The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

ARRIVAL OF THE LADY JOCELYN.

THE KAFFIR WAR.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
mail packet Lady Jocelyn, Commander Stuart, has
arrived at Plymouth. Her dates are—Calcutta, Nov.
15; the Sand Heads, Nov. 16; Madras, Nov. 24;
Point de Galle, Nov. 24; Mauritius, Dec. 5; Table
Bay, Dec. 27 ; St. Helena, Dec. 28; Ascension, Dec.
31 ; St. Vincent, Jan. 13.
She reports, Nov. 22, at 10.30 p.m., passed within
hail of the General Screw steam-ship Indiana, off
Point de Galle, had left that port at 8 p.m. for Madras.
Dec. 8, lat. 26.58 S., lon. 46.04 E., exchanged
numbers with British barque, Lady Bruce, out 50
days from Calcutta; 9th, lat. 28.42, lon. 41.49 E.,
exchanged numbers with the British barque Chief-
tain, standing as ourselves ; 13th, lat. 34.15 S., lon.
24.49 E., exchanged numbers with the British barques
Christabel and Chamont, standing as ourselves : 14th,
Ist. 35.04 S., lon. 21.16 E., exchanged numbers with
the schooner Elizabeth Jane, from Fable Bay ; 15th,
let. 35.06 S., lon. 20.10 E., exchanged numbers with
ship Alfred the Great, from China.
Dec. 23, in lat. 27.13 S., lon. 7.38 E., spoke ship
Lochoo, from Calcutta to Boston : same date, spoke
ship Clymenes, from Calcutta 62 days • Dec. 26, lat.
19.01 S., lon. 2.48 W., spoke barque Laidmans, from
Mauritius ; 27th, in sight of St. Helena, spoke barque
Champion, Landon to St. Helena; Jan.s, in lat. 7.28 N.,
10n.18.45 W.,spoke ship Palantine, bound to Calcutta;
6th, lat. 10.13 N., lon. 20.40 W., spoke brig Deva,
bound to Melbourne; 14th, lat. 20.58 N., lon. 24.29
W., spoke barque Geraldine, standing to the south-
ward; 18th, lat. 34.15 N., lon. 21 W., spoke barque
Eliza Jane, standing to the southward and westward;
Jan. 22nd, lat. 47 N., lon. 8.32 W., spoke ship John
Cooper, ditto.
From the Mauritius, by the Port Louis Prices
°arrest, we learn that since the Australia touched
there, six vessels have been laid on for Australia, at
lg. 15s. per ton. Port Louis is shortly to be lit with
ps by a British company.
The Maseppa has arrived at Madagascar.
The events which have occurred since the depar-
ture of the previous mail are thus summarised by
the Cape Monitor of Dec. 18 :
" Our last monthly. summary indicated the speedy
termination of frontier hostilities. Subsequent ac-
counts inform us of the broken and dispirited
condition of the Kafir, and their rebel allies. In-
deed, the war is over. It only remains to pursue
and capture the fugitives still infesting the country,
to whom massacre and rapine are become a second
nature. We regret to say that the utmost caution
is still necessary to avoid the murderous assaults of
Wes desperadoes, who show no mercy to any nn-
traveller. Within a short space of time,
Mivictims have fallen in the vicinity of Oli-
phant's Hoek. The particulars of this last atrocity
will be found in another column. Nothing more
has been heard of Sandilli's proposal to deliver
up Uithaalder to justice. Perhaps the heroic
tutor is nursing his wound in some of his mountain
dens. Further rumours have also been circulated of
Uithaalder's death by the hands of one of his own
party. The Hottentot chief slain near the Wit Kei,
who, in our last, was supposed to be Uithaalder, has
been since ascertained to be Jan Cornelis, one of the
proscribed rebels.
" We stated that Seyolo, a Slambie chief, who had
joined the Gaikas in their attack upon the colony,
has been tried and convicted. Indeed, he freely ad-
mitted the fact of his guilty participation ; but he
seemed to consider Sandilli's
influence over him to
be an ample and adequate excuse for his conduct in
1846, as wells during the war now concluded. His
defence and expressions of sorrow were unavailing,

forfeited territory by farmers, holding their lands on
condition of rendering military service.
" The progress of the Commander-in-Chief towards
the Bassouta country is reported as most gratifying ;
though the various wiles and subterfuge] ascribed to
Moshesh render us unable to speculate with any cer-
tainty on the result.
" 'tzatzoe has been detected in an attempt to ex-
change some of his own iP.-conditioneci cattlx !or
others sent by Krell, and ho was accordingly fined
by Col. Maclean.
" Disclosures continue to be made of the means by
which the enemy obtained ammunition and intelh-
gence. The native levies were wont to drop their
cartridges iu convenient places on the march, andfthe
friendly Kaffir'' were found ready to barter their
government' powder for stolen cattle. The women
remaining about the mission station of Alice were
among the principal purveyors of intelligence from
the colony for the use of the rebels.
"During the absence of the Governor in the sove-
reignty, some apprehension has been entertained
on the frontier lest the enemy should muster in
overwhelming strength ; but this fear has proved
groundless. True, there are petty attempts at de-
predation, and life is insecure on some of the unpro-
tected roads ; but this would be the case though
there were only a dozen of rebels remaining to be
hunted down. Hunger is compelling many of
these to surrender, who, it is to be hoped, will be
punished severely, and not be turned loose upon
society, to await the outbreak of fresh hostilities.
Little dependence can be placed in the steadiness or
peaceable dispositions of men who have been in the
bush nearly two years, robbing and murdering all
that time, without compunction or remorse. Hun-
ger may, in their case, be a present motive to sub-
mission, but is far from being a guarantee for their
future good behaviour, especially when plenty and
a quiet life shall have reanimated their strength and
courage."