3 DECEMBER 1842, Page 2

Central America has just despatched one of its leaders :

Moat.- zait, after a life of fighting, has been assassinated by his own sub- jects, at his capital; a bloody illustration of the state of society among the semi-barbarous bandit population of our faithful ally. In Cuba, Lord PALMERSTON'S Anti-Slavery Consul, Mr. TURN.. max, has got into a scrape, which on the present showing is unac- countable. He was removed from his post because his sectarian zeal unfitted him for consular duties ; but he reappears, in a small sloop, manned by Blacks, at a provincial town, and professes to . have authority from the British Government to demand the libera- tion of all Blacks introduced into the place within the last twenty years ! Ile was arrested, and was about to be sent as a prisoner to lElavanna, in which he last lived as Consul. Cuba cannot suffer people who talk of man's personal freedom to go at large. It is doubtful which is most to be admired, the state of a country which makes it necessary to put restraint on the enthusiast, or the enthu- siast's own rashness.

The whole of that region of which we have named three angles is seething with the conflicting elements of social and political revolt. First peopled by Spain, (after it bad despoiled itself of Arabian civilization,) in a spirit of rapine, the people have been further barbarized by the wildness of the region, or further con- taminated by the institution of slavery. They are sunk to the lowest depths of political anarchy and social corruption. Yet is there ready. ingress for the opinions of Europe of the nineteenth century, which, forced in among uncongenial peoples—as we noticed last week in the case of the European counterpart of Central Ame- rica, Spain—only add to the confusion. It would seem as if the • better that opinions are in themselves, when a people are unprepared to receive them the (treater is the impulse given to the evils they are meant to cure. I be people on whom they are thus untimely thrust are not fit to profit by them—they can only resent them.