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TJUE KAFIR WAR.

(From the London Gazette-of Tuesday, June 1.)
DownimOtreet, May 31, 1852.
The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington has this day
received two dispatches and their enclosures, of which
the following are copies, addressed to the Right Hon.
Earl Grey by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry G. W.
Smith, Bart, K.G.C.B.

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No. 56.--Military.
King William's Town, April 7, 1852.
My Lord,—My dispatch to your Lordship, No. 47, of
the 17th ult., will ':,N° described the operations and
movements of the troops under my command up to that
date.

2. Shortly after its transmission, Lieut.-Colonel Per-
eevai reported that, in continuance of his cperations he
had completely cleared the Fish River Bush of the
enemy, spoiling him of 350 head of cattle, and many
goats and horses, capturing also several stand of arms,
and slaying many of his men. I canpot too highly
commend the'very able, judicious, and soldier-like con-
duct of Lieut.4.3olonel Perceval in the performance of a
very arduous and difficult duty; which he effected by a
succession of movements so well combined that the ser-
vice was carried out with-the loss of only one man killed
and one wounded. The Lieut.-Colonel speaks in terms
of great praise of the conduct of Major Armstrong of
the Cape • Mounted Rifli?s, and of the troops and
burghsrs employed, the latter numbering about 35 from
the district of Albany.
3. The facility with which, comparatively speaking,
the Fish River Bush has been cleared on this occasion,
may induce your Lordship to regard former operations
as ill planned. I pray you, therefore, to bear in mind
that the Kafir fought in this dense bush in a very dif-
ferent spirit, and that the numerous Hottentots, formerly
in this stronghold, had dispersed before the late opera-
tions., I regard Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval as an officer
of • the •bigaest promise.
4. The troops under Major-General Somerset, after
,he enemy had been dislodged from the Waterkloof and
Fuller's Hoek, pursued him through the Kat river,
having sentscavalry patrols into the passes of the Water-
kloof. The latter slew several of the fugitives, and
captured 38 horses.
5. The columns of Lieutenant-Colonel Michel and
Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre having joined me at the Blink-
water on the 16th ult., I marched on the 18th for the
valley cf the Chunsie; on the line of the enemy's retreat
into the Amatolas. From that point, on the 21st ult.,
Lieuteaant-Colonels Michel and Eyre were ordered to
penetrate the Inner Amatolas, while Lieutenant-Colonel
Perceval, having been directed to march upon Fort Cox
on the completion of his operatious in the Fish River
Bush, entered the mountains on that side. The instruc-
rried on four days'
t i o6n. s
ct on
ltehneesi ea
mo ffit
eche
er sl
aanrde
Eyre
most active operations, being joined on the third day by
Colonel Perceval; destroying the enemy's villages, es-
pecially those of Hottentot rebels, in his most formida-
ble holds; Colonel Eyre acting on the arc of the circle
of which the operations of Colonel Michel and Colonel
Perceval were the chord. They captured all the cattle
they saw_about 50 head—and each officer in his report
regards the flight of the enemy and his abandonment of
the Amatolas as most complete. They could see them
and their families at a distance, moving in great num-
bers towards the Kel. Colonel Michel thus expresses
himself:—" From my own observation I am enabled
decidedly to say that the Gaika tribes generally have
migrated from these their strongholds. With crops
utterly destroyed, and with a spirit so broken that now
two companies may traverse with safety where hereto-
fore a largo column was required, I deem the war in
this quarter virtually concluded, although the faithles,
ness of seeming allies and bands of marauding Hotten-
tots may yet for a time prevent the conclusion of a
peace." The following occurs in the report of Colonel
Eyre: —" We advanced through the Bomah Pass
to the Quilli Quilli (Proper), thence through the
Gulu Valley, ascending the heights, and back again
through the Bomah Pass. The result satisfied me that
this part of the mountains was entirely abandoned.
With the exception of three Kafirs whom I could see
through my telescope, all Woking towards the Kabousie
Neck, two or three women in the bush, too old to trek,
and two Kafirs near the-Bomah Pass, there was not a
living soul to be seen, while all the spoor indicated that
the cattle had tr liked towards the Kabousie during the
rains that fell as we entered the mountains. In the after-
noon I marched with the whole force through the Lenge
and bivouacked on the Keiskamma. On the following
day, the; 24tb, I marched to Fort Cox."
7. I inclose The copy of a report from the Gaika Com-
missioner, corroborative of those of the officers in com-
mand of patrols.
8. These operations having been thus most effectually
and energetically carried out, I moved my head-quarters
on the 25th ult., to Fort Cox, where I had assembled
the troops under Colonels Michel, Eyre, and Perceval,
on issuing the general instructions annexed.
9. Having established Colonel Michel with his column
at Fort Cox, occupying Mount Macdonald, I, on the fol-
lowing day, the 26th ult., returned to head quarters at
King William's Town, moving at the same time the
commands of Colone's Eyre and Perceval for the pur-
pose of 'posting the former in the Keiskamma Hoek, and
the latter on the range of the Qutlls Quilli. Previously,
however,
Coloneltojl r teh,
penetrate and .celivv,r .aittrankt ihnCegogluroepnaet'lhPirc
forestr Perceval, ,
aria,tho thoroughly
Buffalo
to
of o
geseotiretsanodf theepnoeomrtys., a nTdhials
trearn
zw, o alldaygsr'eaetnerr
of 100 head of cattle and several horses having
de-
termined operations, was most effectually performed, up-
wardsbeen (raptured, great numbers of villages burned in the
e d on
tvheeryveforgreesto,fatnndelawrgoeudfise.ldssooarfe
Scarcely art
cultivation
destroyed
resistance was
offered by the enemy. Colonel Eyre describes these
forests as more dense and difficult to penetrate than
even those of Fuller's Hoek and the Blink water. While
these operations were in progress, I detached Captahit_i
ost himself 'fo-
ment from King Williams Town, to P .
Moody, of the Royal Engineers, with a strong detac
tween Murray's Krantz and the Delo Berg, to intercept
fugitives driven before Colonel Eyre.
10. The 12th Lancers had previously marched to oc-
cupy the Kabousie Neck. Major Tottenham, command-
ing
the regithent during the temporary illness of Lieut.-
Colonel Pul
--e, reports that, on his march thither be
captured 78 head of cattle and a number of goats, all
being driven towards the Kei,,• and that he observed
large herds in the distance rapidly moving
in the same
direction, indicating a general trek.
11. On the evening of the 28th ult. I received infor-
mation corroborative, of the above, on which I could rely,
that large herds of Gaika cattle, neeing from the Arne-
toles, had been collected at the junction of the Doorn
and Thomas rivers with the Kei, a country well adapted
for concealment and defence. I therefore immediately
sent orders to Colonel Eyre not to occupy, as originally
intended, the Keiskamma Hoek, but to detach Colonel
Perceval for that purpose, and, moving his own column
to the Kabousie Neck, to take with him the 12th Lan-
cers and make a rapid movement to seise these Gaika
cattle, a service for which his enterprising character
well adapts him. I at the same time detached from King
IWilliam's Town Captain Robertson, of the Royal Engi-
neers, in command of a patrol of 250 men, to complete
the work of devastation throughout the Isele Berg, a
thickly wooded ridge trending from Murray's Krantz
eastward to Hangman's Bush, and lying between King
William's Town and the Kabousie.

quickly as possible." So vigorous, however, was the
pursuit, that it appears by a subsequent report from
General Somerset, dated the Ist inst., that some of the
enemy endeavoured to turn and make their way
back to the Amatolas with their cattle. The Major-
General'a mounted force came upon a part of these, and
on the 28th ult. captured 1,500 bead of cattle.
14. On the evening of the 29th ult. I received a report
from Colonel Michel that the rebel Hottentots and a
body of Kafirs had collected in the Amatolas, and in-
terrupted detachments of our troops in the Wolf Valley
or Den and neighbourhood of Mount Macdonald, and
that it was his intention to move his whole force upon
them. I regard this movement of the enemy
as caused
by the temporary absence of Colonels Eyre and Per-
ceval. Their distance from this nest of rebels, al-
though not great, was still sufficient to enable the latter
to rally and assail detachments, according to their usual
custom. Although all the ffieerts in command re-
ported their conviction that the Raffia generally had fled
from the Amatolas, I was always of opinion that many
of their warriors and of the rebel Hottentots would hang
about the mountains so long as they could possibly
there maintain themselves. Mr. Brownlee, the Gaika
commissioner, entertained the same impressioo, as ap-
pears by the latter part of his letter of the 26il ult. (In-
closure No. 2). I have, through a Government notice,
warned the colonists to continue most vigilaas, for they
may rest assured the country will be infested by nu-
merous bands of robbers for months to come. Subse-
quent reports from Colonel Michel, one of them written
from the abandoned Hottentot encampment in the
Amatolas, are of the most satisfactory kind; his con-
tinued operations have been perfectly successful ; and
Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval has also vigorously pur-
sued the enemy in every direction in which he was to
be found.
Wit/aisa's Town I learnt
- .
thaltst.h? Cnbinieyf arrivaltock alatadKainpgplied to Pato to use his in-
tercession in his favour. Inclosed is a copy of the T'Slam-
bie Commissioner's report on the subject.
16. Having also received information that many
Gaikas had sought refuge in Umhala's country, I dis-
patched Messrs. Fynn and Conway to convey the an-
nexed message to the chief. He has paid 910 of the
1,000 head of cattle imposed upon him as a fine,
and the
remaining 90, paid on the 10th of April, are reported to
be on their way to King William's Town.
17. The fickle nature of the Kafir delights in change,
which he ever believes will turn, in some way, to his
own advantage. Peace having been made by me on my
arrival in Kafraria in 1847, Sandilli is fully impressed
with the idea that a similar course will be pursued on
the arrival of my successor. The Kafir feeling on this
point is well set forth in the letter of Mr. Brownlee, the
Gaika Commissioner, under date the 4th ult., a copy of
which, marked No. 8, is enclosed.
18. I cannot avoid once more to express my deep
mortification that the Burghers, as a body, upon whose
aid I so much calculated in the early part of the war,
and again on issuing my proclamation of the 7th of
February, 1852, should have so signally failed in their
duty to their Queen, to the colony, and to their families.
As your Lordship, in your dispatch of the 14th of
January last, appears to impute to me, with reference to
them, a want of a proper conciliatory disposition, and
draws a comparison between me and that able public
officer, Mr. Pine, I transcribe a portion of a letter ad-
dressed to me by the Lieutenant-Governor on the 20th
ult.:—" Your Excellency has been pleased to express
your approbation 'of the policy I have pursued
with regard to the Boors of this district. I
feel if,
emphatically
however,
yourrayduty to say that that policy
wasown; and if I have been
able to carry out that policy more effectually than
you could do, it has been simply owing to
my having been on the spot, whereas you were compel-
led to carry it out by means of agents who either did
not or would not comprehend its spirit. The Boers,
however, perfectly appreciate your views regarding
them; and it is a source of the greatest pride to me to
y nsm e iasionag with your own in the home-
steads and
perhaps will hereafter be,
thinkgratefully
mentioned in
steads of these honest-hearted men." Your Lordship
will observe that Mr. Pine, with that candour which is
his guide, attributes his success to my example; and I
may fairly say that if an honest and straightforward
course, desiring to promote the interests and welfare of
a peoplo, fails in its object, I have nothing with which to
reproach myself.
19. I have now reported to your Lordship the pro-
gress of events up to the date on which I relinquish the
government of the colony of the Cape and the command
of the army. My position has been as arduous, and one
of as great difficulty, as ever man was placed in.
The origin of this war involves a most intricate
and truly complicated question, requiring a general
view to be taken of antecedent subjects. It is an
incontrovertible fact that the Kafir people were
most contented with the rule established in British
Kafraria; _whittle.shortly previous to the outbreak a
restlessness on the part of' some Of the chiefs be-
came apparent. At this period the treachery of the
fickle and ungrateful Hottentot teas at work. Many
of them,possessing just sufficient education to make them
mischievous and capable of observing what occurred at
public meetings held within the colony to resist and op-
pose every measure of Government, which the colonists
regarded as the exercise of coca • ,rights, though,
constitutional
in point of fact, such proceedings approached the brink
of anarchy and confusion, Could not discriminate between
national remonstrance and open • Filled with
resistance.
the belief that they were
an " oppressed and ill-used
race," they proceeded covertly to concoct with the Kafiri
those hostile schemes which were fast reaching ma-
turity, when
my presence on the frontier, the mea-
sures I took, most fortunately • . ,
precipitateo the war ere
the conspiring parties were Prepared and their means
collected. Had it been otherwise the outbreak would
have been far more formidable I
even than it has been.
tried every expedient to avoid war short of that conces-
sion which would have lowered Bdignity of her
Majesty's authority; Yet a moat thei e
0_
this
outbreak was, that no specific repecuoar
assigned,featurrf
nor any redress sought, by the Kafir was
chiefs,eve though
frequently called upon to state •
. their cause of
restlessness, if such actually while the
Gaika people professed attachment existed;
the exist-
ing order of things, and were -t0
con-
tented with a rule which protecterparent y l most t
ranny.
All mission stations were flourishing
from tyranny.
All more
than usually attended. During
this u rishing
the all
Hottentots
were passive—some doubted theirloyalty—this time
them—and from several places, e roused
e Kat river,
I received public assurances of theirven from rho
Lion. W hen the war. broke out, i, fidelity
andregarded by e
dem-
and every other functionary a, a
molvitta rega
revolt
of the Gaikas to support Sandilli • t unpopular
chiefs openly expressing theneselyes in erroret_ect.
The
torch of tumult, however, was
80 to that 11
and my
means were for months most inade on blaring;
t.
to
only 1,700 British troops, the gr quate, amonn ingem
occupied twelve unavoidable eater part of. wh _ _
available to control 4,000 Hottentot auxiliaries
leaveingooB.oo.
fel loyalty, and to meet these auxiliarfiesellf.d nt
armed,
athletic, and intrepid barbarian, in hordes ) w
Operations
extent the field.
had to be carried on over an extent of country larger
than Great Britain and Ireland of
th test natural
grea
difficulty, intersected as it is bye Mounet d rivers,
and filled with woods and rocky fastnesses. sins an_
My scanty
force enabled me alone to maintain, i unflinching
determination, every position. e
I relied, most falla-
ciously, on the inhabitants rallying g round her Majesty's
and they have.
troops, sth themselves.a.l„ to blame for many of
the horrors and miseries they el bare suffered at the hands
all which predicted
of the enemy; teted in my proclams;
of Febru
time of the 3d _ ary, 1.,
'4l, must inevitably
unless they should
happen, u turn out en masse to
resist the torrent. I encountered a revolt—as I have
already shown most unexpected
of nearly the
whole of the eastern re
eeottent 1 tion
formerly so useful against the ot popu a 2
X%finl • as also
an extensive defection in a corps of that ,
class previously
most loyal, and of the highest utility in Kafir ' warfare.
The Hottentots had been taught or had nb'bed the
marked impression to which I have before sill died, that
they were an " oppressed and ill-used race and and that
Holy Writ, which they are very fond
f- of quoting, taught
them they were justified in
_fighting to regain the conn-
try of which they regarded themselves as deprived. Sur-
rounded as I and Major-General S
aomerset ere by these
people drawn from the eastern
.ana
Western districts,
one false step ( r untimely exercise r
o. Power and mar-
tial law would have plunged the whole into a chaos of
revolution; her Majesty's troops
and fallen have abandoned
their advanced positions, on back on Graham's
Town; and the T'Slambie tribes as well as every curly-
headed black from Cape Town to Natal.
20. During the prosecution of thist war 6,000 war-
riors according to the liafirs
_o
hen s
a!ement, have fallen,
including 80 chief men, all ot t tn °' souse distinction;
80,975 head of cattle, and innuhrnooeTable goats, have been
taken from the Gaikas, Tam bookies and
from Krelli,
the latter having suffered an aeldati additional i
-oss by the re-
moval ot 7,000 of the enslav d rmangoo race, bringing
with them 15.000 head of cattle; d
; tnhy aruss and nearly
900 horses have been captured;
strongholds
e enemy has been
driven, with great loss,
froruthroughout toeholds which he
so determinedly held; and,
Gaikas the
whole of their
loeations, the crops of thehave been utterly
destroyed. formidable these most barbarians been
visited Thus have
- hmolt murders
visited with the punttheirs
and rob-
beries merit, the result of that horrid war which they
so wantonly commenced, fraternising; with the ungrate-
ful Hottentot race; and which the military
for menures
now in effectual course of operationtheir expulsion
Amatolas will
from the fastnesses of the AMna complete. The
foresi ht
effect must be, as far as hum
eaace and t•an°4hl predict, to
establish permanently that p
relieve the tranquillity which
the colonists hope for, and to
expenditure
Imperial Tres-
currence of an which has
sury from a re
been indeed eo notwithstanding es
ormous, _ . Y utmost
exertions, by every practicable and energetic restriction,
s
to control it.
2e. I am accused in your Lordship's dispatch of hay-
foresight, energy and judg-
ment, " failed in showing that
fficult position required ;" and
which my very di
sooner brought this war to a
censured for not having Lordships'dispatch, Nol
r
termination; although in you
592, of the Bth March, 1851, thefollowing remark ap-
pears:---ssat is a great satisfaction to me, in the anxiety
'
in which I am placed by the intelligence which has
reached use, to know that I may rely with the utmost
confidence, not only upon your vigour and judgment in
your military erations,
cos K but also upon your enlight-
ened humanity. This has, however, been a war

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unavoidably of gradual progression to insure the result
I anticipated and have attained, and one which nould
not have been conducted differently. I speak with some
experience in war on a large scale as well as of a de-
sultory character. When regular armies-are opposed to
each other a signal victory may decide the fate of a na-
tion. In a war with barbarians, who fight only when
it so pleases them, avoiding concentration, but who are
still determined to resist, the contest is necessarily of
long duration. I may, therefore, proudly derive satis-
faction from the reflection which has led me to record
these facts, that this war has been brought to the re-
quired conclusion with that expedition which all the
peculiar circumstances permit, while during its pro.
gress neither soldier nor troop horse has ever wanted
his daily ration. Every fort and post is well supplied
with provisions and .ammunition; large depots of the
munitions of war are at head-quarters and at Graham's
Town, and I have thus been recently enabled ta make
considerable reductions in the transport—a very expen-
sive branch. I have been well supported by the Com-
missariat and the Civil Department of the Ordnance,
and I enclose a copy of my Genetal Order as a record
of their respective merits.
23. I transfer the Civil Government without a single
particle of business in arrear, and with a treasury with-
out a debt; while all the civil officers have worked under
mo with energy and steal. The war impending over the
Orange River territory, with all its evils and horrors,
has been averted; while, had its prosecution become im-
perative, I had collected an ample depot of commissariat
supplies at Bloom Fontein. Amicable relationship has
been established with the Trans Vaal Emigrant Boers—
the refractory native chiefs are restoring their plunder,
and submitting to the conditions imposed on them—the
turbulent Boers within the Sovereignty, when convicted
of overt acts of disloyalty, have had heavy pecuniary
fines inflicted on them, many of which, to the ainount.of
1,075 L, have already been promptly paid, which I have
caused to be placed in the Imperial chest to its credit—
property rises considerably in value—and the revenue of
the Sovereignty exceeds its expenditure. The flourishing
condition of Natal is deeply indebted to the able and
judicous government of Mr. Pine, who, in a letter to
me of the 20th of March, thus expresses himself:—
The only service I have really rendered your Excel-
lency was the sending the contingent into the Sove-
reignty, and the greater part of any merit there may be
attached to that service belongs partly to you. It
is an easy thing for a subordinate officer to do his duty
when he feels that be has a chief above him who, pro-
vided he acts honestly and straightforwardly, will sup-
port him whether he succeeds or fails. Such a chief I
have had in your Excellency."
24. I relinquish the command of the troops as ex-
pressed in the General Order annexed, at a period when,
have been expelled from the Amatolas; when the Kafirs,
caoccmomrdainndg
atnodthotehreerposortus I
rcesh,avtehreeeee
mass
ivci from o
oftheffices in
Gaikas
cis as well as trans Keian, have repeatedly sued for peace,
and when the war is virtually terminated; its continuance
having been prosecuted to visit these turbulent savages
with that retribution which justice demands, and accord-
ing to the injunctions in your Lordship's dispatch of the
13th of May, 1851, conveyed in the following terms:—
" Your first care, before any permanent arrangements
can be thought of, must be to put an end to the war;
but desirable as it is that this should be accomplished as
speedily as possible, I cannot too strongly express my
opinion that you ought on no account to accept from the
rebel tribes any imperfect submission, and that you
should not allow hostilities to be concluded by anything
but their complete subjection and unconditional sur-
render. It is thus only that a real peace, and not a
short and hollow truce, can be obtained."—l have, &a.,
H. G. SMITH.
P.
whileS.-Bth w
the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, I have received
the accompanying communication from the chief San-
dilli, through Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval, commanding
oafitAinpgritl o,
receive
1 852
Since closing this despatch, .
one of the columns in the Amatolas. The Governor
and Commander-in-Chief, whose proclamation and ge-
neral order announcing his assumption of the government
and command of the army, by which I am removed
from authority, have been promulgated, is expected every
hour. I have, therefore, given it as my opinion to
Colonel Mackinnon, the chief commissioner, that ho
should reply to the effect that Sandilli is aware he ought
to make application to the Gaika Commissioner placed
by me at Fort Cox for the express purpose of receiving
such messages, and I have also given Colonel Cloete,
the Quartermaster-General, my opinion that he should
direct the officers in command of columns in the mean-
time to continue hostilities.
Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval reports of his opera-
tions—" On the sth instant I moved up the Gulu River,
and searched the kloofs between the Gala and Doom
Mountains. Under the krantz, and in one of the kloofs,
we succeeded in capturing 219 head of cattle, killing
two Kafirs, without any casualty on our part. At three
o'clock, A N., en the 6th inst. I marched along the ridge
between the Gulu and Keiskamma rivers to a krauts
under the Doors Mountains, where we succeeded in fall-
ing in with the enemy's cattle, killing two Kafira, whose
assegais were secured, and wounding somo others, and
one Hottentot. After searching the various kloofs we
captured 296 head of cattle, together with some horses.
We returned to camp at half-past four o'clock P.M, after
two days' very fatiguing work."
Colonel Perceval's exertions aro most meritorious.
Major-General Somerset has just reported that Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Napier, in command of a patrol, captured
on the 7th inst. (yesterday), in very difficult ground,
near the Thomas River, 3,120 head of cattle, 70 horses,
and 1,500 goats, killing upwards of 50 of the enemy.
This makes a total of 4,500 head of cattle captured by
the troops under the Major-General in his pursuit of the
enemy from Balfour.
Captain Tylden, Royal Engineer; whose force from
Whittlesea was attached to Major-General Somerset,
thus reports:—" The party who ascended on the left
flank and first turned the cattle, were led by Com-
mandant J. Holden Bowker and Lieutenants Mason and
Warner, and that on the right by Captain Austen and
Lieutenant Arnold, North Victoria Native Levy; and I
have on this occasion brought the names of these officers
to your notice on account of the gallant and deliberate
manner in which 950 head of cattle and 50 horses were
wrested from the enemy in the face of a powerful re-
sistance, the enemy attacking our rear and both flanks in
order to recapture their cattle. Being, however, in strong
ground, favourable for taking the cattle out of the
ravines, we succeeded in bringing them up to the open
heights, although the enemy followed on our rear until
repeatedly repulsed.
A very gallant affair occurred as a sergeant of the
Cape Mounted Rifles, with 17 men of his corps, was
conveying these reports from the Major-General. He
fell in at night on the Golonci, a rivulet thirty-five
miles hence, with a party of Kafirs and cattle. The
Hottentot sergeant immediately attacked them, killed
several of the enemy, took arms and assegais, and
brought off five horses and 198 head of cattle.
It gratifies :me much to be thus able in my last dis-
patch to report so favourably of the Cape Corps.
The position of affairs in British Kafraria is now
clearly developed, and the contents of the above dispatch
corroborated. H. G. SMITH.

1 MPORTANT NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA.
MELBouarre, JAN. I.—Last night a statement was made,
that two men h.id arrived from Gipps' Land with 10,0001. 'worth of
gold, and intelligence that there was a sold supply for the whole
world. It is impossible to get a pair of Boots made or mended in
Melbourne : nothing is thought of or talked about but gold."
" Another correspondent states that the price of a pair of Boots is
50s. ; a pair of strong Shoes, 205." With such important informa-
tion before the emigrant, we need say li'tle ab ‘ut the inconvenience
attendant on going out unp,ovided with a. proper supply or Cothing,
Boots, Shoes, Shirts, and Utensils, such a§ are inclu ed in the inimi-
table Outfits supplied by E. MOSES and SON. It is of the highest
importance that the Emigrant should he provided with an Outfit of
known sultaAllty and specially adapted to the country he has chosen,
as well as the business it is his intention to pursue. This is the pro-
minent feature in E. MOSES and SON'S Outfits. They keep a
separate department in their gigantic estab'ishment for the Out-
fitting business. They have dispatched more business in that de-
-I,artment than any house in the world and they have concentrated
the knowledge and experience of many years : se that it is every
way calculated to prove the greatest advantage to all parties
emigrating. E. MOSES and SON are in a position to supply any
number of Emigrants with every article they will require for the
passage and the country to which they may go. The very reason-
able charges for Outfits at E. MOSES and SON'S are mighty con-
siderations for Emigrants ; the quality of their goods is nowhere to
be equalled, and their complete suitability for any climate and occu-
pation is every way guaranteed.
Outfits, 31 155., 61. 155., 111. 11s., and upwards. A full list for-
warded (post free) to any part of the kingdom. Cabin Passengers
Outfitted as usual.

Schedule of Enclosures in Governor Sir H. Smith's Dis
patch to Earl Grey, No. 56, of 7th April, 1852.
I.—Arrangement of movements, 20th March. In.
structions to Colonel Perceval, 20th March.
2.—Letter from Gaika Commissioner, 26th March.
3.•—Memorandum of movements, 24th March.
4.—Government notice, 2d April.
s.—General order, 6th April.
6.—Report of T'Slambie Commissioner, 20th March ,
7.—Message to Umhala, 27th March.
B.—Letter of Mr. Brownlee, 4th Mara.
9.—General order, 2d April.
10.—General order, 7th April.
11.—Extract of report of Colonel Perceval, 6th April.
11;.—General order, 9th April, 1852.

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12. Captain Robertson returned on the 2d inst., hav-
ing completely traversed the country pointed out in my
instructions. He reports it to be completely abandoned
by the enemy. A few huts and some fields of ripe corn
were destroyed, no one having been near to gather it,
and no spoor of cattle was discovered. Colonel Eyre's
report reached me on the sth inst. Having, according
to my directions, gained the Kabousie Neck, and been
joi,,ed by the 12th Lancers, he made a rapid march on
the indicated position on the Kei, which he reached at
daybreak on tho 31st tilt. The enemy was completely
taken by surprise, and Colonel Eyre coming on the fresh
spoor or track of cattle, at once pursued it down the bed
of the Kei. By another vigorous night march he came
up, on the morning of the Ist lost, with the flying herds,
driven upon an insulated mountain. A moat judicious
m.ivement of the troops in detached parties, so ably dis-
posed as to prevent escape. was immediately made, and
after some opposition, 1,220 head of Gaika cattle, 15
horses, and hundreds of goats, were captured. Colonel
Eyre had previously detached Major Armstrong with
100 cavalry to his left, to take possession of a diffi•
cult pass, stronely ocenpied by the enemy,
mounted and on foot. After completing this
service, that officer, by a dexterous manceuvre, in
which he appeared to fly before the enemy, lured him
into some comparatively open ground, then, suddenly
turning, drove him back, with considerable loss in killed,
charging himself directly to the front with the detach-
ment of Cape Corps end Armstrong's Horse, while Cap-
tain Digby's troop of the 12th Lancers fell upon the
right rear of the enemy. Major Armstrong
Major Piticleney,P of '
subse-
quently captured 100 head of cattle; the total number
ototlicelotEohytr,ie
sspht;akwsitihn hiogfh
the
5431 praise
htefl nljfain° et
Infante}'
i
the latter officer, 73c1 Regiment; Captain the
Hon. P. E. Herbert, the
of the 43d, and several other officers
of Major Armstrong and his corps.
as havieg been more iher
and :nowt espociall
of the 12th Lancers. Ha de-
scribesenemy, and on one than
, who commanded the advance,
once. warmly engaged with
a sharp fire kept up
from the opposite ankicn.a;aiperseverance,°l Colonel of
havingEyro having thus,
effected this large
" dashed the
to termination of
fear-
lessly across the Kei,"
cw,ipthtusrue,chsoenimteproprritsae;:itanodn
theapproachingLir
Hoek;
his
having, in
achievedt [ll
the war, commenced his masre,
posi-
tion in the Amatolas or Keiskamma
the short space of six day
foray of the many he has conducted during eth.most able
13. Meanwhile the troops and burghers,undiservvar
Major-
General. Som. erect have been pursuing the enemy in
every direction on the northern side of the Amatyolaian
The Major-General reports from the Windvogelber .
OD the 27th ult., that he bad been on the track of gnu-
merous fugitives and cattle,, all in full retreat towards the
K,„; bat that
~th 9 I‘. .tils are so completely broken
and divided that,it isimpossible to get up with them,
except in very straggling parties; all seeming anxious
1 to get over the Aet and 'neap from th• foreea se

GREAT FOOT RACE TEN MILES FOR THE
CHAMPIONSHIP, AND 501. A SIDII.--,...1
on the for the championship took place on 51,,nday,
Jr.well-
known pedestrian and cricket grounds adjoining
Gar-
ratt's, Copenhagen Tavern, beotwree;T:he: et et x(ctiht i; g
champion)
and Jackson (the American Deer) Betting before starting
was 6to 4 and 2to 1 on Levert. At the finish of the fifth
mile, 2to 1 on Jackson; seventh mile, 10 to 1 on Jackson.
The start took place at nine minutes to six o'clock. Jack-
son gained upon his opposite every mile, and he completed
the ten miles in 51 min. 34 sec, the
quickest run ten miles
on record, being a head of Levett one-third of a mile.
Died, on the 26th instant, at his residence. Rath-
gar House, Ireland, Joseph Ferran,
.E,....,
q in his 91st year.
Mr. Ferran held the important office of clerk of the pleas in
the Court of Exchequer for a number of years, the duties, pf
which-he fulfilled to the .oetiefiction of the profession sna
the public AS lgrge'

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