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... Extract from the Letter Officer Serving in Africa.* Poor Sir Harry Smith has left us, and we all regret him. He may have made some mistakes, the greatest of which was not having demanded more troops at first. But he had pledged himself to maintain the ...
... the centre of Africa, beyond the Orange river, where they still maintain themselves spite of both English and Kafirs. I defy any one todeoy that this is a true, though short, sketch of the proceedings which Las cost us three Kafir wars, and I know not ...
... THE KAFIR WAR AND TIRAILLEURS DE i VINCENNES. TO THE BDITOB THE TIMES. Sir—My attention has been lately called to a leading article in the Times of the 15th of December, which remarks are made to the expenses of the Kafir war, and also, that the honour ...
... 19. —We sail this day: the wind ia full against us, blowing straight up the bay—no matter —the commodore has sent the Geyser war steamer to tow ns out; we have got the hawser fixed, and are slowly down the broad expanse of False Bay. Trie mountains are ...
... to 400,504 men. His Highness the Prince President has justgiven orders to the Minister of War to reduce it to 370,177* The effective comprises the army of Africa and that of Rome. Oo the Ist of December this important measure will realised —it will redoction ...
... the frontier. Once committed to war, he, army utterly incompetent to the task, struggled energetically and successfully to a final triumph, which would have been long since achieved if he had re. mained in South Africa. The scene now again darkening. ...
... benefits to | be derived civilization, and if apocryphal convention* similar to those achieved for the Gospel in Southern Africa, be the only vineyards” to be gained for religon, we doubt the morality and value of such bloody and unholy conquests. Let ...
... respectful and eternal gratitude, he swore on the sacred book of the Koran tbaX he never would attempt to disturb our rule in Africa, and that he would submit, without mental reservation, to the wishes of France. Abd-el-Kader added, that it would be to m ...
... FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Bbeach op Official Confidence.—The War Bur- Mau.—The Indian newspapers received by the last mail discuss a subject of very considerable importance. The liombay Time* says it has heard, on excellent authority, that copies of the most ...
... flourishing trad* with th* interior of Africa, bat it would probably become the and the starting point of all future travelten seeking to extend to* bounderiae geographical and other aetentifla knowledge ia South Africa. Then is another important emmet under ...
... his Grace in '47, as for (be pleasing confidence feels in's2. Louis Philippe bad no interest whatever to subserve in goiog war, or of disturbing the peace of Europe. Neither, may it be said, has the Usurper. But, then, contend for it—supposing be can ...
... tenderest sympathy evtn into the heart of the British capitalist. If South Africa had nothing to depend on but the justice or mere}' of London parliament, woe to South Africa ! Let them raise a column and triumphal arch the pledge—let them christen the ...