The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-07 00:00:00

DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
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ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, teereation, and Rational Use of Time."
CONTENTS :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer 'Mornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, Iligh-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and FCamiiles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing,
Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c.

II
FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols.
Vol. I.
vrar TO THE LIKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &c,
Vol. 11.
THE LAKES OF KILL kIINEY ; REMLNISCENCES OP
DUBLIN, &c.

WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, •
" That three score years and ten our course may rum,'
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of
ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or tudy, and e:8
with tables and rules for the diet and physical rem_
baitutoenrsoofldevaegryo.a,•
ay
ufe.

THE PASSION'S.
"What passions hurt the body—what improVe,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
StrancT .—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad.
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casuist•
tics oflieentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, liar.
rative, and remediative, Advocacy of early marriages.
V.

THE MAREIP_GE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
Plum :—Laura and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regardMg marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament,
complexion, end
figure, to; secure healthy offsprin with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal.' Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.

By R. J. CIJLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.R.A.
(1821). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
natters. Reception tours daitY till Five. Evenings, Seven till
kr,,y6 10, Argyll-place. Regent-street.

We regret to learn that Major-General Sir John
Rolt, commander-in-chief of the western district, is seriously
indisposed at Devolylort. Dr. Hamilton Roe left town spe-
cif4l.lY 9rk 111444AY night to att=cl4,c2ll44lt4tip.

THE KAFIR WAR. ' •
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 6.—The General- Screw.. Steam
Shipping Company's mail-packet Hellespont,
,Captain
W. Watts, arrived this afternoon, at two o'clock. Her
outward dates were—Plymouth, March l&; St. Vincent,
March 28; Sierra Leone, April 3; Cape, April 23.
Horneaard dates—Cape, May 2; Si: era Leone, May 18;
Sy. Vincent, May 24; Plymouth, June 6.
-The only nelitary meveruent since our last advicee is
one by Colonel Michel on the 17th of April, near Fort
Cox, when a sub-division of the Light Company of the
6th Regiment killed eight Kefirs with the bayonet; and
a company of Rifles _in ambush' drove a body headlong
down soma cliffs, killing twenty, and wounding a great
number.
The last dates from King William's ToWn are to the
27th of April. General Cathcart had recovered from
the effects of a severe fall, and was to proceed .on the
27,h to Fort Beaufort, preparatory'to an attack upon an
extensive scale, on -Friday,- the 30th of April, upon the
Water kloof where
.Macomo had again removed, with a
large party of Kafirs, .from the Amatolas, and had baen
joined by a great many rebel Hottentots; It was un-
derstood that the General would direct this movement
in person.
General Cathcart's determination to hang the coun-
cillors of Seyolo and • Stock, • who have been captured
while endeavouring to calcite Pato and other friendly
Kafirs to join the enemy, has inspired great confidence,
and the erection of the gallows at King William's Town
for that purpose has struck much terror into the Kafirs.
The General's policy of destroying the enemy's cattle is
mostjtapoTtant, as is also, his refusal .to have personal
comotunicationa with any of the chiefs among the Kafits.
His energy and decision of character are much admired,
and a prospect seems now open of really subduing and
punishing the Kafirs, so as to produce a permahent apd
substantial peace in the course of three or four months.
Mr. Mimtague, Secretary to the Government, has
come home in the Hellespont. .
Mr. Southey, Civil, commissioner of Swellendami is
to do the duty of Mr.. Montagu during his absence.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Styx was to leave Table
Bay on Friday, May 7, -for Algoa Bay and the
with military stores and provisions. Commis-
sary-General Maclean was tct proceed in her to Algoa
Bay, and thence, with a military escort, to Fort Beau-
fort, via Graham's Town, to be !attached to the military
head-quarters of the Commander-in-Chief; which, for
a few weeks, would be at Fort Beaufort, and afterwards
at Graham's Town, where, the Commissariat head-
quarters are in future to be permanently established,
prior to the ultimate removal to the frontier .of the re-
mainder of the heads of the military departments.
General Cathearthad issued the following address:—
" Chiefs, amapakati, and people , who dwell between'the
rivers lei and Keiskamma--- • •
" Our great and good Queen Victoria has sent me, George
Cathcart, to be your great-chief-and governor.
" I am come among •yon to do good to all those who are
faithful and true to their word.
"Therefore, Pato, Siwani, Toise, Umkai, and all those
chiefs and men of the T'Slambie tribes Who have been faith-
ful during this war—l am your good friend-so long as you,
your amapakati, and people, will allow me to be so. I will
also be the friend of Umhala, provided that his future con-
duct be such as to acquire my good opinion.
"But as for Sandilli, and -all the Gaika chiefs and people,
also the T'Slambies Seyolo and Umfundisi, and their followers,
they have rebelled against their Sovereign,'Queen Victoria,
and have suffered rebel Hottentots and others tojoin them in
fighting against her soldiers.
" That is a great crime, and cannothe forgotten •, there-
fore, though I wish for peace, and that all bloodshed should
cease, Sandilli, and all, those who have taken part in this
wicked rebellion, must go beyond the Kei, and none of them
will ever be suffered to return and live in' peace in the coun-
try they occupied before the war.
"GEORGE CATHCART, Lieutenant- General,

H
," thisig hl2Ctridnlayissoir
Apriler.
Dated at King William's Town
1852." ,
By general order from head-quarters, dated April 21,
it appears that 500 Minie muskets are in hand. Six of
thim are to be given to each of the 62 companies of bat-
tal!ons under General Cathcares command. They are
to be given to the best marksmen, one of which, and one
only, to be a non-commissioned officer; the present arms
to be placed in store. No two marksmen are to stand as
front and rear rank relatively to each other. The se-
lected men at the word of command are to be ready to
spring in front, but never to be made a substitute for an
advanced guard. When the special service is over the
marksmen are, at the sound of the bugle, to return to
their, respective places. Commanding officers are en-
joined to be careful and scrupulous .in the 'selection of
marksmen for •this important service, which will carry
with it high honorary distinction, and entitle those se-
lected to favourable consideration.
A general order, dated King William's Town, April
19, directs particular care to be observed that all charges
for expenditnre are to be debited to the several branches.
All, captured cattle .are to be sold forthwith, and the
proceenia to be lodged in the nearest military chest. The
funds thus raised are to be given as gratuities to soldiers
and levies.serving in the field.
Our correspondent's letter, dated Cape Town, May 1,
is as follows:
The mail packet, which starts to-day, carries home little
intelligence of any Moment respecting the war. An opera-
tion of such magnitude, judiciously planned and well exe-
cuted, once more expelled the enemy from the ravines and
rocky heights ot Waterkloof, but he appears to have re-
turned in considerable force almost immediately on the re-
tirement of the troops: Several columns have also in the
course of the month acted with success against the bands
occupying the Amatola mountains, and upwards of 4,600
head of cattle have been captured, with some hundred horses.
From the character of the enemy and the nature of the coun-
try no decisive action, taken singly, is to be expected, if the
only termination of the contest is to be the expulsion of the
whole tribe. It is a war of exhaustion, like the blockade of
an impracticable fortress. They will hold out as long as they
have anything to eat.
" About the beginning of the month Sandilli sent a mes-
sage, offering submission on any terms which the Governor
should dictate. He was informed 'that Mr. Brownlee, the
Gaika Commissioner, was placed by. the Governor at Fort
Cox for the express purpose of receiving any message.' No-
thing more has been heard of if.
"From the Orange River Sovereignty there is nothing
new, that is, no events, for it cannot be supposed that ar-
rangements are not in progress for a settlement of differences
in that quarter. -
"On the borders of the cilony, near Fort Beaufort, and
even in the neighbourhood of Graham's Town, frequent de-
predations are still committed by small bands of armed men,
which show a want of security and constant exposare to
danger over an immense extent of country."
A portion of the Sappers and Miners will shortly com-
mence, the er, ctiou of a fort in such a position as to com-
mand some of the principal passes of the Amatola
mountains. It is intended by this and other operations
to prevent the Refit's from again occupying those fast-
nesses from which they have been expelled.
:(From the Graham's Town Journal Earn, April 27.)
The following extracts from letters before us will put
the reader in possession of such facts as have reached
us:—
"KIN'G WILLIAM'S-TOWN, Arum 23.
"Colonel Michel's brigade had a very smart brush with
the enemy on the 17th of April; in the corner of the basin
nearest to Fort Cox. The enemy mustered very, strong. One
company of the 6th and one
of the Rifles were on the left
flank, wall covered by rocks. While the main body were
moving to take a fresh position to the right front, the two
companies became severely engaged, and for some time no
advantage was gained by either side, until a sub-division of
the 6th Light. Company, making a desperate charge, drove
the enemy with heavy loss from their position. Eight were
killed by the bayonet, and one man, named Kelly, captured
a musket ready capped and loaded by dashing out a' Kafir's
brains with the butt of his piece. During this time the Co-
lonel ordered a company of Rifles into ambush, and
,to wait
till he 'ordered them to rise. The 'column moved off, and
when the Kafirs thought all was clear, they came on fur the
purpose of having a few partial shots; but, sad to state,
upon their arrival within' one hundred yards:of the company
of Rifles, they received a volley, which drove them headlong
downicrautzes, &c., leaving some twenty, killed, besides
others wounded.
" Stock's Councillor is to be hanged for trying to in-
cite Pato to war. He is now under two constables for

security.
It is affirmed in a communication before us that the
Governor in person purposes to proceed with the military
party who are to go out with the Kafir spy, with the view of
surprising Sandilli in his hiding-place. His Excellency was
to start at three o'clock in.the morning at the head of a
large cavalry patrol.
" The reports from within the colony are calculated to
excite uneasiness, and, if correct, will call for prompt and
active measures. It is said that Commandant Pullen's
beacon fire on the Zuurberg has been lit up for several
days, and that it is reported that Kafirs and llottentots
have entered the Zuurberg in some force. It is further re-
ported that a Hottentot who fell in, as it is said, With the
enemy, has given information, purporting that two other
parties of the enemy are to enter the colony at other points.
It is right, however, we,IlleHIA, lay that these rumours re-
quire confirmation ; and lience, while we give publicity to
them, we do so, not to excite alarm, but to induce that
guarded caution which may prevent surprise, and enable
parties to give early notice, should they be well founded. A
burgher, named Da Prez, or Du Pre, is reported. to be
severely wounded by the enemy in the locality mentioned,
and an express, we are told, had been dispatched to the
Civil Commissioner of Uitenhage, praying for immediate
medical assistance."

" Cawood's Post, April 26.
" On Saturday, the 24th inst., the burghers from the dif-
ferent
camps were, as usual, patrolling between the Cap and
Fish Rivers, when they came on the spoor of a party of the
C liayh t oi nt':lchagtet le,
enemy (about 20) entering the colony. We returned to
camp` aboutn sunset: About half past six an express arrived
thateioo in
the
number.enetny hadrbo raes swept
wereoff saddled,
INI r. N
by eight o'clock all
RiverM t o paths between Clay Pits and Fish
h
and ‘'
.
outh were guarded ; but the enemy were not allowed
to get so far before they were s '
sed and fired on by one of
the small waylaying parties One Hottentot was shot dead,
and the whole of the cattle .
One
recaptured and one gun. They
were all rebel Hottentots; the c turfing
ap party were only
three in number."
(From the Frontier Times, April 27.)
" King William's Town, April 90.
" There has been an entire change in the field -
since the arrival of the new Governor, and, from oNpvehraatt it, n s
w
are able to gather, decidedly for the better.. It seems
moree
his policy to protect the 'colony than to take cattle.
" No sooner did the chief Sandilli hear of the arrival of
General Cathcart, than he sent to Commissioner Brownlee
to ask for peace, ,as the land had been disturbed long
enough. But the messenger was sent back to say that the
Governor would take no notice of the Gaikas on this side
of the Kei ; when he and all his people were on the other
side they might then negotiate, but not before. This is
really a good beginning; everything appears to be going
on sn-100110)1h• tiMi '
t §hpuld toe Gfferpor only expel