Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-28

lively certain that the telegraphic dispatches
published in England, concerning the progress
of the Spanish revolution, are wholly decep'
tive. The truth is, O'Donnelrs career, Up t.
the very last advices in Paris, had been re.
markably successful indeed. Wherever hi:
adherents had risen-as they had done in many
more places than the telegraph told of-they
had 80 far maintained themselves trium.
phantiy. The impression in English and
| French Government circles, when the steamer
sailed, certainly was, that his aims were most
likely to be speedily accomplished.
The Bogus Earl Of selkirk-Amons the
rumors Of the hour on the Avenue, is one
scarcely to be credited, saying that the claim
Of the Mr. Humphreys (who now calls himself
Alexander) to be the Earl Of Selkirk, and
therefore, entitled to the Selkirk estates and
rights which have gone begging for an heir
since early in the eighteenth century, is being
seriously urged in the U. s. Senate in bar Of
the ratification of the Fisheries treaty. We
can hardly credit the fact, inasmuch as every
member Of the United States Senate, at least
should be sufficiently we'll informed to know,
| that after years of investigation, the pretence
thus set up by this individual has been secuted
! out of Parliament and the law courts of the
British realm, while he himself barely escaped
punishment as the perpetrator of monstrous
| fraud. Indeed, we can hardly believe that
after having exhausted his own country's
fund Of credulity, he should find grave United
States Senators green" enough to be caught
BY his pretences. In the trial, "in ordinary -
wherein the nature of his ciaila was exposed,
extinction Of the blood Of the Earl of Selkirk
was fully proved, except that of his SOC John. of
aartnoor. 1t was claimed by this Mr.. Hum
phreys, that John Of Antrim, was his son; and
that John Of Birmingham, (Englsnd,) was the
son of John Of Antrim; he (Humphreys) be-
ing descended from the Birmingham John.
In the course Of the trial, however, it was
made patent that the papers which were offered
to prove the chain of descent from John of
dsrtmoor, to John of Birmingham, were sweep
ing forgeries, got up by famous French wo.
man, who followed the business of telling for
tunes, VIGOROUSLY the shrewdest swindler of
her day on the continent.
All these facts cause the claim of Mr. Hum.
phreys-Alexander to be hooted out of the
United Kingdom, to find Judgement here,
where joint stock speculation upon it has Q N
COTTON up to operate on the Government of the
United States-the executive branch Of our
Government having been found unapproacha-
bio with any such bogus pretence, Congress
is next beseiged With it claim being set up
it seems, that the British Government have no
right to cede to us the privilege of fishing on
the coast of British North America, the con-
troll and emolument thereof being the right of
the French fortune telling woman's man
We repeat this clsim stands wholly on
forged patent-on q patent proceed to be forged
in the only country where its validity could be
lawfully tried.
The Navy Appropriation Bill-Eforts are
doubtless being made to induce the Senate 80
to amend this bill, as that it will increase the
number Of officers in the service of the two
highest grades, establish the proposed retired
list Of officers unfit for active duties, and create
the House committee manifested az little favor
in framing their Navy reform bill, as towards
the proposition to make more captains and
commanders in the service. We take it for
granted that these efforts must prove abortive,
though the retired list proposition is really
wise and just. Being in what tae House COM
nittee have voted bad company, it can hardly
be that even that alone can succeed at this ses.
sion, unaeeompanied by the other real reforms
which the committee aforesaid recommend.
Tho truth is, neither the more higher officer
proposition, nor that for the creation of a new
naval bureau, are reforms in any sense what.
ever. So long g captains and commanders
who rate on tho pay-rolls as being fit for active
duty, are in sufficient number to allow one
half of them always to be on leave or doing bu,
occasional shore duty, Congress will not in.
crease the list. Nor will they divide the
duties of the Bureau of Equipment, Construc.
| ton and Repairs, so long, as st present, i.
proves competent to the most satisfactory dis
charge Of those devolved upon it.
From Cuba.-We have q letter from an in.
| telligent American resident on the south side
Of Cuba, dated July Is, 1854, saying
There is the ID to pay here
amongst the authorities, negro dealers, DC
| Several Of the wealthiest and most influentia
Of our citizens, and Others have been arrested
and imprisoned for participating in the bust
ness, and what is to grow out of it all, is NOR,
than I can say.
"The desirefc annexation begins to pervad,
even the old Spaniards, and if the Governor
General is not soon relieved by his govern
men:, he will: thinz, Re relieved by som,
1 other potcer.
"These are exciting times, and l would like
| to see the result of the experiment now beins
made by those in power. Everything is tend
ing to promote the views of our Government
in purchasing, and l think they will succeed
in doing so on their own terms.''
The Bayly Investigating Committee w,
hear that NJ. Benjamin E. Green has been OK
amined at length before this committee, an,
that the amount of his testimony is that h,
knows nothing, of his own knowledge, of tn
truth Of his allegations against Mr.. Bayly, o
Virginia. 1t is said further, that he has name,
Mr.. Henry A. Wise as having given him som,
information, IN conversation, on which b;
based the first portion Of his 60 formally draw,
allegation. 1t is also said around the Hous
Hall, that he asked tn he nermiftad 70 6lo NJ