The Express. — 1854-01-06 (London, England)

STATE OF CUBA.  -~  HAVANA, Die. 10. General Perm,la, the new Governor, arrived here  on the night of the 2nd instant, and was ;eve TrTii with the customary civil and military demonstrations on the 3rd inst., when General Canedo most gracefully transferred our keeping to his custody, as Governor and Captain-General of Cuba. The ceremony of reception and inauguration took place at 12 o'clock, the new chief being escorted from the landing to the palace through an unbroken line of soldiery. Afterwards he went to the rooms of the royal audience, where the oath of fidelity was ad. ministered by the Chief Justice. General Canedo retired to the village of Guanabaco, which nestles among the hills on the south-eastern part of the bay of Havana, to rest from the toils of state until the arrival of the British steamer, by which, it in said, be proposes to take passage; so that you may perhaps see the gentleman who was so fearful of truth as to interdict yours and other papers of the metropolis of the world.  In his farewell address to the army and the people of Cuba, he seems to rely much upon the acts of his administration for the approbation of the world. In the meantime we have the preliminary rumours of another negro invasion on the south side, which we shall have to pass to the credit of the new incumbent, although he is too fresh in harness to know anything about it, or to be in any way implicated, whether it has been effected with or without  authority. The rumour exists that the late Captain-General pardoned the murderer of the actress La Dominguez just before he gave up the keys of authority. If this is the case, it has been done to quiet discussion connecting his own name with the melancholy history, and has been granted without publicity given: wherefore I am inclined to doubt it, and to class it I among the inventions associated with the tragedy. The new government, under its extended and absolute powers, is going into operation under military organisation, which may render every process of administration something more summary than even Cubans have been accustomed to. The retiring dignitary has been charged in private circles with having said that it would " not be long before bitter tears would be shed in Cuba." What particular application he intended should be made of his remark  we cannot imagine, unless it was aimed at the supposed policy of General Pezuela, and his stern determination to enforce it, with the usual cruelties of tyranny. There ie no doubt of the one thing, in the minds of the people, that they tremble in their hearts, in view of the acquisition of power which cuts them off from all possibility of protection at Madrid through the royal clemency, or superior correction of errors. I In looking at the man, in his history, cultivation, and intelligence, I do not perceive reasonable grounds for apprehension, save merely in the error of judgment to which the best intellect, thrown into new positions, may be liable. General Peznela has the advantage of some experience at Porto Rico, and he certainly has the entire confidence of the Queen. I There has been some demonstration of discontent among the lower classes, expended by writing upon the walla of public buildings, and at the Theatre Mason, the first night that the lady of Gen. Pezuela was present in the " vice-regal" box, an imitation d the Madrid reception of the Queen, after the reports of her scandalous conduct with " Arana," was attempted by the audience; but it did not amount to much, and passed off as having been in. feuded for au obsequious count who was paying his Idevoirs to her ladyship in the box at the time. The British brig Oscar was wrecked a few days shier, upon the Bahamas, bound from Halifax to Matanzas, and the captain and crew brought here by the American brig Ocean Belle, on the Bth instant— the vessel and cargo of sugar, box, and books, a total loss.  The city of Havana is healthy, but there are yet cases of fever occurring in the bey from exposure and imprudence, which, at this late season, prove fatal. Her Majesty's sloop-of-war Vestal left this port a few days since fur the south side of Cuba.