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London, England, 1852-09-22 00:00:00

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_pletily organized expedition against Cuba is prepar-
ing, and unless my sources of information are far less
reliable than I suppose, some events of importance
concerning the political fortunes of Cuba are likely to
take place during the coming fall and winter. Let
me first of all enumerate facts. a
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1. Foolish, wicked, and inopportune as the Lopez
expedition may have been, his fate was lamented by
a large class of our people, and the resolution to
avenge his death has never slept. lie was canonized
as a martyr of liberty, and thousands who would
never have justified his acts were ready to punish
his executioners. Besides, with him perished
ignominiously more than forty native-born Ameri-
cans, none of whom fell unwept or unremembered.
Even the magnanimous pardon extended by her
Catholic Majesty Isabella to the American prisoners
who experienced her clemency finally resulted in a
very different manner from what her Majesty or her
advisers could have supposed. Those captives re-
turned to tell not the history of the rights they had
infringed, but of the wrongs they bad suffered.
Among them were men from almost every one of
our 31 states. Each had near connexions and rela-
tions with thousands that knew and loved him ; and
when these thousands of districts came to hear of the
brutality of the Cuban Government—the death of
Lopez in the public square by the garrote, and the
shooting of half a hundred Americans in the back,
after they bad been compelled to kneel—all these
recitals stirred an indignation in the hearts of our
people which cannot be appeased except by the ex-
termination of Spanish power from that island.
2. Tne folly and blunders which ended in the mis-
carriage of the Lopez expedition have been detected,
and they will be avoided in this new movement. The
Americans have lost all confidence in the Creoles—
they will not admit them into their councils.—
they will not trust them at all. lam pretty confi-
dent that not a single Creole has been adneitted to the
secret society of the. Lone Star. They are regarded
as traitors. It was, in fact, clearly proved that Lopez
had been betrayed; otherwise he would not have
landed with so small a force, nor where he did, nor at
that particular time. He was led into an ambush !
Americans have confidence in one another, but no-
body any longer believes the word of a Cuban°. So
the Americans will keep their own counsels, they will
3. his
head their own expedition, and they will go more com-
pletelywas
an
nxpedition is a
invaders ever could have gone at any other period
of the world's history. They will not awry Cdlt's
rifles, which hold but six rounds, but Jenning's prepared for the contest than any company of
(re-
cently invented), which carry 24 charges, and can,
mina
60 seconds.
enPoefritehnecmeddiaeaspnedrea bet sThouht_e-24_times in less than
man to its company
Lopez'
impromptu and a shabby affair!' His
men were hastilveheOset social standing is not a
y picked
Lone Star admits no
fair pledge of his honour, gzr
a,
t jaennd.
of the
courage, and intelli-
gence. No organization same number has
probably ever been formed in erica in which there
was so much wealth and characilite
can raise millions on call, but they
represented. They
pcomgpelneetreallPr
need it, for by their regulations every member
not likely to
butes a certain sum into the comymorr;ber contri-
month or quarter ; and, numbering as the bone every
men now probably do, 25.000, their fund alreadyone Star
said to exceed half a million; the institution
is
yet six months old. Again, the Lone Star is
kips not
to embrace many of the most influential, opulent,
and distinguished men in the United States. Lopez
had not a single man of wealth or public reputation
with him. So far as close scrutiny could do it, not a
worthless or untrustworthy man out of 25,000 has yet
been allowed to pass the threshold of this extraordi-
nary order.
4. Besides the wealth and social respectability of
their members, they have a large number of influen-
tial editors on their side ; and multitudes who will
never join them sympathise with their cause. Among
these are the myriads whose friends and relations
suffered in the Lopez expedition, who have kindled a
flame in almost every county in the Union, which can
and will, at the proper moment, burst into a general
conflagration.
5. The Administration of the new Captain-General
has borne so heavily upon the island that a far greater
amount,pf discontent exists'now than at any forme,
period. General Concha, the late Governor, was a
modern man, of which Suin has had so few. His
arrival was the daybreak of a brighter period for
Cuba. So everybody said ; so everybody believed.
He entered at once on the path of wise, gradual,
judicious reforms. He held out expectations of
amelioration in all departments of the Government.
He nearly ruccesded in annihilating the most
offensive and the most oppressive monopolies of the
islands. He proved himself an honest, as incor-
ruptible man. But the chiefest and greatest and
boldest of all his reforms was to put an end to
the slave trade. This was the first time the attempt
had ever been successfully made. Could he have re-
mained in power one year longer, he would have
utterly exterminated that accursed traffic. But, on
authority welch I cannot reject, I learn that the
suspension of those crimes and abuses so materially
diminished the revenues of the Crown that this faith-

ful and upright servant was recalled. Another and
less scrupulous man fills the place, who bas gone back
to the old system ; and now crime, corruption, and
villany fill the island, and the slave trade has not been
in so flourishing a state for twenty-five years. You
may not have this latter fact immediately confirmed
by other testimony, but you will soon. There has
not been, during the memory of the present genera-
tion, so cruel and tyrannical a Government in Cuba.
So say the Cubans, Span.iard:4, and Creoles ; so say
our American travellers; and so say the crowded
castles and dungeons of the island. Under the plea
that our occupation of Cuba would end the slave
trade there, the Northern States would join in and
justify the movement; rind with the knowledge that
Cuba would bring to the South nearly a million of
slaves, the Soutbein States would du the same thing;
while all Americans and all friends cf liberty every-
where, would rfjoice if so fair and fertile an island
should (without crime or blood) fall under the mild
and benignant sway of a powerful and well-organized
Republic.

So say the Lone St,2r mt.n ; and there is certainly
some force iii all this. It at all events, persua-
sive, and every day brings them the adhesion of
hundreds.

6. Now, let us look at some
arrested,`u--t'
yesterday
public feeling in confirmation of all this. 1
that Archbishop Hughes, of New York, n being re-
quested by the Lone Star men,
Lopez
sayand'
his brave
the eternal repose of the souls of indubitable
..!tigstiesemosf
companions, fallen in the struggle
preach a sermon on the
although the prelate refused have
similar religious
occasion. Also in New Orleans ,
d which indicate that the
forl3 'Cuban liberty ;"
ceremonies been performed which
and countenance of
Lone Star men have the sympathy
the Catholic Chur
of an approaching revolution.
cates the
7. The
peror.eb7l,lls 0
iteihts;tate of the island of Cuba indi
Nearly or euttoef persons have been arrested in
the island, and are now in the
various Pars
prisons of
in
• Voice of the People of
printing the
of Havannah. Nine young men who were
eryngh9age clandestine revolutionary iheet, have been
s that they are all to be
and a telegraphics dispatch from New
Orleans The present Governor Caneda has made
garroted..
his reeolution to show no mercy to any per-
sonsknown announce
engaged in any conspiracy against his authority
--" They snail all suffer the garrote, with every in-
dignitty known in the annals of justice." No doubt
exists that there was a determination to rise on the
31st of August, but the deteo ion of large quantities
of arms and ammunition in various parts of the
island hes probably delayed the insurrection. But it
is only for a while. Continual disturbances will
occur, and the severity of the Captain-General will
only
renderinflame
thestillrevolution
lucre
deeply the popular indignation,
andnot
only
inevitable but
more merciless when it court s. It is said, on pretty
good authority, that the negroes will join the conspi-
rators, and if independence can be gained in no other
way there is to be a massacre of the
popula-
tion. Certain it is that the Cubans are bent 011
achieving their independence ; and they know that
whenever they have once risen they can depend on
substantial aid from the Lone Star men of the United
States. As things now look it seems , Spanish
heighlyprobable
that a bloody struggle is approaching.
of the Times. —Corresp,ondent

Mt
RT H- E
—LY CLOSING AssOCIATION.—A numerously
attended meeting ofemployers and assistants, residing within
the north-western districtsof the metropolis, was held yes-
terday evening, ant Lawson's Rooms, Gower-street, to take
into consideration the best means of promoting the early
closing of shops
generally, and for the transaction of other
business. Mr. Eiliker occupied the chair. The financial
statement cf the association showed that, up to Jane, 1852,
the receipts of the association had been 909/. 16s. 10d. The
payments amounted to 4981. rs. 2d., leaving a balance in
the hands of the bankers of 410/. 19s. Bd. The Chairman,
in opening the business of the meeting, stated that the mon-
strous system which the shop assistants laboured under
a vigorous movement to check it. The moral,
physical,
long since have been swept away if they had all
,and intellectual evils of the late hour system were
ifsuch the public really knew of their extent, they
would not tolerate them a moment.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. St.
joined in
that,
Clair proposed the first resolution, which pledged the meet-
ing to do all in its power to check the system of late closing.
Mr. Shipton seconded the resolution, which was carried una-
nimously, and several other gentlemen having addressed the
meeting, the proceedings terminated.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —Yesterday a new
line of pipe was being laid down along the Strand to con-
nect the General Post-office with the Admiralty, Houses o 1
rani meet, and the Telegraph atatien At charing-row.