14 JANUARY 1865, Page 2

Marshal Narvaez has introduced a Bill into the Cortes abolish-

ing the Act which declares St. Domingo an integral part of the Spanish Monarchy. It is a very frank Bill, the preamble declaring that Spain was deluded as to the wish of the inhabitants, and that the resistance is universal. It is not so certain that this apology is altogether false. Nations are very ready to believe that other nations want them on their necks, and the idea we think very absurd when reported from St. Domingo strikes us as very natural when reported from Oude. Anyhow the Dominicans have beaten Spain,—a new proof of the incapacity of negroes and mulattoes for freedom and self-government.