NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SANTIAGO has been surrendered,—and with it all the troops in Eastern Cuba, of which it is the capital. General Toral, in command since General Linares was so severely wounded, finding himself without supplies, hopeless of rein- forcements, and pressed by some danger within the city which he does not explain, capitulated on the 10th inst., the Americans only conceding that officers should keep their side-arms. The ceremonial of surrender was a most striking one, Americans and Spaniards vieing with each other in the effort to maintain the chivalric conditions of war, and there has been no bickering since. The Americans are feeding the inhabitants who were found emaciated with hunger, and have organised a civil administration under Colonel Wood, of the Rough Riders, who will, for the present and probably for years, exercise the despotic authority of a General in occupa- tion of a captured city. All nations are admitted to trade freely, the streets are to be cleansed, and Santiago promises to become a tranquil and prosperous port. In fact, as the Americans marched in the Middle Ages fled.
