The Sun. — 1846-10-08 (London, England)

HERALD.—The guerilla nature of that contest of which Southern Africa is now the scene continues to excite much uneasiness, chiefly arising, however, from its own indeterminate and irregular character. The accounts which we have received for a considerable, period have consisted almost wholly of a series of marauding exploits, in which the enemy and the colonists are alternately the actors. Three or four hundred head of cattle are descried at a distance in possession of the Kafirs ; a score or two of men dash after them without orders, and often in utter defiance of all military discipline." Sometimes they are foiled, but more frequently are successful in plundering the enemy of that which had been the sole object of the attack. The affair may be characterised by a brilliant charge, a gallant contest, a valuable booty, and a safe return ; but the next day, perchance, is marked by reprisals : and while such a warfare continues, the prospects of a final settlement become more remote than ever. In the same way, intelligence may be received that the Kafirs will attack a given post on a given day. Provision made be made for repulsing the enemy, and avenging the insult, but when all this is performed and completed, the war stands just where it was. In contests with uncivilised nations, who are utterly ignorant of our vast military resources, and wholly unconscious of the amount of that power which they have provoked, petty successes of this kind are vain and purposeless. It may be asserted, with some plausibility, that attempts must unceasingly be made to recover frem the enemy that cattle which the latter has swept off' from the frontier ; but no one will venture to say that the property thus recovered is in any instance restored to its old owner, or that any effectual :compensation is now being made to him for the beggary and destitution to which he has been reduced by the robbery of his stook and the murder of his servants ; on the contrary, one of the reports concludes with the statement that—" about 300 head of cattle had been here picked • up, which afforded a very seasonable supply of meat to the hungry troops." Of course, the famished soldiers who recovered them could not part with this reward of their labours, nor waste their valuable time in the attempt to search out the old owners, or to distribute the cattle equitably among the plundered colonists, while their own physical necessities were unsatisfied. But such facts, manifest as they must nbeteoe thethe ideam most that these excursionssteursoryobserve observer completely areomp d leetnelyertasekoeh funteo; an the recovery and restoration of stolen property. It is r, evident that a ressure for immediate supplies, or the indulgence of predatory tendencies on the part of the troops themselves, dictates these skirmishes—either of which suppositions arc In the highest degree discreditable to those who actively influence the current of affairs.  During the visit of the King of the French to the fortresses on Friday, his Majesty perceived a female with a wooden leg, and wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honour. The King, learning from General Gourgeud that this woman had obtained her decoration at the battle of Friedland, in which she figured as a noncommissioned officer of,hussars, made her a present of 100, francs.