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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

TIID3 DAY, ParraThek.
IMPORTANT FROM THE CAPE.

By an arrival this morning we have news from the
Cape of Good Hope, with Graham's Town papers to
the 6th, and Cape Town papers to the 16th November.
. The state of the colony is reported, in the journals we
have received, to be most satisfactory, in so far at
beet as respects agricultural prospects. The season
was favourable, the rains had been plentiful, and the
ems aff mded promise of an abundant yield.
The appointment of Sir Harry Smith to the govern-
ment of the Cape of Good Hope continued to ex-
cite lively satisfaction. Sir 11. Young, the lieutenant-
governor of the eastern provinces, had left for
tape Town. "It is now understood," says the
Graham's Town Journal, "that his honour does not

go direct to South Australia, but from Table Bay to
England, where it is not improbable that his own re-
presentations may materially alter pending arrange-
ments. However this may be, his honour's adminis-
tration, brief as it has been, of the affairs
of this province, will prove of inestimable
value. Aircady it has so disturbed the rick-
ety system, ander which this province has
. been hitherto governed, as to expose to full
view the disabilities under which the people labour,
and the mischief which has arisen therefrom to the
parent state. And if it be true that a knowledge of a
disease is half its cure, then has not Sir I lenry Young's
visit to this coautry- been in vain ; aor will his labours
here, and the seed he has sown, fail to produce in due
season their appropriate fruits. No public officer, in
the discharge of cgficial duties, ever pursued a more
steady and direct course, or displayed more tact, zeal,
and ability than this officer. He now takes his depar-
tare from this province, with the best wishes and
high respect of the inhabitants at large."
The Zuid Afrikoan reports the following:—" Ar-
rived in Simon's Bay, Nov.lo, the steamer Progresso,
Lieutenant Rennin", from Mozambique, October 13,
with stores saved from the wreck of H.M. sloop
Snake, stranded within • few miles of Mozambique.
Passengers :—Dr. ?ilaranda. Portuguese army ; Lieut.
Webber ; and 42 officers and men of H.M. sloop
Snake. The remainder of the crew have been con-
veyed to the Mauritius in a French ship."
The news from Kaffirland is important. Strong
detachments of troops, under the immediate com-
mand of Sir 0. Berkeley, had been pushed forward
towards the Kei, intending to extend operations beyond
that river into Kreili's territory. To facilitate the
pamege of the main body of the army, shinild the
river be swollen, wilich, from the state of Ms wea-
ther, was mare an probable, boats and pon-
toons had been sent forward, under the immediate di-
rection of Captain Walpole, with a detachment of
Royal Engineers. The whole country is described
as luxuriant beyond description, the grass for many
miles waving in the breeze like fields of corn, and
vegetable life everywhere more vigorous than had
been known for the last 25 years.
The Graham's Town Journal gives some particulars
of a successful engagement between detachments,
under the command of Colonel Somerset, and a Kaffir
force, led by the chief Pato. It appears that on the
31st October, the colonel, having reason to believe that
the enemy was in force at some distance in his front,
determined upon making a forced march, with a view
if possible of bringing him to an engagement. Push-
ing forward, therefore, with some strong detachments
of light troops, chiefly Cape corps and Capt. Hogg's
levy, Colonel Somerset succeeded, by a night
march, completing a distance of thirty miles,
in reaching the broken country on a stream
called the Chechabe. Here, having halted,
the Kaffirs were shortly after seen galloping
up the adjacent high ground, exposing them-
selves to observations much more daringly than
had been the case for some time previously. Still
it was scarcely expected that the enemy contem-
plated making a serious stand, the prevalent opi-
nion being that he was merely watching the pro-
grem of the troops, anxious to see them move down
the opposite declivity. At this time Colonel So-
merset, with a single orderly, having rode forward
to some distance from the troops, found himself
suddenly in front of a of Kaffirs, whom he
eluded by immediately failing back. Before, how-
ever, he could rejoin the troops, a strong body of the
enemy, mounted, poured down upon him ; his orderly
was shot from his horse, and he himself only escaped
by making a dash through the savages, and trusting
rather to the mettle of his steed than to the chances of
a contest between a single individual and a score of in-
furiated foes. The Kaffirs, after having narrowly ob-
served the movements of the British force, then passed
to the left, and ascended a height, distant about a mile
in front, where they took up a very strong position,
evidently with a determination to dispute their
further progress. Colonel Somerset was not, how-
ever disposed to baulk their anticipation of a fight, and
hence, no sooner did he ascertain their position, than
he formed his men, and put them in position for
attack, waiting with a good deal of impatience for the
arrival of Captain Hogg's levy, which was about a
mile in the rear. At length, all having joined, and
every arrangement being made, the advance, under
the immediate command of Colonel Somerset—
the Cape Mounted Rifles being led, in the
absence of Major Armstrong, by Captain O'Reilley
—wound slowly up the face of the hill, the
Kaffirs being most advantageously sheltered under
cover of some immense rocks. The troops
kept steadily advancing, until within eighty yards of
the enemy, when, orders being given, the bugle
sounded the gallop, and the next minute the troops
had crested the hill, dismounted, and were in among
the enemy. The Kaffirs at first opened a runnning
fire, but, being pushed vigorously, in twenty minutes
they were driven from their position down the hill
into the ravine below. From this also they were
speedily dislodged, leaving behind them their
arms, karossas, and several horses. They fled into'
the adjacent valleys, which deeply intersect that
part of the country, and present the moat
favourable positions that could be desired by
Kaffirs in carrying en their peculiar mode of
warfare. Only seventeen of the enemy were found
killed in this affair, but it is affirmed that many more
mast have fallen, the Kaffirs carrying off as many of
their dead and wounded as possible, as was indicated
by the numerous blood tracks which were seen along
the line of their retreat. The Kaffirs keeping under
shelter, their numbers could not be estimated, but
their main body is supposed to have been not less
than eight hundred men, besides some detached
parties posted so as to take advantage of any cir-
cumstance which might turn up in their favour. The
casualties among the British troops were compara-
tively trifling. • The Kaffirs for twenty minutes main-
tained a sharp fire, but which seems, probably from
the abruptness of the acclivity, to have been very in-
effective. The weather was described as extremely
severe, but Colonel Somerset was determined to push
on, as it was affirmed that immense droves of cattle
were sheltered in the broken country, at no great dis-
tance from the scene of this encounter ; and it was
laPPc,d that it was to cover these that the attempt
to arrest the march of the troops was determined on.