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      West Indies. The News By The Pacific And...

      place , owing , it is said , to some apprehension of an invasion by General Ballivan . New silver mines have been found in Copiapo . The Great Western left at Grey Town ( Mosquito ) her Majesty ' s ship Plumper , Commander Nolloth , who had been requested by Mr . Green , the British vice-consul , to remain on the coast for the protection of British interests . It was stated that intelligence had been received that a large force -was coming down the San Juan river to attack the town . From Port-au-Prince , Hayti , we are informed of the arrival there of the American corvettes Germantown and Albany , with the steamer Vixen , enforcing a claim of the United States for 400 , 000 dollars , said to have been lent to Christophe . There is nothing of political importance from the West Indies . The drought in some of the islands , particularly Antigua and St . Iiucia , was very distressing—its duration and intensity unparalleled . In several of the northern parishes of Jamaica a disease , similar to the potato-rot , has appeared in the cocoafields . The probable aggregate yield of sugar in the islands is stated at—Porto-liico , 125 , 000 hogsheads ; Jamaica , 40 , 000 ; Barbadoes , 36 , 000 ; Grenada , 6000 ; St . Vincent , 9000 ; Guadaloupe , 25 , 000 barrels of 1000 lbs . each ; and Martinique , 30 , 000 barrels .

      The Jamaica Despatch notices the following instance of depreciation in colonial property : — "A sugar-estate , consisting of above 2000 acres of land , with buildings and apparatus in good order' Watermont , ' in St . John ' s—the property of the Honourable Edward Thompson , was , on Tuesday , the 30 th of April , knocked down for Mr . Andrew Scott , of this city , at £ 600 ! We have been informed that the coppers , still , and other apparatus alone are worth £ 300 . " Another estate , the Battozelas Lust , on the coast of Essequibo , British Guiana , which in 1840 sold for £ 30 , 000 , fetched recently but £ 1 , 200 . The shock of an earthquake was felt at Antigua on the 6 th of May . w

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      W Invasion Of Cuba. An Expedition Has At...

      INVASION OF CUBA . An expedition has at last set out for the invasion of Cuba . The preparations were made so secretly that the American Government was kept in ignorance of the matter till after the expedition had sailed . The laws of the United States have been successfully evaded . The ships with men and arms on board did not clear from any United States ' port for Cuba ; they were all for Chagres or some port on or near the Isthmus ; and even now there is nothing known with absolute certainty , except that the expedition has actually sailed , having left piecemeal from New Orleans , New York , Baltimore , Mobile , and other ports . Hundreds of men , fully arm ^ d and equipped , left New York ostensibly for

      California via Chagres , but really for Cuba . And from New Orleans more than a thousand men left during the second week in May , in three sailing vessels and the steamer Creole . The exact point of rendezvous also is unknown . Some say Chagres , others the Spanish part of St . Domingo . The men were recruited in St . Louis , Louisville , Cincinnati , Kentucky , New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , & c , and all sworn to secrecy . They are called the " Owls , " or •? Oussel Owls , " and their secret association is a continuation and vast enlargement of that which was formed three years ago , for the purpose of founding the new republic of the Sierra Madre—last year for the invasion of Cuba , but broken up by the United States Government .

      It is rumoured that at the depot of the expedition there is a supply of arms , ammunition , and provisions for at least 10 , 000 men ; large orders for muskets and other arms having been executed in Birmingham It is also said that there are 13 , 000 men attached to the expedition , 6000 of whom are already in arms . The expedition is to land , part at the Isle of Pines , part at Baracoa , a small port on the south side of Cuba , and thence an attack is to be made on San Jago , which , if taken , will become the focus or metropolis of the insurrection . The United States Government is already moving : General Taylor ' s

      orders being to intercept the expedition , and to prevent any vessels under the American flag from landing men and arms in Cuba . Owing to advices received from the south at Washington , a hurried meeting of the President and his Cabinet was convened—Mr . Meredith , Secretary of the Treasury , having been called out of church to attend it ; at which it was resolved to adopt every possible measure to sustain the honour of the Itopublic , and its good faith in treaties with Spain and all other nations . By this time vessels of war have left Norfolk and several other ports in . chase .

      The expedition , however , has the start , and may prove formidable . The men are described as " a reckless and desperate set of adventurers , most of whom can hit a dollar with a rifle-ball at from 100 to 200 yards' distance . " General Lopez has issued addresses to tho " Soldiers of the Liberating Army of Cuba , " also ( to be distributed on landing ) to tho Spanish Soldiers and Cubans . The New York Daily Sun , which is the organ of the Liberating X ^ arty , and oyer whose

      office floats the " banner of Free Cuba , " speaks very confidently of the chances of success , reckoning partly on General Lopez ' s popularity , and partly on the disaffection even among the Royalists , occasioned by the proclaimed intention of the Spanish Government to remove all the officials of any long standing , for fear they should sympathize with the people . The Daily Sun states the numbers already sailed at 4000 , most of whom have served in the Mexican war . *« The whole number positively engaged is 10 , 000 . " General Lopez and Staff left New Orleans on the 8 th of May by steam ; and , " so admirably were his- operations carried out , that the Spanish Consul at that place , although his spies were out in every direction , did not know of his departure until tho 10 th . "

      The New York Herald gives the following account of the commander of this strange expedition : — " General Lopez is a South American by birth , a Creole and not a Castilian . In the civil war which raged in the Spanish South American provinces , when only at the age of fifteen years , he felt compelled to take up arms , and acquired a high reputation as a soldier . Cuba became his country by adoption and marriage . While senator of the kingdom he studied closely the

      colonial policy of Spain . The repulse of the Cuban deputies fired him with a resolution to become the liberator of Cuba and to devote his life to the object . He resorted to various methods to make himself known and to gain personal popularity with the country people for the purpose of preparing them for a rising in favour of independence . One method was that of a volunteer dispenser of medicines and medical advice to the country people . "

      France. The New French Electoral Law Has...

      FRANCE . The new French electoral law has been passed by a majority of 433 to 241 , forty members not voting . It was promulgated in Paris , on Monday , signed by the President of the Republic , and countersigned by the Minister of Justice . The Committee on the Law of Transportation has , in concert with the Government , struck out the amendment of Odillon Barrot , carried on the second reading , interdicting the non-retroaticity of the law . The petition againgst the Electoral Bill published

      by the Voix du Peuple , and for which the editor of that paper is now under prosecution , was signed by 11 , 000 names . Printed forms of petition without the name of the printer were signed by 125 , 000 persons . Government require that both these classes of petitions should be sent to the Minister of Justice in order that those signing them might be prosecuted . Two of the petitions were from the municipal councils of Castelnaudry and Moissac , and as municipal councils are bound not to meddle with anything not of a local character , M . Faucher proposes that these petitions should be sent to the Minister of the Interior ,

      with instructions to prosecute . In consequence of the importance of the Hotel de Ville as a strategic position , and of the attacks constantly made on it in insurrections and revolutions , the municipality of Paris has resolved to free it from many of the houses that surround it , whereby its facilities of defence will be increased , and at the same time the public convenience and salubrity will be promoted . The expense is estimated at between 6 , 000 , 000 f . and 7 , 000 , 000 f . A decree of the President of the Republic approves of the scheme .

      The Minister of the Interior has caused a statement of the situation of the different branches of manufacture , building , & c , at Paris , together with the number of workmen employed therein , to be drawn up . As from this it appears that many workmen are unemployed , and that others are on strike , the Minister has directed the prefects of departments not to give passports to Paris to workmen who may not bo able to produce written proofs that they are * certain to obtain employment . The Minister of Commerce has presented a bill m the Assembly for a grant for the establishment of public baths and washhouses , similar to those in London .

      The director of the National has been condemned , by default , to one year ' s imprisonment and 3000 francs fine , by the Court of Assize of Pans , for a seditious article .

      Germany. Prince Schwartzenberg Haslcft V...

      GERMANY . Prince Schwartzenberg haslcft Vienna for Warsaw , to meet the Emperor of Russia . It is also expected that Francis Joseph will go to the same city at the beginning of June . Lord Punsonby had a farewell audience of the Emperor of Austria on the 28 th ultimo . A Cabinet Council wan held on the morning of the 29 th , on the affairs of Hungary . It is reported that the project for the future organization of Hungary will be submitted to tho approval of the Emperor of Russia .

      The Berlin papers of the 1 st inst . state that tho Government for the League was to be instituted on that day . Most of the plenipotentiaries for tho Council of Princes had been appointed . Saxony had at last notified to Prussia its formal withdrawal from the League . It has never taken any part m its proceedings since thej summoning of . the Parliament at Erfurt .

      The Prussian army in Upper Silesia is being reinforced by 30 , 000 men . The Silesian fortresses of Silberberg , Rosel , Glatz , Neisse , Glogan , and Breslau , have been in a state of defence for many months ; Erfurt , Wittenberg , and Torgau are being armed . On the other hand we hear of the advance of the Austrian army of 40 , 000 men in Bohemia towards the Saxon frontier , and of the preparations of the Saxon troops ( 25 , 000 men ) to join the Austrians . The suppression of all the mechanics' and labourers' societies in Prussia is threatened by the Government . " Through their Central "Verein it has been found they are in constant correspondence with the revolutionary and Socialist societies in Switzerland . " The Prussian Cabinet has also determined on the

      essential points of the repressive measures against the press . The chief of them are expected to be a reestablishment of the system of deposit or cautionmoney , suspension of the license of printers and publishers , and refusal of conveyance by the post . The Congress of German governmental plenipotentiaries in Frankfort will , in one of its next sittings , take into consideration the restriction of the press throughout Germany . The Saxon Chambers have been dissolved by a royal message , in consequence of the Second Chamber having passed , a vote of want of confidence in the Ministry on the subject of its attitude in the German question . The Chamber had also refused a loan , unless the German policy of the King was changed .

      The Wurtemberg Assembly has , by a majority of 44 to 15 , rejected the Government proposition for altering the Constitution , the proposed bill being ?* in its essential provisions , incompatible with the rights and welfare of the nation . " A new religious sect , called Kossuthian , is daily spreading in Bohemia , especially amongst the poor people . It is based on the principles of Huss , and the Tchelihian brethren , and its believers call it the Tchekhian Creed .

      The Church And The Law. In The Exchequer...

      THE CHURCH AND THE LAW . In the Exchequer Chamber , on Saturday , the case of the Queen versus the Reverend Moorhouse James , came on for hearing . The defendant , a clergyman of the Church of England , was tried at the last Liverpool Assizes , before Mr . Baron Alderson , for refusing to marry Henry Fisher and Ann Hardman . The facts proved at the trial were these : —On the 2 nd of August last , Henry Fiaher and Ann Hardman , having previously obtained a certificate from the registrar , under the provisions of the Marriage Act , presented themselves before the defendant at his house at nine p . m ., and requested him to appoint a

      time to marry them , not later than the 14 th . Ihe defendant , having previously conversed with Henry Fisher alone , and been informed that instead of banns the registrar ' s certificate had been obtained on the matter , said , " If you will express a desire to be confirmed , I will marry you at any time . " They , however , remained silent , and the defendant would not perform the ceremony . Previous to this they had lived together as man and wife , and continued so to live after the refusal to marry them . The defendant was convicted , but the judge reserved several points of law . The prosecution was altogether ex ojficio , and was instituted to try two great questions , and obtain the opinion of the court upon

      them : — Mr . Bliss , for the defendant , argued that , according to the rubric of the Confirmation Service , no one could " be admitted to the Holy Communion until such time as he be confirmed , or be ready and desirous to be confirmed . " The logical inference was that no person not in a fit state to receive the Holy Communion at the time of the solemnization of matrimony , and , therefore , no person who had not been confirmed , or was ready and desirous of bi'ing confirmed , could claim to be married . " Baron Alderson : How , then , could a Roman Catholic or a Dissenter be married to a member of the Church of England , for either would refuse to take the Communion or be confirmed according to the ritual of the Established Church ? " ....

      Mr . Bliss replied , " that it would be optional with the clergyman to refuse in such cases . 'Ihe Rubric was altered in the reign of Charles 1 L , in lGb' 6 . Previously all persons who came to be married were compelled to receive the Communion at the time ; and the only alteration really made was , that they were now permitted to defer it to the ' first opportunity after their marriage . ' " Ho also contended that , though in the Canons there . . ova nonnitioB fnr vnfuainc t . o hurv or christenthere were penalties for refusing to bury or christenthere

      , , were none for refusing to mnrry ; and that the Acts 1 Viet ., c . 22 , and G and 7 Will . IV ., c . 85 , wove only permissive , giving the clergyman a discretionary power . The tender , again , was not sufficient ; it ought to have been made when and where the parties tendering themselves could have been married ; but hero they went , after canonical hours , to the private house of tho clergyman , and required him , not to marry them , but to appoint the 14 th of August for

      that purpose . Of this technical point the Judges took advantage to escape from the difficulty of possibly clashing with the Ecclesiastical Courts : — " There had been no sufficient tonder proved ; it could

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 8, 1850, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08061850/page/5/