The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-29 00:00:00

TH.E LOBOS ISLANDS.

We are glitol to find, from the annexed letters, that
the America e: Government, on more mature consi-
deration, has determined to pursue a line of policy
with regard to the guano question more consistent
with its own dignity and the undoubted rights of
Peru than M. Webster's order of the 16th of June
had prepared us to expect. It will be seen with satis-
faction that Mr. Jewett's piraticcl expedition is now
stigmatized by 11r. Webster as " an act of private
war, which can never receive any countenance" from
the American Government, and that the commander
of the United States squadron in the Pacific has been
ordered " to ;xbita;n from aiding or abetting any
citizen of the United States" who may resist the
lawful authority of the Peruvian Republic
Department of State, Washington,
Aug. 21, 1852.
" Sir,—Yo r letter of the 16th inst., with the ac-
companying pa pers, relative to your proceedings for
the purpose o)!' taking guano from the Lobos Islands,
has been received. Since the one addressed to you
by this department, under date the sth, in answer to
yours of the 2d of June last, information has reached
the department that the Peruvian Government claims
jurisdiction o -.Ter these islands, and that in 1842 it
issued two decrees prohibiting any foreign vessels,
upon the penalty of confiscation, from removing guano
from any of the islands near the coast of Peru with-
out a licence I 'rom that Government. Under these cir-
cumstances, it is expnted that the vessels which have
proceeded thither under your auspices will not make
use of the arms with which, it appears
from your lett:s r of the 16th inst,, they are provided
for the purpose of forcibly resisting the Peruvian
authorities. You must be aware that such a resistance
would be an act of private war, which can never
receive any countenance from this Government. The
commander of the United States in the Pacific will
also, under es fisting circumstances, be required to
abstain from protecting any vessels of the United
States which may visit those islands for purposes
forbidden by t he decrees of the Peruvian Government
until he shall receive further orders.

" Some of the statements contained in your letter
of the 2d of June last had a tendency to mislead us,
and as intimated above, may, it is apprehended, have
done so.—l am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, " DANIEL WEBSTER.
_ _

" To J. C. Jewett, Esq., New York."
" Aug. 25, 1852.
" Sir,—By direction of the President, you are
hereby instructed to suspend, until further orders, the
execution of the order addressed to you under date of
June 16, 1852, and you are required to abstain from
aiding or abetting any citizens of the United States
who may forcibly resist the execution of the laws of
Peru by the authority of that Republic.
" I am, &c.,
" JOHN P. KENNEDY.
" Commodore C. S. M'Aulay, Commanding
U. S. squadron, Pacific Ocean."

THE LATE MR. PUGIIV'S CHURCH AND
OTHER BUILDINGS AT RAMSGATE.

The church, which the deceased architect has raised
•' for the benefit of the faithful residing in Ramsgate,
and of the foreign seamen using the harbour," consists
of a nave, chancel, tower, Lady chapel, and south tran-
Cliff,latheing
tipt—the tower separating the nave and the chancel.
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7' "tY and school, with bell•turret. Farther east
pile of dive... . is a
the iling-houses, partaking of the same character;
and
servals.
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on entering
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DREADFUL DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN. —A
frightful occurrence has just happened at Nevin, near
Pwllheli, North Wales. The wife of a labourer, who lives
in a house remotely situated from other dwellings, had occa-
sion to go for milk to a farm at some distance, and during
her absence locked her three children, aged respectively five,
three, and one years, he the cottage; a large quantity of
corn in the straw having been previously placed there.
This by some means became ignited, and on the return
of the woman she found the house on fire and her three
children bait to ashes. The mother is in a state of dis-
traction.

A FACT FOR DR. CULLEN.—lmsgine a railway
hence to the sun. How many hours is the sun from
Why, if we were to send a baby in a railway train, going
incessantly one hundred miles an hour without making any
stoppages, the baby would grow to be a boy—the boy
would grow to be a man—the man would grow old and die
—without seeing the sun, for it is distant more than a hun-
dred years from us. But what j 9 this compared with
Neptune's distance? Had Adam and Eve started by a
railway to go from Neptune to the Sun, at the rate of ifty
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