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 arc successful in plundering the enemy of that which had been the sole object of the attack. The affair nray be characterised by a brilliant charge, a gallant con= test, a valuable booty, and a safe return ; 'out 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, 'out when all this is performed and completed, the veer 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 from the enemy that cattle which the latter has swept off from the frontier ; but no one will venture to say that the property dthus 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 stock 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 veils 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, for 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 be to the most cursory observer, completely discountenance the idea that these excursions are undertaken for there thateover a pressureyand restorationfordi imnoefsatotelesnuppprloiepse: oa,thety in Iti! evident dulgence of predatory tendencies on the part of the troops themselves, dictates these skirmishes—either of which suppositions are in the highest degree discreditable to those who actively influence the current of affairs.  During the visit of the King of the PrerCh to the fortresses on Friday, his Majesty percP'Lved a female with a wooden leg, and wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honour. The King, 10-.4rning from General Gourgaud that this woman had obtained her decoration at the battle of Friedland, in which she figured as a noncoocommissioned officer of hussars, made her a present of 1 f, Plant Or FRIDtRICK