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      Satubday , August 28 . The Queen will set out on Monday for Balmoral . The new Parliament , it is expected , will be opened by the Sovereign in person , on her Majesty ' s return from Scotland , in the second week in November .

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      The Hermann arrived at Cowes on her way to Bremen , and landed the mails from New York to the 14 th . The fishery question , when the Hermann left New York , was again the all-absorbing topic of discussion , and it does not appear by the accounts which have now come to hand that it has at all abated in intensity . In the Senate , on the 12 th , on the President's message relative to the fisheries being taken up , Mr . Soule delivered himself of a long speech . He thought firmness and determination would secure peace with England , while silence and hesitation would produce a rupture . He was fully aware of the great stake which the United States and all the world had in a peace between the United States and England ; but he also knew that , unless the danger was faced in time ,

      circumstances would arise when war or disgrace would be inevitable . The country would repudiate any peace obtained by negotiation under the rule of British cannon . If negotiations were thus concluded , then was gone the pride , glory , honour , and dignity of the nation . The British North American possessions were no longer colonial dependencies , but would shortly take their place among the nations of the Continent . While disposed to insist upon the full recognition of the rights of the American fishermen , he was also disposed , under proper circumstances , to deal favourably with them in what they had so much at heart ; but he would never do anything under the lash of England . He hoped the committee on foreign relations would report a resolution expressive of the sentiments of the Senate .

      Several other senators also spoke upon the subject , but the speeches of most of them were more pacific . The subject , after a long debato , was postponed . The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says : — " The debate in the senate , on the 12 th , was very learned and very patriotic ; but if it was intended as bearing upon the documents sent by the President upon the fishery question , it was somewhat wide of the mark . There is not ono word in the documents in question going to show that Great Britain has , at this time , set up any claim to the waters inside the headlands . Mr . Webster ' s Franklin proclamation certainly makes that assertion ; but the President has not communicated that proclamation to tho senate , nor recognised it in any way . Some days ago I stated that I had reason to believe , that so far from the

      British government intending to sustain tho forced construction of the treaty alluded to by Mr . Webster , it had refused to do so , notwithstanding the urgent solicitations of the colonial authorities ; and that Admiral Seymour ' s orders were to assist in seizing all foreign fishjing vessels found within a marine league of the coast , and to prevent tho armed vessels of tho colonies from making any seizures outside of that lino . This information has since been confirmed _ by an authority which loavog no room for doubt in my mind . It is very probable the President will bo able , in a few days , to communicate those facts to tho senate , and this proves that Mr . Webster ' s proclamation , which lias created all the excitement , originated in an entire misapprehension of tho truo facts of the case , and tho real ground assumed by England . "

      1 he Tribune saya : " Our Washington correspondent states that the broach between Messrs Fillrnore and Webster has been e&non ted . Whether this bo so or not , it is very certain that tho Prenidont cannot afford to loao tho services of his secretary in tho prosent crisis . Tho fishery affair which is really assuming a very ominous shape , and tho guano difficulty with 1 ' oru , are matters that requiro all tho diplomacy of which Mr . Webster is master , to bring them to an amicable ad-JUHtmont . Both branches of Congress soom to bo rather vufllod at the recent proceedings of Groat Britain—the llauso Committee on Commerce , it is said , are delaying w report a measure for reciprocal trade , which has boon matured , and senators aro freely doseunting on tho conso'luojicos of an appeal to arms . "

      A telegrap hic despatch from Boston , dated the 12 th mut ., to tho following cllect , appears in tho New York journals : " By the steamer Admiral , we have St . John papers of 3 * 'H Commodore Perry , of the Mississippi , landed at Ht . John on Monday , and was rocoivod by a guard of Honour . On Tuonday ho proceeded to Fredencton , to have

      an interview with the Governor . A public dinner to the officers of the Mississippi is talked of by the inhabitants of St . John . " A portion of the Whigs of North Carolina , opposed to the election of General Scott , had nominated the Hon . 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 through * - out the south . - The National Free Soil Convention at Pittsbucg 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 throws 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 and hue—thus injuring one party about as much as the other , and leaving the great body of the people to decide upon the principles at issue between them . True , it 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 Freesoil vote of the country , was supported by a long line of old and warm personal friends . Mr . Hale has no such personal popularity . He will get the vote of

      his party , composed of all the colours , isms , and ites ot the country , and nothingmore . He was formerl y considered as belonging to thejDemocrats , but in the United States Senate of late he has been anywhere , everywhere , and nowhere , just as it suited his convenience . Mr . Julien , the nominee for Vice-President , represented the fourth district of Indiana in the last Congress . " The Hon . Joseph R . Ingersoll , of Philadelphia , has been nominated by President Fillmore as United States Minister to England , the Hon . Abbot Lawrence having resigned . Mr . Ingersoll is a lawyer , a legislator , a statesman , and an accomplished gentleman , and no doubt his nomination will be confirmed by the Senate . Thomas Francis Meagher has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States . He took

      the following oath : — "I , Thomas Francis Meagher , do declare on oath that it is bond fide my intention to become a citizen of the United States , and to renounce for ever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince , potentate , or sovereignt y whatever , and particularly to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland , of whom I am now a subject . " We still receive accounts , both from Cuba and different parts of the Union , of another expedition to wrest the Queen of the Antilles from Spain , but whether or not they are true it is really difficult to decide . The New York Courier thinks Cuba will never belong to the United States short of purchase , and says the price at first proposed—by the New York Sun—100 , 000 , 000 dollars , would be dirt cheap , and that , in the hands of the American , it would pay for itself in ten years .

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      Mr . Justice Crampton on Thursday delivered judgment at his own residence in the case of the application to admit to bail Mr . Delmege , the magistrate , and eight soldiers of the 31 st regiment , then imprisoned in the county gaol of Ennis , on the coroner ' s warrant , charging them with the wilful murder of t he persons who h « d been shot by tho military at Six-mile-bridge . The learned judge , in admitting tho prisoners to bail , said , " I feel myself called on in law and justice to admit all the prisoners to bail . I shall make no observations upon the evidence given before the coroner ; the case is to be tried , and I wish not in uny way to prejudice the trial . " His lordship then directed that Mr . Dehncge should give bail , himself in 1001 . and two sureties in 50 Z . each ; the military to enter into bail , themselves in 201 . each , and two sureties for 101 . each .

      The gold mania , after appearing in Scotland and our own eastern countien , has alighted in Ireland . The Mayo Telegraph says : — " Whilo the ports of England , Ireland , and Scotland aro alivo with thousands of emigrants hastening to tho gold diggings of Australia , now considered more productive than tho California mines—whilo we hoar of fresh discoveries of tho precious metal in Jamaica and British America —wo would bo wanting in duty to our country did wo hido from them the astounding intelligence that in Connaught —ay , in Mayo!—gold has been found to exist . This very important discovery has been mado through tho

      peraovoring exertions of John Atkinson , Esq ., M . D . and chemist , Castlobar . Wo uro not ut liberty to namo tho localities , and even if we were we would not doom oursolvoa justified in imparting that knowlodgo until such time oh that porsovering gentleman has been insured compensation by tho proprietors for his great loss of timo in pursuit of tho hid - den riches embowefled in the soil of Mayo . Wo are , howover , permitted to state that the gold now extracted , and in tho possession of Mr . Atkinson , has boon found on part of tho ofltate of tho Marquis of Sligo . Appearancos or tho existence of tho same precious metal present themselves on part of tho ostates of the Earl of Lucan . "

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      Under tho head of " Asiatic Cholera , and its three factors , " u correspondent of tho North liritiah Daily Mail writes uh followH : — " Reasoning from what happened in 1832 and 1847 , Asiatic cholera will , in tho course of u low months , porhapa

      weeks , visit Glasgow for the third time , to sweep into the grave thousands of its citizens . I believe it would prove of material use , towards the prevention of this fearful scourge , were it well understood by the public , that three factors seem necessary for its production . " The first is an unknown change in the constitution of the elements , or an unknown agent present with them , now for the third time moving steadily on from east to west , from Hindostan , through Persia , Turkey , Russia , Poland , and Prussia , to the British Islands , and hence to America and the West Indies . " The second factor seems necessary to fix the first in its transit , and consists in the miasmata arising from p utrefying animal and vegetable substances left exposed m the alleys and neglected receptacles for filth in overcrowded towns , and especially in those parts of them which are ill-supplied with water and incompletely drained .

      " The third factor is a debilitated condition of the human body , brought on by the employment of improper articles of food , especially such as lead to looseness of the bowels , and by the habitual use of intoxicating drinks . " The first of these three factors has hitherto proved inscrutable in its nature , and has resisted all attempts to limit its progress by sanitary cordons or quarantine regulations . But the second and third are , in a great measure , within our own power entirely—indeed , were we to put in operation our protective means against them early enough ; and there can be little doubt that either of them could bo annihilated , the first factor would pass over us without mischief . " Cleanliness , then , and temperance are the preventives of cholera ; dirt and drink beckon it and welcome it to the scene of its destructive dealings with human life . "

      The last representative" of a name celebrated in the annals of 1793 , M . Isidore Justin de Robespierre , died in Juno last at Santiago de Chili , where he had been established nearly 60 years . Alexander von Humboldt , who has accompanied the King of Prussia to the sea coast , surprises people by the bodily vigour which he displays in spite of an age of eighty-three years . After walking and driving about for the greater part of the day , and partaking in all sorts of public festivities , he reads aloud in the evening to the royal party without showing signs of fatigue . The electric telegraph which connects London with Paris , and which will soon connect it with Lyons , Chambery , Turin , and Genoa , is to be prolonged to La Spczzia by the Sardinian Government . From that port , the

      Submarine Company , it is said , is to sink an electric cable to the island of Gorgona , and from thence another to Bastia . The French Government will then continue the line by land at its own expense to Ajaccio , and the narrowest point of the Straits of Bonifacio , where a cable 14 kilometres in length will , at the expense of the company , establish a communication with Sardinia , which the Piedmontese Government will continue to Cagliari . But M . Bonelli , the author of this plan , does not stop here . He has proposed to tho Submarine Company to prolong the cable to Tunis , whence France would conduct wires to Boug ie and Algiers , while England would conduct others to Tripoli , Alexandria , Cairo , and Suez . By this means , Algiers would be brought within a few seconds of Paris , and news from India might reach London in little more than a week . —Savoy Gazette

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      The boy Greenhalgh died on Tuesday at noon , of tho injuries he sustained in the railway collision at Bullfield , Bolton , on Monday night . An inquest was held on Thursday , on view of his body and of that of Bancroft , tho signal-man , who committed suicide ; and evidence ( confirming the account we published ) was adduced to show that the collision occurred through the negligence of Bancroft entirely , as tho guard of the luggage train was on his way back up the line , with his light , when the passenger train met him , then so near to the train that he could not stop his engine . It seemed clear that nearly all tho engines wero overtasked ; and tho jury , after returning v erdicts of manslaughter against Bancroft for tho death of Greenhalgh , and temporary insanity in his own case , added the following to their verdict : —The jury cannot separate

      without expressing their opinion that tho servants employed on tho Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , from Liverpool to Bolton , on Monday , tho 23 rd of Augunt , wero totally inadequate to meet tho extraordinary demands upon them consequent upon running special trains ; and also deprecate in tho strongest terms tho running of trains of such unusual lengtha , and with a deficiency of locomolivo power to work tho namo ; and , further , that thero wan great irregularity in tho starting and arrival of trains on tho day before named , no less than seven trains ( two of them numbering upwards of thirty carriages each ) , and extending nearly a mile in length , accumulating on ono lino of rails at the Bolton station , rendering an increase of servants indispensable to the nalb and effectual working of tho lino .

      Anothor sad occurrence , tatended with tho loss of three lives , and inflicting injuries on a considerable number of other persons , took place yesterday on tho promises of Messrs . Whitohouso , who liavo largo iron works about three quarters of a mile from West Hromwieh . About u quarter post nino in the morning one of tho huge boilers in uso on the promises exploded , caufiiiitf tho immediate death of throe of tho workmen , ono of them a young man named Jones , lately married ; anothor poor follow , who had only gone to work on tho m-ominen that morning , was ntclmnlwxtoon

      acaldod to death ; and a youth named I ' , years of ago , mot an equally violent and instantaneous death . Tho number of portions injured wiw more than usually numorouH in such casualties . Throe out of four brothers , named Key , wero frightfully hurt ; two other poor follows , named Taylor and Walker , had scarcely a hotter fate ; and ono WillottH , who was passing the place , with ahorso and cart , at tho timo tho explosion took place , was very badly injured . Tho violence of the explosion in roproHontod to have been most terrific . Tho works aro vory much shattered , and a portion of the huge boiler wa « hurlod with groat force acroaa tho canal .

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      TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . ™ -a impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . ^ ThKsertion is often delayed , owfog to a press of matter ; ¦ « . ? when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite indeindent of the merits of the oommunioation . « r «« # •« can be taken of anonymous oonmnmic&tions . Wnat-Non ^ mtendedfor insertion must be authenticated by the 6 ™« and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publicaff bu ? as a guarantee of his goodfeith . nr .. nflot undertake to return rejected communications . Jn SK foTtnVEditor should be addressed to 10 . Wellington HfSfe ^ w M . pTs d ° By an Experienced « Stranger , " to be continued next week .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 28, 1852, page 823, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1949/page/11/