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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 185

The accounts received from the United States and
Cuba by the Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, which
arrived at Liverpool yesterday, fully confirm the
truth of the Spanish statements of the recent occur-
rences in that island, and at the same time show
how impossible it is to place the slightest reliance"
on any account emanating from " sympathising
sources. Never has the system of " enormous
lying" been so shamelessly carried' out as it has been
by Loraz and the greedy speculators of New
Orleans, and the other southern cities of the
Union, with whom he has been a co-conspirator, and
of whom, ere this, the whole of the unfortunate
" flibustiers" whom he induced to accompany
him have been the victims. The latest accounts
received by the United States Executive from Cuba
are to the 25th of August ; up to that date it is stated
"that LOPEZ bad been enabled to maintain himself,
but with a very reduced force. Not one creole had
joined him. His prospects were desperate. It is a
personal struggle for his own life and the lives of his
few remaining followers." This is the semi-official
statement of the United States Government, and con-
trasts strangely with the accounts put forth by the
sympathisers of his battles and his victories.
The letters of the unfortunate men who were
shot at the Havannah, victims of the am-
bition of LOPEZ and of the avarice of his,
if not more guilty, assuredly more cowardly
associates, who fitted out the expedition as an invest-
ment, are published in the New Orleans papers, and
they prove to demonstration that LOPEZ never, from
the first moment of his landing, possessed the shadow
of a chance, and that the expedition, as it was brigand
in principle so was it brigand in management, as it
was conducted without the slightest attention to even
ordinary military tactics. He seems to have left
Colonel CRITTENDEN and his battalion to their fate,
without orders, without plan, without information.
Had he been playing false to his own companions, in
order to betray them into the hands of the Spanish
authorities, he could not have adopted any plan to
have more effectually or speedily accomplished the
object. The following letter from Adjutant STAN-
FORD describes the short and disastrous campaign of
the battalion of Col. CRITTENDEN :
" Havannah, Aug. 16, 1851.
" Dear Huling,—We arrived on the island of Cuba
after the most horrible passage you can conceive of,
cooped on board with 400 or 500 men.
" We arrived on Sunday last, I believe—dates I have
almost forgotten. The next morning General Lopez,
with General Paraguay and all the commanding officers,
left us (I mean Crittenden and his battalion). We heard
nothing more of him for two days, when Crittenden dis-
patched a note. He then requested wo should join him
at a little town some six or eight miles off, leaving us in
the meantime to take care of all the baggage.
" We started for him on Wednesday morning at two
o'clock, and had proceeded only three miles when we
were attacked by 500 Spanish soldiers. In the first
charge I received a very severe wound in the knee.
We repulsed them, however. They made another
charge, and completely routed us. W e spent two days
and nights, the most miserable you can imagine, in the
chapparal, without anything to eat or drink.
" We made the best of our way to the sea shore, and
found some boats with which we put to sea. Spent a
night upon the ocean, and the neat day, about twelve
o'clock, were taken prisoners by the Habanero, were
brought to Havannah last night, and condemned to die
this morning. We shall all be shot in an hour.
" Good by and God bless you. I send the Masonic
medal enclosed in this, belonging to my father. Convey
it to my sister, Mrs. P n, and tell her my fate
Once more, God bless you.

" STANFORD."
Another of the unfortunate men, G. A. COOKE,
does not hesitate to distinctly charge LOPEZ and his
associates with treachery. His letter is short, truth-
ful, and to the point; it is in these words :
" Havannah, on board a man-of-war, eight
o'clock A.m., August 16, 1851.

" My dear Friends,—About 50 of us, Colonel Critten-
den's command, were taken prisoners yesterday; have
not received our sentence yet, but no doubt we will be
shot before sunset. Lopez, the scoundrel, has deceived us;
there is no doubt that all those reports about the Cuban
rising were trumped up in New Orleans.
" btanton and Co."

There can be no doubt that " LOPEZ, the scoundrel,"
deceived these unfortunate men, but he is not the

only or the greatest scoundrel ; it was not LOPEZ
alone who trumped up all those reports about Cuban
risings in New Orleans. Who were his associates ?
Who were the keepers of the so-called " military

offices" where these men were enrolled ? Who were

the capitalists who furnished funds for the ex-
pedition, as a speculation, in the profits of
which, if successful, they were to share ?
These " scoundrels" must be well known in
New Orleans, and it is to be hoped that the friends
and relations Of CRITTENDEN, STANFORD, COOKS,
and the other victims will not rest until they have
brought these men to justice. It appears that the
whole of CRITTENDEN'S battalion have been either
cut to pieces or executed ; forty of them, it is said,
were taken in a farm-house immediately after their
first defeat, and shot at once ; and it is said that a
Spanish company on the 14th came upon twenty of
them guarding an equal number of wounded com-

rades, and that the whole of them were cut to pieces.

And yet, notwithstanding the fate of these unfortu-
nate men, notwithstanding it is known that not a
single creole has joined LOPEZ, notwithstanding the
statement on the part of the New Orleans journal,
which had heretofore supported LorEv, that " Gra-
dually the veil is rising, and, ere many more days roll
over, the plot and plotters, who have most cruelly
deceived and destroyed as brave, as disinterested,
and as true-hearted a body of men as ever embarked
in an enterprise of freedom, will be exposed to the
public •gaze.;" we find that recruiting is still going
on in many cities of the Union ; that General FELIX
HOUSTON has issued an address at New Orleans,
urging the citizens to subscribe liberally, so as to fit
out an expedition on a largo scale ; that at Baltimore
arrangements are making for the departure of a
Cuban expedition, and that at New York the sym-
pathisers have devised a very original method of, as
they think, evading the law by issuing the following
placard :
" THE MASSACRE MONUMENT COMMITTEE.—The
undersigned have been appointed, under the authority
of the great mass meeting in the Park, a committee to
receive public subscriptions, to be applied to the purpose
of erecting a suitable monument to the fifty massacred
prisoners, on the spot whore the infamous butchery was
committed, and to the taking of all necessary and proper
steps that may be required for the eventual consumma-
tion of that object; which include, of course, such mea-
sures as may be found necessary and proper to acquire
the title to the ground on which the monument is to be
erected, and the consent of the local authorities. Ac-
cepting this appointment, they hereby announce their
readiness to receive all contributions designed for the
furtherance of the said meritorious and noble object, and
express the hope that their lellow-citizens will come for-
ward liberally for the purpose in view.
"ANDREW H. Micazz, "F. B. TILLOU,
JOHN M'KEON, ELIJAH F. PURDY."
E. S. SQUIERS,

In order " to acquire the title to the ground," of
course it will be necessary to put down the Spanish
Government in that island.

The American Executive are, however, we are
happy to say, exerting themselves to prevent the
organization and departure of these expeditions.
Their semi-official telegraphic dispatch of the 4th
says :—"No reinforcements have gone from New
Orleans, and the Government is successfully exerting
itself to prevent any." And it further states that
"The collector of Customs at New Orleans has been
removed from office for alleged indifference in Cuban
matters." Probably the fact that the Spanish Consul
in New Orleans has struck his flag, and has, by so
doing, devolved the whole responsibility of the pro-
ceedings in that city on the American authorities, may
have had some affect in eliciting from the American

Executive this somewhat sudden display of vigilance.
The United States Marshal at New York has received
peremptory orders to prevent the departure of any
expedition from that city, and as the sailing of the
Baltimore expedition is "contingent on the character
of the next advices from Lona," we think that we
can venture to affirm that there is no chance whatever
of its putting to sea for the present. Had the United
States Government exhibited, during the first week in
August, one-tenth part of the activity which they
have exhibited during the last week of that month,
they would have saved the lives of at least 600
American citizens.

So the new Papal Offence—or Defence—Associa-
tion is not dead after all, notwithstanding the sur-
mises of some of our Contemporaries, that it had un-
timely given up the ghost. It slumbered, but
exhaled not ; dozed, but bath not defunged. It is
now announced, by a Dublin organ of note, that the
rules of this politico-theological fungus have received
the sanction of the Right Reverend Doctors PAUL
CULLEN, MICHAEL SLATTERY, and JOHN AN:TALE,
illegally styled " the Primate, and the Archbishops
of Cashel and Tuarn." The first meeting of this said
association is to be duly fixed by the com-
mittee thereof at the time of the adoption of the
rules, and the 14th of October is, we are informed,
the day determined on. Thus, " The Great Irish
Exhibition" opens immediately after the closing of that
of the Industry of all Nations, but whether it will suc-
cessfully " draw," tending to the profit as well as
the pleasure of its promoters, is a matter yet to be
seen. That there will be some " big talk," some
"very bitter words" eructated, we have not the re-
motest doubt, but where is there a master mind
among the Irish " patriots" of to-day to guide the
helm ? Only fancy any one member of the Porn's
brass-band setting himself up as the successor of
DANIEL O'CONNELL I 0, braying quadruped, seek
not to masquerade in the hide of the dead lion !
Meanwhile we are refreshed by an exposition of
the views entertained concerning the national system
of education by Doctor CULLEN, which has been
given to the world after a delay of many days by
some section of the corporation of Drogheda, who had
requested the opinion of the titular primate as to the
national schools. The reverend writer abstains from
pronouncing expressly either an approbation or con-
demnation of these schools, but his idea of " mixed
education" may be judged of from the following pa-
ragraph of his epistle :—" Some of these schools work
practically well, and whilst visiting this diocese I was
happy to find the children who frequent them well in-
structed in their religion. But these are not mixed
schools; the managers, the teachers, the children,
are, I may say, all Catholics—the spirit of the
schools is Catholic." So that, provided the school
be purely Roman Catholic in its constitution and
members, there caz b no objection to education,
and then we are solemnly nformed that the Roman
Catholic Church " has been the instructress
and civiliser of all the nations of the earth ;"
that " every noble and useful institution that
we possess has originated with her," and that "to
her are due the preservation of the arts and sciences
in ages of darkness, and their revi►al and diffusion at
a later period." We confess this comprehensive
glorification so takes away our breath that we commit
it to the consideration of the reader without a word
of comment. Dr. CULLEN, however, lets us know
his views on the system of national education, as
conducted according to the spirit and principles of
its founders, in no insignificant or obscure terms when
he says of the schools :—" The object of such estab-
lishments appears to be the development of mixed educe-

tion. Protestant, Presbyterian, and Catholic teachers
are to be united in them, and children of every de-
nomination are invited to attend them, and thus a
mixture is compounded that is anything rather than
Catholic. Neither the Catholic clergy nor any other
Catholic body has any control over the appointment
or removal of masters or mistresses, or over their
teaching in the schools. The whole system tends to
inspire children with the absurd idea that all religions
are equally good, and it is thus hostile to truth,
which is one and exclusive in its nature ;" whereas,
" we believe that there is but one true faith, without
which it is impossible to please God ; one true
Church, out of which there is no salvation. Any
teaching that is hostile to these doctrines, or tends to
weaken them in the minds of youth, we must consider
as unsuited for Catholics, and worthy of our reproba-
tion." And the knowledge "not encouraged by the

Church," i❑ other worth, any system of teaching no!

exclusively in the hands and under the direction of the
Roman Cathalic priesthood is to be esteemed " god-
less education," as " earthly, sensual, devilish." Poor
Ireland ! The learning, civilization, and prosperity of

the southern peninsula of Europe are deemed to be
your happy and appropriate lot by the members of
the same order who have bountifully " instructed and
civilized" the flourishing and intellectually-cultivated
dwellers on the banks of the Tagus and the Tiber.

To the most infelicitous and ill-timed appointment
of Dr. CULLEN to the Roman Catholic Primacy
we owe the present attempted perpetuation of Igno-
rance in Ireland. The subject is really too
disheartening to dwell upon ; but it may not be unin-
teresting to our perusers to learn the way in which
this ill-starred business was managed at Rome. We,
therefore, shall rest content with appending a brief
history of the intrigues which produced so unhappy
an issue, as supplied by a clever Contemporary, the
Anglo- Celt :

" During the lifetime of the late Primate Crolly, his
influence, united to that of Archbishop Murray, kept
the Ultramontanists in check. The appointment of a
successor to Archbishop Crolly became matter of the
last importance to the Ultramontane party. According
to the course of election, the bishops of the province
and the parish priests of the vacant diocese were to
recommend three names to the Holy See, from whom
they were to select a successor. It was no secret that
Dr. Dixon was the favourite. He is a moderate man,
of the Tramontane party, and supports the Queen's col-
leges. Hence the objection of the Ultramontanists to
him. He had a majority of the bishops, which was
only to be got rid of by an intrigue with the priests,
which was sifbcessful. The two bodies differed in
the order in which they recommended the candidates to
Rome. The Holy See, therefore, referred the matter
back to the three remaining archbishops to report upon.
Of these Dr. M'Hale was the original and unbending
opponent of the colleges; Archbishop Murray as deter-
mined a supporter of them and of the liberties of the
Irish Church; Archbishop Slattery sided with Dr.
M'Hale; Dr. Murray, consequently, stood alone, his in-
fluence at Rome, too, had been considerably weakened
by the misrepresentations of his motives and conduct
made by his opponents; among the rest, a pamphlet by
two of the Ultramontane bishops, containing the vilest
calumnies, was extensively circulated there, while here
he was publicly described, by persons calling themselves
Christian bishops, in language unfit to be applied save
to one foredoomed to damnation. The report of the
archbishops went over to Rome with a suggestion of the
majority that as there were differences between the parties
as to the merits of the candidates it was a fit opportunity:to
exercise authority and name aperson not on the list. Rome
accordingly appointed Doctor Cullen, their president of the
Irish college there—an appointment the most objection-
able that could be made to the Tramontane party here.
He was known to be the private correspondent and
agent at Rome of the Absolutists here, and the medium
of communication between them and the Roman autho-
rities. His experience of Ireland was limited to the
short period of his boyhood. Ho was sent to Rome at
fourteen years of age, and received his ecclesiastical
education there. Upon questions of church government
and of discipline he was supposed to hold very absolute
doctrines. Such was not, in the opinion of many, the
person to put at the head of the Irish Church at the
present moment, over the heads of the entire ecclesias-
tical authorities of the country He was sent, too, with
the authorities of Legate, one of which is power to call
together in Synod the bishops of the kingdom. Hence
arose the Thurles Synod, whose decrees, although held
upwards of two years since, have not been published."

Thus was secured the triumph of bigotry, of il-
liberalism, of obscurantism, of "the darkness that

may be felt "—in a word, of ULTRAMONTALAISM.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge honoured her Majesty's Theatre with
his presence on Saturday evening. Amongst the company
we also noticed the Marquis of Douro, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, the Viscount Emlyn, Sir George Wombwell, Bart.,
General the Hon. H. Cavendish, the Hon. James Mac-
donald, &c.

EXTRAORDINARY Low TlDE.—Yesterday morning
the excursionists above bridge were greatly inconvenienced
not only by the density of the fog, but likewise in conse-
quence of the lowness of the water in the river. The boats
which started at an early hour from the various piers below
Blackfriars for Putney, Richmond, Twickenham, and Hamp-
ton, experienced considerable delay in passing some portions
of the river, which it was possible, in many places, at ex-
treme low water, to ford. The down river boats to Green-
wich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Sheerness, &c., were obliged to
slacken their speed considerably, owing to the fog that pre-
vailed the whole of the forenoon.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The British and North
American royal mail steam-ship Africa, Eyrie commander,
sailed from the Mersey at 12.30 rm. to-day, with the usual
mails, a large freight, and 156 passengers. The United
States mail steam-ship Baltic, Comstock commander, will
tail from Liverpool on Wednesday next for New York with
111311/ tfC.,

THE FRENCH REPUBLiu.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes a decree, declaring the de-
partment of Ardeche in a state of seige.
There were rumours of a contemplated coup di etht,
but they did not obtain any great degree of credence.
The trial of the accused in what is called the Agen
conspiracy commenced on Wednesday. It is gene-
rally considered that this so-called conspiracy is a
police-concerted plan to ruin the proprietors of two
Republican provincial journals.
The judicial proceedings relative to the affair called
the Paris plot are being conducted with great activity
by M. DELALAIN, Juge d'lnstruction. The number
of persons originally arrested in various quarters of
Paris was one hundred and seventy•eight. The most
of them were taken to the prison Mans, where, after
having been regularly interrogated, seventy-six
were set at liberty, seventy-two being foreigners
and four Frenchmen. Eleven others were after-
wards liberated from the Prefecture of Police.
Some other persons were subsequently arrested
in consequence of matter appearing against them
in the papers seized. A foreigner named REINNIQER,
against whom a warrant had been issued, took to
flight, and succeeded in crossing the frontier, and
reaching Mentz, but he was arrested there by the
local authorities, who, it seems, were on the look-
out for him on account of similar acts formerly com-
mitted by him when iu that town.
The Republique says :—" We have just been
informed that the Minister of the Interior has
withdrawn the licence as booksellers from citi-
zens LECOMTE DE BEAUMONT and LEDLAND,
residing at 149, Rue St. Denis. At three o'clock
yesterday the Commissary of the Police of the sec-
tion St. Sauveur closed their shop, and affixed his
seals on it. Art. 12 of the law of October 21, 1813,
says that the licence may be withdrawn from any
bookseller who shall have been duly convicted of in-
fringing the laws and regulations ; but if that law
were to be executed to the letter, there are few book-
sellers who could, at the present time, carry on their
business. We must not forget to add, in order to
explain the rigorous measure which has been taken
with regard to these citizens, that LECOMTE DE
BEAUMONT and LEBLAND sell democratic journals."
The Minister of Justice received by telegraph in-
formation that the Council of Discipline of the Order
of Advocates at Lyons has suspended MM. MOUIL-
LAUD, BOULOT, and VILLEMAIN, for a month, for
having signed the declaration of ;he advocates of the
accused in the Lyons plot that they would not pre-
sent any defence before the court-martial.
The Courrier de la Martinique of August, says :
" In consequence of judicial proceedings being insti-
tuted by the law officers of Fort-de France, relative
to an article written by M. ScucaLcnzu in the
journal, which he patronises, an application is about
to be made to the Minister of Marine, to ask permis-
sion from the Legislative Assembly to have M.
ScnatLcuzu prosecuted."
There was much talk yesterday, says the Bulletin
de Paris, of a conference having just taken place
between General SCHRAMM and the PRESIDENT of
the Republic.
The Bulletin de Paris says—" Persons who are
well-informed as to the intentions of the Orleanist
party say, that after the vote on the re-
vision, the Prince DE JOINVILLE will publish a
manifesto, in which he will clearly declare him •
self a candidate for the Presidency of the Re-
public. The little effect produced on the departments
by the announcement of the impatient pretensions of
the friends of the Orleans family, and the uncertainty
that exists as to its real intentions, have led the getters-
up of this candidateship to suppose that a manifesto
would be a last and decisive resource. It is with this
view that M. TRIERS is to go soon to Claremont. He
merely waits for the return of the Duchess of ORLEANS
from Germany."

BUSINESS uuNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TBli
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1014—Luxembourg, 2—Northern
of France, 14;i—Sambre and Meuse, 234.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived.
General ARMEE() has accepted the portfolio of
Minister at War.

The Committee on the Budget meet daily.
MADRID Boum., SEPT. 9.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 361 for time ; the Four per Cents. al
151 ; the Five per Cents, at 171; the Debt without
Interest at 161; and the Coupons at Bk.

PORTUGAL.

Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 9th

It is said that the Qualm has expressed her dis-
pleasure at the Duke of TERCEIRA'S having joined
SILVA CABRAL'S Electoral Committee. The country
was quite tranquil.