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London, England, 1852-07-07 00:00:00

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PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY 'h@
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Stdam-Ship Company's than packet 80--phorug
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enpttiin John V. Hall, arrived this morning. The
Bofphortv, left Plymouth 5 r.m., April 15;''; arrived
at St. Viceent, 9.15 A.m., April 27th; left at noon
on the 29. h ; arrived at Sierra Leone, 7.40 p.m.,
May 3d; left at two P.M. on the 4th; arrived at

Table-bay at noon, May 24th: The passage from
Plymouth to Table-bay was performed in thirty-eight
days nineteen hours including stoppages, two days

twenty hours. The Bosphorus left Table bay, 7.40

P.M., May 29ib ; arrived at Sierra Leone, 3.40 r.M.,

June 13th ; lth at 2.40 P.m., June 14th ; arrived at
St. Vineent'3, 1.30 P.m., June 19th; lett at 1 p-m.,
June 21st; arrived at Tlymouth, 8 A.M., July 6th.
Toe news from the frontier is to the 25th of May,

Ind is of a very undeciAve character. Generai
o,;theart hits et,tjblished his heeq- quarters at Fort
Beaufort, ni:d is forming elong the fru,-
tier ; there is cne at the l'aimcha ; Itifi,s tire at
13(:.hr's Farm ; the 74:h Grid 916 t, Ccpe Mounted
ut,der Colone! .IV,lpier, are at Balfour, end
Calonek' Eyre and _Michell are at Keiiharna's Hock,
viiii!re a I.:;rt,is biing erected.

there eara:oseovcecruarlreindddicuartiinognsthoef
No mivaltii.:l• iitoment '
of
the
Early in £day, et the Fish Fliver mouth, the two
Ckytens, eons of o farm.,,v, cud their servant Elliot-,
vrore murdered. On the 15th, near Fort Cox, ab
unarmed priv.:.te of the Queen's 2d Regiment was
while cutting wood ; and on the 20th the
Rifles bad a brush iu the Waterkloor,when three of
that corps were wounded and one Fingoe killed.
Andries Boths, a field-cornet (Hottentot), after a
trial of eight days at Cape Town, had been convicted
of high treason, and was sentenced to be bung.
General Cathcart is seeking to raise a levy by offer-
ing the farmers ss. a day as privates, and 7s. 6d. a
day as officers, which is considered very liberal.
We extract the following from the monthly sum-
mary of the Cape Town Mail, dated May 29 :
" Lieutenant-General Cathcart having recovered from
the effects of the accident he had sustained in being
thrown off his horse, had proceeded at the date of the
last monthly mail to assume the active command of the
forces in Kafirland. since then he has permanently
removed head-quarters from King william's Town to

Fort Beaufort. -
"In reply to addresses from various bodies of the
colonists, shortly after his arrival, his Excellency an-
nounced his determination to effect the total subjugation
of the traitorous hordes now overrunning the colony,
and to expel for ever the hostile Guika Kafirs from the
country they had occupied before the war.
" To accomplish this object nearly the whole of the
forces under his command were extended in a connected
chain of columns across the territory intended to be
cleared, provision being made for keeping open the com-
munication between the different columns, while the
12th Regiment, under Colonel Perceval, were replaced
in their former position at Coilingham, for the protec-
tion of the Albany district. This corps had been pre-
viously engaged in the fruitless endeavour to drive the
enemy from his fastnesses in the Amatola mountains.
Ou their return they swept through the country of
Stock and Seyolo, which was found to be entirely de-
serted, those chiefs having either joined their forces to
those of Macomo and Sandilli, or sent them, dispersed in
traced.
marauding bands, into the colony.
" The results of the operations of the several columns
efforts
success
can,
therefore,
have no: yet been formally communicated to the public.
The degree
combined
o
whichma
be have attended theirittehnddiesdtine
tly
Not the slightest indication, however, has
yet been manifested of disposition on the part
of the Kafirs to
submit ; but, on the contrary,
their resistance is
a determined as at any former
period of the war,
in choosing their though they show more wariness
positions, and carefully avoid
encounters with the troops upon open ground
numbers of them are also known tehavee.vadeGadrtehet
troops, and entered the colonies at various places.
Many depredations have consequently been committed,
and several desperate encounters have taken place be-
tween them and parties of burghers who have endea-
voured to deprive them of their spoil.
" On the Ist inst. information was received that the
post from head-quarters had been intercepted by a
band of Seyolo's Kafirs, who carried cff the mail bag,
containing the Governor's dispatches, the men in charge
barely escaping with their lives.
"In the early part of the month, Colonel Michell, who
was stationed at Fort Cox, had a severe engagement, in
which 20 of the enemy were killed, and many more
wounded. The 6th Regiment and 60th Rifles were both
warmly engaged in this affair. The Kafirs. it bppear s ,
maintained the conflict with great determination, the
troops being unable to make any impression upon them
until the Light Company of the 6th, by a desperate
chare,e, drove them from their position, when a party of
:he Rifles, in ambush, poured in a deadly fire and put
them to rout.

"Information bas &so been received of agallant at-

tack upon a portion of the Woterkloof, by Colonel Bul-
ler, with two companies of the 60th Rifles, under Captain
Lord A. Russell and Captain Wo;:df.Jrd, and a smut' de-
tachment of the Cape Corps under Captain Some-rset.
The Kahn', however, were found to be in such over-
whelming force, and to be screened by the nature of
tho ground, that, after a laborious march through the
rugged jungle, and killing a considerable number of
the enemy, the attacking party roared, under cover of
a six-pounder which had been judicously placed in re-
serve. On this occasion it is stated that • the peculiar
whiz of the enemies' balls told of iron pot legs and angu-
lar pieces of iron, and not of musket balls,' proving that
the stringent measures taken to prevent them from ob-
taining ammunition are beginning to be felt among them.
On the side of the troops, only one officer and two pri-
vates were wounded, Lieutenant Godfrey having the tip
of his ear shot off.

" Oa the sth instant, a detachment of the 23th Regi-
ment, under Captain Helmsley, suddenly fell in with a
party of about forty Kafirs in the Fish River Bush, near
Committee's Drift, when six of the enemy were killed,
and the others, after discharging their pieces, plunged
into the bush and escaped.
" Great consternation was excited among the inhabi-
tants of Lower Albany by the discovery, on the 12th
instant, of the traces of a large body of rebel Hottentots,
estimated at from 100 to 150 men, having entered the
Kowie Bush, which extends within a few miles of Gra-
ham's Town. About sixty of the neighbouring inhabi-
tants, including a party of the Albany Rangers, were
speedily assembled, and, under Captain Stubbs, moved
during the night in the direction of the marauders, whom
they came up with about three o'clock in the morning,
and found them sleeping round their fires in an open
space in the centre of a dense bush. Owing to the pre-
cipitancy of Isome of the party an alarm was given
before an eff,ctual attempt could be made, and the
rebels, starting up, dived scathiess into the bush. They
o
left behind them sixteen stand of arms, includingto
double-barrelleddouble-
barrelled
fowling
pieces,C o
" t
coats,
of other articles,
Corps
besidescarbines
abboesurntdof
fiftyw 0
p-
a numonert
blwide-
awake"anke blankets, , h eptoeuc pouches, tandhe
he spot.
which were collected and burnt
Circum-
stances of this kind, which unfortunately of constant
same number
and prevent them from en-
ertniejetnS' then? ialnhd-
discourage the inhabitants,
occurrence iu the exposed districts, naturally tend to
between
standing the large foercneetny.
tering with spirit upon
the great body
bad just occurred at the homestead
from savage warare atrtitcetfpt:eretg
farmer within the border. Two young
" Another ofeft;lithoese deplorable outrages inseparable
of a respectable
Mr. Clayton, left their father's house, near
men, sous of
27th Regiment, named Elliott, for die pur-
posesoldier of the
While
cutting wood. thus engaged, they were
of cut
tided by a large body of the enemy, and
ddenly surrou .
9u d deliberately shot down. The marauders,
in cold bloo
the mouth of the Fish ,
about
a number, half of whom were mounted, then
d Mrs. Clayton, with two daughters,
proceeded
i
edto the house, which they entered and ran-
sacked. Mr. an
bad their lives spared, wlesrehosrtriseps:
andand insulted;severa_i
guns.ed
, carry-
to afford assistance in such cases, a burgher
after plundering the premises, the band made off,
ing with them the whole property of the family, ,
organised to traverse the more un-
- Ina 200 head of cattle,
prig, b
order.fodrepeairstsbeoifngthe country, and follow np the vari-
f b d. •
oes hordes o an itti by whom the frontier districts are
tpheearttso
now eeerYwilcre infected.
. ,t The nature of the Governor's plans with regard to
has been partially disclosed.
tilhauttruhlisehEiexlceellencyproposes to subsidise
llpplitnroeoi
ttahee appears
e
them, under certain conditions, and that some of them
have already been paid sums of money under the new,
arrangements. Much apprehension, however, is gene-
rally entertained of the intentions of the Slambie tribes
and strong symptoms of disaffection and a desire to join
the enemy are said to have been of late manifested among
them.
" The bodies of Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce and Lieu-
tenants Carey and Gordon have been removed from the
spots where they had been hastily interred, and buried
in Graham's Town, amid the strongest demonstrations
of respect and grief on the part of the inhabitants.
" In the western portion of the colony little has,,to,o.
Burred during the month to call for special noticfe e ex-
most perfect tranquillity continues to exist.
Th .1"
citeneent which the mutilation of the Constitution
occa-
tudon Ordi-
nance by the effete Legislative Council
n ts
foeling assured
sinned has entirely subsided, the colonists
that her Majesty's Government will n ever violate the
solemn promises held out to them by sanctioning the
measure in its present useles%lfeortniev.
high treason, which
" The trial of Andries Botfor
eight day• has tenni-
occupied the Supreme Court
0,
all
the
sly counts.
with a
nett d in a verdict of guilt;011 the ground or his previous
recomm,.ndation tol3erc?
and mercy'
conduct. This verdict bas
loyalty, cervices,
shtlents s°7'.' of the counts Ceing
excited general astoni
evidence t
~.
na , as the trial pro-
se little supported by ~ q„ , , , s
v ere via tie e. a u,.!w:1011e(' ,by the public
ceef"' they
The nature of tin eelecipel eviclenet.larought
prosecutor. .
, against'Y hint—that ef conrets for lite—has also
torweru
lie.
ft animadversion d ' "I ime-
, an are pec
gileo rise to to
• in course of very general signature, Praying
morisl is a
Lieutenant. General Cathcart to give the fullest possible
effect to the recommendation of the jury.
„it is in no small degree sati.factory. to be able to add
that a
the best fesling continues to exist between Lieu-
tenant-Governor Darling and the inhabitants, especially
such public bodies as have had occasion to communi-
cate with him on matters affecting the interest of our
local community; his ready and courteous attention to
those interests presenting a most agreeable contrast to
the manner in which the representation of the colonists
re treated under the previous Administration."