The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-14 00:00:00

THE CAPE MAIL.

THE KAFFIR WAR.

ARRIVAL OP THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
Ass steamer, the Queen of the South, Captain 0.
ESPr arrived is Plymouth Sound yesterday morn-
ing. with the mails, pmeengers, and a general cargo.
Dais, of allow : —Calcutta, Sept. 16 ; Sand Haag,
20 Mahe* 1113 • Point de Oalle, Oct. 2 ; Mauritius,
14; of Good Hope, Nov. 6 ; St. Helena, 16 ;
19 ; St. Vincent, 29.
The mails in charge of Commander Wharton. RN.,
the mail agent, were landed at Plymouth by the
Monarch, river steamer, and received bier:arr.Li
Markin, the postmaster of Plyznoutg, and
by the mail tan at 12 dclock at noon. The
letters sell gegere were thus in London and Liver-
pool, sad at great towns of the north, last evening,
read y brisling this ( I mieley) morning.
The isneeriirgie a list of her passengers :
Fees Illensilks he the Clips—Captain 0r.,, R.C.S.,
god evacuee Per Ilealswil hem Cairene—Mrs. llorwr.
ilesiewit dam sismets, Mrs. Twentyman, Lav-
ine/4m Km Sheriff, and Mr. °mustn't.
Poem Naltne—Pin. Liskead, Wee children and servant,
Mokmand Min. Whistler, Captain Cadenhead, Mn. Paw
algid and servant, and Mrs. Carr and servant.
retsOsylen—Mrs. (2), Missend Master /hunker, Hrs.
Seim* Captain Lewis and servant, sad Lim tenant
Mashie. From Manritisa—Mrs. Colonel. Guy, and Le
Visseentete Vellannys. From the Cape of Good Hops—
MI Rev. Mr. tad Mts. Recliner, the Misses Buckner,
(1),
and Rem
sbillson_i tbs Hon. Mrs. Erskine, and tee
lemalossmant • Ms Rinke, two children, and one female
servost New sad eirld, and on* female servant ;
eke Mss. E. B. !Vim General Palmer, sad Lieut.-Gen.
Herd/.

Her Majesty's Vessel.: The Sparan arrived in
Table Bay October 13th, from Plymouth, and sailed
as the 17th for Madras. The Styx arrived is Table
Bay from flimon's Bay, October 20th, and sailed
thence for Bast London, October 2t'tb, and arrived in
Algal Bay, November 2nd. The Hydra sailed from
Algot Bay, October 27th, for Bird Islands, and arrived
is Simovers Bay, October 30th. The Sarah Sands
spoke to the Triton. The Firefly and Tortoise were
at Ascension when the Queen of the South left that
island. The brigantine Dart, and the Castor, with
Rag of Commodore Wyvill, and the Hydra, were in
Simon's Bay on the 3rd of November.
Mad Steamers:—The Great Britain, Captain B.
Matthews, arrived at the Cape, in Table Bay, Oct.
10, and sailed on the 17th for Port Philip. The Sir
Robert Peel arrived in Table Bay, Oct. 10, from
Port Natal, and sailed un the 27th fur Port Natal.
The Cleopatra arrived in Table Bay, Oct. 23, from
Plymouth, and sailed on the 30th foe Sydney. The
Indiana arrived is Table Bay, Oct. 27, from Plymouth,
and sailed 30th for the Mauritius and Calcutta. The
Sarah Sands, four masted steamer, arrived in Table
Bay, Nov. 6, from Liverpool and Queeustown. The
Melbourne was met at St. Vincen.'s on the 29th of
November, getting on very well, she was going to
coal the day the Queen of the Sou. left. The Teviot I
mail steamer was also at St. Yin. (nt's. The Lady
Jocelyn arrived at the Mauritius, Oct. 9, and sailed
foe India the 11th. The Mirbinger reached Madras
on the 23rd.
The Queen of the South left l'uleutta on the 13th
September and the Sand H. ads uu the 21st, her de-
tentioo in the river having been caused by the tides.
She arrived at Madras uu the 24th, and left the next
day for Point de Calle, w hieh sho reached on the
30th, beating in this run the Peninsular and Oriental
steamer Precursor by flee hours. Left again on the
2nd inst., and arrived at Mauritius on the 12th,
having been short of feel for three days previous.
Started again for the Cape on the 14th. On the
20th, at 1 a.m., she earned away one blade of
the screw, snit loosening the other so much as to
require very earl working of the engines •
winds variable sad light. On the 24th experienced
six hoomestoppege for wane regalia to the engines.
on the nth they were obliged to put the ship under
ea mmonot of the crew being in such a
erimpiad Matm it blowing a gel.• from the westward,
wit a Ma at the time. On the 27th and 26th,1
the pole ' and the sea clutinuing to run
very high, they hove too nadir close reefed mats.
top-sail and try-mails. On the 29th the wind mode-
rating, made sail and proceeded under half steam,
and reached Binion's Bay the same day at 7 p.m.
The Westward American screw steamer was at
Aseramion, Nov.lo, with emigrants from New York
for Past Phillip. She was detained for fool, there
being one tw her there. The Coromandel mad

Earl of Charisma were left at St. Ilelens on thei
16th November.
The Queen of the South brought 100,000 rupees
from India, fur the Oriental Bank at Mauritius.
' The following are extracts from the monthly sum-
mary of the nape Thaw Mail:
TM war is not yet brought to a elem. Operatiess of the
isest 1/110f014 eaten an, up to the last accounts, tieing
carried es aghast the Kafiri, who, altbongh repeatedly
attacked, dispersed, pe-sued, and kills I is groat Lumbers,
are neither, as yet, reduced to submission ear drivels acmes
the Eh.
Early in the swath, following up his secemefel attack
glom the Waterkloof, which has since remained in the us-
disturbed po,ession of the troops, General Cathcart pee
ceedrd is person to select a spot for the construction of a
del. indite pelt which should command the upper panes
leading hum the Antatolas into the colony, end tiled tor this
port -se upen a poeitioe at the lout of the Hog's Beek, opposite
the raised military village of Auckland. Here he assem-
bled a coesiderable force, and ',bind it under the command
of Lieet.-Col. Eyre, with orders "to perambulate and
effectually clear oat the Amatolas, sad In the first place to
search out the Mager of the rebel Uithaalder." This
patrol. which *insisted of the 73rei Regt. three eonspasiee
of the 60tn, Anhui:ice's Hone, Campbell's Flagon, the
Kat Ito er key, two Delgado of rockets, and a properties
of the Cape Mounted Rifles, started before daybreak es
the nth, and oa the following day information was received
that toe gallant colonel bad already surprised and bunt
Uithaelder's auger, without any casualties on the pert of
the troops. The fugitives were pursued into the Gale
Valley ; and it would spear that ever since that period
the patrol, with Yahoos reinforcemeats, have been inces-
santly engaged set teaching and following up the lurking

I- Various repels bath boom bought in of the desire of the
hostile chief SD diegandloss the weir, but to the terms of un-
conditional aarrthder insists/ as by Genoa! Ca-heart they
evince insuperable retransmits. Mecum sad with
the main b dy of the tiailta Kalifs, madams s lad shelter
in the extensive fames whisk air the Amato asesauthes;
but it is know. did they en Ideeletea,deelellnle of
ammunition; sad, Judging hem the emulated
condeion of the marauding parties y Wks in
with and shot down by the patrols, their ones numerous
herds ef cattle must be nearly all consumed.
The reward of 6001. offered by General Cathcart for
the capture of the rebel Hottentot chief Uithaelder is still
fruitless of the desired result. His follower,, who do not seem
to fraternise cordially with their Kaffir allies, are now much
dispersed. In the early part .f the month a party of them
succeeded in carrying off three spans (24) mules from near
the camp at Bash Neck. They were pursued, and 16 of
the mules retaken and on the following day, a pitied of
du of the Rife Brigade, under Lieut. the Hos. L. Curios,
It 8., surprised the marauders in the wooded ravines of the
Winterburg about to commence 'feast, having daughtered
seven cf the mules, five of which they had in parts on dif-
ferent fires, and the remainder ready to go on. On the
approach of the Rides they took to eight, but several of
them were shot. "It was absolutely frightful," writes an
eye-witness, "to behold their pallid and emaciated coon-
trimmers, reminding one of the dried mummies of Egypt."
We have to lament the loss, this month, of another Bri-
tish officer, Capt. HUMS, of the 12th Regiment, who fell
is the discharge of his duty, though not se a soldier would
wish to fall. is the Geld of open fight. While a detachmeat
of the 12th were oat, nat:er his cosamatiO, eseorting a drove
of contractor's tattle from Driver's Hill, near Graham's
Town, to Fort Peddle, the captain's horse returned to camp,
with blood upon the saddle ; and on search being mods, the
bodies of the unfortunate officer, cruelly mangled, two men
of the 12th, and a civilian, named Riley, were found at the
Clay Pits, some miles front town. It appear' that Captain
Hearne with the three others, had been in rear of the escort,
when they were cut off by an ansbureade and savagely
butchered. The bodies were brought into Graham's Tows
foe basement ; sad great exertions were made to trace the
spoor of the mrsiderm, bat without success.
By every pest teem the frostier we continue to hear of
petty catt/e•liftiap, at widely distant parts of the errantry,
followed, in mist katasoro, by the pond' sad recapture
ol a poetics of the Wry, sad the shooting of ems of the
depredators.
A very spirited, thump
_sreasessefol, stump was mode
to capture the Ala arowii. by /kat. Wthlmose of lb.
Cap. Mounted Rids, The slosmanthe is throepy pt,
described :—" It Mae rat Me ease eleggeisk i wet
moo, who, on stria, hem appose* la emery dinars,
with ft small party of hi. ammo aims keressa or Urea
mounted Esim with ose 'Wag Is leart, who woe ovi-
thatly a thief. BMW the roasted mes, then wore at
hand sewed Krim es Is, sir whole somelderahly oat-
nuattibei port, with lint Whitmore. He at
saes bow ther. apes main a dash at the hors-
the peat tahkg sae Ormils% apparently to engage
hie atkomko the the chief tabby oredear, with only a
sellethy Mostimr. Naar Whitmore, however, eras not
to ha drawn MO@ meat, sod iseteady decided upon
• the Wier game. The cease was a severe the, in
the Nano et 'bids several shoes with /red at the fagitive,
but it wield appear without alba. The braes tharsoter
of
the emery owl dr Mks epos/ at whisk it was
mosesd sees bops he 11l the banes, red towards tho
end of the chase Mr. hard !dark ealy or-
eamsamlied by Ilmigerat loarks who know thadill and re-
esga ised him Odle Wass Om. Lint. itleitaere
bad ia the arm st Om o
akese pith/ seadtheably IS
kW, ad aid theme iege be IS. dart well have ereseeded la
septudag Wm. Os somplor adissetiss sills stood.
As it me.he nlk leathern UPI yards of him, when
wshistplthpi Is. the these gal sztessive bash Wash
some the ban at the iwth Ithartria. To have Mond
bads whit adagio Mom wadi bath heft meson,
as/ blase Os theme wee rothethrly aleaadonsd."
Oa the Oh Orshar, an iatentew took place between
General Cotheart mad the Aisle of the Slambis tribes, at
Tort ilmay. The chief% present were: Pato, Cobs'
Cusp, Toth, Umbria, Mokpo, Jan Tomos, and Owed,
'ad Nay mother, Nimbi, being all than /Timbre, with the
fa ethos fryer.
lita eos re
days after this interview the abseat chief, thyole,
delleseed himself op, sad has ever ethos been kept in close
lONA • real polder is whisk Chasid Catthort now lads
himself to • wriftesey Oat at whew, ass renoseserege be
may satertata etas, of pow or war, dr tobablieste of
the missy are loft I. almost tutulgnorme. Prima the
est memo of oreaunictstromme which characterised the
gorged Wien ad pales makes of his prods...moo, watt
=gathee bes_
hit pews/ le the Ober tamale of with-
arm/ ardor hem the solosil
path, s: l
r ether hamithao, thereto's, whisk elas ale-
mi o
dos lth will obtain the
paha*e ot rgots Is whighftlr:
sOy et
be by st
after the desamethe osthemmed with theway war chit
bess psMhbsil he a Illso Dirk. Thee is set, primps, a
loghimato men et sompielst no the poet of Oa ealemier,
lammesis es they as hose no right te ammo/ ithtegmetha
eallegesse to swaths* seareersol thaw* that sir-
=ll married ea by the ovule and at the ammo of the
athatry ; bat it my the w/ kg the het, if the
etheathe nth home by the aelosid pear ago has deer or
oesolormt thee ftht matheelly he method.
The emlalsises et the Doti iota and Church
has just allorkedirm daily in Caps Tows kr the last
three mobs. of 66 midair' and Wan, from
all parts of the odosy. the stheni, sad Natal, under
the moderdsedap et dr Dor. Dr uses.. of /wallow
dam. The posesedigr. whirl' wee dremetaised through-
out by dossema sal god kellege appear to have given
great eselthedes to IS hair and important them of
dr ismer mky, whose seekekelkal sake axe saw en-
tirely under the goveimment of thsk gegemoatadthe in
that seembly.
Dimperdis hoe been WWI /261hwit Milne st the
think spas the or/ leathwitylViteh
Oelsoiell Chart Billir&e'moodege ths awl laity
bath hoes held en Ceps Tows to soadlise re out R O.
those semoions, the twripareles el high sal Imam& have
ems set' with dieting semigloss 'et thsk mama
views.—the former appeodag, and the Lew, who tem Os
minority, wrongly pramsdag spirit the wain of the pro-
posed measure.
The Great Britain steamer arrived here on the 10th of
Osesber, all well. Her presage oat had been protracted by
a /sere cry of fuel, in consequence of which, when two
days past St. Heleas, she put back to that Wand, sad the
store of coals there having beta exhausted by previews
steamers, she was obliged, after a delay of four days, to
scotartllected. again with such firewood as could be hastily

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