Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852Various
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852
Various
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line was projected to Copiapo--which is at the head of the province
whose silver deposits have yielded so abundantly of late: it is said
that the export from that province for the year will amount to six
millions of dollars. Coal, said to be very little inferior to the best
English coal, is found at Talcahuana. Labor and the necessaries of life
were very high at Valparaiso.----From _Montevideo_, accounts to the 5th
of June, state that the ratification of the Brazilian treaties puts an
end to all fear of another foreign war. The principal clauses of the
Convention agreed upon are the abandonment of the line of frontier
which the treaties of October, 1851, conceded to Brazil, and the
cession of the right of free navigation on Lake Merim to the Oriental
flag.
MEXICO.
The Mexican Republic is again agitated by threatening insurrections in
various quarters, which the central government finds itself powerless
to quell. In Mazatlan and Guadalajara strong bodies of insurgents,
supported by the National Guard, have maintained themselves against the
government, which opposes them by decrees and commercial regulations
instead of troops. Upon the frontier the ravages of the Indians
continue to be most destructive. The government has invited proposals
for the construction of a road across the isthmus of Tehuantepec, and
seems determined to resist the demands of the United States for the
recognition of the Garay grant. The Mexican papers contain copious
accounts of local disturbances and insurrections, the details of
which it is needless here to repeat. The condition of the country is
difficult and precarious in the extreme. Rumors have been circulated of
endeavors to secure the intervention of England and France, in order to
give greater strength and stability to the government, and enable it to
resist encroachments constantly apprehended from the United States: but
there is no reason to believe they have as yet proved successful.
CUBA.
The colonial government of Cuba has discovered new and formidable
conspiracies against the Spanish authority in that island, and has
made numerous arrests of suspected parties. During the months of June
and July several numbers were clandestinely published and widely
circulated, of a paper called _The Voice of the People_, the object
of which was to arouse the Cubans to resistance of the Spanish rule.
For some time the efforts of the authorities to detect its editors, or
the place of its publication, were ineffectual: but both were finally
betrayed by parties who had become acquainted with them. The principal
editor, however, had previously escaped to the United States. Nearly
all engaged upon it, so far as known, were either native Cubans or
Spaniards. The cholera was very prevalent and destructive at Havana, at
our latest dates.
GREAT BRITAIN.
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