The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE. FEB.,
Intelligence from Bagdad states that there 1.1.
been a great deal of fighting between the Arah. and
the Turkish Nisums. Five hamlets' of the fortes r
attacked 200 'Turkish horsemen. The latter (Anima
them, killed :30 men, and wounded Sheik Aznil, their
chief, and pursued them us far as Ahantar, hours
distant from Bugdal Mali Paella, and Machoidi

Puttut of Basra, were actively preparing for the
campaign ; 6,000 regular troopt, infantry and cavalry,
were ready for action, mid in the case• of the iegoe•ia-
tiois opened through the medium of the foreign enn-
•uls fading, they were to attack the Arab and bring
them to subjection. From Kurdi,tan aceuttah are
favourable to the interests of the Porte, and it NY e.

anticipated that the mission of Nana Paella tignitt•l
Suleytnanieli would have terminated suece,stally.
From Syria all is satisfactory.

1,01111 & ••• La" aa an.•••,•.,••••... •
Sir Stratford (Aiming gays to the inhabitant, of

Pcra one of the most splendid bails that has vur
been given in the Levant : upwards of 1,600 invizt-
dons were issued.

COLONIAL.

CAPE OF 6001) HOPE.

Tho following letter, written by a turrespon-
lent, gives an exact picture of the state of allltirs iu
latish Kaffiaiiu:

CAPE TOWN. Mr. 12.

In my letter of the rith inst. I mentioned to you that
Quarana, the chief of the krial to which the stolen ox was
traced, hail isiguitied his ilesie: of not only repaying the ori-
ginal tine of four bullocks fur that theft; but also of paying
the Hue of twenty head of rattle forhaving re4cued the tour
bullocks while they were beingcarried off by the police, as
well as of giving up the two guns, together with the :use-
gals that were wall on the cession of that rescue. This
Colonel M.K innon, the emumandant of British Kalfrarki,
stated in his despatch of :nth ult. to the Gov-enter. It
appear., however, that the Kaffir, have since changed their
minds on the subjeet, and have refried to pay these tines.
firandilli, the lately deposed chief of the tiaika. is v's ith
great reason believed to Ile the chief cause of this r,-vista ncr,
acting no doubt upon people restless under rule,
and ever imbued to throw it WI. This opposition to the
government is strongly manifested at this moment, anal
there is every reason to think that the lute nteasure of the
Govenior's, by which hi:placed an Englishman over
people, has gone a good way to alb nate the whole
tribe, us there is no doubt that even the well affected to us
feel the wet as an insult done them, and think they see in
it the commencement of a system that will cud with the
extinction of their rare.

It ie just poi,,ible that Sir Harry did not quite see to wlrtt
conwipteneeA the de1...11..1'0i. ..uprente chief of the Otiik.t4.
and the incisting hal witlt lda power, would
lead, and what nu tt,w policy would neet,,it.tte

his i'ollowing, else lie would not have left Kaffraritt su s,“.n
as ho did. Had he merely deposed Sandilli to replace him
IT some subordinate chief who was well dispo,ol to hint,
his excellency might have had a right to turn the deaf
ear he did to the requisitions from the frontier emo-
Moto for him to prolong his stay, because be could hove
counted on leaving behind him a party among the Kadin
that were in his power, and there would have lain
no national feeling outraged. But how could he think
he could so easily, and for ever, !11l aside a hereditary rote
of chieftains, to replace the loot of them by an alien, mah-
out making implacable enemies both of him he deposed as
well as of the whole race of nomadic warriors over w horn
his ancestors had at long ruled, and under whose conduct
they had advanced from the interior of Africa to where
they now are, in the teeth of hostile nations, whom tlo y
had not only conquered but in some eases made shin, , ~t ?
Above all, how could he expect this measure to sot tes..-
fat while Sandilli himself was left among his
people ? Can it be believed that Sandilli would
think himself the less a chieftain because " Old
" Father Smith," as he is called, read a proclamation, set-
ting forth that he had ceased to he one, or that his people
would ever cease to regard hint as such, so long an he re-
mained among them? Certainly not; and when Sir (lorry
tells the Kaffir chiefs that he means to rule for the future
without their assistance, then, it is evident, ho will have to
strengthen his power by some other means.
By this time Sir Harry no doubt sees that his new system
can only be supported by more troops and the four com-
panies of the .3rd, with the artillery that he brought up
with him in the Hermes war-steamer, and landed on the
9th inst. at Buffalo Mouth, the key of Kaffmria, together
with the 91st and Cape Mounted Rifles, that :Ire ordered to
meet him at King William's Town. It is the first application
of that force he will find he can never do without so long as
he maintains his present svotem—a system w hick if souAt
to he carried out nothing Alert of extermination will ac, OIW
plish, and which will compel him to hunt his opponents
down like wild beasts.

Dec. 17.—8 y a letter from Colonel 31•Kiniton to the
'oven-tor, but written before the arrival of the hater at
King Williant's Town, the war party is said to have lost
its influence; and the next day Sir Barry, in his notice,
congratulates the people on the frontier, amongst other
things, on the divided state of the Kaffirs, though his assu-
rance, at the same time, of his having a force amply mall-
eient to put them down, would lead one to think that he
does not consider their dissensions to be of much 011,U-
quence. It may be, however, that this quarrelling is a for-
tunate thing for Sir Harry, inasmuch as by disuniting thorn
they will be the more easily subdued. They are doing ha
him that which he himself was nearly undoing,
strange to say, he congratulates the people on that which
his own policy really meant to counteract. For if he con-
gratulates them on the prc.ent divided state of the Kaffirl,
it will be upon that which his own measures really went to
neutralise, and it will be then evident that when he left his
" old frontier system " he did not quite see to what results
the adoption of his new policy would lead, for in their union,
which the investing Mr. Brownlee with the chieftainship
of the Gaikas went to effect, lay his weakness.
Though the governor's notice is intended to allay any
feeling of alarm that may be felt among the colonists it can-
not be said to have yet had that effect, fur in this evening's
intelligence from Graham's Town, it is mid that all the
operations of industry are paralyzed, and ruin and &sway
is spread along the whole line of frontier. The farmers are
busily engaged driving their sheep and cattle into the
colony, and hundreds of sheep have died on the journey
from overdriving and want of food and water. Tome Of
the fanners that had left their farms before the governor's
first visit, and returned to them on the strength of hi: pro-
chunation that all was quiet, have again left them, and so
convinced arc some of them that a Kaffir invasion is inevi-
table, and that the frontier will long remain in an unsettled
condition, that they have made arrangements never to re-
turn there again. Their fears rest upon the influence