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      There can be no doubt now that the American Fisheries question is settled , and that all risk of collision between the naval forces of the two countries has passed away . We cannot hide the fact that our government have not done what they first intended to do , and that American statesmen have been too prompt to bully . How the colonists will like being protected after the fashion of giving up all that was claimed

      by them , and disputed by the Yankees , we must leave them to say ; and we must also leave it to Ministers to explain how it was that a ship of the line was sent out to protect the waters within three miles of the shore , if that was all they meant to protect . The truth is , the Derby cabinet meant to carry matters with a high hand on the other side of the

      Atlantic , but have stopped short quite as much from fear of public opinion at home , as of the warlike clap-traps , of Mr . Webster , or the valorous sayings of other orators . President Fillmore is reported to have said that the time had gone by for settling differences between England and America by war . That is the verdict of common sense on both sides the

      Atlantic , and the thoughtful of the two countries must not allow officious blundering , ox eloquent ambition to set us by the

      ears . A possible dispute about the Lobos guano Islands , claimed by Peru , is said by the go-a-head politicians to involve the chance of a war . Mr . Webster , it would appear , has been committing himself to an opinion , rather loosely expressed it is tnie , that these Islands , which are now of great commercial value , do not belong to the Peruvian government . The only

      reason he gives for his belief is his ignorance of how Peruvian rights were established . It is , however , well known that these Islands formed part of the ancient South American dominions of the Spanish crown , and were included in old maps of the territory . Eeally , if Mr . Webster plays many more such pranks as these , Monarchy will not have a monopoly of rash and incapable Secretaries of State .

      It is difficult at first sight to conceive how an American dispute with Peru , as to the sovereignty of the Lobos Islands , could be supposed to involve England . The fertile brains of some of our transatlantic friends , however , struck out the way . England , they say , has acknowledged the title of Peru to those guano-covered rocks , and has an interest in defending it , because by the revenues derived therefrom the Peruvian

      government is able to pay its English creditors . We need not tell Englishmen that this is simply absurd . England would gain quite as much by the guano trade being set free , as by Peruvian solvency ; and if any government were mad enough , the people are too wise to allow war to grow out of such a cause . It will be more for the credit of powerful America to respect the national rights of defenceless Peru ; but whether or not . that is not a quarrel in which English blood

      may be shed . In France , Addresses from the Councils Generals come pouring in , filled with the most fulsome flattery of Napoleon the Little . According to these documents , the assassin of the 2 nd of December is " the man of providence , " " the saviour of his country , " " the preserver of society , " and "the elect of God and the people . " In almost all there is a desire expressed

      that in order to preserve order the government should be consolidated in the person of the anointed of the Deity , and the chosen of the people . In some instances , but those are few , he is expressl y requested to assume the Imperial dignity , to declare it hereditary in his family , and to assume the title of Kapoleon the 2 nd . The precise value , however , of these disgraceful addresses , as expressions of the real" sentiments of the bodies from which they emanate is very uncertain . One fact alone lets in a world of doubt . The ionmals are

      forbidden to publish the discussions of the Councils ,, except as authorised by their Presidents . What a commentary on the strength of a government which does not let anything but praise appear . A curious instance of this is given in one of the London papers . The correspondent of a Belgian journal was sent for to the Ministry of Police , in order to receive in structions as to his behaviour . He promised to write nothing but bare facts . The answer was that that was not what was wanted . He was not asked for silence , but for praise ! Town Edition .

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      V \ arnings continue to pour in upon the provincial journals , and suspensions to be inflicted upon the most frivilous pretexts . An editor has stated a circumstance incorrectly , has supported the pretensions of a man who refused to take the oath , has canvssed the Acts of the Government in a hostile manner , or has written something to bring ; the Prefect into

      contempt—any of these things is reason enough . It is ' sad to see a great country ruled by a band of profligate adventurers , who ignore intelligence , deny virtue , elevate force , consecrate fraud , exalt superstition , degrade the people , and plunder the public coffers . The only consolation is that it cannot last , and when it is over comes retribution . The commercial

      treaty between France and Belgium is yet unconcluded , and the traders are beginning to grumble . It is not very easy to understand the real reason of the delay . There is said to be a failure of the vineyards . The rivers have risen and committed great devastation , and the crops in many places have suffered . A curious scandal against the principle of Protection has come out . The French government pay their fishermen

      bounties for catching herrings , in order to keep up a school for sailors . The fishermen go to Yarmouth and buy herrings ready caught , of the beachmen there , in order to claim the bounty upon them . The consequence is , that two French steamers are now upon our coast , to watch that the men who get the bounty catch their own fish . Perhaps Sir John Paldngton will recommend this anecdite for consideration of our North American colonists . - -

      The best news from the Sister Isle is that the potato and corn crops have not suffered so much as was expected . There is yet hope for the food of the people . The Six Mile Bridge Jury has returned the astounding verdict- of Wilful Murder against Mr . Delmcge , J . P ., and eight soldiers of the 31 st Regiment . Twelve of the jury concurred in that finding , six dissented , but were willing to bring in a verdict of manslaughter . The Coroner issued his warrants , and all the

      accused are in goal . Great numbers of people assembled to witness the incarceration of Mr . Delmege , and greeted him with groans and cries of " High hanging to the murderer . " Application will be made to the Court of Queen ' s Bench for bail ; the trials will be taken in another part of the country , and if the prisoners are not acquitted they will be pardoned . There is a rumour that the authorities intend to put the law in operation against Fathers Burke and Clune , who are said

      to have taken a prominent part in the fatal affair , and who were active at the Inquest . Apropos of Father Clune , it will be recollected that he shewed a hat with a hole in it , through which he asserted a bullet to have passed . It is said that the hole is about an inch above the hat-band , and that the orifice is only on one side . The inference is , either that Father Clune has been favoured by being made the subject of a miracle , and carries the ball about in his head without inconvenience , or that his word cannot be taken . Which horn

      of the dilemma wnl be pitched upon , we are unable to predict . The week has not been fertile in English intelligence . It is a dull time of the year , rendered doubly dull by the present state of parties . People are in too high a state of expectation te be very active . It is not likely we shall know much more about parliamentary movements till October is going out , and until then some will amuse themselves , some will try thier hands at making new combinations and strengthening old ones , and some will push trade .

      Business is better , and that will help to keep the money worshippers quiet . Consols have been above par , and are still hanging thereabouts , a fact that will excite men on 'Change . Prompted by this , the 'Ames has given us a glimpse of what is " looming in the future . " The Chancellor of the Exchequer is in his closet concocting his budget , and thinking of the possibility of reducing the interest on the National Debt a half per cent . That would take off four or five

      millions of taxation at one swoop . Think of that Financial Keformers . Weep Whigs , that you were not in office when such a prospect opened . No doubt strenuous eflorts will be made to keep Consols below par , but with the hoards in the Bank coffers , the increasing difficulty of finding profitable investments , and the constant influx of the precious metals , added to the fact that the Corn crop will be an average , and we do not see how prices are to be diminished , or the upward tendency restrained .

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      The Coroner ' s Inquest upon the second victim of the Railway accident which took place near Coventry has just terminated , and a new catastrophe has occurred at Boltoti , which nearly furnished the materials for another enquiry . Whatever else may be stagnant , in these days of mismanagement railway news are deadly lively . The Jury in the Coventry case returned a verdict that the accident took place througn an ash-pan coming off , a fact with which everybody

      was tolerably conversant . But how did it come off ? " Aye , there ' s the rub ; " and the Jury say that is not in the evidence . Of course not . The Government Inspector who , on the former inquest deposed that the accident occurred through a broken stay , was not there , and the Coroner did not think it necessary that he should be . The independent engineer who first discovered the defect was not there cither , and of course

      his presence was equally undesirable . There was nobody but the officials of the Company , who told the oldest story over again . The engine had just been repaired—the stay could bear more weight than it did bear—no expense or trouble were spared—there must have been an obstruction on the line—nobody saw it , nobody felt it , but there must have been ; and so a verdict amounting to no verdict was returned .

      This week ' s accident at Bolton is a much more simple and much more disgraceful affair A station too small and with too few officers , and those not of the right stamp ; large excursion traffic added to the ordinary business—an excursion train at the platform waiting to go through a tedious operation—an excursion train behind that—then a timber trainthen another excursion train—then a luggage train ; the rails crowded for a mile or more in the midst of tunnels and

      bridges ; a little further on a curve limiting the range of sight to 125 yards ; the night dark ; the man whose duty it was to attend to signals gone home after his ordinary time , tired and stupid ; no lights ; no look-out ; a passenger train due , and five other trains waiting patiently for destruction . Up comes the passenger train , rounds the short curve at speed , tries to pull up , and then crashes into the mass . The result , wonderfully small all the circumstances considered , is 15 persons hurt , one dangerously . Four hours afterwards the

      signal-man hangs himself in his watch-box . The Times can ' think of no other remedy than the entire stoppage of cheap excursion trains . Railway officials do not exercise proper caution , therefore the poor must not travel , We saw a suggestion some time since of putting a travelling director in a chair in front of each train—quite as wise a proposition , and one far more likely to be effectual . What is wanted is , instead of punishing station-masters , drivers , porters , and such small deer , to make the higher officers really responsible ; then railways will be safe , but not till then .

      From Dorsetshire we have news of promise for agricultural labourers . Farmers are offering 3 s . 6 d . a day , and not able to get harvest-men . A change this from the times of 6 s . a week . The cholera seems to be advancing towards us , and judging from experience we may expect its advent next summer . It will find us , as before , quite unprepared , and then in the midst

      of terror we shall make an ineffectual attempt to meet the foe . If we were wise in time—if we cleaned out the dirty places of our cities—saw to a more abundant supply of better water and shut up our graveyards , the cholera might pass off with no worse effects than an ordinary epidemic . Perhaps we shall when it is too late .

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      A New Caspar Hauser , says a Berlin correspondent of the Independence , who has just been discovered in a house of correction for boys . On the 10 th of this month the police learned that one of them was chained up in an underground chamber of the house , and a domiciliary visit accordingly took place . The officers found a boy of 15 chained to a heavy log , beside lay a palliasse on the floor . The lad had escaped twice from the house , been retaken and condemned to this carcere duro , where he had spent ten days , fed upon a weak broth , and beaten with a rod . The police brought him out into the fresh air , upon which he staggered and fell as if taken with vertigo . He has since been placed in an orphan house , and his case is to be brought before the authorities . A . new Placet was discovered by Mr . J . R . Hind , at Mr . Bishop ' s observatory , Regent ' s-park , at llh . 30 m mean time , on Sunday night , the sixth he has detected during the past five years

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1693/page/1/