The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'C?ock.

As we have no accounts of the Great Western, it
may be concluded that the damage she sustained in
the dreadful hurricane, which she encountered in her
outward voyage to America, proved more serious than
was at first supposed, and that it was found necessary
to detain her at New York for repairs beyond the day
appointed for her departure.

M. Ouvrard, the distinguished financier, died yes-
terday in the 78th year of his age. This gentleman
figured prominently in the great events of the first
French Revolution, the Republic, the Consulate, the
Empire, the Restoration and the Revolution of 1830.

Oar advices from the Cape of Good Hope are by
her Majesty's ship Sappho, 16, Corn. Gambier, ar-
rived at Spithead, with dates from Cape Town to the
3rd, and from Simon's Bay to the 4th September.
The Apollo had arrived from Monte Video, and pro-
ceeded to Waterloo Bay to land her troops, in at-
tempt:ng which she lost all ber anchors, and was
nearly wrecked while endeavouring to get under way.
She returned to Simon's Bay with the soldiers still on
boar,l, but was to sail for Algoa Bay, where it was
intended they should disembark.
The President, 30, Capt. Stanley, with the flag of
the Commander-in-Chief, and the Snake, 16, Com-
mander
Brown, were at the Mauritius. Rear-Admi-
ral Dacres had dispatched the Thunderbolt steam-
sloop, Commander Boyle, through the Mozambique
Channel to the Cape, with orders for all cruisers to
join him without delay. The Helena, 10, Commander
Sir C. Ricketts, was still at Simon's Bay. She had
lost eighteen men by fever and dysentery, but no
officer. The Cleopatra, 26, Capt. Wyville, had cap-
tured, between the Mozambique and Quillimane, a
large barque, the Constantia, of Rio, fitted as a whaler,
but engaged in the slave-trade.
We publish in another page the official dispatches
of Sir A. Stockenstrom, Colonel Ilan, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Johnstone, to the Commander-in-Chief, de-
tailing the operations conducted by these officers
against the Kaffirs in the Amatola mountains, to
which we have already referred.
The news from the camp of Sir Peregrine Maitland,
at Fort Beresford, is scanty. There had been no
general enmement near the month of the Buffalo as
was expected ; so that we presume the Guikas must
have given his Excellency the slip as the Kaffirs did
Sir A. Stockenstrom in the Amatola range. Sir
Andries was with his division at the Kabuzi, where
Colonel Johnstone was to join him, when they would
proceed to Krcilis country for cattle. Colonel Somerset
had returned with the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps, to
Fort Peddle to refresh the horses, being completely
worn out, and as nothing important could be under-
taken without cavalry, the progress of the war might
be considered for the time suspended. A letter from
the army in Kaffirland shows the wretched plight to
which horses, men, and oxen were reduced. The
writer says :
We are encamped not far from Fort Beresford (left hank
of the Buffalo), and are busy throwing up entrenchments
and constructing redoubts ; it being the intention of his
Excellency the Governor to establish here a strong post of
infantry, and to suspend operations until October, by which
time, it is hoped, the horses and working oxen will be fit for
active service. A strong post is also to be established at Line
Drift, on the Kieskamma, for the purpose of keeping the
communication open between this part and the mouth of the
Fish River. Colonel Hare is encamped at Fort White, and
is equclly as bad off as ourselves ; in fact, never were field
operations commenced under more untoward circumstances.
We have never had a sufficiency of food. With biscuit we
arc very moderately supplied, and of cattle for slaughter we
are again getting very short. With all this, the labour of
traversing the Amatola has been very severe, and which hes
been in great part effectually scoured. The Fingoes and
Hottentots have throughout behaved uncommonly well,
rod many of the burghers have also displayed great gal-
lantry ; but there have been exceptions to this, as some of
them do not like bush work, and in operating upon the
fo ks of the Buffalo showed considerable disinclination to
enter the thick bush which abounds there. Lieutenant
Stokes, R.E., had a very narrow escape the other night
from being killed by one of our own men. He was fired at
by the sentry, whose gun luckily was only loaded with
loopers, one of which struck him on the right shoul-
der, and another a little lower. Fortunately, no se-
rious mischief was done, and he is now doing well.
Her Majesty's 45th Regiment had marched from
Port Elizabeth to the 'frontier.
The accounts from the Colony itself are sufficiently
gloomy. The Kaffirs continued their depredations in
the neighbourhood of the Fish River. Their numbers
were evidently on the increase, and it was mach to be
feared that their strength would be still farther aug-
mented by some bodies of the enemy, who, according
to Col. Hare, were again moving towards the frontier.
We annex the latest accounts from the seat of war.
The following summary of the week is taken from the
African Journal of September 3:
The events of the past week confirm and deepen every
impression previously made, that the Kaffir' will not, in
open field or in fair fight, confront the British troops. Colonel
Han intimates, in his official despatch, that the Kiffirs had
broken up their masses, and were falling back in detached
parties upon the colony, an opinion which subsequent events
seem fully to confirm. Such a kind of warfare as this
requires the colonists to be unceasingly on their guard.
The aim of the savage will not be to fight, but to surprise
and butcher. Days, and even weeks, may pass over in un-
broken tranquillity—neither a sound heard, nor a glimpse
seen, of an enemy; caution then becomes relaxed—pru-
dential measures are neglected—when, 10, in an unguarded
moment, the foe suddenly springs forth, and either embrues
his hand in blood, or sweeps away the property of the
already impoverished, and, for the moment, paniesetricken
farmer. . .

A warfare of this character is most harassing to regular
troops, and ought not to be thought or treated lightly, as
the recent operations in the Amatola will abundantly testify.
It seems hardly credible that a force of from 8,000 to 10,000
men could ve invested that celebrated fastness—could
have dim precipices, and wowed its kloofs, with such
trifling results those we find recorded. But still such is
the fact, and Agt, perhaps, for the time these operations
hated, no British army ever endured a greater amount of
hardship, or dikixed more intredidity, activity, and zeal,
than our forces on, the occasion in question. Under such
circumstances, the main object should be to secure the colony
against the inroad. of the enemy, as, until this is done,