The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-08 00:00:00

°geed. or in to be sappeted ;
its fuser, we mny anticipate to bea5144446-14
limiter% capture, and pelage...lk Agio most
•• • .
The Interesting point be e., a.
the amonat of support he hisiOnZamtia weth;
. Woad. • •
• The popelatioa of Cabe In emigre* sg as
from 1,000,000, and 1,4410,11110. and the plkisuskin
of free people and slues lenbeet equal ; anicenting
probably to 800,000 of Am else. Th. wily tad
government estypioy fe mufti nearly 30,000 strong,
all of Specials bins ; set them nearly 26,000 may be
figbting men. The whits* ea/ Creoles reach, it is
said, to about 400,000; the free negro and coloured
people to nearly 1110,000 i and of the latter there are,
it is calculated, emu 20,000 proprietors of small
patches ot land, who have thus sloop interest in traa-
guillity. Of the fidelity to the mother country of the
army there is u yet no reason to doubt ; and its pe-
ewit force of about 25,000 is about to be strengthened
by the 6,000 troops which lately sailed from floaim for
tXba, under Count MilitiOL. The other goverestent
empleyfs in the island are supposed to be signally well
aticed to Qu,en IsseaL, aW are resolutely aquas-
log the means of repression and resistance.
Of the whole population three•fourths, it may be as-
gamed, are Creole; that is, persons of island birth,
recognising Cabs, and not Spain, u their county;
and thougn connected with Spain by ties of relstisn-
ship, language, origin, tradition, and allegiance,
baying naturally • much *trooper attachment to
Cabe. It was this part of the population which, io
1837, was said to be anxious to throw off the domina-
tion of Madrid, and to place the island under the pro-
tection of the British crown—a desire for separation
which, Dr. MADDEN goes 80 far as to state, even led
in that year to an off.r to the British government to
throw off the yoke of Spain, provided this country
would guarantee the island from the interference of
any foreign power. This offer, if ever made, was, of
coarse, rejected by cur government; and siuce then,
says the same wrier, this party has turned its eyes to
the United States ; and there looks for aid in any
future efforts for independe-ce.
The purely Spanish population is, however,
faithfully disposed to the mother country, and on it
and the army Spain most now principally depend
for the maintenance of its authority in Cuba. It may
indeed be doubted whether the expedition of General
LOPEZ will find much favour from theCreule population,
since however, dissatisfied with the rule of the mother
country, it can hardly regard with cordiality the
subjection of the island to the American domination
which his success would ultimately involve. Of late
years, too, the Creole proprietary have enjoyed great
material prosperity, arising cl.iefiy from the changes
in our commercial policy; and that they moat
perceive would be endangered by a political revolu-
tion, even if that revolution were not followed by
social changes of greater magnitude, and by the con-
sequent destruc ion of their commercial prosperity.
It he been asserted, even by the must san-
ermine friends at African freedom, that the slaves in
Cuba seek any political changes, or any transfer of poli-
tical masters. The frightful state of ignorance and de- ,
moraliewion kiwi:jell they have always been kept have,
in truth, effectually barred them out from all mob know-
ledge as would be likely to cultivate those feelings or ,
aspirations. But this very brutality and degradation ,
to which they have been subjected, whilst so depriv-
ing them of all desire for political changes, renders
them the more likely to swiss oa the opportunity
of any contest for power amongst the other ,
clove., or any such attempt at revolution as General
LOPEZ aims at, to rise and get rid of all white.,
be they Spaniards, Creoles, or Ameticans. At d
herein lies the great danger of the events now occur-
gag ie Cuba. The acmes. of a revolution will in all ,
probability convert Cuba into another St. Domingo ,
and even a prolonged struggle may produce a general
insurrection of the slims.

Much u the *laves in Cuba have been oppressed
by their Spanish a- d Creole misters, it is by
the American planters and overseers that the
more atrocious cruelties have been perpetrated o
the unfortunate black.; it is by the latter they are so
dreadfully overworked; by the latter that they are
kept peoned up like sheep at Smithfield in burs-
c'ons ; from the hardships and the recklessness of
the latter that their excessive mortality, to be re-
placed by the slave trade, arises. Let no one, there-
fore, hope for an amelioration of Cuban slavery from
the triumph of American slaveowners, buccaneers and
loafers in that island : for, if under such dominations
slavery could b- prolonged in Cana, its horrors would
concurrently be fearfully augmented.
It is, moreover, impossible to dissociate this out-
burst of American brigandage on Cuba from the state,
prospects, and designs of the slaver" party generally
the United States. "What rig' t." inquired •
senator, from one of the southern states in the august
assembly, of which be wu a member ; " what right
has the President to interpose his authority to emir
this expedition of the citizens?" The feeling pourtrayed
by this semi-barbarous inquire is that generally enter-
tamed in the mice states. Here have we an hostile
expedition planned, and fitted out, without let, hind-
rance, or rernocstrauce, from the most civilised of
the slave 'Wes; directed against the colony of a
countey with which the republic is at peace and in
amity; against an island not merely void of all
offence to American citizens, but which his wel-
comed and adopted many of them as its own. And
this at a time when the slavery question is again in
a crisis in the union itself. Such a concurrence of
circumstances is nut accidental : it has all the evi-
dence of association, of forethought, and of delibera-
tion ; it aims not merely at the subjection of the most
voluble of the Antilles, but at the confirmation of
slavery in the republic through its acquisition. It is
an enterprise gluing which civilisation and humanity
must rise in every quarter of the globe.
That such an expedition as General LOPEZ'S con-
tains within itself the elements of success is most im-
probable ; it is only by the assistance of rebellion
agains. the Spanish crown in Cuba by its own sub
jecta, that it can -limed. And even so aided and
succoured, it will be met by a Spanish army of
23,000 men well armed, well supported by artillery,
and in possession of all the strong points on the
island, and will there funs, in all probability, be
promptly repressed without occasion for European
interference. We do not wish to mitigate our c in-
damnation of such an_ expedition. Still, we must
may, in opposition to Lord BROUGHAM, that LOPEZ,
I whom la's lordship likens to the Dyak or Malay vie-
: time of Itejah Beooxe's warfare, strikes us pretty
much as the counterpart of Rajah BROOKE himself.
Change the name of Borneo fur that of Cuba, and
where is the diff,rence?

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF SRWERS. Yes-
totday afterse.a • general meeting of commissioners was
held at lb. office, Ovek-st rest Viscount Ebringtou, M.P.,
pre ided. The works on the business paper recommended
by the isomarnittee for the sanction of this court amounted to
2,1031 4s. Ild , exclusive of the °Winery per of sala
Hee. Act. In a few cases the parties to be benefited by the
marks were ordered to pay certain sum towards their es.co-
tios. Au order for • temporary allows's.' of 3s. • weak to
Jane Use (the widow of Jain Oee, who 1 .et his life in the
KenilwortP-street sewer some months since) was then agreed
te, and, after some ordinary Weiner, the court adjourned.
ANTI-ENCLOSeftn SOCIETT.—KILBURIf FIELDPATII
TO WILDIEWIN ULD OUVII.CIi.—At the last weekly meet.
lag of the Weal L indon Anti-Enclosure Society (6th i, sty),
s• the Literary Institute, Carlisle-street, Edgware-road,
Mr. Hors/all in the *hair, after the preaentakion of snottier
gilt of hooks from Mad Masbate lathe library of the society,
and a vote of thinks bed been accorded to his lordship for
the alms, the woretary stated that the ati,ive chuiCh path
mast soon be r.stored, as the right to it could not be dirtied,
and he had hear given to understand that neither Lady
Salisbury nor her bailiff would offer any further opposition.
Mr. Hodgson, as • tenant farmer of her ladyship, had also
in regard to the public health, eLered to throw open any
footpath which he had stopped over the redsay bridges In
the K•lbunt Isle to Kenton green, provided any person who
desired it could prove they were este° imbed thoroughfares.
A unto of thank. wall gic is to Mr. Hodgson.
SALE OF TILE METROPOLIS ROAM.— Yesterday
the commissiocen cf the roads north of the video-
polls held a public meeting at their offices, Nu. 22, White-
hall place, fur the .urpose of putting up to awake, for the
period of one y. ar from the Ist et July neat—subject to the
conditions traduced at the m.ecing—tee tolls payable
cluri.g the sear at the gates and bars of the several turnpike
roads within the district of the commission north of the
m-tropolis. In consequ-nce of the increase of traffic andel-
Pasted from the Oat Eabibition of year.y whey realised
up
at v..- same sum to. y were let for last and they realteed
• math ISINOr sum. The following were the tolls let as the
several reads:--The K.osington.
Brantford, and Islisw-rth
Howl, pat tip at 16,4301.. and knocked down for 16,6101.
The Harrow a .ad went for 1,09 A-9101. being asked. The
Kilburn and 11 !gears Rtad prodseed 3,6601. b. log die.
peee4 of Um previous year for 3,001. The Highgate and
Hampstead Bowl rosined, last 10607,49010 7•".
17,6001. The City Road was offered Ng 3,1601.; it wee dis-
posed of ler 3,2004. Toe Stamford-bill amid Seven &stars
Howls went fur 9,1101.; the sea of 9,1004. being the SIM
they pat tap at,