The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-28 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, AUG. 27.
The United States' mail steam-ship Hermann,
Lieutenant E. Higgins, U.S.N., commander, arrived
off Cowes this morning, and after landing the English
and French mails and passengers, proceeded on her
voyage to Bremcn.
The Hermann left New York at three P.M. on the
14th instant. She brings about fifty passengers, and
on freight a small quantity of specie for Havre and
Bremen.

The Africa arrived out en the 11th instant.
The news by this steamer is of no great importance,
and is only of three days' later date than that brought
by the last Liverpool packet.
A portion of the Whigs of North Carolina opposed
to the election of General Scott had nominated the
lion. Daniel Webster for President, and William A.
Graham for Vice-President. A similar movement
Was to be made in Georgia, and was likely to spread
throughout the south.
The National Free Soil Convention at Pittsburg
had nominated John P. Hale, of New Hampshire,
for President, and George W. Julien, of Indiana,
for Vice-President. The Herald remarks upon this
nomination—
" This nomination of Mr. Hale throwa the two old
parties of the country back upon their original grounds.
It will take from the Whig and Democratic ranks all
the Free-soilers of every shade anc: hue—thus injuring
One party about as much as the other, and leaving tho
great body of the people to decide upon the principles
at issue between them. True, it will will greatly cut
down the vote of both; but then it is not likely that it
will interfere with the actual strength of either, as did
the Buffalo ticket in 1848. In that contest Mr. Van
Buren, in addition to receiving the Free-soil vote of the country,
was supported by a long line of old and warm
personal friends. Mr. Hale has no such personal popu-
larity,
He will get the vote of his party, composed of
all the colours isms, and ites of the country, and nothing
'*ore. He was formerly considered as belonging to the
111" rats, but in the United States Senate of late he has
been anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere, just as it
wiled his convenience. Mr. Julien, the nominee for
. lee-President, represented the fourth district of Indiana
In the last Congress."
With reference to the fisheries dispute there ap-
pears to be little of a novel character. The Herald

" The information detailed by our special Washing-
ton correspondent with regard to the fishing troubles, if
correet—and no doubt it is—is highly important. The
"visitsr asserts that he has it from a reliable source, that
the British Government has not, and will not, approve
of the forced construction placed upon the treaty by the
ecolonists. They claim exclusive right inside the head-
els s• All that England requires is, that foreign ves-
shall not take fish within a marine league of the
actual shore. This is very plain and simple; and, if
!tich be really the position of Great Britain on the sub-
-I,:eueiktt,e, Mr. Webster was certainly very wide of the mark
'is proclamation. But, be all this as it may, it is
evident, according to all accounts, that many of
c135/1t fiehermen have been most ungenerously dealt with,
ince.ithheyr
the
ee colonistsiormer. or the British naval officers—most
The American fishermen, when
TsPutably beyond the prescribed bounds, have been
rusted off, and, in one or two instances, captured and
I(2ll64cated. No matter who the guilty parties are who
ave oe_ •
tisti committed these acts, they are subjects of the Bri-
t°, leen, and, as such, her Government is responsible
ett't buconL One good—temporary, at leest—will grow
these troubles. The bluenoses, who. have been
riling bounty from the United States, will be caught,
their rascality exposed. The chief feature in the
It'irleeccedings of the United States' Senate yesterday was
gentleman seems
of Mr. Souls, on the fishing question. This
of thuesman seems to have taken an entirely distinct view
ese, case, and dissents is Coto from the opinions of Se-
ifthrY Webster, General Cass, and others."
roll°win •
same journal of the 12th instant contains the
„ , g•—
eues'ar special Washington correspondent states that a
twour was current last evening that the breach be•
weeis Messrs. Fillmore and Webster had been cemented.
serebBlher this be so or not, it is very certain that the
esetaaridertt cannot afford to lose the services of his Se-
ie Yin the present crisis. The fishery affair, which
difeca"Y assuming a very ominous shape, and the guano
troi tiltY with Peru, are matters that require all the
the many of which Mr. Webster Is master, to bring
Cooii to an amicable adjustment. Both branches of
in„,n,ess seem to be rather ruffled at th© recent proceed-
Great .G.reat Britain; the House Committee on corn-
reek', it is said, are delaying to report a measure for
are r°eal trade, which has been matured. Senators
arat r°slY descanting on the consequences of an appeal to
frosas'"d to-day we may expect to have a strongspeech
hiopecator Soule on the subjectviewing all
shoolds'biet
retained."
perhaps, better that Secretary Webster
,11
tele ° Journal of Commerce publishes the following
graPhie dispatch, dated, Washington, Aug. 12 :
1 Mr
ittei • Webster will leave this city for Massachusetts
bo
oignt or ten days; but the rumour, again started, that
is, protroPlates the resignation of his office at that time
hautlalY, as incorrect as all the previous rumours.
toutio3e eenl and still is, closely engaged here, not in the
1,11±,f the d, parte:lent, but in diplomatic affairs.
eon r fishery question is by no means settled, but
jasttgcle.ss tams to have confidence that it will be ad-
and kit in a manner consistent with our national honour
/t !'rests, if it remain in Mr. Webster's hands.;
hoe bii rumoured here that some 15 sail of large ships
boori:eu dispatched to the precious islands of Lobos,
eong away
a portion of its inexhaustible treasure, in
i-,ititipsn.he;nee of the publication of Mr. Webster's letter
Dover air Opinion that the islands do not belong to the
me m'erit of Peru, and that the Peruvian Govern_
Prodt,;:,ave no right
to impose an export duty upon
.the
Rod °F the islands. They will, probably, be seized
incie_doefiscated by the Peruvian Governmthfeeonrter,eig.uhntlTeashsse.,
/38 t they be protected by o
suur s
tanianvsal
kaoyerument, it appears,
by th Peruvian Government in regard to the
, boa • e
islands, though they are more than a marine
league
from the Peruvian coast. Thus we have another
"Aery question on hand."
I, 4- telegraphic dispatch from Boston, dated the 12th
inmsta to the following effect, appears in the New York
4rnals :
0,4 By the steamer Admiral, we have St. John papers
it yestay. Commodore Perry, of the Mississippi,
4ileled a ertd St. John'ms on Monday, and was received by a
ANiel of honour. On Tuesday be proceeded to Fre-
~rickton, to have an interview with the Governor. A
of lie dinner to the officers of the Mississippi is talked
bY the inhabitants of St. John."
jo• e Courier and Enquirer publishes the sub-
ried
e:: 701hioewGloucester Telegraph of this morning contains
information from the fishing grounds:—
`oThere have been two or three arrivals from the
foryese!.:St• Lawrence, and we gather the following in-
k, era' of
respecting affairs in that quarter:—Captain
tha!tr's, of the schooner C. and N. Rogers, informs us
by sae was in the Bay of Chaleur, when he was boarded
derOicer from the steam-ship Devastation, and or-
sboa, out of the bay. It was Sunday, and there were
made twenty vessels in company. Some of them had
at an "bil harbour for the purpose of passing the Sabbath
40ieesel°r, as many of the fishermen are in the habit of
Pr oo7: uilt they were all ordered to get under way and
out of the bay immediately.
rather The °Meer who boarded the C. and N. Rogers was
ooard. 'asulting to the crew. The first he said upon
that tlae vessel was, that they had no business in
11'1,1144'i". They were at the time about four or five
`4. atctst,unt from the shore. The papers were called
44104. ,t,cie reason asked why there was no clearance
miss After the officer had looked at them for
oti the,,,ne crumpled them in his band and threw them
Pttpierase "cis, saying to Captain Rogers, There's your
of We
htit,ll emteriLso learn from Captain
.Rogers that the crew
(44°044 i`u schooner were taking in water at one of the
,Itl he_4 the bay, when a cutter came along and or-
-I,e
toff in 15 minutes, not allowing them suffi-
stisle c, to obtain their water. Ono of our Gloucester
ras-i:Be4.t‘lt'e-sawt into Fort Hood for a harbour for the night
di "::1 to e there, and the officers gave the crew perh-
obllll_rbenee'e,D.Tn, but the people ounsheopt_meaenetstoermwuaca
114,:g_sdh to Shout it, that the captain of the
ayh
in the ight.
1,,a;01 er Gi'l_ec be vessel to g u
feeli This t..,u ester vessels were served in hen same
Ciatng th: on the Cape Breton shore, and shows the
tls pad at p People of that place. The people at the
ikeeot) 74:aerioanrince Edward's Island areE more oir,eeifnrti,enthdalyt
an
=rlcau a. It was reported at as
4114(1 let, "easel while running off from a cutter, was
c4t,off into,
the man at the helm had several fingers
The -h° name of the vessel was not known.'"
``p, erciri
Iltrtitoa—frati the Bri-Cl7provinces we learn that the United_
ileasc gate Missi ••arrived at St. John, New
ked lac, la Saturday"i a that Com-
,Pre Ise at lt was presume
4itesa2t. rr y would meet Vice-Admiral Seymour at
&Lett the jou° St. John papers express the belief thtaet
44c't y contrmrnodore ascertains the true nature ofh
fia4that tc'hversY, he will be fully impressed with.the
1°4441'4 e protection he can afford the American
th4r (if the t be to advise them to keep within the strict
tiet i 3 What bastcas. Aye, ' the letter of the treaty 1
Is ghhs, caused all the trouble. Our provincial
eee era
a,aee 118,:eauerstand it to mean one thing, and our
titres, to Lie
rtusu another. Minister Crampton, who
DearPf tltftve had doubts with regard to the interpre-
tea .urtber treaty, ordered Admiral Seymour to sus-
(3aelleed b, .LeaPtUres, and for this he is strongly de-
s,„ Provi,," St. John papers, and his recall demanded.
tae Procl4 al
,friends are very desirous of obtaining.
time
are nut ri trade, but from. their. present policy
unless likely to accomplish their purpose in some
they do it with the Portuguese, who
thst;' rakde
cut on tr. therta a very magnanimous offer to repeal the
e 4 fish rillish fish if they are allowed to
,catch and
ip fit of our the banks of Newfoundland. rho treat-
y disn„,_,L,Shertnen by the British off-were, as detailed
.4 to hear from l'ona Boston, if true, warrants us in expect-
salt l'atilee,al some warm work in that quarter shortly.
and, 00012 will not tamely submit to unnecessary in-
if ee u-odore Perry will doubtless attend to. this,
7,l4,erai 'r'uos_stible, prevent our fishermen from causing a
soetson busPsurie between the two Governments. Judge
nabeautirkei,,bnti itfrolloo r
allsd tthhaet
justices
asinee)fthe Supreme Court,
extradition case shall
me
thiue commencement of the next term. In the
Arehat Tape prisoner is to remain in the custody of
th:kt tekgrup'ullf4ediN'"
era 11-16adtharnriivt arrived two
„ea dispatch from New Orleans announced
hletfuiriant 'nth
44i e lone, . being 13 days later.
there with news from
no detail was said to be of no importance,
3 h2a been received at New York,

THE

where two mail steamers from CaliVornia were
about due.

Dates from the city of Mexico to the 31st ultimo
had been received at New Orleans. Thebe accounts
state that the Rebolledos movement was very for-
midable. The disaffected, at last accounts, were
marching against Jalapa. Their object seems to be
the separation of the State of Oriyaba from the
State of Vera Cruz. More pronunciamentos had
been issued at Mazatlan and other places, and fur-
ther troubles are reported at Tampica. The Go-
vernment has invited new proposals for the con-
struction of the Tehuantepec road till, the 15th of
August. All other grants and contracts fbr roads
and canal projects are reserved for future con-
sideration.

The New York Stock- market: were active and
buoyant. Federal and State Stocks were in demand
at improved prices. Foreign exchange was firmer,
although only moderately active. Leading drawers
of sterling bills had advanced their rates to 110- to
to llo', end no good sixy-days' bills were to be had
under 1101. Bills on Paris, 5.134 to 5.122 ; Am-
sterdam, 404 to 41 ; Hamburgh 361 to :36i;
Bremen, 79 to 791. Potashes were steady. The
market for breadstutfs was generally more buoyant.
Flour was in better demand. Wheat more animated.
Corn buoy ant. Rye firmer. In coffee holders were
offering more freely. The cotton market continued
active, with a further upward tendency ; sales for the
last three days, 8,700 bales. Sales of Scotch pig iron
at 20 dolls. to 20 dolls. 50c. cash, and 21 dolls. six
months. Freights to England very dull ; to Liverpool
freight had been offered at Bd. for flour, and 20. for
grain ; to London flour had been taken at ls. 6d. and
grain 4d. in bulk. Wool continued in active de-
mand. The market for dry goods was in a healthy
state, both British and continental manufactures being
in good demand.

GLASGOW, FRIDAY.

The steam-ship Glasgow arrived here this day,
after a passage of 12 days 15 hours from New York.
She brings news to the 14th current, being three days
later.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—We have received from the French Govern-
ment the only honour which a Government so constituted
has it in its power to bestow—the honour implied in its
tear and its hatred. In the Moniteur, the official organ
of his Government, the President endeavours to answer
our remarks of this day week on the melancholy position
of the French nation, deprived altogether of public life,
and reduced to seek in the childish amusements of fire-
works and scene-painting an equivalent for its degrading
exclusion from the earnest drama of real life, from the
duties of the citizen, and the honours of the statesman.
Our remarks, such as they were, seem to have pene-
trated into the recesses of that Imperial solitude in which
Monsieur Louis Bonaparte spends the happy and digni-
fied hours which he can save from the toil of destruction
and confiscation. At the head of an enormous army,
with his foot on the neck of a prostrate nation, a tew
lines traced in a foreign language by an unknown hand
have shaken the impassible man of destiny, and probed
the depths of a conscience not easily accessible to the
voice of truth. We cannot refuse to enter the lists with
such a champion. He has a right to be heard on his
own behalf, as well as on behalf of the seven million
five hundred thousand votes of the 10th of December.

We only wish that he would give our reply the same
extended publicity in France as we give to his vindica-
tion in England. But this he dares not do. Groundless
as Monsieur Bonaparte may call our censures, he dares
not make his own nation the judge of their justice,
and all the people whom he mocks with the name of
liberty will ever know on the subject will be so much as
it is deemed prudent to notice in the columns of the
Moniteur. We will not be led aside from the point
really at issue by the sarcasm which Monsieur Bona-
parte levels against the English Constitution. We are
quite content that it should be denounced by the man
" who swore to remain faithful to the Republic, and to
fulfil all the duties imposed by the constitution;" who
" declared that this oath should command his future
conduct, and that he would fulfil it like a man of
honour;" who " denounced as enemies of the country
all those who should endeavour to change by illegal
means that which all France had established;" and who,
after these things, made the Revolution of the 2d of De-
cember, 1851. Such a man is no judge of compacts—
for him they have no existence, and we are well content
that our glorious Constitution should be honoured by his
hatred and sanctified by his fear. Neither will we be led
aside by the imputations which the Autocrat of the
Elysia does not disdain to throw upon ourselves. We
are content to receive such unfounded imputations as " a
first warning," but cannot condescend to answer them,
although brought forward by the absolute lord and
master of thirty-six millions of the bravest and most in-
telligent of the human race. Let Monsieur Bonaparte
call us " the passionate interpreter of hostile parties,"
" the representative of an interested opposition," and
strive to persuade the nation which he has duped and
dragooned that his Government can have nothing to fear
from honest conviction. True, as he says, we are not,
like the Moniteur, the organ of a nation; but in this in-
stance, at any rate, we are something more—the organ
of the conscience of the human race, the organ of that
feeling which distinguishes man from brute, the mouth-
piece of that unbending law of morality which per-
jured judges cannot pervert, and all the prestige of
success cannot elude. To one accusation, however,
which the irritation of Monsieur Bonaparte has induced
him to make against us, we must reply. We approved,
ho says, of former revolutions, not because they were
conquests made by the people, but on account of the
blood which was shed. It is, therefore, we suppose,
because the 2d or rather 4th of December was bloodless
that we have been unable to give in our adhesion to its
success ? Surely the recommendation of blood, if that
were to our taste, was not wanting, when, in the broad
daylight, in the most public thoroughfares of Paris, twelve
hundred harmless passers-by, unarmed and without a
show of resistance, were murdered by the drunken sol-
diery whom Monsieur Bonaparte had bribed for the pur-
pose ? No; if we dissent from the revolution of the 2d
of December, it is not because it has not shed blood
enough. The proper anniversary is the 4th of De-
em, en
murdered
robdoeeerrn,esda. n
itht
hos hnocauhml
children
acelebratedrate,
rm
iagat
hr
tm thes,
recallold mothersmen
Miami- 6 des
slain on their thresholds, children of seven
old massacred, as well as the other glories whichyears
the President takes so much credit to himself for not
commemorating. The real question is, have we been
dreaming all this while? Is it a pretence that France is
disinherited of all her rights, that political life exists no
longer for her, as the Times dares to assert? And is
she, on the contrary, as Monsieur Bonaparte declares,
making the first essay of the most unbounded liberty?
It France has political life, we shall find it, like animal
life, in the perfection of her organs, her Senate, her Le-
gislature, her generals, her magistracy, her local coun-
cils, and, above all, in her press. Her courts are at this
moment presided over by the very men who met to-
gether on the 2d of December to declare the President
deposed for treason and perjury, who took the oath of
fidelity to this very person in the month of April, and
who now administer in his name so much of the law
as he has suffered to exist, so often as he
allows it to have its course. The army is com-
manded by the same General Msgnan who, on
the trial of Monsieur Bonaparte before the Cham-
ber of Peers for the attempt at Boulogne, over-
whelmed him with his contempt for his unsuccessful
attempt to corrupt him. Since then the attempt has
been renewed, and with better success. Here also we
can find no political life. Tho Senate is a baud of
mercenary pensioners, without power, and without
character, and the Legislative body is barely allowed to
testify its disapprobation of the ruinous extravagance it
is not permitted to chock. There is no life here. But
there is Universal Suffrage, and, though every institu-
tion which that suffrage can appoint is sedulously de-
nuded of all authority and dignity, Universal Suffrage
compensates for this trivial defect by the splendour of
its name. But, to make this suffrage anything, the
elector should be allowed not merely a vote, but a choice.
Liberty implies an alternative, and that alternative the
French Government does not allow. As well not elect
at all as be forced to vote for the nominee .of the
Government, and thus disgrace an institution tlie
are nut permitted to use. We are, then, justified
inno
po
toi nu o
ac
life;l in h g
and,
tnda,
fin
we Francepass
from
ma at
nps present n
stthoe re
acts, l
we
shall find in the plunder of the Orleans family, and the
hulks of Lambessa and Cayenne, gorged with thousands
of unconvicted exiles, the best proof that the great end
of human society—protection of person and property
from the aggressions of lawless power, is not included in
the plan of the present Government of France. If this
be a faithful picture of the present state of France—and
who can deny that it is so?—have we not a right to
wonder at the degeneracy of a nation which, under the
load of degradation and misery which this man has
brought upon it, can find time or taste for reviews and
processions, for rockets and transparencies? And dues
not the spectacle of Caesarean France, with her servile
Senate, her mercenary generals, her mixed ministries of
pleasure and business, her fierce Praetorians, and her
pliant magistrates, necessarily force upon us a compari-
son with the darker periods of the Roman Empire? Mon-
sieur Bonaparte aims at too much. The press of France
would long since have said so, but her press is mute.
Her tribune would have said so, but her tribune is dumb.
A nation may be free and proud, or enslaved and sub-
missive; but it is idle to expect that France can be made
by any art vain of her slavery and proud of her dishonour.
In the false praises of the Illoniteur there is more offence
than in our honest and open censures. Servitude is only
the more galling when it is called freedom, and despotism
never so insulting as when it wears the mask of liberality.
Monsieur Bonaparte repudiates comparisons with the
rom
him-
self
Can he trace no family like.,
"Amid the acclamations
neesws etro Eo
m ire
ne personage, at least in the sketch which
of a flattering Court he
Gibbon gives ofofCiolmommeo'd
wasus iunableto disguis
of sense and virtue in his empire; fero-
ciousever y man -
the consciousness of that
that he had deserved the contempt andhhatirsedof
spirit was irritated by
hatred,
ap apprehension htehnes in of da envyo of everynar e kind of merit, and by the
just

MAN LOWER ED-
MYSTERIOTICI DEATH OF A AT.
MONTON.—Yesterday considerable
of a young nun
clnaonton, in consequence of discoverthe
It appears
in a ditch, under the following circumstances •
young' man
from information of the olice that the body of ay. . _
about twenty years of ape was discovered in a ditch Mas.a
sensation was caused at
field near the Coach and Horses Tavern, on Thursday t
in a state of decomposition and although every exertion
_has;
been made to discover the identification, it at present ba
proved of no avail. The deceased is described as being
about 5 feet 4 inches in height, dressed in black jacket and
trowsers, no boots or shoes. The body was removed to Ed-
monton Old Church to be owned, and information waF, for-
warded by the. summoning officer to the coroner, but at pro-
ea
lav day 14 iced for the itiquoet.

SUN,