The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-11 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOOK OF LORDS.—TuutsuaT, Mut. 10.
The Lunn CllASclal.l.oll oink hi. 11F.0 at bee o'clock.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
Haneoua OF HRTIUR ov THR COAST.—By
the NATI of CAWDOR, from Pembrokeshire, complaining
of the want of a harbour of refuge nu the Welsh mast.
MUTINY BILL AND MARINI.: MUTINY BILL.
On the motios of the Duke of WILLING/ON these bills
were severally read a third time, and ea.sed•
APPItIiN TICES AND SERVANTS BILL.
On tlia flu .tion of the Earl of Cautistt this bill passed
through committee, mid was reported to the home.
MARItlAtiEs IN INDIA.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a petition
from the 0 Assembly of the Free Church of Scot-
land, praying that some alteration might be made with
respect to the law of marriage in India. At present it was
doubtful whether marriages solemnised there by other than
clergymen of the Church of England were legal.
laird BROUGHTON said the attention of the govern-
ment had be,n directed to the subject, and he intended be-
fore long to introduce a measure to remove the evils com-
plainer' of, and which he thought would give satisfaction
to both houses of parliament.
MILLS ANT) FACTORIES (IRELAND) BILL.
was re
On the motion of th
and pase Marquisd. of CiAssteautin this bill
ad a third time se
COUNTY COUURRTSIS EXTEDICTIONNSION (EQUITY
J).
Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a hill to give ori-
ginal equity jurisli tion to the county courts with reference
pervmdty to • limited extent.
The bill was then read • first time.
I/ESIONS ACT EXTENSION DILL.
On the motion of Earl GRANTILLII the Commons'
Amendments to this bill were agreed to.
COU NT Y COURTS VU Kull Elt EXTENSION BILL.
The report nn this hill was brought up.
BRITISH GUIANA.
Lord STANLEY postponed until Monday the petition
which he had given notice to present from British Guiana,
praying for a retires .ntative government.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
The Earl of MALMESIIIIitY presented a number of
retitinn.. complaining of agricultural distress, mod expressed
Ye indignation at the apathy evinced by ministers on this
subjce., and egveially at the omission of any proposal for
relief in the bedeck of the Chancellor of the Etcheguer.
SIP.RCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND.
The Earl of ELLENBOROVOII wished to ask the
aohle earl (Graneille) whether it was the intention of the
government to introduce in the present session same measure
for the reirolotion of the Merchant Seamen's Fund
Earl GRANVILLE agreed that the mode of levying
contributions on the seamen wan unequal. The government
latend..l to have introduced a bill on the oubject at the
commencement of the eession, hut they had not done be-
cause the temper shown by the seamen in the trite disturb-
oatm left no hope that they would art harmoniously. Ile
trusted shortly to he able to give the noble lord some more
'Misr irtory information, hot ho could not pledge himself to
intraday, a RO,toHe the, ve.viori.
EAsTEIt RECESS.
HOU-AILISEorItNMENT OF THE
Earl GREY said that at the rising of the hoiase on Mon-
day nett hi should move the adjournment until Thunday,
the lit of May neat.
Their lord:Mos then, at sir &cloth, adjourned.

HOGS(: OF C()MMONS.—Turit+D‘T, APRIL 10.
The SenteSil took the chair at 4 'clock.
Nv.mr MEMBE,.
Mr. fiY.ACII, the new member fur Coventry, took the
oath, and hie ..it. The hem. member war introduced by
Mr. W. Williams
RandlV Mr. Sr-h.-dello-4d.
PATE BUSINESS.
011EITLTI, ItOTIIIIIIIIAM, BAItNSLEY. WAKE-
FIELD,.IE III; DDRItSVIELD, AND GOOLE RAIL-
WAY 1111.1,
This hill was reported, and an additional clause war
Isirouslit up awl agreed to.
1'11141,1C RUMNESS.
rto,FK-sTitiocr SAVINIr3 BANK.
Mr. ILKY NOUS.; save notice that to-morrow he should
move for a return, .Lowing how the sum of 30,11002., voted
by the house on the 2nd Aintree. 1)4.14), for the relief of
the depositors in the Culfe-street Sayings Dank had been
diepord ..f
(*ONDITION
Mr. SCULLY sato notice that, on an early day after
muter, hr should rdl the attention of the house to the
serious oli•tres of all chweris in Wand, and particularly the
owner. and oreupiers of land, and move that it is espedient
that the several hoards of guardian, be empowered to em-
ploy paupers in reproductive works.
440141511 OBSEItVANCY.S.
Sir B. lIAI.I. gave notice that on the order of the day
for p.m into committee on the Kerlesiastital Titles Bill.
be should ask the Vint Lord of the Treioury whether any
leer had been taken by the arehlri.lorps and bishops, in
pennon, 14 the letter written to them by the Secretary of
State for tho Dome 14purtment, by direction of her 1
Maje,ty, for the ruppreioron of Itiorni.li oleartuners in the
church. 11, took the opportunity of statins, in pl•tire to
the 1t... Arthur Wagner, that he had received a letter
from him, stating that there mind have been some nibtake
is reference to the charge male ageing him, 'awaitsu nei-
ther no the °erasion of the boleros of Lonl loodes
borough's child, not on soy other oron whatever, had
he not onplated the heption of a child by iminer.ion.
Mlt. DISItAKLI'S MOTION ON Burio)ENs ON
LAND.
Mr. DISILAKI.I took an opportunity of stating, that in
eonsluence of a miseirpnhen.ion which lad taken placer
to the object of his minion thi. eienine, he had felt it ne-
cessity to make a slight ultenition in Da terms. It VIAI,
posod that hi• intended hi. amendment tu operate as a de-
feat of the repeal of the windows duties, hut he hod on ,och
istention, not being at all oppow.l to the repeal of thou.
dune. In movins, therefore, that in the application of any
surplus revenue emotion ,hould he directed to the asticul-
tarsi mt.-testi, he would leave out the words •• in the brat

expense on account of similar wars. With regard to i the rank of chief. On the 31st October Sir Harry announced
the first question, it appeared to him that if the , this event to Furl Grey, and assured the noble earl that
principles which he had laid clown were correct, 1 Sandilli possessed "neither influence nor respect among
we were not entitled to throw the whole burden of the pre- ! his people." Never dill Sir Harry Smith make a more in-
tent Ketfir war upon the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, I correct statement. (hear, hear.) The attempt to capture
and that we were bound to bear a very considerable portion Sandilli heed twice moiled an outbreak of the Katfirs.
of the espenses of that war. Because the inhabitants of the They rose one and all to defend him last winter, and there
Cape of Good Hope did not possess representative imaitu- was not a man among them who would nut gladly
Lions, they had not the management of their local aline rush between a bullet and the person of Sandilli.
Secondly, we were not entitled to throw the whole In the same despatch Sir Harry Smith stated, with
expense of this war upon the colony of the Cape of Good reference to the deposition of Sandilli, that "a crisis
Hope, because it hail broken out in British Kaffraria,which , had arrived which would test his system ;" that " he had no
is no part nor portion of the colony of the Cape of Good apprehension of the result ;" that the Kettles " were u fully
llope, hut a separate province, governed by Sir II wry sensible of their position 71.1 the most civil seel beings roil
Smith, under a commission separate from that under when be ;" that " every Kaffir who peseesseel anything was a sup-
he was governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Having porter of the present government ; ' and that "if the chle'
answered the question who ought to pay for this war, he had endeavoured to excite the temple, they had signally
proceeded neat to the question, what hail been the failed." In the next despatch, elated Gth November, he
causes of that war, and who was to blame for it. lie thought assured Lord Grey that the crisis had passed most happily,
the papers which had been lately presented to the house and that, therefore, he should leave the frontier, and return
clearly proved one of two things: either that Sir H. Smith to Cape Town. On his arrival there, he wrote again to
and thereto e Lord Grey, were very ignorant of the state Lord Grey, on the Nth November, assuring the noble lord
of British Kaffraria, and of the feelings of the Kaffirs, or that "he had kit British Kaffraria in a state of perfect
that the outbreak had been produced by hie mismanage- tranquillity ; the Kaffir people fully utistied, and the chiefs
ment. The despatches which he then held in his hand were expressing similar feelings." In the same despatch he in-
delivered to hon. members at the commencement of this formed Lord Grey that lie was g sing to organise in the
session. In every one of them Sir 11. Smith described in colony of the Cape of Good Hope a rural police,
glowing language—Meat, hear)—" the unprecedented analogous to the Kaffir police, which had been so
state of tranquillity "of British Kaffraria. lie consoled " remarkable efficient in British Kaffraria." According to
Lord Grey for the failure of his attempt to transport con- the last accounts almost every one of the Kaffirjtnlice had
eicts to the Cape of Good Hope by the gratifying intelli- deserted to the enemy—'hear, hear)—with their horses,
genie that " everything progresses most satisfactorily on arms, and ammunition. Whereon Sir Harry Smith moral-
the eastern frontier of this colony," that the Kaffir police ewe in the following strain "Thus is again recorded in
was most useful, that frontier depredations were almost un- history another instance of the danger to be apprehended
known, that "we are overcoming witchcraft"—(" hear," from arming men from hostile populations"—(laughter)--
and a laugh)—and that " the Kaffir, were con- and with this sentiment in his mouth Sir Harry Smith pen-
tented and happy under the British rule." Lord ceeded forthwith to order the governor of Naha to arm and
Grey was delighted at that intelligence, and the lead into the field against the Amagerku 3,000 learners
noble lord declared that he had no doubt of the of the hostile population of the Amazoolahoo. (Hear, herr.)
wisdom of Sir Harry's arrangements and of their beneficial To return however to his (Sir W. alulesworth's) narrative,
results. Alas, all was changed—the wise arrangements of the perfect tranquillity which Sir Harry Smith described in
Sir Harry Smith were upset, the frontier system of Lord his despatch of the 2Gth of November did not continue long.
Grey was a failure ; the sanguine anticipations of the noble On the sth of December he wrote, "My deer Lord limy.
earl were diseprinted; the Elysium of British Kaffraria The quiet I had reported in Kettirland, and which I had so
had become a fartarus ; our pockets were in the act of much and AO just grounds to anticipate, is nut reulised.
being picked—our surplus revenue was disposed of, and the I start this evening, the moment I rearh King William's
Colonial-office nolonger exulting, but at its wits' ends, came Town you shalt hear front me." Accordingly on the
crying to parliament for a committee to tell it what to do. 12th of December he' unite again and assured laird Grey
Vs hat were the causes which had led to this sad change ? that "he perceived little or no difficulty in restoring tr.:m-
ile thought they might be classed under three heads:-Ist. quillity." Lord Grey was delighted at receiving this des-
Encroachmeuts by Europeans on the lands of the Kettles; patch, for, in reply, he wrote how "glad he was to learn
secondly, the frontier system of Sir Harry Smith, approved that all immediate danger of an outbreak was at an end."
of by the Colonial-office, and which consisted in a Unhappy Lord Grey! This letter was written on the sth
perpetual and irritating interference with the affairs of March. The next day he received intelligence that thu
of the Katfirs, and in an increasing attempt to sub- outbreak had commencea with fearful violence. (Hear)
yeti the influence and authority of their chiefs. (Hear, It was evident, therefore, that the two persons who ought
hear.) to have been pre-eminently well informed in these matters
Lord J. RUSSELL—No, just the reverse. were pre-eminently ignorant. One, Sir Harry Smith, was
Sir W. MOLESWORTH —The noble lord might think either stone blind to all that was going on around hint, or
so, but that was in consequence of the state of ignorance this outbreak hail been caused by his mitmanagement.
in which the government was on the subject. (Hear, hear.) The other, Lord Grey, eeposed blind confidence in the
The third cause was the complete ignorance of Sir H. wisdom of Sir Harry Smith's arrungements. The next Mill
Smith, and the consequent ignorance of the Colonial-office, last despatch to which he should refer displays in the highest
of the feelings which the Kettles entertained with respect degree the blindness of Sir 11. Smith. It wee dated the 20th
to Sir Harry and his proceedings. Now, first, almost all December last, four clays before the commencement of
disputes between Europeans and native tribes might be the war. It began with an account of a meeting of
traced directly or remotely to encroachments by Eunmeans T' Slambie tribes (who dwelt in the niighbourhoostated od
Hat
ng
on the lands of the natives. Thoseeencroachmentsdrove William's Town) with Sir Smth.
away the game of the hunter tribes and curtailed the pas- " the conduct of the chiefs and the feelings nt the aetwoubled
tures of the pastoral races. Thus deprived of their MC4/01 people were all that he could possibly desire. The chiefs
of subsistence, the native races must either starve or en- expressed their determination
to to adhere faithfully to thu
coach upon the lands of other tribes and war with them, present order of things, and obey her Majesty." Ace
or they must rob and attack their European fore. The cording to the last amount+ they had fought against our
timid, the weak, and the gentle races laid down and troop., and interrupted the communicatiiine with King
died. The tierce and energetic resisted. Among us Williams Town. In the same despatch Sir Harry stated
rages few excelled the Katfirs in tiger courage and that he" hail received accounts of a very improved charae-
audacity, and they had often declared that they ter es regards the conduct of the Tanthookie chiefs," " and
preferred death by our sword and bullets to death by starve- he looked forward with every eonlidence to being able to
tion. The Kaffir, like the Scot, had deemed it an honour- restore general harmony and tranquillity." Lastly, in this
able act to steal cattle from his foe ; and the Dutch, like same despatch, Sir Harry deeeribes his great meeting
the English, had not been slow to retaliate. The Dutch with the linens tribe, on the 19th of Decemlter,
Ilarr at which
Were, encamped in military villages, had been able not 3,000 Kettles were preitent. According to Sir y, the
only to defend themselves but as their numbers had in- meeting went off in the most satisfactory and gratifying
creased, they hail gradually pushed the Katfirs back. In 180 E manner. He informed Lord Grey that it was evident " that
we had taken final possession of the Cape of Good Hope. We Sandell and other Gaika chiefs had endeevouriel to "excite
soon began to interfere with the border system of the the people against the present rule ;" " that they heel sig-
Dutch, and to establish military posts on the frontier nally failed ;'" that the people saw the advantages they
with garrisons of regular troops. The imperial eependis derived from theepresent state of thinge;" "that they wire'
lure ou account of thow garrisons had attracted very many tranquil, coutenileilemil happy ;" that he anticipated that
Europeans to the frontier. The presence of the troops en- his *system would he perpetuated, and he declared that hu
eourazed, facilitated, rind hastened the encroachments of "had every confidence in the pntspert before him." Four
the European+ on the lands of the Kaffirs, and on various days after this despatch was written the Gaikei rose in
pleas we took possession of their territory, and claimed anus, defeated Col. Mackinnon, then sisentundiel Sir IL
authority over their chiefs. The Kaffirs resisted, stole Smith in Fort Cox, and then repulsed Col. Some
i rsetH when
the cattle of the colonists and committed numerous de ire- he attempted to open rommunieetions with Sr arry.
dations. The colonists retaliated, the troops were called Now, what heel made the tiaikae rie in arms ? Ile had
out, and a Kaffir war ensued. With the termination of said it already; it was the attempt to rapture Kendall.
each war we added to our territories, and thus wowed the Sir 'terry Smith, soon cutler his arrival in the
seeds of another war. As war followed on war, the Kaffir* colony, aeeembleil the Katfirs at King William's Town. At
improved in the art of war, acquired something of the skill those meetings, which took place ill Deeeuuber, 1847, `and
of their opponents, and learnt the use of European wea- Januery, 1818, Sir Harry Smith pretended to depose en-
pans. Therefore, successively every Kaffir war had he- &Ili from the rank of gneit chief, and to appoint himself
come more formidable than the preceding one, requiring the Inkoli lnkulu of the Katfirs. He did ste with the
more troops, and costing a larger sum of money. strangest ceremonies. Ile described to Lord Grey his pro-
On the conclusion of the war in 1847, Sir IL Smith, (veilin4 on one occasion in the following words:—'• rho
with the sanction of the Colonial-office, had added to Kaffir, being arranged iu a circle, 1 rule into the nedst of
the colony of the Cape of Good Hope on its north-eastern them. hearing in my right lentil a nergeant's halberd, well
side the provinces of Victoria and Albert, containing about sharpened, the emblem of war; in my left hand a magic
3,600 square miles. Beyond these provinces, still to the north- wand, my baton of peace and authority, surmounted with
cast, Sir Harry Smith had added to our South African do- a brass knelt. I directed each chief to route forward and
minions, but not to the colony of the Cape of Guod Hope, touch whichever he pleased; it was immeterial to
theterritoryof British Kaffraria, in which the present war had me. They all touched the symbol of peace. Thin
commenced, and which contained abort 3,900 square miles. each chief kismet my foot— (laughter) exclaiming
Nut content with these acquisition., Sir It. Smith had then " Limon inkulu.' I then shook hunch with each, never
crossed the mountains which guarded the northern frontier having done an before. Three cheers wire given, and thus
of the Cape of Good Hope, and hail taken pose-wenn of the I commenced the foundation of the improvement of their
whole tract of eoun!ry between them and the Orange river, social rendition." (Laughter.) At another meeting he
an area of the eize of England, containing about 50,000 made the Kaffir chiefs swear "to obey his commands,"
square miles of as barren a desert as any on the face of the "to distsclieve in witchcraft," " nut to buy wives," :end
earth. (Hear, hear.) That desert had made our nothern every year to give a fat ox to her Majesty. On the seine
flank secure against the attacks of barbarians. Having un- occasion he treated the Kaffirs to a little majoring. Ile
covered that flank, Sir H. Smith, still travelling northward, had a waggon stationed on au eminence at a considerable
had trussed the Orange river in pursuit of the rebel beers. distance, with no ono wheteoever near it. NOW, said Sir
These beers had fled from Colonial-office oppression to Harry to the Kaffirs—he (Sir W. Molesworth) quoted Sir
Natal. 'there we had first permitted them to establish a Harry'. own words : You dare to nuke war—you dare to
govenunent, then we had sent our troope to subdue them, attack our waggons! Sec what I will do if you ever dare
and thus had added to our dominions 10,000 square miles, to touch a waggon or the oxen belonging to it. Do you see
situated on ten harbourless ocean, with Kaffirs on one side, that waggon, I say ? Now hear my word. Fire ! (The
and their kinsmen, the equally warlike Zoolahs, on theother wagiton is blown up.) Ah ! dot you see the waggon now ?
side. In consequence of our having taken pos./oriole of that and you would and shall be blown up with it if you ever
worthless territory, the been tied again and crossed the again attempt to touck another; w, be good, and believe in
mountains to the plains of the interior. Sir harry Smith, your father." (Laughter.) Sir harry said that the
as he had said, pursued them, defeated them, and pro- estonishment of the Kathie at this trick was excessive • and
claimed the sovereignty of Great Britain over all the plains so ought to have heenlemlfirey'swheo he read it. Sir finery
between the Great Orange River and the Vaal or Yellow also harangued them in speeches full of bombast and rho-
River,an areaufabout 4/4,000 square miles,with a frontier of dominttade, with a mixture of religiou, or rather of bias-
-600 miles exposed to the incursions of Zoolahs and ether phemy, beginning with a curse and ending with a prayer,
tribes of the 'tame origin as the Kettles. Again sonic of the much after the fashion of a mock oration of a trooper of
boers fled northwards and crossed the Yellow River, and if Cromwell. Thus by alternately coaxing and threatening
we persevere-el in our policy of pursuing therm we should the Katfirs, by alternately praising and reviling them, by
have to follow them to the mountains of the Moon, and to playing up all manner of fantastic and mountebank tricks,
add to our dominions all Africa south of the tropics. Thus by aping
-the manners of the savage, Sir Harry thought to
Sir Harry Smith, with the sanction of the Colonial-office, Kaffir% and to impose upon them ; but the Katfirs
had, since 1817, added 105,000 square miles to our South laughed at him, turned him into ridicule, and impowil upon
African possessions, an area nearly equal to that of the hint. At the great meeting of the 19th of December last. Sir
United Kingdom", and our South African empire now Harry acted a somewhat similar farce. According to the
covers the vat spice 0282,000 sem ire miles, an area equal reports of the colonial newspapers, he denounced Sandell
to the whole of the Austrian empire including Lombardy as a rebel and an outlaw, and offered a reward of 5001. for
and adding Piedmont to it. Ile calculated that on the his capture. The Giulia chiefs remionstrated, and entrisiteel
frontier of that empire there was a line of 1,000 miles ex- him to show mercy to Sandilli. Sir Harry deelariel that he
posed to the attacks of savages of the same blood as could not do tot, for if he were to show merely to Sandilli
the Karlin, and as fierce, warlike, and energetic as the great Queen of England would cut off his (Sir Harry's)
the Kitties. As yet we had fought only with the head—(laughter)—and that ho would net line leis head for
Kaffir*, along a line of 200 miles: but the same causes such
arebel as Sandilli. The next day Sir Harry pro-
which gave birth to ware with the miles;
were coming claimed a successor to Sandilli, and wrote to Lord Grey
into operation along the whole of that frontier of 1,000 that he had every couffilence in the prospect before SS*
miles, and were likely, in course of time, to embroil us with Two days afterwards, in the posheript to the semi, yeah,
all the native tribes which he had mentioned. Ile dared he assured Lord Grey that the beat feeling pervaded tee
not attempt to calculate what it would cost us to defend Kaffire, and that the (Likes were much pleased with Isis
that frontier with regular troops, in the same manner as we conduct. Finally, on the 24th, aniline that no Kaffir would
had defended the north-eastern frontier of the Cape of Good betray hie chief, even for the enormous reward of 5002., Sir
Hope. To defend those 200 miles, we had spent of late Harry tient Colonel Mackinnon with a force of 587 men,
years not less than 600,0001. annually. From those data, to capture Sandilli. That expedition failed, as a simile
hon. gentlemen might calculate what the defence of 1,000 one had failed in 1817. The CLiiku TOW in defence of
mike would cost. Having referred to " Boundary their chief; they attacked our arena in a narrow defile,
disputes Iwtween Dutch farmers and Tanshookine" from which our troops were with diffieulty extricated with
Sir William alidesworth went on to observe that serious loss. Then the Kaffire destroyed the military vie
there was a belief in Katfirlancl, as there was in cer- loges on the frontier, slaughtering the inhabitants ; next
Lain parts of this country, that certain persona called witches they surrounded Sir Harry Smith in Fort Cox, owing to
and certain things called bewitching things could cause in- which accidental circumstance (to use the strange langueze
jury to human beings and to cattle and could prevent the of the hon. gentleman the Under Secretary of State for the
falling of rain. The Kaffirs also believed that there were Colonic!) Sir 11. Smith was for /several days prevented from
certain persons called witch doctors, who could discover communicating with the colony. Nest the Kaffir,' repule. I
witches and bewitching things. Now the Kettles attributed General Somerset in his attempt tee open communieetiee.
the drought of last year to witches, and a great witch doctor with Fort Cox. Finally, Sir Harry Smith escaped, and•C
appeared in British Kaffraria. lie pretended, like Sir Harry the 31st of December rearhed King Williaan's Town. lie
Smii .seheraft. Sir -- was much mediately i•otlell a prodenrition, canine upon the ei

,with, to put down witchcl..._ —.. Harry
astonished at his pretensions, and as two of a trade never
agree, Sir harry ordered Colonel Mackinnon to I..eure this
Mahomet, as ho termed him, and to transport him to Rob-
ben Wand. Colonel Ntackinnou, however, told Sir Itarry
that the seizure would cause great irritation among tho
Kahl", and would endanger the tranquillity of the colony;
that there hail been nothing mischievous or warlike in the
conduct of the witch doctor, and that he ought not to be
molested. On the other hand, he (Sir W. Molesworth) must
state that it was r —,rally believed iu the colony that the witch

nista to -rise en mane', and destroy ortiregierminste
barbarous savages, promising them unlimited hem.,
plunder. At the game time he sent pogt haste to Natil
the assistance of 3,000 Zoo Awording to the List •
counts, though the Kaffir* hail been defeated in the
attacks upon some of our forts, they had commit:
great ravages. For this war Sir 11. Smith a
Lord Grey were responsible. It had broken oat
their own peculiar province of British Kafir:aria, cli
woo no part nor portion of the colony of the Cape of t•
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doctor had prophesied aztinst the Europeans, nad had at-
tributed to them the sufferiugi of the Kaffir, and that them
had iuced much excitement in Kaftirland.

Hope. It had lieen the consequence of the encroaehot,
winch they had sanctioned, of their ignorance of the t.
Inge of the Kaffir., and of their fmnticr system of pert. t

and vexatious interference in the affairs of the iontar
tribes. The frontier system had completely failed, and
Sir Harry Smith, in despair, declared that " what is ulti
motel, to be done with those barbarians remains • prob-
lem." The last question was, what steps outtht to bs
taken to relieve this country from any expense on account
of future wars with the KORN ? It was clear that first se
must defeat the Kaffirs, and reduce them to subjs etion,
and pay for so doing. What should we then do? Adhere
to the present system of defending the frontier hi
troops at the expense of this country. In IS-P 4
had presumed to warn the house that unaer that 1..t0u
there would be a Kaffir war every three or four years with
a large bill to pay for it, that there wits only 0121: way to
save our purses, and that was to give the inhabitants of the
Cape of Good Hope free institutions, complete control over
their own expenditure, and the management of their Ma-
tions with the frontier tribes ; that at the same Mite the
colonists should be made to distinctly understand 64 tle?
must defend themselves against the Kaffirs and pay for
their own defence, and that finally our troops shelled
be withdrawn from the frontier, and only an itol"41
garrnion maintained in the naval station of' Cape Ton
certain that on the average of years the
if these measures sure not adopted, the house uitOit
Peolde of
United Kingdoms would have to pay from 600.00°1.
the
700,0001. a year for the Cape of Good Hope, a sum whi"
considerably exceeded the exports of British Mohr:
and manufactures to that colony. (Hear, hear.) .1"
Mohr
Cape of Good Hope was not worth that price. (I"e'
hear.) The only portion of it which was worth :invitee;
wasa narrow strip of land between rugged mountains a
the one side, and a harbourless ocean on the other. The