The Virginius has at last been given up to the
Americans.. She was towed out of Ilavannah on Friday, the 12th inst., and delivered up by the Spanish sloop Favorita at Bahia Honda. The remainder of the crew have also been delivered up to the United States at Santiago. So the only condition that remains to be fulfilled is the punishment of the Cuban authorities by Spain for the oxen, tions, and perhaps this Most difficult of all the conditions may not be very stringently enforced. It is quite clear that whatever may be the President's own view,—if we may trust the Daily News, he is deeply disappointed at the pacific turn which matters have taken,—popular opinion in the United States is so persist- ently pacific, that nothing can be made of the opportunity -for detaching Cuba from the Spanish Government.
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