pain.—The Captain-General of Cuba has despatched a fleet of six
armed steamers to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Hayti, to enforce certain demands against the republic. The demands are : the pay- ment of a sum of 100,000 piastres as indemnity for the damage caused to the Dominican General Cabral, who had been exiled by Santana, and had taken refuge in the Haytian territory, but who again entered that of St. Domingo, with the object of rousing the Dominicans to strike a blow for the recovery of their independence; the immediate transfer, at the expense of the Haytian Government, of such Dominicans as might still be found on its territory ; the formal retractations of the protest of the Haytian Government against the Spanish invasion; and, finally, the prohibition of soy allusion in the Haytian press to the affairs of St. Domingo. There is every pro- bability that, in case of resistance to those arrogant demands, Port- au-Prince will be bombarded, -and perhaps occupied by a Spanish force. It is denied that the Haytians have in any way assisted the Dominicans, but President Geffrard, it is supposed, must yield. Un- doubtedly he must, or claim the protection of France, an alternative which it is just possible it was the object of the expedition to suggest.
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