27 SEPTEMBER 1845, Page 2

War with Peru is no longer imminent. Perhaps the English

people did not know that it ever was so, and would not much have eared: still it is satisfactory to see that the outraged feelings of a British Consul, whose house was illegally entered, have been soothed in the proper official way, and that the republic is not to be devastated for his satisfaction ; because it would have been a pity to put a people to the sword and a few British merchants to inconvenience for so small a matter.