The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-13 00:00:00

IoRT PEDDIE.

The following brings affairs at this place up to the
24th inst.:—
Since my last communication to you of the 17th ult.,
the following events have taken place up here.
Saturday, 18th, Half-past Ten P.M. at Night.—The
Pingo Chief KauMa's kraal was attacked by a strong
party of mounted and foot Kafirs, and about 220 head of
cattle taken.
Sunday, 19th.—A strong party of Kafirs seen
(mounted), close to D'Urban Missionary Station, Kwen-
kwezi's location, attempting to capture the Fingoe's cattle
on their way to the kraals. The Fingoes turned out and
gave battle. .Three Fingoes wounded; one died during
the night. One Kafir wounded, 2 blankets, some pouches,
and a few rounds of ammunition captured.
21st—Captain Walsh arrived with 130 men;Hottentot
levy, at ball-past eleven o'clock P.M., at night. Seven
shots fired close by the post. A rocket was discharged
in the direction of the shots, which started eight Kafirs
out. The same morning heavy firing was heard in the
direction of Fort Hare.
23d—Express arrived from General Somerset with
dispatches for the Governor, stating that Fort Hare had
been attacked. Dispaches forwarded on by two Kafirs,
late of the Kafir Police; both men intercepted by the
Kafirs, and the dispatches and one man taken; one made
his escape back to Peddie slightly wounded. Also dur-
ing the night two Fingoes got shot at their kraals being
mistaken by their comrades for Kafirs.
(From the Cape Frontier Times of Jan. 21.`

Since the defeat and death of the traitor Heraianus,
at Fort Beaufort, on the morning of the 7th instant,
there has been no aggressive movement on the part of
the enemy either in British Caffraria or within the
limits of the colony. His Excellency, it is well understood,
is concentrating a large force as he can muster at head-
quarters, to assail the enemy. In the mean time, the
Kafirs, it is supposed, are closely watching his proceed-
ings, and will probably make a desperate effort to inter-
cept the supplies which must in a short time be sent to
the two posts, Fort Cox and Fort White, with which all
communication have been cut off for some weeks. If
they should be unsuccessful in this attempt, and his
Excellency should be sufficiently re-inforced to be able
to follow up any success by vigorous severity, they will
in all probability overrun the colony. Their first rush
will be tremendous, and will be withstood only by the most
populous towns and the largest fortified camps. Looking
then to this obvious probability, it is earnestly and
anxiously recommended that all the small lagers that
may exist throughout the country should be at once
abandoned, and that all preparations be completed
without delay in every town and village to repel the
enemy, for in the presene state of affairs no man resid-
ing in any of the border districts can count upon his
satety for a single day.
The present war is not a cattle war. With the ex-
ception of the hostilities committed on the colony by
the Blinkwater rebels, the war has been principally with
the troops in British Kaffraria. This war has evidently
been the result of a long considered and extensive conspi-
racy between the Kafirs in Kaffraria, and their country-
men, and various coloured classes in the colony, and its
object is to exterminate the white man. It is a war of
race. The struggle will be fearful, and blood will
flow as water. But the issue cannot be doubted; al-
though the horrors of the contest could be
much mitigated, its duration much shortened, end
its devastating ruin and dreadful results confined to a
compe.ratively narrow space, if the inhabitants of the
colony who are at present remote from the seat
of &neer, promptly responded to the call of
honour and of duty; and, making common cause
and sharing the common danger with their more
exposed fellow-colonists, joined the front ranks of colo-
nial defenders, and thus became the instruments under a
iighteous God, of inflicting a summary end signal retri-
bution on the barbarous and formidable savages who are
now ti ;eat( nieg to tear out the heart of the colony,
PORT ELIZABETH.

The Mercury states that when the Kafir convicts from
the Zuuberg station arrived at the Zwaartliops Riser the
heat was so extensive that two of them " died in exces-
sive eagerness to quench their thirst." They have been
shipped for the Cape.
The steamer Phenix has arrived, bringirg 50 mules,
some waggone, ammunition, meal, and other stores, with
a large amount of specie for the use of the forces.
Five Kafirs belonging to Sandiiii, in the employment
Cif 4.1 r, Painter have been apprehended 40 sent to Port