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      siary to arrest tlie rioter . " I will take good care not , " replied ihe * latter , "he is an Englishman , and I am ordered to treat him with all due consideration . " This scene lasted upwards of three hours , when the Englishman , having bellowed to exhaustion , thought proper to withdraw . The flag was immediately removed , and the window closed . The crowd then quietly dis Versed , and it soon became known that the Englishman had bijcn conducted to a mad-house . " •« -. « r + rt arrest the rioter . U T will fair p . ernexd r >< i ™ •««*¦» •«• t

      SPAIN . The Diario Espanol says it has observed with regret in the Gazette not a shower of gold , but a shower of extraordinary credits , amounting in the whole to five millions of reals . This jou rnal expresses uneasiness with regard to financial prospects

      PORTUGAL . A letter from Lisbon , of August 25 th , in the Clamor Pullico d Madrid , says there is no doubt of the rupture between the &ldaaha ministry and the Septembrists . The Marshal is 'not contented with turning M . M . Seabra and Garrett out of the uiiaistry . He desires to undo all that those ministers have done iu their respective departments .

      TUSKEY . The Trieste Gazettehas correspondence from Constantinople of 21 st ult , stating that oa the 17 th of August the British eorvettej Hodeste , driven into the Dardanelles by stress of weather was fired on with two guns from the fort , and was compelled to put to sea again . The correspondent of the Trieste Gazette writes from Constantinople that there is every probability of the sneedy re-in stallation of Keschid Pacha , Ali Pacha , and Fuad Efiindi in

      tiieif former ministries . Reschid Pacha is reconciled with Ali Pacha , his chief enemy , and the best possible understanding now exists "b etween them . More than 5 , 000 families are left houseless by the recent fires ; 3 , 000 have as yet found no place of shelter , and the government has granted them the use of a sufficient number of military tents . In Adrianople conflagra tions have caused the destruction of property to the value of 4 , 000 , 000 piastres . According to reports from Syria , Abduraknian's band had fallen upon Hebron and pillaged it .

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      UNITED STATES . ( From our own Correspondent . ) New York , August 25 . At the present moment the uppermost question in the public mind is that of the Lobos guano . Several official documents respecting it have been transmitted to the Senate by the President . Three of these documents are letters from Don Juan Y de Osma the Peruvian minister at Washington , to Mr . Secretary Webster . In those letters , the Peruvian minister seeks to show that the Lobos Islands indisputably belong to the Republic of Peru , inasmuch as they were known to

      navigators as early as the days of Pizzaro , that they were always the acknowledged property of Spain , that from their discovery , the Islands were frequented by the Peruvian Indians , and that on the separation of Peru from Spain , they naturally became the possession of the new state . In answer to these " claims , Mr . Webster states , that the Islands never were really taken possession of , either by Spain or Peru , that they are uninhabited and uninhabitable , and that if they have been frequented by the

      Indians of Peru , who came there ibr the purpose of fishing , they have been still more so by citizens of the United States , who frequented their shores for a similar purpose . He alleges , moreover , that the decree of the Peruvian government in " l 838 , forbidding foreign vessels to fish on any of the coasts of Peru , was issued after , and in consequence of the discovery , by Captain Morrell , an American citizen , of the rich treasure oi ; guano in the Lobos Islands . You will see from this that the whole

      question is as unsettled as ever . The only matter to be decided is : does or does not the Peruvian Republic possess an absolute sovereignty over the Lobos Islands ? The fact of their lying nearer to Peru , than to the territories of any other state , does not of itself give the Peruvians an exclusive right over them , since they are at a greater distance than a marine league from the Peruvian shores . Neither have Spain or Peru ever taken , formal possession of them , while America has acquired some title to them by long uninterrupted usage . - In my opinion , the claim by Peru or by any other nation to exclusive property in the Lobos Islands , is altogether untenable , and the wisest and justest plan would certainly be their recognition as the common property of all .

      By telegraphic dispatch from Washington , I learn that a most disgraceful scene took place in the senate yesterday , which is likely to end in a couple of hostile encounters . Speaking in a discussion on the bill on the light-houses , Mr . Polk chanced to say something not very creditable to General Scott , the Whig candidate for the Presidency , which at once brought up Mr . Culiumin his defence . A most disgusting scene ensued , in the course of which the word " liar" was very profusely made use ° f by both parties . A declaration rnade'loy Mr . Polk during the debate , regarding the conduct of Scott at Molino del Rey , also awoke the wrath of Mr . White of Kentucky , so that by my next you may expect to hear of duels between Mr . Polk and ^ eh of those gentlemen .

      A fearful collision took place on the 20 th inst ., on Lake Erie off Long point Light on the Canada shore , between the Atlantic steamer and the propeller Ogdemburg . The steamer was so HKich injured that she went down ten minutes afterwards , when above 300 of the passengers who wera principally Norwegians , fliet a watery grave . The remaining persons on board were taken off by the Ogdensbwrg . Those in charge of the respective vessels seek to throw the blame of the accident upon each other .

      There is no change in the intelligence from the fishing grounds . Captain Pool of the Mary Nttes , just arrived from St . Lawrence , states that the American fishermen have all been driven from the Bay of Chaleur , by the British ship of war , the Uteastat ion . He was one of those driven out , and he says that the captain of the Devastation told him he would not suffer tueni to fish within three miles of any of the bays . It is stated positively that the Iky of Fundy has been completely cleared of American fishermen by the British cutter Netley .

      A letter from St . Louis , dated Monday , states that the steamer F ranBin No . 2 , "burst her boiler six miles below that city on the p revious day . Nine persons were killed , thirty scalded , and S 1 * more were still missing on the despatch of the letter . Accounts from Equador to July 28 th , state that Flores was co mpletely routed in his attack on Guaquil . His land and sea fo rces surrendered to the President of the Republic , General Wbino . But Urbino is by no means firm ; the country is repre ^ nted to be in a most unsettled state . A party has been formed a gainst the President , and it is expected that another revolution "Mil soon take place .

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      CANADA . f « pm n 1 i ? ^ ? S lianient - has beeu ° PQnedwrth the customary The y the Governor-General . * a fWi rk settl meilt ' was visited on the 2 nd of May with a noocl as great and sweeping as one that fell twenty-six years tttJ f d ^ tlrae fl ' ora tbe 2 nd of Ma y t o tllc > 25 th , when I 7 ??? , > r e . cede - A letter received but a few days since at rtm a S 0 ta ' describes tlie spectacle which was there

      wn J . r V ? miIes in len S th of tlie colony a ™ bow under f £ « 1 linf a . cllstc ? , llce of foiu > miles tlie water lias spread over dkt . n pp ° ? ? mileS , On eack slde of tllc ri 7 er » and n * that JS , VS * ? ^ esca P ' Loacled boats may be seen sailing beyond the habitations . The sight is as melancholy as w ^ i ^^ Population , 3 , 500 have had to fly before the & ^ wSo ^^ ' ° property is already esti " fhf ° nT' ^ \ houses »^ arns , crops , all were swept off , and the colony is almost ruined . The labour of 26 years is all

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      AUSTRALIA AKD ITS WEALTH . ( Abridged from the British Quarterly Review . ) ( Concluded from last Saturday ' s Star of Freedom . ) To determine what is to be the effect upon prices of a considerable addition to the stock of precious metals now existing in the world , is matter of extreme difficulty . In this case , the lights of the past are dim , obscure , and deceptive . We know , indeed , in the gross , that the discovery and opening out of tlie gold and silver mines of Mexico snd Peru , during the early nart of the sixteenth century , did at length , after a series of vears , greatly lower the value of these rocitaisand caused a slow and

      , gradual rise of prices , which hardly ceaso-l oven in the eightteen fh ; but how much was actually due to \! . c additional coin in circulation , and how much to economic causes , it is hard to say . To fix , with anything like certainty , t ' -- . value of the money of Henry VII . and Henry VIII . seems impossible . It is well known that the coinage was then debased to a considerable extent ; but there exist no means for ascertaining , with any certainty , whether the debased coin passed generally at its nominal or its real value , or at some rate between a nominal and a real value . If we take as a criteron the rental

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      of the kingdom , we must lean to the conclusion that a rise in prices had taken place in consequence of the debasement of the current money , of which the subsequent rise caused by the real depreciation oi the precious metals themselves towards the end oi Henry ' s reign , was only a sort of continuation , it has been estimated that the stock of gold and silver now tle 0 rld

      SnXinLi 1 . W m the shape of money is about ± 400 , 000 , 000 sterling , of which more than half is silver . This is probably under the mark . There seems reason to believe that tne money , where a silver currency lias existed from time immemorial , is underrated , whilst that of Europe and other portions of the Asiatic continent is not overrated . Hence , to produce any sensible effect upon this mass , the addition in the shape ot actual com must he very great . * * * *

      Lm-, v i * * i ' " 1 Olir general conclusion is that the immediate effects apprehended from such accessions to our siocJts ol gold and silver as are now taking place , are exaggerated , and by some very highly . These additions have now been going on for some years , and yet the effect produced upon the money oi the world is so minute as to be hardly appreciable , it is probable that a large mass of the proceeds of California and Australia will , instead of being coined in Europe , find its way to remote parts of the globe , to China , to India , and other seim-civilized Asiatic countries , and there be used to administer to luxury rather than to increase the circulating money of these countries . J

      A more important point , however than the gold , is the question—how shall a sufficient number of hands be obtained , and swiftly enough , for the exigencies of this most important colony ? Although workers are emphatically required , there seems to be much work which might be done by men and women far advanced in years , beyond the government standard bneep-keepmg and shearing might be undertaken by comparatively aged men : while the easy duties of the hut-keeper could be fulfilled by equally aged women .

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      * Murder . —A young man named Belouesse , clerk in a lereau ( Penrregistcment at Angoulcme , was a few days ago tried by the Court of Assizes of that city for the murder of a woman of loose character , named Louise Bourguignon . Be had for several years maintained intimate relations with Louise , and in the evening of the 23 rd of June last went to the house of ill-fame

      m which she resided , and told her to accompany him upstairs . She was eating her supper at the time , and begged him to wait . He did so , tut told her to make haste , and as she kept him waiting longer than lie wished , he said angrily , " You are a long time eating this evening . " At length they went up stairs , and almostimmediatt'ly after the girl was heard shrieking , " Help , murder ! " Before the persons . in the house could reach the

      staircase , she fell to the bottom covered with blood . " Who did that ? " they cried ; and the prisoner answered in a firm voice from the top of the stairs , " It was j , Delouesse ! " borne one was about to go upstairs , but Louise said faintly , " Don ' t golie has got a pistol ! " » I have no pistol , " answered the prisoner , who slowly descended the staircase and walked into the room . He was perfectly calm and impassible , and seemed pleased with what he had done . Louise became greatly terrified

      when she saw him . He applied some insultin g epithets to her , and rushed on her to stab her with a poignard , but was prevented . A commissiary of police arrived , and he calmly gave Mm the poignard , observing , " If the thing were to be done again , I would do it . " He was taken to gaol . Meanwhile it was ascertained that the girl had been stabbed in eight places and she died in the course of a very short time . It was proved that he had exhausted all his resources with the girl , ail had frequently declared that she should die by his hand He was it appeared , jealous of her . in his defence he alleged that the murder was not premeditated , but that lie had done it in a moment oi passion , on the girl refusing to restore two pieces of 201 . which he had confided to her , and telling him in a taunting tone , when he had questioned her about a man whom he suspected to dg iris rival , that he might leave her at once if he pleased , rue jury brought in a verdict of Guilty , and he was condemned to death . The prisoner heard the sentence without the slightest emotion , but when lie returned to gaol and was put m irons , he gave way to profound despair . After a while , how . ever , he became calmer , and received the visit of the chaplain . He listened with great attention to his exhortations , and said that as he had nothing to hope for from man he would endeavour to make his peace with God .

      Parachute Deecext . —Madame Poitevin made a successful parachute descent on Monday evening . She went up with the balloon from Cremorne , and desbended safely on ClaplWCnm hi on . * wu

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      Septembeb 11 , 1852 . THE gTAR ^ mmDQlL R 7 * - —•*¦* ' — -- —— ¦ -- ¦¦ in * yj | ——— __

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      MEXICO AND WEST INDIES . o , J w ^ / 8 t 5 -8 hip Meflway , bringing tho Mexican ana est Indian mails , arrived at Southampton on Sunday MExico . -Mexico , on the departure of the Medway , was in a state oi increasing confusion and disorder , betokening in all quarters symptoms of approaching dissolution . The courier of tne British Legation reached Vera Cruz from the interior on the morning of the 4 th of August , and in addition to the risings in the state of Vera Cruz and Sonora , brings the intelligence that a revolution had taken place in the State of Guadalaxara , which would probably bo followed in other parts . The conducta , winch was detained at Puebla , would , it was believed , be able to proceed shortly to Vera Cruz , the force under Eebolledo

      having-retired to the mountains in the neighbourhood of Jalana . Jamaica . —On the north side of the island , in the town of Montego Bay , there had been a very general movement amon . « - the overseers , who had cause to suspect that an attempt would De made further to reduce their already scanty stipends . In consequence of this they had resolved to remove from the island ior Australia , and had appointed a committee to arrange preliminaries and devise the best and most economical ineans of effecting their purpose . This movement had caused some sensation among the planting ; attorneys , to whom tlie services of tne overseers are invaluable . In most parts of the island the small-pox continued to rage . Panama . —During the past month , cholera had carried oft 100 or 150 of the 600 United States troops that had crossed the Isthmus , en route for California

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      THE CAFFEE WAE . The General Screw Steam Shipping Company ' s mail packet heUespout , Captain W . Watts , arrived on Wednesday . Ihe intelligence from the seat of war continues to he of the same dubious character as ever , and it is the private opinion of those who have been practically conversant with military proceedings on the frontier that the settlement of this vexatious contest is as far off as it was twelve months since .

      On the 1 st of July General Cathcart issued a proclamation , calling for the assistance of every man capable of bearing arms , and on the 20 th his Excellency issued an explanatory circular , ni which it is stated that all he required was ' a deputation of all the fighting men who can really come to represent the district , and for those who cannot come to assist those who can . The Governor insists on this help . ' The mother country has sacrificed much life and treasure , while its only real advantage was the possession of Simon's Bay . The protection of certain colonists who settled on the frontier thirty years since might be considered an obligation , bat such obligations have their limits .

      This must probably be the last Caffre war carried on at tlie cost of the British Government . The object of General Cathcart ' s intended expedition was twofold—first , to test the willingness of the- colonists ; and secondly , if they came forward , to demonstrate to the Caffres that , independently of the Imperial force , there was sufficient strength in the colony to chastise the enemy should he again attack the frontier . If the General found the colonists unwilling , he had ample force to cross the Kei and vindicate the national honour , but this would convince the world that the colonists were deficient in their former energy , and their chief opponent Krcli would ever after hold them in

      contempt . After returning from the expedition beyond the Kei , the Governor says it will be his duty to report ' to tho home Government if the colonists had not rendered him proper support , in that case he will probably be ordered to withdraw his army , when his parting recommendation to them would be to keep less sheep and oxen and more shepherds and herdsmen , for wild men and wild beasts would soon recover their ancient sovereignty in the Fish River and Zuurburg , and the colonists will not be able to drive them out as their fathers did in the olden time .

      The files of Cape papers give the usual accounts . of cattle lifting by combined Hottentots and Caffres , and of reprisals by tho regular forces and burghers . The only attack worthy of notice was one made on the Waterkloof by Colonel Duller , of the Rifles ' , on the 24 th of July , when the Caffres were lured from their stronghold by a feigned retreat , and were thus exposed to the fall fire of the Artillery and Rifles , suffering a loss of more than 100 , while only three of Colonel Buller ' s force ware wounded .

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      rations nkc these , the working classes arc far from satisfied . I here is among them an independence , a restlessness , a craving alter more , which leaves no doubt that unless something be done , and done promptly , to redress this evil , (? J It will wax worse and worse . But what is this something ? is there anything within the range of possibility whereby we can recruit ou ,

      t The Labour Market rs Australia . —Labour is scarce , ana is rapidly becoming scarcer ; wages are enormously high , and care still on the rise . As regards cur chief city , we can safely say that never within our recollection was labour so difficult to procure as rt is at the present time , nor do we believe that wages , taking all classes of operatives together , were ever so high . Not only do mechanics command their 8 s . or 9 s . per day , and common hodmen their 7 s . and 7 s . 6 d ., but even on these terms they arc scarcely to be had . Andeven with remune .

      neariy-cxnaustea labour market ? Kecrutt it , wo mean , not with convicts , with Chinamen , or with savages from the Cannibal islands , but with virtuous men and women of our own race , and from our own fatherland . This is the thing we want . Is tins thing attainable ? We think it is . We think our cr 0-vernment possess the means of importing from the United Kingdom as many immigrants as tlie colony actually requires . Measures have already been adopted , since the golden era , for importing them to some extent—butnotto the extent which present experience shows to be newsKny—Sydney Ihrrdm / Ileralcl oi tlie 1 st of May . J

      ftome time ago , a ship called tlie " Kelson" was plundered Tby a body of armed men in Hobson ' s Bay , off Melbourne . Three of those men have been arrested , tried , found guilty , and sentenced to transportation for life . They proved to be notorious London thieves , cracksmen , and swell inobsmen , who had been transported to the colony , and who had been let loose on the ticket-oi leave system .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1695/page/3/