The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

STATE OF CUBA.

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HAVANA, Die. 10.
General Perm,la, the new Governor, arrived here

on the night of the 2nd instant, and was ;eve TrTii
with the customary civil and military demonstra-
tions on the 3rd inst., when General Canedo most
gracefully transferred our keeping to his custody, as
Governor and Captain-General of Cuba. The cere-
mony of reception and inauguration took place at 12
o'clock, the new chief being escorted from the land-
ing to the palace through an unbroken line of sol-
diery. Afterwards he went to the rooms of the
royal audience, where the oath of fidelity was ad.
ministered by the Chief Justice.
General Canedo retired to the village of Guanabaco,
which nestles among the hills on the south-eastern
part of the bay of Havana, to rest from the toils
of state until the arrival of the British steamer, by
which, it in said, be proposes to take passage; so that
you may perhaps see the gentleman who was so
fearful of truth as to interdict yours and other papers
of the metropolis of the world.

In his farewell address to the army and the people
of Cuba, he seems to rely much upon the acts of his
administration for the approbation of the world.
In the meantime we have the preliminary rumours
of another negro invasion on the south side, which
we shall have to pass to the credit of the new incum-
bent, although he is too fresh in harness to know
anything about it, or to be in any way implicated,
whether it has been effected with or without

authority.
The rumour exists that the late Captain-General
pardoned the murderer of the actress La Dominguez
just before he gave up the keys of authority. If this
is the case, it has been done to quiet discussion con-
necting his own name with the melancholy history,
and has been granted without publicity given:
wherefore I am inclined to doubt it, and to class it
I among the inventions associated with the tragedy.
The new government, under its extended and ab-
solute powers, is going into operation under military
organisation, which may render every process of ad-
ministration something more summary than even
Cubans have been accustomed to. The retiring dig-
nitary has been charged in private circles with
having said that it would " not be long before bitter
tears would be shed in Cuba." What particular appli-
cation he intended should be made of his remark

we cannot imagine, unless it was aimed at the sup-
posed policy of General Pezuela, and his stern deter-
mination to enforce it, with the usual cruelties of
tyranny. There ie no doubt of the one thing, in the
minds of the people, that they tremble in their hearts,
in view of the acquisition of power which cuts them
off from all possibility of protection at Madrid through
the royal clemency, or superior correction of errors.
I In looking at the man, in his history, cultivation, and
intelligence, I do not perceive reasonable grounds for
apprehension, save merely in the error of judg-
ment to which the best intellect, thrown into new
positions, may be liable. General Peznela has the
advantage of some experience at Porto Rico, and he
certainly has the entire confidence of the Queen.
I There has been some demonstration of discontent
among the lower classes, expended by writing upon
the walla of public buildings, and at the Theatre
Mason, the first night that the lady of Gen. Pezuela
was present in the " vice-regal" box, an imitation
d the Madrid reception of the Queen, after the
reports of her scandalous conduct with " Arana,"
was attempted by the audience; but it did not
amount to much, and passed off as having been in.
feuded for au obsequious count who was paying his
Idevoirs to her ladyship in the box at the time.
The British brig Oscar was wrecked a few days
shier, upon the Bahamas, bound from Halifax to
Matanzas, and the captain and crew brought here by
the American brig Ocean Belle, on the Bth instant—
the vessel and cargo of sugar, box, and books, a total
loss.

The city of Havana is healthy, but there are yet
cases of fever occurring in the bey from exposure
and imprudence, which, at this late season, prove
fatal. Her Majesty's sloop-of-war Vestal left this
port a few days since fur the south side of Cuba.