The correspondent of the Times at Spearman's Farm, in a dispatch dated the 17th instant, says that a force marched westward on the 10th instant under Lord Dundonald, and dashingly occupied the hills above Potgieter's Drift, completely surprising the Boers, and that the infantry followed the same evening.
Major-General Lyttleton's brigade crossed the Tugela yesterday, and Sir Charles Warren's forces have crossed the Tugela near Wagonsdrift with all arms, and, in the face ofa hot and heavy fire, effected a satisfactory lodgment two miles further towards Sproenkop.
London, 19th January.
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