The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-08 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have Cape Town journals of the 29th January
last, but their contents are comparatively unimpor-
tant. The frontier was generally tranquil, but there
are some few cases of robberies of cattle noticed—in
some instances attended by collisions with the Kaffirs.
Sir Harry Smith having pacified Kaffirland, and
accomplished an immense extent of political, military,
and civil arrangements, bad set out on a visit of in-
spection to the outlying districts, the extra-co-
lonial settlements of the Boers beyond the Orange
River, and onward to Natal and the native tribes,
and clumps of Boers in the neighbourhood or
that dependency. He has everywhere received by
I the people with affecting cordiality. " Uprightness,
simplicity, and determination," says the Commercial
Advertiser, "carry him through the midst of difk
culties, apparently unconscious of their existence.
Most of those difficulties, indeed, were jealousies*
fears, and dislikes, arising from mutual misappre
hensions, which kept people at a distance from each
other, leaving room for the growth of hatred and
revengeful feelings. Overlooking all these himself,
from the elevation of a generous mind and daunth ss
heart, he insensibly leads three around him to few.:
them also,'and with ' one touch of nature makes the
whole world kin.'"

When last heard of, Sir Harry was proceeding
rapidly on his tour of inspection beyond the limits of
the colony. He had made the port at the mouth of
the Buffalo, in Kaffirland, a British port, called East
London ; Waterloo Bay, in the district of Victoria,
formerly the neutral territory, is also provided for,
custom-house officers being appointed for each, with
a board for the improvement of the " Port of Fast
London ;" and the collector of customs at Cape Town
had instructed officers of his department to proceed
forthwith, as sub-collectors, to open the new port+,
and to receive customs duties thereat.
_ . .

The brig Bittern, belonging to Messrs. Smith. of
Neweastl., was totally lost on the morning of the
18th of January, on a reef off Robbers' Inland, in
Table Bay. All hands saved.

A LATE CONFLICT IN THE RIVER AN-
GOSRA, MOZAMBIQUE.
On the 20th of November last, H. M. S. President,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decree, Commander-in-
Chief ; the Eurydice, Captain Anson; and the Portuguese
man-of-war brig, 3 uan de Castro, together with a small
schooner, anchored off the river Angoaba, for the purpose of
bringing to terms a numerous band of piratical Arabs, en-
gaged in the illegal traffic of slaves.
On the morning of the 23rd, the boats of the squadron,
well armed, under the command of Captain Amon, moved
up the river towards the settlements in two divisions. On
approaching the inlet of the Arab town, they were fired upon
from an extensive stockade with gingalls and musketry, bite-
wise from the surrounding mangrove trees. A sharp conflict
ensued, which lasted an hour and half, when the tire of our
opponents was completely silenced, and the stockade per-
fectly destroyed, killing and wounding a vast number. The
loss on our side is comparatively trifling, and but few of the
boats injured, though one or two zi mined round shot through
them. The shallowness ef the water not permitting the boats
to land, also a rapidly falling tide, we were unable to
ascertain the extent of damage to the enemy; but we have
since learnt from his excellency the Governor of Mozam.
hique, that 'ha Arab town, a distance of three-quarters of a
mile from the hi ach, was much injured, and that the Arabs
had fled inland, with considerable loss of life.
The chef cause of this skirmish was owing to an Ameri-
can brig being discovers d in the river, smuggling arms and
ammunition, afterwards to he sold to the Arabs and a few
Portuguese slave-owners, to carry a cargo to the Brazils.
This brig was seized by the Portuguese man of-of-war, and
carried to the capital of the territory for adjudication. Eight
of the President's crew were wound( d.
The President sailed from Angosha River on the 25th, for
the Cape of Good Hopr.—Cerneen.