The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-28 00:00:00

OUR HIRSUTE TARS.

Joy for the navy. Razors are abolished, at least
their compulsory use is. Midsummer Day 1809
will be a memorable one for our gallant tars ; on
that day they were set free from the tyranny of
lather and cold steel. But to their liberation certain
conditions are attached. The beard must not be
worn without the moustaches, nor the moustaches
without the beard. Moreover, if they be not kept
clean and of decent length, they will be once more
subjected to the old cruel bondage.

FOREIGN NOTES.
THE REVOLT OF THE VOLUNTEERS IN CUBA.

NOVA SCOTIA AND THE CANADIAN DOMINION.

The vigorous campaign inNova Scotia'against the union
with Canada was brought to an untimely end by the pro-
rogation of the Halifax Assembly by Governor Doyle.
The motion of Attorney-General Watkins to appeal to the
superior courts in England, with the view of
testing the legality of the forced union with
Canada, was the subject of a very close debate.
The resolutions were opposed on the ground that already
eminent counsel, Sir Roundell Palmer and Mr. Vernon
Harcourt, had said the act was legal. The Attorney-
General replied that the case was not placed before the
counsel fairly, and that Sir Roundell Palmer was pre-
judiced against Nova Scotia. At first the Attorney-
General was successful by 16 to 14; but on the next day
the House rescinded its first vote, and thus the campaign
has ended in favour of annexation.

The telegrams we publish from Havanna 'chew that the
position of affairs in Cuba is becoming very serious for
Spain. The disaffection of the volunteers has, it appears,
subsided for the time ; they have not finally abjured their
duty; but how greatly such divisions between the Spaniards
themselves must favour the cause of the insurgents it is
needless to point out. What with the assistance given
to the rebels by the Americans, and the mutiny of the
volunteers, the chance of Spain retaining Cuba appears
at present smaller than ever.

The tumults which led to the resignation of General
Duke, of which notification by cable reached us some
days ago, were chiefly owing to the belief that he was
incapable of suppressing the rebellion. This impression
had been gaining ground for some time, and finally a dis-
pute about the removal of General Pelaez gave rise to the
explosion. This Pelaezhad been in command in the interior,
and, according to popularbelief,-had turned the advantages
of his position to the realisation of large sums of money,
which he sent off to Spain. Ile was looked upon as a
traitor, and was finally driven to take refuge on board a
Spanish ship. The volunteers waited upon General
Dulce and requested him to deliver up Pelacz. Ile
refused. He was asked to resign, which he likewise
refused.

A tremendous tumult then arose, and a battle between
the regular troops and the volunteers seemed inevitable.
But the former were by no means to be relied on ; the
latter were unanimous. The night of June 1 was spent
in terror by General Dulce's family, the mob surrounding
the viceregal palace, and howling all night for his abdica-
tion and his blood. The next morning the Captain-
General, finding his troops not to be depended on, resigned.
He signed his abdication, but protested that he did so
by force, andwith that act, he said, ended Spanish domina-
tion in Cuba.

This revolution, be it understood, was entirely brought

t 'bout by Spaniards representing tne great commercial {All $360,000,000; theexpenditure,to $325,000,000; sur-
-1 property interest, and rendered effective for aggressive move- plus, $35,000,000. Of the receipts the Inland Re-
meat from being embodied in armed organisations called venue yielded $166,195,655 in crup reenbacks, to
I " The Volunteers.' The act, saysthe Wcw York Herald, b
the Ist inst.; and the Customs $136,000,000 in
resulted from entire unanimity among all of that class, the
gold. The late Secretary estimated the receipts of
good and the bad, including those who, from interest
and principle, are lovers of order, and it was passively this fiscal year at $341,392,865, and the expendi-
I acquiesced in, if not supported by, the few regular troops tare at $336,152,470, leaving a surplus of but five
in the city. It was owing to the dissatisfaction felt at the millions. The Hon. David A. Wells, the Revenue
comparative failure of military operations against the Commissioner, in his Revenue Report to Congress
insurgents, it had long been deliberated, and the Pelaez a few days afterwards, more correctly estimated
affair furnished a pretext for immediate action. But the receipts at $356,700,000, and the expenditure
though General Duke undoubtedly did fail to restore the
at $326,300,000, showing a surplus of 30 millions.
' authority of Spain, he failed through the want of men
The receipts from Customs from Juno 1 to 5, 1869, were
and money, and the Herald has no hope that his suc-
as follow :
cessor will accomplish more. The only hope left to Boston
the Spaniards seems to be to divide the island, as in the New York 1,660,757 03
case of Ilayti, leaving the eastern end to the Cubans. Philadelphia 149,030 71.
Baltimore 97,334 74
THE ENGAGEMENT AT PTJERTO PADRE. San Francisco, May 17 to 29 246,205 46
There seems to be little doubt that the insurgents won
the battle at Puerto Padre, which we announced the other
day, but the issue of which was disputed. The Cuban
accounts say that their troops, numbering 2,000, were
attacked in their intrenchments by the Spaniards with a
force of nearly double that number, who were twice
repulsed. The loss of the Cubans was less than a hundred
in killed and wounded, while that of the attacking party
I was three times as great. intelligence in the New York
I Herald represents the engagement as of less importance,
but the victory is allowed to the Cubans.

$2,474,130 62
Another great trial of speed between ocean
steamers has just taken place. The companies do
not permit such contests, but it is impossible to pre-
vent celebrated vessels testing their speed when
together on the broad Atlantic, as occasionally

happens, for such boats sometimes leave New York

almost simultaneously. The City of Paris started
from New York on the sth inst., w hile the North Ger-

man Lloyd's screw steamer Main, Captain K. von
Oterendorp, left within a hour and an half after, and
the next morning they were abreast, but before

night the Main was ahead. By daylight next morn-
ing she had increased the distance, and before night
the Inman steamer had been dropped out of sight

astern. While the vessels were abreast we presume
each did her best, and that the contest wag close
may be seen from the fact that it took nearly two
days for the one to get out of sight of the other.
The case was much the same in the celebrated
race between the Russia and the City of Paris ;

the Cunarder, while the weather was fine, beating
the Inman vessel, but the tables were turned after
it began to blow a gale, when we doubt whether
any vessel ever equalled the running of the City of
Paris, which, by the way, has been taken into
dock to get her bottom cleaned. The Main

must be a magnificent ship, as she reached the
Needles in nine days and a half. A strange
report during the time these vessels were
running together was spread in New York about
the City of Paris that she had gone down with all

hands. - For some time the greatest consternation
prevailed, which was not wholly dispelled till the
Germania arrived, which having spoken her, was
able to state that she was making a rapid passage
across the Atlantic with all well on board.
Some curious cases have arisen, among them one
which may settle the liability of the Government to
make good losses incurred by soldiers through the
officers of the Treasury improperly cashing cheques
to claim agents in payment of bounties and arrears
due to the soldiers. Numbers were thus defrauded,
and their cases have been brought up at Washing-
ton, for sums amounting to $40,000. It appears to
be the general opinion that the Treasury officers are
_responsible to make good such losses, and in default
of them the Government. Another decision favours
the claims of the obstreperous settlers on the Osage
lands in Kansas. Secretary Browning withdrew
from settlement the odd sections along the Leaven-
worth, L'twrence, and Galveston Roads, and Union
Pacific Southern branch. ComtnissionerWilson now
decides that those settled on the lands prior to with-
drawal, acquired rights of possession under the treaty,
and this is supposed practically to revoke the order
of the late Secretary Browning. About 15,000
persons are interested, as their right to purchase
the rich, valuable, well-timbered lands on which
they have been located, at one dollar and a quarter
per acre is reserved up to A pril 10,1871. The Osage

trust lands extend 250 miles in length by 20 broad,
consisting of 3,200,000 acres. The whole district
is one of great fertility, and rapidly becoming a fa-
vourite for settlement; all along the streams of the val-
leys flowing into the Arkansas and well through the
Indian territory, being a choice district, is one over
which there have been many disputes in Congress,
owing to the " lobby " influence of those who de-
sire to anticipate its settlement.
James L. Graham, jam, has been appointed
United States Consul at Florence. The llon. J.

Russell Jones, who is to succeed General Sanford,
sails to-day from New York. The leave of absence
for a year granted to General Sickles is to enable
him to take up the appointment of Minister to Ma-
drid without resigning his commission in the army.
John M. Langton having declined the mission to
Liberia, his brother Charles has been appointed iu
his place. It is reported that General Nelson has
not been favourably received in Mexico. Some
angry feeling has been excited by the appointment
of a Fenian, Major James Haggerty, as Consul to
Glasgow, which the Scotch journals appar to have
taken as an intentional insult to Britain. The New
Fork Times very justly says that the Administra-
tion probably neverheard even the gentleman's name,
which came as did thousands of others attached to
good certificates, I\ o Fenian could be in a better
place as regards peace towards the British Govern-
ment, for while at Glasgow he gives personal bonds
of a nature he would scarcely like to forfeit. We
dare say Mr. Haggerty will be found a very agree-
able, gentlemanly, pleasant fellow, and the appoint-
ment is certainly not worth making a fuss about.
Since writing the above we have received intelli-
gence from Glasgow, which proves that Major Hag-
gerty is not a Fenian, and never wag one, and could
not therefore be a member of any Fenian circle or
organization. He was supposed to be the Major
James Haggerty of Col. Corcoran's 69th New York
Regiment, who was a strong Fenian, but he was
killed in action ; and the new Consul is by birth a
Glasgow man, all his relations on his mother's side
being
Scotch.
Time only can bring the disturbed relations be-

tween whites and blacks again into harmony.
Thousands ready to vote with their party, and sound
on the main question, shy from the legitimate re-
sult of their own policy. The Cable informs us that
46 numerous trade unions throughout the United
States have recently expelled white members for
working with negroes." At the Navy-yard coloured
bricklayers and joiners are working in the gangs,
and a negro from Baltimore, the first of his race,
has been engaged as a machinist. It was reported
at Washington that the excitement consequent on

the employment of coloured bricklayers had sub-
sided; but in Washington the negro is strong, and
under the immediate protection of the Federal Go-
vernment, and it does not follow that what can be
accomplished there can with impunity be done in
other parts of the. Union. For instance, we learn
that negroes have been empannelled as grand and
petty jurors at the Criminal Court of Washington.
At the same time the Supreme Court of Georgia
decides that the intermarriage of whites and negroes
is illegal, null, and void, and that the Legislature
cannot rightly define the social status of citizens.
In the Republican Convention of lowa, which re-
nominated Governor Merrill, two of the vice-pre-
sidents were coloured men, while negroes are an-
nouncing themselves for office in Tennessee, and
Nashville is likely to be represented in the next
Legislature by an intelligent African ; perhaps the
" Moses" of the race may turn out to be black after
all, in contradistinction to the original Moses, who
was "exceeding fair ;" but whether the pseudo
Moses of Tennessee who formerly undertook the
task, and failed, was fair or not we cannot tell.
The Printers' National Union, in session at
Albany, laid a resolution on the table, by 5G
to 28, which asserted the injustice in any sub-
ordinate union to deny admission on the ground of
race or colour, while they consented to recognize
women compositors and admit them to member-

stir.
BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEA.—Albert Massey,
son of Dr. Massey of Louisville, Kentucky, was drowned,
on June 3d, while bathing.—Joseph illurtagh has been
awarded $l,OOO damages by a jury, for cruel treatment and
unnecessary amputation of his toes, While a patient in the
St.LouisCityliospital.—HarryClifford,a desperate burglar,
after receiving a sentence of four years in the Penitentiary,
St.Louis,Tuesday, June 1, sprang out of an open window i❑
theCriminalCourt room,leaped o. high iron fence and escaped.
professor Risley's Japanese troupe, with little " All Right,"
who performed in this country with such success last
summer, will shortly. commence a season at the Crystal
Palace.—Thomas C. Durant, after finishing the Pacific
hours,heu
coon
hehiws
Railway, has gone to Ogdensburg to look after the
Saratoga and Ogdensburg Road. —Vice-President Colfax
stopped in New YorkinN owforacarsfee;
a family gatheringwould c got