The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

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' CITY F.CT unEemrs. C.:-
I. o‘mtp, Szrr. 15.—The Town Council has this
day elected the Rev. John Hill. 8.D., Vice-Principal
of St. Edmund •hall, and the Rev. Richard Cox Hales,
M.A. of Magdalen-hall, incorporated in 1850 from
Magdalen College, Cambridge, curate of St. Peter le
Bailey, Oxford, to the vacant lectureships.
ALL SOULS' COLLEGE.
The Rey. Fitzhardinge Berkeley Portman, M.A,
of this College, prebendary of Wells, rector of Staple-
Fitzpaine, Somerset,
,has
,been appointed to the Rural
Deanery of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells.
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.
The Rev. Robert Eden, M.A.,- F.S.A., late Fell )w
of this College, has been collatel by the Bistop of
Norwich to the vicarage of N6itb - Walsham, with
the rectory of Antingham St. Mary, Norfolk.
' ST. EDAM tin HALL.
The Rev. HUgh Stowell, M.A., of this Hall, pert,
P -,tu-.lcurate cf Christ Church, Salford, has been it,:
pointed domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Mato!
chester. ..-. .

A BRUSH WITH TILE 'KAFI.TIS.
The following graphic description of a Kafir skit-
mi:7.h is from the pen of Lieutenant Corrigan, of the
74th Regiment, now engaged in his first campaign at
the Cape. It is extracted from a letter to his father,
Dr. Corrigan, the eminent Dublin plysician, and ap-
pears in the Dutlin Evening Post:—
" Koonape River, July 10, 1861.
We had a very severe action zla-zi morning WI
marched into the Amatola Mountain on our patrol
with some rebel Hottanfots and Kafirs combined. We
lost some men killed and wounded, but we gave the
enemy a most satisfactory thrashing. We had eight
men killed and seventeen wounded on our side, be-
sides one of our officers, who ,vex wounded in the arm
(young Bruce), but he is getting on famously, and
will soon be all right again. I will try and describe
the fight to you, as I think it may interest you ;—We
marched into the Amatolas just as day was breaking,
and halted on the top of one of the hills, called the
Little Amatola;' thence we could see right down into
an immense valley underneath, which is called
the Amatola Basin,' and where great num-
bers of Kafirs--In' fact, almost all Sandilli's
Kafirs—live. The sun rose just after we got
to the top of the mountain, and such a mag-
nificent sight I never saw. There was the Great
Amatola Mountain' in front of us, and we saw the
rays of the sun gilding the tops of the whole range
one after another, until he mounted over the top of
the mountain now before us, and threw a flood of light
ever everything in the valley. However, we were
not given much time to admire the sunrise, for as the
morning lightened up' we could see the Kafirs un-
derneath us driving away their cattle, and we were
ordered to descend into the Basin and attack them.

We bad at this time a pretty strong force with us,
consisting of ourselves, the 91st Regiment, the Cape
Mounted Rifles, and a number of Burghers ; when
we got into the Basin we were obliged to separate,
in order to surround the cattle. We went away to
the left of the Basin, and as soon as we got to the ex-
treme left of it we found ourselves under a very steep
craggy hill, on the top of which about seven hundred
Kafirs and Hottentots had taken up a position. They
immediately opened a good smart fire on us, and
wounded one or two of our men. We had nothing
for it but to go at the hill, which we did, and my
company was thrown out in skirmishing order to
cover the advance of the regiment ; for the first four
or five minutes, going up the hill, I expected every
minute to get a bullet into me, for they were
whistling about our ears, and knocking up the dust
about our feet in a manner that was anything but
pleasant. However, we drove the enemy back from
the top of the bill, and we got to the top of it. On
the top of the hill, and stretching away fur
about three miles behind it, was an im-
mense wood, or rather bush, into which

these Hottentots (who, Tou must know, are
all spledid shots) and Kafirs had retired, and
from the edge of which they kept up a fire on us.
We then extended two more companies (which, with
mine, made three) in skirmishing order, just under
the crest of the hill, where we lay down. Orders
were then given to us to lie still until we got the
word from the colonel, when we were to jump up,
rush over the crest of the hill, and down to the wocd
(a distance of about GO yards), and then to fire away
at the enemy as soon as we were under cover. We
lay there for about five or six minutes, and certainly
they appeared to be the longest five minutes we ever
spent. There were about 250 of us extended along
the ridge, lying down in some long grass and rushes ;
you could not see a single man ; the firing on both
sides had ceased, and we lay there waiting for the
order to rush over the crest of the hill and into the
bush. I could almost fancy that I heard my heart
beating, and you could certainly have heard a pin
drop,' so great was the silence. At last the colonel
gsve the word forward.' We all jumped up,
rushed over the top of the hill, and away we
went, helter-skelter' down the other side, as
hard as we could go. As soon as we :get over -
the hill, and were about half, way,down the other
tbe enemy gave us a volley, which wounded
three men and killed two more. However,
we never stopped to fire, but gave one cheer and
dashed into the bush. From this time the fight was
exactly similar to one of those that Cooper describes
in his novels as taking place between white hunters
Jn the prairies and the Indians.' When we got
down to the edge of the bush we caught seven Hot-
tentots in a sort of sawpit, which they had not
time to get out of, thanks to our having run down the
hill so fest. We killed them all in the pit. The
tight was then kept up for about two hours in the
bush, we all covering ourselves in long grass, behind
trees, rocks, and everything that afforded us shelter.
Our men skirmished splendidly, and we kept on ad-
vancing and driving the enemy back, every now and
then coming on one of their dead bodies. I shot a
Hottentot during this part of the fight. I was lying
behind a log of wood, when I saw a fellow put his
bead up from behind a large stone, and then rise up on
one knee and take a steady aim at one of our men,
who was standing behind a tree, and whose side was
exposed to him. Before he had time to pull the
trigger I fired at him, and sent a rifle bullet through
his head. lie tossed his arms up in the air and fell
dead immediately. I went up with some of our fel-
lows after the fight to see him; the bullet had struck
him just over the ear and gone through, so he must
have died almost instantaneously.

THE IRON TRADE.
The rsition of this trade remains unchanged. The
demand is scarcely so brisk, and though sufficient to
prevent any accumulation of stocks under the present
limited amount of employment, it is inadequate to
warrant any extension of make or any expectation of
early improvement in prices; these are still without
upward tendency, unremunerative. It is stated that
the most expensive descriptions of iron, for Binning-
ham orders, are being delivered here at Si. per ton,
and the lowest at about five guineas net. A report
has been very general that an advance of os. 6d. per
ton on pigiron has been established, but we are
assured both by buyers and sellers that it is without
foundation. Whether any improvement will be ob-
tai▪
ned at the commencement of the ensuing quarter
wi▪ ll depend upon the prospects of the general winter
trade, which at present are considered favourable,
particularly as far as the quantities of manufac-
tured iron exported are-concerned, although the latest
reports from the United States are not at all encou-
raging. No disposition is yet shown by the menu-
facturers to go out of their usual course it obtaining
supplies of pig iron. During the last quarterly meet-
ings an attempt was made to force a reduction upon
the pig-makers, and with that object some purchasers
withheld their orders. From the supplying of these,
at the rates then required, to which the bulk of the
business at this period of the quarter is confined, the
supposition of an advance in the price of pigs seems to
have originated. Rumours are afloat that some fur-
naces in the South Staffordshire district will shortly
be put out of blast, and the make of iron reduced,
since, instead of affording any return for the capital
employed, at the present rates they are entailing seri-
ous loss upon the proprietors. Platters do not appofir
much better among the Welsh ironmasters. The
numerous advertisements for sales of both mines,
furnaces, and works afford a lamentable evidence that
in that district there is little encouragement for the
employment of industry or capital in the iron, trade.
—Birmingham Gazette.

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