Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-13
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Very unnecessary consequence is given to the re-
port which comes by telegraph says the Philalel-
pha Bulletin, that fourteen British vessels of war
are the fishing grounds of the British Colo
MES; the presumption being that this powerful force
is sent with view to enforcing the new cOnstruc
ton of the treaty of 1878 Now every one at all
familiar with the subject. knows that the British
Government is in the habit Of sending. during the
summer all the vessels that can possibly be spared
from the Southern stations of the Atlantic to North
ATTITUDES and the ports of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick the ordinary rendezvous of large num-
bers of of war. The object in doing this is to
secure the health of those board, as well as to
afford practice to the and younger officers in
the ordinary duties of a cruise This we conf
dent is the this season There are, perhaps
two vessels ordered to the specific service of
watching the fisheries. but beyond that we doubt
whether there is larger British Naval force in
those waters than there was last summer any
previous summer for number of years, Just now,
however. every thing that stirS the waters of the
fishing regions is enough 10 start a rumOr, and
this formidable naval force looks to us but new
version Of the story of the Three Black Crows
THOMAS MooRE--Ihe deceased poet, says the
London Athen9um. left manuscript memoir of his
life and diary almost to the period of his death.
These occupy ten closely written Volumes and Lord
John Russell is be their editor in conformity with
the following clause in the poets will also
file to my valued friend. Lord John Russell, having
obtained his kind promise to undertake the service
for me) the task of looking whatever papers,
letters or journals may leave behind me, for the
purpose of forming from them some kind of publ
cation, whether in the shape of memoirs other
wise, which may afnrd the means Of making some
provisions for my wife and family For these
uScrpts, the Messrs Longman have, understand.
agreed to pay Mrs Moore the liberal sum Of $1,000:
and they now undergoing the necessary review
with view to printing. The first volume will we
believe be published in October.
WAR.-Voltaire thus expresses himself on the sub
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whose heads covered with hats, advance to kill
or be killed by the like number of their fellow NOR
tails covered with turbans By this strange proce-
dure they went at best to decide whether a tract of
land, to which none Of them lays any claim. shall
belong to certain man whom they call Sultan or to
another whom they call Gar, neither Of whom ever
saw or will see, the spot turiously contested for
and very few of those creatures who thus mutually
butcher each other ever behold the animal for whom
they cut each others threats ! From time mme-
mortal this has been the way of mankind almost
all the earth. What an excess OF madness is this
And how deseryedly might Superior Being crush
to atoms this earthly ball. the bloody nest to such
ridiculous murderers."
LONDON IN 1652-AIr Weed of the Albany Eve
ming Journal in a late letter from London, says:
Have you realizing of what London, in
population and magnitude really is Do you know
that in population it is larger than the Of
1910 showed the entire State of New York The in
habtants of the cities of New York Philadelphia.
Boston, Baltimore. Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse,
Rochester and Buffalo combined, would not make by
three or four hundred thousand, another London -
1t has already swallowed up all the surrounding
villages and is extending its lamp districts in
ry direction, rapidly Milwaukee or Chicago
spread themselves | have been driven FIVE six.
and eight miles in different quarters, without
getting through the wilderness of dwellings. The
railroads for miles, not through, but over the
city. AS for the wealth Of London why, that is be-
You'd the power, if not Of figures. at least of compu-