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3D4Y MORNING, SEPT. 9, 1851

444' THE EXPEDITION TO CUBA.
litt:LLA 11. seems in some danger of losing the
I'eu'se" for half her title—" Queen of Spain and
litor,ie• The news from America brings us
it e„:4"°O8 rather of the sixteenth century than of
Vesent time. Instead of living
keias we do in
rPeace congresses and international "reci-
V 4/' 'one would fancy, to hear of the exploits
Pez, that we were back again at the time
the wonder and avarice of Elizabeth burned at
evelations of Virginia,
„4,11(1 Drake and Raleigh bartered bold
OViik Their British steel for Spanish gold.
~aßlthe information that has as yet reached
tbie '11.(1, there is no possibility of deciding how
IlQwetbttillige adventure may result. Two things,
tio4 '0". are certain—that under Spanish domi-
kttee`4lba has been worse than useless to corn-
-41141-„4114 ; and that, of all the glorious
rtes that Columbus opened up to European
,ht,tiee, it might have ranked amongst the chief.
Nie,l'elliment of Cuba has been administered by
It 110", Jo the same spirit as it was by the governors
hinlreediately superseded Columbus ; for Spain
heilt-el'el' learned what Lord Bacon calls the con-
L°ljoti°tl Plantation. The slave trade, in its most
;411 14:4148. and extortion of every available kind,
`ll /vl-4reel ,the character of the Cuban government.
7.1 O'Donnell's Vice-royalty, trouble was
48 t&4llten to deny that the government itself
Sae I,44leeking in slaves, and the denial would not
ueen credited had it been made. Indeed,
deb 'elta be no greater curse than for a colony—
likti %ugh to tempt cupidity—to be allied to a
tilil of decaying power, and torn with civil broils.
top governed by herself, would be a great field
°4l), thPean effort ;—governed by Spain she can
ttiq teruain as she is—one of the most fertile
tlD:leglected of all isles, " from pastoral St. Lucie
tttlY Trinidad."
tr,ee e the United States of America—putting
f
te nis.
' —'oo of piracyaside—the proper regenerators
11)4 ?
the e have been long accustomed to the
fised, if we recollect right, pUblicly by Pre-
iact'FYler—" The West Indies are the natural
°`
/410ta •°f the Union " The world, too, is not
{team4tthe disposition to conquest of the United
6 .
-/QiV. •
zot for once said well, when he called
10'et;(the Napoleon of the West." They have the
)
"oquer, but not the genius to consolidate :
iie2er bodies likely to dissolve, the strength
1; 4r,'' Cannot drive the blood to the extremi-
iiilqoC though Washington, New York, and Phi-
t
tlit • .4
IllaY truly boast of a jurisprudence, made
i°4
37 Story and by Kent, California, as it
Ilhat if they get it, are more likely to suffer
Ll'el'lllacisions of Mr. Justice "Lynch." What-
detZ be said of rights of conquest, it will hardly
4ilitc44° that no nation ought to seize a colony
(!li, °ter no better civilisation than the colony
atliteq
14 N°3-s, and this, we fancy, is the case of the
'ittstes and Cuba. We assume, at once,
A
event of the success of
,Lopez, the
140 t 11
government would either " annex" or
l(1 et" •
the important territory; and annexation
::4°,4lll.ltktteetion, when understood Americanice,
4:Q4 ot° just the same : and whether Lopez suc-
,9tils Ik't. American designs on the West Indies
thtlit ;le'cret to those who are wilfally blind.
t;tol?plitit'lltiAediate result, then, of. an. American
\llt.etof °f Cuba. would be very injurious to the
it:eftn t making that island what it ought to be
140711114 1(,) commerce. It is not hard to see that
Veller-Scorns the chosen home of all who had
lOttpdY than honesty, and that a republic of
thee tkliercluining. spirits," as the writers of Charles's
th.ll44ellt 'loch, would be little improvement upon
•
144 view Codition of the Spanish colony. In
tt etticed " attempt of Lopez is a matter of deep
lo
Th a question of interference for European
d~ythtow at the time is not far distant when Cuba
ctei °lr the Spanish connexion cannot be
et
Wily an
- more than that, as soon as it does
Statesso,
l
made to bring it subject to the

the 4.1 vRESIDENCY OF FRANCE.
t terests of peace in Europe did not so
1,414 Y d
tlf co. dog upon what its own press is so
goi:veh
ItiLni?. "the destinies of France," it would
41. (111 for(sing to watch the gambling_ whichT.
titZ4t44l* the
chief place in that free republic.
%Ns InR all Christendom by doctrines that
IhitOhn(itieo2.leard of before, except in the dreams of
th Rave ginakers, the provisional government of
too l'thili,.%aY to an assembly upon most of whom
tl):ltht (ii" was feorced, and who did not differ
11'4.14kt the deputies were placemen, and they
tVer, The provisional government,
t hadleft
* 0 s a legacy for the assembly not
at olana
1°- Re. 'Phey had promised a system
h'Rinat•
t 11141,,:ing in the frenzy of Louis Blanc had
cif !statesmanship nor one element of