The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1851.

Our worst fears with regard to the relations be-
tween the United States and Cuba are being rapidly
realized. The Ministers of the United States, with the
words of good intention on their lips, are either un-
able or unwilling to carry those good intentions into
effect, and by refusing to permit others who are able
and willing to do that which they themselves profess a
desire to do, whilst facts prove that they are unable to
accomplish it, they throw a grave doubt on the sin-
cerity of their professions. By the Royal mail steamer
Africa,which arrived at Liverpool on Saturdsy,we have
received intelligence from New York to the 27th, and
from New Orleans to the 23rd ult. The organ
of the American Executive, the Washington National
Intelligencer, after announcing that the fifty prisoners
forming part of the LOPk Z expedition had been shot
at the Havannab, after a trial by court-martial, and
not without trial, as had been stated, declares that the
Government will cause inquiry to be made into the
circumstances attending this execution, and then pro-
ceeds as follows :
" A full investigation will also be had into the cir-
cumstance of firing at the United States mail steamer
Falcon by a Spanish cruiser.
" At the same time that these steps are being taken,
renewed and rigid instructions will be issued to the civil,
military, and naval officers of the Government to take
all legal steps, and employ all the means at their com-
mand to check and break up any armed and illegal ex-
peditions from the United States against the territories
of friendly powers, and to seize any vessels and arrest
all persons who may be concerned therein ; it being the
fixed determination of the Government to maintain its
treaty obligations, and to enforce the laws of the land,
the recent violation of which, in the case of the
expedition of the Pampero, has led to such lamentable
re.ults."

Provided these professions were practically car-
ried out, nothing could be more satisfactory, but the
accounts from New Orleans, brought by this same
packet, furnish us with a practical commentary on
the professions of the United States Executive, which
proves how little reliance can be placed upon
them. The accounts from New Orleans of
the 23d state that hundreds of men were pouring
into the city to take part in the invasion of Cuba ;
that a large body of " Cuban Liberators" bad broken
into the office of the Spanish newspaper La Patria,
and completely destroyed it, scattering the types
about the streets ; that the dwelling of the Spanish
Consul had been attacked and wrecked, and that he
himself had been compelled, in order to save his life,
to take refuge in the gaol, which was surrounded by
the Cuban Liberators, who threatened to demolish it
unless the Spanish Consul was given up to them to
be Lynched, and to crown the whole, we find under
the date Aug. 21, the following announcement :
" Two more steamers, filled with man, sailed
to-day to join Lopez. The interference of the
United States Marshal was of no avail. The fitting
out and embarkation were accomplished in defiance of
the authorities. The most intense excitement pre-
vails, and everything is done openly. Every boat from
above is bringing down soldiers for the Patriot cause
in Cuba."

After reading the above announcement it is clear
;hat .no reliance whatever can be placed upon the
professions of the Executive of the United States.
If these marauding expeditions can be fitted out thus
openly, in defiance of the authorities, it is clear that,
however excellent may be the intentions of the autho-
rities, they are themselves impotent for the execu-
tion of the law, and, therefore, as regards foreign na-
tions, they might as well not exist at all. It is the
duty, therefore, of the maritime nations of the world
to combine together to put down this system of piracy
as they would any other system of piracy, for piracy
it is pure and simple, without even the excuse of a
rising in Cuba to give the pirates a colourable excuse
for pursuing their organized system of brigandage.
The movement at Principe was put down weeks
before the arrival of LOPEZ and his brigands. The
persons engaged in it never exceeded sixty men,
the movement was put down by the country
people, and the whole of those engaged in it taken.
The leader, ARNIENTARO, and eight others were con-
demned to death, four to banishment, and the rest
pardoned. It does not appear that a single native
has joined LOPEz since be landed. Under these
circumstances, the attempts of these United States
pirates to invade Cuba is as contrary to the law of
nations and as wicked as it would he if the European
societies fur the abolition of slavery were to land an
army of disciplined negroes, well officered and well
supplied with ammunition, in one of the slave states of
the South, and proclaim freedom to the slaves. This
is by no means so extravagant a supposition as may
at first sight appear, and the precedent which the
Americans are themselves setting with rrgard to this
case of Cuba is exactly a case in point, to support the
views of the more fanatical of the. Abolitionists.
It is said that the United States Government have
ordered a naval force to Cuba to intercept any fur-
_
then expeditions which may be dispatched from
ELorEmENT.—The electric telegraph is a capital
agency for catching stray wives. On Saturday last, a lady America. We hope that such is
fail from any cause the case, and that that
Plymouth. naval force will intercept all such ; shoull it, a 5 eloped with a theatrical performer from
The husband of the faithless one telegraphed to Newton, end
ever,
how-
when the pair arrived there, they were amazed at beingin satisfactorily executing
arrested by Inspector Baker, a 'elite officer. On being tali en this duty, we trust that our own Government will
back to Plymouth in custody, the husband relented, on his enter into an understandin
wife entioating forgiveness, trid promising never to do the g with the Governments of
and that their combined forces
like again.— IVestern Times,France and Spain,

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a )740t0r and Manager, Mr, W. laatt7.
The most successful and popular Theatre in London.
Another Week of G:orious Triumph.
The most attractive Spec
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THIS

Will be performed the grand Spectacle, entitled MAZEPPA ;
or the Wild Horse of Tartary, which has been revived, in conse-
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ness the magnificent Spectacle.
With Batty's Gran,' Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest
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Male and Female Artists of superior talent.
To conclude with a laughable Afterpiece.
Tickets to be had at the Bex-office from Eleven till Four daily,
B.tage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COI'ELAND, Liverpool.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO.
With a Dramatic Bubble entitled THE SHOT TOWER. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. Davies, Rogers, and Miss Marshall.
After which a new Farce, entitled WHICH IS HE ?
With a new Burlesque, entitled GODIVA, THE LADY OF
COVENTRY. Characters by Messrs. Davies, J. Rogers, Norton,
Romer. Maskell, Attwood; Mesdames Marshall, C. ilorsman, E.
Morcelli, and Haskell.
ajah Prie4.-s of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls,
Lo:rites,_(firsl circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is.
sommen '0 be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to
ce ge.,,,„ precisely.
A second price,
"fit circle, 2e. will be taken to the Boxes only
; second circle, Is. at Nine o'clock
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.

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menac.etnre of the Tempi, of
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Janus in the Eternal City— Splendid
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choke
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