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

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. Bat 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 ofi
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 August, from New Orleans, the New York Herald's
correspondent says
There are 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 men 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 at. the Pampero, which was built by Cap-
tain Hunter for the Chagres trade, and which has been
plying f'or some time between this city and Galveston,
left the wharf 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 moat skilful and
gallant officer, goes with Lopez as second in command.
There are 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 Pampero 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, bat 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 Havannah 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 LorEzand his compa-
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 Cuba 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 PnineroTTs 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
holding 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. Perhap.g, 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 bad given such uneitii-
vocal proofs of his vigour and efficiency, and that
where every stage of the preceediogs would be in

•'• .er to the Lord titNtrop ut Exeter." By W.
Campbell Sleigh, Esq., of the Alidcile Temple, Barrister-
at-Law. London; NO gad C 9,) raieraotti-row.