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invariable object of the enemy in all his encounters, to con-
ceal, if possible, the loss he sustains. On our side the loss I
has been comparatively trifling—amounting only to four
men—three of them wounded badly—one dangerously.. The
Cape Mounted Rifles, both officers and men, distinguished
themselves by that wonted courage and activity which has
earned for them, throughout this trying campaign, the high
character of brave men and good soldiers. The small party
of the 7th Dragoon Guards, under Capt. Hogg, also behaved
well in this bush fighting, a kind of warfare very foreign to
that to which they have been trained."
We have an account of a spirited affair in which a trader,
named Murray, now Kaffir interpreter, with a few of the
Cape Corps, and a party of Fingoes, made a dash upon a
herd of cattle, in the possession of the Kaffirs, near Fort
Peddie, and succeeded, besides killing two or three of the
enemy, in capturing 500 head Information received
to-day that the leger of C. Buckner, on the Bushman's
River had been attacked by the Kaffirs, and who succeeded
in getting off with about 600 head of cattle. The attack was
made just at the close of the day, the Kaffirs rushing down
in great force amongst the cattle. An Englishman, named
Middleton, was shot dead in this affair, and Mr. Buckncr is
said to be wounded.

TWELVE o'CLocx.—Received this moment the following
from the Beaufort division :

Botha's Post, May 5.
The Kaffirs passed within two miles of this post at day-
light this morning, driving flocks of sheep and young lambs,
to the number of about 10,000, from the colony, right over
the mountains in the direction of Wiltshire. We succeeded
in capturing about 800 during the forenoon.
It was a heart-rending sight to see the beautiful flocks
driven by the infatuated wretches right in front of the mili-
tary post, and yet so weak is this detachment that we
scarce dare leave the boundary stones of the fort, far less
attempt to give chase when we see the stock of the co-
lonists pouring into Kaffirland. As it now is, all we can do
with saftety is to preserve our lives, and keep the position
we hold.

Information has come, in a letter addressed by M. R.
Ayliff to the Rev. W. Shaw, that the Kaffirs, about 300
strong, attacked the merino flocks of Mr. J. Howse, while in
the field on Thursday last. The account states, that on the
Kaffirs opening their fire a party of Dutch boers, mounted,
immediately fled. Mr. Ayliff dispatched a party of 16 of his
men, chiefly persons of colour, who maintained a fight for
some time, but who were overcome, leaving three of their
number dead on the field.

The engagement took place within sight of the fine pre-
mises of Leeuw Fontein. Five Kaffirs were killed. Mr.
Ayliff writes—' The Kaffirs have now taken from here, from
myself, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Oats, 380 head of cattle, 7 horses,
and 17,000 sheep." About one hundred people, including
Burghers, are dependant upon Mr. Ayliff for food, and he has
not a sheep left to kill. _ _ _

We hivie further accounts from the N.E. boundary, the
purport of which is, that the Tambookies have not yet
joined in the war, and it is confidently affirmed that Umti-
rare (lJmtikaka) will not join in the confederacy. The in-
tentions of the other principal chief, Mapassa, are doubtful,
blit as he is uncle to Sandilli, it is thought that he will join
the hostile party.
Kreli, it is affirmed, has already committed himself, and the
Europeans in this country are in great alarm, and entreating
help to Sasist them in getting into the colony. There are no
fewer than 58 white persons now there exposed to the most
imminent danger.
Information came in this morning from Fort Peddie of an
affair with the enemy, which the safety cf the country re-
quires us to pronounce as one of the most discreditable it has
yet been our painful duty to record. The details, as collected
by us. after very careful inquiry, appear to be as follows :
On the Ist instant, the Fingoes being attacked near the Beka
station by Pato's Kaffir's, an alarm was given at Fort Peddle,
and the troops were immediately placed under arms. Our
journal on Saturday closed its accounts from hence exactly at
this point. It now appears that a force was ordered from
Fort Peddle to the scene of action, consisting of two troops
of the 7th D. G., a small party of the Cape Mounted Rifles,
two field pieces under Lieutenants Hill and King, a detach-
ment of about 60 of the 91st, under Capt. Campbell, and a few
mounted burghers. The alarm was given at half-past 12, and
yet these troops only moved from Fort Feddie, under t be com-
mand of Col. Richardson, 7th D. G., at half-past two o'clock, the
distance to march being about five miles, and which was
done within an hour and a half, consequently reaching the
spot on which they halted about four o'clock P.M. This point
is a round hill, abutting in a fine open ridge, sprinkled with
low thorn bushes, being upon the whole a very favourable
position for the movements of cavalry. The detachment of
the 91st had been directed to make a little„detour, and one
of the guns was halted about a mile in the rear. On reach-
ing the top of the ridge the Kaffirs were seen in great force
along the opposite valley, in which is situated the Missionary
Institution, called the Beka Station. The enemy, on seeing
our troops on the height, instead of retreating, with unparal-
leled audacity made a signal by waving a kaross, when in-
stantly, in the face of the troops, the village or station was
fired. They then moved boldly forward in the high road,
and advanced in force to confront them. In the meantime,
however, the gun had got into position, and a few
shells were thrown, the first three doing no execution, but
the latter, fired by Lieutenant Hill, killing, it is said, some
twenty or thirty Kaffirs. Nothing daunted by this the
enemy moved steadily forward along the high road. On see-
ing this Lieutenunt Colonel Richardson, instead of dashing
forward, ordered the bugle to sound a retreat, and without
firing a carbine, the troops were actually wheeled round, and
retired at a brisk pace to Port Peddie! So peremptory
was this order to retreat, that time was not given for the
discharge of the field piece, though actually shotted, and
though, as affirmed, the officer in charge of it entreated he
might be permitted to fire. The civilians were anxious, and
also the Cape Corps, to engage the enemy, and it now
remains for the officer commanding this force to show
wherefore he withdrew to the shelter of a fort, when so
favourable an opportunity was presented for crippling,
or, as Colonel Hare would say,. for "striking a heavy blow"
upon the enemy.. We call for inquiry into this affair—for
rigid, searching inquiry. The facts, as we have stated them,
are, as we are reluctantly compelled to believe, after the most
careful inquiry, substantially correct ; and if this be so, then
' in what a painful position does it place those on whom rests
the responsibility of this retrograde movement. Lay bare
the strong points of the case and they are these :—A body of
about 200 British troops, chiefly cavalry, with two field-
pieces—with 300 armed Fingoes in their immediate vicinity,
and who had single-handed maintained a long engagement
with the enemy, with the strongest fortress on the
frontier only five miles in the rear, and a body of
five hundred more Fingoes immediately at hand,
the road perfectly unobstructed ; and yet, despite of
all these favourable circumstances, a strong body of cavalry,
well mounted, and whose bounden duty it is to defend this
part of the Queen's dominions, retired before a horde of
savages, and that at the very moment they were about to
rush into and lay waste the colony. We repeat that in all
its circumstances this is one of the most deplorable affairs we
have yet had to record, as well, as one of the severest blows
the colony at this eventful crisis has yet received. That
such is the fact is seen by the subsequent proceedings of the
very savages, before whom this body of British
troops were made thus to retire. The Kaffirs,
it is said, immediately dispatched messages to i
the neighbouring chiefs, boasting they had driven)
the Dragoons before them with so much precipitation.
that they rode one upon another, and had even killed their
dogs in their hurry to escape. The public look to Sir Pere-
grine Maitland, as he values the lives of the inhabitants of,
this frontier, which are now in imminent peril, to deal witht
this affair upon ite own merits.
We shall not attempt to make conjecture in order to ac-
count for this extraordinary forbearance towards the enemy.
We have had it intimated to us that Lieutenant •Colonel
Richardson, in thus retreating, only acted in accordance with'
the peremptory orders received by him froth Lieut.-Colonel
Lindsay, 91st Regiment.

IRELAND.'
THE ORANGE ANNIVERSARIES.
Dunune, JULY 10.—T1}e preparations to commemoratej
the approaching anniversary of the battle of Aughrim appear
to be general in the province of Ulster' and serious appre-'
hensions of disturbance are entertained by the peaceably dis-
posed inhabitants of the north—Protestant as well as Roman
Catholic. The evil tendency of these political gathering 4
was forcibly depicted by Mr. Justice Crampton, in opening
the commission at Armagh on Wednesday last.
" There is on the calendars," observed his Lordship, " one
case upon which I think it right to offer you some observe.:
tions. It has occurred during the course of the past month.
It is a can of riot, in which a considerable number of persons
are implicated. It is a riot which, I fear, has grown out of
party spirit, and, indeed, perhaps I might say, out of wha
is often called religious differences; although I must say,
that I much doubt the propriety of the application, and thad
I think they would be more appropriately termed anti
Christian disputes, because I believe it is not, it can-
not be, from the root of religion that such bitter fruits arise.
It is not in the nature of things that such should be the
case. The spirit of the Christian religion, which we all in
common profess, would, on the other hand, inculcate peace
and brotherly love in all and towards all. We may, no
doubt, in discharging the good offices which come in our
way, prefer those who are members of our own household of
faith, and to whom we are bound by sympathy; but we
should recollect, also, the precept of Him, whom we all ac.,
knowledge as our Head and our Master, 'to do unto all men
as we would wish they should do unto us;' and that this
spirit is within us it should be our aim to demonstrate as
much as possible. We should strive to restrain ourselves,
and others, from all demonstrations of a different spirit.
The species of party demonstrations, to which I have re-
ferred, are essentially selfish. They are entirely selfish,
inasmuch as they do not spring from love, they do not
lead to love, they are of the spirit of evil ; they tend
only to opposition, and to the creation of dissension, to
strife, to bloodshed, and to murder. Ido sincerely trust, that
the peasantry of this country, and the artisans, may feel the
propriety of acting on the advice of those gentlemen who
should exercise the leadership over them, who reside among
them, and who ever prove themselves their best friends and
protectors, and that they will open their eyes to the absur-
dity as well as the sinfulness of such preposterous practices.
I trust they will abstain from every species of party proces-
sions, or displays calculated to excite opposition. If there be
past events, either of a religious or of a secular nature, the
anniversaries of which may seem to some to be fit subjects for
celebration, in the way ofjoy and merriment, ldtihein be ce-
lebrated as it becomes loyal subjecfs and as becomes Christian
men—men desirous to observe and respect the law of the land,
and that Christian law which all of us profess to follow and to
obey. Formy own part I would earnestly inculcate on all, that
they should abstain upon this, as upon all occasions, fromany
at
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public or irritating display of their particular opinions, doc-
canpeealrcueoeflated to excite anirnofity, or to
gallianto.
the
provoking or caorllinusTltnin
guage to their neighbours, and from the exhibition of all
party symbols and party badges of every description ; to put
forward nothing having the name otparty attached to it, and
to make it their rule of life to give offence to none. I ara
convinced, that, if the people of this country knew their own
interests, and consulted them, they would attend to these
admonitions, given, as they are, in the spirit of peace, by
the humble individual who now offers them ; and that, if
they adhered to their loyalty, and respected the lsw of the
land, and the Christian law, it would do more to preserve the
peace of the country, to promote its happiness and its
of
pros-
perity, than would even numerous regiments soldiers, or
the most stringent laws which could be devised. It may be
that these obserVations are not in place, as far as regards the
case to which I .just now referred; but, whether or not, it
may not be amiss to impress on the magistrates, the gentry.
the peasantry, and upon all classes, their importance. I say
this, because I have heard of threatenings having been made,
of getting up some manifestations of the kind; and I will
only say, to such as threaten to join in them, that they
should not do so, that they are unbecoming, that they are
unmanly; it is not for me to say now that they are illegal,
but they are unconstitutional in spirit and also un-christian.
On the other hand, the man must, indeed, act absurdly, he
must be weak, he must be mad, who could be tempted to
join in them, after all the lessons which have been written,
in blood, in the history of the country. But, absurd and
foolish as such a man must be, there is equal folly and mad-
ness,Jand wickedness displayed by any . one who would
attempt to offer him opposition."

MANCHESTER ATHENAIIM SOIREE.—The Right Hon.
Lalor Sheil, Esq., M.P., has accepted the invitation of the
directors to be present at the approaching soirii.

DUTCH, FLANDERS, AND HAM-

BURGH MAILS.

THE HAGUE, JULY 7.—The Niewsbode affirms that
his Majesty is expected to return before Saturday, and
will set out next week on his intended tour to the pro-
vince of Overyssel, namely to Kampen, there to view
the exhibition of works of art and manufactures. he•
turning from this excursion, his Majesty it is said will
go to Limburg and Luxemburgh, and thence to
Berlin, and to his estates in Silesia. It is affirmed that
his Majesty will return by way of Weimar, where the
Queen will be about that time. After stopping there
some days his Majesty will return with the Queen to the
Hague.

We hear that before his Majesty's departure, the
commissioners for negotiating a treaty with Belgium,
presented to him the draught of a treaty with which Mr.
Mercier, the Belgian Minister, set out for Brussels yester-
day.
THE HAGUE, JULY 9.—The King after having pre-
viously visited the Anna Paulowna, arrived on the 7th
in the Niewe Diep, on board the Lewis steamer. His
Majesty was received on landing by the officers of the
army and navy, the civil authorities and the clergy,
after which he visited the maritine establishment at
Willemsoord, and then set out in the same steamer for
Harlingen. His Majesty was received at this town by
the Governor of the province, the Burgomaster and
other magistrates; and on the Bth, in the morning, went
to Leenwarden, where he was received with great re-
joicing by the people. It was expected that his stay
would be very short.
The election of deputies to the Second Chamber of the
States General, are now proceeding with much spirit.
Several of the deputies going out by rotation have been
re-elected.

BRUSSELS, JULY 9.—The Senate, in its sittings to•
day, after receiving several reports relative to several
supplementary votes of credit, continued the debate on
the project of law on the organisation of the Council of
Accounts.

The King will return to the palace of Lacken this
evening.

Te Deum will be performed on Tuesday, the 21st of
this month, in the church of St. Gudule, on occasion of
the fifteenth anniversary of the King's coronation.
News has been received from —I. Blondel, who was
sent by the Government on a mission to St. Thomas's
and to Guatemala. After having been detained a long
time by illness at Zacapa, he proceeded to the city of
Guatemala. Ile had transmitted to the Government his
report relative to the colony of St. Thomas before his
illness.

r BRUSSELS, JULY 10.—The Senate, lifter receiving
several reports, termina.ed the debate ofi the law for
'organising the Court of Accounts, which' is adoptt d.
The journals of Friday atitl Saturday contain long
accounts of the dreadful accident on the Northern
Railway.
We have to announcelanother accident. The train frot,m
Valenciennes to Brussels, which set out this morning-,
arrived at the station of Blanc Misseron, when the
guard gave the signal announcing its arrival.: The
conductor, a young man 28 years of age, stooping
to see if it was time to stop, leaned too forward, so that
his head was dashed against a tree, and he expired
shortly afterwards.
The King arrived yesterday evening at ten minutes
before nine o'clock. His Majesty had learned at the
station of Floreffe the dreadful catastrophe which affl.cts
this country.
The traffic on the railway from Brussels to Paris is not
interrupted ; the train set out this morning with 25
passengers.
We are assured that Prince Frederick of the Nether-
lands has just purchased the magnificent building
and the 1,100 hectares of land, meadow, forest,
&c., which the Government desired the Legisla-
ture to purchase, as the agricultural depot for
able-bodied mendicants. Yesterday morning two young
men, coming from Flanders, arrived near the forest of
La Cambre ; they both had pocket pistols. Soon after-
wards two shots were heard, the cause of which was
soon known. The young men, tired of life, had
committed suicide; or rather, as appeared from a note
found upon them, they had agreed to shoot each other.
One was killed on the spot, the other expired two hours
afterwards.

BRUNSWICK, JULY s.—According to accounts received
here from London,. there is no doubt that our former
Duke, Charles, has purchased the " German London
Journal," for 6,000 or 7,ooo.dollars, and takes a very
active part in the composition of it. Some numbers have
been received here, and we read them with much interest,
as they contain various articles on our situation. In one
of the latest numbers, we see that Duke Charles must
have renounced all thought of recovery of possession of
our Duchy by force of arms; a notion which it is well
known he had entertained. Many re.lerfrs, doubtless,
remember that, about ten years ago, he made prepara-
tions in France, had uniforms got ready, and appointed,
a Pole to the command of his troops. The expeditionN
was not, however, undertaken. There was, in fact, no
prospect whatever of success ; and if see are not mis-
taken the Duke was involved in a vexatious and expen-
sive law suit. The uniforms have been lying for some
time in London, and the Duke is now desirous of getting
rid of them. An advertisement in the German London
Journal announces that 6,000 complete uniforms, quite
new, are deposited at the office, and are to be sold for
12.0001. sterling.

1 ,
POLISH FRONTIERS,JUNE27.—The term expiring July
1, when, according to the ukase, the Jews of theking-
dom were to lay aside their Jewish costumes, have be,4,
prolonged by the Prince Governor till the Ist of October
next. The Ist of October is the next day after the great
festival of the atonement of the Jews, on which they
were to wash away their sins; and therefore it is. pecu-
liarly proper to put on new clothes. The Prier,
Governor is said to have had in view only the great dis-
tress prevailing in the kingdom. It is a remarkable
regulation which allows Jewish vagabonds and other
suspicious persons to continue to wear the Jewish cos-
tumes, so that Galicean Jews, if they come into thet
kingdom, must lay aside the Jewish dress. Orders are
said to be given to treat Poles, who are brought in pri-
soners, with greater mildness; and we hear no more of,
any executions. The Emperor is said to have made I
himself very popular on his late visit to Warsaw, by
visiting the exhibitions and other places in plain clothes
and without any attendants.
ST. PETERSBURG. JUNE 30.—His Royal highness the
Crown Prince of Wurteraburg arrived the evening be
fore yesterday in Peterhof on, board the Russian steamer
Kamtschatka, which was sent to Lubeck to meet him.
The Imperial family have resided constantly at Peter-
hof since their last visit to the capital. Nothing cer-
tain is known to the public respecting the celebration of
the marriage.
WARSAW, JUNE 26.—We must correct a statement
which has lately been copied from the English journals
into almost all the journals of the continent, and it was
affirmed that the cholera was so extensive and fatal in
Posen, that a third part of the population of Medschid
had been carried off by it. Some truth there cer-
tainly is in this statement; but ii occurred not last year
—but in the year 1832.
POSEN, JUNE 29.—A strange report is in circulation
here, which is spread with an appearance of design.
It is stated " that the Emperor Nicholas means to resign
in favour of his son, and to take on himself the govern-
ment of Poland, which shall be bounded by the Oder
and the Bug. The strangest thing however is, that this,
fable is believed.

HAMBURGH, JULY 10.—The number of ships tha
passed the Sound in January, 1846, was:—
From the North Sea
From the Baltic

739
1,406

Total 2,145
Of these the English were:—
From the North Sea 179
From the Baltic

Total
—llamburgh Papers, July 10

481

DISEMBARKATION OF THE TROOPS FROM THE BAS
OF IsLANDs.—On Tuesday afternoon, the divisions of the
58th and 99th Regiments disembarked from the ships of war
on their return from the Bay of Islands. The 58th Regi-
ment, after nine months absence from here, bore strong marks
of the service they had undergone. After they had quitted
the boats, they were formed under the direction of that ac-
tive brave officer, Adjutant M'Lerie; and in excellent spirits,
headed by their gallant Colonel Wynyard, marched to the
cheering airs of their excellent band, to the new barracks.
The 29th followed soon after. The Lloyds is daily expected
from Sydney, with a further detachment of the 99th, con-
sisting of 100 men, under the command of Major Last, Cap-
tain Armstrong, and Lieutenant De Winton.—The New
Zealander.

DREADFUL SUICIDE BY A LAW WHITER.-011 Satur-
day, Mr. Wm. Baker, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the
Bridge Hou..,e Tavern, Hoxton Old Town, on the body of
Mr. Henry Arrowsmith, aged 27, a law-writer, of 17, Can-
ning-terrace, in that neighbourhood, who destroyed himself
by discharging a loaded pistol through his heart. George
Arrowsmith, brother of the deceased, said that on Wednes-
day afternoon, whilst he was sitting in the front parlour, his
attention was suddenly arrested by hearing a discharge of
fire-arms. Knowing that the deceased was in an adjoining
room, he called to him, but not receiving an answer, he pro-
ceeded to the room, where he found his brother lying en
the bed in a pool of blood, and a pistol firmly grasped in Lis
hand. He was then alive, but unable to speak. During
his mind. Verdict, upwards
employment the last two or three years he had suffered much from a ner-
ovf two on s affection, ffe cti o
months,n, and
which he hadbady e beenpreodu tof
upon
Temporary Insanity.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT TO MISS SPANILIE.--SORday
night, soon after eleven o'clock, much alarm was occasioned
in the vicinity of Russell-square by the sudden appearance of
fire in the residence of Mrs. Spankie, widow of the late
Mr. Sergeant Spankie. It appears that Miss Spankie, in
ascending the staircase, for the purpose of going to bed, set
fire to her dress, in consequence of a lighted candle having
been left by one of the servants on the middle landing. The
young lady shouted " Fire 1" and then .ran into the draw-
ing-room, the flames at the time mounting over her head.
In passing round the room the muslin window-curtains also
became ignited, and for some time it was feared that the
building would have been destroyed. The butler promptly
rushed into the apartment, threw his young mistress down,
and rolled her in the hearth rug, fortunately extinguishing
the fire. It is needless to state that Miss Spankie was
severely burnt. She was put to bed, and a medical gentle-
man sent for. The fire in the drawing-room was extinguished
by the servants.

DANGEROUS BUILDING IN WYCII-STREET.—The of
icial referees under the Metropolitan Building Act, having
received notice that the house No.. 17, Wych-street, Strand,
was in a dangerous and ruinons-condition, proceeded under
the 40th, 41st, and 42d section of the above Act. The cer-
tificate of the district surveyor fully bearing out the informa-
tiOn, notice was given to the owner and occupier, that unless
the building was secured within fourteen days, the overseers
of the parish would proceed to pull down or shore up for the
safety bf the public, all expense to be borne by theileale of
the material of the house. This was the first Casa-tinder
these sections. _

REPEAL OE THE CORN LAws.7T-In-spite of tIA repeal
of the corn-laws, the:estates of the late Philip Dykes, Esq.,
at Roydon and Bressingham, were sold by auction at Dias.
on Friday last by Mr. Rix, at thirty-four years' purchase, on
full annual rental.—Suffolk Chronicle.