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      and it is hinted that measures of prevention have heen adopted . " It is pretty well ascertained , " says the writer , " that individuals connected with the proposed movement have recently been vibrating between New York and Orleans , concerting plans of holding conferences , looking , as is supposed , to a hostile demonstration in the month of October , with all the secrecy which has been observed by these conspirators against the public peace'and the good faith of the United States in the observance of treaty stipulations . They have been tracked so closely as to warrant flie belief that a new plan has been devised , and that another invasion may be attempted , unless the present intelligence should lead to its frustration . "

      Accounts of the cruelty and determination of the Spanish authorities , reach us from time to time . One of the latest , though derived from a suspicious source , has its own intrinsic interest . Among the prisoners arrested at Puerto Principe , one of the foci of the late insurrection , was the Senorita Guovra . She is said to be only eighteen , and very beautiful . Her crime consists in being the sister of an insurgent who was shot last year ; in her having embroidered the " Lone Star" flag ; and being in communication with insurgents in New York . She refused to acknowledge that she was wrong in working for the freedom of Cuba : and she declared that her convictions

      would never change . The great beauty and amiable character of the Senorita Guovra gave her much influence over the minds of the young men of the district in which she resided , and therefore it was considered advisable to bring her to Havannah , where , since her arrival , she has been confined in a separate cell . Being a person of respectability and property , used to every comfort , some consideration was felt for her , but she has declined the offers of the governor of the fort to make her cell more comfortable , accepting only a wash basin , and a cot to lie down upon . Nine women in all have been arrested , concerned in this conspiracy ; and Caneda acts wich relentless severity to all the men arrested .

      To this we may add the following , from the Times of Wednesday , on the " Lone Star" order : — " The highly figurative language in which the objects of the society have been described in its public ceremonies , is likely to excite more ridicule than interest , and some allowance must doubtless be made for the exaggeration of which all transatlantic reports are found to partake . We believe , however , that the League thus described does in reality symbolize a ruling

      sentiment of the Union ; that it is not unlikely to supply organization to resources which wanted little else , and that the sketch given by our correspondent of its probable operations is not over coloured . So mighty , indeed , are the actual strides of the United States towards dominion , that they can hardly be exceeded even by the visions of this extraordinary society . Though Texas and California are scarcely yet cemented to the political fabric of the Union , we have seen the first step taken to the absorption of Mexico . "

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      FURTHER "EXPLANATIONS" OF THE FISHERY QUESTION . We call the attention of our renders to the subjoined article from the New York Journal of Commerce . Its statements are believed to be made on good authority ; and if so , they show that thore lias boon indescribable blundering , from Lord Derby < lown to the Standard . Perhaps , after all , we shall have to wuit for a future Mucauluy , to unravel the intricacies of this question : — " The JCnglish papers received by the lust arrival , and especially the Ministerial papers , contain speculations imd assertions as to tin ; fishery matUtr which are quito erroneouH , and which nIiow that they are as much at fault on this subject an our people were for some time attar the appoaranee of Mr . Webster ' s notice of the Gt . li of July . " Several of the papers announce thai , tho Hshery question is settled , and they even proceed to state tho terms on which it , is ulleircd to be Mettled .

      " I lie faet in , that there has bom neither settlement , nor arrangement , nor negotiation on the subject , and , for the present , there is not , to be any . The < liflioulties that at , first apparently surrounded tho question have disappeared in consequence of a better knowledge , on the part , of our Government , of the circumstances of tho case . All the misapprehension which existed in this country on the Mibieet of the 15 rifish orders and pretensions , and all tin ; ill-feeling that prevailed in consequence of it , were caused by tho blundering manner in which the new liritish Ministry took their inea . surcH lor tho protection of the shore

      fisheries <> 1 their American colonies . No adequate explanation lias been given of their neglect , to communicate orders , dated May the li ( 5 ( , h , to tlio Government , prior to the 5 th of . I uly . If Mr . Webber ' s public notice of the Mh of July was calculated to produce alarm and excitement in ( ' oiifrress , and throughout tho country , so the Jiritish orders which he had received were equally well calculated to create in his mind tint belief that the ftritish Government had undertaken to onforco a construction ot tho renunciation clause in the treaty of 181 H which would , in effectdestroy tho American liHhing business .

      , " Upon explanations , however , which woro Subsequently made , our Government became perfectly well satisfied that it wan tho real purpoao of tho Imperial Government to do

      nothing more than to enforce the observance of the renunciation clause according to our own construction of it , and that , in doing this , they were to exercise caution and forbearance . " The despatches received from Commodore Perry , and advices from other sources , show that Admiral Seymour has executed his orders in a manner which precludes any complaint from this Government . Further , the presence of Admiral Seymour has , in fact , been of great benefit to our fishing fleet , inasmuch as he has protected it from those seizures which would have been made by colonial cruisers under the colonial construction of the convention , and has also promoted the American cod fishery by excluding the French fishing vessels from the coast of Labrador .

      " The British Ministerial press may therefore well say that the question is settled ; for it has settled itself . " The state of the matter is now this : —No negotiation has been commenced on either side on the subject . But , on both sides , it is promised that , in order to avoid a collision , the greatest degree of caution and forbearance shall be used . " The fishing season will end by the middle of October , and , in the meantime , it has not been thought necessary to keep up any naval force on the fishing grounds by the United States . Before the next fishing season shall commence it is barely possible that the fishing liberties of the Americans on the British coasts may be enlarged . " Another proof that Jonathan looks a-head .

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      THE BURMESE WAR . By the overland mail , which arrived on Saturday , we have intelligence from Burmah up to the 14 th of July . The only active portion of the expeditionary force had been the navy . Commander Tarleton , with his little steam flotilla , went up the Irrawaddy on a reconnoitering expedition on the 7 th of July , shelling the Burmese wherever they showed themselves , and keeping a bright look out . The only action fought was at Konnonghae , where the Burmese were in force , but concealed either in jungle or trenches . Here four men and a boy were wounded . From this place Captain Tarleton steamed up the river to Peeinghee , where the river is divided into two streams . One of these the

      enemy had fortified with stone-built works ; and it was reported that the Burmese general , Bandoola , was in command of a large force there . The flotilla , avoiding this ambush , took the lesser arm , and successfully reached Prome on the 9 th . A steamer belonging to the King of Ava had just left . Finding no resistance , Captain Tarleton landed his men , and occupied the town ; spiking the iron , and carrying off the brass guns . Apprehensive that the enemy might attempt

      to block up the river and cut off his retreat , and seeing , also , that the supply of fuel was precarious , Captain Tarleton turned backwards . On his way down he caught the last of a party of Burmese crossing the river from the works at Peeinghee , and burnt the state barge of their general ; having performed , most satisfactorily , the objects of the expedition . Commodore Lambert , in his despatch to Lord Dalhousie , thus estimates its results : —

      " The river has been ascended to Promo , 56 guns have been captured ; 10 war-boats , and several boats containing military stores and ammunition , have been burnt ; and an army of 7000 men , commanded by one of the highest officers in the Uurman empire , dispersed , with the exception of 2000 who are collected in tho neighbourhood of Prome , where , ' without artillery or defences , they are no longer formidable . " The following is the extract of the despatch of the Governor-General to the East India Company , furnished by the Gazette .

      " It is in tho highest degree satisfactory to us to bo enabled to report that the health of the troops on service in Burnmh continues good . " Supplies are superabundant . An immense population has collected around Rangoon and Kemmondine . They are quict < and manageable , and they exhibit the most perfect confidence in the troops of every description—a testimony to the forbearance and good conduct of tho force which will bo appreciated by you . " The advance of tho steam flotilla on Prome , during which Mi pieces of artillery were captured from the enemy , is reported to you . "

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      AUSTRIAN OUTRAGE ON DR . PAG NT . According to the Leicestershire Mercury , Dr . Pnget has been subjected to the insolence and ill-treatment of that power which cut down Mather with impunity , and with impunity imprisoned Newton . We quote tint article from our vigilant provincial contemporary : — "Another instance has just coin *! to our knowledge of the growing insolence displayed by tho despotic ' . powers of the Continent , towards Knglishmcn residing within their sway . The present case , too , is all the more startling

      because it , bus not occurred either in Kranee , Italy , or Austria . Kaxony is tho kingdom which is now striving to share in the unenviable and disgraceful notoriety hitherto only ' attaching to the governments of those countries . Dresden , its capital , is the place of all others chosen for the first overt , avowal of adhesion to tho unholy alliance of tho second half of the nineteenth century . And tho party who is tho I ' u-hI , victim to this spreading absolutist hatred of the very name of an Englishman is one in whom wo naturally feel un interest— both from his connexion with thia locality , and from his oarly ucrvicoa on belmlf of

      Hungarian nationality and independence . We allude ts > t > Paget , author of the well known work on Hunaar ? ' Transylvania . y ™ ^ " This gentleman , aa many of our readers are awn * after leaving Leicester , went to reside in Dresden Th he was leading a very quiet life , and , as he imasrinPrf life of security as well as peace . Suddenl y , on the 2 nd % this very month , September , his house was visited h party of police , who seized and carried off all his lett * MS . note-books , diaries , and a considerable number ^ books . The British minister , Mr . Forbes—for Enel i ! j

      has a duly accredited and acknowledged represe ntative f the court of Saxony—was , we learn , very indi gnant at tV outrage . He at once called upon the Saxon Minister f Foreign Affairs for an explanation of such extraordinarv conduct , and , we should imagine , likewise demanded tK restoration of the books and papers so seized . The m I perfect ignorance and innocence were pleaded by th functionary . Believe it who may , neither he nor the Mi * nister of the Interior knew anything—so they averred f this most flagrant outrage . ' From them nothing conto

      be learned , and Ur . . Faget was lett utterly m the dark aa to what could be the pretext for such an unexpected and arbitrary proceeding . Whether the documents and pro - Eert y thus carried off have been returned we have no ? eard . We cannot think that the British minister would on any account , suffer them to be detained after he had once moved in the matter , unless some clear and indisputable justification of their seizure could be shown and proved " That , from all we know of Dr . John Paget , we feel per . " suaded , could not be done . No act of his can have justified the Saxon government in treating him hi this manner - and we trust that , when the outrage becomes known , there will be such an expression of opinion upon the subject

      throughout the country as shall stimulate , if not compel , even our reactionary government to inquire into the real cause and sources of this domiciliary visit . " "We use the word ' sources' advisedly ; for the reader will observe that this transaction has not occurr ed in any Austrian state where the embers of insurrection and revo - lution are still fiercely smouldering .- It has taken place in Dresden , in Saxony , against whose ruler and people no Englishman can have any motive to intrigue and plot . "Whence , then , the inspiration—whence the orders to act thus glaringly in violation of international treaties , and towards the subject of that friendly power but for whose aid Saxony would not now have been an independent

      kingdom ? To this question we fear there can be but one reply . Saxony is no longer an independent kingdom , except in name . Its police can only have so acted under the sanction and directions of the agents of Austria ; ami the King of Saxony can now be regarded only as a vassal of the house of Hapshurgh—or , rather , of the head of the > Kusso-Austrian empire . We shall look with great anxiety to see what will be the course of our government in this affair . Their conduct , whatever it be , will give no unimportant indication of their future foreign policy now that the great warrior to whom the Tory party professed to look up with so much reverence , almost approaching to . awe , has been summoned to his final rest . "

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      NATIONAL PROSPERITY . Unusual prosperity pervades the country . Tkr accounts of the state of trade throughout the country during the past week show great activity and confidence in all quarters . At Manchester the market was steady , with an improving continental demand especially from Germany and Russia . At Birmingham the rise of 15 per cent , in the price of iron , which has been fixed to take place on the 1 st of October , has kA to a proportionate advance in various descriptions of manufactured goods , but as regards the general Tnwiness of the place there is undiminished activity , A \\ i large orders are in hand from India , South Amenrti , and the United States , while the shipments to Australia are also upon an extensivo scale . In the woollen districts there has again been an increase of transactions . and the working classes are enjoying a degree \ wiw perity unknown at any former period . At Nottingham it is the quiet season , bnt ™™ a prospects are considered to be unusually favourab ly An invention for the manufacture of wire luce , capaW " of being electro-plated , is attracting much attention , and is likely to lead to many new forms of oriinii"" " ' - The idea had itu origin in the requirements of »«« Jmingham house . It seems that Mr . SturgcH , a w

      ^ town , wns anxious to strike a lnco pattern upon how' - of his goods . For this purposo he procured w >« «¦ samples of ordinary bobbin net , the pattern * of wliw he was enabled to transfer , by electricity , to hoH w-Ktances , but could not imprint ' them upon hard i" « ' ^ As u substitute , he cauHcd some eiochet wor ^ ttKiililn wire In ho imi < li > which answered the p » i'P . pnuoie vvue i (» no mimewim ; ii unnm'i >« — * 1 rlc

      , , _ < - »" ono respect , but was not Kufncicntly delicate in « ' or elegant in design . He then thought it i » ohsiW « the Nottingham lace-makers might , by llltl . " l 0 fine-drawn , pliable wire , make a metallX' '" ¦ . ^ wiHW . tr the purpose . With thin view he I »« fc J !" * oWH , communication with Mr . Henry Carey , ° / " "" uircti , who , having succeeded in making the article i « l ^ has patented it in Mr . Mturges' name . As in ' . . n At l . .. l . l" . * ... 4 . ^ . t / . li " ml > hllH tO " *' uiinterior oi ¦¦

      o mo umuuu •>« : « ' feolt " ' Rtrur . tc . il for the working of wire in the place oi _ - ^ there will be some delay in making many van « - ^ ^ pattern , but the mnltifuriouH uses to which ii _ adapted , particularly by tho Birming ham «•»

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      914 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 914, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1953/page/6/