The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-18 00:00:00

Prince of Carignan, was present at the ceremoiiy.l
The Ministers, many senators;-deputies, -and chief
functionaries also attended.

SWITZERLAND.
The Bdle Gazette of the 15th says :—" The
Biiancia of Milan publishes an article according to
which the Austrian Government is said to have an
intention of extinguishing the flames of revolution
in Switzerland, and of re-establishing the sovereignty
of the cantons by means of an act of mediation.
This article has produced such a lively impression
on the mind of the Federal Council, that it has
transmitted it to its commissioner in the canton of
Ticino. It is stated that Austria still calculates on
a change in the government of that canton. The
number of persons expelled from Lombardy goes
on increasing."
The Zurich Gazette states that it is informed on
good authority that for the future the United States
of America will be represented in Switzerland by a
special charge d'affaires.

THE KAFIR, WAR.

ARRIVAL OF THE SYDNEY.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.
The Sydney, Captain Franklyn, who has charge
of the mails, arrived last evening in the Sound.
Her cargo consists of gold dust, from Sydney,
32,854 oz. 14 dvrt. 21 gr.; Port Philip, 45,289 oz.
14 dwt. 12 gr.; Adelaide, 97,646 oz. 1 dwt. 5 gr.;
making a total of 175,790 oz. 10 dwt. 14 gr.; be-
sides 115 tons 12 cwt. of tallow from Sydney.
From Sydney she brings, as first-class passengers,
Le Comte de Chabrillon, Mr. and Mrs. Walton,
Messrs. Lewis larks, Herr Halgee, Herr Beeger,
and Emile Dubois ' • two second-class, and fifteen
third-class. From Port Philip—Messrs. Russell,
A. Beach, Beauchamp, and Price ; thirty-four
second-class, and thirty-two third-class. From.
Adelaide—Mr. and Mrs. G. Hall, Mr. and Mrs.
Hall, six children and `servant, Mrs. Lambton,
Miss Armsberg, Mr. B. Armsberg, Charles Groch,
W. Probyn, and A. Jeffry ; twenty second-class,
and six third-class. There are also one from King
George's Sound, one from the Cape of Good Hope,
and one from St. Vincent—making in all 140 pas-
sengers, including children. In addition to these,
the Sydney has obtained 2,0001. from intercolonial
passages only.
Mr. Charles Walton, a gentleman engaged by
the Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com-
pany, has been the round in Sydney, to perfect
arrangements for facilitating the dispatch of the
company's ships at the various ports of arrival and
departure.
The Sydney left Plymouth the 4th of August,
1852, at 8 30 a.m., and arrived at St. Vincent in
10 days 5 hours ; she was detained there 3 days 63/4
hours. From St. Vincent to Ascension she was 12
days 13i hours on the voyage, and was detained
there 6 days ei hours. The run from Ascension to
the Cape of Good Hope occupied 9 days 20 hours,
and she was detained there 5 days 6 hours. She
left the Cape of Good Hope October 3, and arrived
'at King George's Sound October 24, making the
passage in 21 days 12 hours. She was detained at
that place coaling for 4 days 21 hours from the im-
possibility of procuring.labour, and sailed October
29 ; arrived in 5 days at Adelaide, remained there
1 day 7 hours ; sailed November 7, remained dis-
charging passengers and cargo there 5 days 19
hours ; and on November 13 sailed for Sydney,
where she arrived November 16, in 71/ hours.
On her return voyage she sailed from Sydney
December 4, arrived in 89 hours at Port Philip,
and remained there 3 day's 7 hours. On December
11, she sailed for Adelaide, where she arrived De- .
cember 14, in 61 hours, remained there taking
passengers and treasure 3 days 9 hours ; sailed for
King George's Sound December 17, arrived De-
cember 23, in 6 days, remained coaling 9 days 3
hours ; sailed January 1, arriving at the Cape on
February 1, in 30 days 23 hours ; remained at the
Cape 4 days 124 hours coaling, sailed February 6 ;
arrived at St. Vincent February 26, in 20 days 134
hours ' • remained coaling 3 days. 21 hours ; sailed
March 2, and arrived at Plymouth in 14 days 3
hours. The General Screw Steam-shipping Com-
pany's ship Queen of the South, was at St. Vin-
cent on the arrival of the Sydney ; she sailed for
the Cape Feb. 27. The ship John. Bartlett was
spoken with off the Cape shortly after the Sydney
left.

The following summary of Cape news is taken
from the South African Commercial Advertiser of
February the sth :
" The Sydney takes intelligence from the Cape only ten
days later than the Indiana. In the interval small parties
of marauders have shown themselves on the borders and
within some of the frontier districts, who have been ac-

tively pursued by the burghers and mounted. police, and
generally with success. Some 10 or 12 rebel Hottentots
had surrendered at or near Whittlesea' but nothing cer-
tain is known of the Hottentot leader, Brander, or of the
Kafir chiefs, Sandilli and Macomo. There was a report
that some arrangement was in progress with these Gaika
chiefs, on the condition of their retiring beyond the Kei, a
considerable number of their people having been permitted
to mingle with the friendly tribes in lower Katirland, and
his Excellency's expression in a general order of the 26th
of Jan., that ' this arduous contest (is) now happily brought
to an end,' gives some colour to it.
" This arduous contest commenced on the 24th of Dec.,
1850, in an attempt to seize Sandilli. Kafraria was at
that time held in subjection by a military force, or in
what is called military occupation. At the end of two
years of active operations Sandilli is still at large, and
Kafraria is held in subjection only by a military force.
The only difference is, that the force was smaller in 1850,
said to have been about 1,500 bayonets, while it is esti-
mated at some 7,000 or 8,000 in 1853. Should this force
be reduced to what it was in 1850 would the colony be
more secure than it was at that period ? Are the frontier
districts stronger, or Kafirland weaker now, or will their
relative strength be more favourable to the colony two or
three years hence than in 1850?
" During the contest a large number of the bravest
frontier colonists have fallen, and a much larger number
have been ruined and greatly disheartened.
" The boundaries of the colony have been considerably
extended, and many inhabitants of the older frontier dis-
tricts are moving into the new territory, still further
weakening the old frontier.
" The Kafirs have suffered loss in men, and cattle, and
territory ; but to people in their condition such losses often
give union and strength. The loss of independence and of
native land is not forgotten or forgiven. They err who
suppose that in this respect the black man differs from the
white. The justice or injustice of the conquest or expa-
triation are out of the case. Justice, policy, necessity,
may relieve the conscience of the conqueror, but resent-
ment glows for ages in the heart of the vanquished. It is
a sentiment universal as the sun, and whatever border
system the British Government may adopt, founded on
the military occupation of Kafraria, they must keep this
law of nature in view, and make provision on this as a fact
that the vanquished and expatriated Kafirs hate them in
their hearts.
" In this contest the Kafirs have shown that they have
the means of obtaining fire-arms, and that they are acquir-
ing skill in using them. To the gun they have added the
horse—a still more dangerous engine of war. This entirely
changes the character of border warfare and of border de-
fence. Thirty years ago a few colonists on horseback, with
their far-reaching rifles, could confrentoannldy almostswciatthtesrlieks
or
any number of natives on;,foot,
hand.
l they could return from If they examined their
missileground spearsand
a chosec
s theirfro time he
wel armed
a successful campaign almost without a wound. Burns'-
show what a fearful change
hill, Waterkloof, and %
instancesthey
lost
during the last three wars
has taken place within a feitwhayredarsly
.applenarsos tmheat
which side the advantage lay.
it remained doubtful on
and
daring with every war,
more men than the disciplined troops; and more than once
They improve in adroitness
with every action. E
hostility.
confirms and inflames their ho
d Y. ore clearly before his
Every
slice cut from their territory
" The Governor has all this an m
inhas suggested itself
it is not known whether any remedy
discovered the root of
eyes, and will make it plain enough his dispatches.. But
to his mind, or whether he has yet
of the colony
State the too great and too hasty extension
the evil. In man dispatches from different Secretaries of
y
is emphatically condemned ; and recently Earl Grey sug-
gested a question, whether the loss of land might not be
_,
one cause at least, of native case
hostility. In the .01
Moshesh, General Cathcart saw clearly that to deprive the.
Basutos of their land was to kindle a war not soon to be
extinguished. On this point there cannot be two opinions.
A South African tribe deprived of their land must either
lie down and die, or betake themselves to plunder. They
have none of the thousand and one arts by which civilised
nations make up for loss of land or scanty
is their life.
" There is another thing that will probably strike, the
Governor's mind, namely, that in all barbarous tribes there
territory. Land'
is a strong love bf independence. They don't readily sub-
mit to foreign rule. As far as can be judged, the Govern-
ment of Kafirland, under Colonel Mackinnon, was more,
just; equitable, and beneficial to the; people than the Go-
vernment of their native chiefs. Many, if not all of them,
were ready to admit this, and were probably convinced of
it. But events demonstrated that men even in a state of
barbarism are not wholly governed by self-interest. With
death and destruction before their eyes,. they cling to their
chiefs, and have far two long years exhibited an example
of fidelity never surpassed in any age or nation. This may
be lamented. or condemned, but it cannot be denied, and it
would be a fatal' error in the British Government to over-
look it when constructing their future relations with such
tribes. _ _

"lifter frontier affairs, the internal state- of 'the colony
may obtain a brief notice in England. They have learnt
from the speeches,in Parliament that the Constitution
still-withheld, and that the colonists have no more concern
in in public affairs than the oxen they drive or the horses they
ride; that, consequently, they are in no way responsible
for .any wars or fightings, or other sources of expense, in
British policy in these parts ; that they, how-
ever,, pay in taxes levied without. their advice or consent,
and spent in like manner, 230,0001. a-year ; that they are
not pleased with this ignoring, of their existence, and that
after many vain supplications they are electing a few re-
spectable men in the several districts with instructions to
meet together and consider_ how the actual state of the
colony may be best ascertained, and by what method, or
in what shape, their case may be most effectually repre-
sented to those who may have it in their power to grant
relief. This plan is in progress in a quiet, orderly, loyal,
and constitutional spirit, without passion, hurry, or excite-
ment of any kind. That the people here acknowledge no
connexion with any parties or factions in England, not
being le at this distance to see any marked distinction
betwee an
Whigs, Tories, Conservatives, Radicals, Protec-
tionists, or Free-traders, admitting all to be equally
honest and truthful in what they say of each other, and all
equally abroad in colonial matters. That, under these im-
pressions, it is their wish and intention to relieve the brain
of Downing-street, as far and as soon as possible, from

much of its perplexity about things of which it is very ig-
norant; by doing colonial government work on the spot.
That' is. all at present."

(From at' Supplement to the Cape Town Mail, Feb. 5.)
The following extracts from the frontier papers,
just received, show how little is known in that
quarter of the views and intentions of General
Cathcart, in reference to the measures now to be
adopted, either in carrying on the war or restoring
peace to this long-afflicted colony :
(Front the Frontier Times.)
His Excellency, accompanied by his staff, proceeded ou
Thursday last to King William's Town, for the purpose, as
it is supposed, of making arrangements for the introduction
of peace. What the nature of these arrangements will be
it is not very easy to conjecture, seeing that we are now
apparently only at war with the Gaika chiefs and their
people, of whom his Excellency thus spoke in a Govern-
ment notice, dated Graham's Town, 9th October, 1852 :
" What is their just punishment ? The Gaika chiefs and
their associates must for ever be driven out of their former
lands ; the guilty chiefs must never be allowed to dwell in
peace on this side of the Kei." And in giving permission
to such of the Gaika Kafirs as had found. shelter in the
Slambie territory to remain there, he told the Slambie
chiefs that they must be " answerable for their conduct."
" But," said his Excellency, addressing these chiefs, "there
must be no cattle stealing, or firing at waggon trains in
your countries. You must keep your people in order, and
if you cannot do so, then I will not talk, but I must come
and do it for you with a strong arm."
Such are the relative positions of his Excellency and the
hostile and so-called friendly tribes. And in settling the
affairs of British Kafraria three questions naturally present
themselves :-1. Have the Slambie chiefs " kept their
people in order," according to a fair and liberal interpreta-
tion of his Excellency's words ? 2. Have the Gaika
chiefs and their people been driven over the Kei ? And,
3. If they should even cross that river with a view of in-.
veigling his Excellency to make a treaty of peace with
them, what security is there that they will not come back
again ?
His Excellency, we understand, does not expect to be
long absent from Graham's Town, so that the anxiety of
the public to know something of the contemplated arrange-
ments for peace will probably soon be satisfied.
From Fort Beaufort we learn that many Hottentots have
lately surrendered, and that courts-martial are sitting on
the culprits.
MONDAY.—This day a detachment of Cape Mounted
Rifles left Graham's Town for King William's Town. It is
reported that a fresh expedition against Kreli is contem-
plated. We learn, however, that Kreli not long since paid
a further instalment of his cattle fine, and that he [has re-
cently sent a friendly communication to the authorities at
King 'William's Town, to the effect that he is collecting
more cattle.
TUESDAY.—About 26 head of cattle were taken several
days ago from Manley's Flats, which we hear were recap-
tured yesterday by a party of police under Lieutenant
Surmon, in the Fish River Bush, with the exception of
one of the oxen which had been slaughtered.

(Prom the Graham's Town Journal, Feb. 1.)
Letters from British Kafraria, dated the 29th instant,
announce the arrival there of the Governor, and state that
his Excellency contemplates another visit to Kreli's coun-
try, the conduct of that chief being rather equivocal, and
the compensation he engaged to make for the destruction of
Butterworth and the plunder of British traders not having
been sent as promised. It is quite probable that such a
move is in contemplation, the report 'being spread concur-
rently with the march of a strong detachment of the Cape
Mounted Rifles from Graham's Town, and, as were ih-
formed, of other troops from Fort Beaufort to the capital
of British Kafirland. It seems absolutely necessary that in
dealing with the Amagelika Chief he should be disabused of
the mischievous impression which appears to have been
made on his mind by the sudden retrograde march of the
British troops from the Basuto country. Very prepos-
terous stories have gained currency in Kafirland in con-
nexion with that affair, and it would seem that among the
most active propagators of such rumours are some of the
native waggon drivers, who accompanied the expedition,
and who, according to our informant, have absurdly
exaggerated everything so as to raise the Basutos and lower
the English in the estimation of the credulous natives. It
is most essential to the future peace of South Africa that
this delusion should be dispelled ; for if it be not no peace
that may be, made will be anything more than a mere
form—an empty ceremony without substance, on which
the colonists can rest their hopes of permanent or even
long-continued peace. With such a British force as are on
this frontier at this moment, the colony and the Brit'sh
people look to the Government to prescribe terms—terms
founded on reason and justice—and to see to it that they
are complied with to the letter:
Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, 73d Regiment, is about to
proceed to England, his health failing him under the extra-
ordinary exertions for which this gallant officer has been
so conspicuous ever since he has been on this command.
His name will always be a ' household \word" among the
frontier inhabitants in connexion with the present war.
He has stood foremost among the most intelligent, gallant,
and,zealous defenders of this country, and he will take
with him the grateful aspirations of every frontier inhabi-
tant for his future welfare.
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The Sydney is reported to be in good condition,
with a perfect hull, having no leakage, and Captain
Franklyn and his chief officer have received, both
from the first and second class passengers, letters of
thanks for their attention on the passages out and
home.
She brings the followina ship news
Arrivals at Table-bay.—Jan 31.—The ships Royal Stuart
and the Camperdown, from Calcutta for London, with
passengers. Feb. I.—The barque Clydeside, from Liver-
pool, and the American barque F. Bunchinia, whaling.
Feb. 2.—The Danish barque Frederick Wilhelm, from
Copenhagen ; and the schooner Osprey, from Mossel-bay.
Feb. 3.—The barque Countess of Zetland., from London
for the East Indies, with passengers ; the French ship
Myosotis. from Cardiff ; the Dutch barque Henrietta, from
Batavia for Amsterdam, put in for supplies. Feb. 4.—The
Hamburgh brig Alwina, from Hamburgh ; the ship Col-
lingwood, from. Singapore for London ; and the brig Lean-
der, from Liverpool.
Departures from Table-bay.—Feb. I.—The Timandra,
for Moulmein ; the Bella Portina, for London; the Ad-
derley, for Mossel-bay. Feb. 3.—The Anne, for Port
Natal ; the Mississipi, United States steamer, for Japan ;
the Simoom and Meteor clippers, for London. ' Feb. 4.—
The Ide, for Mauritius ; the Emily Smith, for Algoa-bay ;
the Resolute, for Sydney ; the Royal Stuart, for London ;
the Maidstone, for Trinidad ; the elen Augusta (Ameri-
can), for whaling ; the Fox, for Mossel-bay.
The General Screw Steam-shipping Company's steam-
ship Bosphorus, Captain Benson, sailed on the 29th of
January for Mauritius, Ceylon, and Calcutta.
On Sunday, Jan. 30, the Resolute, with 131 passengers,
from London to' Australia, put into Table-bay for supplies,
having been 92; days on the voyage; and yesterday, the
Medora put in from New York in 103 days, with 193 pas-
sengers.
The Great Britain steam-ship, Captain Matthews, was
daily expected at the Cape. She will coal at Simon's-bay,
and not enter Table-bay.

SOUTHAMPTON PACKETS.—SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 16. k
—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Madrid, Captain Weeks, with the Peninsular mails, left
at half-past, two. She took out a small quantity of
specie, and about twenty passengers, among whom were .9-
Sir E. Hutchinson and Lady Hutchinson. ' The Pepin- ,
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, with '
the homeward Peninsular mails, is expected about the
24th instant. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
screw steam-ship Bengal, is expected about the 19th
instant. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ripon will leave for Malta and Alexandria on the
20th instant, and the City of London, chartered ship, for
Malta and Constantinople, on the 20th. The Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company's steam-ship Magdalena,
Captain C. M. Chapman, with the usual West India
mails, left this day at half-past two. She took out forty-
nine passengers, a full general cargo, and specie to the
amount of 10,0001. The Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company's. ship Parana, Captain C. Woolley, is hourly
expected with the homeward West India mails.
THE LATE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. OLLIVANT'S AT MAN-
CHESTER.—At the Manchester borough court, on Thurs.. I
day, Maxwell, the young man who was apprehended
last week with'the whole of the proceeds of the robbery
at Messrs. 011ivant's silversmith, in his possession, was
re-examined before Mr. Maude, and finally committed
for trial at the assizes. The -evidence given did not
carry the case further than it did last week, and the only,
fact of interest, added to those already given is, that a
pair of bags had been found in one of the trunks seized.
at the house in which he was taken, evidently made to
sling ,at the man's sides ,by means of a strap thrown
across the shoulders. They would readily contain the
property he took away, which weighed about two stones.
No one else is at present implicated.
- SHOCKING CASE OF MATRICIDE IN DURHAM. Mr.
Trotter coroner, held an inquest at a place named But-
terwick,, in the western part of this county, on the 15th
on the body of an old woman, aged 90, wife of Abraham
Sewell, who was cruelly murdered by her son, Abraham,
40 years of age, on the'morning of the previous day.
It appears that the old people lived in a cottage in the
hamlet,. and that their son, who is .a married man, but
parted from his wife, Hired with them at the time of , the
murder. Nothing particular was observed in his con-
duct until last Friday night, when he appeared to wander
in his mind. Father and ,son slept in one bed, and the.
old woman slept in another bed in the same room.
Early in the morning of Monday the son got out of bed,
and, without taking time to dress himself, made a savage
attack upon his aged -mother with a poker, and beat her
to death. ,The old Man interfered, and he was also
severely beaten. The poor maniac, after leaving his
wp
ne
d his,
,paanredurtasnft:ltor deaadn,eilgehabpeodurionugt
hoofutshe.e wHinedroa
maniacal state the door, but was refused admission,. and the man. of the
of excitement, ran afterf
rhtihmerwith a gun, and he was
e a
rTf
uh
le poor
manner.o 1
ashcflaoiepurdttsuered lookingwith
without doing
oa
innda seeing
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nc h a
iinjured.injury.ost f
rde ict of " Wilful murder." The
The jury returned a verdict likelywom a
woman
to
was
recover, tthoo-
• t
finement. It took four persons to keep vie on
g_athinui
poor creature has been safely removed to a place of con
Wednesday evening. ..
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWA.Y.—Fet several nays past
the greatest activity has prevailed at the Waterloo ter-
,
• minus of the London and South-Western Railway, the
directors having given orders for the erection of a new
• station instead of the unsightly and inconvenient place
hitherto devoted for the accommodation of the public.
The terminus, which is nearly half _finished, will shortly
prove quite an ornament to the nsighbourhood. The
_building will present' much the appearance, but on a
smaller scale, of the late Crystal Palace in Hyde-park.
Already have the workmen commenced turning the
arches, so as to form the transept ; and the lines for the
carriages, we understand, are to be so constructed that,
in the event of the railway being at any future period
carried
,on to London-bridge or elsewhere, the same can
be done without destroying the intended new erection.
' A NOVEL MOUSETRAP.—On Saturday last a person
named Jerome, in St. Martin's, Haverfordwest,
micebackhwee adnt s
hadr intoob oromkat.
actually
labnal
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caughtnwodhf there
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chased a small quantity of oysters, which he placed in a
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