The Sun. — 1848-09-07 (London, England)

CONFLICT OF THREE EUROPEANS WITH A KAFIR, IN WHICH THE LATTER WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED.  The same post has brought us the intelligence of the death of a Klfir by some Europeans. As the letters which refer to this event were written when the preliminary examinations were going forward, we can only give the perticulars which they supply : "On the night of the 31st ult., a little after nine o'clock, a European came to the house of the resident clerk of the peace, and stated that he had just beenassaulted by Kafirs. He appeared severely cutthat d maltreated. On inquiring the particulars, he saida hwhen a s ataboutattacked ka mileed three Ks Alice fi on firs, , andtheithen Fort d eßf otheran w ud tonrgto read,hriman: self he killed one of them, when away. The constable and another person, accompanied by this man, immediately went to the place where the outrage was said to have been committed. The night was extremely dark, but they succeeded in reaching the spot, and after searching some time for the body of the Kafir, the man who reported himself to have been so brutally used, exclaimed, Here he is 1' On approaching nearer, they saw the body cf a Kafir lifeless in the centre of the road. The constable struck a light with a view to examine the body, but on recollecting himself, being near a dense bush, and unarmed, without knowing the facts of the case, ho immediately extinguished it. After removing the body from the main road to the side of the bush, they returned to give information, and procure assistance from the military to bring the body to Alice.  " A party of thirty men were sent out, who on the following morning at ten o'clock brought in the corpse on a stretcher, and conveyed it to the office, where a doctor was immediately called in to ascertain the cause of his death. " On the investigation of the case, it appears that the Kafir was barbarously murdered. The Englishman who reported himself to have been attacked by three Kafirs was in company with two other Europeans and this Kafir, and in some quarrel or other they fell upon him and murdered him. Two of the men are now in custody, and the constable is in search of the third." Another correspondent writes.— " A murder was committed here the night before last by two military settlers. The latter stated that when going to Fort Beaufort the night before last, that they were attacked by three Kafirs, and in self-defence they killed one of the Kafirs. It, however, appears that they took this Kafir (who is murdered) with them from Alicey by these particularsln to carry their goods, _ and from the exatninations taken it lavppeehaorpsethteoKbaeli Kafir ea s to supply i) strangledply posed on account of about 21. which he had." en' supposed of this tragical affair next week.  THE RECENT FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON UmvEnsm.—Late last evening, Mr. Mills, the deputy coroner, held a lengthened investigation at the Universit)? College Hospital, into the circumstances attending the death of Charles Richard \Vigmore, bricklayer, aged 28, whose death was occasioned by the giving way 9f the scaffolding at the new wing of the University, now in course of erection. W. Wigniore, a brother of the deceased, was upon the jury. After examining several witnesses, the jury returned the following special verdict, " That the deceased died from mortal injuries of his body caused by his having fallen with a certain scaffold, and that the said scaffold did fall and break down owing to the sudden breaking of a certain pole, and that the said pole was unsound and unfit for use in a,scaffold, there and broke by means of its decay at a timeo when iln calculated was great pressure upon it, such as it was. to sustain and support." The inquiry did n not terminate till twefve o'clock. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT .—Yesterday the House of Commons in Palace-yard, and Chamber, commenced. fronto the The whole of these unsightly wooden buildnigs are to and the star., Committee-roomsi.n removal Westminster o f the temporary be demolished during the recess.