The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-13 00:00:00

which had issued from the conferetteCS, WM% Wt./ ;
and that he was anxious to retain the good chiefly
with a view to acquiring the better, to which object
he should devote all ins energies. M. Munteuffil,
in answer to a remonstrance on the free trade gm,.
tion from Elberfeld, seems to express himself uith
studied ambiguity.
A programme has been handed about within the
last tew days at Hanover, which is conNidored u bume
on whieh a 'toll union with the Zollverein niav
brought about. It pnqxsies-Ist, That raw immin,„
should he admitted duty free ; 2nd, A itiod.i;de
approximation of the Steuerverein duties on colonial
produce to those of the Zollverein;
adoption of the 10 per cent tariff on mau-
factures ; 4th, A gradual equalisation of dol.,
on home and foreign raw augur.; ; sth, Abolition of
transit duties ; 6th, Abolition of all passage dues
within the bounds of the convention, and an eilualku-
tion of the duties on wine, tobacco, brandy, :Ind
sugar within the same limits.
The whole force stationed at Lubeck, amoutititips•
in the whole to 4,000 men, inclusive of artillery, th,
correspondent of the Kutner Zetinny says, have n._
aired orders to break off towards Bohemia. and hv
the shortest was-, through Prussia and Saxony,
The Deutsch; Reform will appear heneci;,ra,ad
under the title of' the Pretessioche isituny.

THE KAFFIR WAR.

SUCCESS OF THE 11111T1s11

TROOPS.

ARRIVAL OF THE BOSPINITS 11101
TUE CAPE OF Goob 1101'E.

The Bosphorus, screw steam-vessel. Capt. J. Vine
Hall, arrived at Plymouth last evening at In o'ebsk,
having made the itassage from the Cape in thirty-eight
days, including stoppages. She left the Cape on
February 2; Sierra Leone on the 21st February,
haying stopped there four days to coal. She Itft
Cape St. Vincent on the 28th of February.
The feeling at the Cape on the leaving of the Bos-
phorus was that Sir Harry Smith would very shortly
reduce the Kaffirs to subjection. Troops and inom:Y
were, however, much wanted. The extracts from the
papers will show that the gallant commander n3ll
bent on taking decisive steps. There were 3.05)
troops there, and 2,000 Hottentots, under Sir Harry
Smith, who was still in King William's Town.—The
great fear that Fort White and Fort Cox would Mil
for want of provisions had ceased, as Sir it. Smith
was moving towards them, and would undoubtedly
soon open communications with Fort Hare. Pato
remained faithful to the English, and had gua-
. mnteed to keep the line of road open between
the Buffalo mouth and King William's Town.
When Sir Harry Smith left Fort Cox, as stated
in our last accounts, he rode all the way
escorted by 300 of the Cape corps, an ample pro-
' tection. It is true that there was some occasional
tiring by the Kaffirs, but with little or no effect.
Many of the Katfirs, however, were themselves shut.
The Cape corps, Hottentots, are quite staunch to the
government, and no had feelings existed among them.
Them are no soldiers at Cape Town or at Graham's
Town, every one being sent into Kaffraria. The
only engagement of importance which had taken
place since the Bth of January was brought on by
an attack by the Kaffirs on Fort Hare and tho
town of Alice, in which they were defeated with
great loss. The Guvernor-General was waiting until
all his levies should have arrived before commencing
operations on a great scale against the enemy.
People at the Cape were confident that with his
present forces Sir 11. Smith would quell the outbreak
within three or four, or, at farthest six months.
The native prophet timlangeni is not now in so
much esteem with his countrymen as previous to
the outbreak. Ile then possoised great influence
over the chief Sandilli, and assured hint that the
English bullets would melt into water, that the
English would be transformed into cattle, and tho
trees would become Kaffirs, and thus the English
could be easily and effectually extirpated from the
Cape. When Sandill's men fell dead in the field ho
lost faith in the stn het, who cunningly attributed
their deaths to the Keith's purr having fired the first
shot, which was contrary to his previous admo-
nitions.

A number of Kaffirs, many of them spits, wets
imprisoned in Graham's Town.
On her arrival in Plymouth Sound, the Bosphorus
was brought direct alongside the pier of the Great
Western I) ilk Company, and the mails were at once
landed, in charge of Mr. Markes, the postmaster of
Plymouth, and conveyed to the station of the South
Devon Railway Company.
As the ordinary train would not have started from
Plymouth before 6h. iil)m. this morning, the officials
of the railway, agreeably to prior arrangement by
the directors, at once had a special train prepared
to bring on the mail, despatches, and such :passengers
as were disposed to avail themselves of it. This
train was ready for starting at about a quarter
to two this morning, and by this arrangement
nearly twelve hours were gained in the de-
livery of the letters in London. pled the vessel gone
on to Southampton, her letters could not have arrived
in London until some seven or eight hours at the
least later than they were received.
The Bosphorus lirings a heavy mail, in 14 boxes
and 8 small bags, in charge of Commander Wool-
ridge, who speaks in very high terms of the vessel.
Captain Armstrong, of the lath Regiment, on official
duty, came in the Bosphorus from the Cape. Staff-
Surgeon Berry came a passenger from Sierra Leone,
and Mr. 'Falvey is a passenger fi'om the Cape. Thu
Centaur, Commodore Fanshawe, and the Dolphin
were at Sierra Leone. The Teviot, royal mail steam-
vessel, left Cape St. Vincent nine hours before the
Bosphorus.
The mail included several boxes for the Admiralty
and for other departments of the government, and
many seamen's letters.
The Cape of Good Hope Obserrer, of Jan. 28, says:
The intelligence from liaffirland is that the governor
would move, it wail supposed, yesterday morning, upon
an encampment of the liattirs on the De be Flats, between
Fort Cox and Fort White. It is trusted by all that the
Kuffirs will here attempt a decided stand. The desultory
operations of last war were the strength of the euemy.
They scarcely once offered our troops a hope of entering
into fair contest with them. Wearisome marches and

counter-marches, with the position of our
enemy very often unknown to us, were the characteristics
of the contest. The Prophet has so far worked upon their
hop..s thin time, that Ilerrnanus and his people had the
boldness to attack even the town of Fort Beaufort, and
they happily met with a fit repulse. Ile has, it is said, held
out hopes to them of successfully encountering the troops
on the open field—a proceeding in which the military power
of the civilised man when opposed to that of the savage,
will not fail to as its superiority.
The prospect, thus, of some effective proceedings against
the Latin appears nearer. The speedy arrival of the vo-
lunteers sent from the west hail much encouraged his ex-
cellency, and they would form probably a part of the force
with which Sir 11. Smith would proceed. The movement,
it is stated, was of the greater importance as it would con-
vey relief and the means of communication to Forts Cox and
White.

Aletter from Graham's Town, of which en extract is
published below, speaks very despondingly of the extent of
the disaffection attributed to the Hottentots. The people
at the station of Theopolis arc said, it is feared upon unex-
ceptional authority, to be disaffected to the English, and to
be engaged in some conspiracy against them. The number
of persons ut this station is not large, certainly, but each
addition is painful that is made to the distrust which exists
between the several portions of the community in the cast.
From Kut Oliver reports are more favourable. The
Frontier Times states that 400 Hottentots are in camp at
Buxton, under Field-Cornet Botha, and 300 are at Fort
Armstrong. Of the loyalty of these, no suspicion is men-
tioned, a circumstance in the highest degree encouraging.
Field-Cornet Botha is the officer named in his excellency's
recent proclamation, commented upon last week.
Some partielars of the proceedings at Theopulis are given
' from the Fronlier Times.

The employment of the pores-gang at Graham's Town
for the compulsory service of coloured persons only, is a
most unfortunate business. There can he no doubt that
on the coloured people at this time, within the border, de-
pend.; much of the safety of the colony. Some fears arc
entertained of their faithfulness, exaggerated perhaps, but
yet saving at least a measure of foundation. Hence the
present is not a time, if any time may be permitted for the
purpose, to make improper distinctions between the races,
or to tempt them to view the whites otherwise than as
friends and equals.
Tho Cape of (deed Hope Exchange Gazette, of Feb.
1, says :

-'Ti;:.: lt,t post brought n?ws of another success achieved over
the Kaffir enemy. On the 21st ultimo, at 9 a.m., Fort
Hare and Alice Town were attacked by a very strong force,
estimated variously at from three to six thousand men*