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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1858.

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THE CA je .F E S

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The power of hunger began to be felt and its effects to
show themselves ; petty inroads were nightly made into
the colony. The weary frontier farmer was roused
from his rent only in time to find his stock swept away
by a troop of naked savages, and left his borne for a more
safe retreat, only too glad to find his family still pre-
served to him. Escorts were attacked on the public
tends ; travellers plundered and murdered, and many
other atrocities committed, such as would in former
times in themselves have formed a cause of war ; every-
thing showed that a crisis was at hand, and every one
nerved himself for the result.
At this period one false step, one hasty movement
would have plunged this country again into war ; capital
and blood would again have been expended, without any
other result than had before occurred, but Sir George
Grey, firm in his purpose of forbearance, strong in the
belief that their own measures would more effectually
destroy the power of the Caffres than any armed inter-
ference of his, abided his time. The Caffre inroads were
promptly repelled, criminate when arrested were dealt
with by the civil power, property was protected by the
judicious distribution of the troops, and quietly and
calmly he waited the prophet's spell to work their doom.
The next predicted day arrived, and with its end howl-
ing and despair were heard over all Caffreland. The un-
happy wretches too late saw their folly, and the chiefs
too late found their mistake, for the warriors, emaciated
by hunger and long watching, were unable to take the
field, and that which they anticipated would have been
their stepsing-stone to wealth and supreme power be-
came, as if by magic, their utter destruction.
For a few days great excitement prevailed, for the
prophet had disappeared. The troops were kept in a
state of constant readiness ; but hunger began to take
effect, and, feeling their own hopeless misery,
the Caffres
threw themselves on their foes, not to exterminate and
destroy, but for help and mercy, and they who had but a
few days before breathed nothing but destruction humbly
and abjectly sought food for themselves and little ones.
And their appeal was not in vain ; upwards of 25,000
have been received within the colony, and are allowed to
work for their food • but, dreadful to relate, more than
double that number are supposed to have perished from
hunger. The Caffre race is almost extinct, and the land
is desolate, and the last Gazette, bringing information of
the pathetic appeal of ICreli, their great chief, to the
Governor, to save hie wives and little ones from star-
vation, and offering his eternal adherence to the British
Government, and of the formal surrender of Sandilli
of his chieftainship,
proves that this fearful visitation
has now reached their highest and noblest, and that for
the present the prospect of peace for this colony is most
promising. There are those
mho declare that the Caffres
will again re-embody themselves, and that after they are
strengthened and enriched by the humanity of the colo-
nists they will again endeavour to overcome them ; but
this must be a work of time, and while they are gaining
strength so are we, while their children are growing
to manhood our numbers are being increased by emigra-
tion,and should the time again arrive when the Caffre
think himself strong enough to re-establish his
national polity he will .find the colonists better than ever
able to protect their own.
however, this cannot be for some years, and it is most
satisfactory that this colony, which has cost England so
much money, and requires so many troops, can at this
particular juncture spare safely ahnost every soldier.
The Volunteer Cape Corps, the Burghers, with the
German Legion, are more than a match for any effort
that could possibly be made to disturb the peace of the
colony ; and were this latter body of men recruited and
kept up in like manner as the frontier troops in Hun-
gary are organised, they would be a sufficient protection
for all frontier purposes, and effectually prevent those
heavy requirements of Royal troops which have hitherto
caused so much expense and inconvenience. The German
L
egion
will do very well if they are given fair play, and,
comparing their capital, " Stutterheim," in Caffraria
and theirhead-quarterslwithin the colony, "Wooldridge"
with the towns in their neighbourhoods, established 15
or 20 years, it will be said that the Germans have made
a
t
nre
oWell carrying out the
precaution has been taken
But theremay be a failure here also if great and timely
a
are without capital ; land is
ofnes no i f
st
use no
notin-
to supply their wants. With the most anxious endea-
setio: cstorwfyitttaohkeoeunt. progresss e Government.T e
hde a, n
mend
and a
veryground would have
your to get on, the men are paralysed, and but for the
who have nobly spent
They look forward, ovfever, with much hope to the
promised arrival of the emigrants from Germany, and are
anxiously striving
to get comfortable homes to offer their
exertiontblee ee inr tilled all
of
to
thisso m
helpsome
season. ofthem,
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little

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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution would
earnestly call the attention of the public to the great and extra-
ordinary exertions which the Society is now making to supply ex-
posed points on the coast with efficient 11,e-boats, and which will
involve an expenditure of more than £3.000: they therefore earnestly
APPEAL to the benevolent for ASSISTANCE to enable them to
continue, with unabated vigour, their hitherto successful exertions
in the cause of humanity:
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Oct. 27, 1857. THOMAS CIIIiPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
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rangingwhlivcheairsi
Nearing
. averydescription of labour is very high.
nbeeileoclrs:e'sequence of the present great demand
friends.
domestic servants are in great request,
Emigration will d7os.mauncdh foBri.thpeeCr adpaey,
;an
is occupation for all. The prices of
tdh e emigrants
common
willpaGl
anrboodoo:duji
provisions,
i edomrvne:eesr:dcyshl . we at;
on a par with England, except shamble meat,
from the influx of Caffres, is rather high for the colony,
l is very expensive, particularly arti-
cles of female dress, and it will be well that all emi-
grants should provide themselves with a good stock of
these necessaries before they leave their native country ;
and mechanics should not fail to provide themselves
with the tools they will require. Everything can,
however, be bought for money here, and, in most cases,
_t reasonable rates.

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ROYAL INSTITUTION.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, OCT. 20. On Saturday Professor Faraday concluded his short
course of lectures on electricity at the Royal Institu-
AtVon in the presence of a very crowded audience, in-
this time, when all England and Europe is excited
and horrified at the revolt -of the Sepoys in India, and
eluding the Prince of Wales. Electric discharge,
the massacre of the European racers, their wives, and with its accompanying heat and light, formed
families, it may not be altogether uninteresting to your the special subject of the lecture, which was
readers to hear that in Africa the British rule is supreme almost entirely occupied with exhibitions of
and that this colony, which has cost so many millions of the different conditions of discharge to illustrate
money, and has seen shed the beat blood of Britain, is the effects of electricity in its most active state.
now at comparative rest; and that the hardy emigrant, The varying forms in which electric discharge takes
after the fearfUl and bloody struggles he has had to en-
place were first shown by taking sparks from the
counter, is at last enabled 'to sow with the cheerful ex-
machine on rounded metallic surfaces, by discharg-
pectation of reaping in peace and safety.
ing the electricity silently by means of points, and
: by the peculiar emission of rays, accompanied by a
This hopeful state of affairs has been brought amen,
;roaring noise, called the brush discharge, when a
under Divine Providence, by circumstances so extraor- blunted point was brought near the prime conduc-
tor. The heating .
conduc-
dinary as to appear when related rather the imagination
property of the electric spat k
of subtile dealer in fictitious narrative than a plain matter
was exhibited
L . by the explosion of gunpowder, and
of fact. The circumstances have, however, now become
oy the explosion of oxygen and hydrogen gases.
matter of history, therefore it will suffice that I briefly
relate the prominent features and more fully portray the The latter experiment was performed in a novel
results. • - manner. Numbers of bubbles were inflated with
After the last Caffra war the natives, exhausted but the mixed gases in a saucer containing soap and
not defeated, sued for peace, which was readily, granted. water, and Professor Faraday, taking a quantity
The Caffres submitted to be sent from their pasture of the bubbles on his hand, held them to the con-
lands and hunting grounds within the colony, having the duotor of the electric machine, when, on the passing
Iteiskamma for their boundary, and were located in suit• of a spark, the gas in the soap bubbles exploded
able places beyond that river within what is termed with a loud report. The deflagration of metals
British Caffraria. They submitted to this extradition was illustrated by discharging a Leyden jar and the
with bad grace, and on their depSrture turned again and
electrical battery through strips of gull leaf and
again to look at their forsaken homes, already occupied .. • - -
by the detested white man, and were beard emphatically tnrough fine copper wire of different thicknesses,
to express their expectation of once again possessing for the, purpose of exhibiting the effects when the
them. Their cattle, of which they had vast herds, metal is-sufficiently thick to conduct a charge with-
accontpanied them, and for a time they set themselves out injury, and when it is so small as to be de-
steadily to work to increase their property and recover stroyed: during the discharge. These experiments
their strength, with the full deteernination, when the illustrated the various effects of lightning according
time came, once more to engage -en "a mighty.struggle to-the quantity of the electricity discharged from
with the whites, either to drive them into the seam-perish the clouds and the size of the conductors through
themselves in the conflict. This determina`ion was well which it passes—the force in some instances being
known to the colonial authorities, who, from dear bought
experience, were enabled to read the character of this too great to be transmitted safely by conductors
which will be sufficient for protection from less
mysterious people, and to calculate almost to a nicety
powerful discharges. Several objects that had
the period of the next outbreak.- Silently and efficiently , among were exhibited •
the Governor, Sir G. Grey, prepared to meet the storm. been struck by lightning , ~,
A large body of Royal troops were collected, Burgher which were the handle of a hay-fork that had been
forces were enrolled ready at a moment's notice to take split into several pieces whilst striking on the
the field, and the German Legion arrived from England. ground, and a portion of a thick iron cable which
From some reason, however, not yet explained, the had been partially melted during a terrific thunder
Oaffres were disunited in themselves, whether from storm in the West Indies. As an illustration of
having enjoyed for some time the luxuries of peace or some of the peculiarities of electric discharge, a
being unwilling to leave their splendid herds for the war, strong charge was sent through a fine silver wire
or doubt as to their chances of success against the pre-
parations of England, is not yet declared ; but most twisted round silk, by which means the wire was
completely deflagrated, but the silk remained
probably the second, for suddenly a prophet arose from • •
umpjured. This effect is attributed to the
the kraal of Krell, the paramount chief, who declared
he bad seen a vision in which it was revealed to him that rapidity with which the electricity passes
through the wire,
all their ancestors were on a certain day to rise from the
the action being so in-
deed, and, joining with the braves ready for the fight, in stantaneous as not to impart heat to the
one fell onslaught destroy for ever the rule of the white silk. Several illustrations of the rapidity of the
man in Caffreland. It wa.' moreover, necessary to pro- action during electric dischargeswere shown, among
vide food for the tens of thousands about to visit them, which the circumstances attending the firing of gun-
and this only could be done by every proprietor imme- powder by electricitywere most remarkable. When
diately destroying every head of cattle ie his possession, a Leyden jar was discharged by a metallic conclue-
when for every bullock so destroyed 12 others should
appear on the day of resurrection ; and for every sack tor through some loose gunpowder, the powder was
only thrown aside by the sudden concussion, and
of corn committed to the flames 100 per cent. should be
not fired ; but, on prolonging the time of the dis-
brought to light on the appearance of the ancients.
charge by the introduction of a skein of wetted silk
It is scarcely to be credited that this monstrous
absurdity was believed, yet so it was ' • thousands and into the conducting circuit, the gunpowder ex-
thousands of bullocks were destroyed, tons and tons of ploded. The two opposite effects were shown by
corn consumed, nothing but the slaughter of cattle and discharging a Leyden jar through a circuit in which
the destruction of grain was to be heard or fame in a thin strip of gold leaf and some gunpowder were
Caffreland, the believers in the prophet frantically atack- introduced. When the discharge was prolonged,
ing the unbelievers, forcibly destroying their cattle, and by using the wetted silk, the gunpowder was fired
vehemently upbraiding them for delaying by their unbe- and the metal remained uninjured ; but when the
lief the advent of those who were to aid in the one great charge was sent through the same arrangement with
object.
The day at last arrived, a dead stillness reigned over an entirely metal conductor, the gold leaf was de-
flaerated and the gunpowder was only blown away.
Caffreland, the people sat in the doors of their kraals ' -
fully accoutred for war, ready to receive their expected As an illustration that time is required for the
guests, and the bullock kraals and corn pits left open for action of heat in non-conducting bodies, Professor
th• mush-wised-for occupants, but the day passed over
and nothing transpired; all was consternation and dee Faraday directed a gas flame on to some loose gun-
powder, but no explosion took place for several
may. The prophet was again consulted, when the arch seconds, until the gunpowder had become heated
impostor declared that the spirits were dissatisfies, be- by the flame. The beautiful forms of electrical
cause all had not followed their directions, some had hid discharge of which Ruhnekorff's induction coil-
their cattle, and had not destroyed them. Then again machine is capable were exhibited by a powerful
went forth the edict to destroy, and again the task of
butchery commenced, and thousands more were rack- instrument of the kind constructed by Mr. Lad. A
continuous flow of dense brilliant sparks was first
lessly and wastefully slaughtered.
In the meantime the Governor was no passive spec. shown, then the more rapid succession of flashes
and their heating effects were demonstrated. The
tator of this madness ; he endeavoured by every means
in his power to convince them of their folly ; in vain, action of this continuous discharge of electricity on
but he at the same time collected his troops around him, the muscles was illustrated by bringing it to bear
fearing that when driven to despair their chief's a large s object eel, which had been kept m a torpid state
would be gained, and, pointing to the corn fields and in a tub of water during the lecture. The instant
cattle pounds of the colony, he would lead them again to that the charges were transmitted through the
that land which they had so often before devastated water the creature became violently active and
with rapine and murder. jumped out of the tub on to the floor of the lecture-
_ .

room, to the great delight of the juvenile portion of
the audience. The concluding experiments exhi-
bited the splendid streams of purple-coloured light
in exhausted receivers, produced by the induction
coil-machine. Hearty applause at the conclu-ion
indicated the gratification which this short course
of lectures had afforded ; and the young Prince, on
shaking hands with Professor Faraday, spoke to
him, apparently, in expression of the same senti-
ment.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Jan. 9.

A VE&SEL ON FIRE.—A good deal of excitement
was created here this morning by its being reported
that there was a ship on fire in the harbour. It
proved to bo the schooner Mary, of Fowey, which
had taken in a cargo of bark in Brading harbour,
and had anchored in Cowes Roads. Soon after 10
o'clock a.m. the crew discovered her to be on fire,
and hailed some other vessels near to send their
assistance. Capt. Broad, of the Stag, revenue
cutter, immediately put off with his boat's crew, as
did the captain of the Camilla with his. The
schooner was run into the harbour, and grounded
on shrape sand. One of the town fire-engines was
sent off in a carriage boat, with a number of hands
with buckets, &0., and a great body of water dis-
charged on the burning mass. Carpenters were
also set to work to scuttle the vessel. The Messrs.
White sent three boats full of men and a fire-engine
from their ship-yard, which was soon in full play
under the superintendence of Mr. Hamilton White,
but it was not till after three hours' hard work that
the fire was effectually extinguished. During the
whole of this time the captain of the schooner did
not make his appearance. A vessel loaded with
bark also took fire at Barsledou, and was obliged
to be scuttled to save her. The cargo was, of course,
spoilt.
DIED.—On the 9th inst., at Trafalgar House,
West Cowes, Mrs. Sarah Goodwin, aged 80. Mrs.
Goodwin built and endowed Trinity Church. She
was the proprietor of the Royal Yacht Squadron
House, and a great deal of other property in West
Co wos.

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