The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1851,

The intelligence raceived from the United States
by the Europa, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday
morning, is by no means calculated to lessen the
anxiety which we have on more than one occasion of
late expressed on the subject of the state of affairs in
the island of Cuba. Although the accounts are very
contradictory, yet we think there can be little doubt
but that the Captain-General of the island, CONCHA,
has succeeded not only in suppressing the insurrection
but in capturing the rebel chiefs.

The Fahal, a newspaper published at Puerto Prin-
cipe, a city which the upholders of the piratical expe-
dition under LOPEZ would fain have us believe is,
and has been all along, in possession of the rebels,
Publishes the following in its number of the 27th
July :—" The apprehension of Don JOAQUIN AGUERO
Y AGUERO, with his five companions, has put a com-
plete seal to the pacificatiou of the country ;" and on
the Ist of August the official Gazette of the Island of
Cuba published the following general orders :

‘;,AI-01Y OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA.
"GENERAL HEAD-QUARTERS.

" The reports received to-day, by his Excellency Sr.
Captain General Governor, announced that the Oriental
and Central Departments enjoy tho most perfect tran-
quillity ; that on the 26th ult. D. Joaquin Aguero y
Aguero, and the five individuals who composed his
beaten party, had arrived at Puerto Principe, under a
strong escort ; that in the hunting and dispersion, sop-
ported by the party of Armenteros, the troops had taken
fifty horses."

After giving the names of thirty-two persons of
rank, who have either surrendered themselves or
been taken prisoners by the troop, the document thus
proceeds—

"That the chief of this party, D. Isidore Armenteros,
had presented himecif, imploring the pity of her Ma-
jesty, through the Lieutenant of the regiment of Arra-
gone, D. Jose Maria Espinosa, who guarded the passage
of the river lianuabillu, called El Gusyabo.
" In all parts the excellent spirit of the inhabitants was
shown to the troops, and a great many of them offered
themselves with arms, and mounted on their horses, to
pursue the rebels. To Manicaragua thirty•five citizens
followed, almost by force, the Lieutenant-Governor in
his pursuit.
" This document is published in the official Gazeta, by
order of the General Governor.
" The Chief Colonel of E. M.,
JOAQUIM MORALES DE NADA.
" Havannnh, August 1."

The New York Herald of tho 19th ult. states that
on the day preceding the brig Eliza Burgess had
arrived at Boston from San Juan de Cuba, with dates
to the sth ; that at that date all was perfectly tranquil
on that side of the island ; that disturbances had been
heard of on the other side, but that the general opi-
nion was at San Juan that they did not amount to
much. We consider that this intelligence, backed as
it is by the information contained in the general
orders published in the Guc,eta by the authority of
the Captain- General of the island, is much more likely

to be correct than the vague and improbable accounts
which are circulated in Baltimore and Charleston, of
the success of the rebels at Cardenas and elsewhere, rest.
ing as these accounts do on the faith of letters written
by no one knows who, and brought, according to the
Savannah News, to Jacksonville by a 'vessel, name
unknown. It would appear, therefore, that the rebel-
lion has been suppressed, and that if Spain is but left
to herself she is well able to suppress any attempt at
insurrection that may be made in Cuba. But she will
not be left to herself ; this insurrection, or rather
this miserable attempt at an outbreak, has been got
up solely by the pirates of the Southern States of
the American Union, in order to afford them an op-
portunity of invading the island. The expedition of
LOPEZ has already sailed, and other pirates are pre-
paring to follow. The following extract from the letter
of the New Orleans correspondent of the New York
Herald describes an organised system of piracy not
surpassed by that of the Barbary Corsairs in their
most palmy days, and which ought to acquire for
New Orleans in the nineteenth the unenviable noto-
riety which was the shame of Algiers in the seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries. Writing on the Bth
of Angus+, from New Orleans, the New York Herald's
correspondent says :

" There aro now at least 3,000 stout men raised, only
waiting transportation to embark their lives and their
all in the struggle of the Cubans. Daily crowds of
young awn arrive from the neighbouring States, all well
armed and fully accoutred, eager for the fray. Those
gallant young officers—Hawkins and Pickett, of Ken-
tucky—the latter a good Spanish scholar, who has re-
resided some time in the West Indies, have two hundred
picked riflemen of Kentucky, who will be among the first
to embark in the next expedition. On Sunday last
at 3 o'clock, A Al the Pamperer, which was built by Cap-
tain Hunter for the Chagres trade, and which has been
plying for some time between this city and Galveston,
left the whart at Lafayette, with the advance party
under General Lopez. They were all picked men, and
included 150 Spaniards and Creoles, who have all lived
in Cuba. They are under the command of a young
Creole, of Porto Rico, of the name of Goday, a stout
fellow seven feet high, and full of energy and decision
of character. Ganeral Pragay, the distinguished Hun-
garian, Adjutant-General of Klapka at Comorn, who
has been in forty-two battles, and is a most skilful and
gallant officer, goes with Lopez as second in command.
There aro also twenty Hungarian engineers in the
party. The other officers are—Colonel Crittenden, late
of the army, a nephew of the Attorney-General, who
has immediate command of an artillery company; Col.
Dollman, of Georgia, who served through the Mexican
war; Major J. A. Kelly, who served in Florida and
Mexico, and who once edited a leading Whig paper iu
the state; Captains W. Scott Haynes, A, J. Dailey, and
others whose names I do not at present remember.
There are five hundred rank and file.

" The Pampero is commanded by Captain Lewis, who
directed the Creole so successfully in the Cardenas ex-
pedition. He is a true, gallant fellow, and an admirable
sailor. She is quite fast, and will run ahead of any of
the war steamers. In case of attack she carries grap-
pling irons to close in with her antagonists, and board.
In a melee the bowie knives would prove very effective
in the hands that will wield them. We expect to get
the first news of the Pampers by herself. The Spanish
consul was badly sold' by some speculators here, who
traded off a miserable apology for a steamer, called the
Cincinnati, which was to run ahead of the Pampero, and
informed the Captain-General of her coming here. She
will not get there under two weeks, if ever. There was
serious talk among the fillibusteros of capturing her when
she got outside. This, however, would be a perilous
affair, as she sails under American colours."

The piratical expedition has therefore sailed, and
it is evident that it has sailed with the full knowledge
and the connivance of the Executive of the United
States ; it may indeed be true that the Executive was
too weak to effect the arrest of LOPEZ and his com-
panions on shore, or to prevent the sailing of the
expedition, but nothing could have been more easy
than to have ordered a naval force to the Cuban
waters and the gulf sufficient to arrest the Pampero in
her progress, and to bring her and her cargo of
pirates to Boston, New York, or some of the northern
ports. That, however, which the Republic of the
United States has refused to do the French Republic
has, in all probability, by this time done : the New
Orleans Delta of the 10th August says :
" We have authentic intelligence that the French ves-
sels of war stationed near Cuba have tendered their
services to the Government of that island, to aid it
against the people, and have actually been engaged in
the transportation of troops from ilavannah to various
parts of the island,"

If any of the French vessels of war have fallen in
with the Pampero, LOPEZ has been probably afforded
an opportunity of carrying his avowed determination
into effect, of blowing up the ship rather than surren-
dering. But the destruction of LOPEZ and his comp-
nions would by no means put an end to these piratical
expeditions. From all parts of the southern States
adventurers are pouring into New Orleans
for the purpose of organising expeditions
against Cuba, and the Executive is giving
actual encouragement to this iniquitous system
of brigandage, by declaring that the time is not far
distant when Cuba must be annexed to the United
States, and on that declaration basing a proposal for
the purchase of the island from Spain. .We again
urge upon our Foreign Secretary the absolute neces-
sity of interfering promptly and effectively to defend
the rights of Spain to her richest colonial dependency
against the attacks of these organized bands of
pirates, and at the same time to protest, and if ne-
cessary follow the protest by ulterior measures,
against the sale of Cub., by Spain, or the purchase
of Cuba by any other power.

During the past week We directed the public at-
tention to the remarkably able brochure of Mr. W.
CAMPBELL SLEIGH,* in which the speech of the
Bishop of EXETER against the second reading of the
Marriages Affinity Bill was subjected to the most
stringent, but at the same time the most justifiable,
criticism. Its weaknesses and inconsistencies were
freely and unsparingly commented on, while the
misquotations and interpolations, which are unfor-
tunately to be found in the oration of the Right Rev.
Prelate, were fearlessly exposed. , We have
anxiously looked for the reply of the Bishop. We
entertained no doubt that such would be forthcoming.
Bishop PHILLPOTTS is usually not accustomed to shrink
from any wordy warfare ; nor, although so long on the
Episcopal Bench, has :he adopted the principle at
least in polemical matters of " turning his other cheek
to the smiter," or even receiving the attacks of his
assailants, without, so far as was in his power, ren-
dering in every instance an ample equivalent.
On the present occasion, however, the redoubted
" HARRY" has exhibited a remarkable forbearance.
He has remained perfectly quiescent, "swallowing
his leek" with the most edifying humility. There has
been no episcopal "Roland" to meet the forensic
" Oliver." The lists are untenanted, and the
challenger is suffered to bear off the prize without a
contest. There has been no word of explanation or
remonstrance, no reference to the works of JEREMY
TAYLOR or other polemical writer to sustain the cor-
rectness of his conclusions; or, what with a man
bolding a high and important office in the national
Church should be of much higher importance, the
accuracy of his quotations. The Right Rev. Prelate
has maintained a total and unbroken silence, while all
parties interested in the controversy were anxiously
awaiting the response of the self-elected champion of
the existing law. Whence this unwonted patience ?
How did the Bishop restrain his ardour or maintain
his quiescence?

It could not be that the matter escaped his notice.
If even his publisher neglected to inform him of a
pamphlet especially directed against his own speech,
which might call for some reply, who can doubt but
that his Lordship has a sufficient number of -
good-natured friends" to direct his attention to the
presumptuous and daring layman who ventured to
assail him on his own grounds, to confute his argu-
ments, and to assert, and, what was worse,
to prove, that he was grossly in error
in his interpretation of the Scripture ? It
would be no rash or light presumption, then, to
decide that the Bishop of EXETER had long since
perused the pamphlet of Mr. SLEIGH, were we even
without any direct testimony on the subject. But it
does not even rest there, for we believe that we may
assert, without fear of contradiction, that one of the
earliest copies was forwarded to his Lordship for his
perusal, affording him a literary "bone to pick" of a
very unsavoury and indigestible character.
The almost inexplicable silence must be accounted
for on other grounds. Perhaps, with all his argu-
mentative skill, the Right Reverend Prelate might
find it impossible to reply satisfactorily to the cogent
reasons adduced by his talented opponent. It might
be a dangerous course to adopt to enter upon a con-
test with an adversary who had given such unequi-
vocal proofs of his vigour and efficiency, and that
where every stage of the proceedings would be in

*" A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Exeter." By W.
Campbell Sleigh, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-
at-Law. London: Ward and Co., rawly-Jog-tow,

prix it, standing out in broad typ for public edifica-
tior . The audience on the cession would be the
con =unity in general. It would not be a
self ct assembly of some ter or a dozen spi-
rib nil Peers, aided and assited by an equal
nu: tuber of temporal Peers reply to applaud any so-
??h istry that sustained the pejudiced and bigotted
vit:ws of the majority ; or tha endeavoured to retain
one of the last vestiges of intoerance on the national
statute-book—an enactment tiat restricted the privi-
leges of British subjects, thatforbade them to judge
far themselves on the most inbresting and important
qpestion that could possibly arise, one affecting the
In oat sacred relationship of We, and possibly occa-
sii the future happiness hr misery of the parties
who should refuse to sacifice the dearest affec-
tit has of the heart to the absurd, the unavailing,
at d the unreasonable prohibition, and of their
in nocent offspring. The souse of Lords might,
un questionably, be a fitteratmosphere for the pur-
pcx les of the Bishop, but ;he public generally will
know how to estimate hs refusal to reply to the
challenge on equal terms, where neither of the par-
tiest would hare any 'vantage ground.
We cannot conclude without once more requesting
those of our readers who stll entertain any doubt on
this subject to read calnly and attentively Mr.
SLEIGH'S pamphlet, which we venture to assert must
completely remove every dfficulty. Mr. SLEIGH has
applied himself to the theoogical part of the question,
and his success has beet of the most unequivocal
character. We would gadly explain the nature of
his views, but any attemit to epitomise would be an
act of injustice to the learned author. Every
sentence, every paragraph is important, and
should be read, that the whole might be
duly appreciated. Mr. SLEIGH does not merely
depend on the high authorities which he brings for-
ward in support of his proposition—authorities at
least as imposing as any that could be produced on
the other side; but, conscious of his own strength
and the righteousness of his cause, he stands on
the broad scriptura foundation, which should
be regarded as the orty basis that could justify le-
gislation on religious questions. On these points
his arguments are inteed unanswerable, and must
convince every person who brings an unbiassed mind
to the consideration o' the question.

There is no Protesmt Church that is unanimous
on the point, althoug,b, even if such were the case, we
should deny the right of any sect to impose fetters on
others, who claim the right of judging for
themselves. If the advocates of the restriction
can cite the opinions of the Bishops of LON-
DON and EXETEIt we can point to those
of the Bishops of Sr. DAVID'S and Non-mut, while
we will add the resEected names of CHALMERS and
SOUTHEY, whose views, briefly but clearly expressed,
have been quoted by Mr. SLEIGH in the following

terms :
"In verse 18, of the 18th chapter of Leviticus, the
prohibition is only alainst marrying a wife's sister
during the lifetime of the first wife, WHICH OF ITSELF
IMPLIES A LIBERTY TO MARRY THE SISTER ♦FTER
HER DEATH."—Dr. Chllmers' Daily Scripture Readings,
vol. 1, p. 225.
" But has it never occurred to you, my dear Wynn,
that this law is an abominable relic of ecclesiastical
tyranny ? Of all second marriages, Ibsve no hesitation
in saying that these are the most suitable and likely to
be the most frequent, it the law did not sometimes pro-
vent them. It is quite monstrous, judges and lawyers
(might not the venerable Laureate have added
" bishops?") speaking as they have done of late upon
this Subject."—Robert Southey, ♦ol. iv., p. 114.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The journals of Saturday give the following ac-
count of the conclusion of the proceedings before the
court-martial at Lyons :
The judges retired to deliberate at half-past twelve,
and returned into court between six and seven in the
evening.

The.Preident then, "in the name of the French peo-
ple"(tho guard presenting arms), delivered the judgment.
The accused, as is usual before courts-martial, were nut
present. The reading of the judgment occupied en hour
and a half, the details being repeated for every one of the
accused. After setting fortn the constitution of the Court
and the names of the judges (one of them a sergeant-major),
and the manner in which the trial had been conducted,
this document stated that the questions which the court
had examined were:-1. Was the accused guilty of
having calm] pert in a plot at Lyons for the purpose of
destroying or changing the government of the Repub-
lic? 2 Was that plot followed by an act committed,
or commenced, for preparing the execution of it? 3.
Was the same accused guilty of having taken part in a
plot formed at Lyons, for the purpose of exciting civil
war by arming the citizens against each other? 4.
Was that plot followed by an act committed or com-
menced, for preparing the execution of it? 5. Was
the same accused guilty of having formed part of a
secret society? As to Gent, there was an additional
question—Was the accused guilty of having been the
chief of a secret society? The decision of the Court on
these questions were—Chat twelve of the accused were
not guilty; and that the others, thirty-six in number,
including those in flight, were guilty.
The accused acquitted were—Belliscer, Nonis, Au-
riol, Daillan, Marion, Pinet, Alcibiade Malleval, Va-
cherosse, Pasta, Caussonel, Audi& and Esie ,ule.
The condemnations passed on the accused declared
guilty were in virtue of Articles 87, 89, and 91 of the
Penal Code, 13 of the decree of 28th July, 1848. on
secret societies—the said articles being modified with
respect to some of the accused by Art. 463 of the Penal
Code, 1 and 2of the Law of Germinal, An. 7. These
condemnations were as follow:

Transportation—Alphonse Gent, Albert Ode, Lon-
gomuzioo, De Saint Prix, Antoine Rey, Carriere,
Sailiant. _

Fifteen years' " detention"—Montegut.
Ten years' "detention"—H. Delescieze, Bouvier,
Barbut, Daumas, Mareseot, Salabelle, Lamorthe, and
Mortanier.

Five yeses' " detention"—Borel, Chevassus, Grill,
Isidore Gent, Jean, Froment, Robert, Maistre, Pierre

Five years' imprisonment, five years' deprivation of
civil rights, and 100 f. fine—Merle.
Two years imprisonment, five years' deprivation •of
civil rights, and 100 f. fine—Beridot, Jouvenne,
Petitbon.

A year's imprisonment, 1001. fine and two years' de-
privation of c►vil righta—Sative, Bonstrven, Cnarpen-
tier. _ . .

Six months' imprisonment, and two years' deprivation
of civil rights—Dupont, Carle.
A year's imprisonment and 100'. fine—Thourel (by
the minority of four),
[Detention, is what the French law calls afflictive et
infamante, it is more severe than ordinary imprisonment,
and subjects the offender after his release to surveillance
of the police for life.]
Just as the President had terminated the reading of
the judgment, a loud cry of " Vive la Rtspublique!" was
heard.

The President—Whence comes that cry?
Captain Muntlouis, the officer on duty—From the pri-
son, Colonel.
The President—Send a commissary to cause justice
to be respected. The President then said that the
Court ordered the public prosecutor to read the judg•
ment to the accused, in presence of the guard assem-
bled under arms, and to the acquitted in presence of
the guard assembled without arms; alio to infurm the
condemned that the law granted them twenty-four
hours to appeal to the Court of Revision. He added
that the public prosecutor was to see the judgment ex-
ecuted.

The public prosecutor then went to the prison and
read the judgment.
Ia the vicinity of the court largo crowds were as-
sembled, but the military precautions taken prevented
any demonstrations, and the rain having begun to fall
heavily, caused them after a while to disperse.
The lifessager states that the Mayor of Poitiers
and his two deputies have been dismissed, on the ap-
plication of the Prefect of the Vienne. On this
statement the National remarks as follows :
" This decree of revocation has been issued on the de-
mand of the Prefect of Vienne, and based on the letter
addressed by the mayor to the president of the Cercht
des Ecoles,' to inform him that the Prefect had inter-
dicted that club, under the pretence that its object had
become political. The following is the letter of the
mayor addressed to the president of the Carole. We
thick it right to reproduce it, in order to enable the pub-
lic to judge of the facts:—
" Poitiers, 16th August, 1851.
" Liberte, Egalit6, Fraternil 6.
" Monsieur le President,—l have the honour to send
you a copy of a decree of the Prefect, dated the 2d, in-
terdicting the meeting called the Cerclo des Ecoles. I
take pleasure, on this occasion, in preventing an official
notification from being made to you, because it might be
painful to you, and it is my wish to soften as much as pos-
sible the rigour of the decree which strikes you. I greatly
regret not having been able to prevent it. I think, however,
that the Prefect, enlightened by you and the members
of your bureau, may perhaps retract the measure which
disperses you, but in any case I am persuaded that he
will completely approve my manner of acting towards
you. Be kind enough, Monsieur le President, to ac-
knowledge the receipt el the enclosed document, &c.
ORILLARD, Mayor.'
" M. Bonaparte, the only man in France who has
taken an oath of fidelity to the Republic, must have
found himself in a terrible perplexity before signing
this dismissal. What will ill•disposed people not
say ! Will they not recal to mind that M. Orillard is the
only functionary who during the journey to Poitiers ad-
dressed a republican speech to M. Bonaparte? Will it
not be said that that speech is not yet forgotten at the
Ely!. ee? Will it not be thought that the Republican ac-
clamations of the population of Poitiers were but
little agreeable to official ears ? We can under-
pond the appal:maims Which IL Doropute roust

have on this point, and we must say that
they are too well justified. All the Republicans
of Poitiers, and M. Bonaparte knows from experience
that they are numerous—connect the speech of M.
Orillard with the disgrace which now falls on him.
Discontent is accordingly very great. Already have
eight municipal councillors given in their resignation, viz.,
MM. Barthelemy, Jacquault, Pilotolle, Etienne, Romand,
Degusseau, Martineau, Recordesu, Pouliotte; M. David de
Thins, secretary-general of the Mairie, has also resigned.
The Moniker cannot fail to reply to these complaints, and
to make known the motives which have caused the dis-
missal of these honourable citizens by M. Bonaparte, for
evidently the pretext given for it—the letter of the Mayor
to the Carole des Eccles—is not serious. We will
therefore wait for the Moniker before pronouncing.
But we can say now that the sympathy manifested for
MM. Orillard, Collinet, and Quotard, proves that these
honourable citizens retire with the regrets of the popu-
lation of Poitiers. And the demonstration of the esteem
of their fellow-citizens will amply recompense them for
the disgrace countersigned by M. Li in Faucher."
Letters from Algiers express fears of renewed
disturbances with the Arabs.

The Council General of Corsica has resolved, by
40 to 4, that it is desirable that the 45th Article of
the Constitution, prohibiting the re-election of the
President, should he repealed.
Public Securities c,ntinue to decline in price at the
Bourse. The Five per Cents, opened on Saturday at
94f. 50c., and closed at 941. for the end of the month;
the Three per Cents. closed at 561. 40c.; Orleans Rail-
road Sharer, 8761 25c.; Rouen, 595 f.; Havre, 2241. 25c.;
Great Northern, 460 c.; Avignon, 2051 ; Vierzon, 428 f.
75c.; Basle, 1511. 25c.; Bordeaux, 3901.; Paris and
Strasburg, 358 t. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 266 f. 75c.;
Amiens to Boulogne, 265 f.

BUSINESS otrNi, IN tit/REIGN RAILWAYS AT TM!
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aim. 30

Boulogne and Amiens, 106—Dutch Rhenish, 23%—East
Indian, 21—Luxembourg, DA—Namur and Liege, 53
Rouen and Havre, 9—Tours and Nantes, 6%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived.
NARVAEZ is expected in Andalusia, but he will not
visit Madrid until the meeting of the Cortes.
MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 26 —The Three per Cents.
were done on the 26th at 36i cash; the Five per
Cents., 174 p9per ; Coupons, 8-1- ; and the Debt with-
out Interest, 6 9-16.

PORTUGAL.
Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the
20th. The country was perfectly tranquil.

GERMANY.

M. MAGNE, the French Minister of Public Works,
asrived at Berlin on the 27th. The object of his
journey to Germany is to study the construction and
working of the railways. He proceeds next to Breslau.
The National Gazette of Berlin, of the 23th says :
" The Germanic Diet held a sitting on the 23d, in
which the question of competence was discussed, but
without result. The proposition of the Navy Com-
mission, to obtain by payment from each state a sum
of .532,000 florins for the support of the German t-et
to the end of the year, was adopted by a large majo-
rity, but no definite resolution has yet been come to."