The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-18 00:00:00

No. 18,744.] E L,ltn -11
LONDON, MONDAY a. 2, ,j 4 1,71 OCTOBER 18, 1852.
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Now ready, in 3 vols.,
TROLLOPE'S EW NOVEL,
" UNCLE WALTER."
Also, just published,
ANNETTE ; a tale. By W. F. Deacon. With a memoir of the
Author, by the Hon. Sir T. N. TILFOURD, D.C.L. 3 vols.
" This stirring talc is one of the most. readable novels of the day,
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MRS.

THE KAFIR WAR.

some of the most daring robberies committed during the
war have lately been perpetrated, notwithstanding the
presence of a considerable body of the 12th Regiment,
12th Lancers, Cape Corps, and the police recently
established, who, however, appear to have done good
service in following up and punishing the marauders.
In the Somerset district, various night attacks have
been made upon fare,;-houses, and cattle swept off.
The last accounts received from that quarter men-
tion that a number of farmers had traced a party of
Hottentot rebel marauders to their lair in one of the
Fish River kloofs, and killed four, severely wounding
two, and taking ore prisoner, from whom some rather
important information was elicited. He stated "that
there are very few Hottentots in the Waterkloof, and
that Uithaalder and his followers are in the Amatola,
but they are nearly out of gunpowder." He adds,
" that klacomo is in the Waterkloof, but is also short
of ammunition ; and that both he and his Hottentot
followers have abandoned all hope of success in their
insane ouabreak." "They would gladly submit," he
states, " were they sure of being spared, but as it is
they are obliged to steal to live."
Throughout the western districts—the Cape Proper
—where peace happily prevails, a most energetic and
enthusiastic response his been made by the inhabitants
to the appeal of the Lieutenant-Governor for assist-
ance to their eastern brethren, who had proceeded
to join the Commaader-in-Chief in the field.
Public meetings were immediately held in nearly
every town and vills d in :the west and donations
ef money, arms, horses, accoutrements, &c., were
freely and generously made. The total amount
collected it is impossible yet to state, as every post
still brings in fresh subscription lists from all parts of
the country. It was also resolved with entire
unanimity, at all these meetings, that the amounts
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any pecuniary accountability.
The internal affairs of the colony continue to be
conducted without excitement or trouble of any
kind. All memory even seems to have passed from
the public mind of the awful reports of intended
insurrections, &c., among a certain class, which
were so industriously sought out and blazoned forth
to fright the land from its propriety, shortly before
the departure of Mr. Montagu from the colony. The
iuhabitants, indeed, are deeply anxious in refer-
ence to the delay which has occurred in sending
out the Constitution ; but their confidence in the
Royal promise is complete, and with the certainty
that the leiters patent can never be subverted, they
await, in loyal patience, the arrival of the great char-
ter of this colony's liberties. Of the existence and
strength of this good feeling on the part of the colo-
nists, e Lieutenant,proof
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of aDtaoruhrn Darling has
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throughhad
some of the neighbouring districts ; and, in reply to
various congratulatory addresses presented to him,
he has emphatically declared. and reiterated the fact.
Much interest is felt in tne search which is being
made in all directions for coal ; the local Government
having offered a reward of 1001.. for the discovery of
mpcaetei ns of variousrmiaelinthevicm qualities
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som different localities, and though geo-
logical this
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bability of such a deposit being found on the primary
formation which the Cape peninsula exposes, sanguine
hopes are entertained that, in some part or other of
this extensive country, coal will yet be found.
Some samples of supposed gold sent down from
the Waterkloof are found on examination to be
mere sulphuret of iron. Geology here, however,
points significantly to the great similarity between
the Amatola range and the gold-producing granites
of the same latitude in New South Wales.

to retire without success, leaving one Kafir dead in the
gap,with his pouch and things on. From the blood spoors
seen the next morning, a good many of them must
have been wounded. One fellow got a horse loose and
rode oy, seven shots being fired at him without effect.
The riems had been out from the necks of the remainder,
but since our other horses wore lost wo have taken the
precaution to put chains on their necks and lock them
up. The enemy were no doubt enraged at being com-
pelled to retire without anything, as their last effort was
to set fire to the cattle kraal, which they did by throwing
several lighted mats on the fence. We all had of course
to turn out and extinguish the fire. At the time the
attack was made four of our children lay sick with the
measles, and we had to drag them out of bed and place
them on the fl.ior. It is a miracle that none of U 3 were
hurt, as the balls coming through the windows and
striking the opposite walls rebounded in all directions.
I am sorry to say that my old servant, poor Megook,
was shot dead, and a Hottentot woman dangerously
wounded, whom I have rent into town in the hope of
getting her into hospital, as we have no doctor here. A
Fingo woman and child were also wounded, but not dan-
gerously. The enemy attacked the huts at the same
time as the house, firing into them, and shooting the
people as they ran out.
(EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED CRA.DOCK, AUG. 17.)
I think I can now surprise you. On Thursday and
Friday, the 12th and 13th instant, the erven were sold
by public auction at the new town " Meddleburg," on
the Break River, Rhenosterburg, situated nine hours
from Cradock, twelve from Graat-Reinet, fourteen from
Colesberg, and eighteen from Burghersdorp (all in the
saddle.) There were some 200 half-dry and water erven,
and they sold for about 15,0001., being an average of
ads. 1,000, or 751. each. Some of the erven fetched as
much as 4631.—size one acre ! Smaller erven sold pro-
portionably high according to situation for business. I
bought one on the market 60 by 80 feet at Rds. 1,520.
The next erf, same size, bought by Messrs. Spiller and
Smith, of Burghersdorp, sold for Rds, 2,830. There was
a large attendance, and apparently all buyers. The
Grasff-Reineters bought freely for business purposes, as
they trade here more than other places.
Cradock, Colesberg, and Burghersdorp produced a
few sprinkling of purchasers, and the Dorpers came out
first-rate with their SOO and 1,500 Rds. for erven. All
must be built on within four years. So they will soon
have a town there nearly twice the size of Cradock.
Then the church will be immensely rich. The Kirkraad
gave 3,0001. for the farm. Say they gave Rds. 80,000 to
build a church and parsonage, there is then 6,000 L to be
put out on interest, besides which every erf must pay a
church-rate of from 7s. 6d. to 20s. per annum. The
situation for a town is good, and the site fixed on admi-
rable. A splendid stream of water from three fountains,
besides the river close by. Nice flat country, with hills
in the distance.
CAMP oN THE KYE, Aug. 15.—Yesterday, a party of
seventy-five men, rather too venturesome, went out
hunting, and, after burning several kraals, found them-
selves suddenly surrounded. Two coloured men, one a
Kafir guide and the other a waggon-driver, got separated,
and have not since been heard of. It is supposed that
both have been put to death. The Governor is very
well satisfied with the English turn-out. Of Dutch
there are only about forty in the field, while the English
number nearly 300. And a very flee body of men they
are, well mounted and equipped. The general opinion
is there never was before so efficient a force on this side
the Kei, each division being accompanied by 500 ca-
valry.
WHITE KEI CAMP, Aug. 15.—We were joined at the
Balotta by some Somerset Burghers under Kruger,
some fourteen frow Burghersdorp, and then moved on
to this. The day we arrived we were joined by the
Albany and the Port Elizabeth contingents, all in the
best
condition.stylean His Excellency and
xwellenlacy rmtehde,nafnodrmtebdehtrishsotrasnedg
horses in
fair
camp, which is to be left in charge of the Rifles, and
divided the rest of the troops into two columns, the one
under Colonel Michel, and the other under Colonel
Napier, each consisting of one regiment of infantry, some
Native Irregulars, and 500 horses—making two more
efficient columns than I have ever seen at work at one
time in Kreli's country. • • The division under
Colonel Napier has moved up the T'Somo towards its
sources, and that of Colonel Michel down the same river
to its confluence with the Kye towards Butterworth.
Some spoors of Hottentot waggons were seen leading in
taat direction. Nothing can be more in our favour than
the state of the weather, not a drop of rain since leaving;
plenty of grass, with wood and water. * * * The
burgher muster is almost exclusively English. The
Graham's Town men we left in the best possible spirits,
all eager for the fight.
CAMP ON THE BANKS OF THE KEI, Aug. 15.—The
whole of our division is on patrol for nine days. The
Genev,' .vui cut as Air as Wein; Kraal, and re-
turned the second day. No news from the patrol except
that the whole of Kreli's kraals have been tired and de-
stroyed. The accounts that we have are, that ho (Kreli)
is off across the Bashee, and taken all his cattle with
him. Our gallant fellows are after him in fine style, and
I am not afraid but they will bring plenty of cattle. The
Governor has erected a fort at the Balotta camp, called
Fort Tylden, half way between Shilo and the K. i—Cap-
tain Cahill, 91st Regiment, is in command of it. This
fort is principally for having supplies ready for us in case
we remain here longer than intended.

ARRIVAL OF THE BOSPHORUS.

The Royal Mail general screw-ship Bosphorus,
Captain H. B. Benson, commander, arrived is the
Plymouth Great Western Docks at 7 o'clock on
Saturday morning, having left the Cape of Good
Hope on the 6th ult. She brings a general cargo
and a moderate mail.

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The news brought by the Bosphorus is only a
fortnight later than that brought by Haddington,
consequently a portion of the news she has brought
has been anticipated.
The Bosphorus left Plymouth at 4 p.m., on the
27th of July, on her outward voyage ; arrived at St.
Vincent at 8 a.m., on the 7th of August, from which
she started again at 5 p m. on the 9th, and arrived in
Table Bay at half-past 7 a.m. cu the, 2d of September,
performing the voyage in 361 days. She experienced
a very heavy gale in S.E. trades, with head
winds, and heavy seas, until 25 deg. south. Her run
was therefore exceedingly good. The Bosphorus left
the Cape of Good Hope on Sept 5; St. Helena the
16th ; Ascension the 19th ; arrived at St. Vincent's
on the 28th; and sailed on the Ist of October; ar-
riving here on the 16th. She had had heavy winds
on her voyage home. At the time she left St.
cent's the Royal Mail screw-steamer Indiana was
there, and left for India a few hours before the Bos-
phorus. The Indiana had had a rough passage out.
The Bosphorus was detained four days at St. "Vin-
-cent's for coal.

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DING BREAKFASTS provided in Town or Country, by
Messrs. PURSSELL, Cornhill. including Wines, and the hire of plate
linen, china, seats, tables, tents, awnings, dancing hollands, ser-
vants, carriages, &c. Ball-rooms lighted. Instrumental ➢fusic pro-
vided. Bills of Fare sent per post, for any number, or one of the
firm will wait upon parties, if required. A magnificent display of
Bride Cakes for selection, decorated in a new and elegant style.
All the Parisienne novelties in Wedding Stationery.
Messrs. PURSSELL'S,

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The highest medical authorities recommend Brandy and water
as the best customary beverage, and particularly as an efficient pre-
ventive of diarrhceatic complaints at this season. They equally con-
cur in preferring BETTS'S PATE NTT BRANDY as the purest and
most wholesome. It is unequalled for preserving fruits, home-male
wines, &c.

Sold throughout the Kingdom, by respectable wine and spirit mer-
chants, in glace bottles, protected by the Patent 3lctallic Capsules,
and at the DISTILLERY, 7, S\IITIIFIELD-BARS, in dozens,
tottles and eases included, at ISs. per gallo i ; or in stone jars of
two gallons and upwards, at 16.3 per gallon, palo or coloured.
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-7_
ineic were no Government vessels at Table Bay,
but at Simon's Bay there were Her Majesty's ships
Rhadatnanthus, Hydra, and Dart. The Styx had left
for Buffalo on the Ist September. On the Bth, Bos-
phorus signalised the barque Belle Alliance, bound to
the north, from Bombay, latitude 30 min. 30 sec. S.,
long. 13 min. 19 sec. E. On the 24th Sept. spoke
the Royal Mail general ecrew steamer Cleopatra, 17
days out, all well, in lat. 9.2 S., long. 17.20 W. The
Rapid also was signalized. On the 7th Mr. Patter-
son, R.N., died on board the Bosphorus, of consump-
tion.

The news brought by this mail is of the same char-
acter as that which has come home hitherto. The
war still " drags its slow length along," and the latest
intelligence from the frontier states that outrages are
still committed on the frontiers, even in the proximity
of the towns and posts. Both parties still war with
cattle—the Kafirs managing generally to hold their
Own remarkably well. The Transkei expedition had
been finished, but the frontier districts were still
swarming with rebels and Kafirs, who carry with
them devastation and ruin, too frequently with impu-
nity. It was understood to be the intention of the
Governor to make another inroad into country
at a suitable opportunity. _ _ .

The coal that had been discovered turns out to be
anthracite, giving encouragement to further search,
which is much promoted by the Government, who
have offered a reward of 1001. for the discovery of
coal beds. The gold reported by the Haddington to
'have been found at the Waterkloof turns out to be
suiphuret of iron.

SUMMARY.
the
past
MONTHLY NelLEInLt YofSUthrie
h(aFsrohnteet/hie CthaepeadTvoawhnceMhafiLl
ofieuSteepnta.ng6t.-)General
The principal
month
Cathcart, at the head of a strong of troops,
and about 1,000 burghers, across the columnlii
territory of the Amagaleka Kafir Chief Krell, into the
burning the deserted kraal or "great lace"reof4that
chief, and his return to head-quarters tat King Wil-
liam's the burgher
Town, and disbandonment of
force, after capturing 13,000 of the enemy's cattle.
His Excellency moved forward from
theto Umvani,
the point where the burghers had been
as-
semble, on the 6th August, the very da invitedh had
yfixed
upwards of a month previously for that purpose.
During his progress towards the Kei, two messen-
gers from the chief reached him, and stated that they
were sent "to inquire the cause of the presence of
the troops, and to hear the Governor's word." They
were sent beck with the following answer :
" That the Governor had sent to demand the payment
of the fine of cattle imposed by the former Governor;
that two moons had passed since the Great Chief gaveo'
his word that unless the cattle demanded were paid
within that tune, he would bring a burgher commado
and take them. But Kreli had sent back the Great
Chief's letter, and the fine has not been paid, and San-
dilli is still in the Amatolas. Therefore it is that the
Great Chief has now come to take the fine, and as much
more canle as will pay for the trouble of coming, also
to punish Krell for sending hack his letter. tiuwever,
if Kreli would, with the fine imposed, surrender his per-
son to be kept in safety till the Gaikas cross the Kei,
the Governor would halt the troops, and send the burgh-
ers back to their homes.
"To this the messengers replied that the tine might
be paid, but that Kreii would not surrender."
The forces then proceeded to enter Kreli's coun-
try, en entrenched post being left at the Balotta, to
secure communication with the colony. Advancing
in two columns, of troops, burghers, and irregulars,
they reached Crouch's station in the neighbourhood
of Kreli's place, on the 1 1 th; and before daybreak,
on the following morning, " his Excellency led a
force of sufficient strength, composed entirely of co-
lonial contingents, with the exception of four com-
panies of the 61 Regiment as support, upon Kreli'a
great kraal, which was found deserted, and was
burnt, without the enemy showing himself."
Oa the 13th, the burghers, troops, and levies, in
two columns, under Lieut. Col. Napier and Michell,
were dispatched in pursuit of the enemy's cattle, of
which he was known to possess immense herds ; and
although the great mass of them had already been
driven beyond reach, mostly into the territory of
Umhala, which for some reason the forces were for-
bidden to enter, the large number above mentioned
were brought into camp•within a few days. Of these,
8,000 were captured by Napier's column, including
3,000 taken by the Somerset, Kowie, and other bur-
ghers, under their commandants Kruger and Van
Aardt, and 1,000 by the burghers of Albany, Port
Elizabeth, and King William's Town, under Com-
mandants Stubbs and Conway. 1,300 head were
also taken by Michell's column, and 500 by detached
patrols of burghers and volunteer Fingoes. The only
casualties reported are one artilleryman killed and
one wounded, having been rushed upon and assagaied
while acting, unfortunately, as drovers of captured
cattle.
The prompt and spirited mann ren which so
large a body of the Eastern burgheri had turned
out in arms at the Governor's call, was warmly ac-
knowledged by his Excellency in a General Order
on the 21st, when he dismissed them to their re-
spective homes, " carrying with them not only his
thanks for their meritorious conduct but also the
self-satisfaction of having as loyal subjects re-
sponded to his appeal." His Excellency also de-
clared that by the exertions of the forces in one
foray of nine days, the object he bad in view in
invading Kreli's country and punishing that chief
had been accomplished. He then withdrew the
troops and returned to King William's Town.
Some surprise and disappointment are expressed
on the frontier at this speedy termination of the
expedition for which such great preparations were
made • and various causes are assigned for the re-
turn of' the troops, without having elicited any ap-
pearance of submission on the part of the Kreli, who,
it is generally believed, will have by this time re-
sumed his former quarters ; the work of a few
hours sufficing to re-construct the cluster of straw
huts and rude cattle fences which form bis " great
place," One cause is said to be, that the enemy
took the precaution to cover his retreat by burning
the grass in every direction behind him, thus render-
ing pursuit by cavalry imnracticab to. It is also stated
that some of the Tacabookie and other neighbouring
tribes have been subsidized, and are prepared to fall
upon the contumacious chief, and,. in Kafir phrase,
" eat him up." The most general impression, how-
ever, is that, under any circumst antes, peace will
shortly be proclaimed by the Govern or; and that, hav-
ing displayed to the border tribes tne overwhelming
force which he is prepared to brit: g against them,
he will now endeavour to allay the, stormy elements,
and assert under more pacific influences that
authority over our savage neighbo urs which is essen-
tial to the very existence of the ce deny, and which
every month's continuance of this ;miserable warfare
seems but more and more hopeles sly to undermine
and weaken.. This view appears a'.sta to be confirmed
by the circumstance that his Lacelltency intends, it is
bAieeed, to return l ear yin October to Cape Town,
where affairs of
importance will thou require his pre-
sence.
While these events
were occurring beyond the bor-
der,the colony have of the snore exposed districts of
losses,
andexperienced no cessation -of the dan-
gers,been their lot ever since perpetualthe alarms which have been
holdhreaking out of the war.
Sandilli and Macemo still
Waterkloof, and small parties the Amatolas and the
concert with the rebel Hottentots
ef
their followers, in
Emboldenedunder Uithaalder,
continue to harass the country
known absence of so many of by the
burghers from their
ve homes, numerous depredations ha' beencommitted
by them during the month, any
det of
which
wnuld
far exceed the limits of this summary notice. in the
neighbourhood of Fort Beaufort, in particular, the
enemy have been extremely trosab'.esome. In Lower
Albany, and the neighbourhood of Graham's Town,

A great stimulus has been given to the cultivation
of fine encouraging prices lately realized
in the
w
e iinonoldobny t hemarket.Nntonly
within the colony
but at Natal and the Sovereignty, rapid strides are
being made in this very profitable branch of produo-
tion. From Algoa Bay itloney4l,, oirprirtPd
during the three first quarters of the present year,
exceeds in value a quarter of a million sterling._

The monthly steam packets work with admirable
regularity, not a single instance of failure having yet
occurred. Efforts are again being made to provide
for their security while in our port, by making it a
turbour of refuge, through the construction of a sub-
stantial breakwater, and assistance is confidently ex-
pected from the friends of the colony in England, if
not from the Imperial Government, in effecting this
long desired improvement, which would not only
give increased facility and safety to British com-
merce, but confer an incalculable benefit upon the
shippirg of all nations frequenting these southern

[EXTRA TO TEE GREENSBLAD, AUG, 26.]
GENERAL ORDER—No. 64.
proclamation of the Ist of July, invaded Krell'a tern-
! nr
C, Ch af p
having, lot t a
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set forth
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his
The CI oT Head-quarters,
du rr
adequate column of troops, proceeded
ifeohrmeleadndinNtoaptiwero,
and caused it to be burnt.
the Commander-
oof n a t bh ne r glh2 ethr itonrsct.e,, f
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np
tdphoarittt ecddoensbteuyr n
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cwioruiesacahtietfh'se kheraaadl
troops,tuhned
columns,mTarched
Commander-
in-Chief's instructions to despoil the enemy of his cattle.
ny andt-tCo oc 1;1
renrveyi I es
outs
Colonel Michel's column returned to the camp at the
Sabolela Drift on the 17th, having captured 1,300 head
of cattle. Lieutenant-Colonel Napier's column returned
to the head-quarters' camp on the 20th inst., having cap-
tured 8,000 head. Besides these, there were about 120
feorllboLussir.°giunhgteerndsi
horses, and a considerable number of goats taken. About
500 head of cattle were also captured by patrols com-
posed of the Cradock Fingo Volunteers, Captain Camp-
bell's Fingoes, the Albany, Port Elizabeth, and King
William's Town Burghers, sent out from the standing
camp—making in all about 10,000 head.
The Commander-in-Chief thanks Lieut.-Colonel
Michel and Lieut.-Colonel Napier, the troops, the
burghers, and levies, for their exertions in accomplishing
in one foray of nine days the object he had in invading
Kreli's country and punishing that chief, which enables
him now to permit the several contingents of burghers
and volunteers to return to their respective homes, car-
rying with them not only his thanks for their meritorious
conduct, but also the self-satisfaction of having as loyal
subjects responded to his appeal.
To Lieutenant-Colonel Napier his Excellency's thanks
aro especially due for the energy and sound judgment
with which he carried out the Commander of the Force's
discretionary instructions.
Lieutenant-Colonel Napier speaks in the highest terms
of the spirited conduct of the Somerset, Kowie, and
other burghers attached to his column under the com-
mandof Commandant Kruger and Van Aardt, who cap-
tured nearly 3,000 head of cattle— nor can his Excel-
lency omit to notice the energy and activity of the
Albany, Port Elizabeth, and King William's Town
Burghers, under Commandants Stubbs and Conway, who
captured upwards of 1,000 head.
The Commander of the Forces also desires to convey
to Quarter-Master-General and officers of the staff, as
well as to the officers of the Commissariat Department,
his satisfaction with the duties and arrangements which
devolved upon them during these operations.
A. J. CLOETE, Q.M.G.

The fdlovviog is the official account of the Trans-
Kei expeeitio❑ :___.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.-NO. 12.
Oa the 2C9 7
ofp'
JSualbyotlheleacDormitra't,alnYdheirtoo
of the
F
, Aug.orce Forces
ing given his orders for the concentration of two columns
of troops
at tho Imvani, there to be joined by the several
contingents of burghers and others appointed by pro-
clamation to meet him on the 6th of August, his Excel-
lency kit Fort Iteaufort and joined ;the force assembled
at the Blinktvatq., Under Lieutenant-Colonel Napier's
command, and marched with it on the following morn-
ing for the invasion of Kreli's country. On the day ap-
pointed-6th of August—the two columns of troops,
that from Fort Bsanfort and that from King William's
Town, under Lieutenant-Colonel Michel, formed a junc-
tion at the Imvani, and moved to the Balotta, where
they encamped and halted the 7th, Bth, and 9th, to en-
able the several contingents of burghers known to be on
their way to • •n,
During this interval, two messengers, Contsa and
pi
Pakana, from Krell, reached the Commander of the
Forces' camp,
sent by their chief to inquire the cause of
the presence of the troops, and to hear the Governor's
word. They were told, that the Governor had sent to
demand the payment of the fine of cattle imposed by the
former Governor; that two months had passed since the
great chief gave his word 1 that unless th© cattle de-
manded were paid within that time, he would bring a
burgher commando and take them. But Kreli had sent
back the
great chief's letter, end the fine has not been
paid, and Sandilli is still in the Amatolas. Therefore it
is that the great chief has now 7oine to take the fine, and
as much more cattle as will pay for the trouble of coming,
as also to punish Kreli for sending back his letter. How-
ever, if Kreli would, with the fine imposed, surrender his
person to be kept in safety till the Gaikas cross the Kei,
the Governor would halt the troops, and send the
burghers back to their houses.
To this the messengers replied that the fine might be
paid, but that Kreli would not surrender.
- '

On the 10th, after establishing an entrenched post at
Balotta, to secure the line of communication with the
ta form ed of
at
colony, the army broke up their camp and marched into
Kreli's country, the commander of tho forces crossing the
liei at the head of the burghers, and establishing his
camp on its left bank. The whole cf the burghers,
wbom the Commander-in-Chief had received notice,
having now joined, and the proper magazines
the standing camp on the Nei, the two movable columns
of troops, burghers, and irregulars, moped forward under
the Commander-in-Chief's orders, on the 11th of August,
to Crouch's station, and on the following morning, before
daylight, his Excellency led a force of sufficient strength,
composed entirely of colonial eonting.nts, with the ex-
ception of four companies of the 6th Regiment, as sup-
port, upon Kreli's great kraal, which was found deserted,
and was burnt, without the enemy showing himself.
The two columns, provisioned for eight days, and
to
oxecution of the in-
despoil the enemy
lsitgrhuteltyioenqsauipripdeedr,
wprhoiccheedthedeyinwetrhee
of cattle—the Commander of the Forces, with his escort,
returning from his bivouac to the camp at the Sabolela
Drift. By command,

CHARLES SEYMOUR, Lieu. t.-Colonel,
Military Secretary.
P.S. Aug. 15.—Mr. Saunder and a small contingent
of Cra3ock Burghers havingc, reached Head-Quarter's
Camp on the 13th, too late to join the patrols under
Lieut.-Colonels Michel and Napier, they were directed
to make a patrol, in conjunction with Dent. Price, Fort
Beaufort Levy, Mr. Cameron, and some Lesseyton Vo-
lunteers, in all about 80 men, into the kloofs of the
Indvve, and have just returned with 30 head of captured
cattle, 7 horses, and 60 goats.
The following details are interesting:—
I [Front the Graham's loam Journal.]
NEW BRISTOL CAMP.

Auc. 19.—The Kafirs and Hottentots made an attempt
to get the cattle out of the kraal on Friday night. `they
had got one rail out, when Staples, being on the watch,
fired at them, and, from the blood spoor which we traced
the nest morning for upwards of 300 yards, ono must
have been mortally wounded, as ho bled profusely. We
got his gun and assegai. Oa Monday night they made
a general attack on the house, and we bad hard fighting
for upwards of an hour. From the spoors I think there
must have been about fifty Kafirs and Hottentots. They
came so near to the windows that the wadding of their
guns set fire to the blinds and other things in the room,
in ono of which there were about
front twenty ball shots and
several charges of loopers, the windowsote enemy
ashtetnetoe aphieoit fivo ya
ceis.Th'eridcs iti ain bodyf h
of the house, and kept
up a brisk fire at the windows, while another party tried
to get the eattlo out of the kraal. They contrived to
make a gap in it, but the loopers and buckshot were so
e n
got
t literally
behind
hotly poured in at evory place where we could see or
hear any part of the fence move, that they were obliged

[PRICE SD.

ME DOMESTIC INSTITUTION OF
YANKEEDOM.

Whatever may be the ultimate impression enter-
tained by Europeans of " America and the Ameri-
cans," the first is undoubtedly uniformly unfavour-
able, Even their neighbours the Canadians speak of
them with repugnance, if not absolute aversion. They
are, it must be confessed, in their superficial aspect,
singularly uninteresting, prosaic, and repulsive. Their
extreme self-possession, their imperturbable self-suffi-
ciency, their total want of ostensible consciousness of
the presence of others, or acknowledgment of any con-
sideration due to the recognition of other human
beings in the world besides themselves, are features
of national social bearing which are altogether un-
lovely, and earn for them the general antipathy of
mankind. Their public and political beoxing is still
more odious, and is enough to hurry the most pru-
dent and pacific economists into an indignant desire
to try conclusions with them at once. Their masses
are truculent and braggart, their public men disho-
nest, temporising, and sycophantic. They are r€ vdy
to go to war—they are loud for war, on the slighteot)
or on no provocation. Their international morality is
unscrupulous, fraudulent, and ruffianly. They pro-
claim a settled design to appropriate to themselves
the whole of the western hemisphere. They talk
loudly of entering the circle of European politics, and
forcing republican government ugng.,9.11. our states.
They deliberately organised a large society in Phila-
delphia, composed of many wealthy and educated men,
for the purpose of hiring assassins to murder the crowned
heads of Europe ; they blustered loudly about pro-

claiming war against its, as a settlement. in full of the
Oregon dispute ; they organised armies and sub-
scribed subsidies to become mere buccaneers, thieves,

and burglars in Cuba; " the affair of the"—this and
that, and we know not how many others—is perpe-
tually elaborated and cooked up into a cause of war
with us. Even Daniel Webster was abject and in-
sincere enough to lend himself to play the fable of
the wolf and the lamb with the Peruvians, about the

foul dung of the Lobos Islands, and to prostitute his

diplomatic function to the level of pettifogging spe-
cial pleading ; and now at last the Union is trying to
frighten our sense of the necessity of economy into
meanness, by blustering and talking big over this
recent entanglement about the fisheries. These are

characteristics of the Americans which almost fret

and goad us into a wish to come to blows with them

at once, and to prove out of band which is the better

man. It is our very decided opinion that we would, in
a just cause, give them a very sound drubbing; and
their quarrelsome boastfulness would most richly de-
serve it. But it must be confessed they have some
warrant for their gasconade, and that they are great
people, destined probably to be the greatest. The
mark they have set upon the world has scarcely been
equalled even by the Romans. They have converted
a wilderness to civilization, over a territory greatly
larger than all Europe, in an incredibly short time.
They have given permanent, wise, workable, and
working institutions to a vast portion of the habita-

ble globe. Canals, linked lakes, deepened rivers and
railways, intersect her inland territory, and open it all
up to reciprocal intercommunion. Her maritime enter-
prise is not less than our own, and pushes a trade in and
with our colonies even when we fail in doing so our-
selves. To the disgrace of Europe, and the glory of the
States, the merchants of the Union were the first to

undertake to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific.

In practical science, especially in the department of
mechanics, she stands in a position little, if at all, in-
ferior to our own ; and in the arts and conveniences

of social life she has made advances from which even
our elder civilization need not disdain to take a lesson.
She even sends actresses here whom we hesitate to

regard as at all inferior to our own most eminent ar-

tisis ; and, in jurisprudence, her jurisconsults are
standard authorities in Europe. Indeed, it is in her
public life that she presents to us her least engaging
aspect. There is no magnanimity in her patriotism—
no honour or equity in her policy. Her Government
is swayed by naked majorities of the most ignorant
and brutal of her people ; her public men exist only
by their popularity with the rabble ; and to please the
mob, they must be like them, flatter their prejudices,

. .
obey their caprices. 'lna trim their opinions and their
acts, not by the rule of right or dictates of true statx,...
manship, but by the will of the masses—if:di the selfish-
ness of the unscrupulous many. At the beginning of
their era of independence, they were wise and good
enough to reverence and obey their great and saga-
cious statesmen. They have ended by expecting that
the greatest and wisest shall bow before and obey
them • and the result is, that the good and true and
thoughtful shun them altogether. It is when we fall
back upon the literature of America that we see her
strength, her riches, her wonderful progress. The men
who scorn to win her most sweet voices by falsehood
or hypocrisy speak the truth thst is in them through
the press " with most miraculous organ." With the
exception of her newspapers, no literature is so pure,
so high, so original, so spiritual as the American.
Ware, Longfellow, Bryant, Sigourney, attain the
highest and purest flights of genuine poetry. Since
the " Vicar of Wakefield," we remember nothing in
its line comparable to the " Alontacute " of Mrs.
Clavers, to whom Sedgewick and Mitford are mere
rushlights. What is more genial, polished, simple,
or exquisite than Washington Irving passim? What
sea sketch is so genuine as Dana's " Two Years be-
fore the Mast ? ' We say nothing of Prescott, or
Story, or Cooper, or Bancroft, because our own living
writers in these departments leave these authors far
behind. But in morals or theology we really do not
even approach them. There is only one Channing in
all the world. What sermons can we, for a moment,
compare to those of Ware or Dewey ? What disqui-
sition on religion equals Parker, Norton, or Ripley ?
Where shall we find riper scholarship, more profound
research, or more varied reading, than, for example,
in the American edition of, and commentaries upon,
De Wette ? Barnes is now the text-book of English
Biblical students. Where are abler and more learned
criticisms to be found than in the " American Re-
view ? " What is more perfect, as a work of art,
than the " Scarlet Letter ? " Above all, what effort
of human genius was ever more exquisitely adapted
to stir society to its depths, and to rift its iniquities
to their centre, than the precious and priceless gift to
the cause of humanity and civilization, " Uncle
Tom's Cabin ? " Its popularity in America shows the
greatness of America. A people who can so bear to hear
itvcselit,honudt
thei
the truth, to be moved by it, to acknowledge it, cannot,
after all, ever ultimately fall away into worthlessness.
The more we reflect upon this work, the more we are
struck with its wonderful adaptation to the purpose
it was obviously designed to subserve. To achieve a
work of fiction of such power and genius is victory
e
sufficient ; but to remember that the story and the
machinery, perfect in themselves, held throughout
she
the writer's aim only a secondary place—that
merely devised the tale to gild a great moral, and to
accomplish a vast practical, social, and political revo-
lution
to realize even that end—these are triumphs
lila t ion
succeedin her nativeia
that
aciomu,n country.—and y
because- and
herthat
n sheea n
means
is a
re destinedgreat
given to no other writer of fictitious narrative. Our
mind and taste revolted at the amount of psalm-sing-
ing and cant which interlard the book ; but the re-
ligious
is the earnest, self- denying, all-conquering
element in human nature ; and Airs. Stowe has taken
the only means to reach it, albeit it is somewhat
tinctured with a mystical evangelism. We believe
that this little book
philosophy,lo g hasic a struckn
d e l
eloquence
1 and
thede n theology
e death-blowa s were
o never
fe
vote to
American slavery. Channing had already settled the
nAt
,oidrwiisati.ltehcs before—aststiuocswa,he
were never supposed applicable
has given its actual form and
features, what it really is—" negro life in America"
—and supplied just enough of commentary, in the,
shape of running argument, as to leave no plea. °et
breeders and owners unanswered. We do not believe
that the "accursed traffic" can survive the bloiwoi.,, s
the
far from suspecting the picture of exaggeration,
and
the
satis-
fies every reader capable of reflheecrti
°tnhan as she
power of the work is, that it verifiesem
fruits of slavery could not be
other
that the free states
here paints them. We do not expectden of this " cruel
will much longer have the bur
They have no real
I th free
business" upon their conscience.
interest in upholding he syst .
cannott be upheld. It is a
active co-operation
itweakness to the country. An
source of perilous
.rew
Orleans, and arming the
slaves, landing in New
the territory. It
is the cause of dangerous demoralisation, a still more
for
r assured
h ou
rt h. a t
For
re
theirfree oS
wt ant es
sakes,wou would
pressing and
d the southern choose to say the
word--nay, if any one of them determines to do so,
slavery must be practically at an end. The negroes
can, with perfect ease, escape into the free soil, if
slaves, would
hazardous
dao
us tsronghol d
embarrassment. of
refuse to permit their re-capture. 'Were Virginia
and Louisiana on the borders of Canada, slavery
is to be regretted they are not, because the execrable
institution which they have taken to their homes
must daily sink them lower and more desperately in
brutality, and the most enervating and debasing
vices. Mrs. Stowe shows clearly enough that the
usual plea urged by the Southerners that they did
cthoeuyl danr eo
not t
existo ne
not make slavery, but found it, is a poor subterfuge.
The condition of the negro in the States is greatly
worse than in any other country. Even the New
Zealander treats his slue with far more comparative
agmtopuopeirltsai.telisdo,