As regards 'British subjects, though sonie doubt has been thrown
on the statement which we made, now a fortnight ago, that sixteen of them, all poor men, sailors, stokers, and so forth, were put to death on November 7, without, so far as we can
see, the shadow of a legal justification, and it has been sail that no British subjects perished, the Foreign Office have now officially attested the truth of the facts as they were at first alleged. Mr. Crawford, the acting British Consul-General at the Havaunah, has forwarded to Lord Granville the list of victims shot on the 7th of November, the highest in office being the assistant-engineer, second mate, and the two stewards, and all the others firemen and seamen. If these poor fellows had been taken in open rebellion with arias in their hands, such a massacre would have been brutal. . As it was, there can hardly be even the colour of a legal excuse for what wan done. Probably it was quite illegal even to confine them at all. But the spirit of slaveholders is always cruel and bloodthirsty. Lord Granville will, of course, insist on such reparation as is now possible, and on such punishment of the offending officers as will render such outrages dangerous in future.-
