The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-05 00:00:00

SAN DOMINGO.

Parliamentary papers recently published, relat-
ing to the annexation of Eastern San Domingo, to
Spain, include the following expression of opinion
on the part of our Foreign Minister :
" LORD J. RUSSELL TO AIR. EDWARDES.
" Foreign-office, May 14, 1861.

" It is for the Spanish Government to weigh in
the balance of their judgment the advantages and
inconveniences which may arise from the annexa-
tion of the territory of the Dominican State to
the dominions of Spain ; and any opinion which
her Majesty's Government may form on the subject
can be founded on no other consideration than a
regard for what they may look upon as the real
and permanent interests of Spain.
" Her Majesty's Government would, no doubt,
have felt a strong and decided dissatisfaction at the
proposed annexation if it had been likely to lead to
the introduction of slavery into a community which
is free from the taint of that pernicious institution;
but the formal and repeated declarations of Marshal
O'Donnell, that under no circumstances will slavery
be introduced into the Dominican territory, have
removed the main cause which would hive led her
Majesty's Government toviewthe proposed annexa-
tion with dislike and repugnance.

" Her Majesty's Government certainly appre-
hended, when first this projected annexation was
talked of, that it might, if carried into execution,
involve Spain in unfriendly discussions, it not in
conflict, either with France or the United States, or
with both. With regard to France, her Majesty's
Government have not learnt that the French Go-
vernment has expressed any positive objection to
the proposed arrangement, although she may not
think it advantageous to Spain. It appears, also,
from what has been stated to you, that there is no
probability at present of any positive resistance to
the measure, either by the Northern or Southern
Confederation of North America. But the Spanish
Government should not too confidently rely on the
permanent continuance of thisindifference or acqui•
escence on the part of the North Americans; and it
is not impossible that when the civil war which is
now breaking out shall have been brought to an end
—an event which may happen sooner than at pre-
sent appears likely—both the North and the South
might combine to make the occupation of the Domi-
nican territory by Spain the cause of serious diffe-
rence between the North American Governments
and that of Spain.
" Her Majesty's Government do nct deny that
Great Britain, as a power naturally inclined to
peace, and systematically addicted to com-
merce, must always view a war between any two
Powers as an event not only at variance with her
principles, but to a certain extent injurious to her
interests. But, with respect to Spain, le motives
of the British Government spring from far higher
sources. Great Britain and Spain hafe for long
periods of time, and in circumstances o! high mo-
ment to each, been faithful and active a.lies ; their
alliance has been greatly useful and eminently
honourable to both. It is a fundamental maxim of
British policy to wish well to Spain, ant earnestly
to desire her welfare and prosperity, and therefore
any combination of events which might at any
time involve the possibility of Spain being engaged
in a conflict which, from local circumstances and
disadvantages might be in the end seriously injuri-
ous to her rule over her ancient possessbns, would
be viewed by her Majesty's Government with lively
apprehension and sincere regret."

The general rates of discount on the Continent
remain without much alteration, except at Pari3, where the
grain importations have caused money to be in demand at
4i to i per cent. At Hamburg the charge is `.l per cent.,
at Frankfort 2 per cent., at Amsterdam 3 per coat., at Ber-
lin 4 per cent., and at Vienna 5 per sent. At Brussels the
bank rate was 3 per cent., but it was raised to 4 per cent.
the day before yesterday.
The wise policy of working short time as a pre-
caution against the contingencies of the cotton supply, and
of the glutted state of distant markets for manufactured
goods, continues to make progress. According to the Man-
chester Guardian of yesterday, several spinning and weav-
ing establishments at Staleybridge, Oldham, Preston,
Blackburn, Burnley, and Clitheroe have limited their ope-
rations to four days a week.

THE AMAZON.—The attempts made to raise this
yacht from her position off Hyde Pier yesterday, by sling-
ing her to two steamers were without success. The trial
will be resumed to-day with lumps from the dockyard. The
owner has turned her over to the steampacket company
whose boat ran into and sunk her. He claims £2,500 as
LOCRADE.--As an instance of
compensationTnEAmEnfolrchAeNrlßoss.
the laxity of the American blockade it may be mentioned
that a number of American vessels bought at Southern ports
by British subjects and provisionally registered by British
Consuls, and which managed to evade the Federal cruisers,
have reached Liverpool and been regularly registered at
the customhouse. They have brought valuable cargoes of
tobacco, &c.
FRAUDULENT SCORE AT A RIFLE MEETING.—
At the commencement of the recent match at Altcar, the
sergeant in command of one of the squads had occasion to
go up to the' target, and was followed by one of his squad,
a sergeant in a Lancashire corps. The latter had a con-
sultation with the marker, and then returned. This indi-
vidual was the first to commence, and on his shot being
fired the marker scored a bull's eye. It appeared on exa-
mination that this was a mispresentation, and that the ser-
geant had bribed the marker. His officers, who were pre-
sent, deprived him of his stripes, and it is understood that
a court-martial is to be held on him.
THE AerimLSL screw steamer New York, Capt. G.
, Lloyd G
Wenke, sailed hence at 2 p.m. for New York, with the
MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.—The
North
German and English mails, 386 passengers, £1,061 in specie
from England ; 26,844 f. from Havre, 68,465 dollars from
Bremen, and 400 tons of cargo. Among her passengers are
the Revs. E. T. Purcell, E. Lieb, and A. M. Tobbe, and
two sisters of the Good Shepherd ; also Mr. Valentine
Bausenwein, aide-de-camp to Gen. Garibaldi. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Ceylon,
Capt. R. W. Evans, also sailed to-day for Gibraltar, Malta,
and Alexandria, with the heavy East India and China
mails. She has 77 first and 24 second class passengers,
among whom are Ensign Chambers and Dr. T. Stratton,
for Malta ; Col. and Mrs. Hadden, for Ceylon ; Capt. H. D.
and Mrs. Faulkner for Madras ; Captain C. K., Mrs., and
Miss Stewart, Colonel and Mrs. Pratt, Captain L. Clark,
Major J. and Mrs. Jordan, Captain and Mrs. Lamb, for
Calcutta; Baron von de Beele, lady, and family, for
Singapore ; Mr. H. R. Shaw, R.N., for Hong Kong, &c.
Among the passengers who proceed via Marseilles (45 in
number) are Capt. H. Dixon, for Madras ; Capt. A. K.
Lomber, Major and Mrs. Agnew, and Ensign Bury, for
Calcutta. The Ceylon takes on freight 161 boxes of specie,
jewellery, &c., value £57,483 15s.—viz., for Alexandria—
sovereigns, £16,000. For Madras—gold coin, £849; silver
coin, Bs. ; gold thread and jewelry, £905. For Calcutta--
jewelry and watches, £1,504 7s. For Singapore—watches,
.1115. For Hong Kong—dollars and bar silver, £2,900 ;
watches and jewelry, £602. For Foo-chow-foo—dollars'
£2,000. For Shanghai—bar silver, £15,000; dollars,
£17,160; jewelry and watches, £448. The ship Oithona,
Captain Holmes, which left this port on Sunday for Mel-
bourne, with Government emigrants, took out 2741 statute
adults, of whom upwards of 200 were single women; the
emigrants are in charge of Surgeon-Superintendent Sanger,
one of the oldest medical officers in the service of the emi-
gration department.
COUNT CAGLIOSTRO.—During his stay in London,
after his escape from the Bastille, he formed a connexion
with a fanatic of a very different stamp—Lord George Gor-
don, with whom Barnaby .Rudge has made us all so well ac-
quainted. It is a curious fact, when we remember Caglios-
trio's liking' for Judaism, that Lord Gordon became a
ffebrew in his later years. At the same period, Cagliostro
also entered into relations with the Theological Sosiety of
the Swedenborgians. Per contra, he found a rude adver-
sary in Morand, the editor of the Courrier de l'Europe, who
so pursued him with his biting sarcasms, while preying the
truth of his statements, that the great Kofi could not pro-
long his stay in England. In Germany he had lost all credit,
through the frankness with which Eliza von der Recke re-
vealed Cagliostro's nullity and her own weakness, and also,
it must be conceded, through the false charge brought
against him at Berlin of being an agent of the Jesuits. One
illusion is, in truth, more easily destroyed by another illu-
sion than by the simple truth. Still Cagliostro succeeded
in establishing a mother lodge of Freemasons for Switzer-
land at Basle; but at Bieltho local authorities tookunabrage
at his performances, and his wife was obliged to declare on
oath, in the presence of the magistrates, that her husband
had always lived as an honest man and good Catholic ; and
the information collected by the authorities was consequently
false. At Turin the Sardinian Government ordered him to
leave the kingdom immediately ; Joseph 11. had him driven
out of Roveredo, and that Prince also had him expelled from
Trent, where he had contrived to gain the goodwill of the
Archbishop by affecting a deep penitence and going fre-
quently to mass. He proceeded thence to Rome, where h;,,,
adventurous career was destined to end. Betrayed by one
of his adepts, he was arrested and taken to the Castle of St.
Angelo, on Nov. 27, 1789.—Once a Week.