The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-04 00:00:00

ICELAND.

The Diet of Iceland was opened on the sth July
at Reikiavik. Amongst the Bills presented was one
enacting that from the 15th June, 1852, foreign
vessels shall be allowed to enter the port of Reikiavik
without passports of the authorities of the island, and
shall be treated as Danish vessels.

T.HE PURCHASE OF CUBA.
(From the New York Herald.)
One of our Newport correspondents suggests the
propriety of the United States purchasing the island
of Cuba from the Spanish Government, provided it
can be obtained for a reasonable sum—say 100,000,000
dollars. The proposition is put forward on the ground
that there is a growing sentiment among the American
people i 4 favour of a revolution in Cuba, and of the
establishment of Cuban independence ; and that if the
Cuban discontents receive aid and assistance from their
coadjutors in the United States, it might involve this
country in a war with some of the great powers of
Europe.
We are not certain that any of the great Powers of
Europe would go to war with us on account of Cuba.
England would not do so, for the reason that she
could not. If she were less dependent on us than she
is—if she could procure a sufficient supply of cotton
and corn from other sources, she might do so, or
might enter into an alliance with France, were the
latter country a monarchy—to curb our propensity for
increasing our territory. As she is at present situated,
however, she will be willing to let us alone as long as
we do not trouble her; and to leave us to pursue the
even or uneven tenor of our way, as it may be,
without any attempt at hindrance or restraint on her
part. France would not trouble the United States
in the matter at all, for a war with this country, on
any pretext, would be disastrous to any Adminis-
tration that attempted it. There exists between the
people of the two republics a tacit but well understood
entente cordiale, stronger than any paper concordat or
treaty that was ever written. But, were the Creoles
of Cuba to obtain their independence of Spain, with
or without aid and assistance from the United States,
there is good reason to believe that Spain would treat
its annexation to the United States as the Mexican
Government treated the annexation of Texas,
lriZ., as a casus belli, or as b declaration of war.
Such a result would be of vast injury to us. Her
military resources could not be employed against
us; but, by means of letters of marque, she could
harass our commerce and inflict more damage
than Cuba is worth fifty times over. Her pride
would induce her to take this course, in all proba-
bility; for, weak as she is, and ranking so low as she
does in the matte of nations, she does not forget the
position she once held, nor would she see the last of
her American colonies form part of this confedera-
tion by annexation without resenting it, even were
she sure of suffering injury from so doing. Spain
has always held a reputation for privateering and
guerilla warfare, veld a bettor outlet for the employ-
ment of her malcontents could not be offered than
the franking of letters of marque to harass our com-
merce.

For these and other reasons, which it is unneces-
sary to mention, we are in favour, as we have been
for two or three years past, of our Government offer-
ing to purchase Cuba from Spain. If it can be ob-
tained for a reasonable sum, it would be advisable for
us to open negotiations at once. We proposed this
to the Government and to Calderon de la Barca, the
Spanigh Minister at Washington, a considerable time
since. ..s she and Cuba are now situated,:in all proba-
bility she would give respectful attention to our over-
tures, and take them into serious consideration. She
cannot but be assured that her hold on that
island is very precarious, and that, in the nature of
things, she cannot continue it much longer. The in-
depesidence of Cuba may be delayed—all present
efforts at revolution may be put down—but the Creole
population have determined to be independent of
Spain, and independent they will be, sooner or later.
It is only a question of time ; and, if Spain wishes to
save her reputation, and at the same time make a snug
sum of money by the operation, she will dispose of
that island to the United States for a fair considera-
tion, to be agreed upon by the contracting parties.

Scorrisrt CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the Week
ending Aug. 31, 1831 :
Passengers (16,747), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... £1,490 511
Goods, cattle, &c. 747 16 7

Total 2,238 2 6
Corresponding week in last year... 1,904 1 7
Perth, Sept. 3, 1851.

BURGLARY IN RADNORSHIRE, AND

CAPTURE OF THE ROBBERS.

On Tuesday five men, named John Davis, fruiterer,
of Ashton-street, Birmingham ; David Davis (brother
to the foregoing), tailor, late of Birmingham,; Charles
Edwards, of Kington, Herefordshire, butcher ; and
Henry Russ, of Birmingham, recently returned from
a seven years' transportation ; and another man named
Wallis, of Carey's-court, Birmingham, were brought
up at the public office, Birmingham, charged with
having, on Sunday night last, burglariously entered
the house of a widow lady named Evans, residing at
Greenfields, near Presteign, Radnorshire, and steal-
ing therefrom a quantity of silver plate, of the value
of 2001. The superintendent constable of Yresteign
having received information of the burglary and at-
tendant circumstances, and the suspicion as to the
prisoners being the offenders, commenced an early pur-
suit after them. He traced them to Kington, where he
learned that they had left there with a horse and trap
at five that morning. He followed on the track,
hearing of them successively at Leominster, Ten-
bury, and Bewdley. The pursuit was vigorously
maintained until they came up to a public-house on
the road side near Birmingham, where they had
seen the trap received. In order to prevent suspicion
in the minds of the pursued, the officers rode past the
house for some distance. Shortly after they returned
to the house, and found one of the prisoners washing
the horse's mouth with a quart of ale, the distressed
animal having had a continuous run of sixty miles.
Dixon and Peters sat down on a bench outside the
house, until the other four prisoners entered the
house. The officers then went up to them, and told
them they were their prisoners. On asking the
reason, Dixon charged them with the burglary at
Presteign. The prisoner Russ then said " I shall
go to mv horse," on which Dixon seized him, and as
there were preparations for a fight on the part of the
prisoners, Peters, in order to alarm them, threatened
thateif they did not keep quiet, he would " put a bit of
lead into them." Russ then sat down, but in a minute
after he jumped up and leaped through the kitchen
window, breaking several squares of glass. Dixon,
however, went out and secured him ; after which he
went to the cart alone; with a young man named
Thomas Knowles, whom he got to assist him. Dixon
P°ln" to some bags that were in the cart, and on en-
deavouring to secure them, a large dog, which was in
the vehicle flew at him, and bit him on the knee; but
he succeeded in beating him off. At this moment the
prisoner Davis came through the window into the
yard where the cart Was, which Dixon left the
nog, went to Davis, and struck him down, and with
the assistance of Peters, secured him, and took him
into the house, where a desperate fight took place, the
and a life preserver, but
prisoners using fire-irons
eventually the prisoners were all disarmed and se-
cured by ropes. Dixon then went again to the cart,
an4here found sccreted in a bag a large quantity of
silver plate, consisting of coffee-pots, dessert articles,
spoons, salvers, jagi,
toast-racks,. &.c. Ia one of the
bags were found
a centre-bit, a large quantity of
pieklocke, a jemmy, several skeleton drop hitches, and
a dark lantern. Thg house of 1‘12.3' Evans had been
entered by taking a piece of wood out of the shutter
of the butler's pantry, and the centre-bit found exactly
fitted the bit of wood that had been cut out; and the
stolen property, although much broken and damaged,._
has been identified by Mrs. Evans, who is the widow
of the late Rev. Mr. Evans, of Greenfields, which is
sevee miles from Kington. The prisoners had resided
in the neighbourhood a fortnight previous to the rob-
bery. They were remanded back to Presteign.--1
-Wolverhampton ,Herald.