The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-22 00:00:00

Mr. MAcQuVE after looking over the Act of Par-
liament, deci in their favour, but would allow no
ty s.
The list for St. Penerss will be taken on Thursday, at
the Vestry Rooms, King's-road.

THE UNITED STATES.

NEW
YuRK, Seri. 7.—The Lone Star movement
is getting to be a formidable affair. A new and corn-
pletely organized expedition against Cuba is prepar-
ing, and unless thy 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.
1. Foolish, wicked, and inopportune as the Lopez
expedition may have been, his fate was lamented by
a large class of cur people, aad the resolution to
avenge his death hes never slap*. He was canonized
as a martyr of liberty, and thousands who would
never have justified his 'cts were reedy to punish
his executioners. B:-sides, with him perished
ignominiously more then 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 Maj.sty or her
advisers could have supposed. Those captives re-
turned to tell not the history cf the rights they had
infringed, but of the wrongs they had suffered.
Among them were men from almost every one of
our 31 states. Each had near connexions and rela-
tions with thousands that line wlircl luv, d him ; and
when these thousands of districts'came to hear of the
brutality of the Cuban triovL,rnment—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. The 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 admitted 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 Cubano. So
the Americans will keep their own counsels, they will
head their own expedition, and they will go more com-
pletely prepared for the contest. than any company of
invaders e
ever could have gone at any other period
of the world's history. They will not carry Colt's
rifles, which hold but six rounds, but Jenning's (re-
cently invented), which carry 24 charger, and can,
in experienced bands, be shot 24 times in less than
60 second,.
S. This ex edition
and a shabby affair. His
edition is a complete organizatien.
Lopez' was an
men were hastily picked up—generally poor, and
many of them desperate. The Lone Star admits no
man to its company whose social standing is not a
fair pledge of his honour, truth, courage, and intelli-
gence. No organization of the same number has
beenfoarnmdedchianAcmtererriecaprient
was
eo much
r wealth
probably
can raise millions on call, but character
they likely to
are not
need it, for by their regulationrepresented.
Theythere
the common
every member contri-
butes a certain sum into
nis emmon fund every
month or quarter ; and, numbering thed Lone Star
men now probably do, 25,000 their as
f
said to exceed half a million; the institutionu already
notis
yet six months old. Again, the Lone Star i known
to embrace many of the most influential
p t,
o
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 bas 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 of discontent exists now than at any former
period. G-neral Conchs, the la'e Governor, was a
modern man, of which Spain 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 succe,cleti in annihilating the most
offen-ive and the most oppressive monopolies of the
islands. He proved himself en honesr, an 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, be would have
utterly exterminated that accursed traffic. But, on
authority which I cannot reject, I learn that the
suspension of those crimes and abuses so materially
diminished the revenues of tie Crown that this faith-
ful and upright servant was recalled. Another and
less scrupulous man fills the place, who has gone back
to the old system ; and now crime, corruption, and
villanv 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, Spaniards, 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 ; and with the knowledge that
Cuba would bring to the South nearly a million of
slaves, the Southern States would do the same thing;
while till Americans amid all friends cf liberty every-
where, would rejoice 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 Lane Star men ; and there is certainly
some force ia ell this. It is, at all events, persua-
sive, and every (ley brings them the adhesion of
hundreds.
6. Now let us look at some indabituble signs of
public feeling in confirmation of all this. It seems
that Archbishop Hughes, of New York, on, being re-
quested by the Lone Star men, did say ' mass for
the eternal repose 0f the
souls of Lopez and his brave
companions, fallen n the struggle for Cuban liberty ;"
prelate
refuse=d to preach a sermon on the
occasion. Also
although the
in New Orleans have similar religious
ertormed, which indicate that the
ceremonies been P
Lone Star men
the sympathy and countenance of
have
the Catholic Church.ve
7. The present state of the island of Cuba indi-
cates the probability of an approaching revolution.
eariiror
quite 150 persons have been arrested in
various parts of the island, and are now in the
prisons of Havannah. Nine young men who were
engaged in printing the Voice of the People of
Cuba, a clandestine revolutionary sheet, have been
arrested, and a telegraphic dispatch from New
Orleans yesterday announces that they are all to be
garroted. The present Governor Canada has made
known his resolution to show no mercy to any per-
sons engaged in any conspiracy against his authority
They shall all suffer the garrote, with every in-
dignity known in the annals of justice." No doubt
exists that there was a determination to rise on the
31st of August, but the detection of large quantities
of arms and ammunition in various parts of the
island has probably delayed the insurrection. But it
is only for a while. Continual diT'aturbances will
occur, and the severity of
the Captain-General will
only inflame still more deeply the popular indignation,
and render the revolution not only inevitable bat
more merciless when it comes. It is said, on pretty
good authority, that the nsgroes will join the conspi-
rators, and if independence can be gained in no other
way there is to be a massacre of the Spanish popula-
tion. Certain it is that the Cubans are bent on
achieving their independence; and they know that
whenever they have once risen they can depend on
substantial aid from the lona Star men of the United
States. As things now look, it seems highlyprobable
that a bloody struggle is approaching.—Correspondent
of the Times.

Tag EARLY CLOSING Assocumo re.—A numerously
attended meeting of employers and assistants, residing within
the north-western districts of the metropolis, was held yes-
terday evening, at DIVISOII'd 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. Eliikor occupied the chair. The financial
statement of the association showed that, up to June, 1852,
the receipts of the association had been 9091. 16s. 10d. The
payments amounted to 4981. 17s. 2d., leaving a balance in
the bands of the bankers of 410/. 195. Bd. The Chairman,
the business of the meeting, stated that the mon
stopening
rous system which the shop assistants laboured under
would long since have been swept away if they had all
in a vigorous movement to check it. The moral,
joined
physical, and intellectual evils of the late hour system were
such that, if the public really knew of their extentMr, they
hear.. St.
would not tolerate them a moment.—( Rear, )
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 geatlemen having addressed the
meeting, the proceedings terminated.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGOPL—Yesterday a new
line of pipe was being laid down along the Strand to eon.,
nectthe General Post-office with the Admiralty, Rotuma of
Parliament, awl the Telegraph IstatiQa at Charing.crtm.