The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-11-15

Startling News on the Cuba Question
MASTERING of a Large British Sqadron
for the West Indies.
We have received by the Baltic let
ter from reliable sour ce in Paris, COM
municating the important fact that the
old Cuban imbroglio has been very re.
Gently revived in a most belligerent shape,
between Mr.. Buchanan, our Minister at
London, and Lord Palmerston, the Brit
is Premier. This information from Par
is we find substantially corroborated BY
the following extract:-
from the Hants (Eng) Telegraph,
Oct. 10.1
The Powerful "a, Captain Massey, IS
ordered to Jamaica; and the CornWa!lls,
60, Captain Wellesley; Pembroke, oO'
Captain Seymour, (screws); and Rosa
mond, 6, (paddle) Commander Cr9ft1n. I;
are to 90 to Bermuda. It is rgmored t11st
the movement is in consequence of the
American government having replied to
some communication made to them by
the British government or the subject OF
Cuba, in tone insulting to this country
in the highest possible degree. The A
merican government bids the English
government to beware what they are a.
bout; tells them that England has its
hands full already and that in defiance
of England's interference with them they
will do what they please as to Cuba
The Powerful goes first for Lisbon be-
fore steering for Jamaica. The Power
ful takes supernumaries for the Nep-
tune and the St. George, three-deckers,
E at Lisbon, also for the squadron on
the West Indie station. These two last
named ships, now that the Neapolitar
bu siness is settled, are also expected tc
60 20 the North American station, sc
that a force will be assembled that vii
be more than sufficient to defend The
f honor of England and the interests o.
her colonies.
Nearly fortnight ago We published
from the London Times, Of Oct. IL
the list Of the aforesaid vessels of war
and their destination respectively; bu
although the news at that time attract
ed our curiosity, it did not excite am
! particular attention Gu this side the At
lantic, from the harmless division O.
the ships between Bermuda islands anC
Jamaica Now, We are entirely salts
, fied-from our special letter from Par
, is, and from the corroborating extrao
,, from the Hauts Islegraph-that there
is mischief in this thing This Hant,
Telegraph is published very near tht
county seat of Lord PalmerstoD, where
we presume, during the recess of Parli
ament his Lordship spends a consider
able portion of his leasure time. Thi:
circumstance gives a coloring of semi
official authority to the specifications o.
the journal in question. In fact, as
suming that the Hant8 Itlegraph is tbt
! home organ of Lord Palmerston, and
that he employs it occasionally aa Pres
ident Pierce uses the Concord Fatr50t
(wben it is deemed most expedient tt
give the democracy a broad hint, in {
round about way Of some importau
movement a FOOT We may venture t.
consider the above extract an otfcia
communication.
5 The case then becomes an affair o
; the highest moment, for it involves is
sues and contingencies which may en-
r tangle US, and this whole Western hem
ispbere in war with the maritime Pow
] ers of Europe. First, it appears tha
this concentration, within striking dis.
tance of the island of Cuba, of Brit
: ish squadron numbering, in all, proba
bly, not less than twenty vessels of war
Ito say nothing of the French West In.
; dia squadron sis it in consequence Of
the American government having re-
> piled to some communication made tc
them by the British government, in.
sulting to England in the highest pos
sible degree" Nor are we left aItogeth-
er in the dark concerning this commu.
nication from the British Cabinet 1t was
doubtless renewal, in some shape, oi
the tripartite oyertures to the administra-
ton of Mr.. Fillmose, which Lord Pal
merston may have concluded would be
acceptable at Washington, by Mr.. Pierce
after the apparently indignant rejection
by Marcy of the Cuban manifesto of his
Ministers, resulting from those solemn
authorized conferences at Ostend and
Ak Chapelle.
In toe rumored reply of "the Ameri-
can government" there is an air of that
genuine grandiloquent patriotism which
has characterized all the diplomatic prom
ises, circulars and instructions of our
Pierce administration, so that brief as is
the report of the Hants Telegraph of this
answer Of our government, it bears the
evidence upon its face of official authority
The question then arises, what is Marcy
driving at in thus startling the whole
country with his war-like re-opening Of
the Cuban trouble, when everybody had
i'm agned it indefinitely postponed or that
the administration, like Micawber, had
humbly resigned itself to wait for "some-
thing to turn up!" Does Marcy, or does
Mr.. Pierce, seek to embarass England
and France upon the Cuba question, by
way of a diplomatic diversion to the ad-
yautageous settlement of the Danish