The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

THE KAFIR WAR.

We have received Cape Town papers of the 10th
of February, being two days later than the last ad-
vices. _

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The only intelligence of importance contained in
these papers is the announcement of the relief of
Forts Cox and White, which had been effected by
the column commanded by Colonel Mackinnon.
Just before the post left Graham's Town, an ex,
press arrived from General Somerset, stating that a
combined attack on Fort Beaufort was expected the
following morning.
The following is from the Zuid Afrikaan of Feb-
ruary the 10th :
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following:—
"`GENERAL ORDERS.
" No. 22.
" Head-quarters, King William's Town, Feb. 1.
" 'The Commander-in-Chief has great satisfaction in
recording his marked approbation of the able and judi-
cious manner in which a large and most effective force
of her Majesty's soldiers and the levies recently raised,
under the command of Colonel Mackinnon, ordered to
throw supplies into the distant posts of Forts Cox and
White,
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which was promptly repulsed by the fire of musketry,
and some well-directed shrapnell shells, which caused the
enemy loss.
(Signed) "'A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel,
D.Q.M. General.
" True copy,—E. Major, "

" King William's Town, Feb. 1, 1851.
" Sir,—l have the honour to report, that at day-
break, on the morning of the 30th January, I proceeded
from this station with a force, consisting of 300 men 73d
Regiment, 150 men Cape Mounted Rifles, 1,400 Hot-
tentot levies, 300 Fingoes, and one six-pounder—in all
2,200 men—for the purpose of throwing supplies into
Forts White and Cox.

" About eight miles from this place a considerable
number of Kafirs attacked our rear-guard, consisting of
a troop of Cape Mounted Rifles and Genadendal, Al-
bany, and Riversdale levies. This attack was repulsed
in a very spirited manner. Shortly afterwards large
bodies of the enemy appeared on our left, evidently
bent on contesting our march across the Debe Neck,
Two shells directed with great precision by Major
Wilmot, of the Royal Artillery, were thrown into
the midst of a large group, and did great execution.
No farther attempt was made to impede our march on
that day, and considerable numbers of tho enemy were
killed by the flanking parties of the levies and Cape
Mounted Rifles. I arrived at Fort White about 2 o'clock
P.M. On the 31st January I proceeded with the same
force to Fort Cox, which I reached without any opposi-
tion. Whilst the troops were at the post a lorge body of
Kafirs appeared upon the brow of the hill which over-
looked the Keiskamma, on the road to Fort Hare, ap-
parently in the expectation that we intended proceeding
to that post. Two shells were again accurately directed
by Major Wilmot, and caused them considerable loss.
" After supplying Fort Cox, I returned without
molestation to Fort White, and this day to King Wil-
liam's Town. I found the garrisons of Forts White and
Cox in good health and spirits. These posts are now
supplied for six weeks each, and I have removed from
them all the men who are not absolutely necessary for
their defence.

" ' I have the satisfaction of reporting to your Excel-
lency my sense of the efficient conduct of every corps,
regular and provisional, who were engaged in this service.
" I have, &c.,
(Signed) " • GEo. MACKINNON, COI.'"

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.

The April sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
opened this morning in the Old Court, before the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alderman Carter,
and Sheriffs Carden and Hodgkinson, attended by the
Under-Sheriff and other civic functionaries.

The calendar contains the names of 225 prisoners.
The grand jury having been sworn and empanelled,
The RECOILDER proceeded to charge them as follows.
He was happy to say the calendar which they were
about to inquire into was not very heavy in the charac-
ter of the offences, but he was sorry to say the cases
were more than usually,numerous. There was, however,
only one case of murder, and that was one of those pain-
ful cases that occur so frequently, namely, the murder
of a child by its mother, and the question which the
grand jury would have to decide was whether or no
there was sufficient proof that the child was born alive.
If it was, why then of course they would have to
find a true bill accordingly. There was one
ether case involving the destruction of human life,
but this case assumed more the aspect of manslaughter
than murder. It was the case of a child who had been
put out to nurse, and who had died, as it was alleged,
from the ill-usage of the nurse. If they found that the
death really did result from her violence or neglect, it
would be their duty to return a true bill for man-
slaughter. There were three cases of unnatural crimes,
and a case of forgery, in which there was this remark-
able circumstance. The name fixed was stated to be
fictitious. Now it was equally a forgery to sign the
name of a fictions as a real person, for the purposes
of fraud; but if inthis case it should turn out that there
was such a person as that mentioned in the forged in-
strument, and that it was issued with his consent, why
of course there would be an end of the case of forgery.
These were the only cases that called for any comment
from him, and therefore, without detaining them further,
he would at once dismiss them to the discharge of their
important functions.
The grand jury then retired.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
ALLEGED MANsLauGicrza.—James Goman, a young man
in the employ of Mr. Florin, Jermyn-street, was placed before
Mr. Bingham, charged with having caused the death of Julia
Foley, a child eleven years of age, by driving over her with
a horse and cart. _ _ .

Police-constable 180 C deposed that on Saturday night,
about half-past eleven o'clock, he was on duty in Cran-
bourn-street, when he heard a cry of " Stop thief," and on
turning round saw a horse and van proceeding along Castle-
street, followed by several people. The prisoner and six
others were in the van, and the former was driving at aly,ut
six miles an hour. Witness inquired of the people what was
the matter, when he was informed that the prisoner
had run over a child in Newport•market, Witness imme-
diately stopped the prisoner, and told him that he had driven
over a child, and that he must go back with him to New-
port-market. The prisoner said he was not aware he
had done anything wrong, or that he had driven over
any one. On arriving at Newport-market witness
found the child at the shop of a druggist, who directed wit-
ness to take her to Charing-cross Hospital. He procured a
cab and conveyed her there, and she died within a few hours
after her admission.

Hannah Foley said en Saturday night she and her sister
were standing near her father's stall in Newport•market,
when she saw a van, which was driven by the
prisoner, coming at a quick rate towards them, and before
her sister could get out of the road the first wheel of the van
caught her on the shoulder, and knocked her down, and the
other wheel passed over her body. A cry was raised, but
the prisoner drove on as fast as he could. She and several
others gave the alarm, and pursued him until he was stopped
by the constable.
The prisoner expressed his sorrow for what had occurred,
but could assure his Worship that it was purely accidental.
The reason he did not stop was because the noise made by
the people calling after him made his horse, a spirited one,
very restive, and it was as much as he could do to keep the
horse from bolting.
Mr. BINGZAI4 said he should leave it to the coroner's
jury to decide whether it was a case of accident or man-
slaughter, and remanded the prisoner for a week, but agreed
to accept two sureties in 401. each for the prisoner's appear.
ance. The defendant's master tendered himself for the full
amount, and was accepted.

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NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Craven Stakes.

Sotterley ••• ••• ... ••• ••, •••

Pitsford ... ••• ••• ... ... ••• ••• 2
Handicap.

Cariboo ... ... ... 1
Reindeer ~, ••• 2
Sweepstakes of 50 sou. each, for three yrs old fillies.
D.M.

Iris ..• ••• ... •••
.. ... ... 1
Coticula .•• ••• •••
... ... ... 2

Won in a canter.
Handicap, T.Y.C.

Newport •••

ViSite 0" ... ... ... ••• ... 2
Sweepstakes.

Midas ... ••• •••
Oleand©r ..• ••

... ... ... ... 1
... ... ... ... 2

Won by a neck.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
No betting.
THE 01E8.
8 to 1 agst Iris.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 7.—Wind at noon N.E., light breeze
and fine dry weather.
SALCOMBZ, APRIL 6. Wind N.E. old. Margaret,
Quebec.
NEWPORT, APRIL 6.—Sld. Governor Harcourt, Jamaica;
Mary Campbell, Apalachicola ; Thomas and Elisabeth,
Havannah ; Escort, New York ; Charles Hamilton, Portland ;
Victory, Quebec.
SWANSEA, Armr, 6.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Sunbeam, Cuba.
SWANAGE, APRIL 6.—The Leffey, London to Madeira, is
on the Rocks at Kimmeridge, and is bilged; crew and some
stores saved,
Sld. Hercules, Singapore; Glencairn, Montreal.
BRIDLLNGTOM, APRIL 6.—The Miner, London to Newcastle,
has received considerable damage from the Spartan, of Lon-
don, off Lowestoft.
DOVER, Aran, 5 AND 6.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Rosalie,
New Orleans, for Norway. Off port, Cortgene, Batavia, for
Rotterdam.
PORTB3IOUTIL APRIL 6.—Wind E. to N.E.—Arrd. Her
Majesty's steamer Rattler, St. Philip's ; Bonnet, and sailed
eastward.
PoonE.— Sld. Solve, Newfoundland ; George, Newfoundland.
TORISAY.—SId. Transit, Trinidad. Off port, Graaf Dirk
3d, Dordt, for Batavia; Cicelia Maria, Hamburgh for Buenos
Ayres; Mississippi, Havre, for Guadeloupe.
DEAL, Arm!. s.—Wind W. to E.N.E., fresh and squally ;
6, N. to N.E. and E.N.E., fine.—Arrd. Lord Ashley, Shang-
hai; Pauline, Singapore; Camperdown, Calcutta. Arrd.
from the River and- sailed Eugenia, Calcutta; Maria Eliza-
beth, Singapore, &c. ; Fanny, Hobart Town; Herald, Cape
and Madras; Charles Carter, Algoa Bay; Eliza and Esther,
Simons Bay; Matilda, Barbadoes ; Southampton, New
York; Wallace, Brown, Meehanee; Laurel and Isabella,
Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL s.—Wind S.S.E.; 6th, N.—Arrd.
Asia steamer, New York, on freight 152,000/. in specie;
New World, ditto ; Constellation, ditto. Off port, British
Queen, Cynthia, and Icanes. Sid. Una, Rio Pongo ; Caxiense
steamer, Maranham; Omega, Adelaide, South Australia;
Champion, Singapore; Fairy Queen, Calcutta; Winetred,
ditto ; • Usk, Oahee ; Inca, Valparaiso; Eliza, Highfield, Rio
Grande; Isabella, Buenos Ayres; Fenella, Maranham; Ann,
Para ; Edward Barnett, Trinidad ; Sophia, llayti ; Maria„
Janacio, :Havannah ; Magician, La Guavra ; John Toole
New Orleans; Joshua Walker, New York; John Bryant,
ditto; Andrew Foster. ditto; Hope, Staten Island; American
Boston; Titanea, and Providence, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Glenawilly, Quebec; Affghan, ditto; Conquest, Gaspe.
The Harmony) barque, of and for Bideford, and the City
of Limerick schooner, of Derry, bound to Youghal, got on
shore on Jordan Flats yesterday, but were expected off on
time flood, without damage, and would proceed. The War-
ren American ship, was seen going into New York in tow
of a steamer, with loss of topmasts, rudder, bulwarks, &c.,
by the Asia steamer, arrived here, which passed through a
quantity of fields of ice on the 30th March, in lat. 44, long.
48. ; weather at the time free and clear, and several icebergs
in sight.

Mr. Alderman Salotnans has, we are given to un-
derstand, •zpressed to the rector of Ashurat, his intention to
build, at his own expense, in that parish, a school-house and
teacher's residence, similar to those erected at Fordcombe-
green, in the parish of Penshurst. This beneficent work
will accomplish an important service for the poor of the
parish of Ashure, which has hithorto been without a sch9Ql
of any kind.

Railways. I Pail. Nominal Prices. Stisineu dens
to-day.
.......--.
Aberdeen •• •• • • 8 6 5 % 34 dis die.
Caledonian 101. • • .. 10 634 —6%
Chester and Holyhead 15 16 16% x,d 16% x.d
East Anglian (31. 106.)
G per cent. .• 234 9% 234
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref.
Do. (71. 175.) 7p. c:Pref. 2 ..
Eastern Counties Eiten.,
5 per cent. No. 1 •• 613 4 par p pal
Do. No. 2 • • • • • • 613 4 par —3f p tar
Do . New 6p. cent. Stock 16 10% 11% le%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaraa. 6 per cent. '• • 20 16 1634
Do. 101. Debon. Shares . 10 ,
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. 6% • • in.. ..
Glasgow & S.-W. Consol 100 ..
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. 1234 135( 1334
Groat South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. 234 % 1 p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. .• • • 6 1% 134 WI.
Do. 6 per cent. Stock . 100
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1 .• 11 p
Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 ..
Do. quarters, 1848 6 134 2 p 10%
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croydon thirds 100 .• .•
Do. pref., S p et. Stock,
1851, from 501. sham E 100 114 120
Do. cony. 5 per ct. 1852 50 57 —6O
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139 136
London &S.-w., new .. 5 2% —2% p.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares .. 16 ..
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line , qnar.shrs.,No. 1 25 1334 —143 G
Do. new, 191. .. 10 11% 1234 12
Do., 6/. . • • • .. 3 % %1) 3% %
Midland Con. 6p. e. stock 100 132 134
Do. Cense'. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent... 100 ..
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48
Do. do. do. •• 33 10 6 ..
Do. Erewash Talley .. 59
Do. Leic. lc Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. • . 100 ..
Norfolk Extension • • 20 17
00. guar. 534 per cent. 5 4% —4%
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 •
North British • • .. x.d x. 41
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed .. 11 1134
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per mat. 10 155( 15%
South Devon • • . 25 14 —l6
South-Eastern, 454 p. et, 10 .•
Wateriord &Kilkenny,sl. 1
WeatLondon,lst Cl. (101.) 10 ..
Do. 2d Class de. (par) 90 ••
York, Newc., and Berw., 17
Gt. N.of E. Fur. .. 16 —l7 16%
4%-4%
York and North Midland
H. and S. Turch. 10 1
Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee, 534 per cent., 5.
FORMICI47.
Boulogne and Amienl • • 90 9% 974
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) • • 90 17% 17% it
Demerara .. .• 1734•
Dutch Rhenish • • • • 9 —4% dia.
East Indian • • .. .. 14 134 —l% p. 15%
Do. do. do. .. 90
Great Indian Peninsula • 5 % % p.
Ditto ditto .. 234 34 % 1).
Louvain ala Sambre .. 734 .
Luxembourg .. 134
Ditto • • • • • • •• 10 3% —35 s *AU
Madrid and Valentia•
Maria Antonia •• 95 7 9
•
Ditto, New 7%
Namur and Liege 20 8 834
Northern of France .. 16 14% —l5 1476 15
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 5 4 dim. 4
Paris and Orleans .. .. 20 35 —37
Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 95 —26
Paris and Strasbourg .. 16 5% —5% Ms 10% %
Rouen and Havre 20 109 10% 110% %
Sambre and Meuse • • 20 —4 % 3% 4
Tours and Nantes • • • • 15 9 dim. 6 %
Tournay, Jurbiso. Lan-
_den, and llaaselt •• •• —••

Weet klamciere •* *i‘ l 2 I
Mimes—Brazilian Cocaes and Calaba, 134; United Mexican, 434 ;
C oplapo, 7. sAnts7-Datilk ligrtla Undoes if%
Joint litoka 1776

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were esti-
mated at 4,000 hales, of which 500 American were taken on
speculation. The sales comprised 2,500 American • 150
Bahia, at 7:M. to C. ; 150 Egyptian, at 814 d. to 91/2(1. ;
1,000 Surat, at 4d. to 51,4. ; and 40 Sea Island, at Is. 14d.
to Is. Bd. per lb.—ln Railway Shares only a limited business
was done, at rather lower prices.
The Grain Market is firm to-day.
Tne New York advices, per steamer Asia, notice a de-
pressed market for public securities. '1 he Asia brings half a
million of dollars in specie, the rates of exchange ruling
sufficiently high to make shipments of bullion profitable.
There was only a moderate demand for bills on London, but
drawers were firm at 10 to ICN per cent. premium. The
following statement would convey rather an unfavourable
impression :
" There has been no improvement in the Money Market,
but, on the contrary, a daily increasing stringency. The
banks have largely contracted their discount lines, and busi-
ness paper is rapidly increasing among the note shavers.
There is no let up to the drain of specie, and large ship-
ments continue to be made both to the South and to Europe.
The supply of gold and gold dust from California is not equal
to the foreign export. The Ohio and Crescent City brought
le's than one million of dollars, and the probability is, that
for some time to come our semi-monthly receipts will not ex-
ceed half a million of dollars. In the event of the foreign
demand for our specie continuing, we shall lose a large amount
before the lapse of many weeks, and our banks will be corn-
pelted not only to continue the contraction commenced, but to
increase it, and reduce their loans to a lower point than has
been known for many months. There appears to be a
great want of confidence in financial and commercial
circles, and it is more likely to extend than to decrease.
The commercial classes are, at present, consider-
ably embarrassed in their money matters. The
mouth of March is usually a very tight month, and this
year, thus far, has by no means been an exception. This
stringency may not terminate as soon as anticipated. Public
and private credits have become very much expanded, and
it is our impression that there are, at this moment, a greater
number of mercantile houses in this city in a state of bank-
ruptcy, and upon the eve of suspension, than is generally
imagined. It, however, by no means follows that any im-
mediate failures will take place, 1)r our merchants have the
faculty of continuing along for years, hopelessly insolvent,
without their creditors having the first suspicion of it. The
failures which have occurred recently here illustrate this
fact pretty clearly, and it is impossible to tell who are sound
and who are not. The course pursued during the past two
or three years by houses in this city must lead ultimately to
a great deal of difficulty and financial embarrassment, and it
is well that a check has been put thus early upon the money
market, an opportunity given to reduce commercial liabilities,
and the public allowed a little breathing time."
The Welland Canal was to be fully opened for navigation
on the 26th ult. The Cotton crop was expected to exceed
that of 1849 and 185,E nearly 2 0,000 bales, and the ph(' ting
season was never more favourable. A greater breadth of
ground would be put in cotton this year, it is said, than ever
before known.

The news oomes to band by this opportunity of a great
battle between the armies of the Republics of San Salvador
and Guatemala, and in which the President of the former
was completely defeated. The Guatemala dates are to
Feb. 10.

Carthagena advices, of Feb. 23, mention that the Legisla-
ture of the State, for 1851, had before it the project of an
amended political code for New Grenada.
The advices from Canada state that the weather in the
eastern provinces was very mild, and that the snow was fast
melting away. The easterly winds at Quebec had been so
strong, as to produce the highest tide known there for twenty
years ; great damage had been done. Judgment was to be
given, in a few days, in the tariff question.
We observe it stated that a Kingston house had just landed
no less than 112 packages of dry goods at New York, to be
ready for the spring trade. "We preseme," says a local
writer, " they will be carried by railroad to their destination,
as it is probable that by the canals they would not be re-
ceived earlier than by the St. Lawrence. This shows how
much we require railroads through our own territory; we
will no longer be content to wait for the operations of nature
to fres us frcm our bonds, but we must make means of
communication for ourselves, open at all seasons. Had we
them through our own territory, we would use them in pre-
ference to those of our n, ighbours ; but we are compelled to
undergo all the inconvenience and expense of drawbacks,
bondings, and transhipments. This may continue for some
time, but not for ever."
The Funds are very steady this morning, and there is an
improvement of about per Cent. in the quotations. Con-
sols have realised 96% 3% for Transfer, and 963/1 f. ir Thurs-
day. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
marked 97', 34, and the Three per Cents. 95% to 96. Ex-
chequer-bills have been 565. to 58s. prem.
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have, by the
Asia, received advices from Mr. Falconnet, dated Mexico,
15th February last. The acceptance of the decree of the 14th
October by the bondholders had only been received there on
the Bth February, and as Mr. Esteva, if he should finally
decide to accept the Ministry of Finance, would not enter on
the office till the 17th February, Mr. Falconnet, at the date of
his letter, had not of course as yet received a reply to the formal
notice, which he had addressed to Mr. Huice, provisionally
charged with the direction of the department Of finance, that
the decree was accepted, and that he uas ready to receive
the 2,500,000 dollars coming to the bondholders out of the
American indemnity money.
Mr. Falconnet expresses regret that the decree bad been
accepted in London, thinking that he might have done
better in Mexico, but he has no doubt that the Mexican Go-
vernment will carry out the arrangement entered into in
good faith.
The Foreign Market has continued very dull. and the
quotations are rather fiat. Mexican Bonds have realised
334 %, Equidor are 33,y, and Brazilian 88%. Spanish Five
per Cents. have been marked 21%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been quoted 5834, and Russian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. 98%.
The Railway Share Market is flatter, and prices rule in
favour of buyers.
The following is an extract from a letter received from
lir. C. Pons, the secretary, in London, of the Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux :
The works on the second section of the lines between
Tours and Poitiers are progressing with extraordinary
rapidity. The line is ballasted the whole distance, 100
kilometres (62% miles), the permanent way is laid over
nearly one-half the distance, and the material for the re-
mainder is in course of delivery. The additional locomotive
and carrying stock is far advanced in construction, and a con-
siderable portion is already delivered to the comps' y.
Every effort is making to open this section to the public on
the Ist July next ; so that the railway year may begin with
215 kilometres (nearly 135 miles) at full work. The traffic
on this section will be very considerable, while neither the
first cost nor the general expenditure will be, relatively, as
heavy as on the first section. The accounts for the last halt-
year, ending 31st December, 1850, show a net profit (after
payment of the working and general expenses, and the half-
year's interest on 17.5 f. called up) of 638,706 f. ap-
plicable to a dividend. Taking the result of the current
half-year, ending 30th June next, to be equal to the last, and
it will be at least as productive, the probable net profit on
the whole year will be equal to four per cent. on the 200 f.
now paid up, or eight francs per share, only one-half of which
is allowed by the statutes to be distributed in the present
stage of the company's progress towards Bordeaux."