The news from the Philippines is most unsatisfactory to Americans.
Aguinaldo has rejected all terms, he retains his influence with his countrymen, and his followers, though always defeated, seem always ready to fight again. They dig deep trenches, and when driven out dig others, their heavy losses making little impression. He has moreover, it is asserted, recemented his personal autho- rity, which was shaking, by assassinating his principal rival in the confidence of the Tagala, a General named Luna. One curious fact comes out strongly in all despatches from Manila. The American soldiers suffer much more from the moist heat of the islands than English soldiers would, though most of them come from divisions of the Union which are much hotter than England. That may arise from inexperience as to diet and sanitary management, but it rather suggests. with many other facts, that, although American strength is equal to British strength, American constitutions are by no means so enduring. Our cousins are more nervous, more dyspeptic, and peculiarly liable to heat-apoplexy, which, indeed, during every " hot spell" is a serious cause of mortality in New York. Bad whisky is a frequent explana- tion, but the animals display the same liability, and are strict teetotalers.
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