The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. IIOUSF: OF I.OItI)S.—TIIVRDAY, MAittu 13. The L.)1111 CMANCILLOIL took his scat at 5 o'clock. I'EfITIONS I'RESkiNTED. PATENT Law,.—By the Earl of CARLISLE, from Blackburn, is (as our of an am ailment of the patent law,. PAPAL AGLA / OS. -By the Earl of MOUNT- C ASII ELI., from K eat, Sonserset , hire, and other place.; and Lord ItIiDIiSDALE, from a plate not heard against papal aggression. Earl FITEWILILIAIL from Northamptuu, to the ammo erect, mid praying that the grant to Mayitooth night be withdrawn, • prayer in which he could not toner. Be would rat h er 1.-u the mount iocreased. S.ILE OF ARSENIC BILL. Eal of CARLISL', io moving the second reading of this bill, said it Might be expected that he should. cuter into a narrative of the events which had induced the go. wortownt to propose such • bill ; hut at the same time be thought, m some penous seemed to have a taste for thus sort of horror., it was nut desirable to ad minister to such an appetite, and therefore he would ',Train (ruin entenng into • itatetu , ut of Dicta which nut he well knowu to thtir lordships. Thorn was no doubt that it was desirable to legislate for the popes, of im;...:04 an obstacle to • crime, which had of late been extremely rife in ouat parts of the country, and be would mealy state the object of the bill, which was that no per,w .h old sell *seine without entering in • book the quantity sold, the porp.ne for which it was alleged to be puieliased, and the name and resident , of the parties poresia,ing it. linty would thus have, in case of sece.aty. ..urn h t sort of clu.• to the sotbor of any crime coin milted by the ialuduistration of this poison. lie did not eappos , thit it was possible t' pies int crimes of thir sort altogether, but this Lill wicald feral an obstacle to the ready attainment of the means of committing those crimes. It nii„o.t be aid that other poisons ought to be ineluded in the 1011, but it was extremely...intuit to draw up a schedule of all tim pu.omous mat,rials that might be used fur The par pue of Liking away I ife,uor, if prseticatile, would it he desirable to do to, no it would be a sort .4 an advertisement to people of what 11.4.1011 S they might use. It had been also sug gond that a minimum pumtity should be sold, hut that would be of uo use, as is/seek was extremely thiap, and pentane requiring louse it for improper purposcs w Add not be deterred from purchasing r larger yuattity than they night need. The Emi of MOUNTCASIIELL wan sorry to End that the Lill was combined to sneak. The Lill wits then read a sec and time. TIIK INCOME TAX. . . bird ll1101:011.Vi1 iiiilniiiil;;;;;;;to call attention to the remlutiou which he had laid ou tiie table on the %object of the 1.11 iii th, hope that mme alteration would be made in the law %loch might coo, it to be kw inquisiitir real in it. character, and bear more equally on thine who had to !my it; but merely to say that cuseb had come under his knowledge where, in comequeuee of the earelesmois of the 1,1C41 authoritieN four retain. had been left at au ion, aail hot been sec a by third partieb, greatly to the detriment of maw. permo. in trade, to alma they referred. Sone of time ro turn. had actually bet n bent to him (Lord .bowing the incomes of various permns. Great.-r core Might, therl+.l , to be etercibed in these matter., and he hoped his liairMg uotiet‘l the subject might load to that remit. bear.) The %Jailor. of LANSIN/WNE admitted that the La would be aggravated if the duties of persons employed in eilleming it a. re nut exercised with great care. Ac far as ►e had had an opportunity of oloi reilig, such had been the rose. The moil.: and 'moiled lord's hiring drawn atteutiou to the eiremnicancia which he haul alluded to would, no desk, h.i.e the elfect of remedying the crib. of which he remplaiwal. ti.. impikitorial a tax ought nut to be made more objectionable by the cande‘s r apuoursi of returns which were ihteuthil to he .trimly privide. No one could rejoice more than himself to bee the act altogether abolished. (Ileac, bear.) NAVIGATION LAWS. finsi VittARNE:LI!, taosed for retunto of the num dec., of wash n gistkrvd since the Ist Jail. -Ord..nst. MERCANTILE MARINE. Lord COLCIIErit FA( raid that three bills had been b nmig ht, into p a ti vu .„. u t l u st oil the fullowiug rub pets : One relating to the mete haat rrumtroi loud ; YAW tier to the improted uaulitum id master, and seamen ; and the third was the Mercantile 3larine Bill. 'I he two farmer had been dPipprit othi r and the latter did not reach their lordship,' house until the :111th of July, winos st ti Ii•rroll to a alert rnmmittee ; but it WaS too late to be passed into a law that .eerier. Now he wished tit know wh..ther U wit the int-ntion of the goverionent to bring lorward sitlwr of these 11101•1: par ticularly the Nerr.uitile Marine Bill ; and 111 , 0 whether it was their intention to cutimilinate the law. relative to the Earl GRAN VILLE (atm .pale very indidinelly) was waili.r.to.:4l to say that M •rrautilr Mamie Hill world to• shoos mid no wieirion: tor consolidalluf Ibe law au the uoitiG:t would Iw 1.1.p..11 until Suit txlf had /mood. PASSENGERS ACT AM ItMENT DILL. li. tonne than went tutu cilia...glee on this hill. ►:arl It 'LEY prop...Lel u t btu. to the elfeet that foreign smut le %ailing to Itriti.h port..tould by obliged to comply with the pntvitiont of the l'ateenger. Art, and that they aliould enter into amother bowl to übtnit to toe jurisdic tion of the colonial rotten.. ...A he liable to the mow renaltics as other vencla for OR LICA I committed wt the high rms. The elan., was agnaal to, :.od the bill paaw.al through (11111111alillef. . 1 11 . 11{ CHANNEL 01 - sTER FISHERY. The Earl of M I.OM had stated at the close of last Iberian, that disputes lad arisen b. tavern the English and Freneh tbliermen relatita to a hc.al of oysters which had barn diacuverial between Dieppe and lirightue, and that in are or two caws English vassals had been tired into by French cruisers. Ih, v urders were beyond the ortliniu7 tialinq hwit. .4 loth countriaw, and were principally beimight into Ow nimbi t IsAseen May and August. Last yam I la vcsolc from Muria, 13 from Sulrolk, 30 from Kent, 17 from E.., t, 2 tuna Ilanip•liire, 10 from Jersey, 2 from noi Id ~,,, and nom Norbili bad brat employed in this trade In t h e fUllrlllollth , imlicated, tool a much largar mamba., was hkoly to la- employed this y car. lie to know whether any • cisfactury arrangement had been root.' to with the Fr. ooh govi rnmant ..n the 'abject. 1 ht. Marquis of LANSIMWNE had found that the British consuls at the Ervin h ports where some of the dis putes had been adjudicated, stated that there had been no dispwattou on the part of the Frl nch authorities to set partMlly, and that the Itriti•h lisharenen had been fairly dealt with. It was impossible to prevent disputa, where both parties had clearly a right to fish. It seemed, however, that no injustice had harm ,lure. and nu complaint haul been made to the Eiireignwither. Whatever could be dune to prevent disputes arising should to accomplished; but it was desirable that the ground should continue open to all. lordslii:o then. at pia o'clock adjourned. II )USE OF C4ININIt)Nt4.-THURSDAT, M Rcn 13. 1 hr r, n,.t la I.,rty ateathcrc prtacat at four o'clock, tb Sraker ileclarcd tb. beam' adjutinattl until to-marrow (this day). Dasll PAUPEDISM AND MINI WOItK• IIOVNEri. It uppmrs from a return just published, that in the first wveli of l'i•brukary is the pro went year, the oitent of workhouse accommodation is the whole of Ireland was fur prupere, whilst the number actually in the work houses reached a grand total 44 24.1,296. The number of pauper' in receipt of outdoor rslief throughout Ireland is the first week of February was 6.450. Ilw reault of these figures ms's to show that the re uurnmodatiun fur paupers ems gri :der in the period stated than the number aceommodated. but though this may be the CiPAC. on the tOtld it o ' by no means so. when each workhouse is considered in detail. There are some Ini.d &An...jug Can:. of overeeiwiliow. In Athlone the cavos of pimp, rs in the workhouse over the nunilier for which areninitiodaiien iv faraivhed wag lii, the number in the bowie being I.lifv:i ; but aceonimodatiova bail since been provided for '.117 , N. In Behnullet the MiCt•ll wan 14 • the number,. orcurnmis!oted. 1.288 ; additional as opinnwastion .ince pnerided. la Borrisokaae the Vieille wa. I it; ; the numbers :icronimisloteil being 1,076; befil alau additiinud accommiaLition was being provided. In Callan the eget,* was lfgv; tht ounihers being '2,*2:11. In Cabirvireen the cacaos was 320. and the number ,lecommo dated, 3,190; increased arCuinmedation was being provided. do in Corrickamenvis, where thins wos an excess in 206 ; the numbers accommodated bring Contletown -hoar . - an excess of 141; but the numbs had since been brought within the limits. In emotes a slight execs. exited. In Dingle thers• was the ensinnetts &titmice between the number of paupers in the workhouse and the amount of arcomnualation of 715. and no extra space obtained ; the numbers being 3.0k41. At Ennis a slight eaves. only. At Honystymon the number was greater than the accommo dation by 362 ; the number being 3 . 811: but the are-ammo dation had been sines. iinvessed. Glen showed a slight ezrews. Manned an excess of 355. ana additional seems modatiou only in pro,freus : the 111111116 r being 2,083. Kan lurk shows • slight excess. Kenmare an ilICVst of 221 ; the numbers being 3,581. and additional accommodation only in mogrevc Kilkenny had an etas. of 155 ; the numbers , king 4,120, hut the guar/liar.. were providing ablitional I apace. At Killmlys , rt a slis;ht acme, and a hundred paupers getting cut-d.ssr relief. At Killarney also a slight vices*. and aallition,il accommoslatiun once obtained. Ka rush union showed a ditterence abuse the accommodation of 3r. with the enormous amount of 5M obtaining out-door retie t. At Limerick the acognmodation was only for 0,252, wltC.4t there were 7.0!7 in the union : additional acrummo- I slat...n was twins pnwided. In Listowel the excess over' an.t above the accommodation 192, but the guardians had advertised for additional hosess. Middleton a slight ear.... Mitchel:ammo a slight es• s ss. Naas • slight excess, but number in the union dein-sing. NIVISII. lISVOMMO4I3• iiol4 1,080. pauper. 1.218. At Newcastle • large excess, accommodation paupers 4.128 : additional areomuso slatom had since been provide.' and more advertised fur. Nes/pet • slight ezeosa. New Rs... ,weinnmodatinn 2,157, panics re 2.349. Searitf. e.ecoMmodutiott 3,003, pauiwrs NLW ihkirlTAL Fon Kis att COLLEGE.—The cot , purotion of King', College hare given notice of their inten liui to apply to parliament in the pnaent @canon for the nee *wry power. to authori, the purchase of the old burial-ground of the purioh of Nt. llenaral bum, in Per twzal-.trot, Lineolu'rieno4vlda, and to tenet thereon a seer an .l t nlarzed hospit.l. to accommodate an additionot ::umber o: , YR. 111PAKIN'it NEW %COWL . I Just reVisbed. In imperial S.D. with TwatTome rem tea /NNW r W. seamy hem Weide. by taw _lntuit, •••• i . .1311 E STONES of VSN A IC,III; -IL Tutus, the First—TheliA7CPlONS. ' . ''..... ••• IBy Joni. ECSKIN. /WWl' a.. The Leaps of Aseldfeetea;" "No 'ere Pulatees." Ike. Pt lOsieborieli Alas 144 top edge a I:. .• - . lAsdew: aloha. T....4,-,...6.... - .-- • THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14. 1851. time (of which hereafter), scarcely a Kaffir has been seea to the west of the Great Fish River. 'The war began and has hitherto been confined within the I I limits of the new province of Victoria and British Katfrazia. There, indeed, the whole population to the north of King William's Town and to the south of the NVinterberg, from the Kat and Great Fish River on the west to the Great Kei on the east, ap pear to Lc in the field, and have fought not only with the known daring of the Kaifu, but with a de gree of concert, discipline, and rude military talent that could not have been anticipated. We wish to prejudge no man, least of all so gal lant a soldier,with all Ms./art/kronor:de, as Sir HARRY Swill. We admit that allowance is to be made for the circumstances under which he took the go . vernment of the country. Ile arrived in time to put an end to a war with the origin of which he had no control. Upon him devolved the delicate and difficult task of making such arrangements at its close as were most likely to prevent the recurrence of hostilities between two races, amongst whom the contest just terminated inevitably left unextinguished sparks of vindictiveness and animosity. Ile had, on the one hand, to give the colonists a safe frontier; on the other, to avoid giving unnecessary umbrage to the Kaffirs by depriving them of lands with which they were loath to part, which indeed were neces sary for the support of their cattle. If Sir Uvula SMnit failed in practically solving so difficult a problem, great allowance is to he made for him. It is only by subsequent errors that he can have in curred blame. Making every allowance, however, we must con fess that there is much that is obscure and mysterious in the origin of the present war, much that calls for explanation. "It is no cattle war." declares a journalist, writing on the frontier. BefOre it began there had not been more than the average amount of petty cattle-lifting on the frontier, and since it began them has been no inroad into the colony. It is a struggle originating in. and as yet confined to, British Kaffraria. It has its source in the internal politics of that district; it has not sprung from a collision with the colonists. Be the blame on the side of the Kaffirs or of the British officials placed in authority over them, it has arisen nut of the relations between the Kaffirs and the officials of the British government. As yet the nature and extent of the troubles in British Katiraria, which induced Sir HARRY SMITH to proceed thither, are unexplained. We only know that they had been foretold as early as last October hy Sir ANDIUES STOCKENSTRUM, and attributed by him to what he deemed the mistaken policy of Sir HMOs, aggravated by the harshness of the local authorities- Without adopting the views of Sir ANDRIE4 us definitively established, it must be ad mitted that they are plausible. The provinces of I Victoria and British Kutfraria were the homes of the tribes now in arms and of their ancestors. The graves of their famous chiefs arc there. The feeling of clanship and the pride of chieftainship and heal attachments are strong in the Kaffirs. They could ill brook to see the whole country, from the Kat and the lower Fish Ricer to the Keiskamma, contismted and thrown into the colony. They could ill endure the loss; for a people mainly dependent upon pas turav, in a region liable to frequent and prolonged droughts, require a wide extent of land for their cattle. And still less could the chiefs brook to be lorded over by un alien race, and to see their autho rity over their tribes systematically sapped and un dermined. We arc not positively declaring that this policy of Sir Ilakav's was wrong: we only say that. if unavoidable, it called for the utmost caution and forbearance in carrying it out. But there is ton much reason to fear that there was neither caution nor forbearance. The military villages were established within the Kaffir territory —the chiefs were alternately coaxed, slighted, and bullied. The discontent and suspicious movements which called Sir ILitinY to the spot were promoted. For that, however, the local authorities were mainly to blame. Ile was at a distance, now fighting with the 1/1141,4 beyond the Orange ltiver, now squabbling with the colonists about accounts and constitutions. it;;;•h;;;been his misfortune that more duties were devolved upon him than one man could attend to. Up to the time of his arrival in British Kaffruria there was much that requires to be explained; he is entitled to have time allowed him for explanation. Unfortunately his conduct since his arrival there speaks for itself. Ile was at the head of a slender force, scattered through garrisons. in a strong and extensive country swarming with irritated men of a warlike race well supplied with arms. He abruptly deposed the principal chief, upon suspicion merely, and. installed au Englishman in his stead. Three days later he revoked his arrangement and installed the mother of the depsed chieftain. By his first rash proceeding he provoked the tribes; by his sudden vacillation he gave them to understand that he feared the con sequences of what he had done. He first goaded, and then invited them to take the field to east off his yoke, and they have nut been stow to accept his challenge. They tight resolutely pro aria et Jbeis and he, if we may judge front his eroelamations, meets them in an equally implacable spirit. We have blushed for the language of these manifestoes, consi dering the excuses that exist for a rude race, even if the Kaffirs have been in the wrong, and that they proceed from a British officer. Ile allures the colo nists, and even savage tribes, to join in the war by promising them unlimited plunder. Ile talks of "crushing" the Amatolas, in order to "show them that a day of retribution is at hand." "Savages," "bullying Katfirs," and similar epithets arc lavished with astounding volubility. His languag e more re sembles that of an angry fishwife than of the brave soldier he has on many occasions shown himself to be. The war is not a colonial war, but a war between the Katfirs and the European authorities imposed upon them by England. It LS a war of which it is to be feared this country has little reason to be proud either as regards its origin or the temper in which it is being carried on. And it is a war the duration of which cannot easily be conjectured, • though its heavy expenses arc certain. That we must . prosecute it till the Kaffirs are vanquished there i s no doubt : they are in that social stage when men attribute forbearance only to weakness. For • their own sakes, it is as conquerors we must treat with them. That they must give way is certain : all history shows that uncivilised tribes have no chance in the long run against civilised troops. But the war may be a long one, and the latest accounts afford hut too much reason to tear that it will be. Our previous accounts left Sir Hum* at King William's Town, baffled and driven back, cut off from • the interior forts, but having his communication with the sea open, waiting for reinforcements. During the interval which had elapsed from that time to the most recent dates that have come to hand, , he had maintained his position, and received re inforeements, but had made no progress. Forts White old Cox were inaccessible; hordes of Kaffir. occupied the country around them, and had entrenched themselves strongly. Fort Hare had communication with Graham's Town, but none with Sir II %REY or the eastern forts. SEvoLo had taken post on the lower Keiskamma and interrupted the communication by land between King William's Town and the colOny. Our soldiers and their chief were cooped up in their strongholds, and obliged to act on the defensive; the Kaflirs were iu possession of the open country. Various affairs 6d taken place between the Kaf firs and our troops ; in every instance with loss to the former, but without materially improving the po sition of the British. lIERMANIA had been killed, and his followers driven back from Fort Beaufort ; Major-General SOMERSET had repelled an attack upon Fort Hare; but Forts Cox and White were still invested and beginning to run short of pro visions; SEvOLO had experienced a check, but had not been dislodged from the Keiskamma ; Fort Arm strong had been evacuated by the garrison, and the settlers, who had sought refuge in it. Sir HARRY was collecting troops, and projecting alliances with native tribes, from which the inditlert•nt success of his diplomacy with the Kafiirs forbids us to expect much benefit. The latest intelligence from Graham's Town is couched in more boastful language than the facts warrant. It was understood that Sir HatritY was to have moved forwards a few days before, and that he would put down the Kaifirs. But this result was contingent upon their abandoning their old habits of bush-tightinz and meeting him fairly in the field. It is not likely they would do so, and accordingly the termination of the war is anticipated alternatively after the lapse of three, five, or even six mouths. In fact, it may be a year, and how many lives and how much money may be thrown away before that ceriginnuatiau is attained! gilt enittfilli. TO cOI&ISPDXDZNTS. Adontliowwwwwwkd ow Tlw lams." I.aedoe F.TealTe MUM be e Ib2 irks IS, Sprowl•Www. bf Two dki day .f puto.iceias HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Imo I , ,T—Moraing, 111. is. ...... -Memo rt, "h.ide zw:vr —Nora's! as.. Mumps" Lb. Ur. LONDON; FRIDAY, MARCH 14. THE bill fur the prohibition of English territo- 1 rial titles to be conferred by the POPE, and worn 1 by his agents, has certainly the demerit of being , scarcely a legislative act. In no monarchy . except 1 our own, in which the legislature participates in so mans- functions of the executive, would the I • 1 national representation have been recurred to for I sash a purpose. An edict of the sovereign I would have annihilated and repelled these aggres- , I 1 sive acts of a foreign sovereign, by which the QUEEN and her protestant subjects were hurt. ' The law, however, afforded no possibility of this, as the cunning antagonists of prottstantism well knew. So that a recurrence to parliament was un avoidable, either to enable the crown to repel the insult, or to go further, if necessary, and place re- strictions upon the arrogant and aggressive assump tions of an avowedly hostile, exorbitant, and menacing I, power. The decision of the government was to repel the insult merely, and not to proceed to repression or restriction, en the hopes that an act repelling the assumption of titles, a merely formal prohibition, implying neither hardship nor peraecution, would, being unanimously carried in parliament, and sup ported in the country, have the salutary effect of deterring the Pore and his agents from any of those steps of ulterior aggression, which must call for more severe and stnngent enactments to put them down. To satisfy public feeling at home, warn foreign antagonism abroad, to allay excitement, and prelude the necessity of recurring to those express laws of restriction and prevention which every state in Europe, catholic as well as protestant, has been obliged to throw up as entrenchments against the Poee—thia was evidently the view and the aim of ministers. We regret to say, that this aim is not likely to be attained. Instead a protestants and liberal catholics rallying round the throne, and enabling the legisla ture to protect it, party feeling has cooly to mingle with it, and converted into a political qu'stion what ought not to have been treated as S u elk. The oh-' jectors to the bill were, first of ;all, those who did not ' think it went far enough, and who wire anxious, without waiting to give the l'ore. any lortm peni testis., to proceed at once to restrictions and serious disqualification*. On the opposite side thaw, who ' objected to the bill, did so because they viewed the established church with warmly less jealousy than they did the church of Rome, looking upon it not as one of the protestant sects, or as the mint powerful protestant bulwark against Rome, but as an obstacle which, if humbled I and pulled down, the protestant feeling and organi ! bonen of the middle classes in Eligland would be more capable than before, of resisting the encroach mints of the propaganda of Rome. We cannot hut' ' ' think this a most profound, a most deplorable, a ' most fatal mistake, being confident that it requires a (*rebel union between every protestant element of the churthea in this country to resist them. The moat fatal enemies to the bill arc, however. the professional politicians, the arr, or the would-b, who eschew all legislation that is trouble some, and whose sole policy consists in either keeping or getting office, doing everything that contributes to that one great end, and carefully eschewing every thing that stands in the way of it. Such are the Wades, the condottieri of modern political warfare ; men who put on armour, and caracole, and go through the semblance without the reality of war, having no feeling hut for their profession. and no policy but to get employed, and satisfy their em ployers by doing so much and no more tlian is neces sary. As to any religious or loyal feeling in such men, it is a mockery to look for it. Protestants though they he in their quality of tories, they would not offend VisEtiss for the world, for they want WNEM.oes band of voters to make up their ma- jority. And they find it much more promising and profitable to trucitle to Rome, and make their organ in the press the Pores organ, alum to display ono spark of loyal Wing fur the Qui.l::s, or of honest sympathy for the Protestant cause. Hence we regret to say, owing to the party views of the torits, to the Puseyism of some of the Peel ites, and the dishonesty of the rest, owing to the anti-church feeling of many liberals, the American inditfrrence of others, owing also to the lulu warmness of many Whigs, who dislike difficulties in curred for conscientv-sake us much as the Peel ites, and owing to the position of many more, who are Irish landlords, and who desire to obtain -..„ their rents under the tolerances of the priesthood, that measure of warning and repression to Rome, which. if unanimously carried, might have acted as an efficient and definitive repression, is but too likely to fail in its effect. For this we blame parliament and its parties, not Lord JOHN ltnissal- We have always thought his Durham letter a noble one, expressing true English feeling with all the warmth and frankness of im pulse. We confess that we even like it better because of its very impolicy, and because of its evincing a spirit so much above the time serving, tide-waiting prudence of our day, which estimates a statesman by his cunning, and his soul by his success. ft Lord ions had not brought forward any measure, we will be bound to say that the tories would have introduced one, and that the Peelites would have helped and headed them, and that both would have been now in place together on the strength of it. Those who exclaim against the present proposed legislation would do well to remember what would have been the con sequence of no legislation. This. however, is nut now the question. The object now is- for we believe that no party desires to overthrow the ministry and neceasitate a dissolu tion—how to repel the papal aggression in the way best calculated to preclude a repetition or extension of it, and to do this without indicting any real griev ance upon Roman catholic-. The present bill, as it now stands, without the clauses referring to trusts, would be an acceptable oue, provided it secured unanimity, and was admitted by liberal catholies to he no more than the unwarranted aggression of the Pure. called for. But unfortunately the bill, as mutilated by Sir GEORGE GREY, in that most logical speech of his with its most impotent conclusion, fulfils none of these conditions. The Roman catholics ex claim against it. The dissensions in parlia ment have rendered them triumphant ; and nothing will satisfy them save Queen Vicrottia go ing,upon her knees to Pon Plus, or his nuncio, and erring perrari. We °lliad most strenuously to this, and fancy that the people of England are of our mind. On the other hand. the bill thus denounced by the Roman catholics is equally repudiated by the Protestants. So that the passing of it would seem to answer none of the purposes for which it was intended. We think, therefore, that it would be advisable to restore the trust clauses to their place in the bill, strictly limiting their operation to deeds or wills hereafter to be executed. and declaring at the same time that these provisions are to be inoperative, wherever the prohibited titles may hare been used through ignorance or inadvertence. Any educated Roman catholic might henceforth devise his property to the prelates of his persuasion. or to the Comm sioners of Bequests, quite as sately. wording the titles according to the statute, as against the statute. There is neither hardship nor persecution in such as enactment; and we du think that the times require no less. Tur. Kaffir war of 18.700-31 differs materially from all that havo prcvedtd it. As the Frontier 7', null (Orahant's Town) of the 21st of January remarks,l The present is not a cattle war." On all former oepasion, titimeroui miniuding lauds sway all into tlsepalony by every dri.ti . and spread. plundering as they went over the greater part of Ow eastern dis tricts. On the present occasion, with a few excep- Few Kaffir, we have observed, had ventured into the colony, though all along the frontier the settlers bad abandoned their homes. Reports of disaffection among the Hottentots, however, were rife. We are disposed to attribute great part of these suspicions to the grudges existing between a certain class of cello nists and the missionaries with the natives settled 'under them. Hut the defection of lIERMANUS (killed in the attack upon Fort Beaufort) gave some colour to them. This chief, formerly our most faithful and trusted ally, had leagued himself with the insurgent Kaffirs. This is one of the facts that call for ex planation. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING, Passing this afternoon before the Legislative Pa lace, I observed an unusual stir among the guard, which appeared much more numerous than usual. The garden of the President of the Assembly was also occupied with a strong post. Sixty soldiers stood at the top of the steps undcr the portico, b y their piled arms. The sentries were doubled. 1 was the more surprised at this de monstration, on account of the little importance attached by the democratic party to the mo tion to be presented to-day by the committee on the National Guard Bill for adjourning the eke times. Presently the mystery was cleared up by a friend coming out of . the Chamber, who in formed me that the students had presented themselves in a body of about three hundred before the palace of the Assembly with a petition against the measures taken by the government to stop the lectures of M. Michelet. Instantly General Leflo, the military questor, was on the alert to protect the legislative body against the violent inroad meditated by these excited young men, and immediately apprised General Porey to keep the troops in the barracks un the Qum d'Orsay under arms, in case they should be wanted. Meanwhile, the doors of the Assembly were closed, and the guard drawn up on the steps, all ready to give the body of petitioners a hot reception, m ease they proceeded to disorderly measures. The procession of students, beholding these preparations, forebore to tempt the soldiers to use thear firelocks, and, deliver ing their petition to M. Versigny, a member of the Mountain, who came out at the small side entrance in the Item de Bourgogne, giving a cheer of "Vivo la Republique," retired orderly over the Pont de la Concorde. From thence they marched to the ElytUe, where, however, they had not the satisfaction of seeing the President, as he was in his phaeton, half-way on the road to St. Cloud at the time. Their lad being flown, they next directed their steps along the boulevards, to the office of the Satinnal, whence, I doubt not, these young Spartans will quietly disperse to their usual 'haunts. In the Assembly, the sitting commenced as late as half-past two. M. Versigny in presenting the peti tion of the students said that it was signed by 200, and had been brought to the Assembly by 1,000. Several members exclaimed that this was a gross ex aggeration. Others begged him to limit himself to the presentation of the petition. M. de Rheumy, reporter on the National Guard Bill, presented on the part of the committee the mo tion for adjourning the elections. This was pre ceded by a statement of the reasons which had induced the committee to take this step. The com mittee demanded urgency for the bill, which had not been presented by the government, because the government stated, through the organ of M. Waisse, that it deemed that step useless. Riancey's re port was but a repetition of what I have stated in previous letters on this subject. M. Dupont do Bussac opposed the urgency, and demanded that the bill should be referred to the bureaux. M. de Itiancey clearly proved to he false the as sertion of the Omstibitimartel that the government had never dreamed of making the elections take place on the 25th March. Atter a debate between MM. Dupont, De Riancey, and Daze, the reference of the motion to the bureaux was rejected, and urgency pronounced. The debate was fixed for Saturday. I mentioned in my letter of yesterday a report that the national guard of Strasbourg had liven dissolved, This resolution is affirmed to have been taken at a cabinet council held latterly. A deputation from the Bus Rhin has sought an interview with the Minister of the Interior on this question, and interpellations, having been addressed to the government in the sitting of to-day, relative to this subject, were fixed to come on in ten days hence. The Bourse is still stagnant. The Fives closed at 91.10, with a full of roe. upon yesterday ; the Threes, at 57.80, with a fall of the same amount. The notion of M. Hemet for reimbursing the tax of the 45 centimes is the chief topic of the press. It moves universal surprise and much disapproba tion. The amount of the tax was 174 millions. M. Ilerryer would reimburse, us he calls it, those who paid one franc during one year, by making them pay a salt tax of two or three francs during four years. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our correspondent at Rome, writing on the sth inst., reports a grave affront offered to the British flag by an Austrian ship of war before Ancona. On the 22nd February, as the British schooner Albert was clearing out of harbour, she was stopped by an armed boat of Austrians from the l'hwnix. The ground of this proceeding was, that the Albert had, in entering the harbour on the 6th February, during foggy weather after sunset, run foul of un Austrian brig-of-war, and carried away her bow sprit. Mr. Moore, the consul, seems to have taken every usual and reasonable step to afford satis faction to the Austrians ; and it is alleged that if the affair was not settled by the 22nd the fault lay entirely with them. The Albert, having been detained several days more, was not suffered to de part until Mr. Moore had made himself personalt responsible to the Austrians for the reparation whiel they demanded. ROME, MARCH 4. _, The news of Lord John Russell's resignation got here yesterday morning; and, strange to say, threw the ecclesiastical party into a temporary eestac , as if the accession of a part or tory mmistry since they can scarcely hope for one composed entire y of jointsof thecelebruted O'Connell tail) would not prove a still more disastrous occurrence for his Holiness's projected dominion in the " flourishing kingdom of England " than the continuation in power of Lord John's moderately liberal cabinet. I hear that the Pope himself considers it to have been a signal and manifest interposition of the hand of God, as doubt lost every great as well as every small event Ina,- be rightly denominated; but it remains to be seen in what sense this interposition is made. Meanwhile the Roman press give s out that " the full of the English ministry is an evident consequence of its violent conduct in the affairs of the ecclesiastical hierarchy." 1 am continually assured that the firm persuasion of his Holiness is that success will attend his operations in England. A prelate of high rank, in a recent audience at the Vatican, expressed his conviction, either sincerely or complimentarily, to the Pope, by exclaiming, "In England, Most Blessed Father, you will not fail to conquer ;" to which his Holiness replied, " Of that I trust there is no doubt." Certainly, so firm a per suasion is the best possible excuse that can be offered for the papal aggression. Exchange on Loudon, 474. GERMANY. The National &dung of Berlin published on the 10th a long and comprehensive memorandum of the Prussian government, in defence of the police it has pursued since the conference of Olmutz. this me morandum is dated the I 1 th of February, at which I time the most perfect good understanding was supposed to subsist between the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna, vet many passages of it contemplate war. AnothCr memorandum, which will probably have pretty much the same contents, is to be drawn up, so it was decided at a cabinet council held in Berlin on the 9th, by Count Alvensleben and M. Le Coq. An answer to the last Austrian note, by no means conciliatory, it is said, has been despatchCd to Vienna. The memorandum first alluded to mentions the French protest against the entrance of all the Aus trian states into the Bund. and says that that event can by no means be desired by Prussia, though, under certain circumstances, she will not oppose it. The I settlement of the Schleswig-I lolstein question is dwelt upon ; Austrian military occupation of Hamburg, &c., made light of; Prussian conduct towards Hesse Cassel justified ; and a constitution promised to that country as the joint gift of Aus tria and Prussia, to be composed of maser vatives, and to crush democrats and anarchists. The breach with the revolution is proclaimed in various parts of this document ; hut the determination of Prussia to uphold the free-trade principle is pro claimed also. The Lloyd says that Messes. lalevre and Persigny have received full power from the French government to treat of Swiss affairs respectively at the courts of Berlin and Vienna. In consequence of the readiness of France to enter into negotiations on the subject, the purpose which was entertained of stationing a protective force on the western fron tiers is, this paper adds, given up. The destruction of the Meeting-ball of the Upper Chamber of the Prussian Parliament by tire is com plete. Nothing was saved, except the parliamentary archives and the library. The conflagration was not allowed to spread. THE KAFFIR WAR. The following let ter from our correspondent, giving a resume of what has occurred since the commence ment of hostilities, will be read with the greatest interest : CAPE TOWN, Jag. 30. On the 6th December Sir Harry Smith left Simint's Bay in the Hennes to proceed a second time to the frontier, at the urgent request of Cul. M'Kiunon, who at last began to apprehend an outbreak in Kaffraria. Sir Harry was on this oceadon accompanied by four companies of the 73rd and some artillery. On the evening of the llth he had reached KingWilliaMsTown,so that in four days he was in the very heart of the disturbed district. From his amount*, after Icing a few days in Katfraria, we were lad to believe that things were in a more hopeful state than they had hitherto been, that the war party was diminishing ta.t, that contentions were rife among those , A hu felt inclined to fight, and, in short, that the danger was over. Sir Harry's friends rejoiced at this, as the Ka ffi r. were doing that for him which his own previous measures had the Met of un doing, inannueh as their quarrelling would frustrate the evil effects of his late policy, which, by putting an alien and a stranger over the (Mika race as their sup:etne chief, had the tendency to unite them together in one body. Ilis auc tions, however, led one to think that frontier mutters were not in such a very prosperous state, and that he had found it necessary to change his policy. In repenting of the very decided step he took in making Mr. Browlee the supnme chief of the Gaikas, he fell hack on his old conciliatory policy, and placed the rebellious chief Sauffilli's neither, Sutu, as the head of all the Gaikas. When Sir Harry did this, there is no doubt that nut only Sandilli and his bro ther, Ante, but every Kaffir in liatfraria, knew that, had the Governor the power, he never would have retunied to the old system of patting them OR the back and telling them to sit still," but that he would have advanced at onee and steadily proceeded to their tiled salting:l6.m ; so that they felt that they had gained something like a victory, and Sanililli knew that he himself, and he only, was the chief of his people. On the 30th Deninver, however, we heard news that put all doubts at an end, for a state of thing; had taken place on the frontier that inure than realised the worst fears of even the greaten alarmists; the Kaffir* had risen on all aides; our handful of troops were in the midst of dangers; the 6th and Vith had antlered severely ; the troops were besieged in their forts, and Sir Harry was at Fort Con, in the gorge of the Amatola hills, where he was hemmed in by the enemy, who lent entire possession of the sur rounding country; the military villages were attacked. and many people murdered; and, worse than all, the Kaffir police had gone over to the enemy, many of them taking with them their ammunition and horses ; and we might soon expect to hear of that .tote of train ing that we had got these into being 141011 used to our serious hurt. _ . No sooner did thin intelligence r,:ach Cape Town than 220 of the 73rd, with about :in Artillery and some mounted Cape Riflemen, were embarked on hoard the Hermes at Simon's Bay, under cononand of Col. Mete, the Quarters Master General. They reached Buffalo on the ith, and were all landed at East London the same day. The news there was of the most alarming nature. The Kaffir; were abroad in thousands, well mounted and armed, showing a savage ferocity in everything they did to an extent never witnessed lietine--even daring the troops to meet them on the open field. Already at the very threshold of the war, more than 50 of our troops had been killed and wounded, showing that the Kahn; are now far from Iwing a despicable enemy. for 1 do not behest, that during the whole course of any previous Kaffir war we ever lost so many men an we have nlready done in this. The Guvenuir had lost no time in proceeding from King William's Town to Fort Cox, while two divisions were sent under Colonels' Ere and M'Kinnou to the skirts of the Amatolas. Colonel M'Kinnon was sent to the Keiskaatina, where he was so hotly received by the Kaffir:4 that he was forced to retrace his steps, which he did, though not without considerable loss both in killed and wounded, and finding un his way bark the dead bodies of Morteen of the lith, who, when out on duty, had been attacked by the enemy, who, after cutting their throats, had stripped them of almost every thing they possessed. The attack on Colonel M'Kinnon was most unexpetted. A friend of mine belonging to one of the regiments told me that before they entered the Kei4- kamma Gorge, where they were attacked, the troops had halted by the side of a small stream that run through an open piece of country. The Hottentot Riflemen had knee haltered their horses, the infantry had piled arms, and while the men were engaged in preparing their morn ing meal numbers of K Airs, with their frau., came up with milk, bread, and such like, which - - they offered for sale s ' They all mingled fres:ly with the soldiers during the hour they halted, and ho little ap prehension was there of an attack that our muskets were not even loaded. It appears, however, that while they were moving thus freely among the soldiers, the Kaffir,' were then holding a meeting about half a mile off in the hush, when it was discussed whether they should not then rush down upon the soldiers and attack them when they were off the guard, and at this meeting some of the Kaffir police belonging to M`Kinnon's division attended. It was resolved that they should not be attacked until they were filing through the pass that they were just about to cuter. No sooner did the troops resume their march than the Kaffirs that had been mixing thus freely among them, and doing them such goods o ffi ces, seized their muskets and ran off to the heights that commanded the pass, from which they commenced pelting them with such a shower of bullets, as had there been anything like good firing among them very few of the troops would have succeeded in reaching the open country. In this affair there were killed I officer and 1 I men, and wounded 2 officers and 7 men. M'Kinnun finding the country thus up in arms, and fearing that Colonel Eyre, who had been sent to the Ka bousie, a river that runs by the eastern flanks of the Am.- tola, might be surprised, took the precaution of ordering him to retire on King William's Town, which he managed to do without any loss. After Colonel M'Kinnon's division reached Fort Cox, they remained with the governor so closely hemmed in by the enemy that crowded the heights all round, that in order to send out a despatch it was neces sary to do so by an escort of 80 mounted riflemen. The 9lnt Regiment fared the worst, for Col. Somerset, the commandant of Fort flare, thinking that Sir Harry and his considerable party at Fort Cux might be in want of provi sions, sent some cattle under an extort of the Cape Mounted Rifles and the 91st. On their way they were attacked with great vigour by a large body of Kaffirs, when a heavy tiring commenced, that was heard from both forts, between which they were about an equal distance. On this tiring being heard at Fort Hare, a reinforcing party was sent,which arrived on the field when the others were retreating. Not withstanding this accession of force, the Kaffir' did nut give in an inch, but fought with a fury and valour that the 91st, experienced in Kaffir war fare, had never seen them display before. Our troops could not stand the heavy fire that cut them up from the thousands of men round them, and retreated. The Kaffirs still followed them up, and so desperate were they in their attack that they rushed on and fought hand in hand with their foe, grappling our soldiers by their cross belts with one hand, while with the other they stabbed them with the heads of their assegais, that they had broken off short for that purpose. Our troops got back to Fort Hare, though with terrible loss, having 25 men and two officers —Lieutenants Gordon and Melvin—killed and 17 wounded. The only thing there was as a set-off against these reverses was the attack on Fort White, which is only a collection of mud huts surrounded by a wall of the same material. The Kaffirs had repeatedly attacked this place, and had been as often driven back, but never with such a loss as on the last occasion. Flushed no doubt with their successes in other quarters, the Kaftirs, under San diUi in person, approached the weal in great numbers, till coining within gun-shot they were received with such a brisk and well sustained fire that they could nut stand it long, but retreated, leaving from 20 to 30 dead on the field, with ;about as many more wounded, among whom was Ants, the brother of Sandilli. After landing the troops at Buffalo Mouth, the Hermes started the same evening for Natal with instructions for the governor to endeavour to get the Zoolahs to attack the Amakosas in the rear, so as to cause a diversion in favour of Sir Harry. Sir Harry appeared rather doubtful of their assistance, and held out the promise of all the cattle they arc able to lift. There are about 71 soldiers in East London. They are chiefly engaged fortifying the commissariat stores, and erecting a sound fort, on which they have placed a 3-pound gun. The officer's families and others are ordered from their houses into barracks, and everything is done that can be thought of to resist an attack, as Buffalo affords the only certain communication between Kaffratia and this colony. Pato, the chief of the Slambie tribes, who inhabit the coast country at present, professes great friendship for us, and a great deal depends on the continua tion of this good-will. And this friendship is not passive, but goes the length of doing the most useful services. For when a party of the Cape Corps was ordered to conveyxome waggons to King William's town, Pato scoured the whole country with a thousand well mounted Kaffirs, each armed with a carbine and bundle of assegais. The communication between King William's Town and East London is only maintained through hits influence, and l'ato's men carry Sir Harries despatches. The Hermes landed 30 men, with Lieut. West and a medical officor ; and as they have brought two 2.1-10. howitzers, they will be able to make a good resistance in the event of being attacked, which is not very improbable, inasmuch u 40 head of cattle were stolen the night before they landed. The governor is back in King William's Town, after leaving Fort Cox surrounded by a guard of more than 200 men. _ . . There can be no doubt that he was deceived, both as to the numbers and equipment of the Kaffir", he went to chas tise, else he would not have been so rash as to ale: nee into a country from which he and his troops were gl a d to retreat within a very few days. Indeed, there is no doubt that, well us Sir Ilarry does know the Kaffir's; valuabl e as hi s authority on this subject may be considered, it is to los feared, that not only has this knowledge been user estimated; but his influence over the Kaitiri ben always looked upon as being very much more Sties from late events, it has turned out to be. Another Villory hna been gained by the troops at Fort Beaufort, where the chief Ilermintis Wan killed, an account of which accompanies this hurried sketch. I have written this in the midst of great hurry and eon- fusion, and nut even time to look over wilt 1 lia;e said. . . . The Hermes has embarked 400 men, together with 150 tons of stores, for the use of the troops, sic., in Kaffraria, and starts this evening, January 3utls, for Buhl& Mouth. Colonel Napier's suggestion in the Times of the lath of December, as to the Buffalo, has been in vs • this , last too iinsi us many mules as can be got are being sent to the frontier. The victory over the Kat River people by the inha bitants of Beaufort has been so decisive as not only to he the Moguls of dispiriting the Kaffir., and giving confidence to the colonists, but giving suffieit nt as- Ruralise that the enemy they have to deal with is anything but a fisrmidable one, and that the difficulty will not he that of putting a stop to the war, whisk Is ill Is' eel enough, but that of preventing anything liac a war fisr the future. The people of the Kat hirer district are chiefly the Hottentots who were located there in what w i se called "the ceded territory" by Sir A. Stockenstrom, in order to form a frontier people intermediate between the Kaffir and the colony. Hitherto they have always acted with us, and liermanus, their chief, slid good wink.° during the lost war. On this outbreak, however, he took a different side, for having collected a rabble, made up of Hottentots and Katfirs, he commenced by plundering tho colony, and at last attacked Fun Beaufort, where he fared so badly that his irregulars werctotally routed, and he him self killed. The most remarkable feature in this defeat is the little progress that these people appear to hare made in the use of tire-arms, for although ilermanteie people had upward.. of WO killed besides wounded, not a white man received a scratch, and among the black is the amount of killed and wounded together is not more than two or three. This affair, coupled with the gallant de- .... fence of Fort White, makes a pima set off n7miust the losses we experienced at first. The Dee and Hermes war steamers arrived at Buffalo Mouth on the 21st January, bringing with them in 011,300 men, who were all landed in a few hours, as the bar of the river was quite smooth, with no surf. The Phtenix, colo nial steamer, will be up in a day or two with 300 more, which will throw a body of 1,600 men into Kalfraria, and of a kind eminently adapted to Inert the Kaffir either on the bill or in the hush. These levies will enable Sir harry to go to ton relief of the several forts that are now in a state of siege, and will soon be in want of provisions ; so in a few days we may expect mine important news. The chief topic of conversation at Buffalo is as to whether the Rifle Cape Corps arc to be trusted. There is no doubt of their having been tampered with by the Rat River Hottentots, that were so signally routed the other day at Fort Beaufort; and people say openly, that on the tutu sion of the gully from that place, the reason why these troops were restrained was that they could not be trusted : Letters have been found written by the men of this corps, in which they expressed great discontent, and they have often been heard to wish for deliverance from the English. At Buffalo there was no intelligence from Fort Hare. At Fort Cox they were so closely hemmed in, that, although the spring from which they are supplied with water is in the immediate neigh • bourhuod, it is necessary to send a watering party of 100 men. At Fort White the Kaffirs have collected in thou sands, occupying the level country which surrounds it, called the Lithe Flats; where they have thrown up en • trenchments and dug ditches to prevent the besieged being relieved from King NVillium's Town. As they have only got a few days' provisions in this fort it is absolutely necessary that it be soon relieved, and Sir Harry Smith has been only waiting for sufficient men to advanee to its relief, and now that he has 1,000 men and two field pieces landed, he will be enabled to proceed at once. Sandilli is very busy on these Mats, where he is in person. At King William's Town they have placed about 40 sentries. Last week some Fingoes were out cutting hay at a little distance from that place, when they were attacked by about 300 Ka tin, whom they succeeded in driving back, alter killing three or four of them, and without any loss to themselves. On the 22nd dispatches came down front Sir harry, who is still at . King William's Town, and with rather a scanty vrardrobc, as he could only bring hisgaddlebain, full from Fort Cur: The commidlicatio c it between King William's Town and Graham's Town isonly kept up by smile Fingoes, who carry despatches between these pluses at the risk of their lives. The last despatches sent by the Governor were taken by some Kaffir,. from Lieut. Drift, where Seyolo holds the line of route with a large body of his men. Some of the Slambies at Buffalo were surprised last night by a body of marauding Guikas, who marched off with II cattle iuul killed one of the Slambics. There was firing heard yester • day at King Willliatn's Town in the direction of Colonel Somerset's camp. Exttrmination! extermination! is ever now in the mouths of the colonists; nothing fur Kollin but extermi nation. The disease cannot he remedied in their unskilful hands, so the patient must be put to death. Farmers, traders, merchants, and winklcrs, unite in the cry, and have all at once come to admire the sure and certain plait the merciless Boers adopted in dealing with their barbarous neighbours; and the coolness these . Dutchmen showed in daily "potting," their brace of Kadin or more, cannot now be sufficiently admired. The cry has been taken up and echoed from mouth to mouth, increasing in damn'r us it advanced, until it gave its last and loudest utterance in Sir Harry's proclamation to destroy and exterminate for ever. Nothing could possibly be more pleasing to the numerous petty merchants and traders than the prospect of a war of such a nature, which they know must extend over a very considerable period of time, and thus prolong thu stay of large bodies of troops on the frontier, whom they will be able to supply with the necessaries of life ut the most exorbitant and scandalous prices. Any one that danw to harbour a thought, far less express a word of compassion fur these brave but unfortunate people that are now resisting the advance of invaders who they believe seek to take from them their country and to extinguish their race, will at once be set down for a fool. And if he should charac terise this idea of extermination ir something dreadful, inhuman, and impracticable, they will not hesitate to call him disaffected to that government which they themselves have only been called from abusing by the fur inure im portant pressure of their own individual affairs. Farmers are to the full as interested in this outcry against the Kadin as the winkles; and assuredly were Kalfraria a less beau tiful country than it is, and did no rattle low pleasantly from out of the green kluots of its hills, wa should hear much less of the savage and demoniacal character of its inhabitants. It has been the custom since this outbreak to supply the public from week to week with narrations, in which we are told of the tortures and sufferings that have been inflicted on frontier people ; but generally the week following the de tailed account, we find that they are either contradicted, or, what is the same thing, they arc said to want confirmation. Now, it is the horrid fate of women said to have been mur dered in the military villages that is descrilxst to us, with a minuteness of detail that is absolutely terrifying; but the women, unfortunately for our alarmists, are all sound and whole, and we are not sure that they were not conveyed to places of safety by those enemies who in all their barbarity have nevertheless sufficient gallantry to respect a woman's weakness and extend to her their pro tection : another time it is so distinctly told us that three men are murdered, that there can be uo rea sonable ground for doubt on the subject, for their names are given, and the degree of kindred in which they stand to each other, when, to ! in the very next tap er we arc told in terms just as distinct as before that it is all a mistake ; that Bear Moorereft and his son are nut dead, but that they are still alive and kicking. One woman that had the misfortune to have her clothes taken front her is sym pathised with as much as if it had been her skin that was stripped off, and there is no name had enough fur these barbarous wretches who could do such a thing, forgetting all the while that a Kaffir, did he judge by his own feelings of what is agreeable, could hardly think, that to be without clothes, was a very dreadful suffering, seeing that to him self the condition of nudity is nearly one of perfect hap piness. The evil effects of this terrifying gossip already begins to show itself. Our hearts begin to quail, and stout burghers are worse than children terrified by their nurse's tales, who refuse to go out into the dark unless clinging to her skirts, for they refuse to go to the front at all ; and some, rather than go, have ignobly turned their backs and fled. To such an extent has this evil practice of story telling been carried that a frontier journal finds it necessary to say it " cannot urge too strongly upon the attention of the people the importance of discountenancing exaggerated rumours in reference to the savage enemy." " The power of the foe is wonderfully magnified, and the consequence is that persons even of courageous hearts are led to quail. Thus shadows have struck more terror to the soul of these brave burghers than possibly could the substance of ten thousand Katfirs, for the Graham's Town Journal goes on to say that to these (which are mostly to be sought for in its own columns) "is to be attributed the disinclination which so many evince to move to the front." The efforts of the Kaffirs have been chiefly directed against those who hold military possession of the country between the Keiskamma and the Kei, and which they nut very un reasonably believe to be theirs and theirs only, because it was there they were bred and born—because their old Gaikas grave is at the bottom of a deep glen in the Ama tola hills. And that this is the case, an extract from the Cape Town Mail goes to prove :—" Very few Kaffirs had entered the colony. The marauders within the boundary are believed to he mostly those Kadin who were lately in the service of the colonists." It mug not, however, be understood that from this there is no danger, or that the Kaffirs are not in earnest. As suredly they are; and the danger is great and imminent. Sir Harry's hands must be strengthened, and the Karnes must first be shown the utter hopelessness of striving against England, before they can conic to be dealt with in any other way. But it will be well after the stitife is over, and when colonial and Kaffir claims come to be adjudicated by , men living at a distance from the scene of those exploits, ; that they should know that these people are not the blood thirsty demons they are made out to bo—that, like a certain 5