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      —u—* The move we know of M . Webster ' s doings and sayings with regard to the rig hts of American citizens over the Lobos guano islands , * the more we are astonished at the inconsistency and folly with which a man who has won " a reputation for statesmanshi p can act . A dog running round after his tail appears quite as reasonable a brang as Mr . Webster if we view him solely in relation to this affair . His ; conduct with regard to the fisheries question was bad enough , bui as the Americans seem in that instance to have got all they

      wanted , the appearance of success gilds his folly . In the Lobos question , however , there is not one redeeming feature . His whole proceedings arc a tissue of short-sighted rapacity , disregard for right , and p opularity-hunting and blundering from the moment he opened his unfortunate correspondence with' Mr . Jewett down to the time he disavowed the piratical expedition of that sharp-sighted trader . ¦; To all those who take any interest in American affairs , the details are so iamiliar that it isuseiessto enter upon them , butthejast mail has put us in possession of information which makes Mr . Webster look smaller than before . . It will be remembered he told Mr : Jewett in his first

      letter that the Araerieau naval officers had orders to protect Americans taking guano from the islands . It now turns out that they then had no such orders , and have not since received any instructions to that effect ; but the crowning point of all is , that on the very day he informed Mr . Jewett that the American Government would not countenance an act of " private war" against the territories of Peru , he wrote to M . Osma , the representative of Peru at Washington , that the territories in question did not belong to Peru at all , " or that . 'the

      evidence produced was not sufficient proof of sovereignty . English , statesmen have committed many errors , done many stupid things as well as bad ones , but we cannot call to mind an instance of Jate years where a British Minister first prompted an act of piracy , then disavowed it under the pretence that a private individual had misled him upon a subject which it was peculiarly his duty to be well informed upon , and at the same time in his diplomatic correspondence maintained that he was right in the course of conduct he had the moment

      before disavowed . We are told upon high authority not to let the right hand know what the left does , but when Mr . Webster ' s own right hand disavows itself by writing , upon the self-same day , two directly opposing letters upon the same point , we are at a loss for any justification or palliation . It maybe true , indeed , that ambition , which plays ivicks with everybody has been turning Mr . Webster ' s brain

      topseyturvy . The election of a President was approaching , and he wanted to become the chief magistrate of the Republic . If he could make a palpable hit he would do something toward the accomplishment of his wishes , but in his anxiety to do so , he consulted only-the insane passions of the citizens , and disregarded prudence , moderation , and right , and now his t » wn efforts recoil upon himself , giving , us another illustration of how

      "Vaulting ambition doth o'erleap itself , and fail on t ' other side . " The ^ Peruvian Government have prepared to give Mr . Jewett ' s fleet a warm reception , he will probably look to Mr . Webster to make good his losses , and Daniel will be likely to find that the judgment of the public is against him . Li the mean time , the question of who shall be the next President is still an open one ? The number of the candidates , and the splitting up of parties makes anything like correct c alculation almost impossible , though as far as we can see the chances incline in favour of the success of the Democratic section .

      The most remarkable topic in the news from California is that relating to the Chinese emigrants . There is an immense influx of the Celestials into the Golden Land , and they do not seem to manifest any intention of returning to the protection of the great wall . It is sa , id that there are already some thirty thousand of them in California , dwelling in villages apart from the other inhabitants , and paying obedience to laws and rulers of their own . This is a new element

      imported into the population of the American States -whicVwas already the most mixed in the world . English , Irish , Spaniards , Aborigines , tiie iuxed races , Trench , Germans , a remnant of old Dutch , Sandwich Islanders , Negroes , were there before , and ' now a people , shut out * or centuries from the rest of the world pour in a stream of new life to complete the greatest mixture of blood , which the world has witnessed fcince the confusion of tongues . It will , perhaps , help in time to solve the problem which philosophers have disputed over , as to whether the pure or the mixed races are to have the predominance .

      The troubles in Mexico still continue , ' and it is generally believed tnat Santa Anna is at the bottom of them . With such a people as the Mexicans it is utterly out of the question to attempt to predict the result , or to guess when a settlement will come . The descendants of the S paniards in the new world appear to be totally unfitted for seltgovei mnent , or indeed government of any kind . While they are quarrelling among themselves , the Indians are invading the country s" ^ committi ng fearful ravages , and perhaps the only safety to -kxico lies in the Americans seizing upon the territory , and infusing "r io Us people new blood enough to produce steadiness in internal : '&uirs , and sufficient courage to meet and drive back its barbarian enemies . , :

      , the Indian mail tells of something like a dispute between the go vernor General , and General Godwin , who commands the army in Barman . Captain Tarleton ' s dashing exploit at Prome , haa roused u the Indian authorities , and shewnjthem that something may be done 10 put an end to the war without waiting'for the season to which it Town Edition .

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      has been customary to limit military operations . * It is quite fiertain that Prome might be taken again and permanently held , and possibly a further advance made without danger ; but the general is aii old man , chosen apparently for no other reason than his age , and the fact that he served in the former Burmese war . More fitted for retirement than actual command , he hesitates and deolines to . take the responsibility of movement . He wants more - troops , and he " desires to wait , and to . .

      conduct the war as wars have been conducted before . This placing an old and worn out ' man in positions which require activity and energy ) is a fatal . error which has been committed before . ^ it was the cause of one of-tlie . darkest pages in the history of' British India . —the less of the army which held Cabal , the disgraceful abandonment of Afghanistan , the captivity of ladies and children , ' the loss . of material and the fearful slaughter of a whole host in tlie passes of the mountains , were the . eftecis of the same cause . General Godwin indeed

      seems to err upon the side of caution , but if we are to have wars , the durationof the evil should be as short as possible , and their conduct should be confided to men with enough of youth left in them to prompt them . to vigorous and resolute action .: Men verging upon their second childhood are almost as much out of place upon the battle-field as women would be , and we hope the next news will be that the conduct of-the invading army has been confided to a bolder and more capable leader .

      Tlie infernal machine at Marseilles is now admitted by almost every body to have been a piece of a police plot . The device was so transparent , that it was impossible not to see through it . It served the purpose of procuring ; for Louis Napoleon a nftre cordial recepion ^ h ' ah would' -otherwise ' have ; been given to lum / anti that effected it is almost disavowed , by its authors . Louis Napoletin himself has declined to apppint a special tribunal for the purposi of trying the pretended conspirators , and the Times tells us , that in all

      probability we shall not hear anything more of the aflhir . Such an incident at once shows us the hollowness of the governmental report ^ of the spontaneous enthusiasm with which the usurper is said to have been every where received , gives a new edge to our disgust and contempt for the specious tricky theatrical charlatan , and increases our pity for the people , who , b y the united efforts of traitors , priests , and bandit soldiers , are prostrated beneath his tyrannical sway . The only comfort is , that unless providence has gone mad , a day of retribution will come . - v V

      Little hints peep out here and there , telling that the President ' s progress has not been all so happy as lie would have us , believe . At Nismes , for example , the shadow ., was on his . path . \ All the efforts , oi " the public authorities could not get the citizens to be enthusiastic or even cordial . A few bands of . tlie most ignorant : of the peasantry , brought in from the surrounding : country districts and ; paid and fed for their services , put ribbons and placards in their hats and carried banners with inscriptions , and shouted what- they were told to shout ; but the inhabitants maintained a profound , silence . ! That silence would have been a roar of execration but for , the remembrance of the massacre of ¦ December , and the . transportations to Cayenne , and Algeria , and the consciousness that the homicide would not hesitate to wreak his

      vengance upon those who were bold enough to give expression-to their real feelings . So the ceremonies were abridged and the , stay of Louis Napoleon was cut short in the town . which has Sfct that example of dignity and . independence so much needed . . y . At Montpellier , there were more signs of tlie future . ; Two balls were given , one for the Prefects and Councillors and local authorities , and the other great people , who , servile tools that | hey are , bow themselves to the dust before the shedor of -. innocent Hood ; another

      for the the meaner folks whom it was-found , necessary to . propitiate . At the great entertainment , of course , there was nothing but bows , smiles , ' and flattery . The tuft-hunters and sycophants played their part to admiration , did what they could to disgrace themselves and their country ; but when the would-be emperor visited the other ballhonored the poor people for a moment or two with the } ight of his presence , they forgot their mirth and remembered that they-had relations and friends proscribed , under surveillance and * in exile—perhaps too , they remembered the dead when they saw the murderer . At all events , instead of that often repeated cry Vivo . VEmpcnur , so dear to Imperalist ears , there arose another Vive VAmmstiey " give us

      back those of our brothers whom your cruelty has spared for future suffering . " We must admit that the ruffian is a bold one , a fair mixture perhaps of Pecksniff and Jack Sheppard , for he kept his presence mind and lofty bearing , and in a " dignified voice" replied that" the amnesty was in his heart more than in their mouths , and that they must try to deserve it by their patriotism . " Ah , so the amnesty is in 7 « ' s hearth it . He has a heart then , though , how the amnesty ever managed to penetrate so hard a place is a puzzle . They must deserve it too , by their patriotism . If patriotism and some other qualities not quite so estimable , were properly rewarded , no amnesty would be needed , and Louis Napoleon would be—at tlie galleys .

      At Bordeaux , there have been more tokens , not so much of danger as of the fears which always haunt the guilty . The prefect got scent of some gunpowder manufactories , and went on a hunt , much as our excise officers seek out . au unauthorised whiskey still . He made some arrests of course , and captured the amazing quantity of two pounds of < mnpowder , a few bullets , and not an infernal machine , but some pistols and a gun , " with a wide mouth . " That settled the matter , and confirmedthe suspicions of lurking treason , for , putting the pistols out of the account , what so likely as a , wide mouthed gun to bellow forth the detestation in which his Imperial Highness is held .

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      One more little occurrence is worth notice , for its perfectly dramatic character . The prince had been on tt boating excursion , on Insmnn , the evening was oold ,-he rejected the proffered furs and puincd a cloak ; the one perhaps reminded him of Russia which has lit f rT ! T ' ~ illG ° <* *« w dually unsuitable as an en b n ot ehanty , which cover , many sins ,-he preferred action , * tl allthe skill ot an old . sailor . Jerdan , in his recently published colleehons tells us that the President and he were onJe together , a boat , «„ that when the prince tried to row , he caughtcrabs ' ma most ludicrousl y unified manner , instead of " roVingw h ^ la U ofan oia sa . lov : ' Bni ; Louis Napoleon has had pLfcice . sea 0 / blood , and that accounts for it .

      The Minister of the Interior has been doing a little bit of mixed fawmng and threatening . He has addressed a letter to the ) S questing to be furnished with all the details of the visit What thV authomies did , and what they did not ,-h , » v many p ^ uT th . v got up and how many triumphal arches they erictqdV-whftt depma " - ^ so butchers and others waited upon the hern of December , ami all abouttheliags that were earned and- toe cries that were uttered , lie sickening pretext for this is a desire to record emluringry - one ot the firs pages in the history of France , the real object , ? ,, pick out those who have not been abject or active enough , and put a mark

      1 Here have been two murders in France , in the one caw the Mariuiu de Dammartm was shot just as he was on the point of Kettin * outat . thehea . loi a deputation to welcome Louis Hapoleon ; that criniu is ascribed , with what truth wo know not , to political causes : the other instance has more home interest . It is the . lulling of an Em' - . shnian by an tnglishman the perpetrator of the deed Is Mr . Bowel the lariBian correspondent , of the Mwni » p Advertise the victim Morton

      Mr . , who was engaged in a similar capacity for the Dailu Aem . M . b « iww suspected , and it would seem with gome reason , that Mr . Morton , while his guest had violated the sanctity of his home , by glueing his wife . When that conviction was formed , Mr . Morton was at his table , and in the frenzy of the moment he seized a table knife , and inflicted a wound which caused instant death . Directly afterwards Mr . Bower took a passport and effected his escape ; the tragedy mmished loud lor the gossips of Paris , and it excites a deep sensation here , id circles where all the parties are well known

      Intelligence from other portions of the continent may be briefly summed up . French intriguers are active at the Court of Austria , to weaken the influence of Russia , and create a favourable impression for Louis Napoleon , but the boy Emperor is too hopelessly in the power of the autocrat to give the most skilful diplomatists a chance ot success . Prussia in her attempts to reconstruct the Zollverein us it was , is embroiling herself with the lesser German States , which lean to a commercial alliance with Austria . The Piedmonts

      government is likely to come to an open rupture with the Court of Rome ; this arises from a desire , upon the part of tlie temporal authorities to take all the property of the Church , and ensure the obedience of the priests , by making them sti pendiaries of the state . Uie ecclesiastics resist stoutly , and Rome backs them bv a threat of excommunication against the kingdom . A very pretty " quarrel

      Ihe Catholic Irish papers exult in the fact that the Pope has thrown cold water upon the scheme for establish ^ diplomatic relations between England and Rome . As the time for the Religious Equality Conference draws nigh , the tone of Archbishop JI'Hale grows louder and bolder . He already clutches bv anticipation the property of the Established Church and sees the priests of his own order , endowed with dignity and wealth . The Limn on the other hand hints at a tightening of the bonds of the law and penal enact incuts , suggestions which are met by a howl of mingled ra « e and ex « oration . The Exodus still goes on thinnin-r the labour m .., rW L oration . Ihe Exodus still goes on thinning the labour market im

      proving , we hope , in some degree , the condition of those who stav ' and weakening the basis of the misery , propped structure of priestly power . If true , it is a circumstance well worth y of though t that , a large body of the lloman Catholic soldiers belonging to a rSnmcnt hi Ireland have become Protestants , under the conviction that the murder of the private of the 31 st regiment at Pernioy was the result of the teaching of the priests of the lloman Catholic church $ S fplr . Bright has made his public appearance at a dinncTat Belfast and lias stated his views pretty freely upon most matters connected with Ireland In opposition to the opinion so recentl y expressed by Mr . Hume he speaks highly of the patriotism of the Msli

      member , to whom lie gtves the credit of being mostly on the side of . liberal measures , " and thinks favourabl y of the possibility ot making them an element of a national party . In accordance with Mr . Hume he selects the ballot as the first point to be striven for . With regard to the religious question , Mr . Bright is very certain about what is wrong , but not quite so certain how to set it right . He is

      eloquent respecting the absurdit y of paying a Church 500 , 000 ? . ayearfor doing nothing , and at the same time giving 70 , 000 * , a-year for teaching precisely opposite doctrines . To the grand question however , of what is to become of Church property when it is taken from its present possessors , Mr . Bright gives no answer , and until he does , there is no telling how he and the M'llales will agree . , A correspondence has been published between Mr , Joseph Hume and Mr . Collins the editor of the Bull A dvcrtisa \ Mr , Collins is a

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1699/page/1/