The executions of the crew and passengers of the Vir-
ginius at Santiago de Cuba appear to have amounted to 0 in all, and not to have been renewed, as was erroneously asserted, after the 7th November, when Senor Castelar's message prohibiting all further executions till the matter had been referred to Madrid was at last received. But amongst these 57 were 16 British subjects, all of them subordinate officers of the ship,— stokers, firemen, sailors, and so forth. Great Britain and the United States have of course both protested very strongly ; and our Foreign Office, while reserving the question of the 16 execu- tions on the 7th, has given Spain notice that she would be held responsible for any further executions. The United States Government appears to have taken the same line. Ironclads of both countries have been ordered to Cuba, and the naval pre- parations in the United States are very active. At the same time, General Grant has reserved the question for the decision of Congress, and the first hasty war-feeling in America has greatly abated. We trust both nations may see their way to not press- ing too hard at present on a Government so weak, and so excel- lent in its disposition towards us, as Senor Castelar's.
