The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

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-o. 41.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 17,1846. [3d.

trope In the- geld gahut the Gaikas. In this war these
Kaffir' have bon the moat active and dangerous alt e con-
federated banbarians in checking the operation Of the
troops, and in crippling the columns or divisions, by cutting
off supplies.
" In the former war the Kaffirs were contemptibly weak
in mu•kttry and hors a. In the present war they have
exhibited in the fled an amount of force in both these arms,
at first sight, justly alarming.
" In operating in a barbarous country, where all supplies
must be brought from ti.e sear, the main difficulty of a cora-
-1 minder is in feeding his troops, and especially his homes.
And this difficulty increases in a much greater proportion
I than the numbers he has to feed. It may be easy to feed
5,000, when it would he very difficult to feed 6,000, and next
to impossible to feed 10,000.
" It is the same with the raising of forces from a popula-
tion scattered over a vast country like this colony. Sir
Benjamin drew his levies chiefly from the eastern districts,
nearest the scene of action. Sir Peregrine, requiring a
larger forte than those districts could afford, had to wait
till the farthest went sent up their contingents, from a dis-
time° of 600 miles by land.
"In naming only the two governors and commanders in
chief, the heads of departments, officers, and men, with
whom and by whom they act, are by no means excluded
from their share of reputation. In dealing with an enemy,
armed with muskets, which, however ill managed, are stall
formidable, almost every operation is obstructed in a bushy
country, by the necessity of large armed convoys to OM
occasion, where the assegai would have been demised.
" Taking all things together, then, it appears, that the
Commander-in-Chief in this war has encountered Mean-
parably greater difficulties than Sir Benjamin D'Urbon, had
to contend with, and that he has achieved the nova moons
in about the same time. Now all know the may dor
racter of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, a high-trained. hag-
experienced, and most accomplished officer in e
meat of service. And all a•ea know flir
what sort of a thunderbolt he is, with a one
him, and an enemy in front. It is no small honour to
Sir Peregrine Maitland to ray, that on the same field, under
greater embarrassments, he has crushed • stronger adver-
sary, and extended his conquest to the same river in an equal
or shorter space of time. And this is the plain truth of the

" The main divisions of the army, three in number, are
now concentrating on the Amatola mountains, where San-
dilli and the hostile Gaika chiefs made their stand last war,
and where their people and cattle are supposed or known to
be placed for defence at present. Sir Peregrine, with Colonel
Somerset, is on the Buffalo stream, near to where it issues
from those ravines."

SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE LOCH RYAN ROTTERDAM
STEANI-VESSEL.—The Loch Ryan, Rotterdam steamer.
which should have: arrived in London on Sunday evening
last, had nat arrived up to eight o'clock last evening, and had
not been heard of. The Loch Ryan was laden with about
200 brad of cattle and 100 sheep, and has been ascertained
to have sailed from the Helvoetaluys on Thursday, the 9th
inst. A report has reached the office of the Nethe,lande
Steam Packet Company, in King William-street, city, dated
from 0-tend, stating that the Loch Ryan had, during the
storm of the night of the 9th inst., foundered off the mouth
of the Texel, but that the captain and the crew had been
rescued by and taken on board of a Swedish barque which
was on her way home, Other reports state that the steamer
was compelled, for safety, to run to the Elbe ; but as no
certain information has yet been received, and as she is now
six days overdue, the worst results are feared.

csied.m., New, 26..
Cakdonlan and Dumbarton. 234.
Direct Bomtcy & Madras.,
Emit Indian Railway, IS.. 3d.
Edinburgh and Northern, IW.
KiL, & Ayr, G 741.
Do. Hakes, 4/. 19a. 6d. p
GUM, AicL,ftbionk,ln.,3oe.6d.3o.

V, Ocr. 15.
GL North of India, Go. Gd. sa. 9d.
'mark & Lothians, 445. 3d.
Madras, Nellote, & Arcot, 4s. 2d.
71. lint., New I, scrip, 225. Gd.
8. E. lk Dover, New (is. 151.) No.
4, 565. 511.
Stirling and Dsntermline, 21s.
York and Newcastle, New, 12(1.
1, Oct. 15.
Water.,Wex.,Wiek.,&Dublin,3o3d
Wen., Car., & Dub Jun., 40.
Armagh, Cole., &Portrush, 9s. K.
Bandon and Bantry, Is. 3d.
Enniskillen and Sllgo, 13s.
Galway and Ennis, Ss. &L
New., Arm., 8c Lond..ln., 12s. 84.
W ext., Water., and Valen., 3a. Gd.

Dublin and Belk.* Jn., 3 --
Dundalk and Llinitkillen, I
Gt. Southern* Werterw, SO
Newry, WU., k Boatreaor, 411
Cork and Waterford, 2e. id.
Cork, Blaekr., and Pamir e, 14.9 d.
Gt. titlin. &Wn. Ex. from Tm. to
Nen. k the Shan., 13e.
Killarney Junctions, 12a. 3d.

MANTUFACTURES.

LANCASHIRE, OCT. 10.—Yhe Cotton trade of Old-
ham and the neighbourhood is becoming extremely dull,
and it is seriously us contemplation amongst various mill-
owners to commence working their mills short time. Seve-
ral parties intending to speculate in the building of new
cotton-mills have now abandoned their projects for the pre-
sent, and the immediate prospects in view for the bulk of
the factory and other operatives are decreased employment
and lowered wages. The broad Silk trade at Middleton,
Failsworth, Leigh, and Manchester, is exceedingly dull, '
and most of the operatives have not more than four
day's work per week. The silk small-ware trade in
the same districts is in a depressed state. The woollen
cloth trade at Saddleworth rs not so brisk as it was
six weeks ago, and yet the operatives generally have a mode-
rate share f employment. The cotton trade at Bury
Bolton, Heywood, and the vicinities, is exceedingly languid,
and, if an alteration does not speedily take place, the factory
operatives will have to commence working short time ;
face it some places, this week, the hands have begun to work
lbw or five days per week, or ten bean per day.—Livespeol
Mercury.
MANCHESTER TRADE.—Speculators have taken far-
ther heart, from the advices from New York, per Cambria,
and Cotton is again dearer. This is vitally affecting our
trade, both home and foreign, as nothing like an aile;uate
advance can in any instance be obtained. We are not, thhere-
fore, surprised to find that the working of short time is
seriously contemplated. It would seem as if nothing else
could cheek the onward course of speculation. So that, with
dear corn and cotton on the one hand, and short time on the
other, there appears but a sorry prospect fop the operative,
as well indeed as for the master. Bat very little is doing
in either Cloth or Yarn, and rates are irregular and un-
quotable, they being made conformable to the opinions or
necessities of producers.—Manchester Times.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The wrought cotton
hose branch, especially the finer and best qualities are very
dull, and many of the hands in the villages arc sufferingfreese
want of emplyment. The cotton cut-tp hose branch,whiek bee
been bad for several weeks past, has rather suddenly mended,
and frames that have stood for four or five weeks are now
fully employed. The drawer and pantaloon branch was not
amended, and there is little or no employment in the ilk
glove trade; still the quantity made is large. The bobbin net
lace trade, though in some quarters a shade better, is yet
dull. The making of a better description of nets from the
Lever's machines is very slowly extending. The warp lace
trade is upon the whole much better, and the frames are
gradually getting to work. The silk warp lace trade, though
contending with difficulties on all sides, is a shade better.—
, Nottingham Journal.