows tho necessity of parliamentary reform. England owes her su periority to her perfect machinery. Tu maintain her poli tical and commercial superiority, she must perfect the tax ing machine. At present it does nut work well—it does its work badly ; it taxes those wbo should nut be toned, and passes by those who should bear the public bur dens. Tne reason was, that class interest, to a certain extent governed and swayed the House of COllllllOllB. There must, therefore, be a fresh accession of popular strength. The people must now, in short, be thoroughly represented. The laces who make the honey must have a share in the government of the hive. laird John Russell laud pro mised an amendment of the representation, and he had been asked what length the bill would go ? That he did not know. Ile did not believe tho government hail made up their minds about the matter. !Jut there wan one thing they might he sure et, and that was that they would give as little as possible. The extent of the reform would depend UllOll tho pressure from without. The people must tell the government what they want. They must demand that every householder have a cute in the notional repre sentation. The country will not be content with less. This ' would ineream the voters from 000,0110 to betwixt three and four willions. That would be the result of household suf frage. But we must have something more. The cuter must be protected from intimidation—the ballot must ac company household suffrage. lie was sorry to say that Lord John Russell WAS opposed to the ballot: but what was the practice of the aristocracy ? Why; in all their clubs the ballot was used. Let them do then as they would be done to themselves. The electoral districts must also be equalised. Such were the reforms the people wanted. lly granting these the ministry would satisfy the country, and increase the happiuiss and prosperity of the nation. Mr. home was greeted during his speech with repeated applause. After a vote of mulicicace .was unanimously accorded him, the meeting separated. STEAM PLOCOHLNG. A further experiment was privately made on tho Orion-thorpe Estate, near Bourne, on 'llursilay last, of the poasibility of adopting the power of steam as an instrument in turning and pulverising the soil. It would neon that the priimple of ploughing by steam is no longer a chitnera but has hi en most fully and satisfactorily established. Lord Willoughby d'Eri.shy, at an enormous experse, and muck thought and anxiety, has so perfected his plan, that we have reason to believe he will shortly invite the committee of the Royal Agricultural Society to witness the result of his experiments, which are stated to have ended in complete success. One of the engines used for the purpose has been exhibiting in the Crystal l'aluce; the experiment we are nose about to describe was therefore tried with one engine only. The field selected for the purpose had grown a wheat crop, and was of good malleable suit. The engine—a beautiful piece of machinery—was placed on a moveable term road at the end of the field. By way of testing the relative powers, the plough, a double one, with reversed shares and mutters, was drawn in one direction by horses, and contra rily by steam. The horses, tour very powerfill animals, had much labour to drag the implement, and that only at a slim- pace ; whilst the engine, of 211-horse power, hur ried it back as fast as a man could fairly walk to conduct the plough. After several " bouts " a subsoil plough was attached at a gage of 9 and afterwards 12 inches. This additional burden, which the horses could not pos sibly have drawn, evid.oftly steadied and improved the motion, and left the work in a most satisfactory manner. Barrows were afterwards appended with en equally pleas ing result. The ploughing took place across old IMO, which showed in some placeaconsiderable dips. ' - - - - Two engines placed parallel at each end of the field would, without difficulty, with only _a double plough, complete four items of land in ten hours, and, if required, subsoil it too. The work IS more effectively performed, for it must be borne in mind, that land • ploughed by steam has this great advantage that there are no indentations or basins left as when ploughed by horses (from the feet) a matter of great importance on clay sods, and where subtoiling is required, an advantage that cannot be too highly appr,ciated. The plough used on that occasion was designed and manufactured by an ingenious mechanic named Downes, living at ltvhall, near Stanford, who has for some years deservedly been held in high esteem as a ploughman and ploughinaker in the midland counties. We will now proceed to show the relative cost of plouh ing a field of (say) *2-1 acres by animal power and by the aid of the steam engines. t•.v testae A Acr or Land, reti4ding two borean abrened and man, could In 1. ugkedat a*. 141 neve • - Ir? MI LAM PaWI.H. T. , (twine-driver?, at 9e. each prr day. 8 days .C 1 In 0 Two plekers, 24, de. do. 1 4 0 Pluaglitaan, 2p. do. dn. 012 0 .'p bpt p p bd. do. do. I 0 0 Fuel 4... ad. do. do I 8 0 Add 10 p•r ecat. wear and itar of vague*, 5...) bd. an acre 0 10 0 - 818 0 Balance In favour of Steam Power By steam power the . 2t acres would bo completed in a week. It would require at least 10 horses to plough it in the same period. Some lands met have more horse and manual labour, and, of course, at a greater cost than in the alswe calculation. No climate in made of the value of suhsoiling, which, with steam power, would be better accomplished without additional expeusc, except one tuna, perhaps, for guiding the plough. rrejudices, w•e know, prevail amongst the agriculturists against the adoption of strain power for ploughing : it was equally strong against the el-, of ttemn fur threshing and other operations, all of which hove been dispelled. We aro not blind to the fact that there are difficulties still pre vailing against the practical use of strain fur ploughing ha /inane: to very hilly and irregular I muds it in at present, and perhaps always may be, inapplicable; but that it may be effectively and profitably used on a great breadth of land in this country will shortly be shown to ba " a great fact." That much credit is due to Lord Willoughby for his ex ertions in the cause of science will not, we presume, be dis puted. When a nobleman of his calibre continues to apply his means and mechanical genius to a scheme, the success of which has to fight against such strong prejudices, there can be none who will not commend his lordship for his ex ertions. How far those exertions have been successful, a fair trial before the Royal Agricultural Society (which we have just said will shortly happen) will atlbrd the best cv deuce. TROOPS FOR TUE CAPE.—The authorities hare ordered her Majesty's scrcw•ship Vulcan, at Portsmouth, to have her repairs and fittings expedited as much as pos sible, as the ship is required to convey a regiment of GOO men to the Cape of Good Hope to reinforce Sir Flurry Smith's army. THE ItOval. VISIT TO LlVERPOOL—Yesterday a communication was sent into the council from the com mittee of the Exchange news-room, suggesting the de sirability of making the area of the Exchange available on the day of the Queen's visit, by dosing it to all except the holders of tickets, of which 2,000 would be placed at the disposal of the council, reserving the remainder for the proprietors, subscribers, and tenants of the building. It has been ascertained that this area would afford convenient seeing and standing room for 8,000 persons; and this is certainly the most available and best point from which the inhabitants of Liver i 00l might testify their loyalty to their sovereign without inconvenience to her Majesty. Tho Exchange buildings form three sides of a quadrangle and the Town-hall the fourth, so that the latter commands a view of the whole of the area. Her Majesty, who is to lunch at the Town-hall, would, it is suggested, doubtless avail herself of this opportunity to gratify the loyalty of her subjects by appearing at the window. - • - BARRING OUT A CLERGYMAN FROM ins CHURCH. Our readers will regret to hear that another, the fourth, outrage has been committed on Kildarton Church, with the intention of preventing the Bev. James Hardy from performing divine Berrie?. on Sunday last. About seven o'clock. on that morning, the settoneas having gone to prepare the church, found the doors fastened inside, and the key-bole of the vestry-room door plugged with lead, so that she could not obtain access. Sho immediately came into Armagh to Mr. Hardy, by whom she was ordered to apprise the churchwardens, who soon after met at the church, and sent for Mr. Birch, who lives in that locality, requesting hint to have the hia drances removed. As soon as he arrived at the church he obtained entrance through one of the windows by means of a ladder, and after considerable dif fi culty got the doors opened. On the walls of the vestry-room were the following words scribbled by • lead pencil, the writing of which shows marks of • free and w,ll practised hand, though bad spell ing and worse diction aro affected—" The truth of the Gospel Wee Want in this Country not nothing else." Lower down on the wall we read—" Mr. James Hardy you left hue the Kays and Screw Nails and We Completed the Job The man that attemps to open this Church may pre pare for their final Doom hereafter." Mr. Birch having removed the obstacles, Mr. Hardy and the congregation got admittance, and the service was gone through as usual. Since writing the above we are glad to learn that a reward of 1001. has been offered for such information as may lead to the prosecution of the offenders, which we hope to be r able to publish in our neat number. Among the subscribers arc the Lord Primate, the Hart of Charleinont, the lion. Henry Caulfield, Bev.- Mr. Irwin, the High Sheriff, etc.— Armagh ' Civar Watt. L'o. J. 1