The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-25 00:00:00

CUBA.

RELEASE OF THREE OFFICERS OF TILE
CUBAN EXPEDITION.
We (New York Herald) are indebted to the kind-
ness of a gentleman of this city for the following letter
from on board of the Albany :
United States Ship Albany, Key West, Fla., Sept. S.
The Winfield Scott passes here to-day, and by her I
send Tau intelligence of the release of Colonel Haynes and
Captain Kelly, who were captured in the late Cuban expe-
dition. They were released by the Captain-General,
Concha, upon their promise to proceed to New York and
tell the truth in regard to the landing of Lopez, their cap-
ture and treatment. It was the Captain-Generars inten-
tion that they should have gone on in the Empire City, on
Sept. Ist, but by some accident they did not get on hoard.
They were to have sailed on Saturday in the ship Norma,
for New York, and I presume did so. A Mr. Van Vcchten,
of Albany, was also released, at the request of Capt. Platt,
and he was assured by the Captain-General that the lives
of the other prisoners were safe. They are in number MO,
all that survive of the 430 that landed on the 11th under
Lopez. Corn. Parker, in the flag-ship Saranac, went into
Havana on the morning of the 4th. We sail for there to-
morrow at daylight.
Annexed is the narrative of Lieut. Van Vechten ; it ii
highly interesting :

LIE lITATEYENT OP LIEUT. VAN vratrxv•
On board steamship Winfield Scott, Sept. it.
James G. Bennett, Esq.
Dear Sir,—llaving been connected with the late unfor-
tnnato expedition against Cuba, under the command of
General Nardi° Lopez, and allowed to return in safety to
my home and friends, I feel it to be a duty which I owe to
the friends of my unfortunate comrades, and to the public
at large, to publish through the columns of your valuable
and widely circulating paper, a true account if the proceed-
ings of that expedition, correcting, as far as possible, the
false reports which, for the last month, have been in circa-
' lation throughout the United States, and endeavouring to
do justice to all.
I becameconnected with the expedition at New Orleans,
receiving, on the 30th day of July last, an appointment as
First Lieutenant of Company B, of Colonel W. L. Crittea-
den's regiment (Ist Artillery), commanded by Captain
James Sanders. The expedition, as you arc already aware,
left New Orleans at day break on the morning of Sunday,
the 3rd of August, in the steamer Pampero. We were
towed to the mouth of the river, our engine being out of
order. We remained in the river until Wednesday, the
6th, and left through the North-east Pass at 5 p.m. of that
day, for Key West. The intention at that time was to
to Key West, and there take on board a pilot for the nee,
St. Johns, at which place we were to embark a light bat
tery of artillery, with caissons, ammunition and harneo
complete, together with a number of cavalry saddles, am
from thence were to run to the south side of Cuba and ]ant
OA near as possible to Puerto Principe.
We reached Key West, and anchored some distance fron
the city, at about three p.m. of Sunday, the 10th instant
While at Key West, a quantity of brandy and ehampagn•
was received on board, which was imbibed tolerably free
by Lopez and his staff. About dusk of that day, no pito
appearing, Lopez called a council, cimposed entirely of th
CuUns and Hungarians attached to his staff (no American
being called) who decided to give up going to the St