The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-28 00:00:00

CUBA.

According to a Cuban journal which professes " inde.
pendence," the insurrection in the great West Naito
island is progressing altogether in favour of the insurgents.
A Provisional Government has been established, and hal
gained some authority in the district overrun by the
Creoles. All the railways leading to Port-au-Prince are
in the hands of the insurgents, whose army musters 9,7°°
men. Fever has made its appearance in the Spanish
army.

THE MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.
In a lengthy letter to the Times, Mr. Wentworth Dilke
deplores the circumstances which have given rise to the
recent missionary difficulty in China. He urges that the
missionaries, by their residence at Yangchow, were
breaking our treaties with the Government of the
Celestial Empire. British subjects have no right
of inland residence ; they can legally dwell 011
at the ports named in the treaty of 1842. Nothiq
in subsequent treaties has invalidated this condition;
missionaries have ever resided in the interi,,r it has l'e,e°
by a tacit understanding with the local government. 1' e
cannot be called upon to back them up by force of all°
Further, recent agreements, and the residence Of
Minister at Pekin, bind us to refrain from the, practice ela
sending war-ships to discuss treaties; our squadron shoo'
prevent and protect, not punish. The Times supP°l44
Mr. Dilke.

The California Commissioner of Emigration II"
ued the Pacific Mail Company for a violation of 010 rao-
senger Act, placing the penalties at $5,000,000.
The town of Northampton, Mass., refused Dee'
9, by a vote of 421 to 532, to lend its credit for $300,000 io
aid of the proposed railroad to North Adams.
The contract between the North German Lloyd'o
and the British Post-office for the conveyance of mails to
New York was executed at Bremen, Dec. 17, which
come into force on the Ist of January, 1869. _ _

VV
On ThAnksgiving Day the prisoners at the Mary-
land Stata Penitentiary, about six hundred in number'
were treated to an exhibition of the English Punch and
Judy—their first audience in America.
The, clock on the Sileffield School of Science i 3
New "raven communicates with a clock in a jewellery shop
nearly half a mile distant, by means of an electric apP"
ratus, and they strike the hours of the day in unison.
A little girl was recently seized by an alligato;
near Bayou Sara, Louisiana, and a black boy who attemonPier
to rescue her, and for that purpose pursued them s
into the water, was himself seized by another alligat°
and devoured.
As a sign of peace we may mention that at the
Danforth Locomotive Works, Paterson, there was receatlf
delivered a large quantity of 24 and 42-lb. cannon ball°,
sold by the Government and now to be put into the fur:
nacos and made ovdr into locomotives, cotton Inacilv

nery, &c.
Arrangements have been completed by the Bang
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Association of the Eastern District, Now York, to cel
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brate the birth-day of the poet of Scotland with a splena t
banquet on the evening of the 25th of January a
Raynoi's Hall. tsta
VIRGINIA FINANCES.—The report of the Pa—
Treasurer of Virginia for the year ending first of Oet4be`
shows that he has a balance on hand of 175,600 dollars'
that the State expenditures for the year were 2,600,00?
dollars ; that the registered debt of the State is aboo
20,800,000 dollars ; and that the State has guaranteed °vet
1,700,000 internal improvement bonds. •
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Fifteen thousand tourists and invalids Yl5l
Florida last season.
First-class New York residences now contain
billiard-room, a chapel, and a theatre or concert sal000•
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Births.
+l,B Wife
BAKER—On Christmas-day, at 13, nessell-squaret --
of John Baker, Esq., of a son. iltrE"
HOARE—On the 18th inst., at 75, Harley-street,
Hoare, of a son.
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ROGERS—On the 26th inst., at 30, Onslow-gardens,
the wife of Walter Lacy Rogers, Esq., of a son.

Marriages.
NEALE —Pntuars—On tho 26th inst.. at St. ue°''',4l-
Hanover-square, Frederick Neale to Jane, eldest dOr'
ter of Wm. A. Phillips, 73, New Bond-street.
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THOMAS—WALLACE—On the 17th inst., at BOUtOg.--,; to
Mer, Edgar Hastings Thomas, Captain Madras S•vt76(l.,
Christian Jean, eldest daughter of Alex. Wallace,
late of Calcutta.

Deaths. 11
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HURST —On the 24th inst., at 38, flighbury_piou...,
Hurst, Esq., of 6, Leadenhall-street, city, aged 69' fai,
LOWE -On the 25th inst., at 9. St. John's-w"
George Lowe, H.q., C.E., F.H.8., aged 80. bt
MURRAY—On Christmas-day, at Reading, Mary An13,,.'
daughter of the !ate Lord and Lady William 3durro4:l' /
WRIGHT—On the 25th inst., George Wright, of W
lane, Highgate, aged 74.

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Aliddlemext—Monday, Decomber 28, 1868.