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    Although , as ive announced last week , the Fishery question seems settled so as to obviate all chance of hostile collision , yet it is hardly easy to understand the state of public opinion upon it , nor the state of facts in the Bay of Fundy . Mr . Seward , as the authorized mouth-piece of the Government has given the most amicable explanations to the

    legislature , and the steam frigate Missisippi is to go to Japan , instead of staying upon the coast . Yet a report comes that the British authorities have enforced their construction of the word bay ; have expelled the fishermen from the Bay of Fundy , and have taken several prizes . The American journals take diverse views of the matter ; some going in to protect the

    Fishermen " hook , bolt , and sinker , as Mr . Webster said , talking loudly of war , hinting that reciprocity is the object of the English , and declaring that there can be no commercial treaties till the Fishery question is settled . Other papers are far more moderate and pacific in their tone . Probably the key to all the bluster is the approaching Presidential election and the desire to get up an excitement which may be serviceable to one or other of the Candidates .

    A portion of the New York Press goes so far as to state that our naval forces are meant to be used against French , rather than American poachers—That the Frenchmen are by far the most reckless and daring depredators—sometimes even driving away the English and Americans .

    The Labos guano islands still excite much attention . It appears that Mr . Webster has written more than one semiofficial letter encouraging Americans to take guano in defiance of the Peruvian Government , and informing his correspondents that the commanders of the American forces were

    instructed to protect them in the commission of such acts—such conduct as this will neither raise the favour of a statesman nor add lustre to the honour of a great country , and we trust that Mr . Webster , who seems so willing to assume a hostile attitude , will not be elected to rule the destinies of America , The man who would encourage or risk war between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family , is not only a traitor to his country , but an enemy to the progress of the human

    race . There arerainours that an Indian war is imminent . The Camanches especially , are becoming troublesome . More than one detachment of United States troops has suffered from them severely lately . For the few past years the Indian tribes have shown head , especially in Yucatan , and spread

    dismay and distraction among the descendants of their former Spanish conquerors , but we guess they will fare badly with the more energetic and warlike Yankees , if once they come fairly to blows . Still the prospect of a war with fierce and barbarous enemies , is far from a pleasant one , and ought to wake Mr . Webster cautious of embroiling his country with England .

    There has been a fearful accident upon the American Seab oard , arising out of a collision between a screw Propeller and the Atlantic an Emigration Steamer , most of whose passengers were Norwegians . Many jumped overboard at the foment of collision and perished . The Atlantic then att empted to make the shore , but the water put out the engine faes , and she went down in deep water . The crew of the 1 ropeller rendered all the assistance in their power , but great numbers were lost .

    The question of whether or not Kaine shall be given up to kreat Britain under the extradition treaty is not yet decided . The feeling of the Irish population is very strong against his being handed over ; they do not want for native sympathizers , and they are helped by the manoeuvres for the presidential election . Still we cannot form so low an estimate of the American Judges as to suppose they will decide that the man ^ ho shoots a landlord is a political offender .

    A new political party has been formed in the States , composed of the Freesoilers , the Abolitionists , and the Ultra democrats generally . If we may credit the Times which of Town Edition .

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    course deprecates and abuses the combination , it threatens to become strong enough to swamp the middle party . In France internal affairs are much the same as at our last . There is no political life visible ; nothing but gagging restriction , coercion , in short despotism of the -m ost ultra description . The Councils General still continue to pour in the most

    disgustingly fulsome addresses , expressing gratitude to Louis Napoleon , and desires for the consolidation of power in his hands . An incident showing how fearful the government are of the slightest political allusion , the following incident is an example . A piece founded upon Sir W . Scott ' s novel of Guy Mannering was the other night presented at one of the

    Parisian theatres . In it allusion is made to an impostor who dispossesses the rightful hair and asserts that might is his right . At this the legitimist portion of the audience cheered loudly , and the next morning the piece was surpresscd by the police . What a spectacle , the " chosen ruler" of a great nation with half a million of soldiers , one week asking for praise from the correspondent of a Foreign paper , the next afraid of a play !

    Haynau is in Paris , honoured by the Algerian generalsdetested by the people . He attempted at a banquet to exculpate himself from the charge of women floggirg . The statement merely amounts to this—that the outrage was the act of his agents , who went unpimisfe « * The explanation , however , was received as satisfactory by / those who have been educated in mercy in the razzias of the desert .

    From Austria we are warned of a new element of danger to the rule of the boy Emperor . In addition to the discontent of the Hungarians , the military bodrerers who were used to put down Kossuth are ripe for revolt . Great exertions are being made to create an Austrian fleet . Workmen are busy at Venice—a great naval arsenal is being constructed at Pola—ships are building and orders given for steamers . The effort , however , must fail to do anything else than aggravate financial difficulties and'hasten destruction

    Another insult has been offered to an English traveller by the Austrian authorities for merely looking over some fortifications with a guide book in his hand ; he was seized , insulted , dragged off to prison , and kept for many hours without food , and then discharged . All recompence has been denied him . We shall see whether Lord Malmesbury will act with more spirit than in the Mather case , or truckle to Austria . If the latter , English travellers must avoid the Austrian dominions

    until the English people pluck up spirit enough to kick the abettor of despots from the foreign' office . From the East the news is that the army for the conquest of the Burmese empire is as healthy as it would have been within our own dominions . The war , however , promises to be both long and expensive . Some perplexity is occasioned by the resignation of Sir John Campbell who commands the troops at Peshawar . This event is attributed to the

    interference of the Board of Administration with his military plans . The civil powers there , as in the case of Sir Charles Napier , appear bent on dis gusting the most talented and energetic of their officers . Australian intelligence informs us that the mines are more

    productive than ever and labour in great demand The fears , however , mt there would not be hands enough to secure the wool of the colony , have turned out to be unfoimded . Some of the men who robbed the ship Nelson of a large quantity of gold , have been apprehended and convicted .

    Mr . Delmege and the soldiers found guilty by the Coroner ' s Jury , of murder , have been set at liberty by Mr . Justice Crampton on such slight bail as shews the learned Judges light estimate of the offence . It will be seen in news from Ireland that Fathers Burke and Clare are to be pros ecuted for their share in the tragedy . Father Cahill has addressed another letter to Earl Derby , which gives us a pretty clear insight into the nature of

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    priestly love for liberty . After a flood of abuse , and a gust of rejoicing at the anticipated decadence of England , Father Cahill eulogized Louis Napoleon as fervently as though he were a writer in the Momteur . He almost worships the usurper for his devotional fervour , and elevates him into an

    angel . Priesthood may be on the side of liberty in Ireland , but the alliance , is only accidental and temporary . Jta best wishes are \ 7 ith despotism all over the world . The people of Ireland , if they hope to be free , must , among other things , not only shake off the incubus of the Established Church , but the domination of the Roman Catholic priests also .

    Our daily journals have teemed with the royal progress to Scotland , of which it is sufficient to say Her Majesty has been everywhere enthusiastically received .

    Great alarm is manifested at the prospect of railway amalgamation . Great as the contempt of railway corporations is for public opinion now , then they would be beyond all hope of control . What their power would be may be judged from the Times admission that no government would dare to interfere with them ; what their morality is , is shown by the assertion of the same journal that the desire of pecuniary gain with them overrides all thought of public duty or private justice .

    The inquest at Bolton is terminated in a verdict of temporary insanity on the body of the pointsman who left his post , and a verdict , with respect to the accident , of manslaughter against the same individual , with a rider to the effect that there was general negligence . There of course it will end , and nothing will be done until the higher officials are made criminally responsible .

    The ship-owners have put forward an address , claiming to have the principles of Free-trade fully applied to themselves . They r . ask to be relieved from stamp-duty on Charter parties — for exemption from harbour-dues — from extortionate charges for coast-lights—from the obligation to employ pilots

    —and from heavy consular dues . If they are to be left to the chances of competition , they demand to be left to provide for their own safety at such cost as they think proper . All this the Times highly explained , but cavils at another paragraph in which measures to ensure reciprocity with , foreign nations are requested .

    The reports of the police-courts record an application for summonses against Mons . and Madme . Poiteven and the proprietor of the Cremome Gardens , under the act against cruelty to animals . The lady and gentleman in question have been making balloon ascents on the backs of ponies and a bull . These disgusting exhibitions , which arc a disgrace not only to the fools who gape , but ' to the ago itself , ought promptly to be put an end to .

    Ihe trade reports shew an improvement , and the accounts of the harvest shew that there will be more than an average . The public health too has improved , though the anticipation of cholera , which has made its way to some of the parts of the continent , still hangs over us . The Free Library was opened at Manchester , on Thursday . A number of the- principal literary notabilities

    of the day were present and much speech-making took place . However , this union of men of widely differing political opinions , for the purpose of procuring the me . ins of education for the adult population , is a most significant « ign of the times . Let there be no attempt at coercion—no

    attempt to stifle new opinions among the workers , and in the words of one of the resolutions of the meeting , we will cherish the " earnest hope that , the books thus made available will prove a source of pleasure and improvement in the cottages , the garrett , and trie cellars of the poorest of our people .

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  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 4, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1694/page/1/