The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

THE KAFIR WAR.

Poi*mount, THURSDAY.—By the arrival of her
Majesty's ship Apollo, Captain Radcliffe, which came
up to Spithead this afternoon, we have files of Cape
papers and intelligence from that colony to the 7th of
October inclusive, being eighteen days later than those
last received.
Her dates are, Simon's Bay, October 7 ; St. Helena,
October 18; and Ascension, October 27; at which latter
place she stayed four days ; her passage is, therefore, a
most extraordinarily quick one.
She had brought home the following invalids and pas-
sengers and a large mail. From the Cape—Captain
Wilmot, R.A. ; Lieutenant Frye, B.A. ; the Hon. Mr.
Napier, R.E. ; and Mr. Deere. From St. Helena—Mr.
Gideon, merchant ; Mrs. Hornsby and three children ;
and Miss Wragge. From Ascension—Lieutenant Wake,
of the Styx steam-sloop, which vessel is very sickly ;
Mr. Pullen, master of the Flying Fish, 12, which vessel
had gone to the Bight of Benin ; Mr. Kelland, purser
of the same ship ; and Mr. Barr, Assistant-Surgeon
of the Tortoise ; and twenty-one invalided seamen and
marines from the squadrons on the Cape and Coast
stations.
At the above date the war with the Kafirs was still'going
on, but it was rumoured that the Governor shortly con-
templated some ',decisive measures for putting a period
to it.
The Kafirs had made several offers of capitulation, but
the Governor wanted his own terms complied with,
which were, that the insurgents should give up all their
arms and restore the cattle they had stolen. The Eng-
lish boundaries were also to be extended.
The Apollo landed the 17th Regiment at Algoa Bay
on the 17th of September, and they marched off to Gra-
ham's Town.
The Inflexible steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, ar-
rived at Table Bay on the 28th of September from Eng-
land, and, having landed her officers (Lieutenant-Colonels
M'Kinson, Montresor, Nicholls, and Napier, and Majors
Stocks, Whitenall, and O'Grady) and specie, went round
to Simon's Bay to refit prior to proceeding to New Zea-
land, to relieve the Driver.
The 90th Regiment were at Fish River at the above
date. More troops were expected out from England.
The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly; the Samarang, 26,
Captain Sir Edward Belcher (senior officer); the In-
flexible steam-sloop, Commander Hoseason; the Thun-
derbolt steam-sloop, Commander Boyle. were in Simon's
Bay when the Apollo left, as was the French frigate La
Gloire, 60 guns, Captain Peter, refitting prior to sailing
to relieve the French Commodore is China.
The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, was the only
man-of-war at St. Helena, and she was on her way home.
St. Helena was healthy.
The Devastation steam sloop, bearing the broad pen-
dant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.B, Com-
mander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa (who had arrived
some ten days prior, and was refitting), and the Tortoise
store and guard-ship, Commander Morrell, were the only
men-of-war at Ascension (which island was very healthy)
when the Apollo left.
The Madagascar Indiaman left Table Bay the day
after the Apollo left Simon's Bay, with the 31st Regi-
ment on board for England, and also left St. Helena a
day after the Apollo.
Colonel Hare had arrived in the Thunderbolt from
Waterier* Bay a day or two before the Apollo left.
The Helena, 16, Commander Sir Cornwallis Ricketts,
Bart., had refitted and gone to the Mauritius. All well
on board.
Rear-Admiral Dacres, the Commander-in-Chief, was
expected from the Mauritius in the President, 50, flag-
ship, a few days after the Apollo sailed.
(From the South African Commercial Advertiser of
Oct. 3.)
" This morning a mail arrived from the head-quarters
of his Excellency the Governor, near Waterloo Bay, but
does not bring any official intimation as to the terms of
the dispatches received by his Excellency from Earl
Grey. It is confidently reported, however, that these con-
tain the most positive assurances of adequate support from
the home Government in any measure it may be thought
necessary to adopt for bringing the present contest with
the Kafirs to a satisfactory and final close.
" The Thunderbolt is said to bring round 15,000/. in
specie. Information has also been received from Colonel
Somerset, who, we stated last week, had moved along
the Keskamma and Beka with a force of 1,200 men, for
the purpose of scouring the woody ravines which border
and branch up from those streams. This operation had,
it appears, been conducted with Colonel Somerset's usual
zeal and address, the results being, up to the date of
these aivices, the capture of 3,000 head of cattle and a
good many horses, with the loss of several men on the
part of the enemy. Colonel Somerset had sent for a ten
days' supply of biscuit, he being about to move forward
towards the mouth of the Buffalo, where it is said there
was a prospect of his falling in with the treacherous,
cruel chief Pato, it being affirmed that he was secreted
in the rugged bushy kloofs which characterise the loca-
lity in question.
" We received a report to-day that a few Kafirs had
been fallen in with by Messrs. Leppan and W. Wake-
field, on the Graham's Town road, about 20 miles this
side of Somerset. It was late at night when these Kafirs
were observed stealthily creeping along the road, upon
which Mr. Leppan fired, but deemed it prudent imme-
diately to retreat to the shelter of some waggons in the
The next morning part of the face, with an eye,
was found on the spot, from which it would
that one of the marauders must have been mor-
wounded, and carried off by his comrades. The
footmarks of two or three other Kafirs were observed
near the spot.
" We regret to hear that, despite of all the exertions
of their field commandant, most of the Stellenbosch
Burgher force have, under the ' general order,' broken
up their encampment, and are on their way home. Waay
Platts, Mauley's Flat, and Fitchet's are entirely aban-
doned, but there are yet weak parties remaining at
Driver's-hill and at Fort Dacres. To the remonstrances
of their commandant, the men replied they had not been
supplied with food either for themselves or horses, and
were determined not to submit to such privations any
longer.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Business waa on a small scale, and with little or no
influence on the prices as quoted on Monday. Not a bet
we believe was made against either of the leading fa-
vourites, and an outlay of about 1501. on the Sister to
Cobweb colt left him at the same figure as on Monday-
-28 to 1 offered. 1500 to 50 was laid against Lunedale ;
the same odds to 100/. against Glentilt ; 100 to 25, three
times, against Johnny Armstrong, and once each against
Conyngham and Lord Exeter's lot ; and two or three
other beta in smaller amounts. We are also enabled to
make a abort quotation on the two steeple chases to come
off next week at Leamington.

LEAMINGTON MILITARY STEEPLE CHASE.-LATEST PRICES.
100 to 26 agst Lord Strathmore's Switcher—taken
_ _

100 eves on the field agst Switcher, Peter Simple, Red
Lancer, and Mkrengo. Mr. Rowland has purchased Red
Lancer.

LEAMINGTON OPEN STEEPLE CHASE.
8 to 1 agst Zir. P. P. Rolt's Peter Simple—taken
25 even on the field agst Sacrifice, Culverthorpe, and DL-
count.

DERBY.
7 to 1 offered on tha field.
28 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt—taken
and afterwards offered
30 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lnnedale—taken andaft. offered
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Allertonian—t. and aft. off.
33 to 1 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanota
40 to 1 agst Sir a Bulkeley's Conyngham
40 to 1 agst Mr. Jatdine'sJohnny Armstrong—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot
40 to 1 agst Sir G. Ileatlieote's lot—take 1000 to 15
1000 to 10 agst Mr. L. Fox's Wild Boy—taken

The will of the late Patrick Maxwell Stewart,
M.P. for Renfrewshire, was made in 1840. He has left
to his brother, Captain Houston Stewart, RN., all his
possessions and estates at Charlotville, Tobago, with the
crop, plant, engines, buildingq, and appurtenances, for
his own use absolutely. All his heritable property and
other estates in Scotland he directs his executors to dis-
pose of as they think best, the proceeds to form part of
the residue of his general estate. His personal property
in England was estimated at 30,000/. He bequeaths
8,0001. and half the residue to be held in trust by his
executors for the children of his deceased brother, John
Shaw Stewart, to be equally divided among them ; the
other moiety of the residue he leaves to his brother,
Capt. H. Stewart, who, together with his brother-in-
law, Mr. John Osborne, and Mr. G. S. Cundel], of
Finsbury-square, are his executors, to each of whom is
left a legacy of 5001. free of legacy duty. The Hon.
Member was unmarried, and died at the age of forty-
eight, at Carnock House, Falkirk, North Britain, and
was buried in the family vault at Inverkip, Renfrew-
shire.
ACCIDENT ON TIIE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAILWAY.—On Friday night, the train which leaves
Edinburgh at a quarter to eight o'clock, was thrown offl
the rails at a place called Craigton, about ;two miles
west of the Winchburgh station, in consequence of
coming in contact with a large mass of rock which had I
slipped from the face of the cutting. The engine
dragged the tender and carriages after it for about
twenty or thirty yards ; and the whole train, when our
infermants left at midnight, lay deeply imbedded in the
sand. The engine is much damaged, and the tender
and one of the carriages partially so. Although the
concussion was very severe, we are glad to learn that
only some flue or five of the passengers were injured,
but none of dim seriously. The line was so completely
blocked up as , render both rails impassable. The
passengers by the half-past seven o'clock train from
Glasgow had to vacate their seats, and the train re-
turned to Glasgow with the passengers belonging to the
disabled train. The passengers for Edinburgh had to
wait
the at the place of the accident for an hour and a half,
llarrival of the ten o'clock train from this end of
the line, which turned back and carried them to Edin-
burgh, leaving
pssengers to wait the ten o'clock •
train from Glasgsow7nwhich of course had also to return.
..—Scotsman.
PosT-OFFICE C tIANG ES —V h• we believe to be good authority, e heard, on what
raitly, that Colonel Ilaberly is
carl;ttoLeati,rite,
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tefurl.lgsezz: from the office of se-
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I , and that he will be
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onThis gTeat titinl6 of railroad, that the directors are
under the necessity ordering the additional trucks,
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