311.1BrE [tannins.

Reports have recently appeared in the American papers, particularly in the Washington Union, stating that England had sanctioned a plan for "Africanizing" Cuba, by permitting the free importation of Negroes and Asiatics, and obtaining from the Court of Spain the emancipation of the slaves. Mr. Corbin, an American in Paris, and a friend of Lord How- den, has lately written to the latter, inquiring whether he would contra- diet these stories. Upon this Lord Howden replied" I give yonin-the moat' isolemn manner which sichrhiughaTile(thbueh:lisitleed) fafitilitioas allow, my unqualified contradiction of • tha wholi,miattesi.m -.1164urther

states what he really did at Madrid— 7 :e

"Firstly, I have been making unceasing represerttationsvelhaltipleher of slaves annually imported into the island, and eamplaiAta st:06.61sieete_opea manner in which the traffic was carried on under. the „very nosesUi Cap. tains-General, always excepting the excellent General Conchs. Sjn4y I have been making fruitless attempts to get the Spanish Goverriiner4 se- dare the abominable traffic in men piracy—that is toe ay to follow fha'ii. ample of the United States in this particular. Thirdly, I passed'my-tiniela anxious solicitations to obtain the ultimate and complete freedeni."01 these Negroes called 'Emancipados,' which have been fraudulently detained in bondage since the year 1817, in disregard of treaties. I rejoice to say that the Spanish Government has listened to the dietates of justice landhumatiitv, and has granted me this boon. Fourthly, I have been endeavouring to pi. cure an abrogation of that intolerant and immoral law by which foreigners wishing to settle in Cuba are obliged to change their religion, on the some- what startling principle (not understood elsewhere) that becoming, bad men is a satisfactory prelimipary to becoming good subjects. To'thesd offi- cial negotiations I have added, at various times, friendly and Oifier0D8 ex- hortations to improve the internal system of the island, by facilitating the administration of justice, and by liberalizing the .nominations to offica,and employment among the natives of the island. "You will see what I really have done, or rather attempted to do, is yen, different from what I am said to have done in your papers. When the true state of the case is known, and ignorance or malevolence dispelled, I even reckon upon the good wishes of your countrymen in the success of the mea- sures I ask, so consonant with your own laws and institutions. In all that I have here told you, with entire candour, the United States can only see the natural working of England's declared and unchanging policy in a cause which is dear to her ; and Spain herself must feel that, in days like these, unless she execute. her engagements, and modifies her intolerance, he can never hope to enter again, and as she ought to do, into the hierarchy of na- tions."

General Cafiedo, the Governor of Cuba, has been recalled. One of his most recent acts has been to prohibit the circulation of the Daily News in Cuba, in consequence of the strictures on the Cuban slave-trade contained in that journal.

Lord Minto, who is now at Florence, appears to be quite as much sus- pected as Miss Cuninghame was. It is stated that the Police have been ordered to look sharply after him, and especially to take note of what persons call at his hotel.

Sir Edmund Walker Head, the present Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, has been offered the Governorship of British Guiana, at the reduced salary of 40001. per annum.

The Earl of Carlisle, who is still on his travels in the East, will not return to England before Christmas.

Sir Henry Watkin Williams Wynn who has been Minister Pleniirr- tentiary at Copenhagen for the last thirty-seven years, has, at his mitt request, been recalled, with the intention of retiring from public life.

The French Senate is to be convoked for an early day, to receive the notification of the approaching marriage of Prince Jerome Napoleon Bo- naparte with a Princess of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale have arrived at Claremont, to meet her Highness's mother, the Princess of Salerno, who has just arrived in England.

Queen Marie Amelia, who left Genoa on the 7th, arrived on the following day at Rosas on the coast of Spain, at a short distance from the frontier of France.

The health of the King of Prussia is said to have been much improved by the numerous journies he has made this year, that to Warsaw in- cluded.

Count Walewski left London yesterday, in obedience to a summons from the Emperor. He is expected back in a few days.

M. de Maupas, French Minister at Naples, (said to be recalled,1 reached Rome on the 8th instant.

Dr. Wren, ex-proprietor of the Constitationnel, has had a fit of apo- plexy. He was seized while at the Opera Comique ; and on coming to himself, his first inquiry was whether any one had seen him.

Lady Panmure, who had been indisposed for a few days, but no doubt of her speedy recovery was entertained, died on the 14th, at Pitfour Castle, Perthshire. In an obituary notice, enclosed in black, the _Dundee Advertiser, a leading journal of the district, says- " This sad event has caused a deep feeling of grief over the county. Ifer ladyship was the zealous and judicious supporter of every benevolent insti- tution. The churches, schools, and cottages in the course of erection on the Panmure estates, all prove her ladyship's active cooperation with Lord Pan- mure in these good works ; and the many pensioners of her bounty attest the loss which the county has sustained. Had her ladyship been spared to take up her residence in Forfarshire, and to carry on her numerous schemes of benevolence, her true worth would have earned for her a lasting and still deeper gratitude. Her great object seemed to be to use those large means at her disposal for the amelioration of all classes, and to promote thelemporal and spiritual interests of all under her influence.

"Lady Panmure was born in 1807; was the eldest daughter ot the second. Lord Abercromby ; and was married to Lord Panmure, then the Honourable Fox Reale, in 1831. She leaves no issue."

One of Nelson's lieutenants is just dead—John Pasco, Rear-Adminil of the Red. He expired on Tuesday morning, at Plymouth, in his- eightieth year, after a three-hours attack of English cholera. He Was the senior flag-lieutenant of the Victory at Trafalgar.

It is said that the members of the house of Rothschild are to meet in Paris before the end of this month, to consult together as to whet course they ought to take in the event of the war becoming serious.

The Government of Hesse-Cassel, like that of many larger states, is at its wit's end for want of money, and actually talks of postponing the par- meat of official salaries ; a step which might precipitate a small revolmJ: tion. Notwithstanding the scarcity of money, however, it has asked-the.. Chamber to vote 140,000 thalers per annum to the Countess of Schauni- hourg, (the Elector's wife by a morganatic marriage,) and to snake the

allowance retroactive for ten year%

At the last sitting of the Danish Folksthing, the Minister of Finance presen ted a bill, the object of which is to increase the salaries of all the employes of the state under 5250 francs a year from 20 to 25 per cent daring the present high price of provisions.

Now that the Eastern war seems likely to be something more than the mane small battle or two" which was to save the credit of Nicholas,

our own correspondent" begins to make his appearance through the smoke. Th,e .Presse has sent a " commissioner " to the Asiatic frontier ; arid the Morn* Chronicle promises a regular series of despatches from a iellitary gentleman whom it has employed to report progress on the Danube.

The Secretary of the Post-office has found it necessary to rescind the privilege formerly conceded of sending books, &es to India and Australia overland at the book-postage rate; owing to the heavy expenses incurred in their transit across the Isthmus of Suez.

Two Russian ships of war, a frigate and a corvette, are refitting at Portsmouth; and the greatest efforts are made to enable them to put to sea.

A new hotel, on the moderate-tariff principle, for second and third class passengers, is to be erected at Euston Square, by the London and North-western Railway Company.

The terms for the performance of a fortnightly mail service between Bom- bay and Aden have been agreed upon between the Government and the Pen- insular and Oriental Company ; the payment fixed upon being at the same rate as that received by the Company for the other branches of their mail contract with the East—namely, 68. 2c/. per mile.

A candidate for Portsmouth Town-Council solicited the vote of a burgess ; it was refused, because the candidate was "going in opposition to the j Almighty"—" God is about to visit us with a judgment; he is going to visit us with the cholera ; and you set yourself up to prevent God from exe- cuting that judgment, by endeavouring to introduce the Health of Towns Act."

Mr. John Bennett, of Cheapside, having ascertained that the working classes were not allowed to inspect the model cottages at Kennington Com- mon on Sunday—their only leisure day—wrote to Sir William Molesworth; who replied that the cottages should be open in future.

The Reverend H. Swabey, Rector of St. Aldate's in Oxford, has, assisted by some of his Parishioners, opened a reading-room for the working people of,his flock. The novelty is the appropriation of a room where men may smoke and consume one pint of beer : it is hoped thus to draw them from publieshouses. There are already 130 members, at sixpence per quarter. On the first night the smokers gave up attempting to read, amid the clouds, and indulgedin jokes and songs—but still they were kept from the tavern.

It was noted recently, that when the people of Wick had an unwonted source of amusement for a week by a visit of Batty's menagerie, the cases of drunkenness were fewer than had been observed for years.

A correspondent of the 2'inzes complains bitterly of the very small beer to be obtained at the " Guilford " brewery at St. Cross, by those travellers

who apply for the boon provided by the benevolence of Henry de Blois. lie would go all the way to Winchester to see Lord Guilford drink a pint of it, if he were safe from a charge of being "accessory before the fact" in case it lilled him.

The late Great Exhibition building contained an area of nearly 800,000 square feet ; the New Crystal Palace will contain about one-fourth more, or nearly 1,000,000 square feet.

A loan society has been opened in Oxford for the accommodation of under- graduates : the interest charged is only thirty per cent.

Under the new law, betting-houses will cease to exist—at least openly—

on of next month.

-The library of the late Frederick William Conway, proprietor of the .Dub- lin Evening Post, is announced for sale. Among the 26,000 volumes of which it consists, are many rare books in all the European languages. Mr. Conway was a well-known collector; few remarkable auctions having taken place in England or Ireland during the last thirty or forty years at which he hsa not an agent buying for him.

Captain Patey, who was so badly hurt at Spithead some mouths since, has obtained an extension of his leave to two years, to perfect his recovery.

A gentleman "well known for his large and accurate knowledge of the sources of English history" has saved from burning a large quantity of state documents of the time of Charles the Second, which were about to be de- stroyed in one of the Royal Dockyards as lumber, at a time when he was accidentally visiting the place.

Lola Moister is at San Francisco, where she has recently married again. She is the lionise of the place; plays at bowls with the men, and is the heroine of a vaudeville. She has invented a new way of getting money : she admits persons to see and converse with her for half an hour at a time— for a fixed price.

The Piedmontese Bandit Stella was killed, in an encounter with the Royal carabiniers, near Castino, in the night of the 10th instant.

The Nun Patrocinio, who for political reasons was sent from Madrid and conducted to the frontier under escort, has arrived at Toledo.

A severe shock of earthquake at Lisbon, on the 4th instant, although it did no damage, has caused some alarm, by reminding the inhabitants of the terrible overthrow which happened there last century.

There was an increase of 1462 persons employed in Government offices, and a diminution of 30, in the course of last year.

"Mr. James Holmes, banker, who died lately at Douglas in the Isle of Man, has left the whole of his property, estimated at 500,0001., to two grand-nieces. "The wid-ew of Policeman Sunderland, who was stabbed in the streets of Liverpool, is to be allowed 128. a week as long as she remains unmarried. 'The 'air City is in a flourishing state—Perth's income exceeds the ex- penditure by 2321/.

In 1862 there were 474,149 plaints entered in County Courts ; and 630,371/. was received for suitors.

-Applee are now imported into Devon from Jersey in considerable quan- tities.

-The Observateur el' Athena of the 7th instant contains the text of a bill which has just parsed through the Legislature for deepening and canalizing the Strait of Negropont, between the mainland of Greece and Eubcea. It is catetbPlated that the works will coat 72,000 drachmas; and that they will %icctead ark' ,secul:it,Etestlie route from Europe to Constantinople, as it ; save the danger' diurdefour through the Archipelago.