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London, England, 1852-01-07 00:00:00

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EVENING, JANUARY

dress the meeting in favour of the resolutions are the
four gentlemen who last year acceded from the Council,
and who then prepared the outline of a constitution not
materially differing from that which has now been
granted. Two of these gentlemen, Sir Andries Stock-
enstrom and Mr. 2airbairn, returned to the colony in
the Harbinger, and were cordially welcomed on landing
by their fellow-colonists. A very largo assemblage took
place in and before the Town Ball on this occasion, and
after the addresses of the delegates had been heard,
" Mr. Haupt proposed, ' Three cheers for the Queen,
and thanks to her for the noble constitution she has
granted to the Cape of Good Hope,' which (as the re-
port tstates) was most heartil responded b the s-
semblage both within and withy out the hall."to The desire
for the immediate establishment of free institutions
is intense among all classes of the inhabitants, with the
exception of a few persons directly or indirectly con-
nected with the local government.
Rumours of disaffection among the coloured classes
in some of the western districts have been rife during
the past month. A Government commission, appointed
for the purpose, has been able to discover no serious
grounds fur the reports, which, however, had caused,
and are still causing, considerable uneasiness. Until a
regular government, enjoying the confidence of the in-
habitants, is established, the colony must remain in a
painful state of uncertainty and disorganization.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
GRAHAM'S TOWN, Nov. 25,
Letters received yesterday by the Kafirland post re-
ported everything to be quiet at King William's Town
and in the vicinity. Colonel Eyre was daily expected
there with the troops under his command. Mr. Conway
had had an interview with the Governor, having brought
some message from Kreli, and was immediately to start
nil back again. The purport of his communications ho
was not allowed to make public. Letters from beyond
the Kei report matters there to be in a very unsatisfac-
tory and unsettled state. The Amsgcaleki seem quite
ripe for mischief. A party of Kafirs and Tambookies,
united, had swept off all the Butterworth cattle. These
cattle had been removed from the Mission Station a
short time before by Kreli's orders, professedly for
greater security. At the time one of the letters alluded
to was written a party of Kafirs were lying in a drift,
waiting for a train of five waggons belonging to the
trader Jeffries, which they intended to attack and
plunder. They bad also, it seems, made up their minds
to obtain possession of all the Fingoes' cattle in their.
country.

It was reported that a strong combined force of Tam-
bookies and Kafirs was about to make another vigorous
attack upon Whittlesea and Shiloh. Probably the in-
tended movement of the troops, if carried out and in time,
will divert them from their purpose by finding them suffi-
cient employment in other quarters. Designing and in-
triguing parties have been endeavouring, by circulating
various reports to the prejudice of the Government and
the colony, to alarm and disturb the Faku and his people.
We are glad to learn they have entirely failed in their
object, and that he and his people are quiet and satisfied.
express extraordinary arrived hero from the
Governor yesterday, and returned to King William's
Town shortly afterwards. The subject of it is not pub-
licly known.
We learn this morning from a private source that con-
siderable numbers of burghers are assembling in the
neighbourhood of Post Belief and Whittlesea.

LATEST FROM HEAD-QUARTERS.
(From the Graham's Town Journal, Nov. 25.)
The intended movement referred to in our last issue
we now learn is to be across the Kei, for the purpose of
retaking some of the colonial cattle which have been
driven thither by the marauders from time to time dur-
ing the present contest. The force will consist of 3,000
men under Major-General Somerset, Lieutenant-Colonel
Mackinnon having a brigade under that officer. It is
expected that the contemplated operations will occupy a
month.

(From the Frontier Times, Nov. 25.)
News of the expedition which is about to be under-
taken across the Kei is known all over Kafirland, and
Pato's Kafirs, it seems, are dunning those in charge of
the waggon convoys for arrears of "milk money, alleg-
ing that the waggons are now going away." We have
reason to believe that public matters are almost as pre-
carious in the Slambie country as they were soon after
the first breaking out of hostilities. British authority
is, perhaps, even more despised amongst the so-called
friendly tribes than ever. Sandilli is still undisturbed
in the fastnesses of the Amatola—Macomo is still en-
trenched in the Waterkloof, from which his forces have
been expelled—the rebel camp at the Fish River has
has not been broken up. The whole frontier is exposed
to the ravages of the enemy, who with their murderous
bands are still within its limits.

TRIBES BEYOND THE KEI.
(From the Graham's Town Journal.)
The news beyond the Kei indicates great restlessness
amongst the tribes in those parts—more especially the
Amagcaleka under Kreli, and a portion of the Abatembu.
It appears that some time ago Kreli recommended the
traders and Fingoes at Butterworth to send their cattle
beyond the Bashee river for security. Mr. Jeffries ac-
cordingly sent 120 oxen to that part of the country, and
many of the people followed this example, although the
missionary considered the experiment to be hazardous,
and expressed his fears to the people as to the result of
sending their cattle so far from home. On the 14th
inst. a combined party of Tam bookies and Kreli's people
carried off the whole cf theta cattle. There can be no
diubt of Kreli's bad faith, which must have been fully
known to the Governor some time ago. It is presumed
that he would have been attacked long since, but for the
want of a larger farce, and the necessity of employing
the troops nearer the boundary in defence of the colony.
As, however, a combined movement of troops of the Ist
and 2d divisions is now about to take place in the dircc-
tion of the Kei, it may be hoped that an opportunity will
occur for teaching Kreli, and that part of his tribe
living near the Tsomo, the evil eoasequcnces of war, and
the mis€ries brought upon themselves by adopting the
counsels and following the fortunes of the hostile chiefs
and tribes.

There had been some further bad feeling excited be-
tween the Fingoes near Morley, and the Tambookies
under the chief Jooi. The Fingoes were clearly to
blame, and acted very treacherously towards Jooi,
whom they attacked when attended by a small party of
the men, one of whom was killed, while the chief him-
self and another man were wounded. Tbis affair, of
course, produced renewed hostility, and the Tambookies
seized a number of the Fingoes' cattle on account of the
insult to the chief. It is not unlikely but that this out-
rage was made the pretext for seising the Butterworth
cattle beyond the Bashee. However, as Mr. M. B. Shaw
has been again appealed to by the chiefs to arbitrate on
this new cause of quarrel, it is possible he may succeed
in restoring peace, and inducing the Tambookies to give
back the cattle taken on the Fingoes paying a suitable
fine for their treachery and insult to Jooi. At no mo-
ment was it of more importance that those tribes should
be kept quiet than just now, while the troops are likely
to go to the neighbourhood of the Kei. If they can be
kept from quarrelling with each other their cupidity will
make them very troblesome to KrFli's people, should the
latter be brought into collision with the troops, and be
compelled to flee to the Bashee, and beyond, with their
cattle.

The news from Fsku's country is down to the 11th
inst. All was perfectly quiet at that date amongst the
Amanpondas, and Faku had just paid a visit, with most
of his leading men, to Mr. Jenkins, the missionary at
Palmerton, to whom he had given the strongest assur-
ances that the reports of intention to aid Saudilli are
false, and that he has no war with the English, nor ever
wishes to have. He said, My country is in peace, and
I hope it will continuo so."

GENERAL SOMERSET'S DIVISION.
(From the Frontier Times, Nov. 25.)
" CAMP, 13LINEMATER, Nov. 19, 1851.—The sad
gloom thrown over everything here by the death of the
much lamented Fordyce, appears but slowly to pass
away, indeed, the general feeling seems to be, " who
will be next?' Many openly declare that they will go
there no more to be butchered like cattle. It is a
fearful sacrifice of human life to send men as bravo as
ever shouldered a firelock, to such a place, with such an
enemy to contend against. Courage here is of no avail,
discipline and steadiness under fire only render the men
better targets for the lurking savages. However, it is
generally reported we shall make a forward movement
to the Kei, when we hopo to have open work of it,
and get a little good meat, which is quite out of the
question at this place.
" The Kafiri are daily stealing cattle from here and
Fort Beaufort, and generally succeed in getting off with
them. Yesterday they stole about fifty or sixty of the
Commissariat oxen; but by timely notice and the ac-
tivity of a party of Cape Mounted Rifles and Port
Elizabeth Fingoes, the greater part were retaken, and
three of the enemy shot—one serjeant was wounded on
our side. It is evident from the night fires, that the
enemy is very numerous still in Fuller's Hoek and
Waterkloof, and indeed in the whole of these parts.
Their being here is a tax on the neighbourhood, for as
they have no cattle now, they live upon us."
Since the above was received we have intelligence
from the camp to the 24th inst., from which it appears
that a waggon with supplies belonging to Capt. Bruce:
n
74th, and guarded by a detachment of that regiment,
under Lieutenant King, was attacked by the enemy and
party
pillaged on Saturday, and the oxen stolen. T
were proceeding up the Blinkwater hill towardib'eost Re-
tier. The empty waggon was recovered the following
morning. The enemy are now known to b© 55 numerous
in the Waterkloof as ever.

A correspondent at Fort Beaufort writes :„Nov. 15.
"Information has just been brought in from the Major-
General's camp that the Kafirs cut a sPan of oxen looe
from one of the waggons in the Generals camp last night.
Two Kafirs were also shot near Beaufort by a party- of-
Fingoes, who were out patrolling; the gun of one
0
the
jti into
started the rive
to r
Kafirs who was shot was brought in, and the Other Kafir
with a double- barrelled gun, tell
shot. A party of FillirtleS has
the gun in the river. 'The above span of oxen
which
was taken from the General's camp was actually taken
out of his own baggage waggon•
search a s h e"wfif for
rs,
" 18.—Information has just been brought again of the
Kafirs taking eight epans of oxen at Bni
from the herds; the enemy were soon overtaken, and
the oxen recovered, with the exception
which the Kafirs got safe off with; f our Fiof eighteen,
wounded, ono of whom has Since died ngoes were
of his wound. The
oxen taken were thirteen of Mr. Prior and five of Mr.
crept up close to the
Vallentine. Last night the Kafirs
sentries and fired at them, but did
" Nov. 19.—Messrs. Knott h not hurt any.
their sheep and horses, and it is
been robbed of all
cattle will be swept away next, is expected that all the
failure in getting the en", It was well known that
lead them to du more mishieYf. out Waterkloof would
passes without the enemy • There is scarcely a day
getting cattle from General