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      There is the appearance of a serious quarrel arising between America and Cuba . A quarrel between the governments of the two countries . There was danger enough in the Lone Star movement , and more than enough m the aggrandizing spirit of the people and the recklessness of hordes of adventurers , but if the government is fairly brought into the dispute , and that too , on the eve of a Presidential election , it is hard to see how a conflagration can be avoided .

      The present danger arises in a great measure , out of the luVh handed conduct of the Captain-General of Cuba , who , without thinking of his defenceless position if America really should i appeal to arms , seems to provoke a contest . Mr . Smith , purser of the United States steam-ship Crescent City , labours under the suspicion of communicating information to the New York journals , and bearing to and fro treasonable correspondence . On a former voyage Mr * . Smith was noi ; permitted to land at Havannah , but now mare

      stringent measures have been had recourse to . The Crescent City itself ; bearing mails and passengers , was signalled from thelport , but the Captain persisting in going in , was boarded- —told that ihe would not be allowed to communicate with the shore , and ordered off . The Captain requested to be allowed to land the mails and passengers . No , that would not be permitted . He must go , and at once ; and so further parley being useless , ths Crescent City steamed away ,, her passengers unloaded , and her mail bags unopened .

      This , which looks like a prevention of all intercourse between the two countries , was of itself enongh to set the Union in a flame , but that was not aH "It never rains , but it pours . " The American merchant-ship Cornelia , was nearing the port when the authorities got a scent thatjsomething contraband was on board . The vessel was stopped and overhauled . A man named Guzman was found with some treasonable letters ; another , named John Hearkness , an

      engineer , was attempting to leave the country without a passport , and they , together with the Captain , j"were taken to prison . The Cornelia ' s mail bags were opened and searched , and some letters abstracted . The Captain was" subsequently released , and proceeded upon his voyage , while the authorities , acting upon information contained in some of the letters they had seized , arrested some members of distinguisted families , for the crime of sympathizing with the late General Lopez .

      One of the letters was the means of a good practical hoax being played off at the expense of the Captain-General and his staff . It announced that in a vessel , the name of which was given , were arms and ammunition for the Creoles , packed up like ordinary peaceful merchandise . The vessel was anxiously looked out for , and taken possession of as soon as she made her appearance ; but lo ! the arms Were not there .

      It is difficult to describe the excitement which these events have caused in the States . Every other man at least looks bowie knives , and talks revolvers . " Indignation Meetings" of 10 , 000 people are got together . It would be too much to expect indignation meetings to be calm affairs , but these are terribly indignant . Everybody seems to talk at once , and to talk furiously , besides , and the only

      wonder is that these gatherings do not resolve themselves into armies and rush , en masse , to the appropriation of Cuba . Of course , in such a state of things as this , the government of the Republic cannot remain unmoved . It is said that a special envoy is to be despatched to Cuba to require reparation for the outrage to the national % ; and what between the readiness of the Yankees to come to hlows , and the stubborn determined pride of the Spaniards , we may

      expect a very pretty quarrel . News has came to hand of Mr . Jewell ' s Lobos expedition . A solitary shi p has arrived , and has been warned off by a Peruvian manof-war ; and there she was still cruising about , waiting for the advent of Commodore M'Auley , to present to that officer the extraordinary letter which Mr . Webster did not send to the Commander oi the Fleet , and has since repudiated . ¦ '

      The chances of the coming presidential election are still wavering The Webster party is again making an effort , but not a sufficient one , to give the erratic Foreign Secretary a chance . All they can do is to diminish the probability of the success of General Scott , who has acquired the soubriquet of the Americau Little Duke of Wellington . 5-he General is making desperate exertions to secure his- return , and is using means which do not quite accord with our notions of

      Republican incorruptibility . He is travelling about the country with a large staff , ostensibly for the purpose of selecting a . site for a military hospital , but really for the purpose of playing the stump orator , and getting up demonstrations at the expense of the state . The journalists are very smart upon this , avering that the site of the hospital will never meet the sight of the General till after he has completed his progress . Altogether , the prospects of the democratic candidate seem

      frig htening up out of the squabbles ot his rivals . The question of Cuba , to which we have already adverted , will , « it come to a crisis , assume a formidable aspect , looked at from an European point of view . Spain is in alliance with the other ^ European powers , who in some sort guarantee to her her boundaries and Poss essions . Sunk , as she is , in the scale of power , she would be enable to defend herself from the young giant over the water ; but she would call upon her allies for assistance . ThisEngland would be prompted to give , not only from respect to treaties , but . out of commercial jealousy of America ; and France , because it would exercise TOWN EDITION .

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      its naval power , gratify the passions ^ of a warlike people , and brinowith it little or no danger to the ' coming empire ; so tfewe may find ourselves involved yet in a quarrel , about which th ' e . $$ ple of this country do not care , and with ! which , they have no tepqoncern ; a quarrel , too , which would be distasteful to-freemen ] , becafts 6 whatever its cause , it will really be one for . despotism of tfe' ^ l d' ^ d against the comparative liberty of the new .. . -v ' - ^^ t ' l ° We have this week a new era . inythe historyiof -reputing . Till now , the announcement' "India—The Overland Mail- ^ -fi y Electric Telegraph , " has appeared in the one morning , ; ahd the details have Mowed the short abstract on the next . Now it ^ ohahge ^ Thou ht

      g rushes along the wires of the electric telegraph from kwlon to the head of the Adriatic . While the \ mail is dragging on froW Trieste , we have a glance at the news here .. It appears that General Godwin has at length been woke ; ari ^ Abandoning , his intention of following the old tedious route by Yi / jbich our troops marched ' upon Ava , and without waiting for the rainy season to terminate , or more troops to come , has committed hisaged ? p . ersonandapickedFbrigadepftroops to the guidance of Captain Tarlfeton , and gone up to Prome in a steamer . Prome , it may be recollected , was taken before , but abandoned , because Captain Tarletoibwas not authorised to make

      conquests . The consequence will be * that the river , before undefended , will bristle with cannon . Stockades will be thrown up—pits dug , and troops got together to defend tlie town ; and what was done before easily , and almost without blood jfeing shed , will now have to be done over again at the expense of life . / , No doubt our troops will beat their opponents , but the need ifor the . said beating ought not to have existed ; and we only . h ; ope ' th ^ hafc ^ pn " e ^ the oldh General will not relapse into his lethargy but / gush ott to Ava , and terminate the war at a blow . Even ^ henjour dualities will be only , half over , for it is one thing to conquerthe Burmese ) and another to make them pay for being conquered ; and we may ; as an Irish mode of getting compensation , have to add to our already overgrown empire a province which will cost us more to keep than it 'did to win . There is less to be recorded of France than when his Imperial Highness was making his progress through tlie South . We hear little

      of the Marseilles infernal riiachmej which having served its purpose , has , we suppose , been sold for old ; iron . There are , however , some arrests in that place , and an account of them furnishes a glimpse of the systematic mode in which Republicanism's sought to be identified with crime . We are told that ; ; thei other day twenty-five operatives , who had formed themselves into ^ secret society , were arrested . They went to a solitary unoccupied house—got drunk—roared out sanguinary pass-words— -sang revolutionary ; songs- —erected a gallows , as the symbol of their faith , and plundered ^ all they could lay their hands upon . These are held up as a fajr ' specinien of the Bepublicans . If it be not an exaggeration , as is not at all unlikely , there is no more is

      pretence for classmg sjch ^ than there for taking the refuse , of t ^^ iieyesj ^ EUchen and associating them with the English liberals . ' The Eepublicans are honourable men , who . were onlytoogood and merciful to reta | ii 5 ) ower . They are not criminals . They left the crimes of theft of the ^ liberties of a people , assassination of citizens , and perjury tof ^ the Elect of France . " But when we remember that our papers classed Chartists and pickpockets together , we can hardly wonder at ^ LouisiNapoleon and his creatures adopting tactics so congenial tb'tlieir nature .

      As the day for the assembling $ | tlie ( Senate approaches , th « signs of Imperialism thicken .. Eagles multiply in ; a way that shews the amazing fecundity of the breed , aiicjimperial crowns so abound , that if all were worn , hats would go oukof fashion .. Theflag is lowered or raised in kingly fashion when the usurper quits : or enters his palace . " Vive / aRe ^ Mi /^ we /' the said Eepiiblicbeing- dead , and its successor ready—is " open and advised speafeing . ' ' ' Copper coins are being struck at . the Mint , bearing on one pile" Napoleon III , Empereur , " and on the other Empire Francois "

      Meanwhile the eagle sits 16 nely : iii ; his gilded cage , and cannot find a mate . So he is looking out for ; an ; heir . It is . currently reported that the son of the Prince of , Canirioisjttie favoured person , but the Emperor has not spoken , and no one can anticipate the utterance of the wacle withcertainty . There is ; less chance than ever of the

      Pope coming to Paris to grace the coronation . He does not love his French protectors , from whom he would willingly escape ; and apart from his own disinclination ^ he would * excite the jealousy of the Austrian Emperor by such a step ; - The declaration of the Empire will he marked by a protest from the . Count de Chambord , but the infatuated Bourbons cannot unite , even to protect , and the elder and younger branches of the house will stand isolated'in that feeble effort .

      Tears of the press are peeping ; ou ^ , newspaper pressthat is effectually gagged , but , books will somehow creep in . Four persons , one of whom only—an employe in the Ministry of the Interior—was convicted , were prosecuted for distributing Victor Hugo ' s book . " Napoleon the Little . " / pj ^ erseditious works are about , and among others , the police are making an active search for one entitled " The Crimes of the 2 nd of Decembery" —the day of crime . Leaving the sebjeet , we turn with-disgust from the spectacle of genius prostituting itself to usurpation ; Rachel , the actress , who declaimed the praises of the Republic , has apostrophized the coming Empire , and deified the to be Emperor .

      Symptoms of discontent are appearing in Croatia . The Emperor s Journey there , was far from satisfactory j ; for the people , who are in a state of abject poverty , instead of hailing him with cheers , greeted

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      him with petitions . It is said that a general drove the crowds of " loving subjects " away with his drawn sword . Russia is bu « v ' ox citing the discontent to a still greater height , and endeavours to serve har . aimsby allying the most popular men to Russian women An intrigue of that kind , intended to entrap Jdlaehicli , failed- in . Uui ettort is making to promote a similar alliance ior * thc leader of tho Servians . lL

      t Prussia is making preparations for the dissolution of the Bund and is making ready to draw a line of custom-houses round her German frontier . Ihese hindrances were not so much fell when railroad , were unknowni ; but now every railway train will be stopped in tnmsilu and quick ravelling rendered impossible . A Prussian envoy-C l Arnhem-Blumberg-is appointed to proceed to Florence , and us . hir utmost exertions for the release of the Madiais Intelligence has reached London that the " Abbe Giobcrti , whov prominence in Italian politics during the years 1847 and 1848 our readers wiU no have forgotten , has just died at Paris at the a , of 4 o , ot a fit of apoplexy . °

      Ireland presents us with one of those murders which Rcem the natural produce of the country . An agent has been shot dead , as ho was riding home with a friend early in the evening , and a Protestant clergyman has heard the slugs whistle , but we should say that they were aimed at him m his character of landlord Heralding the Religious Equality Conference ' there is an enorraoushh letter ^ ML BrjB ht . Mr . Bri ght propounds a schem for the settlement of the question . He says capitalize the propertygive every Romish priest 10 or 20 acres of land-behave liberally to the episcopalians and dissenters , and apply the rest to secular education and other objects , John , of Tuam , will accept Mr . Brian ' s S f ° f £ 1 r f J- f CllUrch ' bufc ™ ^ esS he will not accept Mr . Bright' s plan for dividing the spoil

      Among our home news , politics do not occupy a very prominent figure . We get very alight glimpses of the ministerial plans-only ihe leaders know what is to be done , and they perhaps only dimly . The subordinates are clearly all wool-gathering , and eking out their ignorance with the odds and ends of shiftiness and imbecility _ The national party for the ballot , propounded b y Mr , Collins , of Hull , petted by Mr Hume , laughed out of countenance by the Times and then snubbfed by the veteran Joseph , is clearly out of the " V 5 *? , *? . ' , ^ nd th po liti l ^ juror cunning enough lo give it the breath of life } is not forthcoming . The crimes of the week includes the committal for trial of the brute who attempted to murder his mistress near Yarmouth . The committal of the four prisoners who were concerned in the fatal duel at Egham , when the unfortunate Cant . Cournet was shot . The

      commission of a barbarous murder upon an old man and woman near Stafford , and the condemnation of Camion , who has acquired such a ruffian-like notoriety . Sentence of death is recorded against him He will probably be transported for life . °

      We ; have to record anotW dispute between employers and workmen . The shoemakers are complaining of their grievances , and not without reason . Some of the employers in a time of brisk work without any plea except that of . " competition" which they produce themselves , have tried to reduce the alread y miserable pittance of the men . The workers resisted this / appealed to the trade , and waited upon the masters . Some of the masters agreed not to lower the wages , others would agree to it , all wouldbut all would notand so

      , , the dispute went on . At last , the employers appointed twelve of their number , "aboard of trade , " and this , board set to work to screw the men m earnes t—advertisements were put out for men to do cheap work , and open war was proclaimed . In this strait the men have held a meeting , and seem determined to do their uttermost , now that briskness of trade makes their labour wanted , and gives them a chance of success . It will , we suppose , end in a strike , which will produce ruin on one s de , and suffering upon the other .

      We do not deprecate strikes when they can be made successful . Even with all the chances against them , they are often the only means of defence the workman has left , and to which he resorts when endurance becomes impossible . But progress towards real power will never be made , till the workmen do something towards forming a national union , not of one trade only , but of alf men who live by wages . Then , indeed , they might set tyranny ut defiance and do something better still , raise themselves towards independence .

      The jrue remedy is to be found in such a combination as will be effective , not only for resistance , but , for political action , and social co-operation . If the workers will only set themselves to work to do that , or earnestly aid those who would do it for them , they mifht not only claim with a loud voice their fair share in the government of the country , but ensure fair wages in the present , and comparative independence in the future . The masses , powerless as each individual may be , would become , if united and organized , the greatest power in the world—a power , before which class laws aud social tyranny would be swept away like chaff—but isolated , either man by man , or in small groups , they are pitted against each other , beaten down , and defeated in detail . . . .

      We shall be too glad to lend our aid in any way that . panr . be pointed out—publicity and advice we can afford the men , ' and if anything eke is in our power , we are too deeply interested in the contest of right against sordid wrong , of poor labour against monopolizing wealth , to allow us to hold back ^ vhen ow co-opeiation can bejbf service ~ ' - . •* .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 30, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1702/page/1/