The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

THE KAFFIR WAR

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.
By the arrival of the Flying Fish, Captain Patel,
29 days from the Island of Ascension, we have in-
telligence from the Cape of Good Hope to iho 16th
October, by the Sidon, Retribution, and Cyclops,
which arrived there on the 4th of November, to coal
for England. The intelligence from the frontier is
of a most discouraging character. The cattle lifting
is continued with even an increase of boldness. The
enemy is growing stronger, while the troops are
every day becoming weaker, and the cry is for more
soldiers from Europe.
The Graham's 2'own Journal of the 11th October
has the following from King William's Town, dated
the Bth :—" The Rifles and Lancers had arrived, and
were anxious to get to work. The Rifles were to
leave head-quarters on the 10th, to join Col. Michel
at the Fish River Bush."

A correspondent at-Foonha's Kloof writes, under
date of October 7 :—" Wo left King William's Town
on the 29th ult. Two guns had rendered service.
The patrols had been out night and day, and had
been ably handled by Col. Michel. We left here at
4 A at. When we got close to Fish River, we
found the enemy located in 130 huts. Though about
12,000 yards distant, six or eight shells from our
six-pounders soon caused them to decamp. Immense
herds of cattle are seen ; but a combined movement
is necessary. Two divisions, in a country like the
Fish River Bush, can do little."

Since writing the above, the Queen's have been
obliged, for want of water, to leave Breakfast Vley,
and Job, our camp. A letter from King William's
Town, dated the Bth instant, says the Ilottentots and
Kaffirs had suffered from the good practice of the
artillery. On our side, three of the 6th Royals
wounded, one Cape Mounted Rifleman killed, and
one Fingoe wounded on the 6th. On the 7th a night
attack was to take place.
Four BEAUFOILT, Sept. 29.—Yesterday the cattle
guard, consisting of one sergeant, one corporal, and
sixteen privates of the lath Regiment, with four
mounted men of the Cape corps, were attacked by a
very strong force of Kaira and rebel Hottentots,
and I am sorry to say had two men killed. The
conduct of the mounted men was equivocaL
OkNERAL SOMEMET'S Dmmori, Oct. 8.--The
camp is on the flat in full view of the town. A
show may be made, and then Master Jack Kaffir
will hide himself, as at Water Kloof. Everybody
is complaining and drawing ill-natured deductions
at the unaccountable waste of time, consuming, as it
does, the heat of military ardour, and exhausting the
patience of all hands engaged in the service.
GILAND RIVER, Oct. I.—At Giland's Post the
enemy carried off all the cattle, and were attacked
by Capt. Fisher, who killed seven, and wounded
several ; on our side only one man, a Fingoe, slightly
wounded.

It is computed that the four divisions of the enemy
now engaged in the colony smount to 10,000 or
12,000 men, and it is a most serious matter for con-
sideration that this hest of barbarians is maintained
at the cost of the colony. The contractors for
our troops daughter some 1,500 beasts per
month, and the enemy consume as many more—
Mt to speak of the enormous waste, and the
ine droves that are being sent continually
Into the back country. The 5,000 merinos and 260
rattle taken a week ago from Glen Syden
rot hrtnll wastingto supply warfarethe enemy's continue commissariat.
va
!Sr, the colony will be irretrievably ruined. j
the editor's summary (Graham's Town Jewresi.!
Out. 11) for the week on the state of the country, ha
asp :-010or numerous and irreclaimable foes are,
noW, in bur strong divisions, posted in commanding
positions, all of them within the colonial boundary;
and than an invaders hold of our land has been esta-
blished by these Savages."
The first and most powerful of the rebel encamp-
ments is in the a ish River Bush, where thousands of
sheep, troops of horses, and hundreds of colonial
..gimmu mule, are now in their possession as booty. This
amp menaces Graham's Town, Albany, and the
'oast region to the south and est of Fort Peddle,
ma has been apportioned an amount of strength pre-
y adequate to the combatting of the whole
=le force of the commander-in-chiefs 2nd field

The next stronghold is the Chamie Valley, with
the frowning Amatola in the seer, where Sandilli's
warriors sit in readiness to pounce upon Fort Hare
and Alice, and thus compel the presence of a large
defensory garrison.. The third law is at Mamma,
in the redoubtable Water Moot, wtrae, surrounded
by 2,000 barbarians " fleet as blood-hounds," that
aid is able to hold in terrorem the whole of 13o-
nrasst, apation of Cradock, and, through his Baf-
fled. to cause serious apprehensions to exist
fir 16, meaty of Fort Beaufort.
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midi her hours' ride of Whittlesea, where three
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