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f ' 4 EUROPE. Napoleon's CaWnet?M. Plcard's Approach to the Premiership. Bible Revision in England and President Grant's Aid in the Work. British Plan for Beunion of the Churches. Tbe Cunaru mail steamship Russia, Captain Lott, ftow Liverpool the 18th and (Jueenstown tbe 19th of June, arrived at this port at an early hoar yesterday morning. The Batista lauded our European special correspondence dated to her d ay of galling from England. The newspapor mall fllef by the Russia were anticipated to a great extent by those to hand by the French mail steamship Perlere on Monday. A letter from Constantinople, of June 8, to the London Slarulara, speaking or the great tire in the Turkish capital, says:? The London insurance offices that will suffer most by this unprecedented conflagration are the Royal, the Imperial and tho Sum. The total amount falling 011 them, nowever, will n >t, u is confldenly stated, exceed ?16o,0u0. The two Swiss offices, which do a large amount of business Here, will a:so suffer considerably, but an immense amount of property was totally uninsured. The lowest estimate made by the police authorities of the number of people who have lost their lives exceeds 500. The calamity has not ue. n at all exaggerated, in all its naked deformity It la realty borilbie. The North German iron clad war vessel Koning iVllhelm, Captain Uenk, bearing*the flag of Prince Albert of Prussia, Admiral of the North German bavy, arrived at Spltheail (Eng.) June 17, from ?leL 1 Dlstrrbanccs were feared among the tin-plate Workers at Coaklev, near Kidderminster, England, then on strike. At midnight a messenger was seut to Kidderminster for a large body of police. No Hot. but men "in an excited state." In the Court of Common Pleas, London, In the cose ?I Iniuan vs. Jenkins, which was fur an alleged libellous statement In tho London Times that plaintiff kiad sent the City of Boston to sea overloaded, the court alUrmed the order of Justice Blackburn th it riafonilunt ahmiWl Answer nn irititrroirutorv ufntlnir whether lie bad sent the communication to the London Times for publication. ? Tde Emperor Napoleon replied to an address presented to hiin by the Town Council or Southampton, England. He says the sympathy manifested towards lum with reference to the recent design on his lite touches him deeply, and In it "he sees a fresh proof of the ties of frlendsnip which unite France and England. Be trusts most heartily they may ever continue so." M:ss Elizabeth Garrett was received as doctor at the Ecole de Medicine, Pails. She had taken as her thesis the subject of "Headache"?not a very interest ng questl>n?but alio treat2d it so brilliantly that the board at oacj gave her the diploma. | Tamberlik, the singer, arrived in I'uris. , In Ireland the Orangemen were mating the necessary preparations lor the approaching anniversaries of July 1 and IX Thirty thousand are expected to assemble at Llsburu. The authorities are taking every precaution. The idea of a federal parliament for Ireland seems likely not to bi abandoned by the gentlemen who are endeavoring to create a movement In the country In favor of the project. The O'Conor Don had given notice of hla Intention to move in the House of Commons fur a return of the names aud number of matriculated students in each course of the faculty of arts in the Queen's Colleges of Ireland, with the value of all scholarships or exhibitions held by each student. The three hundredth anniversary of the nulon to Russia of the Don Cossacks was celebrated at NovoTeherkask, under the presidency of the Cesarevltch, who Is hereditary Chief Atta;uaa of the tniie. Telegrams ol congratulation poured in from all parts of the empire during the ceremonies. A Dublin journal of the 18th of June announces:? The last act or the Mexican tragedy is about to'be played. The unforuma e Empress Charlotte is dying; aud even the sorr iw.tig members ol her family must look xorwaru to litis sad iasi scene 01 an us a nappy release. The London Globe ridicules the Scotch national spirit, wiilcli, after "an advantageous and maU'rial un.on with England," proposes to celebrate the victor/ of Bannockburu by ere-Ung a flagstaff on the scene of Bruee's violory. It would venture to suggest aome such celebration for Ireland, only that "it considers Irish blood too ebullient for an English paper to venture to suggest the commemoration of auy battle wherein the Milesians ber.r the tyrannous Saxon." It excepts from the list even Fontenoy, which, despite the silence displayed on the subject l>y Thomas Carlyle and Voltaire, U appears to consider was won by Irish arms. Ilia Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Napier of Magdala, U. 0. fi., Commander-in-Chief in India, was suffering at Peshawur rrom a slight attack of fever, which deiaiued his Lordship on the frontier longer than wa-. at first intended. A Pari* letter ol the lTUi of June reports as follows:? Your readers may like to know the names or the four respectable persons to whom l'rirn successively offered the GroAu of Spain, and who proved their respectability by refusing it one alter another, liere they a'e:?Don Ft rnundo di Bragaa/a Coburg, ur Portugal- Prince Tiioinas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa; Count d'Eu, and Prince Frederick of Ilohenzollern, a catholic ollxer of Hussars in the Prussian army. A good story Is told by one of the Greek newspapers. One of the military commanders having offered a reward for each brigand's hea l brought in the supply soon became so extensive that suspicions were aroused. Inquiry was set on foot and disclosed the fact that with au eye to the "main chance" the o-called brigand hunters made raids mto neighboring #11 lag en, plundered them aud then turned the beads ol their victims to account. The Waivlerer, of Vienna, publishes the following telegram, dated Constantinople, 13th:? M. Gilbert, Frencn Consul, has been attacked in the environs of Erzerouin by brigands, who completely stripped him. lie hardly escaped with his life. The Ambassador of France has presented au energetic potest to the Porte. FRANCE. JfnpoleonM Cabinet?ill. Pleura'* Prnwpcet of the Premiership? What Will the Euipcror Do f-Adrucc or Ui'trrat ??lleiorm but No Finality C Pakis, June 17, 1870. Ton speak, In ft late letter iroin Paris, of the possible advent of a Cabinet headed by 11. Heard. I was much struck by trie remarks you have made on the recent political revolution of tlic distinguishes orator of the "left," as well as by the conclusions you have drawn. A ministerial combination that would result in the emry into office of M. Picard and his friends Is certainly not a contingency that may be called Improbable. It may even be said that they are more likely, comer or later, to be the successors of M. Enifie ?llivter, from the fuct that no other iractlon of tlie Chamber 1h in a position to prevent their ascendancy. The attitude of the preeminent to-day may be likened to that of Napoleon I. when he entered Russia; for it has Uiree tilings to do?to retreat, remain stationary or advance. Retreat la Impossible and is contrary to the purpose of the Emperor. Various symptoms Indicate that the actual situation is not likely to last long. There Is nothing left, then, but . to advance, in this case what man unites so many requirements as does M. Plcard ? He alone has It in his power to form a ministry in the futile; and, believe me, It would be a great error to suppose tnat the Emperor would hare the least repugnance to confide to him the supreme direction of utfalrs. j>apoleon III., whose political intelligence is for some strange reasons often disputed, yet knows enough of the men and events of his time to prevent his hesitating or accepting the services of those men who represent that great popular party on which (Ue empire is founded and to wluoh it owes Its force. I do not shrink from affirming that 1 heard the Chutf ?i Wjejjune utt?r the loiiowing words some NEW YOJ thing Km than a >ear ago, bat certain!? long before the event* wulch gave birth to the Cabinet or January'i (that of Emile Olllvier):?"I do not nee," satd the Emperor, on th > occasion alluded to, "any kind of objection to taking for Minister either M. Heard or M. Jules Favre. Such nun as these can never hart the empire. My natural enemy Is the tiers parti" (the middle party). You observe the Emp tor was not the victim of any Illusion, out understood perfectly the daugor of an alliance nlth the "left centre," and how could he be mistaken? The "le t centre"?Is It not the party or half measures, of hair liberties ??in a word, the party of tae liuurgeoisit (the middle classi, that Intractable enemy of the popular lever, universal Miff a^o, and consequently the Iocs of the empirer If i he Emperor nave power to the men of tiie "loft centra," li he rcoently called them about hlm, it was simply because he felt that to get rid of them the best p an was to let tliem use themselves up, which they certainly have managed to do In a singularly short sj.ace or time. To-day they are Judged l>y their acs aud discredited by the faults taey have committed. It is a singular fact that the Olllvler Cabinet has not, in the whole p. ess of Paris, a single organ to deend it, or hardly one that does not attack it. Aimmtf all the.-e dally journals of so rnauy various shades there is not ono that dues not asaall the Ministry with reproaches and criticisms of the bit tore t kind. Everybody hears of republloaa Journals and ol' imperialist Journals, but never or a ministerial Journal. Surely the Emperor lias nothing more to fear from the "left centre." It Is not too much to say that the men of this party are likely soon to disappear lrom the poiiuoal scene; while u is also true that those who aided tObuild up the empire are either dead or retired into private lire. Who, then, remain r Why, the men who repiesent the revolution of '?j?those whose opinionare in accoru wuii tue popular mind, it is to me -e mat the Emperor will appeal lo aid him In his eifo:t to establish bis dynasty on bases Htlll utor" solid. Faithful to His past, to his origin, to Ills tradition*, he means to plant Ills foot once more on the hoi! of the revolution, and, like Anttras, derive lroin Its contact a news youth and greater fore,-. Let us, thon, together salute the advent of the Plcard Cabinet at no distant day, which la only Hie logical result of tae Imperial policy. The Minion to Wuhlnftoa-.)!. Prrvont-ParadoPa Political Enemlea. [From Gallguani's Messeutfer of Paris, June 18? KTMing.] M. Prevost-Paradol s nomination as Minister at Washington lias called lortli satirical appr<#latlon* from several journals, and Home ot the writers are extremely bitter. For instance, ibtAuftuo UM pen of M. P.iUi de Cassagnac, lias the subjoine d philippic:? He knows English so well! the journal* have been saying for the iast six months in speaking of tlie new Minister. But why not the Kmbassy to Loudon, km Uere the Orleans Princes could bave communicated wltb tbem so uiucb more free y ? Ai presentthw Will he Obliged lo send their Mim to Washington. Such behavior on the part ot the trench Ministry I* really not considerate. . nj have you noticed tba. the -hm hu '>;li 1 in ileslKiiatin'i t.ie new diploma. 1st, a his Ills title of Memhre de I'Acadi aiic t rancalse. Had lie been mi Orpheonist ot Suresnes, or u member of tue Society tor tin; Prevention of Crueity to A nlii , or even of the Hygienic Association to pi ot?* attain*', the abuse of tobacco, any such tUle would have been I efcijluret 114 a special luurtl, as some ueuiblance of reason wa\ als aituly 11 be found! To be a member of the Institute, then, ih really something. fc.vi leutly, since it Is equivalent to saying thai a man is an Orleauist. The Aveiiir Rational is alsoexiremely severe, and the Union makes the lollowing observations :? The Ot'ml- has undertaken the tank of Justltying the nomination ; anil Its rare lor Its new position compels it to al ow that lis coilauoraior " may have committed more than one error, ami have so.iictun ;s let himself go too lar or have fallen Into mUtak.es j" but .nat converted organ hastens to add that M. 1'ara 10I " has constantly declared that his opposition, thorough as It was, would cnan^e into support when Fram e should recover the enseuiiul conditions of free government." We have followed for fifteen years the polemics of the writer who has just passed over to the service of t1iu hmpire, and we are compelled to assign a somewhat recent date to the political Indifference which does not pay heed either to tbe form or origin of a government. Tito new diplomatist owes his reuown to tlic sharpness of his pen against tbe Imperial r?#i?t?; his attacks, Unelv pointei, ^.iu,,*d fur lil.n I i.u tturlulii ..I IKo i .... !?...? ?rl. . U >1. .11.. I..,I lu the epigrams against the ruling power an i which to-day flinilus at till) praises bestowed on It by the convert*. If one could feel surprise at anything now-a-dayi. one would ask how It happens that all this load of wit and uliarpnes* can suidenly be laid at the loci of that Mn jesty so many time* exposed to Its raillery. A certain eflort oi imagination la even now required to picture an ambassador of th? Imperial government in the *hape of a Fiibscrlber to the Baudin monument and a former editor of the Cyi., ier tin hiii-nn-i r, which was eight times warned) twice suspended, oncc condemned, an<i in the end suppressed as a punishment tor it* well Known article, "Le falurrenier." ENGLAND. The Revision of the Bible?l'reaident (.rant's Aid in the threat i nd Holy Work. [From the London Standard, June 17.] Mr. Bux on Iwrdiy mended Ins case for transferring the re.lsion of tue Scriptures to a royal commission by changing the terms of tils motion, ho as to Invite the co-operation of the government of tlie Uni ed Mates. Originally lie < ailed upon the Hoiimj of Commons to iiilirin that "it is de-nabe the work should ue placed in the hands of a royal commission, Instead of being left to a committee of convocation,'" but upon further consideration li? omitted all reference to convocation, and simply moved for an address praying the sovereign to invite the President of the. united states to concur with h>r Majesty in appoint in* commissioners to revine the authorized version of the .Scriptures." Now it is a debaiab.e question whether the work of revision sbould be left to a committee appointed by convocation: but, as the Premier and Mi-. Beresford Hoiie pointed out last, niglu, there can be very little doubt a< to the inadmissibility o Mr. Buxton's second proposition. It is, of course, highly desirable tnat we should, If possible, produce such a version as may be acceptable to the thirty odd millions of English-speaking people on the oilier side of th,- Aclautic, but if tins is on y to be secured by the co operation oi American divines Lucre are onvious (ill* Acuities lu the way. Biblical hMMI are Jfcw aud far between in Avusruxi, and it unfortunately happens. trom tliclr position in the religious world, tnat the ihree or lour whose services might be acceptable would by no means contribute to render the new version popular among their countrymen. Moreover, there it? u tunaaiuental Hindrance to the proposed Joint action or the President of the United Males, seeing that the constitution expressly and designedly bars the chief magistrate aud his colleagues trom ldeuUf.vtng themselves in their public capacity with any dl-tiuciiveiy religions movement. As Mr. Hope reminds us, the influence of Jefferson was successfully exerted to ex iude anv reference to the existou-e of a .supreme lining or any olllcial recognition ot ChrtHliuniij. Kven if this obstacle cmld be remove I. n a..a i n t <>e wise to overtook the dangerous miitrace vkkk the largo and flourishing ltoiuuu Caiii > ??? luulty would exercise in tue composition <>. urM-rvnu oont.ngnt. The sects are .<i WW, MM *> * Human Cat holies are a powerful and un tnl t*? i iIm ii efforts would be directed, not -op .?? the Protestant version as u> nnug h > ' *>' i .n> with the Koiuisu version. I> i . iliat Mr. Huxton's proposition to i-atiM American cooperation was un after-inu ur'.l, mil that Ills in un object Is to take the (pies ion out of tiienandsof convocation as the representation of the Estab.ished Church. The meuib r lor Last Surrey asserts with perfect truth that the authorized version Is the property not of any particular Church or sect, but of the nation at large, and, us a corollary, that no one Chnrch or sect is entitled to monopolize the work of revising it. But we are not aware that either convocation or the Church have set up any clulin of this kind. Perhaps, as the largest and most influential Christian body In the eufpire, the church of England had a right, and was in some measure bound, to take the Initiative; but no one who examines the constitution of the proposed committee and remembeis that the most eminent Biblical scholars, totally irrespective of Church or creed, were mvUed to share In its labors, can doubt that convocation approached the work in the largest and most enlightened spirit. We can understand aiul sympathize with the protest of churchmen iikc Messrs. Henicy and Newdegate, who shrink from tampering with the authorized version. VVe think their fears are exaggerated aud that they overran; the danger or making the text of the Bible a subject of "iree handling but they at least take up an Intelligent ground of objection. But we cannot understand why theCiturcii of England is to be deoarred from playing a pionilnent part in a work in jrhlch she is so vitally interested aim in which the scholarship or her clergy entitles her to take the lead. Mr. Percy Wyndhum considers that ecclesiastics are unfilled by their professional habits lor the work of Biblical revL-lon ; but is not tills equivalent to saying that experts are specially dlsquaillled, or that an architect is the last person to be consulted about a design for a house, or a railway engineer about a tunnel or a viaduct? it Is easy to sneer at convocation as Mr. Buxton does. It Is a venerable, but, thanks to State tyranny, un almost impotent body, and it is simply absurd to speuk of lt as given to "usurpation." Posi-ibly it might become very tyrannical and despotic U it had the chance; but, considering how It is fettered and gagged at present, it would be as reasonable to charge a man bound hand and foot with abusing his liberty. All that convocation has done hi this instance is to take the initiative 111 giving effect to the almost unnersal demand lor a revision ot tne Scriptures. It has nominated a committee to undertake the work, which comprises, in addition to au Impartial selection irorn the most learnea < divines of the church, all the most eminent Biblical scholars among the Non-con tor mist bodies who could be induced to co-operate. No one can doubt the bond fides with which the committee has been chosen, ami we question whether Dissenters will not be disused to appiuuU rather than condemn the zeal which prompted convocation on behalf 01 the Church In taking the Initiative. We do not hesitate to say that umler no other auspices would the labors Of any body of revisers have had a chance of finding a general acceptance. Mr. Butxon contends that the work ought to be undertaken by the state; and Mr. Gladstone and his supporters appear to have at unci perceived the awkward anachronism which would result if a liberal government were to assume the supervision of a purely religious enterprise just at the time when it Is the policy of the liberal party to break down every tie which links the State with religion. Oi|geourse Mr. Gladstone did not justify ills oppositlon"to the motion upon grounds like these. He declarlB that the government were decidedly opposed, as a matter of principle, to placing such a work as the revision of tne Scriptures in the hands of anv civil or public body. He admitted it wa* highly necessary that the revision should be proceeded with, but professed himself persuaded that it could not be usefully undertaken w state, aud that itvas undesirable that any KK. HERALD. WEDNESDA version should ?e prolttootl under circumstances will n would warrant the Impreuion that it was Imposed upou the country by authority. The present version, it is well to remember, was tho fruit of long protracted In bom. and was not adopted us the authorized verson until It had been stamped by the acceptance of a wuoie century. Reminding ttie Hou-o that the motion, If carried, would compel the government to ask for a verv considerable sum of money, the Premier insisted that It would be best to le.tve the matter in iho hands of those who were properly interested in It, and for Ills own part he was not disposed to censur convocation ior undertaking, at its own cost, and ou its sole responsibility, the conduct of a gr at work of public li^jfuluess. Mr. liuxtou was fain to withdraw ills motion. Reunion of the Uhirrhei, fProm the Pall Mali Gazette, June 17.] A meeting of an extraordinary character Is announced to be held at the rooms of the Architectural Exhibition .Society, ,n Conduit street, next Monday nigh'. All who are "interested in the reunion or Christendom" are invited to attend, and they will be asked u atllrtn ttie following resolutions:? X. That In new or tbe religious condition or mankind, of whom orer two-third* are Kill heathen, and or the nr-are caudal and ditlloultles caused by the unhappy divisions among Christians thta meeting (leiiret to record its oouriotion or the paramount Importance of the reunion or East and Weil rouud the pnmauy anciently recognized by both a'.llte, as well far securing the io'e^rlly as for promoting the dissemination or the Christian faith. 8. I'hat the only a (equate remedy tor the social and religious ' dangers of England, and tbe surest guarantiee for the future of English Christianity, lies la her restoration to visible unity primarily with tbe Churches of the Western Patriarchate, and then with tbe Eastern Churches aLin. Lord Bitot will take the chair, and the speakers will include both Anglicans and Koma i Catholics. Among the names announced are those of the Karl of Limerick, Mr. Lowder, Mr. George Nugec and Mr. Oxenham. ROME AND AUSTRIA. Infallibility In Hungary. [From the Liverpool Post, Juno 18.] The North (Jenrwn Correspondent, the most valuable medium for obtaining an Insight into the Intri. tcies of Oerman politics, contains an Important statement with reference to the contemplated action of the Austro-Hungariun government in regard to the dogma of infallibility. The Hungarian bishops wlio favor Infallibility have been threatened byine governn.cii with the loss of their teiiipotalitle?in case they assist the project of the J'sult party in Home, or if they attempt to promulgate Uie infallibility dogma in their dioceses. The Rmnan Curia lias a'so been Informed by tbe Hungarian government I iat It will sane.ion no measure the Curia may feel o ill d upon to take again-1 tne anti-lulat Iblllst ?fi ' IttlCT UI IlUMKii;/. 1 UU.K BlUlCHlDUin UilTt uicutou considerable excitement both m Germany and In Rome. HUNGARY. Population nod Food. [From GaligQaul's Messenger, of Paris, June 18.] lhe Hungarian Minister 01 Commerce lias just preseated lo tue Empetor France Joseph a report on the recently terminated census of (tie population in tu.it country. We extract from tU it document tlie following retime:?''^ttie cenatu taken iu we territory appertaining 10 tin- Hungarian crown was meant to a-certain the change* winch have taken during the last twelve years, as Hit' la-t was held in l*u7, when theie were l7?s,f>i,j lnuab turns. According to this iresh one there were, iu all, 16,4'J9,ii i8 souls, thus dis.rlou ed:?Hungary 1'coper, 11.100,183; Trausylvaula, 2,119,107; Crotla and KcUvonia, l.uia.wod, and the military conllues, 1,185,0.13. Thus th re Is an increase ot l.tiii0,72)? ii 1-47 per cent." A letter received from Pesth states that the liarvent is now in full activity in Southern Hungary, and that It gave promise ol an exti iKUUinary yield both for quantity and ipja'ity. The continued rains In the early spring have al*o been very favorable to the oatrf and grass, which are most plentiful. To Judge by the orders already arriving from Western Europe Hungary will have a considerable exportation both ol cerea.s and hay. , GERMANY. <'ctboiic Warning to ltome* The Augsburg Gazette, of June 17, publishes the bisiio;>s against the close ol the yeuural discussion on the scheme ot lnlallibilliy. A letter irorn Colonue in tue same journal says:? I learn from a pood source that the Catholic deputies of the Reichstag and the Prussian Chamber of Deputies--MM. Keichenapertier, Malllnkrodt, Windhorst, Ac.?have declared against the Inlulllbtiity of the l'ope, in a letter addressed to the Holy FnUier hlmst'lH and In which they at the Mime time point out the latal elfecta that dogma might have lor tho Catholic Church In Germany. JAMAICA. The I>tiria Aground In Kingston II arbor? Financial Reform*?Losi of the .Schooner Willy?Wreckers and Negroes Steal Ilor Cargo?The Kainy Seat-on?Di?rntublinUuieul of the State Church?Other News. Kingston, June 36, ts~o. Tlie telegraph steamer Dacia, which arri v'ed here on Monday morning with .sir Charles Hrlglit and the cable, has not yet got oil' the mud bank on which site ran In coming up the harbor. The captain, Tor some reason not yet explained, did not tak.- u pilot on board. The steamer Suffolk, with her Majesty's steamer Myrmidon and her Majesty's steamer Vestal, have been trying to get her off without any good result, and they have now commenced to lighten the Dacia, in the hope that this will relieve her. The company are paying some t hlrty pounds per day on eacn of two ships which arrived some time ago with the cable, and the present delay Li estimate?l to cost the company who have undertaken the "laying" some ?10,010. There are some forty-eiirLt ol- flity operators at present locate I in Kingstou waiting for distribution among the telegraph stations on the other islands. Tho financial return for the quarter ending the 30th of this mouth promises to show verv favorably for the government and the financial skill ol the Grant ana Rustiworth administration. The revenue receipts considerably exceed the estimates for the year, ami mere is utmost a certainty 01 mere neing a surplus quite equal to that of last year, which, it will be remembered, was ?58,80 >. This floes not speak badly lor the prosperity of the country under ' crown government." The revenue oitlcers in the examination of parochial airairs have discovered that several "Mali personages" who were 111 "high lavor" In the days ot the delunct House of Assembly, have never paid a farthing of the taxation to wliicii they were liable. The government having found this out has no respect of persons, and are pushing to; a "settlement 01 arrears." A compromise has been proposed; but the government Indignantly rejects Hie proposition, saying, "the peasantry pay their taxes, and the better clashes should give no trouble." Several houses and stores in the parishes of Hanover and Westmoreland are completely under water. The average rainfall there in one week was twentyseven Inches. The British schooner Willy, from New York bound to Honduras, with a general cariro, was wrecked a few days ago on BucknowM Reel, opposite Hopewell estate, on t lie northwest of Jamaica, near to Lucea. Great efforts were made to save as much of the cargo as possible, but the violent conduct of the wrecker.-", and the plundering propensities of the negroes, were beyond all description. Knives werelreely used and cargo plundered even In the face of me constabulary. Llovd's agents are exerting themselves to get back the stolen property. The rainy season has passed off, but not without doing some extensive damage in the western parishes. All the bridges between Lucea and (ireen island have been washed away by the lloods. In Hanover a hundred and Qity acres of mountain land came down with a run, and 111 West morel and, in the middle of some ol the nugar estates, there is enough water nccotnulated to float the largest frigate afloat. A bill for the gradual disestablishment of the Church of England has passed the Legislative Council. It provides for ttic transfer of Church property, lor the management of the affairs of the Church by the ministers. memt>ers and adherents of the Episcopal Church resident in the Island, for the constitution of a representative synod, and for the exercise of Church discipline in congregations. There was a large sale of property in Kingston, out or the Court of Chancery, last week. The prices which the several houses brought at the public competition were perlectly fabulous and shows how greatly property has increased In value in Kingston niiuiu tin: iunt jCiii ui tn w. Since tnti abolition of the tonnage due* on 1st AprU iust there baa bewi a very larsre increase In the number ol vessels arriving to load and for orders, and the great bcnetit of tills financial concession on ihe part of the government lias been felt ail over the country where shipping call in to load or seek provisions. Next year the government propose to abolish the lighthouse dues. OUR LATE iilDIAH GU??TSlimted Tail Boyinic Horaea. [From the Sioux Citv Journal, June lu.j Spotted Tall and his party were out yesterday morning visiting the ditterent sale stables, for the purpose of buying a good American horse lor each member of the party. The government foots the bill, having igjfM d so to <io in response to a request made by the Indians while In Washington. The redskins thought It was one of their rights to have good horses to take them home from the terminus ol the railroad. Old Red cloud perfected a slmllai negotiation. .Spot gave evidence of his being n good Judge of horseflesh in his examination of the points and dualities ol the hOTM. He went through similar movements and ({estates as his white brethren go through, with the exception that he spoke not a word until his investigations were concluded. Then he turned to Captain 1'oole and sai l something that sounded very mucn like "d?n heap good," and Captain Poole concluded the bargain. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon .the party left tin city, Hot 011 horseback, but by carriages. The carriages will carry them as far as Yankton, where they (are expected to lav aside a little of their elegance, straddle their free horses una go ou tUetr savagt way rejoicing. \ 0 Y, JUNE 29, 1870.-TR1PL CHARLES DICKENS. ItcniiulNcoiiccs of the Man, tlie Novelist and Parent. His Memory on fte European Continent, in Eng. land and in Private Cirole??The Play of Piokwiok? A m?r ican Experiences?A be Lincoln's Dream and Iti Effect. The ceremonial which wa<* observed at the funeral of Chares Dickens Inside of Westminster Aobey, as well an tlie funeral cortege itself and the names of the chier mourners, wero fully described and set forth by cub.e to.ok rums in the Hekald the day subsequent to UU interment. To-day wo havo by jnall very many interesting reports relative to the deceased writer's life aud the estimation in which he was held. These incidents reach us from many and various sources, thus:? DICKENS' LAST LETTER. [Prom the London Atheneutn, June 18.] Mr. Charles Kent has kindly consented to our printing what 1b in all probability the last letter ihat Mr. l)l<kens wrote. On Thursday, bjlore his death, when Mr. Kent went to keep the appointm mt, Mr. Utckeus wan lying unconscious, and was within a very lew hours 01 hut death. The "opal enjoyments" refer to the tints of the sky:? UAltai!ill Place, Hinoiiam ut Rooukbtki,) Kint, Wedueaday, June 8,1870. { Mr Di\b Kent?To morrow Is a very bad day for me to m*ko a call, a* In addition to my imual office builneia 1 bar* a man ol account! to nettle. Hut 1 hope X may be readr for you at three o'olock. Ii I can't be, why then I shan't be. You muni really get rid of tbeie opal enjoyment!. They are too oveipowerlug. '-Those violent delight! have rlolent end!." I think It wa! a father of your church who made the wliu remark to a young gentleman who got up ear.y (.or (laid out taie) at Verona, fcver affectionately. To Cuakles K.E.NT, li?i. CHARLES DICKENS. HIS FORTUNE. [From the Loudon Telegraph, June 18.] Charles Dickens leaves, iuc<u ling Hie value of bis cop.v rights, nearly ?80,000 lor his family. The fourth, flftu ttmi sixth monthly parts of "Edwin Drood" a e completed, ana the outline ol the remaining portion (4 the story has been ho drafted in Dickens' waste-book that Wilkie Collins, who, it is understood, lias consented to finish lite tale, will have no \cry dlillcuU undertaking before lain. OBJECTS OK AltT. The pictures ami other objects of art which bolonged to wr. Dickens are to be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie <* Manson. His library he lias leit to Ins eldest son. Ills manuscripts and papers are at present in the bauds oi his executors, Mr. Foster aud Miss llogai in. DICKENS AS A MAN OP SCIENCE. [From the British Midic.il Journal, June 17.] How true to uatuie, even to their most trivial details, almost every diameter and every Incident In the works of the great novelist whose dust has Ju.it been laid to rest really were is best Known to those whose tastus or whose duties led them to frei,uent the paths of life lroin widen Dickens delighted to draw, but aoNs except medical men, caa judge of the rare fidelity with which he followed the great Mother through the devious paths of disease and d? ath. In reading "Oliver Twist" aud "Doinbey and Son," or the "Chimes," oreven "No Thoroughlare," the physician oitun felt tempted to say, ' What a gain it would have been to physic ir one so ke^a to observe and so laciie to describe had devoted bis powers to the medical art." it must not he rorgntten mat nis description or necuc (in " Oliver Twist") has found lis way luto more than one standard work in boMi uieUtcine an?i surgery (Miller's 'principle oi surgery," second edition, p. 40; also Dr. Aitkin's "Piactice of Medicine," tliirJ coition, vol. 1., p. Ill; also several American and French books); that lie anticipated the cduieal researches of M. Dux, Broca, ana Uughllugu Jackson, on the connection of right hemiplegia with aspiiasla [Vide " Do in bey and Son " for the last Illness 01 Mrs. SKewtoii); ana that his descriptloiis ot epilepsy la Walter Wilding, and of moral and menial insanity lu characters too numerous ty mention, show the hand of a master. It is leeble praise to add that he was always just, and generally generous, to our proi'esslon. Kven his descriptions of oflr Hob Sawyers, and their less reputable friends, always wanted tt?e coarseness, and, let us add, the unreality, of Albert Smith's : so that we ourselves could well afford to laugh with the man who some: lines laughed at us, but laughed only as one who loved us. One of the later edorts ol his pen was to advancj the interests of the Kast London Hospital for Children; and his sympathies were never absent from the sIok and suffering of every a^e. THE DESIGN OF PICKWICK?DICKENS Oil SEYMOUR? We quote from the Albion the following article oa tlie death of Mr. Dickens:? At a moment when one of the least looked for of events ill it could most poignantly mock contemporary prescience Is literally eclipsing tliejgayety of nations, as the autli .r of the "V.inlty 01 Human Wishes'' said on the deuthof the Dickens of the Johnsonian era; wnen. In the words ol that national and universal expositor of human feeling, amid the scenes of certa n 01 whose conjurations (tiailsidii) ne not inappropriately passed away, at much about the same age, lu tnc fulness ol almost equal fame, every on" among us said:? Beg a hair of him In memory, And, dyiug, mmition It wllhlti oar wills, bequeathing it an a rioh legacy Unto our isaue? It may not be an inadmissible souvenir of the all mourned idol to state here, that the lirst lines ever Mr. Dickens composed were submitted unconditionally to the writer ol these remarks?submitted as the merest matter ol professional literary business, haphazard, without any Introduction or Intervention of any Kind, and without critic or autlior having the faintest Idea or each other's individuality. It Is, perhaps, not a too extravagant hypothesis to surmise that, had the judgment been adverse, there might never nave been another appeal elsewhere by the hand which has held tue whole reading world in captive admiration to Its uniltirndtnoas spells ever since?a period of some thirty-five years. The story lias often been told, always Imperfectly, and by noue more Imperfectly than by Air. Dickons, both on the comparatively late occasion or the Boiin controversy, as to whether the early designs for "Pickwick" were most due to Himself or to the unfortunate suicide, .Seymour, and lu certain prefaces to collected editions of anterior date. It is well the truth should now be told properly, though the llrst consequence of so doing must be to deprive Mr. Roebuck's duelling antagonist, the late tierinauically erudite Dr. Biack. many years editor of the once great whig dally organ, the Morn iuj Chronicle, which at the period in question had disastrously drilled into stock jobbing hands, 01 tne long enjoyed credit of being the discoverer of the genius of Dickens. He did not discover, but he recognized It when developed, and, moreover, he utilized it for the story telling and social sketchiug purposes which just then burst out in divers journals, experimenting on the supposed awakening of the masses to the sweets of intellectual recreation under the Cyclops hammer of Cyclopiedlac Brougham and the penny knowledge dlffus rs. Of the e Black was one of the most ponderous; so much so that It was said used to turn to tit. Thomas Aquinas by way of unbending from severer toil; hence his perception ol the sudden requirement of a suddenly created light literature was all the more singular. But as to discovering the genius of Dickens, there was really nothing to discover at the time we speak of, anil there is no merit due or claimed In reference to the approval of the maiden composition alluded to. In lact, it had no distinctive merit whatever to warrant its being singled out from scores of things of the sort produced by "the mob of areiitlemeu who wrote with ease" In those distant days when the "literary gent" was happily unknown. ItB length, Its suitability at the moment to typographic exigencies of space, was the element that chietly determined its admission Into tiie periodical down whose editorial box, In Fleet street, It was furtively dropped, without a word as to the author, who simply signed "Boz," rather by the way of facilitating an "answer to correspondents," m the event or expected rejection, than with any view to the maintenance of a signature destined to become so famous. At that time the Old Monthly, as it was called, to distinguish It irom the New, about which latter Colburn, with Campbell for editor, kept blowing such trumpets, was still a puissance, though It had lately parted with Its principal contributor, Rev. Dr. Croly, whose Salathlel was yet in the now of its original success; and his "Notes of the Month" wero always a piquant feature, even in au age ol trenchant and |iUinilCU ['ClIUiUUBillp* l UUt'l V1UIJ ItiC llIUgU/<IUC was ardently tory; but it hftil become the property or Captain Holland, formerly one of Bolivar's aidesde-camp?a high bred man of a type now passed away?most variedly accomplished, and the centre of a congenial circle as girted as himself, Including many who afterwards made the fauie of Fra/.er. Holland's Hispafiolan liberalism, stimulated by the hot and turbid English reform imitation, still seething, and the Campbell and Colburn competition, led lmn to look for fresh blood to revive ttie drooping circulation. Hence one reason why Dickens, then buoyantly radical, was drawn thitherwards, although there was nothing whatever political in the slight initial paper, of less than half a dozen pages, he ventured upon. Nor was there in the three or four similar ones he after war us lurnlshed, and which attracted only the most cursory notice from his fellow-contributors. These articles sunieed, however, to induce Dr. Black, an old friend of Ills father's, to recommend the acceptance of others like them, but of a mere ' social" character, in the arter manner of the master, for uelVs Life?the proprietor of wnlch was lavishing large means, in i every lorm of publicity, upon his three journals, i morning, evening and weekiy. Then the successor ' "her Majesty's Van" (Peel's newly-devised homelike vehicle for conveying prisoners to and from the police courts), and a lew more of the like category, i though printed in the smallest and densest newspaper type, some two-thirds of a columu in length, obtalne.i in all journals the extensive quotation i which led to Hie Chapman and Hall alliance that resulted in "Pickwick," and in the ; unexampled celebrity thereupon supervonlng, 1 and sustained vrt'scendo to the last. Unique in all . things, Dickens was pre-eminently singular in this, ! thai, though "a gentleman or the press" to a degree undreamed of in tne vocabulary of the right ' honorable personage who affectedly disavows any , other escutcheon,he had no assailants, no traducers, : no enemies. And for this reason, that, without being iu tiie lea-t mawkish, tuit liuutiug or mealy E SHKETf. mouthed ?on the contrary, being Hie most outupoVen extirpator of stitui*. lmpo tuie.and. in tii-> own aliexliuu-itiro phrase of "reeksuttlsm," ho ucvertheI ess traduced, maligned, aiitirlzed nobody. Not even hi# ceuaoni. For he hud many nucd. It would be like descending Into tlie cataoombs of criticism, bo to speak, to unearth proof# of how leading journal*, now blatant 111 lilspo-iihumnuspraise, once ridiculed his pretensions to d?lin*ate anything beyond the Marionettes at apeep-Hhow; what iubiiani clapping of hands there was over Jupiter's pseudo-classic Joke, Proeumbtt huml JJoz, tn reference to his lirstf and last drumatlo fiasco, "The Village Coquettes," under Braham's management, at the St. James, a Suarter of a century back; and what a titter of saronlo approval Has evoked by the Superfine Reviewer's pedantic scod. that Mr. Dickens' reading appeared to be c mfined to a perusal of his own writings. Ilia first steps were beset with Klgbys, whose ' slashing artlc.es'' cried out, ' This will never do !" pointing out how thorough a cockney he was once his foul was olT the flagways of the hills of mortality, and anticipating the late vixenish verdict of a certain screaming sister of the sensational school, that his works are stores of pothouse fileasuntries. Ho won his way into universal favor II virtue of an ill assimilative geniality against which no predetermination or resistance was proof, as in the ease of Bvdney Smith, who, with characteristic candor, avowed his lntoleianoe of wnat he believed to be the cant of lilckeuB' popularity, aud promptly ended in becoming an enthusiastic apostle of the propaganda himself. On that dogma we are all of accord?all lnfainnllists. An Ecumenical Council of the Kugllsh aud reud ng races and races all over the earth Ib sitting, and forever will sit, in sinecure guardianship of the faith as in Uoz, and In hU hierarchy of pleasauiest and most practical b ^neflcences?ameliorating the lot of man by preaching aud teaching the duty and the beauty of sharing the common burden and enduring the mutual infirmity?and so forever keeping green the memory 01 a name second to one only in his country's annals. orekn in the memory. Long obituary notices or Charles Dickens are given in the lullan papers. Tho Dlrxtlo thinks that 8am Weller aud the "modern TartutTe" in "Martin Chuzzlewlt" will be immortal, like i'erpetua an 1 Don Abbondlo in Mauzoni's "Promessi Hposl," which have become popular types or character. The Nazuine, or Florence, speaks of the deceased as the greatest or modern Kngiish novelists, and says that his death will no doubt be lamented in Eugiaud as a national calamity. It thinks that tn his pictures of are and manners ids humor sometimes degenerated into caricature and his passion became melo-dramatlc, but that thc.->e faults were mere Bpecks on the sun. visible ouly to the scientific observer and depriving the beneficent luminary of neither light nor heat. "1'liat lie was," it adds, ":or live aud thirty years at once the most esteemed novelist and the greatest social reformer or his fellow countrymen is a Just title of glory that no other modern writer has possessed lu an eijuai degree." There will be monuments to him in marble and bronze, tlie Nazione says, but his finest monument wia ue me k "Hi iiu aid ior me poorer cius >es. HEMIN18CEN0H3 OF JIM YOUTH. The editor of the Loudou 9rauhlc relates some particulars of His personal acquaintance with the late author, as follows:? The first time I saw the idolized Hoz In (he flesh was at a fancy fair iu the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, held, 1 think, ror the benefit of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. He was then a handsome > onuk man, with piercing brlgut eyes and carefully arranged hair, much, in lact, as he is represented In Macllse's picture. The last time I Haw him was a few weeks since, when I had the pleasure ol meeting hiin at dinner. To all outward appearance he then looked lUe a mail n ho would live aud work until he was four score. 1 was especially struck by the brilliancy and vivacity of his eyes. There seemed as much life and animation In them as lu twenty ordinary pairs or eyes. 1 was also struck by his sailor-like aspect, a peculiarity observed by many other persons. Yet, except nis two voyages to America, he had not been much on the s. a and was not, 1 believe, a particularly good suuor. Hut we all know h.s sympathy for seamen, and l think, without being fanciful, that his nautloal air may in part be attributed to early Portsmouth associations. On this occasion Mr. Dickens conversed with me chiefly about Mr. Carlyle's writings, for whose "French Revolution" he expressed the strongest admiration, as he has practically shown in his "Tale of Two Cine.;;" and he also related some Interesting anecdotes, one of which 1 may venture to transfer to print. AMERICAN EXPEKIENCES?ACE LINCOLN. It was related to Mr. Dickens by the late Mr. Edwin M. wanton, the famous Secretary of War In the United States Cabinet. On Good Fri uny, low), mure was a uao:net uuuncu at wasnington, and Mr. Stanton chanced to enter the council chamber some time alter the other members had assembled. As he entered he heurd the President say, "Well, gentlemen, this is only amusement. I think we had better now turn to business." During the meeting he noticed that Mr. Lincoln was remarkably grave and sedate, and that instead of strolling about the room, as was his usu.il wont, dcaliug out droll remarks, lie sat bolt upright in ills cha.r. On leaving the council Mr. Stanton aski'd one or the other Ministers why the Prest tent's manner was so peculiar, and received the following explanation:??'When we assembled to-day Mr. Lincoln said, 'Gentlemen, 1 dreamed a strange dream last night for the third time, and on each occasion something remarkable has followed upon it. Alter the first dream came the battle of Hull run (Mr. Dickens could not remember the second event), and now the dream lias come again. 1 dreamed that 1 was in a bout on a lake, drilling along without either oars or sails, wneu?' At this moment you," said the Minister, addro.-smg Mr. Stanton, "opened the door, whereupou the President checked Himself" and said, I think we had better turn to business.' Ho we have lost the conclusion of the dream." And it was lost lor ever. Tne Council met at half-past two, und on the same evening President Lincoln lay dead, slain by the pistol shot of Wilkes Booth. 1 cannot avoid drawing a parallel here. We shall never know the end of Mr. Lincoln's dream, and the "Mystery of Edwin Drood" remains also an inscrutable mystery, parted from us by the impenetrable curtain of dcatn. Posthumous fame is but a poor thing when it is based simply on intellectual achievements. FAME. Charles Dickens'fame rests on a snror basis. His chief merit, to my thinking, lies In the Tact that In ali his creations, humorous or pathetic, be irresistlby drew the sympathies of his readers towards the cause of the humble, the suffering and the oppressed, and I flrmly believe that mujh of the benetlcent legislation of late years is due to his teaching. If he had nnt.(?rprl Parliament. hA wmilri nmltiihlT hnvn mailt* but au indii'ereut figure, for he cared little for mere party polities; but at his desk, pen lu hand, lie wielded a power superior to that of a whole House of Commons, and It is to It is'eternal glory that this power was uniformly exercised for worthy ends. It Is no small matter in an ag when the contrast between wealth and poverty, bfttween inordinate luxury and utter destitution, grows dally more startling, that a man of genius should, for a whole generation, have used ills mental gifts for the purpose of bridging over those ternble gulls in modern civilization. f A BUST IN MBM0R1AM. A London Journal of the 18th of June says:? In fulfilment of an Intention which had been recently formed by the deceased himself, Mr. Woolner has been commissioned t?y the lam ly to execute a bust of Mr. CUar.es Dickens. On Friday last, the sculptor visited Oadshlli for the purpose of talcing a cast of the deceased's features. ST. THOMAS. The Failnre of the Annexation Treaty?Relor mi Promised?The People ContentSevere Earthquake In the Windward Islands?Rising of the Hea?Wreck of the Schooner S. R. Soper. St. Thomas, June 15, 1870. The long agony Is over, and St. Thomas?albeit her people were as willing as Barkis?has failed to become part of that great system of States which makes up the federal Union. We are once more out of suspense and under the protecting tegls of Denmark, which fact has been proclaimed by the Governor-In-Chief in the name of his Majesty the King, whom long to reign over us may Heaven grant. Many reforms In our local laws are promised. This failure of negotiations would at one time have created a deal of sorrow, as the people In mass were sincerely desirous of forming a Dart of the great republic; out there has been so long a season of dallying and uncertainty that any termination of the question liud come to be greatly desired; and so, though unfavorable, it is now received with entire eatls: action. Passengers from the Windward Islands report that several very severe shocks of earthquake were experienced on tne morning of the uth, at ten minutes past nine, and considerable damage was done to wail buildings. The sea rose to a gn at height about the island of Gtta laloupe, and when returning the violence was so gre.it that vessels were carried far out of the harbor. From present data it is impossible to estimate tnc extent of country affected or the amount of damage done. The United States and Brazil steamer Merrlmac, brought among her freight two boxes of retorted gold from the Orinoco Exploring aud Mining Company, valued In American gold at This company seems to be in a very healthful condition, for by every steamer to New York tliey send two boxen of this gold, valued at. from $20,000 to $jo,ooo. From St. Croix we have a report of the total wreck of the schooner 9. R. Soper, of Provlncetown, Mass., which took place on the ntght of the :?d 01' May, ana was communicated hy Captain Robert D. Eldndge, who with tweuty-two men arrived at that Sort, on Saturday night at ten o'clock, lu three whale oats, in forty hours from llird's Island, where the schooner was wrecked. They had saved about lao barrels of oil. Tlie captain ami crew were in bad condition. It is reported the captain loox parage to .New York in the Merrlmac. From Porto Rico we learn that the crop Is drawing to a close. Tonntge In full supply and weather favorable to growing crop. The ex-Captain General. Don Jose Laureatio Nanz y Ponce, who had been passing a fortnight here, took passage In the Shan* nou for Europe. While here a spiendld entertainment was given him by the International Cluo. The dock w suU down, aud th? vrobpetrt of raiting it is auialu CUBA. Spanish Accounts of the Second Lauding of the Upton. Her Cargo Said to be Captured?Lono and Otter* Escaped to the Mountain*?Captured Corr* pondenoe?Anticipated Return of the Captain General?End of Military Operations-Spanish Squadron Bound to New York?Heroio Conduot of / Cuban Women?The Release of Joseph Duany. t Havana, June 22,1870. Account# concerning the second landing of the (leorge B. Upton are furnished us through Spanish sources. According to these her cargo was dlsem- < barked at a point between Puerto del Padre and Glbara, about one league from where she previously landed. She brought twenty-one inen, commanded by Colonel Lotto, who. It will recollected, was at the [ head of tbe party whlen captured the Spanish coasting steamer Comandltarlo mine time since. Soon after landing they were surprised by a force under the Captain of the Partldo Manlabou, as mentioned ' In a previous despatch. Six were killed and one / uuyiureu. ills UUICIn iron w cue luuuuwiui ill Cliaparra, whither a force was subsequently sent in pursuit by Ferrer, military commandant of Uoiguln. '' The following names of those killed are given:? Nicholas Sanchez, Manuel Mestore, Jos') Joaquin Zortibiile and Francisco i'uonte. A quantity or cor- y respondence and documents was found, among them the following:? Colon, Atplnwall, June 8,1870. C. Cari.ob Manuel Cebpeoeh, I*re?(uent ot tbe Kepuullc of ' Cuba:? Ai I announced to you tn my previous letter 1 have juM completed the tint expedition in 1'uuta Brava. It is coionosed of Colonel Mariano Louo anil the citizens Manuel Mestre, Jose Jua<iuln Lelte Vldal, Manuel Kspln, Jon* Collaso, Nicholas Sanchez, Francisco ruerites, Francisco Dunuy, Miguel Batista, Aguttln Batista, Carlos Deginjo, Andrea Vaflnts, IMdro Portlllo. Francisco Torres, Jacinto tlebla, Manuel Uuta, Adolfo Lelle Vldal, Ftrtundo Justls, Josa Mena, Arturo Lstrada, Euloglo de la Cade, Francisco Barreto. I 1 forward you a copy of the invoice of munition*, 4c., which it carries. It comprises- lirat, the armament which the Junta or New York aeni to Aspiuwall to the care of colonel / Mariano Lono; second, that winch remained disembarked at tbe time of tbe llrst landing, and which procce led to Aspinwall to the caru of the a(,ent there. I am glad to have received, at the point of disembarkation, tbe correspo iden'-a i for >ew York, for detention lu re liaa been of great IncoD- ) venieuce. Uod know* what further detention remain*. I remain, Ac., J. V. (Ji.S.i EKO.S. Also the following:? GENERA!. BKPOnt.IOAN JflNTA OP CUBA AND PtJFBTO) Rico, Broadway, New Yokk, May In,lo'O. { Colonel Mauiand Loud, Asplnwall:? t lUiiiiNnLiuiiEi) Fellow Crri/i-.M.? I enclose to you Invoice of the eilects winch the (). B. lipton brings to you. Kor causes which I will explain to citizen hduardo Cisner ?, and which were not controllable bv us, the armament which remained ill Naa-.au docs not come. 'I'bo Junta baa seen with naln that you bave departed from received instructions, not proceeding in accord with the person in charge oftha Agency at l'anatua, in the absence of l'-duardo Clsneros a* was recommended. We consider it proper to act with the greatest caution in this delicate matter; for the (lightest in- . advertence on our part wo ild be taken advantage of by our t enemies, and cause a loss ot' tbe immense ventures made. K, .1 i' lutii'roa will nmke known to von v. I:at Jordan savs as to proper pi.ice ol dlatimb&r&atluu. " 1 remain your*, with much ^ coimlderailon, AlIiiUKL ALDA.M A, i'rcHidout.. Then follows a list of articles contained in the lu- , voice, comprising l,6i7 carbines of various descriptions, powder, surgical effects, clothing and a great variety of war material, some boilers and other tlun^ii. Although it Is claimed that the capture made comprises all of the second cargo landed by the Upton, yet the Cubans Insist that a sood portion ol It was taken into the interior by Loflo and others y who were moving towards the mountains, and that captured was the small part left beliiud for want of transportation. It Is now announced that the re- t ? turn ot the Captain General is close at band, and that ho will reach this capital some time before the first of July. We are furnished with little ol importance from ? the Camaguey. The steamer Tnuufo, which arrived here Monday, brings news from Puerto Principe to the 17th. The system or burning estates which caa oi. made use of by the Spaniards for shelter and protection under the orders of Cava la is going on w.tli unexampled energy and tne Jurisdiction Is last becoming a desert. Tne following places, esiates and farms, are among those reported dest.oyed:?Cau- , nao, Maraguan, Porcayo, Yaguajay, Caobabo, Zaragozano, Hato-urriba, Naja/.a, San Pedro. Jmiagiiayu, Guaicanamar, Sabana Grande, Alumna, Sibanicu, Quaimaro, San Miguel, Cascorro, Iilaya, Meala K-jcua, Corojo, Monte oscuro, Vcrtioutes, s.^a Carlos, Judas, Qrande La Guanaja, Yayabacoa, Guanauiaca, Magarabomba, Sauia Cruz, ban Cerouimo, tinayabal auu Conception. The t'unal says that since the 4th of November, 18&), there has not gone over the railroad one barrel of aguadiente, one box ? of sugar, one loot of lumber, one uercc of tobacco or one cake of wax, the products of the country. TUa military operations are few and of no Interest. There had arrived lu the city Don Jose Maria Al iana, Don Antonio Pia y Monge and Don Uregorio Garzla, Peninsulars. residimr in Holimln. who lor thirteen months had been prisoner* among the Insurgents. The usual long list or presen.ados lire published, made up mostly of women and children. , The Captain (iene.al has or late commute! the sentence of three persons iroin death to imprisonment for teu years. Matters arc equally at a standstill m the Eastern Department. Valmascda would seem 10 bo In liayanio, from which place we have dates to the 18th. The rains had set in throughout tuat Jurisdiction and Mau/.aullio, compelling a practical cessation of operations. A lew detachments arc sent out over tiic better roads, but accomplish no.lilng. The season for the prosecution of the Insurgents Is over, and .v.'odesto Diaz still holds his position "in the cradle of the insurrection," from wh.ch, according to the promises of Vaunuseda, he was t > have been long since driven. Uat ;s from Santiago de Cuba are to the 17th. The B tudpra Esvailol contains a letter dated Mayan tho 4th, announcing ttiat an attack had been made on ? ttie encampment of Donato Marmol on the 2d. He i was intrenched, but a-> usua; lied on the approach oi the troops, leaving behind a quantity ol war material. ltlsstated that Marmol himself was wounded ' In the head; fourteen prisoners were taken and afterwards shot. The chief, Don Carlos Maria Del^auo, was among the prisoners, but was not shot with the fourteen. It Is stated that on the islst of January, 18UJ, this chief caused to be killed by machetes sev en . Spanish prisoners, for which reason he, with seven s other Insurgents, was taken to the scene of tho tragedy and then shot. Among those kihed by Delgatlo, as stated, wore two worthy priests. The Spanish account claims that the effects captured and destroyed on the 2d amounted in value * to $20,000, but doubtless this is srreatly exaggerated. On the 5th a small encounter took place on the hill Uato, within the Jurisdiction. The insurgents had constructed a number ol huts inside of lntrcnchments, which they abaiidoued alter a little firing. Throughout the Clnco Villas and in Santl Esplrim / the usual unimportant encounters are reported. Private accounts from Trinidad state that matters are more man usually unsewieu in uiaijurisuicuoii; uiai tlie ln.surgeuts are appearing in large numbers arid are committing many devastations on estate*, wluie tbe operations against them are entirely void of res ill to. ?' A Manzanillo paper of recent date relates a few Incidents concerning tlie women or Cuba, from wliicti can be realized that Jauaticism of patriotism and hatred of their Spanish rulers which actuate * them, and to which in lair part may be attributed the perseverance with which this struggle is carried on against so many adverso circumstances. As stated, soon after the rising in the districts of Yara and others a column went out Irorn the city mentioned, commanded by the unrortunate Lieutenant Colonel 1). Rafael Jerez, who was alter wards killed in Nagua, lor the purpose 01 attacking certain encampments. On arriving at the place occupied by the insurgents I hey fled; previous 10 which a woman, holding in her hand a iri-colored bauner wuh ' a single star, which she waved to and fro, crying out "Death to the vlla and shameless Spaniards I" and Vim Cuba i-iOre / She was the wife or GeDeral PeJro Cespedes del Castillo, and a sister or the so- ' called President of the republic. She abandoned her home and took the field lor the purpose of sus- ?taming and encouraging tlie insurrection. At the deleave of Las Tunas a woman was seen on horseback, animating the troops, anil was heard to cry out "At them for lhey are lew ami dying of hunger l" She was the wife of citizen General Rubaicaha. Two young ladles, daughters of a Spaniard residing in tnat Jurisdiction, also left their homes unci united themselves to tlie insurrection. On arriving in the Held they cutoir their hair and adorned themselves with blue ribbons, and devoted themselves to encouraging and sustaining the forces. In Uayamo, previous to its occupancy by Valmaseda, says the journal mentioned, the women were very bitter against two prisoners which fell into the hands ofthe insurgents. They adorned their dresses wuh colors similar to ihose of the Cubau ilag, and _ with stars, assisted in preparing ammunition ami encouraged ail tlio.^e acts of vandalism perpetrated by the lusurgent forces. In Manzanillo lor months the women carried letters to and iro, served a* y spies, furnished such supplies as they could, ami lu every way possible assisted the patriot cause. From Colon there has Just arrived here news of an engagement between the insurgents and the "Chapalgorries," in which the latter lost considerably. Luis Will, Consul of the North German Conferat)on, has received lrom the Regent the Royal American Order of Isabella the Catholic. As this gentle- ' man in his omcial and private relations has been a ' consistent and persistent friend of Spain, doubtless he is entitled to this cheap reward. Owing to the ouergetlc remonstrances of Consul , Hoiwrnl Tit*l<ili> t>w? Atiutrlnan p.lf.lzpn JmtAiih lliift'if * arremud ou .suspicion oi being ttic Bon oJ Count Duany, lias been released. Mr. l)uauy hus aunoied liiticU from liiH conilneuieni, ami Uumutccs uUJ (icniunUeU ft via lue Sinimau gum'wmiu