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so she left to have an interview with the General

and to purchase a Spanish grammar.

We may

here observe that Mr. Hale has wriAen a long letter

in reply to his Secretary of Legation, Mr. Perry,

whose letter be calls "an atrocious libel." lle asks

if it can be seriously believed that he, a stranger in
Spain, ignorant of the Spanish language and customs,

would commence relations with a commercial

establishment for the importation of merchan-
dise under l.is diplomatic. franchise. Like Mary
the idea of a knowledge of Spanish being required
from a Minister to Spain, does not suggest itself to
Mr. Hale, though in hig case the ignorance re-

suited in disagreeable consequences to himself. His
account is that it being necessary to furnish a
house, he learned from Mr. Perry that by the
law of Spain he was entitled to import furni-
tun?. free of duty up to $7,000, awl Perry un iertook
to cirry this out for Mr. Hale. Mr. Perry made

every application in Spanish, all which, without
knowing tht-ir purport, were signed by Mr. Hale.

That petition dated Oct. 1, 1866, to which Mr.
Perry particularly alluded, was written by him,
and signed, as were the others ; and on reading his
statement Mr. Hale went to the State Department
with two witnesses, to whom all the petitions were

submitted, and found it to be in Mr. Perry's hand-
writing. He then charges Mr. Perry with import-
ing, withinlsix years, goods to the amount of $6,750,
in which list there are nine carriage=, eight being
ordered within three years, while denying that
his own importations were even up to what
was allowed by law. Mr. Hale answers the
smuggling charge of La Politica by a letter from
Marshal Serrano, where we fail to catch the point
of exoneration. In the same paper is a letter in

reply to another from Mr. Smalley, in defence and

confirmation of his first comtnunicaton about the

Spanish Minister. He alludes to a curious printer's

error which crept into the letter, and gave point to
some abuse from Mr. Hale and Democratic jour-

,nals which bad undertaken his defence; " than" was
printed " that," and came out, "I was indebted to

him for a cordial reception, and for many more
offers of hospitality that I was able to accept."
President Grant left Washington June 9 ou'a
visit to New York and Riston. Ou the 10th the

train in which the PreAdent was with his party

came into collision with a cattle train near B.►lti-

more and ran off the rails, when one passenger was
killed and twenty others more or less injured, Secre-
tary Boutwell having a narrow escape.
From Philadelphia last Monday came the news :
—" Constant Indian massacres arc reported from

the Kansas frontier. Fifty settlers have been killed
in the past two weeks. A panic exists, and the set-
tlers are coming east." The valleys of the Solomon
and Republican Rivers have l.een devastated, and
the settlers are fleeing from Western Kansas to the
more settled East. The Santee Sioux attacked the
settlement of Muscle Shell, Montana, May 8, when
a desperate fight ensued, ending in the death of 30
Indians. A strong reinforcement of Sioux was re-
ported to, he coming up, but the whites were pre-
pared. It is evident therefore that the Indian war
is general, the outrages ranging from Montana to
Arizlna, in which territory a fight is now reported
between the troops and an Indian band at Iveson,*
wherein 30 Indians were killed and eight captured.
News from Shirley, Cloud County, Kansas, says four
men out of a party of six buffalo hunters were killed
by the Indians on Monday, May 24, near White
Rock, 24 miles west of Shirley, and it is evilent
that nothing but the most vigorous pacific efforts of
the new Indian Commission and the persuasions of
the civilized tribes in the conference proposed to
lecture on the advantages of civilization will save
the savages from extermination. An extraordinary
crime has been perpetrated at Santa Fe, New
Mexico. The national depository has been robbed
of a quarter of a million of dollars, and the person
in charge of the building murdered. A telegram
from Washington on Tuesday said President Grant
has appointed a commission of seven members to
investigate Indian affairs, with instructions to ic-
. spect the records of all Indian agencies, to superin-
tend the disbursement of annuities, and to report
on the best means of civilizing the savage tribes.
'The Indians cause great difficulty to the officers
sent to protect the settlements and to carry out ope

rations against them. The soldiers cannot attack an ,
encampment upon which they come without evi-
dence that its inhabitants are hostile, altiv;u:;11 per-
suaded that the pipe of peace is ready for them if
the stronger party, and the knife and bullet if the
weaker. General Sheridan asks how he is to treat
such Indians as the Cheyennes, who refuse to go to
their. reservations, and have left Arkansas to join
their forces with those defeated by Captain Carr.
It is more than probable that it was these
Cheyennes who have again spread such desolation
in the valleys of the Solomon and Republican
Rivers; yet, although the General had the oppor-
tunity of destroying them, he could not avail himself
of it. General Sherman recommends that 'a procla-
mation be issued that all Indians will be treated as
hostile when absent from and not going to their re-
servations ; but that in their .reservations officers
should be ordered to treat them liberally and kindly.
To this, he adds, it must come at last, and now is
the appropriate time.
'The Volunteers forced Captain-General Dulce
to resign the Government of Cuba to Espinar, pend-
ing the arrival of General de Rodas, whose depar-
ture from Spain was hurried by the news. Dulce
left on Saturday, June 5. The reason the Volun-
teers give for this deposition is that his wife, being
a Creole, influenced him to be too lenient to the in-
surgents. From Washington, however, the Spanish
Minister; telegraphed to the Volunteers, warning
them to desist from further revolts. The 500 Ame-
rican filibusters were reported to have landed under
General Jordan, and, after defeating some Spanish
troops, they had joined the insurgents. From Spanish
accounts the filibusters who landed in the Bay of
Nipe were routed the next day, losing their vessel,
artillery, and provisions. Large bodies of Cuban
insurgents, they also state, have surrendered to the
Spanish authorities, and as large numbers have
been continually surrendering there must have been
a considerable number to begin with. Chili has re-
cognized the insurgents as belligerents, and Peru is
said to have given bonds not to use the American
monitors purchased in the United States against
Cnba.

No. I. of Political Economy, by Horase Greeley, 1
appeared in the Tribune, on May 29. It begins by an
essay on labour and production, which is continued
through more than three colanns of leading article
type. We do not intend to sip these sweets, but to
make a great feast of the 25 papers when com-
pleted, and then tell their celebrated author how we
feel. By the way, the Tribune published the list of
contributors to the Free Trade League, and has been
busily engaged since in analysing it, and its Secretary
must be amazed at the results. A correspondent
asserts that Gen. Grant had an interview with a strong
Protectionist, wherein he showed a marked leaning
towards Free Trade--" He was decidedly opposed
to any legislation which had for its object an in-
crease in the taxation of articles or merchandise
imported into the United States, as-he did- not be-
lieve that the revenues of the country required it.
He would not conceal the fact that a small tariff was
necessary, but be would like to see the revenues of
the country raised as far as possible from internal
taxes, and not from heavy duties upon imported
goods."
We learn by cable that the Nova Scotian House
of Assembly, by 27 against 7 votes, has rejected
the resolution in reference to the annexation of their
province to the dominion of Canada, but the ques-
tion will probably be reconsidered. On May 26,
Mr. Murray, of Pictou, moved the following r‘i-

solution :
"That an humble adiress bo pr,-s)nted to bel• Majesty
asking once more that our beloved institution be restored
to us, or that her Majesty will bo graciously pleased to
absolve us from our allegiance to the Nitisli throne, and
enable us, as a free and independent people, to adopt Ito
political institutions which we, in our judgmepk, may deem
most conducive to our happine.ss and prosperity."
Ile approached this, with seven " hereas," show-
ing what a down-trodden people were the colonists,
and with what contempt they were treated by the
Imperial Government and Legislature. Mr. Murray
denied Mr. Vail's suggestion that it was an annexa-
tion resolution. Mr. Kidston having seconded it,
thd resolution was to be considered on the Ist inst.

Tveson Is probably a telegraphic misprint * This for
Tucson.

The report comes from New York that « the Attor-
ney-General of Nova Scotia has deliverel a speech
in the Legislature declaring that confederation was
forced upon Nova Scotia, and favouring an ahr•eal
to England, or, if necessary, a more extreme mea-
sure." The Canadian Legislature at Ottawa, how-
ever, has passed resolutions admitting Newfound-
land into the Confederation. A telegram states that
Mr. John Tobin, ex-member of the Nova Scotia
Legislature, has committed suicide.

IMPERIAL PARLIA 'if ENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING.
The LORD On'MELLOR. took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE HUSH cnrrßorr.

Lord BATEMAN asked what course the Government
intended to adopt with respect to the Irish Church 13i11'
He was deeply sensible of the difficulty in which the house
was placed with respect to this bill, but ho folt the ques-
tion he wished answered would relieve many of theta
from the anxiety which they felt. On the one hand,
there was the bill introduced by a powerful
party, and supported by a largo majority of the
House of Commons: It was also well known that a large
majority of their lordships were opposed to the bill, but
they were threatened on every side that they must accept
and not modify the measure. Now he wished to knot
whether tha Government endorsed these threats.
The Earl of CARNAR VON protested against any inci-
dental discussion.
Lord CAIRNS agreed with the observations of the noble
earl.

Lord BATEMAN said in deference to the observations
of his noble friends ho would not put his question, but he
still felt that it would greatly have facilitated the course
of their lordships' business.
Earl GRANVILLE thought the remarks of the noble
lord as most inopportune, as he thought a premature dts-
cession was, above all things, to be avoided. Re would
state the course that would be pursued by the Govern-
meet on Monday on moving the second reading of the
bill, but in the meantime he could only remark that there
was not the slightest intention on the part of her
Majesty's Government to depart from the respectful
position which they owed to the House of Commons,
he would at the same time add, to their lordships' house
also.

The Duke of ABERtiORN presented a petition fc°l33
Belfast against the Irish Church Bill. The noble duke, is
presenting the petition, stated that a great change had
taken place, not only amongst Protestants and PresbY:
terians, but throughout the north of Ireland, with respea'
to the bill, but he might say that at the meeting o°l
which the petition emanated there were not less
80,000 persons present.
Several bills were forwarded a stage, and their lordAV
adjourned.