Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-20
FROM HAVANA.

The correspondent Of the New Orleans Picayups,
writing from Havana tunder dste Of the Sd instant,
gives the following eount Of the inteyyie@ between
Judge CoNkIISAnd the Gsptsin Get,eral:
The POwhvtan left y sole &ys sipA. with Judge
CoNKLM, United States Minister 10 Mexico on board
During the Judge CoSKLN here he had several
interviews with the Captain General but SO far as we
learn, without any definite of the exist
ing difficulties The Captain General was exceedingly
courteous in his demeanor but met every proposition
with the of his extreme regret ut the me-
cessty which obliged him take the course he did that
the Government Of Cuba was exceptonable Govern
ment and obliged to resort to exceptional measures and
that he, subordinate officer of the Crown Of SPAIN
could not entertain any proposition Of any kind from
Foreign Power; and that all communications, messages
messengers from such parties be to Madrid
This is the substance of what Judge CoxKLS has com
municated his Government and left in dispatches for
Judge SHARKEY who had not arrived when the Powhatan
left.
Judge SHARKEY arrived the LIST, with his family in
good health and counrymen all glad to him
back again, it relieves them from Of abandon
ment which they have experienced during the consular
interegnum. However well fitted acting Consul may
be for the position, under the etiquette of Spanish dpo
macy he does not fill the power of him who holds the
sular erequatur.
The Consul has had several communications and two
interviews with the Captain General and though
talks largely about what has been done say you
that in fact conclusion has been arrived at any
point Previously the arrival of the Crescent City
terday the Captain General vas somewhat disposed to
recede but he is most firm. 1t is said that adyces
from the Spanish Minister at Washington say that the
Cabinet had assured him that neither Lieut. PORTER nor
Mr.. SMITH would be permitted to come here q mail
steamer This is the Spanish version of the despatch
but hardly think it be strong, for well know
how the officers here see the rainbow in what to other
eyes is a clear sky.
The special correspondent at Havana of the New
York Times, who (the Editors of that paper say)
writes from personal observation, and whose judg
ment and candor they know to be thoroughly relia-
BILE, presents considerations well worthy the atten-
tion of those who may be meditating new inya
sion of the Island. This correspondent under
date of the I'd instant, says:
g hope representations, matter how plausible
and how fatering will induce any private expedition to
make another attempt upon Cuba. 1 am sure its fate
could be most speedy destruction. There in
mission this station six war steamers under
the Spanish flag, all built in England and combining the
excelencies of the best English steamers There
at this time building in England five of these
steamers for the service of which is to be of
enormous size and power. The military force the
island exceeds 900 men, perfect in their equipment
and armament And more effective than all this
like force the extended and minute police system under
which every foreigner is traced and watched hour by
hour from his arrival in the island to his departure from
its Shores and every native in like from his birth
to his grave, from his baptism his funeral for the
espionage is twofod, secular and ecclesiastical 1t will
at be that with such forces and such of
knowledge Of all individual movements, it can only be
by the most uncomfortable cowardice ineficency and
treachery that the Government be thwarted in its
purposes by any thing in the nature of domestic insur
rection, disappointed private expeditions from without