The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

COLONEL MACKINNON'S REPORT.

King William's Town, August 27.
Sir,—ln pursuance of your Excellency's instruc-
tions, proceeded on the 21st instant, with a force of
850 men, for the purpose of escorting twenty-eight
mule waggons with supplies for Fort Hare, of making
a movement on the Chumie range of the Amatolas,
and of bringing to this station fifty of the Hottentot
rebels, sentenced by a general court-martial to
transportation.
I reached that post on the 22d instant, having met
with no opposition. The officer in command at Fort
Hare, Lieut.-Colonel Yarborough, reported to me
that the supplies at Eland's Post were exhausted, and
that he had no means of transport for sending sup-
plies there. I therefore sent forward twelve mule
waggons, on the afternoon of the 23d instant, with
supplies, escorted by 200 men, on the road to Eland's
Cost; and having ascertained by means of Fingo
spies, that the enemy was in force in the neighbour-
hood of Lushington Valley and the Katberg, I fol-
lowed at midnight with the remainder of my force,
with the view of reaching Pfeffer's Kop at daybreak.
I was in hopes that the small number of men escort.
ing the waggons might induce the enemy to await
the convoy en the roud to Eland's Post. A drench-
ing rain unfortunately set in during the night, and
prevented our reaching the ground in time to effect
anything.
On the 24th I scoured all the kloofs near Lushing-
ton Valley without any success, and passed the
waggons on to Eland's Post, encamping in the valley.
On the 25th the convoy returned from Eland's
post, and I proceeded with it to Fort Hare.
On the 26th I proceeded to Fort Wbite, and re-
turned to King William's Town this day, bringing
the whole of the prisoners safely in.
Major Kyle, 45th Regiment, met with 150 men
from Fort Cox, on the road between Fort White and
Fort Hare, on the 22d instant, and again yesterday
on my return. The Kars made no attempt to op-

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pose him on either occasion, from which I infer that
he inflicted a severe loss on them when they attacked
his patrol from Fort Cox, on the 13'11inst.
I have, &c.,
GEO. MACKINNON,
Colonel Commanding 2d Division.
His Ex;:ellency Sir H. G. Smith, Bart.,
G.C.8., &c.

GENERAL ORDERS:
Head-quarters, King William's Town,
Sept. 2, 1851.
The. newly arrived and other native levies of 2d
division, will be formed into one corps, under Com-
mandant Davies, who will observe in their distribu-
tion that the men of particUlar districts and stations
will be kept together in the companies of which this
corn; will be composed.
The following officers are appointed to this corps :
Captains W. Musgrave, R. B AEU ; Lieutenants J.
Crampton, M. Guinery, Statham Thom, and W.
D. Thom. , d •
,
The Clanwilliam Levy, whose
period of service has
expired, will march to East London for embarkation
to Cape Town, on Thursday, the 4th inst. The
Commander-in-Chief desires to acknowledge the ser-
vices of this Levy, which they voluntarily extended
at his Excellency's request ; and that
it is with great
satisfaction that his Excellency :repeats to Captain
Shaw, their commander, his marked
approbation of
his conduct, by his gallantry in the field before the
enemy, as well as in the management and discipline of
his Levy. . ,i
The Commander-in-Chief has again the satisfaction
of Major-General
to notice the conspicuous activity
Somerset, who with a small tatrolz of Cape Mounted
Rifles, under Captain Carey, supported by a company
of the 74th Highlanders, under Captain Hancock, re-
captured 159 head of cattle and 5 horses from a con-
siderable'body of the enemy, on the 29th ult., in the
valley of the New Year River.
The Dragoon horses, arrived from Cape Town, are
attached to the Cape Mounted Rifles.
Mr. William Forrester is appointed lieutenant in
the Graham's Town Pingo Corps, from the Ist inst.,
vice Mr. Field.

Captain Mouseley, Riverdale Levy, having been
detained on duty, will receive pay to the end of
September.
A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel, D. Q. M. Gen.

Head-quarters, King William's Town,
Aug. 30, 1851.
Mr. William Henderson is appqinted lieutenant in
the Port Elizabeth Levy, from the 17th August,
1851, vice Cook.

Mr. John Forrester is appalnted lieutenant in
Stubbs's Rangers, from the 25th instant, vice D.
Mitchley, deceased.
A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonkd, D. Q. M. Gen.

Head-quarters, King William's Town,
Sept. 1, 1851.
It is with great satisfaction tlaat the commander-
in-chief expresses his marked approbation of the
spirited conduct of a patrol in Seyolo's country, under
the command of Captain Knight, Cape Mounted,
Rifles, with 20 Cape Mounted Rifles and 20 Arm-
strong's Horse, in pursuit of some Fingo cattle, in
which by this small party 16 Ka4rs were killed, their
muskets and assegais all captured.
Captain Wellesley, deputy asiiistant adjutant ge-
neral, pill receive forage for an additional charger.
A ration of 2 oz. of beans sill be issued to the
troops at King William's Town, in lieu of rice, from
the 4th inst.

A. J. CLOETE, Lt. Col., D. Q. M. Gen.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.
King Williams's Tawn, Sept. 1, 1851.
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief having
submitted to her Majesty's High Commissioner and
Assistant Commissioners the proceedings of a court of
inquiry, held in Graham's Town, to investigate the
causes that have led to the recent desertion of certain
soldiers of the Cape corps, and the report thereon
that such desertions have been caused by rumours
having been spread amongst tha Men that they are to
be disarmed and given over to the Fingoes and
settlers, they deem it necessary to notify to the
Hottentot classes generally, that, determined as the
Government may be to punish the guilty, it will nett
fail effectually to protect from injury and oppression
the loyal and innocent; and they are further advised
that rumours of a contrary tendency can only have
been framed for the purpose Sf involving them in the
same disastrous consequencEs which await those of
their fellow-subjects implicatid in rebellion—that they
are entirely groundless, and traced to their authors
will subject them to condign punishment.
By his Excellency's command,
idorm CT' ARVOCK, Lieut.-Col.

The Cape Town Mail contains the official minutes
of two meetings, held by the British Resident with
certain chiefs of the Orange River sovereignty. The
first of these meetings took Ace on the 4th of June
last, at Bloom Fontein, and vas attended only by the
Barolong chief, Moroko, and Koranna chief, G-ert
Taaibosch. These chiefs stated the grounds of com-
plaint which they had agaiast Molitsane and his
allies, and either denied or jtstified the questionable
proceedings of which they themselves were accused.
The second meeting was held on the 29th of June
the day before the attack made by the troops and na-
tive auxiliaries of the Resident upon Molitsane and
his allies, at Viervoot, in which action the assailants
were repulsed with heavy 10%. At the latter meet-
ing there were present the Chiefs of all the tribes who
had obeyed the Resident's suinitions to aid him in his
expedition against Molitsane• Major Donovan, of the
Cape Mounted Rifles ; Mi. liiddulph, magistrate of
Winburg ; and Mr. Erwee/ unofficial member of
Council ; were also present at this meeting.

NATAL,
We have received Natal papers to the 7th of August.
They do not confirm the report of the resignation of
Mr. Moodie. The land diffictilties had been satisfac-
torily settled, by the removal of the restrictions which
prevented the sale, lease, mortgage, or devise of cer-
tain farms, without the consent of the Lieutenant-
Governor, until the expiration of seven years after
the issue of the title deeds. The proprietors are re-
quired to fulfil the other conditions relative to the
Government inspection of their farms and six months'
occupancy, and also to pay twopence per acre for
land situated south and south-east of the Great Bush-
man's River, and one penny per acre for lands situate
north and north-west of that river. The farmers in
the Klip River district are said, in particular, to be
well contented with this arrangement.
The Independent of August 7 states that " the
force to be dispatched to the aid of the British resi-
dent at Blown Fontein consisted of Captain Parish,
commander; Lieutenants Morris and Miller, Ensign
Barnes; Lieutenant Mills, C.M.R.; Staff Assistant-
Surgeon Sparrow, Deputy Commander General
M'Clintock, two companies 45th, twelve Cape
Mounted Rifles, and a party of natives, under J.
Walmsley, :Esq." Thu same paper adds :—" The
commissariat., it is said, have been unable to procure
the waggon required for removing the troops to the
Sovereignty." Later advises (of August 12) men-
tion that the detachment set out for the Sovereignty
on the 6th of August, and that Lieutenant Governor
Pine had proceeded to the Klip River district for the
griott.
o raise an auxiliary force
The Lieutenant Governor arrived from the Klip
River on Friday last, highly delighted with his
rse nix °tahvaqudriislit
of
f purposeburghoef
ings of the Boers respect-
ingiT
their lands. The Certificate Title is now a
trip, and, we are informed, has succeeded in termina-
ting for ever the heart-burn
thing only that was. .

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MARKS OF ESTEEM INTENDED TO BE
_PAID TO KOSSUTH.
We are enabled to state that, among the various
marks of esteem which are, intended to be paid to
Kossuth, on b,is arrival in England, one will be the
offer by a gentleman to place his house in Jermyn-
street, and his servants, and carriage, at the disposal
of the illustrious Magyar, during whatever period he
may be disposed to remain in the metropolis. Another
gentleman, one of our best known City bankers, and
long a Member of the House of Commons, also means
to invite Kossuth to be his guest, in his splendid man-
sion during tha Hungarian patriot's stay in London.
We are further enabled to state that the proprietor
of one of the most respectable establishments for boys
in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, has waited on
can a friend of the distinguished Magyar, to request him
to intimate to Kossuth that it will afford him the
t Kord fosor
any -
greatest pleasure to receive his son into his seminary,
and that he will give him gratuitously, with his board,
the
best education
of yearseducation whichwhich tmheaycboeunatgrryeeableaffo
suth.—Advertiser.

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AN EXHIBITION PIECE OF MACHINERY DESTROYED.
—At three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, as a waggon be-
longing to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, drawn by three
horses, was proceeding down Wellington-street,. Strand, the
leader stumbled, and the other two horses immediately losing
their footing down the incline, the waggon came with such
force upon the shafts to the ground, as to throw upon the
pavement one of the most valuable pieces of machinery of
the many for the last six months on view at the Crystal Pa-
lace. It appears that the machine (for dressing cotton) for
which a prize had been awarded, had been purchased by a
French manufacturer, and was consigned to the care of
Chaplin and Horne, to be taken to Woolwich Dockyard,
where it was to remain until arrangements should be made
metal.
wheel
for shipment ; and the driver states that the accident was oc-
casioned by the greasy condition of the streetat the moment,
APPOINTMENTST h 3
horses haw s a
s
the rain having just set in. The machine is said to have
been worth 7001.; but the concussion was so great as to
re-
duce it to fragments—more especiallythose portions composed
e vos fthe re.
e..waggon
..lm.cutso nwar wereimghi
nta brokenden shoulder.E d
COLONIALe short
oil,and the .
of
cast
remauesingam is appointed a member of the Legislative
Council of Ceylon, in the absence of Mr. A • rmitage. Mr.
Joseph Hensley is appointed Solicitor-General for Prince
Edward's Island. Mr. A. W. Ambrioll b appointed In-
apector of School., in Trinidad.