The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 27.
Ten government version of the affair between the
emigrant beers and the troops under Sir Hanav
SMITH on the 29th of August is ominous of protracted
and expensive
h. operations, that mead lead to any satis-
factory mes
The boors have been beaten and dispersed ; but
what is to be done next P The notifications published'
at Cape Town on the 30th of August and 9th of Sep-
tember betray, on the part of the gov.ernment. either
an over-eethnate of the advantage gained, or an at-
tempt to conceal the full extent of their difficulties.
In the first it was proclaimed that the boors were
lying like hunted deer, and unlikely to
make a stand. In the second it was ad-
mitted that they bad only fallen hack on a strong
porition, from which they were driven, indeed, but
after considerable lam had been sustained by the go-
vernment forces. It is said, and we believe it, that
they have dispersed in all directions ; but they are
men accustomed to • nomads life. They are in a
country too extensive, too difficu'l, and too little
known, to admit of their being caught ; and there
appears no reason whence we should infer that this
one defeat will break the indomitable spirit dis-
played in the unequal struggle they have waged
with the British government for upwards of thirty
years.
The loss of life in the action at Bloem Pleats has
been great on both sides in comparison to the numbers
engaged, and the victory of her Majesty's troops has
not advanced matters one hair-breadth nearer to a
settlement. The emigrant bons may be compelled
to eilleqsish their settlements within the Vaal Neer •
Sir MUST SMITH may, SI he threatens, confiscate;
the mese y whisk moose of the boors have left in the
odoey i bat mak treatment will only increase their
examperades eel unwillingness to submit to the
Bridle geoseemst. If they are to be allowed to
form *mediated beyond the Vaal River in the
maw imam sad on the same terms as
they were kraerly allowed to do within it,
lye me noddy that has been gained by their disown-
Mare bat the segaisition of their vacated lands for
the British government by a forcible process of very
questionable jade.. If they are to be followed to
every new neon to which they may shift their tents,
vrilk xuse sto acknowledge British sovereignty,
the mineneence will be an interminable succession of
maderons fights like that of Bloom Pleats. The
areex-
that would be entailed upon this country
by sash a course of procedure it is impossible to oon-
jedare beforehand ; and the waste of life must neces-
wily be great both among the British troops and
the misguided emigrate, who have many qualities
that command reelect.
While we condemn these men for the lack of judg-
meet, sr worse, which has impelled them to enter upon
aleisse struggle for the attainment of an object
ith.•• cannot be encoded to them, we must not over-
look the apology they can offer for their errors. These
beers, be it remembered, were; once happy and
Gestated subjects of the British drown; residing and
initivadag lands within the limits of the Cape eddy.
They wise driven thence by bad, by mischievous, by
Weide governments; they were teased out of the
tmridwi.eef the emleay ; they. cast off their allegiance
mad aught Impgineen ad epeadenos at Natal.
=nuclide/bid by our colonial system, they un-
tied weggoes, turned loose their Rooks,
lammed beam set to work cultivating the fertile land
es whisk SW had Knitted, which, it may with
truth be sinelei. they had discovered; and formed
that meet of loan rough republican government
which best suite their habits and traditions, and
which, it may be, is also most fitted to promote oolo-
nial prosperity. They rescued Natal from nature.
lAd what was their reward ? They were followed
thither by the British authorities; the country to
which they had pioneered the way was declared to
be British territory ; their lands, their farms, were
claimed; their flocks were treated as tree ;
British sovereignty was proclaimed ; their • pend-
ing" and government were overturned; the oath of
21" to Queen Vic-rosily was predated to them
wese hand, and hard terms on which to hold
W ruler her Majesty on the other ; government
WU Willi to protect the natives against their alleged
bet improven barbarities. They were libelled es
dive eiders; and their representative, after travel-
beg Amanda of miles with their remonstrances, wee
set allowed to enter the Queen's hones.. The mew
comp was, that again they resolved to fly from Go-
sandlellee government; ones more they gathered
Megabit their wives, their children, their finks, and
" Ward'
Of these truths Sir Hal aT SMITH was folly aware
in Feleury last. The following atrikiag deeeription
Is extracted from one of his despatched dated at
pisty.manyinhum Natal, on the 10th of that math:
La amok* the Mreekbertr nanustains I met • eon•
sitioriableameshor of the Dutch farmer' heath.' " irking,"
or sbenassing their farms with their flocks and herds,
are. This, to • small extent, I wee prepared for, from a
lepers d the lisialtasat governor, which I have Wray
wearied to your isediap, that many lamina had aban-
door their bras apes the Blip Mier, leaving their
mops sersoilleturather than fulfil the iibligniadic of
Issued by the lieutenant. governor in council,
oilsetheirtkeribet that thine inhabitants should take the oath
allegianse—a immure the taped= pi which ic
to re 11=4 rods to huh ce
. Oa my arrival at the rot
of the Dssasmhssm ore- Mier I sus+ almost i aralyeed to
where the whir tithe population, with few neeptises,
trade, I " I on this side of the mountain. are tee-
pikr rail . sew prevell—tee smantry is intersected hr serf-
dom*, sibeater fined/ dessente, sad these families
were eopeoul to • susssham which I never before saw
ewribrii, amp% to Memeaes kevesra of Portugal, when
he whole of the eseelseen at that part of the seat of war
abiedoned their terse end led. The scene here 7.17'1
heart-rending. I ormabled all the men near me
the means of • Mr. Pereries, a shrewd, sensible mesa,
had recently been in the rimy to lay the subject of dis-
satisfaction of his efflutryeasa berm the governor, when
he wee unfortunately rarer an audience, and returned
after so keg a ourney expressing himself as the feelings of
• proud and injured ran would naturally prompt. At this
meeting I was received r if among my own family. I
heard tee various our of complaint—some I agar as
well-grousiled, other es imaginary ; but all expertly. of a
want of cardere and libenlity as to land on the per at
weramea I exerted my influence among them to induce
them to remain for the moment where they were, with their