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      The intelligence from the United States is both various and important . While we are in a state of political stagnation , they are in the crisis of excitement preparatory to the Presidential election . There are six candidates in the field . General Pierce , Democrat—General Scott , Whig—Daniel Webster , Union Whig—J . P . Hale , Freesoiler—William Goodell ,

      Liberty Man . and Governor Troupe , Secessionist . The conclusions to be gathered from the accounts is , tliat the democratic candidate will be successful . The numerous parties struggling against eacli other will most likely prevent either from having the required majority , and then the election will devolve upon the House of Eepresentatives . Most of the members of that body are Democrats , and will support General Pierce .

      The Fisheries question is not settled but has relapsed into the stagnation of unsettleinent . It will remain in same position as it has done since the treaty of 1818 , the British reserving the claims as to the bays , and the Yankees disregarding them ; but the fisheries within three miles from the shore will be more rigorously preserved for the colonists . A new case of " private war " has made its appearance in the States , shewing that an individual can in a small way

      emulate the society of the Lone Star . It will be recollected , that some time ago , a letter was published in the American and Engish papers , from Daniel Webster to a Mr . Jewett , in which the United States secretaiy , in reply to a former coninunication from his correspondent , entered upon the subject of the Lobos guano islands . Mr . Webster then informed

      Mr . Jewett , that there was no reason'to believe those islands were the property of Peru—that in fact , they had been discoveredsomeyears ago by an American citizen—that American vessels had a right to load guano there without interference from the Peruvian government , and that the commander of the United States ships of war , upon that station , had orders to protect them in the exercise of their rights .

      This answer of Mr . AVebster ' s was marked " private , " but somehow in the States , the same line of distinction between public and private , does not exist as is recognised in England . The letter found its way into the papers , and probably Mr . Webster was not displeased at his promptness to " protect " American citizens being trumpeted forth . Directly following the appearance of the document , the most signal refutation of the statements it contained was given . It was shown that

      the Islands were discovered by the old Spanish invadersthat they were dependencies of the ancient Spanish-American possessions—that they were recognized as being so by navigators , and laid down in the charts and maps of that period , under Spanish names . The presumption was clearly put , that when the Spanish yoko was shaken off , they became the property of Peru , and it was shown that Peru had exercised soverei gnty , and that its right to do so , had been tacitly admitted by the diplomatic representative of America .

      This seemed and still seems to be a very clear case , and probably Mr . Webster wishes he had not been quite so forward . Not so Mr . Jewett . He had the Secretary ' s opinion and the promise of protection , and went to work at once in a business-like way . His preparations completed , he addressed another letter to the astonished Mr . Websteiywhichis one of the most remarkable epistles ever penned in a merchant's counting house . It is a shrewd mixture of commerce and piracy ,

      and contains a declaration of war against Peru if it keeps the guano , and against every body else who desires to take it . K Mr . Jewett ' s instructions could be carried out , he would become the proprietor of Lobos—a guano King . He coolly furnishes the information that he has despatched several vessels for the purpose of loading , and among the rest a certain

      hark strongly manned , well armed , and abundantly supplied ^ th ammunition . He relates the instructions given to her captain , winch are to take all the landing places on the Island Vto hold them against all comers—to oppose force to force , aT& vto do the fighting with thQ flag of his country flying . He adds that all the ships have been furnished with copies of Mr . Webster ' s unfortunate letter , for the purpose of calling

      upon the captains of men-of-war for assistance . Mr . Webster now draws in his horns—he sees the blunder Town Edition .

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      he has made , and the advantage he has given to so quickwitted and enterprising a Yankee as Mr . Jewett , and he tries to get out of the scrape—though we must confess rather awkwardly . In his reply he accuses Mr . Jewett of having deceived him in his first letter-as though a Secretary of state ought to allow an individual to deceive him on a territorial question . He calls Mr . Jewett ' s proceeding , an act of "private

      war , " and says that the American naval officers have instructions not to give their aid . Mr . Jewett with his fleet is Mt to his own resources and will perhaps get up an "indignation meeting ;" but in the meantime the fleet has gone , and the bark with the carronades and fighting captain may commence an assault before it is known that the authorities of the country , whose flag is to be kept flying , are not prepared to go to war with Peru in such a quarrel .

      We are anxious to know what will happen next . Perhaps the armed bark will be caught and brought back . ' If not—as the Peruvians have stationed a guard over their property and intend to defend it , and the Americans are ready enough to fight , the ' next news maybe that there has been a battle between the forces of a private merchant , an . l the soldiers of a republic . If that should be so , and the Peruvians are

      victorious , Mr . Jewett will have to put up with the loss ; but if his men do carry the day , the situation will become more embarrassing than ever . We hope this faux pas and that of the Fisheries affair may help to warn Mr . Webster o'f the danger of " going too fast . " The order of the Lone Star increases in strength and continues its preparations for the invasion of Cuba . ¦¦ We wonder whether Mr . Webster will snub its thousands of members as

      he has done Mr . Jewett . While our military authorities are busy experimenting upon the Minie and other rifles , the Lone Star folks are preparing to introduce a new weapon into warfare . They talk slightingly of Colt ' s revolvers which only cany six charges , and intend their expedition te be armed with a newly invented rifle capable of firing some ' sixty shots a minute . If this can be effected , it will upset the recognised art of war , and make brave , steady men , with a little training , equal to the best disciplined troops .

      The Spanish authorities at Havannah seem resolved to create an insurrection in Cuba , as though for the express purpose of improving the chances of the American S 3 'mpatlrizers . The Island is in a state of terrorism , and political arrests are being made daily . The purser of the American - steamer " CrescentCity " who had published his notions of Cuba in a New York paper , was prohibited from landing , and the Governor returned the journals brought by the steamer with fa

      message that" His Excellency had no idea that her majesty ' s loyal subjects committed to his charge , should have their minds contaminated by studying the pernicious doctrines of liberty inculcated in those unbridled journals . " We guess thatbefore longhisExcellency , what with the " loyal subjects " inside , and the abettors of " unbridled journals " outside , will find the pernicious doctrines " spreading , and Cuba too hot to hold-him .

      The advocates of Woman ' s rights have been holding a convention , the account of which is at least sufficiently funny . Among the members was . one female M . D ., who had studied ata college , and been" sacrificed" by the male students , ; as we imagine a young lady would be " sacrificed" by the students of Guy ' s or St . Bartholomew ' s , if she attended lectures and obtruded herself into the dissecting-room . There were several

      Bev . ladies—one of them a tall and " strong-minded" womana fair sprinkling of bloomers , and a large proportion of very young ladies . The talk was of the most exuberant description and the resolutions ditto . They determined to assert the independence of the sex , to claim the vote to share the pursuits of men , to aspire to office , and to revolt against the slavery of « household duties . " One young lady practically remarked

      that it was all very well to claim their rights , but she did not see how they were to get them ; she gave as an illustr ation of the difficulty , the " sacrificing' of the female doctor . The M . D . thought " sacrificing" too strong a term as perhaps it was ; and a " strong-minded" woman came to the rescue by saying that she did , not stay to talk about her rights , she took them . One of the rev . ladies put the argument into its theological shape , but a juvenile free-thinker

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      did not want to stand upon any written authority , but to go " to nature and reason" direct . Some gentlemen spoke on the other side without effect . One touched on feminine delicacy , but that was treated . with contempt . Another hinted that women might whip their husbands "if they could , " a practical suggestion which did not seem to gain much favor . Another deprecated the confusion of sexes , in terms which might do for an anatomical lecture , but which rather astonished the

      ladies . This caused a perfect uproar , and the rest was Babel . ^ We cannot count all the revolutions Mexico has undergone since we can remember . That country has a revolutionary atmosphere . Its normal state seems to be revolution . It has gone round till it has grown giddy ; there is always a revolution on or just over , or being prepared for . The last mail apprises us of revolution in its active phase , the authorities in terror , the insurgent army headed by an ex-hatter , and the recall of General Santa Anna , a result farfrom unlike . lv

      The French President still continues his "triumphant" progress throughtheSouth , so say thegovernmentpapevs , at least . All is colour de rose and the cry is still " YiveVEmpereur . " Less interested recorders , however , tell of the silence of the people , the obsequiousness of Prefects and Councillors , and the clamor of gensdarmes and hired claquers , who accompany the train from town to town for the

      express purpose of shouting . Some sensation has been created by the discovery of a plot . An infernal machine , " larger than Fieschi ' s " has been found by the police in a house at Marseilles , facing the President ' s line of march . Of course , it was for the destruction of his " Imperial Highness , " ( that is the last new title ) . It was a fearful affair , composed of 250 gun-barrels , and loaded with 1 500

      balls . One man was taken in the house . Well " those who hide know where to . find , " and there is more than a suspicion that the machine was found just where the agents of the police put it . It is said to have been previously at other places ; but at last Marseilles was selected . We think that very probable . * lt has no doubt accompanied his " Imperial Highness " from Paris as one of the dramatic

      properties necessary to produce a desired effect . When Napoleon the Little gets back to the capital , the fisherwomen , who seem very fond of him everywhere , will dote on the darling who might have been killed with 1 , 500 bullets . One is enough for an ordinary man-does a usurper take a thousand and a half ? The fact put forth by the agents of government , that this machine was at two other places at once demonstrates the

      character of the plot , and marks it out as a police stratagem Fancy any one in France , the land of passports and lurveillance , following the usurper about with 250 gun barrels and the frame , not to mention the ammunition , without beinodetected . That isfar too much even for the mildostimag inatioiT The police would have smelt the gunpowder , counted the bullets , and taken stock of the barrels on the platform of the first railway station they reached . To transport them

      through the streets , put them up , repack them again and send them to other places would be impossible . No , the tame eagle of Boulogne , which would not keep his perch , and the infernal machine of Marseilles which was never meant to go off , arc " Idees Napolienne . " This infernal machine is the pretext for a machine still more infernal—the empire . Louis Napoleon wanted an argument for establishing and consolidating his government , and he made it—that is all

      We mentioned last week the fact of a British subject Mr Page , having suffered from a police outrage at Dresden ' and that it was ; attributed to Austrian agency That surmise was correct . Mr . Page was suspected of sympathy with With , and therefore , in the capital of Saxony , he was subjected to msult and injury at the hands of the Austrian police . We understand , that not only no compensation or apology has beenoffcredto him , but that his books and papers are still detained . We really ought to know once for all , whether our Cabinet intends to allow Englishmen to be ill-treated , not only in Austria , but in the minor states where Austria has

      power , with impunity . If so Englishmen had better stop at home till we have a Foreign Secretaiy who has more regard for the dignity of his nation , and the rights and safety of those whom it is his duty to protect .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1698/page/1/