The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

ALGIERS.

The town of Dar-ben-Abdallah is to become the
principal city of the subdivision of Mostaganem, and
is in future to be called Bugeaudville, in memory of
Marshal the Duke of Isly.
The Chamber of Commerce of Oran, in Algeria,
has written to the Chamber of Commerce of Toulon,
to state that the coral fishery along the coast of than
Is becoming more and more important every year.
In 1850, there were only three vessels occupied with
the trade; at the end of 1851 there were 31 ; and at
present there are 35. In 1851, in six months, five
vessels, with five men each on board, brought up
about 1,500 kilogs. of coral, worth about 45,000 f.
All the vessels engaged in the trade are Genoese or
Spanish, and it might be worth the while of French
shipowners to take part in the trade.

THE KAFFIIt WAR.

The following are extracts from a letter just re-
oeived from the Cape :
Jan. 30.
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The steamer will take home some despatcl;es of Sir
Harry's, announcing " decisive blows and heavy tones "
inflicted on the Kaffir., which, unfortunately, are pleasing
fictions. We send you the latest issue of the Cape Mail,
one of the best written and most temperate journals, to
show how little they are dejected or subdued, and how
boldly they are continuing their marauding. It ought not
to be called " war," for they hardly ever do any wanton
mischief, or attack our parties gratuitously: all they
went is the cattle, and it is only when opposed in this oh-
' ject that they have recourse to arms and violence. Some 20
or 30 years ago such proceedings were common in the up-
per provinces of India by the Cloojure end Ksughurs, the
being the two wont tribes. But what would have been said
if the officers had sent for 10,000 men, and made
war upon these clans, driving them out of their own
lands, and taking away their cattle; cutting down the
crops they had sown, and thus depriving them of every
means of honest maintenance? Would it not have been
said, and most justly said, that we were driving them to
crime by abutting the door of amendment ant improve-
ment ? Yet this is what has been going on by Sir Harry
Smith in this colony, and at intervals fur nearly 20 years
past ; and is most energetically practised just now. Only
look at this lest expedition across the leis Why was It
undertaken ? What were its objects ? Sundry individuals
of sundry tribes had st various times within
the year committed depredations at various points of
the frontier ; and it was suspected (not known) that a
chief named Kreli allowed the stolen cattle to bo pastured
in his lands. Moreover, it was known that some indivi-
duals of the offending tribes had free acres. to his country,
and that he was on friendly terms with other chieftains
who were hostile to us ; but, be it remarked, neither he nor
his people had appeared in arms against us, nor were any
of the robberies ever attributed to them. How have we
treated this neutral party ? General Somerset, with
from 2,000 to 3,000 men, entered his country and swept it
from end to end, carrying off all the flocks and herds
they could And to the number of 60,000 of the former, and
30,000 of the latter. But let it not be forgotten that no one
has yet ventured to assert, or insinuate that among them
was found one single beast belogging to the colony, al-
though from brands and other marks every individual is
immediately rreaKni•able. I leave it to any looker-on to
say what encouragement this conduct will be for other
tribes to abstain from hostilities against us. I leave it to
' Englishmen in general to ea y whether such cattle forays
are worthy employment fur British soldiers and officers in
the nineteenth century.