The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-28 00:00:00

No. 18,856.]

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2 vols. post Svo., cloth, 21s.
NARRATIVE of a MISSION to CENTRAL
AFRICA, performed in the years 1850-51, utokr the orders,
and at the expense of her Majesty's Government.
By the late JAMES RICHARDSON, Authorof" Travels.lll,the
Great Desert of Sahara." '.j.,.
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long and trying day. His Excellency's personal obser-
vation could not embrace every part of so extended a
field, or notice the separate parts taken by corps in the
operations of the day ; but he marked with admiration
the steady conduct of the three companies of the 43d
Regiment, under Major Phillips ; the gallant bearing of
the detachment 12th Royal Lancers and Cape Mounted
Riflemen, under Lieutenant Gough, 12th Lancers ; and
the admirable practice of the demi-battery of howitzers
under Captain Robinson, R.A., which formed the force
immediately about his Excellency's person.
"Of the noble conduct of the division under Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Eyre composed of a detachment 12th
Lancers ; Royal Artillery, under Captain the Hon. G.
Devereux ; 73d Regiment, under Captain Bewes ; one

company Rifle Brigade, under Lieutenant the Hon. L.
Curzon ; and a detachment of Cape Mounted Riflemen,
under Lieutenant Goodrich, his Excellency has only to
regret that he could not be a witness to all the acts by
which this division distinguished itself throughout the
day.

The Cavalry Brigade, commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Napier, and composed of two squadrons 12th
Lancers, under Major Tottenham, and two squadrons
Cape mounted Rifles, under Major Somerset, merits
equally the Commander of the Forces' commendation ;
this brigade having, with a spirit worthy of them,
ascended the Berea mountain, so little suited to cavalry
movements, there captured and secured 4,500 head of
cattle, inflicting severe loss on the enemy, and brought
the cattle into camp, in spite of all endeavours of the
enemy to recapture them.
" His Excellency having thus expressed his sense of
the services performed by the corps under their imme-
diate commanding officers, he derives much satisfaction
in noticing more especially the officers in command ; and
he returns his marked thanks `to Lieutenant-Colonel
Eyre, 73d Regiment ; LieutenaezColonel Napier, Cape
Mounted Riflemen—officers who on this day nobly sus-
tained the wel:-known reputatit,n they have long since
established ; also to Major Pinckney, 73d Regiment,
and Captain Faddy, commanding Royal Artillery, as
well as the staff officers by whom they were assisted ;
Lieutenant Reeve, 73d Regiment, Acting Brigade
Major ; Lieutenant Arthur Ponsonby, 43d Regiment,
Acting Aide-de-Camp ; Lieutenant Whitmore, Cape
Mounted Riflemen, Acting Brigade Major.

"To Colonel Cloete, Qiiarteimaster:General and chief
of the staff, his Excellency is deeply indebted for his
able and gallant services on this as on every occasion ;
to Captain Wellesley, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-Ge-
neral, who was wounded at the end of the day, and had
his horse shot under him ; and to Captain Lord Alexan-

der Russell, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General,
who was with head quarters all day, and in the evening
was attached to Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, who reports in
the highest terms of the services rendered by him on
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that occasion ; to Captain Tylden, Lieutenants Stanton
and Siborne, Royal Engineers, attached to the Quarter-

master-General's Department, the latter of whom, had

charge of the pontoon, by which the troops crossed
the Caledon River, the Commander of the Forces
feels greatly indebted for their exertions and aid, as he

does to the officers of the personal staff, Captain the
Hon. R. Curzon, Lieutenant Greville, and Captain the
Hon. G. Elliott. And his Excellency takes this oppor-
tunity of expressing his regret that he was deprived of
the services of his military secretary, Lieutenant-
Colonel Seymour, by a broken collar-bone, who, on
learning that the army was engaged in active operations
immediately proceeded to join his Excellency in the
field, and arrived the following morning, though at the
expense of again disuniting the fracture.
"To the medical officers—Dr. Booth, surgeon 73d
Regiment ; Dr. George, assistant-surgeon 12th Lancers ;
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and Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Dr. Campbell—his Excel-
lency's thanks are due for the care of the wounded.

"He cannot omit to offer his thanks to Assistant-
Commissioner Owen and the Resident, Mr. Henry
Green, who accompanied him throughout the day.
"By the death of Captain Faunce, 73d Regiment,
Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General, the service
has sustained the loss of a valuable officer.
"A. J. CLOETE, Quartermaster-General."
Although the Governor has received the submis-
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sion of Sioshesh, he has recommended the sove-
reignty farmers to organise themselves on the
commando system, to pursue the cattle lifters, and,
if necessary, to kill them. The result of this pro-
clamation is not yet known ; it is expected to be
successful. But a meeting of resident householders
was 'held at Bloem Fontein, on the 4th of January,
when the unsatisfactory condition of the sove-
reignty was considered, and a petition to the Queen

in Council, ,or Parliam'ent, resolved on. A. general
meeting was to assemble on the 14th of January.
While his Excellency was engaged with the

Forces in the northern provinces, tli-eCaffres on the

eastern frontier again took up arms. The Shipping
Gazette of the 20th of January says :

" Intelligence has been received of an engagement be-
tween a band of rebels in the Fish River Bush and
parties of the Cape Mounted Rifles, mounted police, and
a portion of the 12th Regiment, under Captain Espi-
nasse. On this occasion Field-Cornet P. Ferreira,
three civilians named Brown, Barry, and Howarth,
and a soldier of the 12th unfortunately lost their
lives, and Lieutenant Lucas was severely wounded.
The bodies of sixteen of the enemy were after-
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wards found, and from the quantity Of blood, it is

supposed that many more mortal wounds had been
inflicted.

" Two Hottentot women have recently surrendered
at Graham's Town, being in a half-starved state.

They have been residing in the Amatola, and they
state that Uithaalder with his stock and family, and a
large number of Hottentots, had crossed the Kei some

" His Excellency the Governor arrived in Graham's
Town on the 10th inst., after an absence of two months.
He appered in excellent health and spirits.
" Nothing more has been' heard of Macomo or
Sandilli.

" Yesterday's post bring intelligence that some
Caffres had recently stolen thirteen oxen and two horses
from near Fart Murray, and afterwards coming upon

some waggons belonging to Simpson and others, which

were at that time fast in the mud on the road to King
William's Town they detached 20 fine oxen, and got

" Mr. Drury, who was recently attacked and robbed
in the Zuurberg, has offered a reward of 1001. for
the recovery of his money. His loss was 5001. in sove-
reigns.

From information that had been received, it was
believed that the recent onslaught on the rebels in the
Zuurberg had entirely broken up Hans Brander's gang.
Some clue had been ascertained as to the whereabouts
of the few fugitives, and pursuit was being made."
The Graham's Town Journal of January 15th
states that—

" Commandant Currie left Graham's Town on Tues-
day for Somerset, called there we regret to say, by the
dangerous state of his brother arising from the wounds
he received while in pursuit of the Hottentot rebels in
the Zuurberg, under the miscreant Brander: A letter
received this morning from Fort Beaufort states that
this gallant officer is dead, but the report requires con-
firmation. We are sorry to add that the brother of
Commandant Bouwer, who was wounded under the same
circumstance, died last week."

The following spirited resolutions in reference to
the mis-statements of Sir John Pakington in Par-
liament on the subject of the promised constitu-
tion for this colony were passed unanimously by
the commissioners of the municipality of Cape
Town :
" Resolved—That while this board continues to con-

demn and to repudiate generally the measures adopted
by her Majesty's present Government for withholding
from this colony the constitution granted under her
Majesty's latter patent of 1850, it has just observed,
with renewed disappointment and. deep regret, that after
the many but fruitless attempts on the part of Mr. Se-
cretary Montagu to stir up mutual jealousies and to ex-
cite national antipathies among the colonists of South
Africa, the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, in his place in the British Parliament, on the
19th of November last, should have made a statement
unsupported by an official or other document whatever,
contrary to fact, calculated to wound the feelings of her
Majesty's loyal subjects in this colony, and solely for
the purpose of delaying the constitution so graciously
granted by her Majesty.
That this board wholly repudiates any distinction
for political purposes, as between the British, Dutch,
and coloured portions of her Majesty's loyal subjects,
and emphatically denies the numerical proportion alleged
by Sir John Pakington to exist between the same.
" That this board finds, from the returns published by
authority of the local Government, that in the Colony
Proper, excluding British Caffraria, Victoria, and the
Tambookie country, there were in 1850 about 77,000
coloured inhabitants, of whom at least 49,000 were re-
sidents in the western districts, a large comparative pro-
portion of whom have fought and bled for their Sove-
reign during the present war, and whose localty remains
unimpeached, in defiance of the disreputable means
which were resorted to for shaking the same.
"That this board is also satisfied, notwithstanding the
assertions of a small but malicious faction opposed to the
coloured classes generally and to the improvement of the
colony at large, that at no time during this wicked re-
bellion on the frontier did the rebels, out of a coloured
population of 28,000 persons, scattered along a wide
border acid in daily contact with the Caffres, much
exceed 1,000 in number (which has been reduced accord-
ing to General Cathcart's circular of the 28th July,
1852, to 300), of whom a great portion belonged to the
corps of the Cape Mounted Rifles, whose reasons for
adopting that course, as well as those of the other rebels,
still remain a mystery, which only the future will pro-
bably solve.
`ik.nd as it is of the utmost importance that a doCu-
ment be obtained by authority of the local Government
respecting the abovementioned facts and statements,
this board respectfully apply to his honour the Lieute-
nant-Governor, requesting that he may be pleased to
order an inquiry into the same, for the information of
her Majesty's Government and tke Parliament of Great
Britain."

MONTHLY TRADE REPORT•
The November mail steamer, after having been de-