The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-22
The Arctic Expedition.

ABERDEEN, Thursday Evening, ct. Z, 1852.
The Prince Albert has just arrived, Bringing no
fms bay, searched Prince Regents Inlet, discovered
channel on the west of North Somerset. travcrsed
i with sledges, and round by Port Leopold, but
found no traces OF the missing expedition.
The Prince Albert got rs far north sc Beechy
Head
On the 10Th Of August last she fell in with the
Nsrth Star. The expeditions had passed up Wei.
lington channel esny in tho season. The channel
was open, and quite free from ice
The Prince Albert left the ice on the 23d Of Au-
gust, and brings dispatches from the North Star.
The officers and crew were all WE'LL
The Davis's Straits fishery was failure Up to
the ships. The Regalia. Of Kirkcaldy, had been
lest; also, an American wkaler.
Pcrsss.
ATTEMPT TO AssAssINATE THE SHAH.
The Erzeroom post has brought letters to the 9th
ult from that city, and to the zsth of August from
Tabreez. On the 18th Of August an attempt to
assassinate the Shah Of Persia had taken place at
Iehran. The Shah, accompanied by his Primo
Minister, and by numerous SUITE had quilted that
day kasri Miilak, on hunting excursion. and had
reached the skirt of a wood near Maveranda, when
six i'll dressed Persans with petitions approached
the shah, who at once drew in tho rcigns Of his
horse, and took tho papers held out to him. It is
usual In Persia on gimilar excursions for the sove
reign to proceed alones and keep his ministers and
attendants at . distance Of several hundred yards,
and when he stops they do likewise. The petition
ers were of the iect Of Babi and, after delivering
their papers, two seized the bride Of the horse and
the other four surrounded the sh.h and loudly, and
with menacing gesture, demanded redress for the
insult done to their religion, by having put their
chief to death. The Shah oourageousIy ordered
them of, but before his suite came up, two of the
two balls Of which took effect; the FIRST wounded
him IN the mouth, and the second slightly grazed
his thigh. Immediately after this attempt they
took to their heels holly pursued by the attendants
down by the Multezim or Rikiab, and the other :wo
were seized and conveyed to Tehran, for the pur
pose Of obtaining clue to the conspiracy. Tbs
Shah's wounds wore so light that the next day he
offer his thanksgiving for his miraculous escape
On his return to che palace, the ministers and the
Russian and English ambassadors, and the Charge
d'AfaiIes Of the Porte, in full costume, congratu
the city OF Iehran vas illuminated at night On
the 10th of August, intelligence had been been re.
cevd Of the seizure of the three assassns who had
effected their escape and concealed themselves in
the woods. They were discovered in well, and
were drawn out and cut to pieces according to the
orders given by the Prime Minister.
The GuaDo Question Again-The Peruvian
PenE"i -, and ,sa ths american merle Eagle.
The Peruvian penguin has fairly beaten the
American eagle out OF tho field In the guano con-
trOversy, and our readers will with a.isfaction
from the intelligence which We publish in another
government are determined to maintain their just
rights, the American Commodore has received no
orders from Washington to abet the pratical at
tempt of Mr. Jewett In fact, it seems probable
that the only order received by that officer will be
that requiring him 90 to abstain from aiding or
abetting any citizen Of the United States in re-
sisting the Peruvian laws. Il follows therefore,
that no collision is to be anticipated between the
Peruvian and United States squadrons in the Pa.
cifo and it is plain, that should Mr. Jewetts ex.
petition attempt to load guano o. the Lobos islands,
1t will receive well merited chastsement at the hands
of the lawful owners Of the soil.
The American journals have not yet published the
letters Secretary Estate aud the Naval Depart
ment, Of the 2lst and 25h of August in which those
authorities Of the United States disavow and revoke
the encouragement aud protection they had before
held ont to the aggrese0rs on the Lobos islands
They acknowledge, bowevor, that the American
government has seen reason TO adopt Numerically
opposite course IN this affair to that which it had
bt CD pursuing; and, at the time, they rather
incoIssten'y complain Of the severity Of che strict
ures of the English press on that course which Mr..
Webster and the President have now openly sban.
doned Those structures were supported By such
facts ard arguments that IL the whole case had not
already been brought to Mr Websters notice, as ne
would have US believe, we can only hope that the
forcbe exposition oft by the English press may have
helped 70 convince the American government and
the whole world where tho truth lay, and may have
rendered that truth pspaoe that it could not be
violated for very shame The open discussion of tho
queihon In this country, and the prompt recogni-
ton Of p right which 1t would hare been our into
rest to dispute probably contributed TO enforce this
honeRt decision qats as much as the ingenuity or
the Iemonstrances Of Peruvian diplomatists Far
from having any right 10 complain Of the argu-
ments addre ssed to HIM, Mr.. Webster has paid them
all possible homage by yielding and retracting the
contrary opinion which he had unfortunately
adopted; and, by whatever means this conversion
to our own views has been effected, We must be per
mitted to hail it with sreat satisfaction. The
American Secretary Of State, feeling that he was in
AZ untenabe position, and that his letter Of the fifth
of june was leading. and had already led to
very serious CONSCIOUSNESS, determined to throw
overheard Mr.. Jewett and his expedition al
together I; but, even when this tardy act
OF fepentance-ior IL cannot DO called TO
parationia accomplished the dates of the different
portions OF this correspondence are such as TO in
crease our aston,shmsnt at the mode ia which this
transaction has been conducted II will be remem-
bered that on the 2jsh of August the President Of
the United States caused the correspondence rela-
ting to the Lobos Islands to DO laid before the Sen
ate. nat CORE spondonce contained an elaborate
note addressed by Mr Webster to the Peruvian Nj
nitter, ~ which the Am rican government persisted
IN defending its claim TO take guano from the Lobos
Islands, and repeated all tao fallaces and In aocu-
races which We bad repeatedly exposed Thie note
was dated the 2ist of August, and purporsed to be
an answer TO sundry remoBstrancos OF the Peruvian
Charge dAhairee, dated the 18th of June, the
ID OF July, and the sth CT August Nov
comes the most extraordinary part Of this
case. Tho letter to Mr. Je@ett, In which Mr.
Webster repudiates theexpedttion, and warns hm
that resistance TO the Peruvisn authorities in Lo-
DOS would oa an act OF private war, which can never
receive any coantenance irom tho American govern
ment is also dated on the 2lst Of Aug1st-thlt is,
on the very same day on which Mr Webster com
posed his despatch TO Mr. Csma, CLAIMING, a right Of
access 70 the isanda Yet Of those dispatches,
that defending the claim was laid before the Senate
and the ether, leaving NJ Jowett to proceed at his
peril, was not made pablo at all the order TO the
American Commodore TO leave these misguided adj
cnturers to their fate was dated the 18th OF August
four days later.
On more minute investigation wo End ia many
parts Of this correspondoncs the same Incredible In
consisteDcies and contradictions. Thus, in Mr.
Wcbsters letter TO Mr.. Jewett, Of the 9th Of Juae,
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