The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 10.

MEZIWZR RETURNED Ti SERVE. IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

Borough of liarwich—knac Butt, of L?eson•street,
in the city of Dublin, Esq., in thf' room of Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, wh,) has acellted the office of Steward
of her Li4jeiity'6 Manor of Hemphoime.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 10.
Royal Regiment of Artzliery—Fir3t Lieutona.t
William Conyngham Lynch Does() to be Sccond_Ce.ptatn,
vice E. Swinton, deceased; Second Lieutenant Frederick
William Whitehead to be Frst Lieutenant, vice Blosse,
May 1.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 2.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Francis
Robert Newton to be First Lieutenant, vice William
Kelly, dismissed the service.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Joshua Proctor Brown Westhead, Eiq., to be Derinty
Lieatenant, April 29.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—lsaac Powe,
Esq., to be Captain. vise Brooks, deceased, March 10.
Commission by the Loof rd-uten rant of the North Riding
Y Lieorkshe.

North York Regiment ot. Militia—Mark William Vane
Milbank, Esq., to be Captain.
CommissionDum by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire.
Stirling, barton, Clackmancan, and Kinross Regi-
ment of Militia—William Cunningham Bontine, Esq., to
be Captain, vice Maxwell, deceased; Ensign James
Campbell to be Licuteutuit, vice Shaw, promoted; Archi-
bald Campbell, Gent., to b 3 Ensign, vice James Camp-
bell, promoted, May 4.
WHITEHALL, MAY 6.
The Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Knight, Lord Chief
Justice of her Mejesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, has appointed William Wilding, of Mont-
gomery, in the county of Montgomery, gentleman, to
be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married
Promen, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
modes of assurance, in and for the county of Montgo-
mery, also in and for the county of Salop.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John .Haworth, cotton spinner. Burnley Lancashire.
BANKRUPTS.
George Manley Wetherrield, scrivener, Gresham-
street, City, lo surrender May 21, at twelve, and June
25, at elsvee, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan,
official assignee, Aldermanbury; Munday, Lancaster-
place, Strand.
Richard Iladland. glass manufacturer, St. Helens,
Lancashire, May 17, and Jnne 15, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court. Liorgan, official assignee,
Liverpool; Hayward, Birmingham ; Dodge, Liverpool.
John Henry Collins, draper, Halifax, May 28 and
Jane 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leseis; Brierley, Halifax.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
B. Mainon, basket dealer, Brook-street, Holborn.
N. Levy, assistant to a carcase butcher, Aldgate.
W. Rule, grainer, Chiswell-street, Finsbury.
W. C. Lloyd, town traveller, Kentish Town.
S. King, upholsterer, Frederick-street, Hampstead-road.
W. D. Marks, clerk, Saint John-street, Westminster.
R. Howling, china and glass dealer, High-street, Poplar.
J. Robinson, tailor, Goswell-road.
T. C. Burgon„eseneral merchant, Burton-crescent.
T. Collins, Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane.
F. Swanwick, chemist, Commerce-place, Brixton-road.
A. N. Steele, messenger at the Lambeth Police-court,
Surrey-terrace, Old Kent-road.
R. Hearn, commercial traveller, Eversholt-street, St.
Pancras.
H. Windle, rag dealer, Now-street, Brompton.
J. Salmon, licensed victualler, Kiusswood, Serrey,
C. Woodward, Regent-squire, Gray's Inn-road.
W. Whittaker, builder, Croseyerow, Walworth-road.
W. W. Lucking. auctioneer, Portman-square.
R. Yellop, Southwick-sheer, Hyde-park, attorney.
J. K. Gildea, King-street, St. James.
G. Sayer, High-street, Guildford, farmer
W. Barker, taylor, leasabottom-street. Stalybridge.
R. Bleakly, builder, Union-street West, Salford.
B. Collins, out of business, Liverpool.
J. S. Darnbrougla, poulterer, Yorkshire.
H. Halley, currier, Huddersfield.
H. Hayley, currier, Huddersfield.
G. B. Wainwright, ship :Ind insurance broker, Liverpool.
J. Gill, joiner, Huuslet, Leeds.
J. Gill, builder, Hun'iet, Lc, ds.
J. Joplin, surgeon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
S. Newsirn, attorney, Seuthpert, Lineashire.
D. Aecs North, stone taasoo, Morley, Yorkshire.
D. Evans, out of buiiress, Merthyr Tydfi', Glamor-
gansiaire.
J. Sutton, assistant to a flumes, Wielten, Cambridgeshire.
R. Darling, ship owner, South Blyth, Northumberland.
T. Huehes, Lutcher, Te tett- park, Liverpool.
NV. Holden, grocer, Blaskharn.
T. Kay. lab-ircr, Bury, Lancashire.
I. Neowles, assistant butcher, Liverpool.
S. Martin, boot soaker, Whalley, Blackburn.
D. Shuttlewe rte, book keeper, Padihaeo, Lancashire.
J. W. T. 'Tralter, fermer, Wileerspool, Cheshire.
R. Coney, foreman to cab proprietors, Huddersfield.
J. F. Smith, auctioneer, Newcastle-upon-T; ce.
J. Walton, saddler, N wcastle- upon- l'y'nx.
J. Woodman, licenind victualler, Carmarthen.
J. Meikle, j Mencliestcr.
J. Shaw, lebourer, Blackley, Lancashire.
G. Harrison, glove hand, Calvertoc, Nottinghamshire.

THE KAFIR: WAR.
(From the London Gazette of this Evening.)
PROCLAMATION.
By his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Henry George
Wakelyn Smith, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Colonel of
the Second Battalion Rifle Brigade, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the colony of the Cape
of Good Hope, in South Africa, and of the terri-
tories and dependencies thereof, and Ordinary and
Vice-Admiral of the same; and her Mijesty's High
Commissioner for the settling and adjustment of the
affairs of the territories in Southern Africa, adjacent
as contiguous to the eastern and north-eastern fron-
t,i,7 Of the said colony, &c., &e., &e.
whereas the time has arrived when it is both just and
43o•tentot
UP"ent to , expel the rebel
Gaika tribes and tne rebel
Hoek, 5 from the Weterkloof, Blinkwater, Fuller's
tains;
alt giver, and the whole of the Amatola Moan-
merset t,the burghers of the divisions of Albany, So-
e'," Beaufort, Victoria, Albert, Cradock, and
Graae•-etemet, he .
tween the ages of twenty
commanded to a and fifty, are
The burghere of Albany,
that is to say --
The
' Il'it)anyt at Fort Brown.
Q,coma erset
1 ,at Post Rtief.
~ yt Beaufort at Olde Koonap Post.
~
Gr_e_.
Victoria, at Fort Hare
, 1 Albr!a_nd Cradock, at.
Wbittlesea.
ff 74an itemet, to assemble at Cradock,
nown that the
as a second line.
Ma;esty I do hereby
In the name nod in behalf
bjnreh:rs aforesaid
proclaim and make lt_
are commanded to take the field uponthe-
with this exception, the . Oll commando
system, I by rations will be provided
for themselves Commissariat array Bement,
'II be incurred by the , but no
expense
vi
ts Government for arms,
horses, or appointmen • Tray are to nominate their own
be moved b 1,
officers, but they will, • 3se bY the Cettimauder-in-
Chief himself, after their assembly,
lY'1)ell those points
where their services mayrequired
‘ to co-
which wilt operate
with her Majesq's army, the Cob‘mais° disposed in
converging columns, under..o
personally, as to sweep in wholecountry, extending
from Fort Beaufort to the left bank of the
and the Wititerberg eastward to the hie.
Ido hereby proclaim to. the colonists, that they are
now called on and commanded by her Majesty's repre_
sentative to aid in the expulsion of tboae irreclaimable
Gaikas end Hottentot rebels, in driving them over the
Kei, and in establishing in perpetuity that security for
this frontier which can alone protect the families, the
homes, and the property of its inhabitants.
And I do hereby make known, and do warn all con-
cerned, that if this commando be not promptly and
fully obeyed, the colonists must hear the responsibility
which will be entailed upon them by their own apathy.
The burghers wilt be at the points herein designated,
by the Bth of March proximo, prepared to move.
The hesd-querters of the Commander-in-Chief will
be, on the Bth day of March, either at Fort Beaufort or
Fort Hare, es may be hereafter announced.
6011 Save the QOEEN.
Given under my hand and seal, at King Wil.
ham's Town, this 6th day of Feb. 1852.
(Signed) H. G.,..311T14, Governor.
By command of his Excellency the Governor,
(Signe 1) JOHN GARVOCK, Lieut.-Col.
Private Secretary.
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No. 2

Head-Quarters, Fort Beaufort,
Sth March, 1852.
The troops assembled at and near For: Beaufort, to
dislodge the rebel Hottentots and Kafirs under the
Chief Ma!lomo, occupying the strongholds of the Blink•
water, Putt:l-'3l 11.,ptit, Water .t,,of, St:c., will be thus
posted at tLe 1.,,,.., of the zespativo operations of the
different cotutent.
Th., ri4ht column units Lie utewitit-Cul.,tta Eyre,
consisting ot two •guns Royal Artillery. 43d Light
Infantry, 7311 Regiment, and
tentots. and Ft detachment of Levies, Het-
l'itoeg, at tie Blink water POSL This co-
twol he joined by two
comp 74th guns Royal Artillery, and
iligblatdera now occupying that
post, Captain Harwell's Mounted Detachment now there,
will march to Yost Retie.
~ • 3. The centre Column under Lientenadt-Colonel
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consisting of two guns Royal Artillery, 6th
:..1-'iY 'IA .LBrgirnent, four companies 45th R,. 60 th
..,:,4 ,
and
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4. These two columns will post themselves on these,!
points to-morrow, Tuesday, the 9th inst.
5. The left column under Lieutenant-Cothlonele 91st NRegi-
apier,
consisting of two guns Royal Artillery,
ment, four companies 74th Highlanders, 150 Cape
Mounted Rifles, 200 Fingoes, and the burghers ordered
to assemble at Haddon 's Old Post, will make that po'it
the base of its operations.
6. On Tuesday, the 9th instant, this column 'Rill
move and occupy the small farm, called Nel's Farm, on
the road below the Buch Neck.
7. The 12th Lancers, and detachment Cape Mounted
Rifles, are posted at Hertzog, near Eland's Post, for the
purpose of interrupting the retreat of the rebels into
the Amatola Mountains.
8. On Wednesday, he 10th instant, the three columns
will move to the attack.
The right column will direct its main exertions to dis-
lodge the rebels from Fuller's Hoek, the ridge of which
the enemy principally occupies, and where Macomo's
kraal is.
9. The centre column will ascend the high ridge by
the route pursued by Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce, in
the former attack, and will assail the Bashy Mod, con-
necting Fuller's Hoek with the Water Woof.
10. The left column will move by the waggon-road
up the Water Kloof valley to its head, and will
direct its Infantry and Cape Mounted Rifles to
ascend thence to meet the attack of the centre
column, while its mounted force of burghers
patroles, so as to cut cif any dislodged fugitives,
who may endeavour to cross from one kloof to the other,
communicating with the mounted burghers expected to
move from Post Retief.
11. The troops to carry with them three days'
bread and field rations. It is possible they may
supply themselves with slaughter cattle, but, whe-
ther or not, they must not be withdrawn from
any stronghold of which they may possess themselves,
for where the troops are the rebels cannot be, but move
forward invariably into the bnsb, never coming into the
open. The mounted force must cut off fugitives.
12. These are the outlines of the operations.
13. The officers commanding columns, and Major-
General Somerset, will meet the Commander•in-Chief
at 10 o'clock this day, to enter into the minutiae of their
combined operations, upon which success depends.
14. The Head-Quarters and Major-General Somerset
will be established at Blinkwater.
(Signed)

H. G. SMITH,
Commander-in-Chief.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS;

Lord REDESDALE took his seat on the Woolsack at
Five o'clock.
PETITIONS.

The Earl of HARROWBY presented a petition horn
the county of Derby in favour of the enfranchisement
of copy holds.
The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
Londonderry, praying for amendments in the criminal
law of Ireland.
PENAL DISABILITIES REPEAL BILL.
On the motion of Lord LYNDHURST this Bill
passed through Committee.
REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES (IRELAND) ACTS