The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

TliE SUN,

LITERATURE.

RAMON AND CATAR ; or, the Two Races.
A narrative of passion and crime, of love and jea-
lousy, and hatred and remorse, written in an ener-
getic and even elcquent style, which fascinates the
reader's attention throughout, such is " Hanlon and
Cater." The talents evidenced by this production pro-
mise for its author no mediocre success in the realms
of romantic fiction. But having said thus much,
having testified our admiration of the graphic de-
scriptions and vigorous simplicity of style which so
considerably enhance the romantic attractions of
" Hamon and Cater," we must, in conscience, protest
against one great blemish in the construction of the
tale, and one which, to our thinking, materially di-
mioishes its interest and attractions. The story of
" Hamon and Cater, and Anna and Ada," whichjs
of such a character that its heroes and heroines
might have been situated in any age or
in any nation whatsoever, is supposed to be narrated
by no other than Cain, the first murderer ! A wan-
derer on the face of the globe, he recognises in the
crimes and sorrows of his descendants the sad results
and retribution of his own crime. The idea is car-
ried out with a certain amount of success, but there
is something at once maul and revolting in thus
bringing before us such a being as the narrator of a
tale ot human love and a chronicler of the trivial
incidents which must find place in a record of human
life. It was some time before we could disassociate
the narrator from the narrative, but when we had so
far succeeded, when we could look upon the tale as a
romance—a romance full of power and interest—
then, and only then, could we appreciate the talent of
the author, and feel admiration for the results of his
labours. Some other time we shall expect from him
romances equal to this in beauty and power, but free
from the strange drawback of " Ramon and Catar."

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, WEDNESDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness went out
riding yesterday.
The Prince of Wales and the Princesses also went
out riding.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party
yesterday.
Lord John Russell has gone on a visit to the Right
Hon. Fox Mauls at Dunmoor, near Dunkeld.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

THE PUBLIC DEBTS AND STANDING
ARMIES of the EUROPEAN STATES.
(From the Kolner Zeitung.)
The paper money now in actual circulation in
Europe represents a value of 1,261,428,520 dollars.
The total of the public debt is by far larger; it
amounts to 11,397,096,000 dollars. Great Britain
(without the colonies) bears nearly one-half of this
gigantic burden, viz., 5,000,000,000 dollars. The
British army numbers 129,000 men; the fleet is com-
posed of 678 vessels, with 18,000 guns. The detail
of the debts and armies of the other European States
is as follows :-
Spain-Debt, 1,300,000,000 dollars; army, 160,000
men ; fleet, 50 vessels, with 721 guns.
Austria-Debt, 1,100,000,000 dollars; fleet, 156
vessels (including gunboats), with 600 guns.
Russia and Poland-Debt, 733,000,000 dollars ;
army, 700,000 men; fleet, 175 vessels and 440 gun-
boats, with 7,000 guns.
The Netherlands-Debt, 731,000,000 dollars ;
army, 50,000 men ; fleet, 125 vessels, with 2,500 guns.
Prussia-Debt, 180,000 000 dollars ; army,
121,000 men (war footing, 492,000 men) ; fleet, 47
vessels and gunboats, with 114 guns.
France-Debt, 1,330,000,000 dollars ; army,
265,463 men ; fleet, 328 vessels, with 8,000 guns.
Belgium-Debt, 165,000,000 dollars ; army, 90,000
men ; fleet, 5 vessels, with 36 guns.
Portugal-Debt, 160,000,000 dollars ; army,
38,000 men ; fleet, 36 vessels, with 700 guns.
Papal States-Debt, 120,000,000 dollars; army,
19,000 men ; fleet, 5 vessels, with 24 guns.
Sardinia-Debt, 120,000,000 dollars; army, 38,000
men ; fleet, 60 vessels, with 900 guns.
Naples-Debt, 100,000,000 dollars ; army, 48,000
men ; fleet, 15 vessels, with 484 guns.
Bavaria-Debt, 82,000,000 dollars ; army, 57,000
men.
Denmark-Debt, 80,000 dollars; army, 20,000
men ; fleet, 33 vessels, with 1,120 guns.
Saxony-Debt, 43,500,000 dollars; army, 25,000
men.
Turkey-Debt, 40,000,000 dollars; army, 220,000
men ; fleet, 66 vessels, with 800 guns.
City of Hamburgh-Debt, 34,000,000 dollars ;
army, 1,800 men.
Grand Duchy of Baden-Debt, 33,000,000 dollars ;
army, 18,000 men.
Hanover-Debt, 30,368,000 dollars; army, 21,000
men.
Wurtemberg-Debt, 28,000,000 dollars; army,
19,000 men.
Greece-Debt, 25,000,000 dollars ; army, 8,900
men ; fleet, 34 vessels, with 131 guns.
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin-Debt,
10,000,000 dollars ; army, 4,700 men.
Grand Duchy of Tuscany-Debt, 10,000,000
dollars ; army, 12,000 men ; fleet, 10 vessels, with
15 guns.
city of Frankfort-Debt, 7,000,000 dollars ; army,
1,300 men.
Duchy of Brunswick-Debt, 6,800,000 dollars;
army, 3,000 men.
Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt-Debt, 6,200,000
dollars ; army, 42,000 men.
Electoral Hesse-Debt, 6,000,000 dollars •; army,
11,000 men.
City of Lubeck-Debt, 6,000,000 dollars ; army,
490 men.
Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Debt, 4,000,000 dollars;
army, 2,000.
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein - Debt,
4,000,000 dollars ; no army, no navy.
Duchy of Anhalt Dessau and Koethen-Debt,
3,500,000 dollars ; army, 700 men.
City of Bremen-Debt, 3,000,000 dollars; army,
500 men.
Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Debt, 2,556,000
dollars; army, 1,200 men.
Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen-Debt, 2,500,000 dol-
lars ; army, 2,400 men.
Duchy of Nassau-Debt, 2,000,000 dollars; army,
3,500 men.
Duchy of Parma-Debt, 1,800,000 dollars; army,
5,000 men.
Duchy of Anhalt Bernburg-Debt, 1,500,000
dollars ; army, 300 men.
Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg-Debt, 1,500,000 dol-
lars; army, 1,000 men.
Norway-Debt, 1,500,000 dollars; army, 23,000
men ; fleet, 160 vessels, with 560 guns.
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg-Debt, 1,200,000
dollars • army, 600 men.
Landgravate of Hesse Homburg-Debt, 860,000
dollars ; army, 350 men.
Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt-Debt,
252,000 dollars ; army, 540 men.
Principality of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen-
Debt, 60,000 dollars • army, 450 men.
Danubian Principalities-No debt; annual tribute
to Turkey, 3,000,000 piastres; army, 6,800 men.
Servia-No debt ; tribute, 2,000,000 piastres ;
army, 3,000 men
Sweden-No debt ; army, 35,000 men ; fleet, 340
vessels, with 2,400 guns.
Duchy of Modena-No debt; army, 3,500 men.
Principality of Lippe-Detmold-No debt; army,
820 men.
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz-No debt;
army, 800 men.
Principality of Reuss-No debt ; army 745 men.
Principality of Lippe-Schaumburg-No debt;
army, 430 men.
Principality of Waldek-No debt; army, 520
men.
Principality of Lichtenstein-No debt ; army, 60
men.

Switzerland—No debt; army, 69,500 men, a smal
number of whom only is in actual service.
Republic of San Marino—No debt, and no army.

FOREIGN POSTAGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—In the Times of yesterday a correspondent com-
plains, under the head of " German Postages," of the in-
justice of being charged at Darmstadt Bd. for a letter to
England, and ls. 3d. for a letter from England. Our
foreign postal relations are truly in need of reform. In
this town we are charged Bd. for a letter to London,
which if not prepaid, is in London charged 10d., the
same rate as if it had come from Paris. The postage of
a letter from London to Dover is ld., so that 9d. is tacked
to this for the conveyance 27 miles across the Channel in
British ships, which mAe the pas,age twice every day.
The postage of a letter under Iva., from Guernsey tithe
Shetland Isles is ld.;: the postage of a letter under oz,,
from Boulogne to London is 10d. L. R.
4, Quai de la Victoire, Boulogne-our-Mer, Sept. 2.
I seed this letter, as in nine cases out of ten, by pri-
vate hand, to save postage.

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THE SUBMARINE TELTGRAPIL—CaptaIR Bullock
and the Fearless steam-vessel, of which he has the command,
have been placed under orders to assist, in about a fortnight
from this time, in laying the submarine telegraph from Dover
to the most eligible place of communication on the coast of
France. The Fearless being a vessel of only 76-horse power
and 165 tons burden, and the weight of the gutta percha
and lead covering of the electric wires being upwards of 180
tons, the Lords of the Admiralty intend placing another
vessel at the disposal of the Electric Telegraph Company, to
facilitate their laying down the line across the Channel, and
the chain of communication has been brought to such a state
of perfection by the gutta percha covering and outer leaden
covering, that there is every reason to believe it will now be
perfectly successful.
NEW CUURCH IN THE WATERLOO ROAD.— On
Sunda next a new church will be opened for Divine service
in the-Waterloo-road, situated nearly opposite the stage en-
trance of the Victoria The,tre. It has been erected for the
accommodation of a congregation who formerly assembled
at Robinson's school-room, close by. It is built of Kentish
rag stone in the Gothic style, with a small steeple, containing
a bell.

LONDON,

THE INVASION OF CUBA.

DEFEAT OF THE IN VADERS.
SOUTHAMPTON, THUESDA.Y, SEPT. 4.
By the United States mail steam-ship Hum-
boldt, Captain Lines, which arrived off Cowes this
morning from New York, we have received ac-
counts from Ihvannah to the 17th ult., brought
to New York by the steamers Winfield Scott and
Cherokee.

The intelligence from Cuba in reference to the
Lopez invasion is of the most disastrous character
and had excited a great sensation throughout the
United States.

According to the voluminous accounts published in
the American papers, the expedition which left New
Orleans under the command of General Lopez and
Colonels Pragay and Clendennin, and numbering
about 450 persons, after eluding the vigilance of the
Spanish, American, French, and British vessels of
war, succeeded in effecting a landing at Cabanos,
about 40 miles from llavannah. It is stated that
a sanguinary engagement shortly afterwards took
place near that point with the Spanish troops, in
which 50 Americans were taken prisoners, but not
before a great slaughter had been made on both sides.
It is aleo said that the Lopez party killed and wounded
nearly 900 of the Spanish soldiery, but this is evi-
dently a great exaggeration.
The subjoined account is given by the New York
Herald

" After the landing of General Lopez and his party
near Bahia Honda fighting with the Spanish troops
commenced, and a frightful slaughter took place, as
near as we could learn, especially of the Spanish
troops. The main body of the patriots, or invaders,
were driven to the mountains, and the remainder took
to boats and put to sea. These men were captured
off Bahia Honda, 40 miles west of Havannah, by the
steamer Habanero. The patriots were in four boats.
They were brought to Havannah by the Habanero on
Saturday morning, the 16th inst., at 1, AM. and
placed on board a Spanish frigate lying in port, and
executed at 11.5, A.M. of the same morning. After
they were shot they were dragged by the feet by
negroes, who commenced stripping them of their
clothes, which they carried on sticks through the
streets, yelling like so many wild demons.
" Annexed is a list of the names of those men who
were shot in the public road at Havannah. It is es-
timated that there were 20,000 spectators :
" Colonel W. S. Clendennin.
" Captains—F. S. Sewer, Victor Kerr, T. B.
Veacey.
" Lieutenants—James Brandt, J. 0. Bryce, Tho-
mas C. James.
"Doctors—John Fisher, K. A. Tourniquet.
" Sergeants—J. Whitereus, A. M. Cotchett.
" Adjutant R. C. Stanford.
" Lieutenant M. H. Homes.
" Privates—Samuel Mills, Edward Rulman,
George A. Arnold, B. J. Wregy, William Niseman,
Ansel= Torres Hernandez, Patrick Dillon, Thomas
Hearsey, Samuel Reed, H. T. Vinne, M. Philips,
James L. Manville, G. M. Green, J. Salmon, Napo-
leon Collins, N. H. Fisher, William Chilling, G. A.
Cook, S. 0. Jones, M. H. Ball, James Buxet,
Robert Caldwell, C. C. William Smith, A. Ross, P.
Brourke, John Christdes, William B. Little, Robert
Cantley, John G. Sanka, James Stanton, Thomas
Harnatt, Alexander Mc Ilcer, John Stubbs, James
Ellis, William Hogan, Charles A. Robinson.
"This list embraces 49; there were 52 shot.

"Many of the Cherokee's passengers, who were on
the spot of the execution, were pointed at with a
sneer of contempt, and many stopped in the streets
and insulted—called Americans, and that they were
one and all of the same party—that one of these days
they would be served in the same way. It was dan-
gerous for an American to be in the streets alone at
night."
In a letter from Havannah of the 16th ult. are the
following particulars of the engagements that bad
taken place :
Intelligence reached Havannah last week that 400
picked men had been sent out into the mountain of
Coscore, by General Lemery, who was made to be-
lieve that a very small number of the insurgents re-
mained, and could be easily captured. The result
was that the troops were led into ambush, when a
large force of the patriots, under Dr. Augustin
Aguero y Aguero, rushed upon them and killed some
50 on the spot. The rest of the Spaniards retreated to
Principe, as well as they could, in the greatest dis-
order.

" Scarcely had the Government recovered from
this shock when their attention was called to the still
more serious fact, that a large number of sympa-
thisers, under General Lopez, had effected a landing
at Playitas, a few miles to the westward of Bahia
Honda, which took place at four A.M. on the 13th inst.
L :yea is decidedly a brave man—brave almost to
rashness. It is positively stated here—and I believe
it to be true—that the steamer signalled from the
Moro Castle on the evening of the 12th, was the
same one which conveyed General Lopez and his
friends to these shores. Such a daring act of audacity,
bearding as it were the lion in his den, is most ex-
traordinary.
" It appears that, close into the entrance of this har-
bour, Lopez fell in with a schooner, from which he
took out the captain and mate, to serve him as pilots
on the coast of Bahia Honda, the navigation of which
is very intricate. They arrived off Bahia Honda
about 9 raw , when they immediately commenced
making signals to the shore by means of rockets, &c.,
which probably had been previously agreed upon be-
tween the liberators and those on shore. General
Lopez did not effect a landing with bis men until 4
A.M.; but the debarcation was done in so masterly a
style that before sunrise he had, not only landed his
men with all their munitions of war, but was on his
march to Las Poses, a town a few miles distant from
the coast, where he immediately commenced intrench-
ing himself.
" In the meanwhile, here, in Havannah, reigned
the greatest excitement. The Pizzarro, laden with
troops, under the command of General Enna (who is
next in command to the Captain-General), and with
him the Admiral, left about 8 A.M. for Bahia Honda,
1,000 men having previously been sent by the rail-
way cars.
" It must be borne in mind that such was the state
of confusion and alarm into which the Government
were thrown, that they had no distinct idea as to
whether Bahia Honda or Mariel were the points to
which the liberators bad come. However, the follow-
ing morning, we are informed that General Enna had
come up with the pirates, as they are termed by the
Government, and had fought with them at Las Poses,
in which he regrets the loss of some of his men and
others wounded.
"In this engagement the Spaniards were com-
manded by General Enna in person, who had bis horse
shot from under him; Colonel Radel and seven officers
and about 78 men were killed.
" So unerring and deadly was the fire of the brave
liberators that General Eana was three times repulsed
with loss. At this moment the Lieutenant-Governor
of Mariel, Colonel Gurrea, came up with about two
hundred men more, when the colonel received a shot
through his leg. and his men such a check that Ge-
neral Enna (as he states in his official communication
to the Captain-General, dated half-past three o'clock
on the 14th) saw the uselessness of attempting any-
thing further against the pirates without more artil-
lery, as it would be only exposing his men to cer-
tain death without any result; consequently he de-
manded further reinforcements. Accordingly, two
steamers (the Habanero and the Almendares) left
that day with more troops, to the number of 1,400,
so that, according to their own account, with those
who have been concentrating from the other dis-
tricts, they have got upwards of 8,000 men, including
cavalry, and up to this moment they have only made
three captives, who, as they say in the official bul-
letin, they instantly put to death. Two of these per-
sons were sailors belonging to the steamer Pampero,
who, after landing Lopez, had gone into a tavern
and got drunk ; the other poor fellow was found in
a hut unable to move, from a fracture he received
when landing.
"On the 15th it was known that the liberators,
who have been joined in large numbers by the people
of the country, made a move in the direction of Diego
de Nunez and Cabanas, with the intention of possess-
ing themselves of the fort at the latter place, when,
unfortunately, some 40 or 50 of them, who had in the
most daring manner endeavoured to get there by sea
in four launches, with the intention of taking the
Spaniards in the fort by surprise, were themselves,
after a most desperate resistance, captured by the
Spanish Admiral, who, with his steamer, and an im-
mense number of men, succeeded in taking them after
a fight of four hours.
" It is computed that there were no less than 329
soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture of these
brave 50 Americans.
" Elated with his success, Admiral Bustillos has-
tened with his prize to Havannah, where he arrived
this morning at 1.30 A.M.
" The bloodiest day of the Cuban revolution is fast
drawing to its close, and the sun that is now rapidly
r e
torn
ad i
dragged
cold
by a
sinking in the west has seen 50 prisoners—the greater
youngthmerflutilatd e Americans—shotmain s
nsavage populace, the outpourings of Spain, the mule
of Europe.
partand their of
" This morning, about 3 o'clock, the steamer Ha-
banero arrived with 50 prisoners, of whose capture we
have only the official report, as you will find it in the
Gaceta of this morning. At 11 o'clock they were
shot at the foot of the Fort Atares, in the presence of
an immense assemblage. The list I will send to you if
it is published in time to go by this mail. The saddest
portion of the history which I have to relate is the in.