The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-18 00:00:00

LON DON, MON DAY EVENING

No. 16,952.

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The Peninsular and Oriental Steam .Navigation Company intend
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The accomthodation for passengers arc of a very superior descrip-
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WELSH M_IDLANtD,ANDyS. BRECON AND
Notice is hereby given that the Directors will attend at the Offices,
2, Moergate-street, on FRIDAY, the 29th instant, and every Alternate
Frklav, between the hours of Eleven and Three, until further notice,
for PAYMENT of the REMAINDER I'ORTION of the FIR:•T
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7s. 6d. per Share on Brecon and Merthyr Shares.
By order,
(Signed).: THOMA, KUTCHARD,
Secretary of Welsh Midland Railway.
JOHN TAYLOR,
Secretary of Brecon and Merthyr Railway Company.
2, Moorgate-street, Jan. 15, 1817.

EASTERN COUNTIES YORK EXTEN-
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July paid at that date the Shares will be subject to forfeitures. Inte-
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ties in arrear. •

By order of the Board,
C. P. RO N EY, Secretary,

Biyhopsgate Station, Jan -8, 1847.
LIST OF THE COMPANY'S BANKERS TO WHOM THE CALL

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•
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THE WAR IN KAFiRLAND.
We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the
19th of November, eight days later than those brought
by the Boyne. We subjoin extracts, froni which it
will be seen that this unfortunate warfare is not yet at
an end.

(From the: Frontier Times)
We have received the fOl'o.ire4,:—
•• Fort if aufort, Oct. 28.
" SOme few days ago. Captain Hogg', . burghers ar-
rived here, amounting to 500. and were encamped below
:he great barrack, near the lower camp. For same
days pa,t this town has been excited by reports of their
insubordinatien. On the morning of the 25th, a part%
or about 100 were ordered to escort waggons to Waterloo
13ay. At ten o'clock, the whole body of How's Burt; hers
marched up in perfect order, which pack oxen, hag
and baggage,' ai.d drew up in line before Major
Smith's door, where they halted to have a conference
with him, which lasted about twenty minutes. He was
much excited, and left them, directing his course to the
commandant's (Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson's) quar-
ters. In perfect order they marched across the parade,
down Campbell street, across the stone bridge, and
took the road to Graham's Town. Before their departure
the alarm bugle blew; there was a general turn out of
troops, I surpose about 70 to 100 men, with a small
howitzer, under cominaud of Captain Ward, to endea-
vour to arrest her progress until the commandant's
pleasure was known. When the burghers begin to
ascend the hills, to arrest their progress Captain Ward
ordered three different blank shots to be discharged
from the howi,r.r, yet the burghers quietly and deli
berately pursued their course, driving their pack oxen
before them. At length orders .arrived for tIT3 troops to
return to quarters, and is a few minutes our town woo
tranquil. About tit-) hours of er the departure of the
burghers the Rev. Messrs. Calderwood and B. aver
started on a mission of remonstrance. They overtook
the troops on this side of Leo Fontein. By p„-rsuasion
and assurances they induced the body to return.
greater part arrived here the same evening. Now they
are with us quiet and orderly.
I.* The unfortunate affair I fear will produce a very
mischievous spirit amongst all the coloured people., both
bastard, Hottentot. and Fingoe, and unless the Goveru4
went render to them ample justice and strict discipline;
I tear we shall yet have us great a malady internally as
externally. Kafirland is not uninformed of, the cams.:
trophe; it has spread far and near. We shall see the
result.

" One, of these mutineers, it appears, was unfortunately
shot at the Blink water Drift, by a sergeant of the 91st
Regiment. The poor man is alive, but in a very pre-
carious state."

The following general
oaoflimr saHhehaaavdve be• gureemeprn issued:--
toerrstsse.doe dte
their
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a. r
" The following
rival at head. quartets, with directions from his Grace
the Duke of Wellington to place their services at the
disposal of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.
They will be attached accordingly to the staff of the
army serving in this command, with the pay and allow.:
ances of assistant adjutants-general : —Lieutenant-Col.
Mackinnon, Lieut.-Colonel Nicholls, Lieut.-Col. E. Na-
pier, Lieut.-Colonel Montresor, Major Storks, Major.
Wetenall, and Major O'Grady.
(Signed) " A. J. CLEOTE,
Lieut.-Col. E. Q. M. Gen."
" Camp, Head-quarters, near Waterloo Bay,
October 20.
" 1. The Command, r-in. Chief is pleased to make the
following appoinimi nts in the army serving on the fron-
tier :
" Lieut.-Cot. G. M. Mackinnon to be attached to the
2d division, to superintend the burgher and native levies
serving iii the field with this division.
" Lieut. Col. G. G. Nicholls to be Commandant at
Fort Beautt,rt. and to superintend the burgher and na-
tive levi‘ s of that division.
" Lieut.-Col. E. H. D. Napier to be attached to the
Ist division, to superintend the burgher mud native levies
serving in the field with this division.
" Lieut-Col. Auchmuty Montresor will be attached to
the Ist division until further orders. _ _ _

•• Maj, r H. K. Storks will be stacked to tke 2d divi-
sion until further orders.

•• Major W. M. Wetenall will be Commandant at
Waterloo Bay, including Fort Dacres, end to superin-
tend the burgher and native levies within his command.
• Major John O'Grady will superintend the burgher
and native force of Graham's Town and district.

(Signed) "A. J. CLOETE, D.Q.M. Gen."
(From the Zuid Afrikaan of Nov. 17.)
The present day is one of vast importance, but at the
same time of sincere pain to the unfortunate frontier in-
habitants. They will, in public meeting assembled,
consider the propriety of applying to the House of Com-
mons for compensation for losses sustaini'd through the
present Kafir war. Though Jar removed from the scene
of deliberation, and not !laving before us the mournful
proofs, the living statues of that long catalogue of be-
reavetnent and suffering, upon which this most just and
fair cleitn will be based, still we can conceive what the
suff,,r,rs will feel on the occasion. It will, no doubt,
give them some consolation to know that the whole
colony, without any exception, participate in their suf
I rings, and that nothing will give greater satisfaction
than the tull allowance of the compensation claimed.

LATEST FRONTIER INTELLIGENCE.
kFrom the Graham's Town Journal, Nov. 7.)
WEDNESDAY.—lnturrnatton was given to the autho-
rities this afternoon, that Air• Herrington, of Port
Frances, on crossing the flat to at Warty Plsats, had
seen distinctly the spoor of nine Kafirs. and of a drove
of about 80 head of cattle. The impressions were quite
fresh, and must have been made a very short time before
being discovered. The marauders were moving towards
the Kap River Bush, and which' is a direct line for the
extensive jungle of the Komi.

Infortne.tion was received to-day which accounts for
the spoor of the cattle and Kafirs, seen by Mr. Berring-
ton leading across the flat at Waay Pleats as above-
mentioned. These cattle had been taken by Kafirs from
the farm of Mr. M'Luckie, near Lombard'. Post (not far
from Theopolis). From the account just received it ap-
pea+ s that they were carried off about the middle of the
day on Tuesday, by a strong party of Kafirs, and who
seem to have taken their measures with considerable ad-
dress. Several armed Fingoes were out with the cattle
at the time, and these state that the Kafirs divided theta-
selves into three parties; that one commenced firing
upon them, while another drove away the cattle, and
that a third posted themselves on a height as a reserve,
...etching the whole proceeding. After they had got
clear off with the cattle they heard the marauders
dancing and yelling in the'bush, a significant indication
of confidence in their own strength and number, which,
however, as the sequel will show, they appear to have
greatly miscalculated. It seems that on the information
given by Mr. Berrington, a party of the new invy
stationed at Manley's Flat and Waay Masts, under
the command of Captain O'Brien, immediately started
ff in pursuit on the .poor, and succeeded in overtaking
tie- thi* vt-s and their boil) near Sand Drift on the Fish
River. The whole were quickly recovered. The marau-
d( rs on observing the force that was in chase of them in-
stantly- retiequthed thcir booty, and escaped into the
bush, 1• wing behind them a calf, which they had just
slaughtered for feud, and wnich was brought away by
the victors.

FRIDAT.—The following from the ceded territory came
to hand to-day :
On the 31st of October, Stock sent twenty head of
cattle for those stolen at Newtondale (two or his men
being now prisoners for that crime, on a charge of steal-
ing them from that post, when on their way to the go
vernor's camp). Captain M•Lean refused to receive
them, and ordered them back immediately, as the Go-
vernor requires the identical cattle stolen to be returned.
On the 2d of November, Stock sent in nineteen head
of cattle, three horses, at.d two guns, as the full rem-
nant of property taken from the colony by his tribe !
He stated that all his people are now at the Shunt,
and wished to know in what light he is viewed by our
Government.

On the same day, Nov. 2, Jan Tzatzoe himself ar-
rived et Fort Peddle. It seems he had beelsltnt for by
.Broanleet() fromeome
actual King
pssosil
theatd lit; v.
p J
i ai
n to the Governer his Or wTithown
re-
gard to the war and the Government. Reti came well
dres,ed and mounted, attended by about twenty men, all
mounted. The re seems to have been some misc,ateep-
tion on the part of this chief as to the object for which
he had been advised to come here. He assumed an air
which of ridicuhius self importance, seems to have given
offence to the diplomatic
aa
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and bearing to be very 134:wh0 considered his tote
unbecomingahtto (i.xttpteiente e fxr
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he z•hould e Governor,
but this 'I zatzoe declined, sayingreturnj home,
and decide tor himself what he should do 1
Captain Maclean thought it is duty to desire Tzatzoeereulm
leave the post immediately, which he very soon did to
is thought by some that Tzatzoe is at present carried
away with the notion that t=eems to prevail among the
Kafirs, that the English are not able to continue the
war, and that we are as anxious tor peace as many of
themselves are. While this notion prevails among them,
u sure and safe settlement will haruly be arrived at.
This morning information came in, that an attempt
was made yesttrday by Kafirs to curry off' the oxen,
with a number of waggons, on their way from Mr.
Dell's farm, west side of the Kowie, to Graham's Town.
By the activity and determination of the drivers the
marauderscattle rescued were,reu cdho. oe finewevarn,foed ox was,intheirattempt,and
the however,
stabbed in nine places with assegais, and so danger-
ously wounded that on its arrival in town it was
immediately stlhaiusghortearierd:
butOnewhich Kafir is
restssaimdetroelyhaovne
h
the fact that one of the marauders was seen to fall back
into the bush, as though struck by a ball then fir, d at
him by one of the drivers named Brown, and who is
considered a good shot. On the previous Saturday the
Name party was attacked near the same spot, namely.
the Brak River, about seven miles S.W. i)f Graham's
Town, by
On this occasion they gut away with the oxen, one co:
a party of Kafirs, seven of whom wt re seen.
which they elaughtered in the huah.but they were followed
V.) 010401 y that but cally uNri.'. the axe:-; Ivtals-ett but ava.

the meat the marauders had cut frotn the slaughtered
beast they were compelled to relinquish.
SATURDAY.—The information from Block Drift re-
ceived last night is of a complexion which is well calcu.
lated to allay much of that apprehension which had been
occasioned by the recent conferences lately held with
the Kafir chiefs in that n..ighbourhood. Nothing can
be more reprehensible, in the preet,t :stage of our dis-
pute with these ipople, than consenting to parley with
them.

A rumour is prevalent in town, that his Excellency,
at an interview granted at Block Drift to Sandilla,
treated hint with great indifference, end after very feint
words dismissed him with the assurance that unless
20,000 head of-cattle, 500 horses, and 1,800 guns, were
brought in within 14 days, he should commence active'
operations, and pursue him and his people into the
country where they are now residing until they were
driven across the Kei river. This offer of terms, under
any circumstances, is objectionable, and only serves to
excite hopes in the Kafir mind which never ought to find
a place there.

We have information from Lower Albady to-day, con•
firmatory of previous accounts, that a considerable num
bee of Kafiri; have entered that 'part of the.district. A
patrol from Farmerfield, on Thursday, discovered that
about 100 had bivouacked the
previous night on the
farm, Spring Grove (the junction of the Kareigis with
th Bushman's River), from which place they had vile
(.ff in three parties. There can be little doubt but that
it was some of these marauders who carried of
M'Luckie's cattle, and subsequently attacked the oxei.
of the forage waggons on their way from Dell's Farm.
... . We have a vague r.-port also, that a patrol
under the Field Cornet Buchner. of Oliphant's Hoek,
have also fallen in with these Kafirs, and that two of
them were shot in a skirmish which ensued between the
parties.

TO TH Ali.l7'o ROI7THE SUN.
SlR,—The recent conduct of the directors of the
Greenwich Railway Company has given rise to many
and serious complaints on the part,o the public. On the
21st of October they published a handbill, which was
posted in every carriage, and freely exhibired on all their
stations, stating that on the 31st December the annual
tickets should be renewed on the usual terms. When the
31st of December came, and the ferment ceased that was
excited by the rumour that no more annual tickets
would be issued, instead of the usual terms of 71. 7s. for
second class tickets, and 101. 10s. for first. class_ an addi-
tional 10s. was demanded and retained till the ticket
should be given up. Why this sum was demanded, and
who gets the interest of the money thus obtained, no one
condescended to give any information. The usual terms,
as tar as money is concerned and the public interested,
are now 10s. dearer than they were. But besides this:
deception, from what the handbills stated as to terms,
another stringent alteration was made of a most objec-
tionable character. -Every person taking a ticket for the
year was required to sign a document, prepared under
the impression-that every holder of a ticket was a thief
and a rogue, agreeing to forfeit, the ticket if any other
person used it, with or without your consent, saying you
would buy another if you lost it, binding you to agree to
any alterations they might make, and a number of other
arbitrary and unjust requirements. On asking the in-
spector for a copy of what you were required to sign, be
dared not give one, nor allow any one to copy it himself.
Great indignation has been felt and expressed, and a
general notion seems now entertained that a public meet-
ing must be called at Greenwich or London, and a peti-
tion to Parliament prepared to the purport that, as these
directors (rim South-Eastern) raised their fares the mo-
ment Parliament closed its sittings, after availing them-
selves of the plausible effect on the public of their former
fares so long as the North Kent line was before the
Legislature; and axon the Greenwich line, the third class
carriages were no better than the pens of Smithfield set
upon wheels, being perfectly open, and without seats;
and as the seconticlass for the most part are unglazed
and unhealthy for delicate persons in bad weather, and
as they have broken their faith with their holders of an-
nual tickets, that no further powers be granted to these
same directors, that no new branch lines be given to men
who have so grievously violated probity, and shown
themselves incapable of meeting public feeling, or doing
justice to English forbearance—and that additional
powers he vested in the new Railway Commissioners to en-
able them to compel directors that show themselves unjust
to the public, to carry passengers at proper fares and in
proper carriages. Parliament has permitted them to
take this man's house and that man's garden—to pass
over this highway and that canal—to drive off the road,
by the advantages they possess in steam-travelling,
every other conveyance—and in return for these advan-
tages granted by the public through Parliament, their
agents, the railway directors of Greenwich, have given
no corresponding returns. Their carriages are the
worst in England, their conduct is as bad as their car-
riages, and the public and Parliament are bamboozled
and deceived. A number of gentlemen have met and
agreed to take proceedings to petition Parliament to the
shove effect, and perhaps vou will, in your well-known
care for public interests, allow this to appear, that others
may be apprised of the intentions of some who think the
public have been deceived and imposed upon,
Your obedient servant,

Greenwich, Jan. 16, 1847. VIGILANS
P.S. I had almost orttitte4 another matter of import-
ance to the public. 'l' he distance from Greenwich to
Deptford is less thaw three quart. r,; of a and the
fares are. tat class, BJ. ; 2d class, 6d. ; and 3d elan., 4d.
The same tares are taken from London. bridge to the
Spa ri,ad station, winch is less than a mile. Are these
exorbitant charges legal?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The great danger from the increase of traffic
from the end of Red Lion-street, crossing Thenhald's-
road to Lamb's Conduit-street, calls loud for an Obelisk,
or something to that effect. Trusting this hint will
suffice and meet attention.
I am, &c.,
AN INIIABITANT,
January 16th, 1847, L. N.

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A most exaggerated representation having appeared
in some of the papers of a fire on board the lionafide,
the owners of her request it may he stated that the brig
was light and dismantled, being laid up for the winter,
that the damage sustained was confined to the blistering
of the paint around the fire- place in the cabin, and does
not amount to twenty shillings, the fire having been ex-
tinguished in five minutes, with half a dozen buckets of
water. The mate of the vessel, who, in defiance of the
(Jock regulations, had placed some varnish near to the
stove. has been punished by the dock authorities.
SHOCKING AFFAIR.—MURDER AND SUICIDE,—
STtUKPORT, JAN. 14.—Yesterday a coroner's inquiry
was held at Heaton Norris, a parish a short distance
from this town, conce ruing the death of Amy Cokely
and her infant daughter, aged eiJit months. As will
be seen by the following facts, the untOrtunate parent
committed suicide by throwing herself into the river
Mersey, with the infant in her arms, which perished
with the mother. The unhappy woman cohabited with a
man named Barlow, and lived in Sheppard'iebuilding,
They were heard frequently to quarrel, and in conse-
uence of some violent bruises being found on her body
quince of some violent bruises being toud on her body
h n taken out of the water, it was generally supposed
in the neighbourhood that her death had realljm.
Such,rted
from the ill treatment she had received frofm
young
girl,
however, was set at rest by the evidence estony. The
of the name of Garner, and the medical te
female stated that she saw the- deceased in the course
dad exceedingly
of last Saturday afternoon. She God!
depressed in her spirits, and remarske:r " 0 my
I wish I was out:of this world; for there is nothing
she appeared
but trouble in it." Late in the day she
until
more troubled in her mind, and
snhze 'she left her home,
last seen alive. On Sunday
taking with her the child. Jekvefneiw litoosurs afterwards she
the river, on the
was seen near a precipice leading to to the Cotton Tree
Heaton Norris side, and adjacent
public-house. On the same night the bodies were dis-
ter near the place previously
covered in some shallow
described. The corpse owfathe mother was considerabl
a eurgleon, depos.d that thye
bruised. Mr. Clieetham,
drowning, or a blow upon
eyes of the parent were deep y gorged with blood,
which might be produced bye
xpesure to the cold might
the head, or. by a fall ; or
cause those appearaeces. Several witnesses w,re
verdict,
examined, who spoke to tae r 1,07
tillvinf,orbeeta-brilesti,:),nfiixili,
using. the deceased, but I,
late date. The jury returned the following
w divers
the re twing no coeclusive evrildveenre:L of the dt
" TI: at'c,jatisied hay
-
ing thrown herself in
jethfehe River Meriss'el'wounds
the deceased
were found drowned
injuries
upon their bodies,
~
.inc,,,r ,
.. 1
were
occasion. d there was no silos
• vic vrice to show."
cei•suredßarlow for his conduct
The Coroner sever.ly
to the deceased.
AND THE VENETIANc A
LUCILE GRAIIN --."--.. letter
from Venice of January 3, ea3s :- -" Nothing is talked
of here but the sudden departure of the e-h•brated dan-
seuse, Mdlle. Lucile Gratin, who had been eilgag„d Mt.
the three months of the carnival, at the sumof 40,000
lines, and who, on quitting. the Venice Theatre, has
given up that amount. Mallet Lucile Grahn
wished to overthrow the old system of Italian' Laving
panto
-
mimes, in order to introduce the kind of French ballets,
the artistes employed in the choregraphic department
year the
united together to defeat this project. A cabal, similar
Lucile Gratin, and v1:111111
to that of which Marie Taglioni was last
ft:r the first .1"
at Milan, was organised against
that charming artiste came on the stage
lady
in the ballet of the Gipsy, a dozen individuals • time
received her with shouts and threat,,. The in the pit
Curtaint en with
remained a moment as if thunderstruck, tinning
a gesture full of calmness, ordered the
which couldbetdoonbee
dropped, and, in spite of everything
to retain her, quitted the city immediately. Venice will
long suffer from this event, for what fl•ei
celebrity would come and expose herself ;" artiste of
0 a similar
cabal ?" According to an account given
. a
meeting
journal the disturbance was partly caused by the prices
in a Venice
or admission having been unexpectedly
rai
THE REPRESENTATION OF BAT/L A;e (1.
of electors, held on Wednesday, the folkw•
knit resolutimi
was passed among others:—" Chat Lord
of the repro-
censente dto be put in nomination as on ,hley having
se ntetives of this city, at the nextt,l))adti'llt.tmentary else
tion, it is desirable to raise a funo
mate expenses of sac election, and
a soh: crip tits
be defray
legtiti
be forthwith ta.tZgleueed for that ur o'F'
I C.•:r4:::, c,,,,,,"r• ,
ore, ..
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