The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

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• CAPE O
W F GOOD ?`-
e have received Cape Tow j, 7,,;
letters to the 3d of Septembe n
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tracts comprise all the news rel- fiafii
ar. The operations of our troops 'MT!'
been trin.Th impeded by the want of ".7
defieincy of the means of carriage.
(From the South Afriectn Commercial iltivez ti,ker, Sept. 2.)
No military operatiohs of any moment have taken
effect in Kafirland since these already before the public.
The Governor continued in the camp on the Liitlalo.
Sir Andreas Stockenstrum and Colonel Johnstone weic
understood to he moving on the upper Kei, with the
hope of overtaking the fugitive chiefs and the main body
of their cattle. Colonel Somerset, with most of the
cavalry, was in the vicinity of Waterloo Bay, refreshing
the horses, which had become absclutely unfit for action
from mere exhaustion and hunger. At-Waterloo Bay
as lunch, it is reported, as 1,200 tons of provisions and
supplies have been suceessfully lauded. Much inc, n-
vemence i., of course, experienced at that newlpcii,-
covered landing-place in a homeless country, the
goods beimg exposed to wind and weather :did
neglect, and may be to some pllO ring on the nide. d
beach. There is also here, as at all other points en
the frontier, a fearful want of the means of transport.
Activity on the part of Government and of private
viduals, and it is to be hoped a favourable change of
weather, will speedily remove the heaviest' of these evils,
as there can be no doubt that, for months to come, Wa-
terloo Bay will be the principal station in that part of
the world,—the troops and frontier inhabitants depend-
ing upon it almost for their entire subsistence. Nor
will money employed in erecting substantial buildings
be exposed to any risk of eventual loss, as the district of
which it is the natural port must at all events remain
annexed to the colony. Some fears have been expressed
for the safety of the goods from the want, it is alleged,
of a sufficient guard; but as there is now so great a
force in the immediate neighbourhood, and as not only
the property of individuals, but the existence of the
army, clearly depend on the security of the stores, this
must have been duly attended to already.
Along the whole of the frontier the drought threatens
to prove more destructive to the inhabitants than the
enemy has been. For hundreds of miles not a blade of
grass or a green thing is to be seen. A private letter
from Graham's Town states that " 30/. to 40/. would
readily be paid for a waggon to Fort Beaufort, whore
the distress is truly great." They write to us (Board
of Relief) " that the goods we sent to Port Beaufort
for the Kat river cannot possibly be forwarded."
For the present the distributing machinery of the
country is arrested, and thousands of people Ingle in-
terior, about Rat river and Somerset, are on the verge
or actually in the gulf of famine, while vast quantities
of flour, rice, and other articles of first necessity are
heaped up at Port Elizabeth and other points on the
coast. Even if forage could be found for the draught
cattle, there is no water; so that immediate relief seems
almost hopeless: yet there must be relief soon, or there
will be a frightful mortality.
One piece of news is of a favourable character. The
Chief stock has " come in," or surrendered himself, with
some forty of his people. This unfortunate matrhas
professed from the beginning his abhorrence of the war,
and from his conduct in the early part of the outbreak it
is probable that he has been throughout perfectly sincere,
(From the Frontier Times.)
Rautenbag's Drift, Aug. 24,
The Kafirs who had a fight with the thirty men on
Friday, the 21st inst., on the farm of Mr. Lovetnoro,
on Quagga's Flat., and where two Hottentots were
wounded, were forelayed by the active and brave
Field Cornet Casper Buchner, from the day of
the fight until Sunday, 23d instant, in the
13ushinan's River Poort. On Sunday, the 23d, et
about nine o'clock, they murdered a Fingo or Corms.
Kafir, in the service of the Fouria family, and a Hottentot
herd is still missing : both were well armed with mus-
kets. The Kafirs took 220 head of cattle. Two of the
herds fortunately managed to escape, and brought the
intelligence to Field Cornet Buchner, who started in less
than one hour with 12 mounted Burghers, who still had
horses that could walk, and 20 men on foot, and followed
the enemy into the Zuurberg. When he arrived on the
height of Luiskop, the Kafirs were in Sight, driving
their booty before them. Buchner left the fuottnen to
come on, and made a detour with the horse so as to get
in front of the enemy, in which he succeeded. The
Kafirs had gained such confidence 9 by their recent suc-
cess, that they charged Buchner 's small party, consisting
then of but eight men, to within ten yards—but they
found to their cost that they had not to do with run-
sways. The enemy was at least 100 strong, notwith-
standing which they were completeloy beaten, and the
whole of the cattle recaptured by these 8 brave Dutchmen.
It is impossible to say how many were killed, eight were
seen to fall mortally wounded or dead, and the blood
was seen trickling down the backs of a great number.
Not a man was touched on the side of the Burghers.
* * * * All we want is forage for our horses.
The oxen and mare which the Kafirs had with them in
the bush at Quaggasylakte, and which the thirty men
were unable to capture, also fell into our hands. When
the war is over the Governor will see where work has
been done. * * * * Mr. W. Adcock and the Field
Cornet Moolman were with the party.
In a private letter dated " Camp, Fort Beresfond,
Buffalo Mountains, August 10," a most interesting ac-
count is given of a convoy of supplies across a most ekn-
gerous part of the country, to Fort Peddle, under Lieu-
tenant Bevil, of the Cape Town 'Volunteers. He was
attacked by the enemy in great nuni'ders, and with
much determination, during the night, but by correct. arrangements and firmness he saved the whole of his
charge, with the loss of only one man, wounded in the
wrist.
Three of Captain:Salmond's men, Cape Town Volun-
teers, were unfortunately drowned in Waterloo Bay, when
coming on shore from one of the vesels there. The name&
have not yet been received.

TABLE BAY.
(From the South African Commercial ,Advertiser.)
As the grand work of constructing a breakwater in
Table Bay is now approaching an, actual commence-
ment, the public may feel some interest in the minutes
of evidence taken on this subject by the first commis.
sion in 1836, on which their report was founded, and
which again formed the ground-work of the report of
the second commission of 1845. From the evidence of
merchants, masters of vessels, and others engaged in the
commerce of which this bay is the centre, it will be
seen, that it was not on the light or trivial grounds that
so vast an undertaking was recommended to Government.
Subsequently to the report of this commission a great
improvement was effected in the bay by the erection of
dwarf jetties as they are called, at which ds ate now
chiefly landed or shipped. But the graJ evils—the
distance at which the shipping must ride, the dangers to
which they arc exposed, and the detention and delay
arising from these circumstances, with the oecasioival
loss of life and property to a large amount—remained to
injure the character of the Cape as a resort for ships of
all classes. For an effectual cure for all these evils,
the great work now about to be commenced was re-
quired, and it will soon take away the reproach of the
Cape.

The crops at this end of the colony, and also in many
parts of the eastern provinces, whin have escaped the
drought, are remarkably tine in r-ppearance, and beyond
all precedent extensive this rear. If the wetetiher con-
tinues favourable there will be one of the most abundant
harvests ever known at the Cape.—Cage Town paper.

Mauritius papers have been received to the 13th of
August. A deputation of merchants and planters pro-
posed to the Governor a plan to introduce 12,000 Indians
this year, the expense to be paid by a stamp-tax of 15s. on
the contract of engagement for each of them. His Ex-
cellency promised them a reply in writing, as words were
often misunderstood or misrepresented. They are
greatly in want of draught oxen since the cessation of
irtercourse with Madagascar. Colonial bullocks fetch
201, French mules 50/.

EXTRAORDINARY Imrosron.—JOhn Ross, a pre-
tended deaf and dumb man, was brought the other day
before the Sheriff Criminal Court, Caper, clutrged with
falsehood, fraud, and wilful imp;isition, committed by
using, as a true and genuine document, a false and fa-
bricated printed circular. The indictment further
charged him with havi:og formed the felortious and
wicked design of imposing on and defrauding the
lieges, by falsely and fraudulently pretending that he was
deaf and dumb ; that he was left destitute at the death
of his parents ; and that he was collecting money in aid
of his education and clothing in the Institution for the
Education of the Deaf and Dumb in Henderson-row,
Edinburgh, and was authorised by the committee to
collect money for that purpose. The prisoner was net
long at the bar ere he began to shake his fist at the fis-
cals, and, converting his fingers into a quizzing-glass, he
made light of everything and everybody about him. The
evidence of a number of witnesses went to show that the*
prisoner could swear, drink, and rpeak a great deal toq
much sometimes ; and Sheriff Monteith, in winding up
the trial, said—" John Ross, tbe jury, after hearing
your case, and hearing yourself— (A la
tiag li) il'a
found you guilty. It has come out thatYtr have beer
in. the course or
practising your impostures for years,
You are a hardened offender. Iladlou been;'
tried_ money.
tried_ in another court your
.septence would have beets
which you have swindled the lieges of a g_ltea_t. amount_
much more serious. lam willing to try what may be
the effect of nine months' imprisonment, but I can as-
if you do not mend your manners when you
SLIM you,
Ross thanked his Lordship for his kindness ; and
come out, your next punishment will be much more se-
ovuerge.e"tting on his handcuffs he said, with much good
huml toour, " I saw the trade was up, and that ft was as
wel confess at onee."—Edinburgh Wee% Express,
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING TUE AMENDMENT OF
THE LAW.—Last evening the first meeting of this so.
Mr. W. Ewart, M P
ciety was held at the Society's Rooms, 21, Regent-street.
There wag a vary numerous attendance of members
present. Of those on the council we observed the Right
Hon. Stei;nen R. Lushington,
presided, Mr,
the adnlton
Mr, Commissioner Fonblanque, Mr. M. D. Hill, Q. c:'
Mr. J. 11. lice, Q.C., Mr. George Spenee, QC , lir' ',-1.,'
Pitt 'Taylor, &c. &c. Mr. Lushin,,,,,,tbn
and:superior courts of
Koo read a report in reference -to
oEfodgolicluondleanstesriiictiteontchee,
11:hanickhruiFttpeyr
',ent are inadmissiblet
both the sister countries,
in the courts of Scotland and
report
ticwiaals porracra, "ea °f
Gulf
they should be so admittid i
judicial
ree
Ireland,th suggesting t'aet
be laid on the table. Mr. James Stewart tea '!eyed
a length-
oned report on the
tProprietyrt.of linsurin& 'ale title-deeds.
of real property.
ErOperty was sold.
the whole series of title-deeds dcestUs hadwe'n o e investigated he-
fore the conve of .'
yttneie the !Yew sale was effected. This
incurred Vauoh expenne hnd trouble, which might be
BaXed by the an Is,,intment of a rosponstble conveyascer
io investi7.,ie the deeds, anti whose certificate would be
suit:tent. On this report considerable diactaseion took
t Once. The meeting then adjourned,