The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-22 00:00:00

LONDON,

6th instant. and arrived off Cowes at 1 r.i'i., to-day,
we are i❑ possession of accounts from Havannah to
the Ist inst. inclusive.

They announce the complete defeat of the expedi-
tion under General Lopez, who had been captured,
brought to Ilavannah, and garroted, while a number
of his followers had perished, end the remainder
were in the hands of the Spanish authorities awaiting
sentence of death.

The following is a detail of the news telegraphed to
New York from New Orleans :

` New Orleans, Sept. 4.

" The steam-ship Cherokee, direct from Havannah,
has arrived at her wharf. From passengers we learn
of the complete failure and annihilation of the Lopez
expedition in Cuba.
General Lopez was garroted in Havannah. Pas-
sengers who witnessed the execution state that he
ended his life manfully. This mode of punishment is
horrible. The victim is bound and an iron collar
placed round his neck, which is gradually tightened
by means of a screw till the sufferer ceases to exist.
Prevfous to the death of General Lopez he declared
that he had been greatly deceived in regard to pro-
mised aid in Cuba.

" The failure of the expedition is attributed to the
separation of Colonel Crittenden's command from the
main body under General Lopez.
" The patriots are stated to have deserted Lopez
and fled to the mountains.

" On the eve of the capture of Lopez he had but 30
remaining followers, and they finally deserted him in
a wounded condition, so that he had not one remain-
ing friend. He wandered alone for some time, and
was finally run down by bloodhounds. His last words
were, Adieu, dear Cuba!'
" The Spanish accounts state that, of the whole
number of patriots landed by the Pampero, and from
other quarters, 556 have already been killed, and 436
are now in prison.
" We learn that Colonel Pragay, the gallant Hun-
garian and the friend of Kossuth, had been shot at
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"A meeting of passengers was held on board the
steamer Cherokee, at which General Lane, of Oregon,
presided, and the following resolution was unani-
mously passed :
" "nut Mr. Owen, the American consul at Havannah,
has forfeited every right and title to be regarded as an
American citizen; that he has outraged every sentiment
of humanity, and deserves the execration of every friend
of liberty.'"
" Another resolution requests his recal by the Ame-
rican Government."

"New Orleans, Sept. 4.

" A dispatch, dated Havannah, Ist inst., says that
all who left in the Pampero have been either killed or
made prisoners..
" Lopez was arrested on the 29th ult., and taken to
San Christoval. He arrived in Havannah on the 31st,
and was garroted on the following morning (the Ist
inst.) at seven o'clock.
" 155 prisoners, mostly Americans, are in the pos-
session of Government, and it is said they have been
sentenced to the chain gang for ten years.
" The insurgents still hold the mountains near
Principe.
" Mr. Laborde, the Spanish Consul at New Or-
leans, arrived out at Havannah in the Empire City,
and said that he should have been Lynched httel he re-
mained at New Orleans."
The comments of the leading organs of the New
York press upon the discomfiture of the Lopez ex-
pedition, as given in the above intelligence, are very
satisfactory, and tend in every way to discounte-
nance similar piratical attempts for the conquest of
Cuba. The Courier and Enquirer on this subject
says—
" The tragedy is ended. The complication of
faithlessness, lawlessness, and recklessness has reached
its denoiiement. The hero has been bayed by blood-
hounds and strangled like a dog. Of the other actors,
the nobler are sleeping abroad in bloody graves,
the objects of melancholy pity ; the baser are
cowering at home—living, indeed, but lost, beneath
the overwhelming indignation of an undeceived people.
The drama no longer exists but as a lesson and
a memorial. The most intense excitement prevailed
in our city yesterday upon the confirmation' of the
news of the complete failure and utter annihilation of
the Lopez expedition. The conflicting accounts
which each successive day brought from the theatre
of operations bad wrought the public interest to a high
pitch, and the sudden revelation of the terrible truth
could not but stir the deepest feeling. The disastrous
result occasions no general regret. From the very
outset sympathy with the object of the Cuban invaders
has been confined to the least intelligent and substan-
tial portion of our population, and the final exposure
of the falsehood and fraud of the whole plot has pretty
effectually disposed of the little sympathy that actu-
ally did exist. A scheme of iniquity like this is not
often attempted. Its projectors were generally men
who were swayed by political or military ambition, or
were pecuniarily interested in disturbing the peaceful
relations of Cuba to its mother country. For more
than two years they have made every effort to spread
the belief that the people of Cuba were on the eve of
revolt against their oppressors, and only desired a
foreign nucleus around which to gather to rally at once
in vindication of their rights. The lie was so far euc•
ceesful that an expedition of several hundred men, 16
months ago, sailed from New Orleans and landed at
Cardenas ; they were met with the universal hostility
of the people and were obliged to flee in disgrace. The
plotters, most of whom had taken good care to keep
themselves out of harm's way, nothing abashed, con-
tinued their system of misrepresentation. Again and
yet again they enlisted men and collected ammunition
for another attempt, but were foiled by the interfer-
ence of our Government. A few weeks ago a petty
movement was made by a few malcontents against the
Cuban authorities. This was straightway seized upon
and magnified a hundredfold, and with an adroitness
that was only equalled by the unscrupulousness, was
turned to such advantage that another expedition,
made up of a heterogeneous medley of abandoned
characters and ceallant spirits, was quickly raised and
openly dispatched. The invaders land, but discover
when too late the foul deception practised upon them.
Writes one, the hour before he was shot at Ha-
vannah, Deceived by false visions, I embarked in
this expedition for Cuba.' Writes another, on
the same trying occasion, Lopez, he scoundrel,
has deceived us; there is no doubt ;hat all these re-
ports about the Cubans rising were trumped up in New
Orleans.' Lopez himself, at the point of death, de-
clared that he too had been deceived. In fact, it was
all one mighty piece of deception. We have said this
from the beginning ; many of our most respected
cotemporaries have so said ; and we and they have
thereby incurred the'.unmeasured denunciation and
abuse of presses and assemblages that were weak
enough or base enough to lend themselves to the fur-
therance of the fraud. Let our adversaries look to it
well. The lifeblood of hundreds of deceived men
has been shed. The souls of hundreds of mothers,
widows, and orphans have been harrowed with
anguish. Who is responsible for this ? Again we
ask, who is responsible ? This delusion has now, we
trust, lost all power of further mischief. The occu-
pation of these Cuban agitators, we believe, has gone
for ever. Cuba has unmistakeably shown that, de-
graded as Spanish oppression has made her, she has
still the spirit to spurn foreign invasion, though not
the spirit to strike for her freedom. Americans of
every party and class, we doubt not, will now be satis-
fied to leave her as she is."
The New York Herald writes as follows :
" We received by telegraph, yesterday, from New
Orleans a dispatch concerning Cuban affairs, which is
of the same bloody character as that which we pub-
lished a short time since concerning the fate of Colonel
Crittenden and his companions in arms. We gave it
to the public yesterday, and, as might have been ex-
pected, it created a tremendous excitement through-
out the city. We learn by this news that the ill-
starred and unfortunate expedition that embarked in
the Pampero, under the command of General Lopez,
has been a failure—that it has been annihilated by
the Spanish forces—and that General Lopez, its
leader, has been garroted in Havannah. Various rea-
sons are given for the failure of this attempt to revolu-
tionise the island of Cuba, but none of them, in our
opinion, approach the truth. It is said, on the one
hand, that it was caused by the separation of Colonel
Crittenden's command from the main body of the in-
vaders ; and on the other, that he was deserted by the
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patriots. From all that we can learn we are inclined
believe that the failure occurred from a mistaken
dependence upon the Creoles. Notwithstanding all
the reports that have come to hand concerning the
disaffection of that class of people of Cuba towards
the Government, and of their readiness to join an
invading party from the United States, all the cir-
cumstances connected with this unfortunate expedi-
tion, show that the Creoles are either loyal and do
not wish to be independent of Spain, or that they are
so cowardly that when the time arrived for striking a
blow for independence, they could not summon courage
enough to take part in it. According to the accounts
which have come to hand, even Lopez himself, who
was the bead and front of the invasion, was deceived
in regard to the temper of the Creoles. It is not to
be supposed that he would incur such a risk as he did
if he did not think he would be joined on his arrival
by a large portion of the people. The result shows,
however, that if he made any such calculations—as,
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which were published from day to day in the Filti-
bustero organs for a year past, concerning the readi-
gthioault—s
ness and willingness and anxiety of the people :of
Cuba to engage in an effort to make their island
independent of Spain, as soon as aid was received
from the United States—few or none of them joined
the revolutionary flag when it was raised in their
midst, and that these who went thither from this
country had to depend entirely upon their own
rezources. Such a reception to a liberating armz, as
the expedition tinder Lopez was termed, will, it is