The New York herald., 1873-11-27
THE ENGLISH PRESS.

The London Daily Standard or the 18th
Inst. Sees No Cause OF Quarrel II Cuba
fs Annexed to the United States.
The London Daily Standard the most tory OF
tory papers and one which is fond OF adopting Tom
carlyies view OF the future OF the United States as
the shooting Niagara among the nations, says In
Its issue OF the 18th inst. -
There can be no DOUBT that the afrair OF the vir-
ginius will prove very serious ior Senor Castelar's
government. Prepared, as the American public
mas been ior some years past ior gooa occasion @
version OF which Island all American politicians
have held as their own, the present Is precisely
sucn provocation as they have coveted. No
explanations or excuses on the part OF the Madrid
government win avail In the present ex,
may have been a the he character OF OF the virginins;
however inconsistent this sympathy with flbusters
the Spanish government has really no control
whatever over the dominant party in the island,
spain wiz have TO pay the penalty for the acts OF
journals already AYERS, with that frankness SO
characteristic OF the organs OF American republi-
on spain and to take possession OF Cuba, course
which is the better recomnended nm because It WIN
Ss, suan thought Of spa Tact
that whether she has the Will she has
not the power OF exercising any real authority
over the Cubans-no sympathy with Senor CASTELAR,
or his domestic troubles-is likely to turn the
Americans from the ambition OF taking Cuba, and
thus satisfying at once the imperious demands OF
manifest destny'' and the outraged law Of ma
tions AS no other Power can be expected to come
to the aid Of Spain-as the outrage itself is mani
testify unjustldable-we may be prepared for some
decided steps on the part oil the American Execu-
tive. Nor Is the rejection that the seizure OF Cuba
Is not only punishment far in excess OF the
crime but punishment which really does not
touch the alleged authors of the mlsdeed likely to
turn the Americans IRON their purpose.
IL Is purpose against which We have small
cause OF quarrel, even II It should end in the trans
fer OF Cuba to the United States. The argument
that If Spain Is powerless to enforce Its authority
over the Cubans the United States must take the
law into their own hands, though Of doubtful
logical value, Is, perhaps, quite good enough
for the OCCASION. 1t has been sufficiently
manifest for long time past, however Span
ish dignity may revolt from the propost-
ton, that Spain mas lost all real hold OF the
island, which belongs, IN fact, TO the so-called
Cuban volunteers. The Republic which dissolved
Spain itself into so many independent portions,
authority which ia too feeble to put down Carlism
and Cantonallsm at home never did extend in any
other than purely nominal sense TO the Antilles;
and II 1t was impossible Tor Spain 90 hold its
American colonies against their own people, 1T will
be still more desperate task Tor 1t to attempt TO
defend them from capture by a Power like the
United States. There Is o sort OF cruel mockery,
indeed. IN making SenOr Castelar's government
responsible for the deeds OF the Cuban yOlun-
teers, over whom II has a. little control as over
the Basque provinces or the Junta OF Cartagena.
The Power which the American ir0nclads have
been ordered to assai Is really the Power repre-
sented by majority Of the Cuban people, who, in
all their Iawless and violent proceedings, seem to
have been actuated by no other feeling than one
OF intense dislike to incorporation with the
United states.