The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-04-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE CAFFRE WAR.—The General Screw Steam Shipla Company's steam ship Propontis, Captain Glover,  . . . arrived at Plymouth on Thursday morning. She left the Cape on the 7th of March, Sierra Leone the 24th of March, and Cape de Verde on the 31st. Although she brings intelligence of a successful attack made by Majorgeneral Somerset, at the head of 1,200 troops, and of the capture of a large number of Caffres, yet the general tenor of the information derived from her passengers is averse to any expectation of a speedy termination of the war ; and the skill and caution of the Caffres, coupled with their natural cunning, appear in many recent instances to have baffl .d the efforts of the regular forces. Sir Harry Smith was at King William's Town, and has, in all, about 2,000 troops under his immediate command. There are only seven artillerymen at Cape Town. Major Somerset's attack was at Fort Armstrong, on the Kat River settle enemy was ejected with great slaughter. The colonists at Cape Town call the war a government and not a colonial war, and not. one meeting of the inhabitants has as yet taken place, neither has anyother public demonitration been made in approval of the movements of Sir Harry Smith. . CALIFORNIA  —A tragic illustration of Lynch law is reported from Nevada city. A man in the beat of passion shot his wife. He was taken, and was about to be tried summarily, when before a word could be spoken, another party brought in the body of the wife, just as she fell,  dark blood oozing from her breast  She was  gently laid on a large table near her husband. This sight roused the people into frenzy. No one thought of sin the trial. The prisoner was seized and rds a little eminence overlooking the village, where a noose of a lariat swung significantly from a tree. Just at this moment a man of great influence with ere people in that vicinity attempted to postpone their design until a coroner's inquest should be held upon the body, and a summary trial, but still a trial, had, given their verdict. With much difficulty he succeeded. While the trial was proceeding, the crowd outside, stung with the delay, rushed in, secured the murderer, and marched him to the gallows, bearing the body of his wife close behind him. A small box, marked " For the Orphans." was nailed to the tree, and many an ounce was poured into it from the purses of tho.e who followed the father to his death. The body of the murdered woman was lowered into a wide pit, and, even while the wretched man gazed upon it, and upon an empty but significant box by his  side, the cord suddenly tightened about his neck and he swayed in the air. The mob sat on the hill-side and  sternly watched him. At the end of half an hour he was cut down and laid in the arave by the side of his wife. The coroner arrived in the evening and held au inquest on the body : the verdicts were in the case of the woman, " Murdered by Divine, her husband," and in the case of the man, " Died according to the will of God and justice to men."—Another instance of Lynch law occurred in New York. A Dr. Lennox, from Scotland, was shot while sitting in his office. Next morning a man who had often menaced his life was seized on suspicion, and examined before the proper authorities. During the examination several circumstances were discovered, which left scarcely a doubt of his guilt. Just before the end of the examination, a party of men, with blackened faces, rushed in the room, and their leader, with a dexterous whirl of the riata, lassoed the criminal across the room, and in a moment dragged him outside. After an obstinate fight the prisoner was retaken and put under a strong guard. No one offered to arrest the lynchers.