The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-09 00:00:00

The Cape Town Mail of the lath of April, saps:

Report has reached town to the effect that the convoy of
waggons, sent from herce to Fort Hare with supplies, to-
wards the end of last week, were attacked when near Mires
deserted mission station (a few miles east of the Kat
River) by a large body of Hottentots and Kaffirs—the
officer in charge, Captain W. Ayliff, being thrown off his
guard by a party of rebel Hottentots riding up in the
uniform of the Cape Mounted Rifles. Captain Ayliff had
his horse shot, and the Fingo escort, supposing him killed
as well, retired, hut were speedily rallied, and so well led
that they recaptured all the oxen which had been driven
off by the assailants, and succeeded ultimately in reaching
Fort Hare with the whole of their charge. In this affair
it is said that an infant in the arias ot its mother (Mn.
Williams), was shot by the rebels, she being herself severely
wounded in the hand. The lull details of this affair have
not reached us—the above putticulars resting upon a letter
from Fort Hare, written hurriedly, just alter the convoy
had got in, and as the express fur town was on the eve of
starting.
The Graham's Town Journal has the following
latest intelligence from head-quarters:
April s.—The intelligence from the front, King Wil-
liam's Town and Fort Hare received this morning, is upon
the whole of an unfavourable character. From the former
place we have the official account of the patrol into Seyolo's
country, under the command of Major Wilmot. That duty
appears to have been ably sod gallantly executed by that
officer, whose report, as published to-day, is so fell and
satisfactory as to make lengthened comment superfluous.
The results were comparatively trivial, but still the move-
Sent itself was not unimportant. Seyolo's country has now
been completely traversed, and it is fully ascertained that
the great body of his men and all their cattle are in the
Anemia, where, it is said, Sandilli has with him a force of
Ikea nen, well equipped, and prepared to dispute the
perind with the British troops.
Palivate letters, received from the front, corroborate fully
antetuents made in the report of Major Wilmot, by
which it appears that in the three days' movements, in
a very difficult country, the enemy were completely baffled,
and between thirty and forty of them killed in the several
skirmishes. The Fingoes are said to have behaved remarkably
well—the chief ot the fighting falling to the share of Lieut.
Griffiths, with about 200 men, one-fourth of whom were
Fineries. The second night the patrol bivouacked on a very
lovely spot on the banks of the Kiesk unma, some twenty or
thirty shots being tired on the picquets during the night, but
without damage. Among the killed was Umlanjeui's ,can,
who booted that he bore a charmed life, and that no bullet
mould have effect upon him. lle was killed on the spot.
An amusing little episode in this affair is the following:
Numerous Kaffir* were said to be seen on a hill, and so con-
vineeil was Lieutenant C— of their identity, that he re-
solved most manfully to charge them. Making, therefore,
an oration to nix men to reserve their fire, &c., and having
an assurance from all that they would stand by him " like
bricks," he pushed forward, whealo!—Umlanjeni again!—
the enemy were found to be aloes! standing, as it were, in
mockery of the gallant spirits by whom they were about to
be assailed.
Some serious disclosures have just been made at King WA.
liam's Town, which show that the conspiracy among the
Hottentots is much deeper and more wide-spread than many
are led to believe. It is said that the Cape Corps has sup-
plied Sandilii with large quantities of ammunition, and that
on examination of the carbides of the disbanded men, all,
with one or two exceptions, were found loaded with blank
cartridge. This may account for the little execution done
by these men, and may afford us a clue to the loss of Adju-
tant Gordon and the gAlaut men of the 91st, at an early
period of the war. The following official notice has been
published relative to this conspiracy, and is all, perhaps,
that the commander-he chief thinks it prudent to publish at
the present moment :

" King William's Town, March 31, 1851.
"On the evening of the 28th inst. two Hottentot women
arrived front &whiles, where the deserters of the Cape
Mounted Rifles are, for the purpose of tampering with this
corps and the Albany Levy, bySandilli's desire. They
were immediately invited by Serjeant Abercrombie, after
haring been brought to him very properly by Platje tßoffel
and Stoffel Bayer, of the disarmed Albany company. One
of these women has turned Queen's evidence, which has led
to important diselosurtsi and to the arrest of a Kaffir mule
waggoner, called who alter some intimidation also
turned Queen's evidence, acknowledging that he has been
in constant communication with Sandilli. Upon this the
Cape corps was immediately paraded, and several leading
characters called out and made prisoners ; and thus the plot
is discovered.

"Jong GanvoeL, Lieutenant-Colonel,
" Private Secretary.
A good deal of excitement prevailed at King William's
Town, at the date of the last *deices, in consequence of
intelligence which had just come in from Krohe Country,
kading to the full bAief that this chit f is deeply implicated
in the war now wagin against the colony, with a view to
the entire subversion of British authority in South Africa.
It is affirmed, on the bat authority, that there am with
Kreli shoat 200 Hottentot rebels' many of them being
deserters from the Cape Mounted Rifles, and that these
miscreants have burnt down the trading station of Messrs.
Crouch, on the Commama, not far from Kroli's kraal, and
plundered it of all the property. It is supposed that the
chief, with about half his tribe, are now openly engaged in
hostilities. Kreli has also sent messages to Umbels and
Pato to attack the English, the effect of which we have yet
to learn. This information induced the governor to coun-
termand slam patrol, which was just on the eve of starting
to scour a portion of the enemy's country. The Hottentots
with Kroh were urging him to all kinds of mischief, and
among the rest to attack Butterworth, in the event of which
it would be probably expedient for the l.'ingoes to concen-
trate, who might then muster about 3,000 fighting men, and
if well led by Europeans, would make a good and we doubt
not a successful stand against the common enemy.
The deduction we make from the intelligence which has
come in to-day is, that until wo get a considerable addition
• to our European force, no movement upon a general scde
can be made against the enemy. It is evident that the
coloured Cl3l‘ei cannot be depended on, nor must the
safety of the colony be risked by any dependence upon their
fidelity. There may be good and honest men among them,
hut the leaven of disaffection has been allowed so long to
r work among them, that we know not were such are to be
found. In the meantime, we discover some of them in the
_ colony. persisting themeless as dastardly eneswins—way-
. laying travellers ad seemtitdng sennews whisk meet being
upon them the vempeense et dm iew and et every Mame ma.

FATAL EEPLOSION OP A STEAM BOTLEIt AT KINGS-
WOOD, OLOUCESTaReiIIaII.—A painful sensation was
created ou Saturday morning at Bristol in consequence of
its becoming known that a boiler explosion, accompanied 1
by terrible consequences to a number of lumen beings, led
occurred at the Starve-all Colliery, Kingawood,
or seven miles from that city. The Starve-a.I pit, MOW
with others in the neighbourhood, is worked by the Ili
of Braille and Co., and has connected with it a lam
engine, which is used for the purpose of raising the tank
de. The boiler of this engine had been a long time In us,
and was soloidered by the managing partner of the com-
pany to lyre done its work, soda new one of strong and im-
proved essAractiou having been manufactured for the works
sod brought there, its immediate removal was intended,
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