23 DECEMBER 1871, Page 3

Some intelligence received this week from Cuba strongly con- firms

the views we expressed last week as to the conduct of the Volunteers. The regular troops are in the interior, and these men are masters of the capital, where, besides inducing the Government to shoot eight students—other accounts say twelve—for t school- boy freak, they have compelled it to banish forty-seven of the principal citizens on suspicion of disaffection. The consequence of these violent acts has been the establishment of a reign of terror, during which the Volunteers may attack American sympathizers with the rebels, and so bring the ironolads on Havannah at once. Some occurrence of this kind seems to be expected in Madrid, where the excitement is great, and whence 11,000 regulars have been sent to the island. Spain seems to need a Chief in the island even more than soldiers.